Chapter Sixteen

  "Peng Qiang, are you chasing after that woman?"

  "Kids don't understand anything, just focus on driving."

  The girl giggled and said coquettishly: "She likes that man wearing a black shirt, doesn't she?"

  He closed his eyes and rested, his eyebrows moved slightly, but he didn't say a word.

  The girl said with satisfaction: "He must like it, I can tell at a glance."

  Peng Kuang said: "You're so venomous, then tell me how you fell in love with him. I didn't see it coming."

  "A woman's sixth sense is always right, I just know."

  He couldn't help but burst out laughing at her innocent look.

  Su Lan came out of the airport and saw Yue Fei waving at her, got on the car, saw Jing Yang also sitting inside, he was dozing off with his eyes slightly closed, heard the sound of the door opening, without lifting his head asked: "Are you back?"

  "She" closed the door and said, "Mm."

  "How is it?"

  "Just like that." Su Lan said to Yue Fei again: "Take me to Jing's house."

  "Let's go to my home."

  Su Lan looked up at Jing Yang with a curious expression and said: "Lu Lu is over there, I haven't seen him for several days."

  "It doesn't matter for now." He raised his hand, "Drive towards my home."

  Yue Fei De Ling laughed and said: "Good."

  All the way, Jingxiang received several more phone calls, all of which were work-related. When they arrived at the door, the two of them entered one after the other, and Jingxiang remembered the previous call and asked: "What was that call about last time?"

  "It's nothing."

  He lost interest and stopped talking. At night, Su Lan was worried that he would touch her again, so she stayed up late before falling asleep. Nothing happened that night. The next morning, Jing Yang got out of bed first, and he also made breakfast casually.

  After finishing eating, Su Lan was clearing the table when her phone rang. Seeing that it was an unfamiliar number, she directly hung up and took the dishes to the kitchen.

  The phone on the table rang non-stop, and Jing Yang was annoyed by the sound. He unintentionally glanced at it, but his eyebrows suddenly furrowed together - Peng Qiang? He slid to answer the call, and the familiar voice on the other end said, "Have you arrived? I called you last night but your phone was off. Hey, why aren't you speaking?"

  Admiration didn't last long, it died directly.

  Su Lan came out of the kitchen and saw Jing Yang holding her phone, flipping through it. She didn't think much of it and just let him be. Usually, they didn't have a habit of looking at each other's phones, so she found it strange and asked: "What's going on?"

  "It's nothing." He tossed his phone on the table, suddenly having an idea: "I didn't I tell you to put in an appearance at my company before? You've got to show your face sometime, come with me today."

  "Why didn't you say so earlier? I could have prepared too."

  "There's nothing much to prepare for, just roughly get it done."

  "It's really just a nominal title, you don't mind losing face, but I don't want to ruin my reputation. Wait, let me go get a document."

  He looked at her stubbornness and raised an eyebrow.

  The little girls in the company are going crazy today, squeezing into the office to deliver coffee one by one. The boss brought a woman over, just treating it as something fresh to see.

  "A moment later, he went out and said: 'Boss brought people this time, why only let them work?'"

  "After a while, he said: 'You look quite pretty, more elegant than before.'"

  "Oh no, it can't be the boss's wife."

  "Hmph, forget it! If you want to bring something, bring it early. Which boss's wife comes to work here?"

  "What's that for?"

  "Gotcha, little rascal!"

  The staff burst out laughing.

  The manager of the personnel department came over with a menacing look: "Are you guys thinking of deducting your salary by chatting here?"

  Everyone shut their mouths and immediately fell silent.

  Su Lan didn't have such a leisurely mind. She said she had done her homework, and Jing Yang really treated her as a personal servant, looking at this contract and that one in the morning, with a lawyer surnamed Gu coming over, along with his assistants, revising and modifying documents non-stop.

  She was used to his usual sloppy appearance, but the first time she saw him working diligently, personally overseeing every detail, nitpicking, and finding seven problems in an eight-word sentence.

  A document was revised several times, and he was meticulous with every word. Although it was strict, he felt his charm had increased greatly. Since their marriage, Su Lan had never seen him work before, and this was the first time she looked at him with new eyes.

  At noon, several people had a meal together in the staff canteen.

  After lunch, Jingxiang saw her yawning and pointed to the house next door: "If you're sleepy, go inside and take a nap."

  Su Lan saw the pile of documents and waved her hand: "Forget it, I'll just have a cup of coffee."

  The lawyer with the surname Gu smiled and joked: "Miss Su, you don't have to work so hard, I'll take care of the rest. Why don't you go rest first? It's not good for a lady to get too tired."

  Su Lan smiled, having previously dealt with divorce cases and done her homework, she had some experience in this area. After a busy morning, she was somewhat familiar with it. She just wanted to strike while the iron was hot, so she said: "After eating, you'll easily feel sleepy, let's go soon, don't drag your feet."

  "Miss Su is so progressive that it makes me, a big man, feel embarrassed. I was planning to slack off for a while, but it seems like there's no chance now," said Lawyer Gu with a smile.

  "Since you're not tired, let's continue."

  Several people stopped joking.

  In the afternoon, Yue Fei came over and handed a document to Jing Yang. Seeing Su Lan there, he was slightly surprised at first, but then politely greeted him.

  Jing Yang took over the document, flipped through two pages, and smiled lightly: "So quickly settled?"

  Yue Fei glanced at Su Lan and smiled: "Hmm, Qiu Lin is quite capable, that..."

  Jing Yang didn't raise his head and said: "Speak, we're all not outsiders, no need to be evasive."

  Mr. Gu noticed the awkwardness between Yue Fei's eyebrows and stood up saying: "I'll go to the restroom."

  Su Lan also made an excuse to go pour coffee.

  The two of them went out the door, one in front and one behind. After closing the door, Attorney Gu turned around with a smile and said: "How did Miss Su come out?"

  "She shrugged: 'You're out too.'"

  The two of them tacitly understood each other, and Lawyer Gu raised an eyebrow, saying: "Go to the rooftop to enjoy the breeze for a bit? It's quite cramped inside."

  "Never mind, I'm really thirsty, going to the pantry for a while."

  Mr. Gu smiled helplessly and waved his hand: "Then I'll go up and blow some wind, goodbye Mrs. Jing."

  Su Lan just smiled and went to the tea room. As soon as she entered, she heard two little girls discussing something there.

  "Hey, you know? There's a woman sitting in the boss's office."

  "Which one?"

  "Newbie."

  Another one chimed in: "You've got a lot of good fortune, don't you? Is it pretty?"

  "Didn't manage to squeeze in. But now there isn't a single reliable man with money, and who knows how many green hats he's given to the boss's wife."

  "A woman, bread and love, I choose bread. If I can marry a boss like him, let him spend as he wants, just give me money, besides our boss is so handsome! No loss, no loss."

  "Colored woman." Another little girl teased with a smile.

  "Boss is paying our salaries, and you're all just chatting idly here?" Su Lan said, clearing her throat.

  Two little girls were caught in the act, startled, and then saw Su Lan's unfamiliar face. A veteran with a deep gaze glanced at her and said, "Which eye of yours saw us chatting idly? You're just meddling in other people's business."

  Su Lan's expression didn't change: "You go to the finance department to settle your previous salary, you can leave!"

  As soon as they heard this, the two little girls changed color. Just then a supervisor came over and said with a smile: "What are you doing gathering here during working hours?"

  Su Lan turned her head to the manager and said, "Don't drag me into this. Who cares about employee turnover? If these two want to quit, let them come directly to the general manager's office! I'll take responsibility."

  She pushed aside those two silly little girls, poured a cup of coffee, and turned to leave.

  Two little girls saw their boss and muttered: "We were just drinking water."

  The boss looked in Su Lan's direction, this unfamiliar face had never been seen before, and instantly understood, pointing at the two of them and scolding: "Drinking water! You can even get sick from drinking water!"

  …………

  Jing Yang listened at the door and closed it before speaking: "What's wrong? Do you have to make such a big deal out of this, as if you're afraid the whole world won't know about it? Can't you calm down?"

  "Didn't the professor sign the contract? Something went wrong."

  He casually threw the file on the table, raising his chin: "Yue Fei, you're getting worse and worse lately. Since the contract has been signed, what's the big deal? You come to me with this, what do you eat?"

  Yue Fei's face showed a difficult expression, and he leaned over to whisper a few words in Jing Yang's ear.

  Jingxiang slightly furrowed his brow and asked again: "How can you be certain it's him?"

  "It's not just us who have been thinking about this, the road is not easy to walk, we've been preparing for several years, how did he suddenly appear out of nowhere? There must be something fishy going on here. I've asked around, that person doesn't have any background, it's clear someone is intentionally stirring up trouble."

  He looked up with a scornful smile and said, "As long as the contract is in place, nothing matters. Everyone will die anyway, you can't stop him from coming back to life! What a joke!"

  "But..."

  "Never mind him, there's a snake blocking his way over there, he can't spare the energy to come looking for trouble with me."

  "Uh-huh."

  "Nothing else, I'll take my leave first."

  Yue Fan nodded and was about to turn around when Jing Yang raised his hand again, saying: "Wait a minute, that... get me in touch with You Yue Ran, find some time to meet up."

  Yue Fei Dao: "Alright, this time I'm really going out."

  After the person left, Jingxiang stood there for a while, still smiling to himself. There was an oil-saving lamp somewhere. He got up, opened the cabinet next to him, and then opened a small box inside, took out a few bills, locked everything back up, and put them in the drawer of the small table where Su Lan sat.