Chapter 117 The CEO’s Divorced Wife’s Gentle Knife (16)

Chapter 117 The Divorced CEO's Wife's Gentle Blade (16)

Li Zhou studied the little doodle for a long while before finally setting the sticky note aside.

Opening the meal box, the same scent that had lingered around Du Wenxing earlier wafted out. With just the first bite, Li Zhou instantly understood why Sheng Baihui had been enjoying so many delicious treats recently...

It wasn’t Chef Zheng trying to please Sheng Baihui at all—it was her cooking.

After two years of marriage, Li Zhou had never once seen Tang Qing step into the kitchen. He’d taken for granted she couldn’t cook, but it turned out he’d been blind all along...

Without thinking, he sped up. If anyone had walked in at that moment, they would have been stunned by Li Zhou’s messy eating.

He was scarfing it down!

It was hard to imagine this usually stern and aloof Domineering CEO eating so... inelegantly, gulping it down like he’d never eaten before.

Only after confirming he had licked the plate clean did Li Zhou finally set down his chopsticks with satisfaction.

He had always been a picky eater. Since childhood, food had merely been a means to fill his stomach—some dishes couldn’t even manage that.

Aside from the dessert last time, this was the second instance where Li Zhou realized food could actually taste this good...

"What a shame."

The CEO muttered to himself. Had he known Tang Qing’s cooking was this delicious, the past two years of marriage would have been far better spent.

Li Zhou instinctively glanced at the date. Next Wednesday marked the 31st day of the divorce cooling-off period—the day he and Tang Qing were scheduled to visit the civil affairs bureau for their divorce certificate.

At the thought, a twinge of regret suddenly crossed his mind...

"What nonsense am I thinking?"

Li Zhou chuckled wryly. It must have been too long since he’d eaten something so perfectly suited to his taste that he’d started missing the little white rabbit he’d just shown the door.

His gaze drifted back to the sticky note, where the cartoonish figure beamed up at him, as if mocking his impractical fantasies.

He had intended to throw the note away, but for some inexplicable reason, Li Zhou ended up tucking this oddly mismatched sticky note into his drawer...

On his way downstairs, Li Zhou passed by the reception desk, where the delivery shelf was lined with meals from "Haitang Kitchen." Two young women at the front desk were happily eating while chatting:

"Wow, Miss Tang’s cooking is so amazing. How could the CEO let her go?"

"You don’t know? The CEO is incredibly fussy—he only eats meals delivered from home. Maybe Miss Tang’s cooking wasn’t to his liking."

"If even this doesn’t suit his taste, how high are his standards?"

Mid-whispering, the two suddenly felt a shadow fall over them. Looking up, they were stunned to see the boss himself!

Reacting quickly, they wiped the oil from their mouths and hurriedly tried to cover the "Haitang Kitchen" logo.

"Boss!"

In her panic, one of the round-faced girls messed up, accidentally exposing the logo anyway.

Panicking and digging herself deeper, she nearly knocked over the stack of documents on the desk. Li Zhou quickly steadied the toppling stack and said expressionlessly,

"No use hiding it. I already heard—Haitang Kitchen."

The girl, still tidying up, went rigid, her hands frozen awkwardly in mid-air, too terrified to budge...

"Let me ask you something."

President Li’s tone was as aloof as ever, giving nothing away. "Did the takeout you ordered today come with a sticky note?"

A sticky note?

What was that?

The two young women looked at each other, baffled.

When they didn’t respond, President Li asked again, "A handwritten sticky note—was there one?"

"Maybe even a little doodle on it..."

Finally getting it, both girls shook their heads. "No, just a discount coupon."

"This is all we got."

President Li took a look—it was a half-off promotion for Haitang Kitchen. Scan and repost to your feed...

Half off?

With such a big discount, how was little white rabbit turning a profit?

Frowning, President Li pointed at the QR code on the coupon. "You've all scanned this?"

Too nervous to lie, the receptionist nodded. "Yeah, it’s been pretty popular..."

"Just repost it—that’s all."

Share it on their social feed?

It clicked for President Li why his feed had been weirdly dead lately. It turned out everyone had shared the half-off deal but didn’t want him to see it...

Squinting, as the two women stared in confusion, President Li actually scanned the QR code himself!

No freaking way—was the boss actually promoting Ms. Tang’s deal?

The moment President Li’s post went live, the entire office collectively lost it. They checked again and again—it really was the boss’s account!

No glitch, no hack!

Weren’t they getting divorced?

Yet he was sharing Haitang Kitchen’s promotion?

Before anyone could process this, President Li’s comment under the post suddenly refreshed:

"Unblock me. Now."

Lurkers got instant chills:

_“WTF—he knew we blocked him?!”_

_“Ugh, and here I thought they’d made up, but it was just a reminder...”_

_“So he caught us eating there behind his back? Hold up—he’s shilling for her too? Does that mean he’s been to her place?”_

_“What’s the deal—divorced but still tied up?”_ The office buzzed with theories.

Although they gradually opened their Moments visibility settings one by one, the group chat stayed lively even without Li Zhou’s snarky comments.

Tang Qing naturally saw Li Zhou's WeChat Moments and roughly guessed the situation. Her finger hovered over Li Zhou’s profile pic a few times before finally giving the post a like.

Probably because Li Zhou was checking WeChat at that moment, the moment the like notification appeared, Tang Qing received a message from him: "The food was delicious."

Hmph. Was that even a compliment?

Looking at the period at the end, it was no surprise—this was the ice-cold CEO archetype from the story.

"I'm glad you liked it. I was worried my cooking might not suit your taste (*^▽^*)"

Leaning into her sweet 'little white rabbit' act, Tang Qing picked a cute sticker to send—this time a bunny batting its eyes at the screen with a wink.

More stickers?

President Li suddenly recalled the doodle on the handwritten sticky note he received earlier... Staring at the screen, he slowly replied:

"You seem to like sending these a lot?"

Tang Qing: "What?"

Suddenly, a photo popped up—the very same doodle from the lunchtime note.

The pose of shooting hearts, cute but with a hint of... something.

"Like this."

President Li replied again, "You send these cutesy stickers to *everyone*, huh?"

Seeing his response, Tang Qing smirked again. As expected... that note had caught President Li's attention after all.

Without saying much, she picked another cute sticker and sent it over.

This time, it was a bunny twirling happily in a dance.

President Li was still trying to decode Tang Qing’s latest bunny emoji when suddenly, his feed refreshed with a new post...

Zhong Jiaze: "Fed well~"

The attached photos showed the *same* meal he’d gotten, along with an identical handwritten note.

Li Zhou scowled, pinching to zoom in on the note—same sketch, *identical* handwriting.

Undeniably Tang Qing’s own handwriting...

But what *really* grated on him was that, on Zhong Jiaze's note, the doodle was blowing *an extra heart* compared to his!