Having arranged a meeting time with Director Chen, Su Jin looked up and saw that Xie Yunhuai was still in the same spot.

"Is there something you need?"

Xie Yunhuai slowly bent down in front of her, a fawning smile on his face, "Xiao Jin, I know I was wrong, please don't treat me like this, it's too cold..."

It's as if I'm someone insignificant to you.

Su Jin smiled and said, "No, brother. If there's nothing else, you can go back now."

Xie Yunhuai's smile faltered slightly. "I... I'll cook you some food before I leave. I'm a little worried about you."

Su Jin shook her head and refused, "You're not my nanny. I can do cooking myself."

Xie Yunhuai lowered his handsome peach blossom eyes and whispered, "I can be your nanny too..."

"What?"

Xie Yunhuai was eventually asked to leave by Su Jin.

However, he was right about one thing: she really couldn't take good care of herself.

Daily life is a complete mess, let alone something as difficult as cooking.

Just as Su Jin was facing the tricky frying pan, a phone call added fuel to her already anxious mood.

"Hello? Who is it?"

Hearing Su Jin's unfriendly tone, Assistant Li shuddered and immediately wanted to hang up the phone, but Gu Xingze's murderous gaze next to him forced him to continue speaking.

"Uh... Miss Su, that's me."

Su Jin turned on the range hood. "What is it?"

Gu Xingze practically pressed his ear against his phone to hear Su Jin's voice.

Assistant Li stammered, "Well... our boss said if you're too embarrassed to ask him for the money, you can ask me for it; consider it a favor between friends."

The air was deathly silent.

Su Jin frowned as she listened, and after a long while she said into the phone, "If you really can't do it, let your boss get his head checked. I think the thing he should be checking most is his brain."

A few drops of oil splattered from the pan, and Su Jin exclaimed in surprise, quickly checking if she had burned the back of her hand.

Gu Xingze's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone, "What's wrong, Xiao Jin? What happened?"

Su Jin was so angry that she turned off the stove, threw away her phone, and went to the tap to wash her arms.

I'm never cooking for myself again. I'll just eat takeout. Even if it's not clean, at least I won't die.

Having received no response, Gu Xingze picked up Li's assistant's phone. "Hello! Su Jin, are you alright? What happened? Give me a reply."

Time ticked by, the phone was still connected, but no one answered.

Gu Xingze lifted the hospital blanket. "I'm going to find her."

He still had an IV in his arm, and Assistant Li couldn't let him go out like that. "Boss, boss, calm down. The surgery is tomorrow. You can't just go out like that."

Gu Xingze pushed away Assistant Li's hand that was trying to stop him, his tone leaving no room for argument, "I need to check on her to make sure she's alright before I can relax. You heard what she was saying over there; she can't cook at all, she might be injured."

He knew that Su Jin hadn't made the lunchbox that time; he knew it the moment he took the first bite.

Having eaten her breakfast so many times, how could I not know how good her cooking is?

Assistant Li couldn't stop him, and could only lament his bad luck.

Gu Xingze put on his own coat and then put on another layer of his own clothes over his hospital gown to cover himself up.

He was conflicted; he wanted her to know he was sick, but he also didn't want her to know.

He even wished he could just die on the operating table, and that Su Jin would be the last to know.

Knowing she was dead, she was filled with remorse and then remembered it for the rest of her life.

The thought of being Su Jin's white moonlight for a lifetime made Gu Xingze chuckle to himself.

...

The next day, Su Jin woke up to find someone had entered her house.

My heart, which had been hanging in suspense, died completely after I saw Lin Shi.

"...What are you doing?"

Lin Shi was playing with the dog and didn't even look up. "If I hadn't come, your dog would have been bored to death."

As soon as Lin Shi entered the door, she saw bread lying lazily on the floor.

She only came running over with her tongue sticking out when she heard the door open.

Su Jin yawned repeatedly, looking like she hadn't woken up yet.

"But what's going on?" Lin Shi looked towards the kitchen, where there were still leftovers from yesterday's cooking.

"Um……"

Su Jin swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue, using this as a way to feel full every day.

The phone rang, and Su Jin answered it without even looking at the caller ID: "Hello, who is it?"

No one spoke on the other end of the phone.

Su Jin glanced at the caller ID; it was an unfamiliar number.

"Who is it? If you don't answer, I'm hanging up."

The voice on the other end of the phone was deliberately lowered: "Your husband is in my hands. If you know what's good for you..."

Unfortunately, before he could finish speaking, Su Jin hung up the phone.

She frowned and muttered, "Are you crazy this early in the morning?"

The phone rang again, and Su Jin answered it once more.

Afraid she would hang up again, the person on the other end immediately said, "Your husband is in our hands now. If you know what's good for you, prepare 60 million in cash for the transaction at the dock."

Su Jin laughed and pointed to the phone to show Lin Shi, "See? Having money makes you an easy target. They even tried to scam me."

She turned to the person on the other end of the phone and said, "You're saying my husband is in your hands? Then go ahead and kill him, I've been wanting him dead anyway."

Before hanging up, he said into the phone, "I don't know who you are, but thank you anyway."

Su Jin laughed heartily, all her drowsiness vanishing completely.

"I'm dying of laughter, 'Your husband is in my hands,' hahaha! Then tear up a ticket and show me."

Lin Shi laughed so hard she almost fell over. "Dock transactions? You've been watching too many scam movies. We're inland, where would we get a dock?"

After laughing enough, Su Jin wiped away the tears that had overflowed from the corners of her eyes, refreshed her phone, and saw the prominent 99+ number of calls.

When I opened the number, I saw that it was full of unfamiliar phone numbers, with some calls from Assistant Li mixed in.

Su Jin became suspicious. "Do you think my phone number might have been leaked? Why are I getting so many calls from unknown numbers?"

Lin Shi also thought it was possible, "Could it be your stalker or a hater?"

"I have illegitimate children? They're not the kind who want me dead, are they?"

Su Jin rubbed the goosebumps on her arms. It seemed she needed to change her phone number.

Just then, another call came in from an unknown number. Su Jin's anger surged, and she rolled up her sleeves to answer it, wanting to give the caller a piece of her mind.

From the other end came a woman's angry sobs, "Su Jin! Is my son with you? What have you done to him?"

It took Su Jin a while to realize that the person was Gu's mother.

"Huh? Your son is missing, what good is it to come to me? He's not here with me, go find the police!"

Between sobs, Gu's mother said, "He came to see you yesterday! He was supposed to have surgery today. If anything happens to him, I'll never forgive you!"

Su Jin retorted in a bad mood, "What does this have to do with me? Just because he said he was coming to see me doesn't mean he was coming to see me. I haven't seen a single person of his."