It must be said that truly wealthy people are exceptionally good at understanding human nature.

Knowing that the special police team would leave the gate at 6:20 every morning to go for a morning run along the coastline, Chen Rou wanted to see who had joined the special police team and who had gone to the troops stationed in Hong Kong. So she went out at 6:00 to watch them do their morning exercises by the sea. But when she got to the elevator, she found that Ms. Cai was also waiting for the elevator.

“Hi, Mrs. Nie, you’re up really early,” she said.

Chen Rou noticed that she was wearing pajamas and didn't look like she was going for a morning exercise, so she asked, "Did you get up early because you had something to do?"

Ms. Cai shrugged: "My brother is already processing his visa and booking his plane tickets. He hopes that starting today, Nie's can record his annual salary as if he were still employed. But for some reason, Mr. Nie's phone is switched off. Mr. Wade said he can't make the decision. My brother told me to go find AN, but... the phone in my room just won't work."

Chen Rou smiled and said, "Your phone is out of service because you haven't paid the bill, right?"

International calls cost over two yuan per minute domestically, and she ended up owing the hotel a huge bill.

But Ms. Cai certainly didn't think she was wrong. Instead, she said, "The mainland is far behind the United States."

Since Secretary An was on the next floor, they only chatted for a few words before the elevator opened, and she got off.

Stepping out of the hotel, it was the darkest hour before dawn. Chen Rou ran a few steps, passing several steaming breakfast stalls selling rice noodle rolls, shumai, soup dumplings, soy milk, and peanut milk hand-pounded by an old lady.

Because she was in a hurry to run into Chen Ke and the others, she only bought a bowl of peanut milk, drank it all in one gulp, and ran away.

Just then, Nie Zhao, who had landed at five in the morning, was being driven by Secretary An and happened to pass by.

It's only six o'clock. In Hong Kong, no one gets up that early.

Only Boss Nie himself knows about his mental illness, and only he can cure himself. He said, "Turn around!"

There were very few people on the road, and Chen Rou was the only one running. Secretary An also found it strange: "Madam got up very early today."

Sam was right: "I think she was excited. To be honest, I love this city too. I think she got up early because she was excited and wanted to breathe more fresh air."

Maozi saw a small shop with its door open, and the owner was putting things out, including Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor). He really wanted to drink some, but of course he didn't dare to say so, because he was sitting next to Nie Zhao and could tell that the owner was unhappy.

Nie Zhao was indeed unhappy because Chen Rou had visited the mainland several times and usually got up at 6:30 at the latest, but today she should have gotten up at 5:30. Why? She probably felt that he was interfering too much in her life and felt suffocated.

Moreover, starting from the fourth month, the fetus will grow rapidly. Although he consulted experts and looked for solutions, all the doctors said that whether or not stretch marks appear depends more on one's constitution than on medication.

The baby is getting bigger and bigger, and he's encroaching on her life, making her uncomfortable. She probably had insomnia last night.

She probably got up early in the morning to go for a run at the beach because she couldn't sleep due to insomnia.

Nie Zhao suddenly said, "Stop the car."

Chen Rou was slow-moving. After getting out of the car, he and his two bodyguards walked quickly and caught up with her in a short while.

The city's main road, which was just completed last year, has eight lanes in both directions and leads all the way to the seaside. In the middle of summer, Chen Rou was wearing sweatpants, a sleeveless white T-shirt, and her medium-length hair was tied in a high bun. She headed towards the horizon as the sky began to lighten.

Because Nie Zhao was just walking quickly, Sam and Maozi who came with him, as well as Secretary An, couldn't run around, so they also just walked.

A street vendor was riding a tricycle with his child. The child, sitting in the back of the vehicle, saw the group of people passing by and suddenly pointed and said, "Daddy, Daddy, look! They look like characters from Journey to the West!"

I must say, the pot-bellied Russian guy, the blond Sam, and Secretary An really do look like a scene from Journey to the West.

Chen Rou arrived at the beach at exactly 6:20. After doing some stretching, she could already hear Chen Ke shouting commands.

Once on the beach and onto the road, I happened to see a group of people running past wearing fitness T-shirts.

She was actually quite surprised, because in her mind, Wang Baodao was good enough and had his father's influence. Even if he couldn't be the captain, he should at least be the vice-captain or a squad leader. But he ended up at the very end, which meant that he was just an ordinary member. It also meant that the current leader, Commander Wang, was really different from the group that would follow. Although he would definitely support his own people, he wouldn't do it so obviously.

As expected, Song Yuanchao was in the special police team. After more than two months of not seeing him, the hair that Boss Nie had forcibly shaved off had finally grown back, and it was particularly thick. With hair back, he no longer looked as comical as before; he was righteous and handsome.

He was the first to see Chen Rou, and then he stepped on Hu Yong's shoe and knocked it off.

Hu Yong also caught sight of a beautiful woman and said as he ran, "Brother Song, tone it down a bit, don't make it too ugly."

But upon closer inspection, he exclaimed, "Miss Chen!"

Then he called out to Chen Ke, "Captain Chen, look! Where's Miss Chen?"

They had already run past when Chen Ke looked back and saw that the team was scattered. He was furious: "This is outside, in front of the public. You call yourselves special police? Look at your appearance! One, two, one, get back in formation..."

But as he was talking, he saw Chen Rou, who happened to be at the zebra crossing. So he led the group to wait for the red light, ran across the road, went around in a circle, and ran back a little while later. At this time, Chen Rou was still on the side of the road.

Chen Ke suddenly shouted, "Forward march!"

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