Chapter 748 - 729: No Blood Relationship
After Bai Lu hung up the phone, Lou Xi felt a little strange, thinking it might be better to find a time to meet with her.
But since she’s currently working at the hotel, from Monday to Friday, she couldn’t meet Bai Lu, so she had to wait until the weekend.
As soon as she arrived at the elevators, she found all four of them under maintenance.
The staff in the lobby told Lou Xi that since it wasn’t yet office hours, the elevators would be ready in half an hour.
Half an hour...
Lou Xi worked on the twelfth floor, thinking that walking up wouldn’t be tiring, so she headed to the stairwell.
When she opened the door to the stairwell, she heard footsteps coming from the basement floor. It seemed she wasn’t the only one who came to work early!
She stepped into the stairwell, just as the person downstairs was coming up.
She also overheard the conversation of the people downstairs.
"Had you come to the hotel so early, and now the elevators are under maintenance, all the way to the eighteenth floor!"
"Physical exercise."
It was the conversation between Ji Nanming and Ed.
Lou Xi considered whether to avoid them, but then thought there was no need, and while she was thinking, Ji Nanming and Ed had already come up and bumped into her.
"Miss," Ed greeted Lou Xi respectfully.
"Don’t call me ’Miss’ at the company, you’re my superior," Lou Xi said, feeling embarrassed.
Ed was Ji Nanming’s assistant, from the president’s office, definitely holding a higher position than Lou Xi, who was just a junior clerk. Calling her "Miss" at the company wasn’t appropriate at all.
"Are both of you planning to walk up?" Ed asked somewhat unwillingly, as he really didn’t want to climb the stairs.
Lou Xi and Ji Nanming both looked at Ed with understanding, as if to ask how else to get upstairs if not by stairs—fly up?
"Then you go ahead, I’ll wait in the lobby for the elevators to be fixed." This was quite bold of Ed as a subordinate.
However, after Ji Nanming gave him a glance, he actually went upstairs... just went upstairs... completely unbothered by Ed’s boldness.
Well, Lou Xi had noticed earlier that Ji Nanming and Ed’s relationship didn’t quite resemble that of superior and subordinate.
But to let Lou Xi walk up the stairs alone with Ji Nanming... it felt inexplicably awkward.
After Ed went toward the lobby, Ji Nanming glanced at Lou Xi and then proceeded upstairs.
Just a glance... From the moment they met until now, Ji Nanming hadn’t greeted Lou Xi, as if she were invisible.
Did she do something to make him unhappy?
Perhaps because Lou Xi had grown up living under others’ roofs, she was very sensitive to whether people liked or disliked her.
She paid a lot of attention to others’ opinions and feelings, especially those she cared about.
So... since Ji Nanming was her nominal brother, she cared about his feelings.
"Ji... brother." She initially wanted to address Ji Nanming by his first name but thought it too impolite, so she changed her mind.
Hearing this, Ji Nanming suddenly stopped his steps, his tall figure suddenly came to a halt.
It seemed like the first time he heard Lou Xi call him that.
"I’m not your brother," Ji Nanming’s voice carried to Lou Xi’s ears.
She was slightly stunned. Was he trying to distance himself from her? And so bluntly at that.
While Lou Xi was feeling awkward, Ji Nanming added, "We’re not related by blood. Suddenly having a sister, it’s something I’m not used to. Privately, just call me by my name."
Ji Nanming turned around, deliberately stepping down two steps, so he stood on the same level as Lou Xi, preventing her from having to look up at him.