Chapter 56

At this time, Yu Lei was strolling in the street.

He patrolled five streets in his police car but couldn't find a single street vendor open. It was New Year's Eve, and he was the only one still working, a slave serving the people. The people who needed service on this holiday were mostly drunk drivers, illegal firecrackers, and the kind of people who deserved no police attention.

Unexpectedly, he didn't receive any support call during the whole night, but only received a call for help from Tang Ruxin. She said that her order was cancelled by the driver and she needed the police's help.

Yu Lei, holding a cigarette in his mouth, rolled down the car window and looked at a man and a woman standing on the side of the road, their faces blue from the cold. His expression was indescribable.

"What's wrong with you?" He got out of the car and threw the black police uniform cotton coat on the passenger seat to Tang Ruxin.

Tang Ruxin glared at him coquettishly and said, "What's your attitude? Put out the cigarette!"

Yu Lei raised his eyebrows and looked at her, then took a look at the strange man standing next to her, and had a vague guess in his mind. He was still hesitating whether to cooperate with her when he heard Tang Ruxin introduce:

"Luo Yi, my teacher ten years ago." She turned to Luo Yi and said, "This is my boyfriend, he's a government employee."

Yu Lei sneered inwardly. No wonder Tang Ruxin had been so teasing on the phone just now. Luckily, he was on patrol duty and could go anywhere. Otherwise, he would have been like a pawn in this trip.

——Okay, now that you’re here.

"Get in the car, ancestor. It's very cold." Yu Lei said as he got into the driver's seat of the police car without paying any attention to Luo Yi.

"Forgive me. I'm a rough guy and not very polite." Tang Ruxin said as she wrapped the thick police coat around herself and sat in the passenger seat.

Luo Yi hadn't spoken since he heard her say she was pregnant. When he saw Yu Lei, his face was still as calm as a lake. After that, he only spoke once when he gave the address.

Tang Ruxin knew that she had stepped into Luo Yi's minefield and felt much better.

"When do you get off work?" she asked Yu Lei.

"Ten o'clock tomorrow morning. What's going on?"

"Accompany me for prenatal checkups."

Yu Lei slowly turned his head to look at her, "...the principle of too much is as bad as too little, understand?"

Seeing Tang Ruxin's face darken, he could only add, "...You don't have to do prenatal checkups every day. It's not good for the baby."

It's not good for him either.

Tang Ruxin curled her lips and said aggrievedly: "The doctor asked me to check my blood sugar. You just don't want to accompany me and make excuses."

"...I'll accompany you." Yu Lei nodded helplessly. It had been a long time since he smelled such a rich tea fragrance.

Luo Yi, who was sitting in the back seat, remained silent until he got out of the car. Then he said to Tang Ruxin through the half-open window:

"Don't drink before your next prenatal checkup."

Hearing this, Yu Lei immediately turned to look out the window, facing Tang Ruxin with the back of his head. He was afraid that if she saw the corner of his mouth that he couldn't suppress, he would attack the police.

Tang Ruxin smiled calmly, waved at Luo Yi and said, "Don't worry, I know what's going on. Goodbye, teacher."

After Luo Yi's figure disappeared at the hotel gate, Tang Ruxin turned around and twisted Yu Lei's ear to turn his face around.

"What are you laughing at?"

Yu Lei slapped her hand away, coughed to stop laughing, and said, "Do you think he believes it?"

"Who do you think he is? That's Luo Yi, the youngest professor of investment at Peking University eleven years ago, CEO of one of Singapore's top venture capital firms, and now the target acquirer of Donghe Refining. The first thing he saw was me being chased and beaten by my dad, and I was wearing high heels and had been drinking all night. He'd have to be crazy to believe that."

"Tang Jiulin hit you?" Yu Lei frowned.

"Focus on the key points, Officer Yu." Tang Ruxin rolled her eyes at him. She praised Luo Yi to the sky, but he only heard her being beaten.

"I don't care. What does he have to do with me?" Yu Lei didn't even want to get to know the man. He said impatiently, "I'm an airhead. His condescending attitude is annoying. He's always weighing the pros and cons. He's awesome, but he's also really boring."

Tang Ruxin was stunned, and her heart seemed to be tapped gently by something.

She finally understood why, meeting Luo Yi again this time, she felt no stirrings of affection, only a desire to win back. She had assumed that time had changed, that she had let it go. It turned out that her former admiration and yearning for him was simply because she was once too weak, so she admired the stronger. Now that she had grown up, his quiet strength could no longer shake her heart.

— Her obsession and resentment towards Luo Yi suddenly dissipated at this moment. Like the sun breaking through the clouds, countless rays of light shone through, illuminating the corners of her heart that had been dark for years.

"I didn't realize you were so insightful." Tang Ruxin carefully studied Yu Lei, her eyes gradually turning admiring. But in just one encounter, without even a word exchanged, Yu Lei had already seen through Luo Yi.

"You're too kind. I'm just a poor man who hates the rich a little bit." Yu Lei said sarcastically, with undisguised sourness in his tone.

Tang Ruxin lowered her head and laughed out loud. It was a long-lost, genuine happiness—he had resolved the knot that had been weighing on her mind for eleven years. She let out a long sigh, leaned back in her chair, and looked out the window, feeling more relaxed than ever before.

The next moment, a firework exploded in the sky not far away, and the sound of firecrackers was heard everywhere.

"Here comes the job." Yu Lei turned on the police lights and sirens, then stepped on the accelerator and rushed out.

Tang Ruxin immediately reached out and gripped the roof rail tightly, then turned to look at Yu Lei speechlessly. When a man and a woman saw fireworks blooming in the night sky, would their first reaction be to catch the person setting them off?!

She finally understood why Yu Lei, despite his looks and conditions, was still single.

"No, brother, as the captain of the Criminal Investigation Team, are you also responsible for arresting illegal fireworks?!"

"It's the deputy. It's Chinese New Year, and the public security and traffic police are short on manpower, so they have to do a cross-police joint defense. Not to mention criminal investigation, even economic investigation can't escape. All the on-duty officers in the detachment have to go out on patrol to maintain public order."

Just as Yu Lei was racing, Tang Ruxin received a text message from an unfamiliar number.

"Two questions. If you can find the answers, Donghe Refining's predicament will be resolved. First, why did Tang Jiulin name you Tang Ruxin? Second, where did the original capital for Donghe Refining come from?"

Although there was no name, Tang Ruxin knew it was Luo Yi. The sentence structure was exactly the same as the homework he had assigned her before, starting with the number of questions and the reward for answering correctly, followed by the specific content.

Tang Ruxin's facial features wrinkled. She could understand what Yu Lei meant by "it's annoying just looking at it." Why hadn't she thought Luo Yi liked to pretend to be profound before?

Moreover, she already knew the answers to these two questions. Tang Jiulin said he gave her these two characters because he hoped she would follow her heart and act spontaneously. The money for the initial construction of Donghe Refining came from Tang Jiulin's lottery win. Strangely, Luo Yi wouldn't make up such a story just because she deliberately insulted his intelligence, right?

Given his skill level, if he wanted to retaliate against her, he wouldn't choose such a frivolous method. Out of respect for the acquirer, Tang Ruxin still sent the existing answer.

Luo Yi didn't reply to her until the next morning, which meant that the answer was wrong.

He had always been like this. If she misjudged the trend or didn't increase or decrease her position at the points he requested, he would ignore her for days. She would panic then, but now, Tang Ruxin threw her phone away and went to eat breakfast.

Halfway through their meal, Tang Jiulin called. Tang Ruxin hesitated, her fork in hand, as she wondered whether to answer. It was clearly a call full of insults. She wiped her mouth and answered anyway.

"Happy New Year, Dad. I wish you good health and all the best..."

"What the hell was that bullshit you said to Luo Yi last night? Are you crazy?" Tang Jiulin's cold voice was filled with suppressed anger.

"I'm saving money for you. Twenty percent of the purchase price, you're very generous, Dad. I'm not worth that much money." Tang Ruxin turned on the hands-free mode and continued to eat breakfast.

Tang Jiulin was gasping for breath on the phone. She had no doubt that if she were in front of him at this moment, he would hit her on the head with the cane.

"Who do you think I am so fond of losing money for? You should marry him first and get half of the ownership of Donghe Refining. If you are really impatient, you can divorce him later! Two certificates in exchange for hundreds of millions of assets. What's wrong with your brain that you refuse?"

"Should I let him sleep?"

Tang Jiulin suddenly coughed violently. He never expected that Tang Ruxin would ask such a direct question.

"You, didn't you like him from the beginning? You were so desperate back then..."

"Dad," Tang Ruxin interrupted him, "Not everything can be sold at a price, and besides, I don't like him anymore."

"You really have your eye on that poor policeman. Are you crazy? What can he give you?"

Tang Jiulin was so angry that he stomped on the ground with his crutch. The sound was not loud, but Tang Ruxin heard it.

She hesitated for a moment. It was New Year's Day, and it wouldn't be nice to make her stepfather angry to death. But if she didn't completely stop thinking about him, there would be endless trouble in the future. She was too lazy to keep dwelling on such things.

Tang Ruxin only chuckled and said in a shy voice:

"I'm embarrassed to ask that. That poor policeman is only 1.89 meters tall and has eight-pack abs. What can he give me? How can a father ask his daughter such a thing? You really are..."

Before the call was hung up, Tang Ruxin heard Tang Jiulin throw his phone.