"Thank you." Fu Jingchuan thanked Lin Shanshan on the other end of the phone.
"Mr. Fu, you're welcome." Lin Shanshan said, with a bit of yin and yang in her tone, obviously very angry at his unreasonable request.
"Sorry." Fu Jingchuan apologized again, "What time will Miss Lin be free tonight? I'll treat you to a meal as an apology for today's rudeness."
"There's no need to apologize. Just remember to keep it a secret for me, Mr. Fu." Lin Shanshan said angrily, "But since Mr. Fu is so sincere, let's make a call to the client at ten o'clock in the evening. I'll hang up first."
After saying that, he cut off the voice call.
Ke Chen looked at Fu Jingchuan worriedly: "Mr. Fu?"
Fu Jingchuan breathed out lightly, with a very calm expression: "I'm fine."
Ke Chen couldn't help but ask the question in his mind: "Does Mr. Fu want to confirm something?"
"No." Fu Jingchuan said, "It's just some nonsense."
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At ten o'clock in the evening, Ke Chen arranged a dinner in the lively neighborhood of Haishi.
Fu Jingchuan also met Lin Shanshan as promised.
There are no miracles in the end.
Looking at Lin Shanshan walking across from him, Fu Jingchuan felt unusually calm, but even though he was calm, he was still a little uninterested and couldn't bring himself to get excited.
He didn't sit with her for too long. He just chatted casually for a while and then left with some excuse.
Lin Shanshan couldn't help but glance at Fu Jingchuan's leaving figure, and asked Ke Chen tentatively: "What's wrong with you, Mr. Fu?"
"Maybe he's in a bad mood." Ke Chen didn't know. "Anyway, I looked a little weird today."
Lin Shanshan: "Why is it weird?"
Ke Chen: "He doesn't seem to believe that you are in Haishi."
Lin Shanshan smiled: "I'm not in Haishi, where can I go?"
Ke Chen also smiled: "That's not the case."
He couldn't help but look at her again: "I've been doing well in the past two years, and I'm getting more and more glorious."
Lin Shanshan chirped lightly and ignored him. She took the opportunity to drink tea from her tea cup to hide the thoughtfulness in her eyes and her relief.
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It was nearly twelve o'clock when the dinner ended.
"Where do you live? I'll take you there."
When paying the bill, Ke Chen took the time to turn around and ask Lin Shanshan.
"No, my home is very close to here. I'll be there in a short taxi ride." After Lin Shanshan refused, she waved to Ke Chen, "Let's go, see you later."
After saying that, she walked out the door, her raised hand still waving goodbye, her high ponytail swaying as she walked, very chic.
Ke Chen was scanning the QR code. When he saw that she had left, he turned to her anxiously and shouted: "Wait for me for a while."
"No."
When the voice sounded, Lin Shanshan had disappeared at the door of the restaurant.
Ke Chen hurriedly paid the money and chased out.
As soon as I arrived at the door of the restaurant, I saw Lin Shanshan opening the taxi door to get in.
"Lin Shanshan."
Ke Chen called her urgently.
Lin Shanshan turned around with a smile and waved to him again: "I'm leaving first, you can go back too, good night."
After saying that, he closed the door with a "snap" and the taxi slowly drove out.
"What's the rush? This is it."
Ke Chen muttered, but felt uneasy, turned around, opened the door, and drove to follow. The more he followed, the more he discovered that Lin Shanshan's return route was very close to the hotel where he and Fu Jingchuan stayed.
The taxi driver also noticed that Ke Chen was following him and reminded Lin Shanshan: "Your friend seems to be following you."
Lin Shanshan yawned and couldn't help but look back, and she saw Ke Chen's car.
"Master, get rid of him."
Lin Shanshan said anxiously to the taxi driver.
The taxi driver gave her a strange look, but he still followed his instructions and accelerated the car.
Ke Chen was following Lin Shanshan's taxi unhurriedly. The car happened to pass by the Huichen Hotel where they were staying. The too similar route made him look out the window. Without thinking, he turned around and the taxi was gone.
He quickly drove up and followed her. He followed around but couldn't find the car. He was worried and took out his cell phone to call Lin Shanshan.
Lin Shanshan had just arrived at the hotel when she received the call. She was pushing the door to get out of the car. She picked up the phone and said, "I have returned to the hotel..."
Lin Shanshan, who almost said the wrong thing, reacted in time and burped to cover up her words before continuing: "I'm back home, don't worry."
"Just get home and rest early."
Ke Chen didn't hear her slip of the tongue just now and breathed a sigh of relief.
"you too, good night."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Shanshan patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, then took the elevator back to her room.
Shi Yang was sitting at the table in the room, holding his head with one hand, looking pale and not knowing what he was thinking.
On the big bed behind her, Tongtong, who had just experienced a long flight, had fallen into a deep sleep.
As soon as Lin Shanshan opened the door, she saw Shiyang sitting at the table: "Aren't you asleep yet?"
"Yes." Shiyang nodded lightly, stood up and walked towards her, "Back."
"Yes." Lin Shanshan responded lightly, pulling off the hair tie on the high ponytail with one hand, hanging the bag on the coat rack with the other hand, and kicked off the high heels on her feet, letting out a long sigh of relief.
Shiyang looked at her: "Are you okay?"
Lin Shanshan: "It's okay, I'm fine."
"But I feel that Fu Jingchuan is not in a good mood." Lin Shanshan added, "He left after sitting for a while. It's a good thing he left early, otherwise I was really afraid that I wouldn't be able to deal with him. This man is too scary. I know how you were able to withstand his interrogation."
She still had lingering fears when she remembered Fu Jingchuan's call in the afternoon.
Fortunately, she just got off the plane and arrived at Haishi smoothly, so she could withstand Fu Jingchuan's sudden request.
When Ke Chen called her in the afternoon, she, Shiyang and Tongtong had just returned to Haishi.
Thinking of this, Lin Shanshan couldn't help but give two thumbs up to Shiyang: "Should I praise you for your cleverness or your understanding of Fu Jingchuan too much?"
She thinks it belongs to the latter.
Shiyang was sure that Fu Jingchuan would ask her to dinner after finishing work, and she was also sure that her evasion would make him suspicious. Therefore, after learning about their approximate itinerary from Ke Chen, she made some invitations. After vacation, I flew to Zurich to pick them up together.
She knew Fu Jingchuan too well, so she eliminated all possibilities of Fu Jingchuan's investigation from the source.
Although the return trip was made at short notice this time, because the preparations for returning to China were already underway last time, except that Lin Shanshan needed to expedite the handover work this time, the unplanned return trip was not delayed too much.
The only thing she didn't expect was that as soon as she got off the plane, she saw the message Ke Chen sent her inviting her to eat.
Lin Shanshan originally wanted to deal with it, but she really couldn't stand Fu Jingchuan's interrogation-style chat.
But just as Shiyang expected, Fu Jingchuan didn't believe that she was in Haishi at all.
Therefore, when he asked to share his real-time location, Lin Shanshan could only agree. However, she was afraid that Fu Jingchuan would become suspicious at the airport, so she bought more time.
If she hadn't been worried that repeated refusal would arouse Fu Jingchuan's suspicion, she wouldn't even dare to go to this meal.
One phone call made her break into a cold sweat, and Lin Shanshan could not imagine the scene of meeting face to face.
Fortunately, Fu Jingchuan was in no mood tonight.
Facing Lin Shanshan's compliment, Shiyang just reluctantly curled her lower lip and was not in the mood.
She remembered the day she came out of the operating room, the way he stared at her with red eyes.
But just for a moment, the scene changed to the night when she returned from her mentor Ling Zhendong's house. He calmly told her that he was going on a blind date. If nothing else happened, he would get married within the year and they would not disturb each other from now on. After a while, he told her again. It was Fang Wanqing who looked at her disdainfully, and a moment later it was Fu Wujun who reminded her in a condescending tone that Shen Yu was back and hoped that she would stop disturbing the two of them...
The messy picture made Shiyang's eyes twitchy, and she couldn't help but look at Tongtong, who was sleeping on the bed.
The little girl's face was still tired from the long flight, but it was her first time back home, and her eyes were full of excitement.
She remembered that when she first returned to Zurich, when the little girl opened the door and saw her, her little mouth that was still smiling suddenly shrank in grievance, and her big eyeballs fell out, and finally It turned into howling with grievance, holding Shiyang tightly and refusing to let go, which made Shiyang's eyes red with sadness, and her heart ached.
The little girl is usually so well-behaved that she never looks for her when she is not around.
But deep down, like all children, she longs for her mother.
What Shiyang didn't want the most was to use her thoughts on Fu Jingchuan.
But she had no choice.
She didn't want to be forced to get together with Fu Jingchuan again because of her child. She didn't want to have to endure the disdain from his parents and family, and she didn't want to one day fight Fu Jingchuan to fight for the custody of the child.
He was the man she had loved when she was young, and the only man she had ever loved in her life. No matter how she and Fu Jingchuan parted ways, she hoped to keep the best version of him in her mind.
Lin Shanshan put her arms around her shoulders and gave her silent comfort.
Shiyang turned back and smiled at her: "I'm fine, don't worry."
There was a hint of crying in her voice, and her eyes were red, with tears welling up in them.
Shiyang didn't let the tears fall. It was always easier to feel sad in the dead of night.
Lin Shanshan also smiled and hooked her shoulder: "I know you're fine."
She grew up watching Shiyang being treated poorly by Ding Xiuli's family.
She also watched how she went from longing for family and maternal love step by step to being disappointed and giving up, growing up alone licking her wounds, so she knew that she was strong enough to bear all the pain in life.
Shi Yang also smiled at her, and when he looked away, the words "Huichen Hotel" still flashing in the distance fell into his eyes accidentally.
Shiyang's face was startled for a moment, then he turned away slightly.
Lin Shanshan booked the hotel online and didn't realize it was so close to the "Huichen Hotel" at first.
