“Miss…” The maid said helplessly, “You used to hate him so much.”
“I hated him because the general treats me like a dog, yet treats him differently. Why should that be?” Nina pouted. “The general even remembered to buy his favorite matcha cake during our date. What does he take me for?”
“But I understand now…” Nina lowered her eyes and smiled. “It’s because the secretary treats the general well, so the general is willing to treat him well in return.”
Lucas was the God of War, the most powerful existence in the empire, yet Luo Ran was doing everything in his power to protect him too.
…
Wait a minute?
Nina and her maid looked at each other.
So, the general couldn’t even remember who she was, but he remembered that Luo Ran liked matcha flavor?
“…”
…
Meanwhile, when Luo Ran returned to the company, he indeed found that the post had disappeared.
Nina’s Imperial Forum ID, Nana, had even opened a new post to clarify things. However, she was clever. She didn’t offer a humble apology that would make it look as though she had a guilty conscience and the government had intervened. Instead, she casually said that she had only written it for fun and that no one should take it seriously.
An incident that could very well have caused an uproar had quietly faded away and been resolved.
But, as Lu Xun once said, before one wave settles, another rises.
Nana had opened yet another new post.
YunLuo+XiaoXiang,theGreatGods′LatestNovelIsNowBeingSerializedtoRaveReviews!!Yun Luo + Xiao Xiang, the Great Gods’ Latest Novel Is Now Being Serialized to Rave Reviews!! General×SecretaryGeneral × Secretary The Ruthless General’s Darling: His Pretty Little Secretary Is a Bit Naughty!
Synopsis: Don’t even think about running away, my precious secretary!
Luo Ran: “…????”
…………………………
To click or not to click—that was the question.
Luo Ran stared at the screen before him as though he were looking at a contract worth tens of millions.
Beside him, Rong Duo looked at him with admiration in her eyes.
Our secretary is at his most handsome when he’s working seriously.
Meanwhile, Luo Ran was still questioning his existence, rebuilding his understanding of the value and meaning of life.
Looking at the post’s statistics, with such a high number of clicks, comments, and bookmarks…
???
People actually thought he and Lucas were a couple? And they even liked reading about the two of them? What a strange hobby.
No, wait. Perhaps these people simply liked the… superior-subordinate bond between him and Lucas? The brotherly camaraderie between men in the empire?
No, that wasn’t right… He had accidentally overheard something in the company restroom before, and it had been very obvious that they meant that kind of relationship.
Luo Ran simply couldn’t believe it.
His index finger trembled slightly, but in the end, he still clicked on the post.
…
He was sometimes cold, sometimes violent. He was the lofty and invincible Asura General—Lucas K. Augustin Diogucci Prada!
He was sometimes gentle, sometimes devious. He was the all-capable secretary to the empire’s highest-ranking general—Purple Enchantress Snow Ran!
He treated all Omegas and Betas with cold indifference!
Until he met him, that damned yet sweet secretary. He was clearly just a Beta!
He thought this was a hopeless love.
Until he walked up to him, domineering and cold, and his heart came alive.
Purple Enchantress Snow Ran: I love you, yet I have no choice but to leave you.
Lucas K. Augustin Diogucci Prada: If you dare run, I’ll kill you!
Why is our love so bitter, yet so sweet?
As time passes, the world changes! Will you still love me?
…
Luo Ran: “…”
He wasn’t entirely sure what he had just read.
Hmm…
Forget it.
Luo Ran expressionlessly closed the screen, refusing even to give the post a like.
Luo Ran thought about it rationally, going over it again and again until he finally arrived at an answer.
It was probably because everyone liked Lucas and fantasized about marrying him, but the only person by Lucas’s side was himself. So they could only use him to fulfill their fantasies?
Hmm, yes. That made perfect sense.
After all, there was nothing between him and Lucas, and such a thing was fundamentally impossible.
Luo Ran shook his head, tidied up his desk, then organized Lucas’s clothes before gathering a small stack of documents and heading home.
By this time, most of the people in the company had already left. Luo Ran was always the last one to go home.
As usual, Lucas was sleeping at the company. However, just as he was about to rest, Zhou Mingkai showed up.
Lucas looked at him with some disgust. “What are you doing here in the middle of the night?”
“Big Brother!” Zhou Mingkai stood by the office door, acting like a burly man sobbing dramatically. “I’ve been dumped!”
Lucas didn’t even raise his eyelids. He stepped forward, intending to close the door.
“Waaah, Brooo!” Zhou Mingkai clung to the doorframe, rubbing against it this way and that. “I came here for something important…!”
“Speak.”
“This. A tribute.” Zhou Mingkai pitifully raised the bag in his hand.
Lucas raised an eyebrow.
“It’s white tea wine! Surprised? Didn’t expect that, did you? It’s really special. Bro, want to have a drink with me?”
Lucas said, “I’m not drinking.”
He didn’t have the habit of drinking alcohol.
“It’s white tea wine! Tea and wine combined—it’s so special, and you still won’t drink it? Don’t you like white tea?”
Lucas paused before saying, “I won’t drink it, but give me the wine.”
Although that little rascal Luo Ran looked well-behaved and gentle, he actually loved drinking. He could basically never get drunk, either. This wine was unusual, so Lucas could save it for him.
Zhou Mingkai took the opportunity to sit down on the sofa and poured himself a glass, sniffling miserably as he said, “I’ve been dumped by another Omega.”
Lucas washed his face nearby, preparing to rest, and paid Zhou Mingkai no attention.
He couldn’t be bothered with him. Zhou Mingkai was a womanizer, so if he went around fooling about with people, he deserved to get dumped.
“I thought this was an innocent Omega, but it turned out he approached me because I’m a prince. I thought he was after my body, but it turned out he was after my money. I’m so disappointed.”
“So I said a few things to him, and oh my god, he slapped me right across the face and dumped me on the spot. Fuck!”
Lucas sneered. “Serves you right.”