Chapter 183 The Surprise Huo Zhizhou Prepared for Jiang Ruan

Chapter 183 The Surprise Huo Zhizhou Prepared for Jiang Ruan

The car drove along and soon arrived at the restaurant.

Jiang Ruan remained silent throughout, unmoved by Huo Zhizhou's actions, like a heartless wooden doll.

"BOSS." Taking advantage of Jiang Ruan's trip to the restroom, Assistant Jiang immediately came over.

Huo Zhizhou: "?"

Assistant Jiang reported: "The male bodyguards we found for Miss Jiang—who are eloquent, handsome, and highly skilled in combat—have all arrived. Would you like them to start today or in a couple of days?"

It's quite difficult to have all these qualities combined in one person.

It took me so long to find them all.

Huo Zhizhou paused for a moment, then quickly replied: "Tell them to wait at Ruanyuan. If Ruanruan is satisfied after they get home, she can stay. If not, give them some money to leave or let them stay at the company as bodyguards."

Jiang's assistant hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

"Is there anything else?" Huo Zhizhou asked casually.

"Aren't you afraid your position will be threatened?" Assistant Jiang asked the truth. "Those people are quite good-looking and very charming. They were all very excited when they were in front of me after the HR interview."

"That's because they've never seen the world," Huo Zhizhou said calmly.

Assistant Jiang: "?"

Huo Zhizhou looked at him: "You'd get excited if you saw them?"

Assistant Jiang's lips twitched.

Isn't it a bit abnormal for a grown man to get excited when he sees a handsome man?

Huo Zhizhou didn't talk to him anymore. Seeing that Jiang Ruan hadn't returned by this time, he was a little worried. Just as he was about to get up, Jiang Ruan appeared and sat down opposite him.

The dinner was eaten in complete silence.

Throughout the entire conversation, aside from Huo Zhizhou asking if it suited her taste, all Jiang Ruan responded with "hmm," "okay," or "not bad."

"Your family has prepared a surprise for you." On the way back, Huo Zhizhou took the initiative to start a conversation, still in a casual and indifferent state. "You should like it."

Jiang Ruan ignored her, showing no interest whatsoever.

until--

When she saw a row of handsome young men around twenty years old standing neatly in the Soft Garden, her brow twitched.

Upon seeing her arrive, the bodyguards greeted her in unison, "Hello, Miss Jiang!"

“Last time you said you liked a handsome and eloquent younger brother, so I had Jiang Yu recruit ten for you,” Huo Zhizhou explained calmly, standing beside her. “From now on, they will be your bodyguards.”

Jiang Ruan looked at him in disbelief.

I really want to ask him if he's sick!

"As long as you're happy here, I'll fulfill any request you make," Huo Zhizhou said.

"You're sick." Jiang Ruan threw down this sentence and entered the villa.

Jiang Yu glanced at the young and energetic bodyguards, then at the ever-calm and composed BOSS: "Should these people stay or leave?"

"Let's wait for her reply. Let them wait over there first." After saying this, Huo Zhizhou walked away and headed upstairs in the villa.

Jiang Ruan was furious.

Just then, Su Zhu called to ask her how she had been these past two days, and Jiang Ruan said she was fine.

As her best friend, Su Zhu sensed that something was off about her tone when she said that: "You don't seem very happy."

"No, I'm just a little tired after a day of work." Jiang Ruan didn't want Su Zhu to get angry with her, as Su Zhu's emotions had been fluctuating more than before because of her lately.

Su Zhu: "?"

Just as Su Zhu was about to ask, the bedroom door opened.

Huo Zhizhou looked at the person standing by the window, then walked towards her: "Didn't those people like it? Were they not good-looking enough, or were they afraid they wouldn't know how to talk?"

Jiang Ruan turned around, still holding her phone and making a call.

Before she could speak, Su Zhu on the other end of the phone said, "What do you mean by 'good-looking' but can't speak properly? Who are you talking about?"

"Last time at the nightclub you said I ruined your fun." Huo Zhizhou came up to her, his emotions unusually calm. "To make up for it, I specially asked Jiang Yu to find those for you. If you don't like them, I'll get you a different batch."

Only a devil would like that.

Jiang Ruan had barely finished speaking when Su Zhu's gossipy voice came through the phone next to her ear: "If you like it, why wouldn't you! Keep it!"

Jiang Ruan: "..."

Su Zhu continued, "He's so confident because he's sure you won't stay. Try keeping him here and see if he can still do what he said. He's just taking advantage of your personality to manipulate you."

Jiang Ruan paused for a moment.

Looking back on what happened during this period, that is indeed the case.

He understood her personality and knew she wouldn't like being treated this way. Now, using the incident at the bar that night as an excuse to send her away, just as Su Zhu said, he was certain she wouldn't accept it, which was why he dared to act this way.

"Does liking it make any difference?" Jiang Ruan took the phone away from her ear, changed her approach and solution, "If you don't like it, you can just dismiss the person with a single sentence."

"You can keep them as long as you like." Huo Zhizhou didn't hear Su Zhu's words; Jiang Ruan's voice was kept very low.

Jiang Ruan spoke up: "Okay."

Huo Zhizhou paused for a moment.

Jiang Ruan then added, "I hope you keep your word."

For a while after that, Jiang Ruan would spend her days after get off work playing with Sui Sui and chatting and playing with the bodyguards that Huo Zhizhou had found for her.

After a few days, before Huo Zhizhou collapsed, Jiang's assistant collapsed first.

"Boss, Miss Jiang seems to be getting along very well with them," Jiang Yu kindly reminded her. "If this continues, you might really lose your position."

Huo Zhizhou looked at the people in the Ruanyuan Pavilion with deep eyes, his thin lips pressed into a straight line without saying a word.

Jiang Ruan's personality wouldn't really get involved with them.

These past few days have most likely been an act for him to see.

Even so, seeing her smiling in front of a group of people, yet speaking coldly to him, still caused an indescribable feeling of annoyance to well up in his chest.

“Just because you didn’t like something before doesn’t mean you won’t like it now.” Jiang Yu hoped he would have a sense of crisis. “If things continue like this, it’s hard to guarantee that Miss Jiang won’t actually become interested in these young people.”

Huo Zhizhou looked towards the attic and saw through the floor-to-ceiling window that Jiang Ruan was being amused by them.

In fact.

Jiang Ruan was indeed very happy.

Originally, I just wanted to expose Huo Zhizhou's disguise, but I didn't expect these young people to be so interesting.

After learning that Jiang Ruan wasn't the kind of rich woman who wanted to keep a wealthy man, but simply hired bodyguards, everyone relaxed and started talking about their own interesting stories.

"What you're talking about is nothing. My roommates, trying to get me to steal money, shoved three spoonfuls of rice into my mouth while I was sleeping. I almost choked to death."

“I was ostracized by my sons until I was dumped by my girlfriend and became a bachelor like them, and then they stopped ostracizing me.”

“My roommate also isolates me and won’t let me sleep with him.”

Everyone: "???"

Jiang Ruan: "???"

In a short time.

The remaining people instinctively moved a little further away from that person.

If grown men want to sleep next to other grown men, they're either transvestites or gay.

"Don't look at me like that. If I really had designs on you, do you think you could escape?" the man who had spoken earlier said again. "Among all of you here, who is my match?"

These words unsurprisingly provoked public outrage.

He was surrounded and brutally beaten by the remaining nine people.

Watching them play and joke around, Jiang Ruan was reminded of her school days for a moment.

She hadn't met Huo Zhizhou yet, and she lived a carefree and easy life. Even when the Jiang Group went bankrupt and she was ridiculed and mocked by some people, she was only down on her luck.

Unlike now...

"Hello, Mr. Huo." The orderly voices pulled Jiang Ruan back to reality.

She looked in the direction of the sound and saw Huo Zhizhou walking over in a black shirt with the collar slightly open. He strode over and sat down next to her, naturally putting his arm around her waist.

Jiang Ruan frowned slightly, instinctively rejecting his intimacy.

He glanced at the neatly lined-up people and whispered in her ear, "Did you have fun?"

Jiang Ruan didn't have a nice thing to say to him: "It's happier than being with you."

"Then shouldn't you also fulfill the agreement and be my wife like before?" Huo Zhizhou said in a very low voice, "You wouldn't have been so cold and distant to me before."