Chapter 21
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Naruto and Ruoxi entered the hotel hand in hand, Ruoxi happily hooked her arm over Naruto's elbow. People looked at this pairing with envy and jealousy on their expression, the man hasdhandsome and lean feature while the woman had beautiful and noble feature, making this pairing as if a perfect match made by heaven.
Ignoring the hateful stared from the surrounding, the couple walked slowly toward the hallway of the hotel. On the path to enter the hotel, both sides had ancient Greek columns and goddess statue. After entering the hotel, both sides were instead filled with various western artists'oil paintings of many different sceneries.
The imposingly grandiose decorations, which created a fashionable yet classical fusion, made the whole Blue Bay Hotel filled with an air of honor, even the guests that came and went were immaculately dressed, with arrogant expressions on their faces.
The pair stopped at one of painting that features in grand scale, the painting describes some sort of war between gods and goddess long time ago, there were gods and goddess that wear ancient Greek armor, ancient Norse armor, ancient Japanese armor, and ancient Chinese armor. They had said that the wars between gods and goddess almost burn the entire earth into nothingness, the casualties are innumerable, a sea of blood and storm of pain could be seen anywhere.
At the eve of the war, a holy maiden pray for salvation and peace, her prayed somehow being granted, and a celestial being appears between these gods and goddess, it spoke through this holy maiden and managed to put an end the hellish war that had been going for years. The celestial being becomes reverent and worshipped everywhere. The long peace had been created.
Naruto stared at the paint while Ruoxi read the description out loud.
"Amazing isn't it?" Ruoxi suddenly said
"Hmm? What did you say?" Naruto looked at Lin Ruoxi with a startled expression.
Ruoxi strangely looked at Naruto, "I said it is amazing..."
Naruto knitted his brows before asks "which part of the picture that actually amaze you?"
Ruoxi's face turned to the painting, she smiled and said, "the holy maiden, who became the vessel of that celestial being, she had the courage to sacrifice her self in order to put an end into the war between gods and goddess"
Naruto also turned his face back to the painting, he sadly mumbled, "courage ?"
'I am scared'
'I don't want to die'
'Help me...'
"Like hell she did"
"Hm? Did you say something?" Ruoxi inquired because Naruto talked in low voice
"Nothing, let's go now, we didn't want to make our host waiting," Naruto smiled while reminding her.
"Oh yeah, come on" Ruoxi dragged Naruto's hand while they walked away from the painting.
Naruto glanced for the last time before letting himself being dragged by Ruoxi.
They both arrived at a private booth facing the lake. The milky white decorated wooden door at the time opened, a man wearing a black Hugo Boss suit entered. This man had curly hair, a rugged beard and he wore a simple smile. Upon gesturing a "please enter" with his hands he said, "Welcome Miss Lin, our Family's young master has been waiting"
Naruto and Ruoxi noticed that this man seemly on purpose excluded Naruto from his welcome gesture and eyes that completely ignore him. Naruto sneered and he secretly signaling Ruoxi with his eyes. Ruoxi smiled and said, "thank you, this is my husband Mr. Naruto."
Ruoxi action clearly caught the man off-guard because if he still acted like Naruto didn't exist, wasn't that mean he simply didn't give her any face? What if she got offended and cancelled tonight's meeting? Wouldn't young master will blame him? Even though this is supposedly to be young master plan.
Secretly cursing out loud in his heart, the man smiled and said, "pardon miss Lin, I forget that you are married now, please mister and madam, come in," the man awkwardly make another welcome gesture.
Naruto and Ruoxi almost couldnt help to bear a laugh, they both quickly entered the room together leaving the man with an ugly expression.
The private room was very vast, the scent of lavender scattered all over the place was enough to raise one's spirits
"Ruoxi, I finally get to meet you," a magnetic voice came out from the sofa. The speaker wore a blue dress shirt, had a head full of neat short hair, and a pale handsome face. He possessed the rare temperament of reverence from the inside out, this type of temperament cannot be nurtured by an average family.
Impassively, Ruoxi nodded her head,"Boss Xu, I'll be troubling you."
Facing Ruoxi's cold indifference, Xu Zhihong wasn't even fazed. Still using the appearance of a mature man, he wore a face full of smiles, "I have invited you quite a number of times, and it's quite rare for you to be free. Your father has talked to me about you for quite some time, saying how you've been really busy at work. As a matter of fact, I do not mind, the fact that you were willing to come and join me for dinner alone makes me feel content."
Perhaps if he used this word to other women, they would feel flatter and shy, but Ruoxi remained impassive, she only said: "You're too kind."
Xu Zhihong too did not feel anything was wrong as he personally pulled a chair and invited her, "Come, please sit Ruoxi."
Ruoxi felt that she had underestimated Xu Zhihong's intelligence. His way of handling this was just to disregard Naruto. It seemed as if he already thoroughly investigates Naruto's background. who would believe that a big corporation's CEO would marry a previously unknown small stall seller? It appears that Xu Zhihong had long known of Lin Ruoxi's fake marriage plan.
But she and Naruto already prepared for this situation, they already planted a seed of trouble at the entrance of the private booth. With the same motion, they looked at Xu Zhihong's servant with a sneered on their face and threateningly looked.
Feeling their glare make the servant suddenly turned pale, it was clear what they want him to do, if this time he let Ruoxi introduce her husband again by herself, she will have a reason to be offended. Gritting his teeth, he smiled stiffly, "Young Master this is Miss Lin husband, Mr. Naruto."
Xu Zhihong's face turned ugly as he glared at his servant, wasn't their plan was supposed to pretend to ignore this man existence and shaming him in front of Ruoxi?! Why would he suddenly introduce him? Wasn't this simply making his previous act come into nothing?
Suppress the feels of wanting to hit his own servant, Xu Zhihong embarrassingly smiled and apologized, "Oh Hairy Ball why didn't you mention this earlier, quickly pick up a chair for this man to seat."
Hairy Ball nervously picked up another chair and placed it beside Lin Ruoxi's.
Still, with a face full of smiles, Xu Zhihong said: "I'm sorry I didn't greet you before, I though Ruoxi wouldn't come with her husband instead come with her big brother, looking at your intimate manner."
Big Brother? Naruto almost laugh out loud, 'where is the resemblance between us? Pathetic, simply pathetic.' without giving any mercy Naruto smiled "Wow I don't know that young master Xu aware that our Ruoxi usually called me big brother at home, especially when coming into the bed! the feels are to crisp."
Silence! Everyone in the rooms as if forgot to breathe!
Don't even mention about the master-servant pair, even Ruoxi turned speechless after hearing her collaborator's words, she turned all red from head to toe, and glared at Naruto. This man was too shameless, Although these words were meant to counter against Xu Zhihong, this was too... too...
Xu Zhihong, seeing Ruoxi suddenly displaying an expression of bashfulness and glaring at Naruto as if they intimate secret had been exposed, he was infatuated by her sudden change, but upon thinking again, for Ruoxi to act like this, his heart turned cold and he couldn't help but wonder that they relationship was actually true.
with a great difficulty, Xu Zhihong laughed and said "This mister is sure knows how to make a joke, come, come, everyone please sit down."
it wasn't long until the situation was back to normal, Ruoxi and Xu Zhihong already discussed about their cooperation in business. It already becomes a tug of war, Things that ought to be yielded should be, and things that ought to be fought for should be as well
In Reality, Xu Zhihong was very clear, dealing with women like Ruoxi, the art of sweet talk didn't work at all. As both of them were businessmen, he must utilize methods to convince the other party, if a man gave up his career for a woman, how will this sort of man win the heart of a strong woman like Lin Ruoxi?
Just like Xu Zhihong, once the official talk began, Ruoxi's words started increasing as well. Her interpersonal relationship skills may not be that great, but once she started talking, this ridiculously beautiful girl also displayed a somewhat "bitchy" demeanor. Once she started to argue, she wouldn't give up until she reaped the maximum profit.
Hairy ball who clearly didn't understand what this both person doing, just stared at Naruto, trying to assess and provoking him, he clearly still felt grudge regarding the previous humiliation.
As for Naruto who didn't have any interested with their business transaction and grunt like Hairy, no matter what strength he had, it still considered nothing in Naruto eyes.
Therefore, Naruto only sat on his chair and playing with his phone, streaming a certain cat chasing a mouse.
"Yes, I hope Boss Xu can stick to his promises, this year's Autumn Fashion Show, with your company's stage designs and our company's Fall wear, it is certain that we will capture a wider market and received a huge sum of profit." Ruoxi finally said. Due to speaking for an extended amount of time, her cheeks were flushed displaying her hard to come by supple beauty.
While looking at this scene, Xu Zhihong's eyes dulled for a moment before nodding: "Of course, I hope that our partnership goes smoothly."
"Since business is concluded, I expect that you are now hungry Ruoxi, let's have the food served now," Xu Zhihong said as he clapped.
The waiters near the door immediately started to get busy. The dinner was a formal western cuisine. While the dinnerware was being set on the table, Ruoxi glanced towards Naruto with worry in her eyes but quickly disappeared as she remembers that Naruto had spent his time in the United States before so he must be at least know about the etiquette.
Her guess proved to be correct as Naruto didn't immediately launch into his food but act mannerly like a gentleman prepare to eat.
Xu Zhihong look at Naruto with ugly and disappointed expression but still maintained his smile "Naruto, even though this is my first time meeting you, I did not prepare a proper gift, so, I specially ordered a bottle of Nebbiolo from the year 1992 and I hope that Mister Naruto can evaluate it for me."
Naruto nodded solemnly and everyone thought he was confident about evaluating the wine. Little bit they know that Naruto was actually gloomy and helpless inside. How could he have an ability to evaluate a wine if he didn't even like drinking? And every wine or beer he drunk would just taste and turned like normal water for him as they didn't have any effect on him. But since directly rejecting it would cause Ruoxi to lose face, he had to accept it and pretending to be able to evaluate it even just a little.
Naruto raised his glass and the waiter only poured a bit before stopping, Naruto didn't feel anything out of place and he lightly swirled the liquid around the glass, smelt the wine, placed the tilted glass to his lips and slowly savored a sip.
Xu Zhihong worriedly looks at Naruto, he asked, "Mister Naruto, what do you think?"
Naruto smiled and says "First of all, I want to tell you that I'm not really familiar with any kind of wine and beer since I don't like drinking them. Second, the taste of this wine is like experiencing leathery, gripping high tannin that seems to clasp the inside of your lips to the front of your teeth. But despite its tannic structure, there are flavors of cherry and raspberries, it also has aromas of rose and anise. To put it short this wine is subtle yet bold, simple yet complex"
From this, Xu Zhihong felt a bit of surprise, true, that he explain and evaluate the wine on general basis, but he said before that he's not familiar with any kind of wine because didn't like drinking them, yet, he was capable of describing the wine with his eyes, nose, and lips. What is that mean? It mean that either he was lying about never taste this wine, a pretending professional wine taster, or he simply had high sensitivity of his senses.
If it was the first and second reason, Xu Zhihong will not feel any pressure and simply hold contempt or disdain for this man. But if this was the third reason...
Xu Zhihong gulped the saliva in his throat because he simply feeling the pressure from this man can be very heavy.
"True enough, it seems that Mr. Naruto was truly not ordinary, it's no wonder that Ruoxi wanted you to accompany her," Xu Zhihong said with a fake smile.
"Is that so?" Naruto looked at Ruoxi with infatuated eyes and lovingly saidL "Without any skills, how can I manage to attract such a goddess like my wife? Isn't that right my little Ruoxi?"
Ruoxi's lovable dimples suddenly flashed red. Although she knew that he only acted in order help her block Xu Zhihong's attempts but being called such intimately and possessively by him, her heart almost jumped out to her throat, she rigidly nodded her head in embarrassment.
Xu Zhihong could feel his world become darker as he murderously staring at Naruto. With one hand gripping tightly onto the crystal clear wine glass, even his veins were visible, he forced a laugh and said: "Haha... so you and Ruoxi are truly has tied the knot, I am... feeling happy for both of you."
After saying that, all of them started eating normally though the atmosphere became heavy after Xu Zhihong's last word, Lin Ruoxi started to feel apprehensive but thanks to Naruto who changed back his eating manner into a boorish person, her heart lighten up as she giggled and laughed at him. They chatted and flirted each other meanwhile Xu Zhihong's face was getting gloomier and darker.
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Naruto and Ruoxi entered the hotel hand in hand, Ruoxi happily hooked her arm over Naruto's elbow. People looked at this pairing with envy and jealousy on their expression, the man hasdhandsome and lean feature while the woman had beautiful and noble feature, making this pairing as if a perfect match made by heaven.
Ignoring the hateful stared from the surrounding, the couple walked slowly toward the hallway of the hotel. On the path to enter the hotel, both sides had ancient Greek columns and goddess statue. After entering the hotel, both sides were instead filled with various western artists'oil paintings of many different sceneries.
The imposingly grandiose decorations, which created a fashionable yet classical fusion, made the whole Blue Bay Hotel filled with an air of honor, even the guests that came and went were immaculately dressed, with arrogant expressions on their faces.
The pair stopped at one of painting that features in grand scale, the painting describes some sort of war between gods and goddess long time ago, there were gods and goddess that wear ancient Greek armor, ancient Norse armor, ancient Japanese armor, and ancient Chinese armor. They had said that the wars between gods and goddess almost burn the entire earth into nothingness, the casualties are innumerable, a sea of blood and storm of pain could be seen anywhere.
At the eve of the war, a holy maiden pray for salvation and peace, her prayed somehow being granted, and a celestial being appears between these gods and goddess, it spoke through this holy maiden and managed to put an end the hellish war that had been going for years. The celestial being becomes reverent and worshipped everywhere. The long peace had been created.
Naruto stared at the paint while Ruoxi read the description out loud.
"Amazing isn't it?" Ruoxi suddenly said
"Hmm? What did you say?" Naruto looked at Lin Ruoxi with a startled expression.
Ruoxi strangely looked at Naruto, "I said it is amazing..."
Naruto knitted his brows before asks "which part of the picture that actually amaze you?"
Ruoxi's face turned to the painting, she smiled and said, "the holy maiden, who became the vessel of that celestial being, she had the courage to sacrifice her self in order to put an end into the war between gods and goddess"
Naruto also turned his face back to the painting, he sadly mumbled, "courage ?"
'I am scared'
'I don't want to die'
'Help me...'
"Like hell she did"
"Hm? Did you say something?" Ruoxi inquired because Naruto talked in low voice
"Nothing, let's go now, we didn't want to make our host waiting," Naruto smiled while reminding her.
"Oh yeah, come on" Ruoxi dragged Naruto's hand while they walked away from the painting.
Naruto glanced for the last time before letting himself being dragged by Ruoxi.
They both arrived at a private booth facing the lake. The milky white decorated wooden door at the time opened, a man wearing a black Hugo Boss suit entered. This man had curly hair, a rugged beard and he wore a simple smile. Upon gesturing a "please enter" with his hands he said, "Welcome Miss Lin, our Family's young master has been waiting"
Naruto and Ruoxi noticed that this man seemly on purpose excluded Naruto from his welcome gesture and eyes that completely ignore him. Naruto sneered and he secretly signaling Ruoxi with his eyes. Ruoxi smiled and said, "thank you, this is my husband Mr. Naruto."
Ruoxi action clearly caught the man off-guard because if he still acted like Naruto didn't exist, wasn't that mean he simply didn't give her any face? What if she got offended and cancelled tonight's meeting? Wouldn't young master will blame him? Even though this is supposedly to be young master plan.
Secretly cursing out loud in his heart, the man smiled and said, "pardon miss Lin, I forget that you are married now, please mister and madam, come in," the man awkwardly make another welcome gesture.
Naruto and Ruoxi almost couldnt help to bear a laugh, they both quickly entered the room together leaving the man with an ugly expression.
The private room was very vast, the scent of lavender scattered all over the place was enough to raise one's spirits
"Ruoxi, I finally get to meet you," a magnetic voice came out from the sofa. The speaker wore a blue dress shirt, had a head full of neat short hair, and a pale handsome face. He possessed the rare temperament of reverence from the inside out, this type of temperament cannot be nurtured by an average family.
Impassively, Ruoxi nodded her head,"Boss Xu, I'll be troubling you."
Facing Ruoxi's cold indifference, Xu Zhihong wasn't even fazed. Still using the appearance of a mature man, he wore a face full of smiles, "I have invited you quite a number of times, and it's quite rare for you to be free. Your father has talked to me about you for quite some time, saying how you've been really busy at work. As a matter of fact, I do not mind, the fact that you were willing to come and join me for dinner alone makes me feel content."
Perhaps if he used this word to other women, they would feel flatter and shy, but Ruoxi remained impassive, she only said: "You're too kind."
Xu Zhihong too did not feel anything was wrong as he personally pulled a chair and invited her, "Come, please sit Ruoxi."
Ruoxi felt that she had underestimated Xu Zhihong's intelligence. His way of handling this was just to disregard Naruto. It seemed as if he already thoroughly investigates Naruto's background. who would believe that a big corporation's CEO would marry a previously unknown small stall seller? It appears that Xu Zhihong had long known of Lin Ruoxi's fake marriage plan.
But she and Naruto already prepared for this situation, they already planted a seed of trouble at the entrance of the private booth. With the same motion, they looked at Xu Zhihong's servant with a sneered on their face and threateningly looked.
Feeling their glare make the servant suddenly turned pale, it was clear what they want him to do, if this time he let Ruoxi introduce her husband again by herself, she will have a reason to be offended. Gritting his teeth, he smiled stiffly, "Young Master this is Miss Lin husband, Mr. Naruto."
Xu Zhihong's face turned ugly as he glared at his servant, wasn't their plan was supposed to pretend to ignore this man existence and shaming him in front of Ruoxi?! Why would he suddenly introduce him? Wasn't this simply making his previous act come into nothing?
Suppress the feels of wanting to hit his own servant, Xu Zhihong embarrassingly smiled and apologized, "Oh Hairy Ball why didn't you mention this earlier, quickly pick up a chair for this man to seat."
Hairy Ball nervously picked up another chair and placed it beside Lin Ruoxi's.
Still, with a face full of smiles, Xu Zhihong said: "I'm sorry I didn't greet you before, I though Ruoxi wouldn't come with her husband instead come with her big brother, looking at your intimate manner."
Big Brother? Naruto almost laugh out loud, 'where is the resemblance between us? Pathetic, simply pathetic.' without giving any mercy Naruto smiled "Wow I don't know that young master Xu aware that our Ruoxi usually called me big brother at home, especially when coming into the bed! the feels are to crisp."
Silence! Everyone in the rooms as if forgot to breathe!
Don't even mention about the master-servant pair, even Ruoxi turned speechless after hearing her collaborator's words, she turned all red from head to toe, and glared at Naruto. This man was too shameless, Although these words were meant to counter against Xu Zhihong, this was too... too...
Xu Zhihong, seeing Ruoxi suddenly displaying an expression of bashfulness and glaring at Naruto as if they intimate secret had been exposed, he was infatuated by her sudden change, but upon thinking again, for Ruoxi to act like this, his heart turned cold and he couldn't help but wonder that they relationship was actually true.
with a great difficulty, Xu Zhihong laughed and said "This mister is sure knows how to make a joke, come, come, everyone please sit down."
it wasn't long until the situation was back to normal, Ruoxi and Xu Zhihong already discussed about their cooperation in business. It already becomes a tug of war, Things that ought to be yielded should be, and things that ought to be fought for should be as well
In Reality, Xu Zhihong was very clear, dealing with women like Ruoxi, the art of sweet talk didn't work at all. As both of them were businessmen, he must utilize methods to convince the other party, if a man gave up his career for a woman, how will this sort of man win the heart of a strong woman like Lin Ruoxi?
Just like Xu Zhihong, once the official talk began, Ruoxi's words started increasing as well. Her interpersonal relationship skills may not be that great, but once she started talking, this ridiculously beautiful girl also displayed a somewhat "bitchy" demeanor. Once she started to argue, she wouldn't give up until she reaped the maximum profit.
Hairy ball who clearly didn't understand what this both person doing, just stared at Naruto, trying to assess and provoking him, he clearly still felt grudge regarding the previous humiliation.
As for Naruto who didn't have any interested with their business transaction and grunt like Hairy, no matter what strength he had, it still considered nothing in Naruto eyes.
Therefore, Naruto only sat on his chair and playing with his phone, streaming a certain cat chasing a mouse.
"Yes, I hope Boss Xu can stick to his promises, this year's Autumn Fashion Show, with your company's stage designs and our company's Fall wear, it is certain that we will capture a wider market and received a huge sum of profit." Ruoxi finally said. Due to speaking for an extended amount of time, her cheeks were flushed displaying her hard to come by supple beauty.
While looking at this scene, Xu Zhihong's eyes dulled for a moment before nodding: "Of course, I hope that our partnership goes smoothly."
"Since business is concluded, I expect that you are now hungry Ruoxi, let's have the food served now," Xu Zhihong said as he clapped.
The waiters near the door immediately started to get busy. The dinner was a formal western cuisine. While the dinnerware was being set on the table, Ruoxi glanced towards Naruto with worry in her eyes but quickly disappeared as she remembers that Naruto had spent his time in the United States before so he must be at least know about the etiquette.
Her guess proved to be correct as Naruto didn't immediately launch into his food but act mannerly like a gentleman prepare to eat.
Xu Zhihong look at Naruto with ugly and disappointed expression but still maintained his smile "Naruto, even though this is my first time meeting you, I did not prepare a proper gift, so, I specially ordered a bottle of Nebbiolo from the year 1992 and I hope that Mister Naruto can evaluate it for me."
Naruto nodded solemnly and everyone thought he was confident about evaluating the wine. Little bit they know that Naruto was actually gloomy and helpless inside. How could he have an ability to evaluate a wine if he didn't even like drinking? And every wine or beer he drunk would just taste and turned like normal water for him as they didn't have any effect on him. But since directly rejecting it would cause Ruoxi to lose face, he had to accept it and pretending to be able to evaluate it even just a little.
Naruto raised his glass and the waiter only poured a bit before stopping, Naruto didn't feel anything out of place and he lightly swirled the liquid around the glass, smelt the wine, placed the tilted glass to his lips and slowly savored a sip.
Xu Zhihong worriedly looks at Naruto, he asked, "Mister Naruto, what do you think?"
Naruto smiled and says "First of all, I want to tell you that I'm not really familiar with any kind of wine and beer since I don't like drinking them. Second, the taste of this wine is like experiencing leathery, gripping high tannin that seems to clasp the inside of your lips to the front of your teeth. But despite its tannic structure, there are flavors of cherry and raspberries, it also has aromas of rose and anise. To put it short this wine is subtle yet bold, simple yet complex"
From this, Xu Zhihong felt a bit of surprise, true, that he explain and evaluate the wine on general basis, but he said before that he's not familiar with any kind of wine because didn't like drinking them, yet, he was capable of describing the wine with his eyes, nose, and lips. What is that mean? It mean that either he was lying about never taste this wine, a pretending professional wine taster, or he simply had high sensitivity of his senses.
If it was the first and second reason, Xu Zhihong will not feel any pressure and simply hold contempt or disdain for this man. But if this was the third reason...
Xu Zhihong gulped the saliva in his throat because he simply feeling the pressure from this man can be very heavy.
"True enough, it seems that Mr. Naruto was truly not ordinary, it's no wonder that Ruoxi wanted you to accompany her," Xu Zhihong said with a fake smile.
"Is that so?" Naruto looked at Ruoxi with infatuated eyes and lovingly saidL "Without any skills, how can I manage to attract such a goddess like my wife? Isn't that right my little Ruoxi?"
Ruoxi's lovable dimples suddenly flashed red. Although she knew that he only acted in order help her block Xu Zhihong's attempts but being called such intimately and possessively by him, her heart almost jumped out to her throat, she rigidly nodded her head in embarrassment.
Xu Zhihong could feel his world become darker as he murderously staring at Naruto. With one hand gripping tightly onto the crystal clear wine glass, even his veins were visible, he forced a laugh and said: "Haha... so you and Ruoxi are truly has tied the knot, I am... feeling happy for both of you."
After saying that, all of them started eating normally though the atmosphere became heavy after Xu Zhihong's last word, Lin Ruoxi started to feel apprehensive but thanks to Naruto who changed back his eating manner into a boorish person, her heart lighten up as she giggled and laughed at him. They chatted and flirted each other meanwhile Xu Zhihong's face was getting gloomier and darker.
Naruto and Ruoxi entered the hotel hand in hand, Ruoxi happily hooked her arm over Naruto's elbow. People looked at this pairing with envy and jealousy on their expression, the man hasdhandsome and lean feature while the woman had beautiful and noble feature, making this pairing as if a perfect match made by heaven.Ignoring the hateful stared from the surrounding, the couple walked slowly toward the hallway of the hotel. On the path to enter the hotel, both sides had ancient Greek columns and goddess statue. After entering the hotel, both sides were instead filled with various western artists'oil paintings of many different sceneries.The imposingly grandiose decorations, which created a fashionable yet classical fusion, made the whole Blue Bay Hotel filled with an air of honor, even the guests that came and went were immaculately dressed, with arrogant expressions on their faces.The pair stopped at one of painting that features in grand scale, the painting describes some sort of war between gods and goddess long time ago, there were gods and goddess that wear ancient Greek armor, ancient Norse armor, ancient Japanese armor, and ancient Chinese armor. They had said that the wars between gods and goddess almost burn the entire earth into nothingness, the casualties are innumerable, a sea of blood and storm of pain could be seen anywhere.At the eve of the war, a holy maiden pray for salvation and peace, her prayed somehow being granted, and a celestial being appears between these gods and goddess, it spoke through this holy maiden and managed to put an end the hellish war that had been going for years. The celestial being becomes reverent and worshipped everywhere. The long peace had been created.Naruto stared at the paint while Ruoxi read the description out loud."Amazing isn't it?" Ruoxi suddenly said"Hmm? What did you say?" Naruto looked at Lin Ruoxi with a startled expression.Ruoxi strangely looked at Naruto, "I said it is amazing..."Naruto knitted his brows before asks "which part of the picture that actually amaze you?"Ruoxi's face turned to the painting, she smiled and said, "the holy maiden, who became the vessel of that celestial being, she had the courage to sacrifice her self in order to put an end into the war between gods and goddess"Naruto also turned his face back to the painting, he sadly mumbled, "courage ?"'I am scared''I don't want to die''Help me...'"Like hell she did""Hm? Did you say something?" Ruoxi inquired because Naruto talked in low voice"Nothing, let's go now, we didn't want to make our host waiting," Naruto smiled while reminding her."Oh yeah, come on" Ruoxi dragged Naruto's hand while they walked away from the painting.Naruto glanced for the last time before letting himself being dragged by Ruoxi.They both arrived at a private booth facing the lake. The milky white decorated wooden door at the time opened, a man wearing a black Hugo Boss suit entered. This man had curly hair, a rugged beard and he wore a simple smile. Upon gesturing a "please enter" with his hands he said, "Welcome Miss Lin, our Family's young master has been waiting"Naruto and Ruoxi noticed that this man seemly on purpose excluded Naruto from his welcome gesture and eyes that completely ignore him. Naruto sneered and he secretly signaling Ruoxi with his eyes. Ruoxi smiled and said, "thank you, this is my husband Mr. Naruto."Ruoxi action clearly caught the man off-guard because if he still acted like Naruto didn't exist, wasn't that mean he simply didn't give her any face? What if she got offended and cancelled tonight's meeting? Wouldn't young master will blame him? Even though this is supposedly to be young master plan.Secretly cursing out loud in his heart, the man smiled and said, "pardon miss Lin, I forget that you are married now, please mister and madam, come in," the man awkwardly make another welcome gesture.Naruto and Ruoxi almost couldnt help to bear a laugh, they both quickly entered the room together leaving the man with an ugly expression.The private room was very vast, the scent of lavender scattered all over the place was enough to raise one's spirits"Ruoxi, I finally get to meet you," a magnetic voice came out from the sofa. The speaker wore a blue dress shirt, had a head full of neat short hair, and a pale handsome face. He possessed the rare temperament of reverence from the inside out, this type of temperament cannot be nurtured by an average family.Impassively, Ruoxi nodded her head,"Boss Xu, I'll be troubling you."Facing Ruoxi's cold indifference, Xu Zhihong wasn't even fazed. Still using the appearance of a mature man, he wore a face full of smiles, "I have invited you quite a number of times, and it's quite rare for you to be free. Your father has talked to me about you for quite some time, saying how you've been really busy at work. As a matter of fact, I do not mind, the fact that you were willing to come and join me for dinner alone makes me feel content."Perhaps if he used this word to other women, they would feel flatter and shy, but Ruoxi remained impassive, she only said: "You're too kind."Xu Zhihong too did not feel anything was wrong as he personally pulled a chair and invited her, "Come, please sit Ruoxi."Ruoxi felt that she had underestimated Xu Zhihong's intelligence. His way of handling this was just to disregard Naruto. It seemed as if he already thoroughly investigates Naruto's background. who would believe that a big corporation's CEO would marry a previously unknown small stall seller? It appears that Xu Zhihong had long known of Lin Ruoxi's fake marriage plan.But she and Naruto already prepared for this situation, they already planted a seed of trouble at the entrance of the private booth. With the same motion, they looked at Xu Zhihong's servant with a sneered on their face and threateningly looked.Feeling their glare make the servant suddenly turned pale, it was clear what they want him to do, if this time he let Ruoxi introduce her husband again by herself, she will have a reason to be offended. Gritting his teeth, he smiled stiffly, "Young Master this is Miss Lin husband, Mr. Naruto."Xu Zhihong's face turned ugly as he glared at his servant, wasn't their plan was supposed to pretend to ignore this man existence and shaming him in front of Ruoxi?! Why would he suddenly introduce him? Wasn't this simply making his previous act come into nothing?Suppress the feels of wanting to hit his own servant, Xu Zhihong embarrassingly smiled and apologized, "Oh Hairy Ball why didn't you mention this earlier, quickly pick up a chair for this man to seat."Hairy Ball nervously picked up another chair and placed it beside Lin Ruoxi's.Still, with a face full of smiles, Xu Zhihong said: "I'm sorry I didn't greet you before, I though Ruoxi wouldn't come with her husband instead come with her big brother, looking at your intimate manner."Big Brother? Naruto almost laugh out loud, 'where is the resemblance between us? Pathetic, simply pathetic.' without giving any mercy Naruto smiled "Wow I don't know that young master Xu aware that our Ruoxi usually called me big brother at home, especially when coming into the bed! the feels are to crisp."Silence! Everyone in the rooms as if forgot to breathe!Don't even mention about the master-servant pair, even Ruoxi turned speechless after hearing her collaborator's words, she turned all red from head to toe, and glared at Naruto. This man was too shameless, Although these words were meant to counter against Xu Zhihong, this was too... too...Xu Zhihong, seeing Ruoxi suddenly displaying an expression of bashfulness and glaring at Naruto as if they intimate secret had been exposed, he was infatuated by her sudden change, but upon thinking again, for Ruoxi to act like this, his heart turned cold and he couldn't help but wonder that they relationship was actually true.with a great difficulty, Xu Zhihong laughed and said "This mister is sure knows how to make a joke, come, come, everyone please sit down."it wasn't long until the situation was back to normal, Ruoxi and Xu Zhihong already discussed about their cooperation in business. It already becomes a tug of war, Things that ought to be yielded should be, and things that ought to be fought for should be as wellIn Reality, Xu Zhihong was very clear, dealing with women like Ruoxi, the art of sweet talk didn't work at all. As both of them were businessmen, he must utilize methods to convince the other party, if a man gave up his career for a woman, how will this sort of man win the heart of a strong woman like Lin Ruoxi?Just like Xu Zhihong, once the official talk began, Ruoxi's words started increasing as well. Her interpersonal relationship skills may not be that great, but once she started talking, this ridiculously beautiful girl also displayed a somewhat "bitchy" demeanor. Once she started to argue, she wouldn't give up until she reaped the maximum profit.Hairy ball who clearly didn't understand what this both person doing, just stared at Naruto, trying to assess and provoking him, he clearly still felt grudge regarding the previous humiliation.As for Naruto who didn't have any interested with their business transaction and grunt like Hairy, no matter what strength he had, it still considered nothing in Naruto eyes.Therefore, Naruto only sat on his chair and playing with his phone, streaming a certain cat chasing a mouse."Yes, I hope Boss Xu can stick to his promises, this year's Autumn Fashion Show, with your company's stage designs and our company's Fall wear, it is certain that we will capture a wider market and received a huge sum of profit." Ruoxi finally said. Due to speaking for an extended amount of time, her cheeks were flushed displaying her hard to come by supple beauty.While looking at this scene, Xu Zhihong's eyes dulled for a moment before nodding: "Of course, I hope that our partnership goes smoothly.""Since business is concluded, I expect that you are now hungry Ruoxi, let's have the food served now," Xu Zhihong said as he clapped.The waiters near the door immediately started to get busy. The dinner was a formal western cuisine. While the dinnerware was being set on the table, Ruoxi glanced towards Naruto with worry in her eyes but quickly disappeared as she remembers that Naruto had spent his time in the United States before so he must be at least know about the etiquette.Her guess proved to be correct as Naruto didn't immediately launch into his food but act mannerly like a gentleman prepare to eat.Xu Zhihong look at Naruto with ugly and disappointed expression but still maintained his smile "Naruto, even though this is my first time meeting you, I did not prepare a proper gift, so, I specially ordered a bottle of Nebbiolo from the year 1992 and I hope that Mister Naruto can evaluate it for me."Naruto nodded solemnly and everyone thought he was confident about evaluating the wine. Little bit they know that Naruto was actually gloomy and helpless inside. How could he have an ability to evaluate a wine if he didn't even like drinking? And every wine or beer he drunk would just taste and turned like normal water for him as they didn't have any effect on him. But since directly rejecting it would cause Ruoxi to lose face, he had to accept it and pretending to be able to evaluate it even just a little.Naruto raised his glass and the waiter only poured a bit before stopping, Naruto didn't feel anything out of place and he lightly swirled the liquid around the glass, smelt the wine, placed the tilted glass to his lips and slowly savored a sip.Xu Zhihong worriedly looks at Naruto, he asked, "Mister Naruto, what do you think?"Naruto smiled and says "First of all, I want to tell you that I'm not really familiar with any kind of wine and beer since I don't like drinking them. Second, the taste of this wine is like experiencing leathery, gripping high tannin that seems to clasp the inside of your lips to the front of your teeth. But despite its tannic structure, there are flavors of cherry and raspberries, it also has aromas of rose and anise. To put it short this wine is subtle yet bold, simple yet complex"From this, Xu Zhihong felt a bit of surprise, true, that he explain and evaluate the wine on general basis, but he said before that he's not familiar with any kind of wine because didn't like drinking them, yet, he was capable of describing the wine with his eyes, nose, and lips. What is that mean? It mean that either he was lying about never taste this wine, a pretending professional wine taster, or he simply had high sensitivity of his senses.If it was the first and second reason, Xu Zhihong will not feel any pressure and simply hold contempt or disdain for this man. But if this was the third reason...Xu Zhihong gulped the saliva in his throat because he simply feeling the pressure from this man can be very heavy."True enough, it seems that Mr. Naruto was truly not ordinary, it's no wonder that Ruoxi wanted you to accompany her," Xu Zhihong said with a fake smile."Is that so?" Naruto looked at Ruoxi with infatuated eyes and lovingly saidL "Without any skills, how can I manage to attract such a goddess like my wife? Isn't that right my little Ruoxi?"Ruoxi's lovable dimples suddenly flashed red. Although she knew that he only acted in order help her block Xu Zhihong's attempts but being called such intimately and possessively by him, her heart almost jumped out to her throat, she rigidly nodded her head in embarrassment.Xu Zhihong could feel his world become darker as he murderously staring at Naruto. With one hand gripping tightly onto the crystal clear wine glass, even his veins were visible, he forced a laugh and said: "Haha... so you and Ruoxi are truly has tied the knot, I am... feeling happy for both of you."After saying that, all of them started eating normally though the atmosphere became heavy after Xu Zhihong's last word, Lin Ruoxi started to feel apprehensive but thanks to Naruto who changed back his eating manner into a boorish person, her heart lighten up as she giggled and laughed at him. They chatted and flirted each other meanwhile Xu Zhihong's face was getting gloomier and darker.
