Chapter 196 Gift.

Although the Queen’s attitude is puzzling, it does not affect the normal work of the Fifth Institute and the S-level shelter.

In other words, Her Majesty the Queen’s dissatisfaction has not yet had an impact on the practical level.

Everyone just pretended nothing had happened and went about their work as usual.

However, Lu Xiao became completely famous in the aristocratic circle. The reason for her fame this time was no longer because she was eccentric and insisted on having only one partner, but because many people heard that the reason why the recovered S-class males were discharged from the S-class shelter was related to Lu Xiao.

In other words, the starting point of all this happened was because Lu Xiao came to the Fifth Institute to take up the post.

After learning the truth, those who had spoken ill of Lu Xiao behind her back and those who had had grudges against Lu Xiao all regretted it deeply.

Duke Green even called the two female cubs who had been much more obedient recently to his side and scolded them again. Now when she went out, everyone looked at her with sympathy.

You know, their family also has S-class males. If they had not offended Lu Xiao, they might have been able to find someone to use their connections. But now, Duke Green can only watch other people find connections, and he can’t do anything at all.

As for those females who had talked about Lu Xiao behind her back and said bad things about her, they regretted it even more. If they had known she was so capable, they would not have said such nonsense. Now, they feel guilty when they want to make demands on others.

Compared with them, Duke Leslie did not have such a heavy psychological burden. She had not offended anyone badly. When everyone was trying to find ways to establish a relationship with Lu Xiao, she had already arrived at the Duke of Galliodro’s Mansion to meet Cecilia.

When Cecilia saw her come in, she said directly: “If you want to talk about your male cub, don’t say anything. Xiaoxiao’s attitude is very clear. Don’t mention it again and make her upset.”

“Is this the only reason I came here? I came here to thank Xiaoxiao. My Regal is in good shape now. Who is responsible for this? I didn’t know before, but now I know. Can I not come to express my gratitude? I don’t want to disturb her work, and I’m afraid she will refuse. So, I came here during her work hours to talk to you.”

“It’s enough that you have this intention. Xiaoxiao is not the type of person who cares about these things. If you go too far, it will make her uncomfortable.” Although Cecilia has not spent a long time with Lu Xiao, she still has some understanding of Lu Xiao.

“I know, but I also want to express my feelings. This is some of our family’s medical assets, and there’s not much money. Let’s give it to Lu Xiao as a thank you gift. I know she has your support now, and she’s capable, so she’s definitely not short of money. But since she’s working in this field, it’s good for her to have her own research institute, so don’t let her refuse it.”

Cecilia could see that Athena sincerely wanted to make friends with Lu Xiao, and that Athena was a good person.

Moreover, a medical institution is really nothing to the Duke Leslie’s Mansion, so he took it over: “Then I won’t be polite to you.”

Seeing Cecilia accepted, Athena immediately smiled happily: “Why are you being polite? We will have many requests to Lu Xiao in the future, and it will definitely be troublesome. Don’t think I’m annoying then.”

“Don’t think that being a matchmaker for Xiaoxiao is better than anything else!”

“Hey, I was impulsive just this once. Don’t worry, I won’t do it again in the future!”

Athena chatted with Cecilia for a long time and even stayed for lunch before going back.

When Lu Xiao got home from get off work in the evening, she received something from Cecilia. After she looked through it and realized what it was, she couldn’t help but say, “Grandma, this is too valuable. I can’t take it!”

Even if this thing is nothing to the Duke of Leslie’s house, it is also an asset worth tens of millions, which is still too valuable for Lu Xiao! Cecilia said, “Just accept it with peace of mind. Duke Athena will never let herself suffer. She gave you this thing because she wanted to make friends with you and get close to you. If you don’t let her get close to you, it will be bad.”

Lu Xiao understood that the powerful and influential sometimes needed to be connected by interests.

Since Cecilia said so, Lu Xiao couldn’t refuse: “Well, if you have a chance, please take me to tell Duke Athena to thank her for her gift. Don’t worry about Regal, I will do my best to treat him.”

“That’s good.” Cecilia was very pleased to see that Lu Xiao understood what she meant. Sometimes she was also worried that Lu Xiao’s personality would make her dislike this kind of thing.

Now it seems that although the girl is young and has a strong personality, she is also very tactful, which is really rare.

The more she got along with Lu Xiao, the more satisfied she felt. She couldn’t help but say, “When you are free and have time, grandma will take you to see the family property. You should know it by now.”

Lu Xiao’s heart skipped a beat when she heard this, and she couldn’t help but doubt Cecilia’s intention.

After dinner, Lu Xiao returned to the room and exchanged messages with Ares for a while. After carefully calculating the time, she realized that Ares had been gone for half a month. Time passed so quickly.

After finishing the call with Ares, Selina’s aunt’s voice invitation came in.

Lu Xiao answered the call subconsciously, and heard Selina’s kind voice: “Dear Xiaoxiao, do you remember our agreement? I will pick you up tomorrow morning.”

Lu Xiao then remembered that during the meal, Selina asked her to make time for the weekend and take her out to play. Unexpectedly, her aunt was a person who kept her word. She did not refuse the other party’s kindness and responded with a smile: “Okay, aunt, I will get myself ready and wait for you to pick me up.”

“Be good and dress up nicely. Your aunt will take you out for some fun tomorrow.”

After hearing what Selina said, Lu Xiao was immediately full of anticipation for tomorrow’s date.

In fact, if you must say it, she has been in the empire for so long, but she has rarely gone out to play.

Lu Xiao was happy to have some time to relax.

After finding the clothes she would wear tomorrow and putting them aside, Lu Xiao went to the bathroom to wash up.

At this time in Earl Lu Gewei’s mansion, the old butler stood at the door, listening to the sound of shattering coming from inside, his expression very calm.

Ever since Duke Cecilia came here that day and severed the relationship between Lord Lu Xiao and Lu Gewei, Lu Gewei would vent her anger at home whenever there was news about Lord Lu Xiao.

Who made Lu Gewei’s reputation so bad in the entire aristocratic circle? The better the reputation of Lord Lu Xiao, the more embarrassed Lu Gewei would be. Those who once had a good relationship with her also cut off contact with her.

As for why, of course they were afraid that Lord Lu Xiao would hear about their association with Lu Gewei and look down on them.

This invisible blow is the most fatal to Lu Gewei, who has always been concerned about her reputation and pays the most attention to vanity!
But who can be blamed for this? Didn’t Lu Gewei find it herself?