Seventeenth Chapter: Luhan's contemplation
Breaking Through Circles
The meeting finished quite late, as there had been some sort of a deliberate debate caused by one of his investors. Sehun rubbed his temple in exasperation; dealing with these blabbermouth investors really the energy out of him. He has to constantly put on a professional façade in front of these old, noisy geezers or they would not regard you as a worthy individual. The people around him treated him with utmost respect and expectation. They always expected the best from him without considering that the director was just a 24-year-old young adult. Sehun sometimes missed the freedom of his youth, when he was not burdened by the expectation from thousands of his employees.
“Here,” Luhan soft voice snapped him out from his thoughts, the Chinese placed a cup of steaming hot, instant coffee on his table, “Are you alright, Sehun?”
“Exhausted,” he picked the cup and sipped on his coffee slowly, stealing glances at Luhan like he always did.
“It must be tiring to go through these kind of things often,” said Luhan
“I know. People often say that I had it easy with all the silver spoons in my mouth ever since I was little. They don’t know how burdensome it is to lead a huge company like this at a mere age of 24,” he paused, “not that I often complaint about it or anything”
“I was sitting across you in the meeting and I can’t imagine how hard it is to sit in front of all those old ape motherers”
Sehun laughed, “I think my friends have affected your choice of words”
“Fortunately, I do not dislike it,” said Luhan, sipping his own coffee, “How is Taeyong? Has his mother pick him up?”
“Yes, auntie texted me,” Sehun sighed, “She should really start caring for her son”
“Agree,” Luhan threw away his empty cup and stretched his arms, “I’m so tired! I miss the my ex-mental institution colleagues already”
“Two more days to go. Sorry for dragging you here”
Luhan waved his hand dismissively, “It’s fine. As long as I get additional salary”
“You additional salary can’t even buy what you are wearing right now”
Luhan rolled his eyes, “this is an old shirt”
“An old Givenchy shirt”
“Whatever Sehun, I was also born with silver spoon on my mouth, remember?”
“Sometimes I forgot that you are the son of Lu Corporation,” said Sehun, “When are you going to takeover your company?”
“I don’t know,” Luhan shrugged, “My father is still very, very, extremely healthy. I don’t think he will retire anytime soon. I have Tao anyway, so it doesn’t really matter whether I want to takeover the company or not, they have a spare”
“I miss father and his antiques,” Sehun blurted out. He immediately casted a glance at Luhan recalling how the latter prohibited him to call his father-in-law that way
“Oh.. Yeah, right” replied Luhan awkwardly
“Um, you’re really good with Taeyong,” said Sehun, quickly changing the subject, “He grows up so fast. I remember seeing his baby self at our wed-“
Damn Sehun, back at it again with the awkward topic
“Yes, he grows up so fast”
“Uh … so, how’s America?”
Luhan gave him a weird stare, “What’s with the sudden interest?”
“Me and my curious self”
“It was okay,” said Luhan, “it was hard at first, I did not adapt th
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