She checked the daytime surveillance footage and found nothing unusual except that White Sesame escaped and attempted to beat Lajiao, but was beaten back by Black Sesame. No strangers came in either.

Su Tao finished her meal calmly and waited until nightfall. Instead of waiting for the thief, she waited for Cen Tianjiao.

Cen Tianjiao seemed to have a thousand words to say, but only one sentence came out:

"Our boss wants to see you."

At first, after he sobered up, he really thought that what he saw that night was a dream about what he was thinking about during the day.

But the next night, he saw Boss Shi even though he hadn't drunk any alcohol.

He learned everything in shock.

Their boss is really dead, but not dead. To be honest, he is just a dead ghost. No, a soul.

Su Tao was stunned when she heard this and asked in disbelief:

"He's resurrected? So soon? Didn't Sister Pei say it would take at least a year?"

As she spoke, she couldn't help but stand up and even prepared to go to the door to change her shoes.

Cen Tianjiao quickly grabbed her:

"No, no, no, he wants to see you here. Don't be afraid later. Our boss won't hurt you no matter what he becomes."

Seeing Su Tao nodded inexplicably, Cen Tianjiao shouted to the wall:

"Boss, please come out. I've prepared Boss Su for this."

The next second, Su Tao saw Shi Zijin, who was dressed in casual clothes and looked no different from usual, emerging from the wall and slowly approaching her.

He didn't dare to get too close, and stopped three or four steps away from her, revealing a brilliant smile that Su Tao had never seen before, even outshining the starry sky at night:

"Good evening."

Su Tao's blood rushed back all over her body, she was both happy and frightened:

She strode over and stretched out her hand towards him, but the moment it touched him, it suddenly dissipated like smoke, but quickly recovered.

Su Tao stared: "You——"

Shi Zijin laughed at himself: "As you can see, I am now a lonely ghost."

Cen Tianjiao shouted, "Boss Su, don't be afraid!"

Shi Zijin slapped him in the face.

Su Tao was stunned for a few seconds, then unexpectedly accepted it quickly, and as if she had thought of something, she suddenly burst out laughing:

"I think I know. A long time ago, you told me that you inherited a special ability called 'Grievous Soul'. Is this the reason?"

Shi Zijin was very surprised and looked at her with burning eyes.

Cen Tianjiao gave her a thumbs up: "Boss Su has a good memory."

Su Tao shook her head: "It's not that I have a good memory, but your boss has become a different person since he inherited this ability. I have a very deep impression of this incident. Also, I always felt that a thief broke into my house two nights ago. Was it you?"

She looked at Shi Zijin.

Shi Zijin surrendered immediately: "I didn't steal anything. Do I look like I need anything?"

"So you admit it?"

"Okay, I admit, I missed you so much."

Cen Tianjiao shuddered and thought to himself, you didn’t steal anything, you stole someone’s heart.

Slip away. Slip away.

The two of them didn't notice Cen Tianjiao running away at all.

Su Tao: "Don't say such misleading words. Why didn't you confess to me the other day?"

Shi Zijin shamelessly sat next to her:

"You were so busy the past two days that I could only show up at night. I couldn't bear to wake you up. Today, it was Cen Lao Er who found out that you were free today, so I immediately came to you to turn myself in."

"Turn yourself in and I'll give you a lighter sentence. You can roam the living room at night, but you're not allowed to enter my bedroom."

Shi Zijin immediately collapsed on the sofa in the living room and made an OK gesture to her:

"But I'd like to trouble you to turn on the TV for me. I don't need to eat or sleep right now, so I'm really bored. If you're free during the day, please help me find a pre-apocalyptic TV series. I like anime, but if that's hard to find, Korean dramas are fine too. I remember watching one with my mom when I was a kid, but I forgot the title, but it was about a woman who was abandoned by her husband and then came back after plastic surgery to get revenge on him and his mistress."

Su Tao was stunned: "Major General Shi, are you really Major General Shi? You are not some otaku pretending to be him, are you? You actually have entertainment needs too?"

In the past, Shi Zijin banned all forms of entertainment. At most, he would play with sandboxes, but that was for combat rehearsals.

Now he actually told her that he wanted to watch anime and soap operas!

Shi Zijin half-closed his eyes, thinking of a lazy cat:

"To be honest, I really want to be a homebody, but reality doesn't allow it. The outside world is nothing good, it's just full of devastation."

Su Tao was so surprised: "So this is the real you? I thought you enjoyed the applause and admiration of being a hero."

Shi Zijin turned his head and smiled at her.

He actually looks very noble, but due to long-term exposure to the sun and the hardships of running around, his skin is very rough, which makes him look more like a tough guy.

Now that he has become a wild ghost and has lost the texture of his real skin, this smile really makes him look like a pampered rich kid, without any roughness at all.

Anyway, this smile is quite dazzling to Su Tao.

"It was enjoyable at first. Every man has a heroic dream when he's a kid, but over time, it becomes a shackle, a prison you enter willingly."

He stopped laughing and became more serious: "Can you accept me like this?"

Su Tao said: "Smile again."

"Um?"

"Smile and I'll tell you."

Shi Zijin just smiled at her obediently, showing his teeth and with his eyes curved. There was no trace of the majesty of a major general in his expression.

Su Tao accepted this wave of beauty attack:

"It's so beautiful. I've never seen you smile so vividly."

"The former Major General Shi was a man of heaven, so selfless that people could only look up to him."

"How could you possibly smile like that to mere mortals like us? So, I still think the real you is better."

"Even though I can't touch you now, I feel like we're closer."

When Shi Zijin looked at her eyes, his heart almost blossomed. He was intoxicated by her fragrance, by her brightness, by her understanding and tenderness.