He Married Him for Love, Then His Assistant Became His Husband in Probation novel · Chapter 5 of 24
Chapter 5: One Bathroom
Lu Chen's room at the estate was next door to Su Yu's.
It had a lamp, a desk, a bed with a quilt and a scarf on the pillow.
Su Yu, passing in the corridor with a toothbrush, saw Lu Chen through the open door and stopped.
Lu Chen was standing very still beside the bed, holding the scarf.
Nobody had told him whose it was, and he had not put it down.
"It's yours," Su Yu said. "My mother knits one for everyone she decides to keep."
"I'm here for a project," Lu Chen said.
"Yes," Su Yu said. "That's what she said about the cat."
Lu Chen almost smiled.
He put the scarf around his neck and left it on for the rest of the evening.
At dinner the Chairman asked him a legal question about a golf club membership.
The Chairman listened to the whole answer, and thanked him.
Mrs. Su put a bowl of soup by his elbow that he had not asked for.
He ate all of it, slowly, as if someone might take the bowl back, and that night Su Yu heard him through the wall, turning pages, in no hurry to sleep.
It was the bathroom that was the problem.
The two rooms shared one, with a door on each side, and the lock on Lu Chen's door had been broken since spring.
"The repairman comes Thursday," Mrs. Su had said, with enormous innocence. "Just knock."
At ten Su Yu stood under the shower and thought about nothing at all, which was his best subject.
The bathroom filled with steam.
He did not hear the door.
"Vice President."
Su Yu turned.
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