Chapter 30 - Chapter 30: Chapter 30: What Glows is Not Necessarily Divine (1/2)

Chapter 30: Chapter 30: What Glows is Not Necessarily Divine

Qi Yue: “… !”

She had accidentally spoken her mind!

“Ah, I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry! That was just a figurative way of expressing gratitude, don’t mind it! What I mean is, I really, really, really appreciate you so much! I don’t know how to thank you enough. By the way, do you have anything you like? I’d like to express my gratitude!”

Qi Yue felt that since someone had helped her out so much, it was only right to offer thanks.

“Actually, no thanks are needed. You won by your own merits,” Gu Huai said.

“That won’t do, the prize is a bit too… too beyond what I expected, and I feel unsettled. Let me just show my appreciation!” Qi Yue insisted.

“Are you sure about the gift?”

“Yes!”

On the other end of the phone, Gu Huai seemed to ponder for a moment.

After a while, he spoke, “Okay, but, I’m not sure what I want right now. President Qi, do you have time tonight? Take me shopping in a mall?”

“Ah, shopping at the mall! Yes yes yes! I’m free tonight, anytime works for me; you set the time!”

Qi Yue was now completely willing to accommodate Gu Huai, as if she would agree to anything he asked for, even the impossible.

“Good, then let’s make it six o’clock, I should be done by then here.”

“No problem! Are you at the old campus? I’ll come pick you up!”

Gu Huai chuckled, “That would be great, thanks, President Qi.”

For some reason, whenever Gu Huai called her “President Qi,” it always gave off a gentle yet lingering sense of flirtation.

It really made her feel as if she were some domineering CEO about to pick up her secretary after work to go shopping for gifts…