Li Nanli was inside his study, and the room was brightly lit. He was holding a cigarette between his fingers, and a wisp of smoke was swirling in the air. He opened the document that contained the essay and put out the cigarette.

At the same time, Gu Yanqi's voice came through the video camera of the computer. He seemed like he had been working out just now, for his breathing was heavy. He continued their conversation by saying, "Can you put in a good word for me when you speak to Fu Zhi? Money is not a problem at all…"

However, Li Nanli was not listening to him. Keeping his head low, he flipped through the essay, and a grin slowly materialized on his face as he reached the last page of the essay.

He could see that Fu Zhi had put a lot of effort into the essay, and the frustration in his heart disappeared.

Fu Zhi sent a rabbit emoticon to him and said, [It's late. Are you not going to sleep yet?]

Li Nanli felt like his heart had melted.

What he did not know was that the essay had not been written by Fu Zhi but Lu Jingqing, and as an affectionate man who cherished his wife a lot, whenever he wrote a love letter for Xu Wei, he would throw in plenty of terms and phrases that suggested his yearning to spend the rest of his life with her.

LI Nanli stroked his phone and then raised his head to look at his computer. "Let's put this matter aside for the time being. You're being noisy."

Gu Yanqi was stunned. Then, before he could say anything in return, Li Nanli hung up the video call and called Fu Zhi.

Very soon, Fu Zhi answered the call.

It was rather noisy on the movie set, and Li Nanli could vaguely hear Feng Bo shouting and spewing vulgarities through the phone.

He frowned a little and asked, "Where are you now?"

Fu Zhi was sitting behind Feng Bo. Li Nanli's voice was drowned out by Feng Bo's voice, so she could not hear what Li Nanli was saying.

"Hold on," she said before getting to her feet.

She went to a corner and said everything that had happened on the movie set to Li Nanli. When Luis came out of the dressing room with his agent, the first thing he saw was a young lady standing in front of a window.

Behind her were the lights of the city. The night sky was full of stars, and the moon was exceptionally bright tonight. Luis had no idea why but he suddenly had an urge to create a poem.

He liked everything about China, including the girls there. Unlike the girls in his country, most of the girls in China were pretty as dolls and could always evoke in him the desire to protect them.

"Luis?" His agent looked dubiously at Luis.

Luis turned around and replied, "You go ahead. I have something to talk to Ms. Fu about."

His agent knew Luis inside out, so he knew what Luis was going to do. He felt that she was familiar but he could not remember where he had seen her before. He rummaged through his brain, and it took him quite a long while before he finally remembered seeing Fu Zhi's name on Weibo.

Then, he told Luis, "Mind your manners. She's the investor and she is definitely just like the oriental dolls you met in the past."

Luis just nodded in reply as if to say yes. He pulled a rose out of a vase and approached Fu Zhi. "Ms. Fu."

Fu Zhi turned around, and Luis made eyes at her. Fu Zhi did not know what he was doing, but she did not like it. She brought her brows together in a tight frown and said in a chilly voice, "What's the matter? Do your eyes hurt?"

Luis was stumped.

Since Luis was one of the actors cast in her movie and they had just finished making the trailer, she did not want to go through the trouble of recasting and repeating everything again if he really went blind. Thus, she paused for a moment and added, "Take a taxi at the gate and go straight for one kilometer. Turn right on Rong Hua Street and you will find Yu City General Hospital on your right-hand side. Go into the hospital and tell the nurse that you're looking for Dr. Li. The sooner you receive treatment, the higher the chances of you getting healed will be. Don't worry too much and don't feel guilty about causing the crew trouble. I will certainly deduct your pay for delaying the filming process."

Something in Luis's brain snapped. It was only now that he realized how dense Fu Zhi was and how difficult it was to make a move on her or make her understand how he felt about her.

That said, he refused to give up just like that. He held the rose between his lips, while Fu Zhi just did not know what to say.

She felt that he was being melodramatic, but what she did not know was that Luis could be even more melodramatic. When he saw that Fu Zhi was not reacting to him, he spun 360 degrees, placed his arm on the windowsill beside Fu Zhi, and looked down at her.

Then, Fu Zhi grabbed her scarf to cover her face and lowered her head to continue her conversation with Li Nanli.

"The moon is beautiful tonight," Luis said.

'So?' Fu Zhi thought.

Luis then gave the rose to Fu Zhi and added, "It's getting late. May I have the honor of inviting you to dinner? After dinner, I will take you home."

His voice wafted into Li Nanli's ear through the phone, and Li Nanli squinted his eyes dangerously.

It seemed to him that someone was making a move on his girlfriend again, and he began to wonder if he should ask his mother to transfer another million to her bank account or not.

After all, the only thing that could get Fu Zhi's attention was money. Gifts and luxury goods were not effective.

With that thought in mind, he sent a text message to Huo Ningxin.

——

A flower and a date.

No matter how dense Fu Zhi was, she could see through Luis's intentions now. She wrapped the scarf even tighter around her face and said, "I don't want to."

"You don't want to eat at night?" Luis pressed on. "That's fine then. How about we go have some wine at a bar?"

"I have wine at home."

Most people would give up at this point, but Luis was not an ordinary person. He was tenacious and he would not give up unless he got what he wanted. Grinning from ear to ear, he said, "That's great to hear, Ms. Fu. Since you have wine at home, why don't we go to your house instead?"

"I'm sorry," Fu Zhi replied expressionlessly. "I don't have a house."

Luis was speechless.

Li Nanli nodded in satisfaction when he saw his girlfriend's attitude.

As the main investor of the movie, Fu Zhi felt that she should take care of the psychological and mental status of her crew. She did not want to hurt Luis's feelings, so she told him politely, "You're way too old for me, and I don't like you."

Before Luis could say anything, Li Nanli, who was on the other side of the line, was stumped. He had just remembered that he was 5 years older than Fu Zhi.

Refusing to back away, Luis said, "I could clearly see that you have a thing for me when we were shooting the scene just now. Everyone keeps saying that eyes are the window to one's soul, so I know you have fallen for me as well…"

His face was serious, and his voice was stern as he moved on. "Although I don't believe in the institution of marriage, if you inspire me to write poetry, I can make an exemption for you and marry you."

Fu Zhi did not know what to say at all.

'Nope. You don't want to.'

Luis added, "Don't just look at the surface! As long as we love each other, age is not a problem!"

"I have a boyfriend," Fu Zhi replied.

"I know. Ye Shiyun, right? If you want, I can settle for a polyamorous relationship as well," Luis said. "The only demand I have is that you please don't leave me alone. I don't like loneliness. All three of us can sleep in the same bed. I will sleep between you two and hold both your hands."

Both Fu Zhi and Li Nanli were stunned. Their brains were blank, and they just did not know what they should say. It took Fu Zhi quite a while to come around to her senses and say, "I don't like you."

"No, you like me."

"No, I don't like you."

"No, you like me."

'Alright then. Since you're being such a nuisance, don't blame me for this.'

With that thought in mind, Fu Zhi grabbed the ashtray sitting on the windowsill and crushed it with one hand.

Luis was shocked.

Before he could say anything, Fu Zhi waved at her assistant and said, "The sky is getting dark, and I think it's a good time to send him to Africa to be a miner."

*

It was only now that Luis realized he had messed with the wrong person. His blood turned cold, and he just wanted to get as far away from Fu Zhi as possible.

The driver of the Lu Family had arrived at the movie set. Perhaps he was very satisfied with Fu Zhi's attitude, as Li Nanli's voice was gentle as he said, "You're going to Myanmar this week, right? I will come pick you up."

Fu Zhi said something in return and hung up the call. She heaved a sigh of relief and felt that she should learn more from her father when she thought about the essay her father had written.

Before she exited the WeChat group created by Xu Wei, she mentioned her father and said, [I'll be going to Myanmar this week. I've already told my school.]

Everyone in the group fell silent.

Lu Jingqing: [??? You're in the group as well??]

Addiction: [Yeah? I've been here the whole time.]

Xu Weiwei, the gentle beauty: [I let her in! I want her to praise me!]

Lu Jingqing: [@Xu Weiwei, the gentle beauty, Zhizhi is not good at praising others. Kick her out so we can have the entire WeChat group for the two of us.]

Xu Weiwei, the gentle beauty: [Are you sure about that, hubby?]

Although she said that, Xu Wei still removed Fu Zhi from the WeChat group.

*

Meanwhile, at the Li Mansion...

After Fu Zhi hung up the call, Li Nanli saved the document that contained Fu Zhi's essay on his phone. He also saved another backup copy in a USB stick and locked it in the safe.

Li Nanli stroked the picture of Fu Zhi he used as a screensaver on his phone.

It was a picture of her speaking on the stage in a yellow dress. He had gotten the photo from the forum of No.1 High School.

Li Nanli was in a good mood right now and had an urge to tell everyone about it.

However, most people were not active on WeChat Moments at a time like this, so very few people would see his post. He thought for a while and suddenly had an idea when he saw his contact list on WeChat.

The contact list was short. Most of his contacts were the shareholders and executives of his company, as well as some business partners.

Li Nanli created a WeChat group and invited all of them.

Everyone in the group was dumbfounded, as they did not know what Li Nanli was going to tell them.

Then, Li Nanli sent the document containing the essay to the WeChat group.

Li Nanli: [Everyone, please take a look at this document.]

Everyone clicked into the document, and they were all even more confused after reading the first sentence.

'What the... Is President Li confessing his love to us?!' all of them thought.