At this moment, he was wearing a light gray bathrobe, casually wiping his half-dry hair, his collar left open, revealing his well-defined pectoral muscles. As he carelessly dried his hair, Lu Beicheng said expressionlessly, "No need to bother, it's useless even if you strip naked." Lu Beicheng's nonchalance dimmed Gu Nanyan's expression slightly. Slowly lifting the thin veil, she said calmly, "Lu Beicheng, cooperate a little to complete the task, and afterward, I won't interfere with your life or disrupt it, no matter how you want to play." Then, she changed her tone, "If you really don't want to, you could consider having a test-tube baby." After Gu Nanyan finished speaking, Lu Beicheng slapped the towel onto the floor, grabbed her chin, and asked with a laugh, "Gu Nanyan, do you think I'm a mobile sperm bank?" A mobile sperm bank? Forced to look at Lu Beicheng, Gu Nanyan was at a loss for words. As their eyes met, and he saw himself reflected in her gaze, Lu Beicheng's body suddenly leaned down, getting very close to her, so close. Close enough to almost kiss her lips. As Lu Beicheng drew nearer, Gu Nanyan instinctively struggled. At that moment, Lu Beicheng seemed to snap back to reality, straightened up, and said coldly, "Gu Nanyan, do you think you can rise in status through your child, to bear my child?" After a pause, he continued, "You're not quite qualified." Not qualified? Gu Nanyan felt a pang. Because he didn't like her, because their marriage was arranged by their parents, because the two companies wanted to join forces. So Lu Beicheng looked down on her in every way.

Immediately after, he raised his right hand to press against the back of Gu Nanyan's neck, forcefully pulling her to him, looking into her eyes as he reminded: 'Gu Nanyan, you have one more year. If you still can't bear a child with me within this year, then pack up and leave.' After saying that, he turned around, went to the wardrobe, picked out a dark suit to change into, put on his gold-rimmed glasses, and then slammed the door shut. Bang! The door was heavily closed, and Gu Nanyan collapsed onto the bed with a thud, her right hand supporting her forehead. She didn't know that Lu Beicheng liked Ye Chu. If she had known about this earlier, she would never have agreed to the marriage proposal when Lu Tianyang brought it up, no matter what. Even if she could never have children or be a mother in the future. After sitting by the bed for a while, Gu Nanyan went to the wardrobe and took out a normal set of pajamas. Although she had long been accustomed to it, every time she was rejected by Lu Beicheng, Gu Nanyan felt like a failure as a woman. Even like this, Lu Beicheng still wouldn't touch her. She felt powerless. —— The next morning, when she woke up, Qin Haiyun's phone call came again. 'Mom.' 'Nanyan, how did you and Beicheng get along last night? Did the two of you reconcile?' Gu Nanyan was at a loss in response to Qin Haiyun's inquiry. Over the past two years, she had almost gone crazy being chased by Qin Haiyun for a grandson. If she wanted a grandson so badly, she should have had two more children in the beginning, instead of putting all her hopes on Lu Beicheng alone! After a long silence, Gu Nanyan replied helplessly: 'He came back and then left.'

Hearing that the couple hadn't accomplished anything last night again, and that she had lost another chance to become a grandmother, Qin Haiyun felt a chill in her heart. She said, 'Nanyan, you still need to take more initiative with Beicheng, you have to be more proactive!' Gu Nanyan thought to herself that she was almost at the point of kneeling to Lu Beicheng, begging him to have mercy and sleep with her. What more could she do to be proactive? Frowning, Gu Nanyan didn't know what to say when Qin Haiyun added from the other end, 'You child, you just don't care enough about Beicheng. Go to the company later to bring Beicheng his lunch, don't let this Mrs. Lu be too inconspicuous, don't let others think you're easy to bully.' The 'others' Qin Haiyun referred to was Ye Chu. She worked as a secretary for Lu Beicheng at the company. Despite being very reluctant, but because Qin Haiyun had already called and given her advice, Gu Nanyan couldn't refuse, so she got up, got herself ready, picked up the lunch the maid had prepared for her, and drove to Lu's Corporation. 'Beicheng, do you think this revision is okay? This...' Outside Lu Beicheng's office, Gu Nanyan hadn't even knocked before she heard Ye Chu's soft voice coming from inside. The office door was not closed, and Gu Nanyan watched quietly from the outside. She saw Lu Beicheng holding a document, looking at Ye Chu, who was bending over beside him, and said, 'This data is unreasonable, there will be safety issues with the project.' 'And this position in Area D.' As he spoke, Lu Beicheng suddenly changed the subject: 'Pull up a chair to sit.' With Lu Beicheng's concern, Ye Chu smiled, then pulled a chair from not far away and sat down beside Lu Beicheng.

At the doorway, Gu Nanyan rolled her eyes unexpectedly. Currently, she didn't know if the interaction between Lu Beicheng and Ye Chu was normal, nor did she know if it was normal for a secretary to sit next to the boss. But she did know that ever since she married Lu Beicheng, he had never spoken to her so gently. He would never care whether she was standing, sitting, kneeling, lying down, or even alive or dead. Last year, she accidentally got into a car accident, and the doctor asked for a family member to sign some papers. She called Lu Beicheng, but he hung up on her directly. Later, after staying in the hospital for several days, Lu Beicheng still doesn't know about this incident. After waiting at the door for a while and seeing that they wouldn't finish talking anytime soon, Gu Nanyan picked up her lunch box and turned to leave. She wandered around downstairs and when she passed by a pharmacy, Gu Nanyan remembered Qin Haiyun's instructions to her, so she turned around and went back to the company. Yes! Regardless of whether Lu Beicheng acknowledged it or not, she was the young mistress of the Lu family, his legal wife. What was there for her to hide; she hadn't done anything shameful. So when she returned to Lu Beicheng's office again, Gu Nanyan didn't think twice and directly pushed open the office door. Inside the office, Lu Beicheng and Ye Chu heard the noise and looked up towards the door.