Chapter 130 — Getting Together

"Lanlan, call the public relations manager for me."

Mu Ran sat languidly in her office chair, her slender, fair fingers tapping rhythmically against the desk.

An Lan nodded, "Alright, wait for me."

Before leaving, she didn't forget to wink at Gu Beicheng, signaling him to take the initiative now that no one else was around! It was his chance to win Mu Ran’s heart all over again.

Sitting on the sofa, Gu Beicheng smiled and waved at An Lan, urging her to hurry up and leave.

"Gu Beicheng, were we very much in love in the past?"

Gu Beicheng curled his lips, his eyes resting lazily on Mu Ran’s cold, delicate face. "What do you think?"

Mu Ran didn't answer. Instead, she flipped the photo of the two of them face down on the desk.

Seeing her action, the man felt a sharp stab of pain in his heart. It seemed she really had forgotten him.

"Ranran, what kind of person is Gu Yan in your mind?"

Gu Beicheng picked up the teacup beside him and took a small sip. The veins on his hand were bulging, a sign of his internal tension. He didn't know how she would answer.

"Gu Yan? I don't know."

Mu Ran spoke the truth. She didn't have a single memory of herself and Gu Yan in her mind. However, there was always a voice in her head telling her that she had to love Gu Yan.

"I see." The man responded in a muffled tone, his handsome face darkening. It seemed his Ranran didn't want to talk to him about that.

The room fell into a heavy silence.

"Gu Beicheng, you..."

Mu Ran lifted her small head, about to say something to the man on the sofa. Just then, An Lan walked in, her face cold and flushed with fury. She hadn't even knocked on the door.

She was clearly incensed, barging in with reckless abandon.

"I am absolutely furious!"

An Lan’s eyes flashed with a fiery, restless light. Her cheeks were puffed out and trembling, her fists tightly clenched. It was obvious she had been struggling to control her emotions, but once she reached Mu Ran's side, she could no longer hold back.

"Xiaoran! Who on earth hired that trash!"

Mu Ran glanced at her calmly, her gaze shifting to the chair in front of her. "Sit down and talk," she said in a cold voice.

An Lan sat down indignantly, her chest heaving heavily. She habitually picked up the water glass in front of Mu Ran and drained it in one gulp. "I really don't understand how some women can be so disgusting!"

"What happened?"

Mu Ran turned the pages of a folder on her desk with an air of indifference, browsing through the profiles of the company's artists. Her eyelids drooped, and she cast a fleeting, chilling look at the glass in An Lan's hand. "Weren't the senior executives hired by you?"

"Don't even mention it. I was so busy handling your upcoming variety show schedule that I didn't have time to interview them myself, so I paid a headhunting firm to do it."

"This PR manager actually went to Chengxing to mess around with someone while we weren't looking! It makes me so mad! And it was in that idiot's lounge, too!"

"An Lan, what did you say?"

Hearing the name "Chengxing," Gu Beicheng became interested.

What a coincidence. The public relations managers of their two companies had gotten involved with each other?

"Heh, I said, your PR manager—the one Shen Mubai fired—the woman in his lounge is our company's PR manager!"

An Lan had been puzzled at the time. Mu Ran had been photographed at the airport and framed on Weibo. She had called the PR manager several times, demanding she handle the public relations immediately, but the woman never answered. An Lan had no choice but to drag her exhausted body and handle the rumors herself. It was infuriating!

An Lan had gone to the PR manager's office just now, but during working hours, the woman was nowhere to be found! It just so happened that she received a call from the HR manager at Chengxing, asking her to come and collect someone. An Lan had to swallow her pride and endure the humiliation of going to Chengxing to retrieve her own company’s PR manager.

"Brother Gu, our two companies are truly becoming 'family' in such an intimate way." An Lan gritted her teeth and snorted coldly at the man with the indifferent expression. "Utterly shameless, driven by nothing but base urges!"

"President Gu, the atmosphere in your company really needs to be cleaned up." Mu Ran glanced at the man walking toward her, her mouth downturned with clear annoyance and disgust. "The public relations department is the most important division of a film and television company."

"Exactly, exactly! I heard that your PR manager is a 'connection hire.' Brother Gu, you can't let your career fall apart just because you're busy chasing your wife!"

An Lan often heard Shen Mubai grumbling about Gu Beicheng’s "glorious" deeds of abandoning his business for the sake of love.