Chapter 138 "No need to wait, he won't come back."

At noon that day, before leaving, Li Yansheng sent a message to Lin Shutang: [Something happened in Hong Kong City. I have to go there. I won't be back for lunch today.]

Lin Shutang: [Okay.]

After replying the message, she turned off her phone and started eating lunch alone. Seeing Aunt Lu bringing out the soup, Lin Shutang said, "Aunt Lu, let's eat together!"

Aunt Lu: "Are you not waiting for sir?"

"Don't wait, he won't come back."

Aunt Lu noticed that Lin Shutang's face looked a little off. She didn't know what had happened, but she still tried to comfort him, "Madam, your husband might have encountered some emergency."

She also heard what Li Yansheng said to Lin Shutang before he left. It was indeed easy to feel sad when you couldn't do what you had said on purpose.

Lin Shutang ate some rice in his hands, looked up at Aunt Lu, and smiled soothingly: "I know, it's okay, Aunt Lu."

She wasn't sad, but knowing that Li Yansheng was no longer in Beijing, she inexplicably lost her appetite.

Habit is a terrible thing.

Before, I knew he was there, so even if he didn't come back, it didn't matter. Now he was only gone for a while, but I felt like a piece was missing in my heart, empty.

Lin Shutang suddenly thought, perhaps, after returning from Hong Kong, she shouldn't get involved with Li Yansheng anymore. That way, the sadness would only be short-lived. However, these things had already happened, and there was no point in dwelling on them.

At noon, Lin Shutang took a nap as usual. It was a long nap, and when she woke up it was already past four in the afternoon. Li Yansheng had sent her a message: "I'm here."

It was a short message, and Lin Shutang stared at it for a long time.

This was the first time Li Yansheng had sent her a message while he was out. It felt like a husband checking in with his wife after leaving the house. Lin Shutang watched and suddenly let out a silent smile.

Lin Shutang received a call from Jiang Qinyuan two days after Li Yansheng left. Jiang Qinyuan said that she had a new chef who made delicious desserts and asked Lin Shutang to come over and try some.

Since Li Yansheng was not there and Lin Shutang had nothing to do, he agreed.

When he arrived at the Jiang family's house, Jiang Beiqian happened to be there. When Lin Shutang arrived, he was standing at the door, making a call with his cell phone. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but when Jiang Beiqian looked at him, his eyes seemed surprised and complicated.

She met his gaze and politely called out, "Brother Jiang."

Jiang Beiqian didn't put down the phone next to his ear, nodded slightly and said to her: "Yuanyuan is waiting for you inside, go in!"

He knew she was coming, so the look in his eyes just now was not because of her arrival. Then what could it be because of? Lin Shutang was puzzled, but he didn't say anything, just responded with a word: "Okay."

After Lin Shutang went in, Jiang Beiqian withdrew his gaze. Seeing that the call had not been hung up, he teased, "Just two sentences, and you can't bear to miss it?"

The person on the other end of the line was Li Yansheng. Ten minutes earlier, Jiang Beiqian had received a call from him. Li Yansheng said on the phone that he might not be able to return for a while, and that the Chen family had been a bit busy recently, so he asked Jiang Beiqian to help keep an eye on the Jin family to prevent them from making things difficult for Lin Shutang.

Jiang Beiqian had known about the two's affair for a long time.

He originally thought that Li Yansheng was just temporarily attracted to a little girl like Lin Shutang, but he didn't expect that he seemed to really care about her.

So, when he realized this just now, he was full of surprise.