Chapter 141 Boss Changed!
After finishing dinner, Steven sat on the sofa, occasionally glancing towards the front door. Lola brought a plate with a sweet smile. "Big brother, this is the apple I sliced for you. I made it into a crab shape, isn't it cute?" She smiled innocently. "I also made the pear into a bird shape and the strawberry into Santa Claus. Do they look alike?" She playfully pointed to the fruits on the plate.
Steven immediately noticed, "Are you injured?" He took the plate from her hand and promptly instructed the nearby servant, "Bring the first aid kit." The servant hurried off to get it.
Lola pretended to look at her finger and said, "Maybe I accidentally hurt myself while slicing the fruits earlier. It's nothing, not even a bit painful. I didn't even notice until you mentioned it."
"Hurting your finger must be painful," Steven knew she was lying. Since childhood, she had always been a sensible girl. There was a time when she fell in the garden and scraped her knee. It was clearly very painful, but she endured it to make everyone happy and to avoid them feeling sorry for her.
Lola hid her finger behind her back and smiled innocently, "Big brother rarely comes home. I originally wanted to make a creative fruit platter for you, but when I tried it myself, it was clumsy and took me a long time to make just these few shapes. Big brother, do you mind?"
"Why would I mind?" Steven's voice was unusually gentle.
"Although they look ugly, if I make them a few more times, I'll get better!" Lola smiled naively and obediently. "But big brother, please come home more often in the future and give me more opportunities to practice. Unlike this year, you only came back twice! I've been eagerly waiting!"
Steven's voice carried a hint of indulgence, "You don't have to do these little things."
"But I want to cook something delicious for big brother! As long as big brother comes home more often, I'll do anything...," Lola said, playfully.
"Big brother wouldn't mind eating the fruit I made, even if it looks ugly, right?"
Steven used a fruit skewer to make a strawberry Santa Claus and handed it to her first.
Lola happily took it, her face beaming with a smile. "Thank you, big brother! Big brother, you should try it too! Even though it looks ugly, it tastes quite sweet."
At this moment, Maria brought a medicine box and squatted by Lola's feet. "Master, you have no idea, Miss Lola looks forward to your return every day! My ears have even grown calluses from listening to her complain!"
Steven's expression softened as he looked at his sister.
Maria smiled and continued disinfecting the wound. "Oh, by the way, Miss Lola won first place in the piano competition the other day!"
Not a word was mentioned about Abella being Anika...
"What do you want as a reward?" Steven asked softly.
Lola smiled brightly and innocently. "For me, the best reward is if big brother comes home to see me often."
Steven's gaze became gentler. "If work isn't busy, I'll come back."
"So, does that mean big brother agreed with me? Yay, that's great! I knew big brother loves me the most!" Lola exclaimed happily, like a child who just received candy.
Steven chatted with her for a while and then got up to go upstairs when it was time.
Lola and Maria exchanged a glance, both glad to see that Steven still saw her as his sister.
Not only that, but her position was also significant.
After all, she had been living in this house for eighteen years, and before Abella appeared, everyone in the family treated her like a little princess!
This deep bond of kinship couldn't be changed by Abella's presence in just a few days!
After Lola and Maria left, a few maids couldn't help but whisper to each other.
"The young master's schedule is too regular, isn't it? Bathing at a certain time, sleeping at a certain time, unchanged for over a decade!"
"Why else would the patriarch hand over the conglomerate to him? Among the five young masters, he is the most disciplined, the calmest, and has the most thoughtful mind."
"Don't you think this rigid schedule is suffocating?"
"How could it be? It's called self-discipline! Someone with such willpower is simply irresistible!"
"I think the young master is one of the rare individuals who are truly awake in this world!"
"I feel the same way!"
Steven finished showering and came out, going to his study to work for a while. Only when it was time to sleep did he return to his bedroom.
There was a delicate little box still on the bedside table in his bedroom.
Steven glanced at it and knew that his sister hadn't returned so early. He turned off the lights and went to sleep.
Abella returned home at eleven o'clock that night. After freshening up and dealing with some personal matters on her phone, she rushed to the laboratory the next morning.
The drug synthesis from last night was not successful, and there were many problems in the research and development process.
It is dawn and several experts are studying. Abella, in order not to worry her parents, came home late last night and hurriedly went to the laboratory before daylight.
When Steven woke up, he heard that his younger sister had already left early in the morning, which was somewhat unexpected. Normally, girls of her age would sleep in during the summer vacation, but in his sister's eyes, it seemed that only work was left. It seems that the gift of meeting can only be given tonight.
While Steven was having breakfast, Lola continued to serve him diligently. She poured milk for him, brought him a sandwich, and handed him a tissue.
"Big brother, are you coming home for dinner tonight?"
Watching Lola cling to him, Steven responded lightly, "Yes."
"That's great! Then I won't go out to eat with Sophia and the others tonight." Lola smiled innocently, "Originally, we had planned to have afternoon tea and do a spa before dinner, but with big brother here, I don't want to accompany them anymore!"
Mrs. Medici, upon hearing this, smiled warmly, "Lola, with you having a big brother like him in your heart, if you're not busy, come back and visit more often."
"Okay." Steven looked at Lola gently, finished breakfast, and Patrick escorted him to the headquarters of the group.
While Steven was looking at documents, he suddenly remembered what Patrick had said before.
"Did you say there was a design competition that wanted to invite me as a judge?"
Patrick was taken aback and quickly said, "Yes, but you're always busy, so I politely declined them..."
"I have time." Steven's voice was indifferent as he continued to browse through the documents. "I will participate then."
Patrick was shocked by his response! Bass had never changed his decisions before! Today was truly strange! Could it be that the competition used some kind of influence or leverage to invite or coerce Boss to go? But Bass didn't seem like the kind of person who would easily yield...
Steven lowered his head to browse through the documents and suddenly remembered something. "Oh, by the way, keep an eye on the developments of the fashion company today."
The delivery is due today, and he doesn't know if his younger sister can deliver something satisfactory. If not, he will personally handle it.
"Yes!" Patrick noticed that today's Bass was like a different person. Not only did he start to regret his previous decisions, he also started to pay attention to the small company at home... Truly strange.
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