Chapter 622 I'd Rather Die

"No need," Jiang Ruan said and then hung up.

Huo Sinian's resources are useful.

But she would rather use Uncle Li's and Huo Zhizhou's than his.

What a scumbag.

Huo Sinian glanced at his phone, which had just ended the call, without paying much attention. After all, it was just an excuse he'd made up. He then looked at Huo Zhizhou, who was eating breakfast: "Aren't you eating now?"

Huo Zhizhou ignored him.

Seeing that he had hung up, he stopped eating.

"How much did he eat?" Huo Sinian asked Jiang Yu, who was standing next to him.

Jiang Yu glanced at his boss and replied, "Half of the normal amount."

Huo Sinian nodded: "More or less."

Huo Zhizhou felt uncomfortable in his chest and stomach.

Food that you force yourself to eat won't stay put inside.

"Aren't you leaving yet?" He looked at Huo Sinian, not wanting to stay with him any longer.

"Why are you in such a hurry to leave after all this trouble?" Huo Sinian leaned back in his chair, his legs crossed naturally and warmly. "You have to keep an eye on my good brother and make sure he's in good spirits."

Huo Zhizhou ignored him.

The two then chatted about some other things.

Huo Sinian did most of the talking, while Huo Zhizhou either remained silent or uttered only a word or two.

It felt like more than ten minutes had passed.

It felt like half an hour.

The nausea that Huo Zhizhou had forcibly suppressed finally surged up uncontrollably, and he vomited up everything he had just eaten, including bile at the end.

“BOSS!” Assistant Jiang immediately stepped forward.

Huo Zhizhou was still vomiting, and his mental state was at its lowest point at that moment.

Lin Bei quickly went to call the doctor.

Not long after.

The crowd gathered around Huo Zhizhou.

Huo Zhizhou resisted the doctor's treatment and examination. After vomiting, he stood up and said, "I'm going back to my room first. Remember to send him away later."

“But your health…” Assistant Jiang hesitated.

"It's nothing," Huo Zhizhou said, completely unconcerned.

Assistant Jiang and Lin Bei exchanged a glance, both knowing that once he made up his mind, nothing could change it.

If he doesn't want to watch, no one can force him to.

Huo Zhizhou returned to his room, washed up in the bathroom, and then threw himself onto the bed to sleep. He could clearly feel that his health was deteriorating day by day, but so be it.

It's better than bothering Ruan Ruanqiang.

Huo Sinian, unusually, didn't follow, but instead looked in the direction of his room and asked, "Has he been like this lately?"

Jiang Yu: "Mm."

Huo Sinian: "Because Jiang Ruan is ignoring him?"

After much consideration, Jiang Yu finally told the truth: "The boss doesn't want to disturb Miss Jiang's life."

Huo Sinian pursed his lips and remained silent.

The eyes behind the lenses appeared more profound.

"I'll go and bring the person over for him."

"No," Lin Bei said quickly. "Bringing Miss Jiang here will only increase the BOSS's guilt towards her. He might temporarily regroup and retaliate against you, but he'll continue like this after that."

“Or perhaps it will disappear completely,” Assistant Jiang added.

"Promising," Huo Sinian said.

Jiang's assistant and Lin Bei did not speak.

They all thought the BOSS was quite extreme. He could have taken things step by step with Miss Jiang in Haicheng, but instead chose to stay away completely.

Isn't it nice to be friends?

"Then what was he doing in Haicheng before?" Huo Sinian asked, glancing sideways as he thought about what had happened before. "I remember he went to see Jiang Ruan and shamelessly clung to her side."

Assistant Jiang: "The boss's previous idea was to spend more time around Miss Jiang and make his presence felt."

Huo Sinian: "Why didn't you swipe anymore?"

Jiang's Special Assistant: "I don't know."

Huo Sinian: "?"

Assistant Jiang didn't hide anything: "I don't know if the BOSS thought of something on his own, or if President Gu said something to him, but he suddenly changed his mind and distanced himself."

"Gu Shixi?" Huo Sinian asked.

Assistant Jiang replied, "Yes."

Huo Sinian glanced at the room where Huo Zhizhou was, his eyes darkening slightly, and finally told them, "Tell me when he gets up, I'll go make a phone call."

"Okay." Assistant Jiang didn't argue with anyone.

Huo Sinian found an open space and dialed Gu Shixi's number.

Compared to the lifeless and dull Huo Zhizhou he is now, he would rather he were the shrewd and calculating Second Young Master Huo who never gained any advantage.

beep--

The call went through.

Gu Shixi was busy with his own company's affairs at the moment, so he answered the phone quickly: "Hello."

"What did you say to Zhizhou last time?" Huo Sinian asked directly, without beating around the bush.

Gu Shixi: "?"

Gu Shixi was completely bewildered: "What do you mean, 'last time'?"

Huo Sinian didn't know the details of their meeting, so he could only use the simplest language: "What did you talk about with Huo Zhizhou the last time you saw him? He's locking himself up now and won't see Jiang Ruan."

Gu Shixi paused.

My mind raced, trying to recall.

I figured it out in no time.

"We didn't talk about much, just told him not to push Jiang Ruan too hard." Gu Shixi didn't care why he was suddenly so concerned about Huo Zhizhou. Huo Er himself said not to worry about it, so he was too lazy to bother.

Huo Sinian: "Be more specific."

Gu Shixi told Huo Zhizhou about their conversation last time, except for the part where Huo Zhizhou spoke ill of him. After finishing, he asked, "How do you know he locked himself up?"

Huo Sinian did not answer.

He hung up the phone immediately.

Gu Shixi: "Hello?"

Gu Shixi: "??"

Gu Shixi looked at the ended call and cursed Huo Sinian in his heart.

Huo Sinian didn't care about this.

After understanding the situation and combining it with his conversation with Huo Zhizhou on the phone last time, he was quite certain that the reason he had put himself in this state was because he was afraid that if he pushed Jiang Ruan too far, she would do something rash.

take things too hard?

This word is unlikely to appear in Jiang Ruan's context.

She has everything she wants now, so she won't go down that path.

No.

He stayed there until noon.

Seeing that Huo Zhizhou still had no intention of getting up, he forcibly opened the door to his room.

The room was pitch black.

The curtains were drawn so that not a single ray of light could see in.

Huo Sinian walked over and drew all the curtains open. Looking at Huo Zhizhou lying on the bed like a dead man, he said to him bluntly, "Even if you lie here until you die, it won't change the slightest thing about your relationship with Jiang Ruan."

Huo Zhizhou remained silent.

After he rejected her kindness last time, he knew it would be difficult for him to reconcile with her.

“Go see her if you miss her,” Huo Sinian said. “As long as you don’t go too far and maintain the boundaries of friendship, she won’t kick you out. Over time, the relationship will naturally get better.”

"You want to be friends with Lin Tan?" Huo Zhizhou asked back, his eyes not really focused.

That face flashed through Huo Sinian's mind.

It's impossible for friends to just be friends.

Even if it takes ten thousand steps, he will make her belong only to him.

“I know very well what kind of person I am,” Huo Zhizhou said. “I can’t be friends with her, and I can’t be excluded by her as a stranger.”

Huo Sinian looked at him.

Huo Zhizhou continued, "I'd rather stay away from her and die slowly than live that kind of life."

Either have it.

Either have none at all.

Any intermediate value would drive him crazy.

In his paranoid state, he couldn't even control what he did.