The CEO's Substitute Wife Is A Genius-Chapter 42 - Man Jie gets drunk and beckons to Young
Chapter 42: Chapter 42: Man Jie gets drunk and beckons to Young Master Lu
Chapter 42 -42: Man Jie gets drunk and beckons to Young Master Lu
The housekeeper was startled for a moment, his eyes widening.
He wanted to stop her, but he dared not make it too obvious.
“Miss Jingya, there are many of the young master’s personal items in this room, it is not convenient for you to see…”
As Wen Jingya turned the doorknob to the right and prepared to push the door open, the housekeeper hurriedly said.
Wen Jingya paused for a moment, but eventually closed the door with a smile, “I see, then indeed it would not be convenient to look.”
Having said that, she walked forward with big strides, arriving at the third room, and pointed, “Then this one.”
“Yes!” The housekeeper quickly responded, realizing he had broken out in a sweat.
With a smile that was not quite a smile, Wen Jingya entered the room, her peripheral vision however glanced towards the first room.
What could Xingzhou’s personal items be?
Seeing the housekeeper’s nervous appearance, it was as if he was hiding something scandalous.
…
Meanwhile, in the study on the second floor.
Jiang Man was leaning in Lu Xingzhou’s executive chair, engrossed in playing a game.
She had the voice chat on, and Wu Yingfan’s voice came through the phone from time to time.
“Man, am I disturbing you? Didn’t your husband just come over? Are you done with your business?”
“It was over in two minutes,” Jiang Man said casually, her focus entirely on the game.
“What? Just two minutes? My goodness, you’ve got to take your man to the hospital to get checked out! That’s an illness, it needs to be treated!”
“What are you talking about?” Jiang Man frowned, “Wu Yingfan, can you concentrate and not throw the game?”
“…” Lu Xingzhou entered the study, choked by the content of their conversation.
“Jiang Man,” he lowered his voice, restraining his displeasure, and glanced at his wristwatch, “It’s getting late, time to go to bed.”
“Has he left?” Jiang Man stood up, not even lifting her head, “This round is about to end, we’re pushing to the high ground!”
“Victory!” With the game system announcing the win, Wu Yingfan said in a dejected tone, “Man, I’m going offline then.”
Without changing her expression, Jiang Man exited the game, pretending to leave the room.
Lu Xingzhou stretched out a hand, stopping her, “Where are you going?”
“Obviously, back to my own room.” Jiang Man lifted her eyes.
“Jingya is staying in the guest room on the first floor, and tonight the two of us need to sleep on the second floor. If she discovers we are sleeping separately, she will surely tell grandmother about it,” he said.
He paused, his demeanor becoming serious, “You understand what I mean, right?”
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“Understood,” Jiang Man raised her eyebrows.
It meant she had to continue playing along.
She turned her head to look around, pointing towards the sofa behind her, “Then I’ll sleep here.”
“You go to the bedroom, I’ll sleep in the study,” Lu Xingzhou said with a stern face, in an indisputable tone.
The bedroom and study were connected, separated by a glass door.
Jiang Man stuffed her hands into her pockets and raised her eyebrows.
“Okay, quite gentlemanly,” she nodded in approval.
The glass door was open at the moment, so she walked straight into the bedroom.
This was the first time she had entered Lu Xingzhou’s room.
Throughout their marriage thus far, they had treated each other with courtesy.
Maintaining the boundaries between a man and a woman, they neither pried into each other’s privacy nor crossed each other’s personal space.
Jiang Man surveyed the bedroom.
The room was quite large, around eighty square meters in size.
It was bright and airy from north to south, with a balcony taking up about twenty square meters.
Through the floor-to-ceiling glass doors, one could clearly see a wooden tea table and a wooden lounge chair on the balcony.
The balcony was filled with green plants, along with a transparent fish tank where fish of various colors swam back and forth merrily.
The gaze shifted to the interior, where a three-meter wide bed spanned across the center.
Behind the bed was a large L-shaped walk-in closet with glass doors; the clothes inside were neatly organized, with everything visible at a glance.
To the left of the walk-in closet stretched a row of glass tables, the drawers filled with all kinds of ties, name brand watches, and brooches.
On the right, a wide space held a vintage phonograph, its horn-like speaker standing erect like a sunflower, adding a touch of mystery and elegance to the whole room.
Next to the phonograph was a series of low cabinets, which were filled with an assortment of records.
Beneath her feet was a full-spread sheepskin carpet, which felt extremely comfortable to walk on.
There was no denying that Lu Xingzhou had taste and was very particular about cleanliness.
Jiang Man walked over to the low cabinets and flipped through the records inside.
My goodness! Many of these records were valuable antiques, no longer available on the market!
“Bill Monroe? Mr. Lu, you’ve really surprised me.”
Jiang Man found an American country music album from the 1940s and couldn’t help but praise it.
If that vinyl record were to be sold, it would fetch at least three million at the very least.
“You’re even more surprising to me!” Lu Xingzhou was incredulous, “You know about this record?”
“Hmm, I know a bit,” Jiang Man said modestly, hiding the sharpness in her eyes.
Though surprised, Lu Xingzhou didn’t say much more, but he secretly admired the girl’s capabilities, recognizing she really knew her stuff.
There’s a saying that goes, ‘Reading ten thousand books is not as useful as traveling ten thousand miles.’
Even though Jiang Man hadn’t spent many years in school, she had gained quite a bit from her various experiences in society over the years, and had quite a rich social knowledge.
“May I put one on to listen?” Jiang Man asked eagerly, already unable to wait.
Lu Xingzhou made an inviting gesture, “Help yourself, I’m going to take a shower.”
Jiang Man ignored his remark, engrossed in the album’s tracks.
After placing the vinyl record into the phonograph, she laid herself down on the adjacent lazy sofa.
If only she had a glass of red wine in hand right now, that would be splendid.
By chance, the direction in which she lay directly faced a row of glass wine cabinets, which were next to the study’s wall—something she hadn’t noticed earlier.
She stood up and went over to the wine cabinet, quickly scanning the collection, and realized that there was an even more complete selection of red wines here than in her father’s wine cellar!
The cabinet was designed for both refrigeration and storage, serving two purposes: keeping wines cool and displaying them beautifully.
Looking up, Jiang Man did a rough count, estimating there were about a thousand bottles of red wine in the cabinet.
“Mr. Lu, may I drink this wine?”
She had a sudden urge for a drink and called out towards the bathroom.
The sound of running water came from the bathroom, and Lu Xingzhou didn’t hear Jiang Man’s question.
Jiang Man walked straight over and knocked on the door, “Mr. Lu, may I have some of the red wine?”
“Help yourself,” came the magnetic voice of the man from behind the door.
Jiang Man’s mood brightened instantaneously, and she carefully selected from the wine cabinet.
She didn’t choose any unique vintage wines, worried that drinking them might upset Lu Xingzhou.
So, she picked a fifty-year-old Romanée-Conti.
Lu Xingzhou had a habit of taking baths, needing to soak for forty minutes every night before sleeping.
When he finished his bath and emerged in a bathrobe, intending to grab a comforter to take to the study…
He saw Jiang Man with a flushed face, lying sloppily on the lazy sofa, her slippers long kicked off.
She looked like a total mess, her mouth curved into a smile, dimples dancing playfully.
“So good… the wine is so good… just need a handsome man…”
Jiang Man supported her head with her hand, prying her eyes open a sliver.
When she saw Lu Xingzhou in his bathrobe, his hair half-wet, radiating intense attractiveness, standing right before her, the smile on her lips became more pronounced.
She beckoned Lu Xingzhou with a crook of her finger, her smile bewitching, “Come here, handsome man, keep your sister company~”
