After much thought, she suddenly realized how meticulous Lin Zhibai was in his thinking.

He must have considered all her worries, which is why he dared to lock her up here without any scruples.

He must have had a purpose in doing this.

Otherwise, why would he say two or three days?

He even calculated the timing and told her in advance, probably to prevent her from overthinking.

He's so considerate!

Gu Fanyan remained silent.

After sitting for a while, she felt a little hungry.

She hasn't eaten much since noon.

He said there was food in the office, and she didn't stand on ceremony, opening the cabinet and rummaging through it.

Sure enough, a package wrapped in insulating paper was found in the filing cabinet.

Upon opening it, I found it to be a three-tiered bento box.

The first layer consists of seaweed and chicken rolls and broccoli.

The first layer is shrimp ball soup.

The first layer consists of rice and egg dumplings.

They were still steaming hot.

It's obvious that the family prepared it carefully.

Gu Fanyan couldn't help but scoff.

They're all grown up, working at a company, and their families still prepare lunchboxes for them.

Do you still think of yourself as a primary school student?

However, the bento box tasted good, and perhaps because she was hungry, she actually finished the whole meal.

After eating and drinking her fill, she needed to figure out how to get out.

This is the 17th floor; climbing out the window is obviously not an option.

The only option was to have someone open the office door.

She let out Lin Zhibai's phone number from the small dark room and dialed it.

A moment later, Lin Zhibai answered the phone.

"Sister, did you pull me out of the dark room because you want to ask me for something?" Lin Zhibai teased.

"Can you speak like a normal person?" Gu Fanyan said disdainfully. "I advise you to release me right away, or I'll call Yun Wanqing."

"Do you think Yun Wanqing is the person in the world who most wants me to leave this office?"

"Sister, are you threatening me?" Lin Zhibai smiled.

"yes."

"Do you know what the consequences will be if Yun Wanqing finds out about this?"

"I know she'll definitely bring people over, open the door in a grand manner, and hurl insults at me. Her people will also take pictures of me."

"In less than two hours, the news of Gu Fanyan being a mistress will once again top the trending searches."

“Our two families’ elders will argue and even quarrel, which will affect our two families’ businesses.”

"Sister, it seems you know a lot about this. So why are you still doing this?" Lin Zhibai asked.

“There’s nothing I can do,” Gu Fanyan sighed, feigning regret. “I just want to leave this place so badly. Even the destruction of the world isn’t as important as me leaving.”

"Sister, do you hate me that much?" There was a hint of sadness in Lin Zhibai's voice.

"I don't dislike you. I even ate your lunchbox just now."

"You ate my lunchbox?" Lin Zhibai's tone was tinged with a hint of joy.

Gu Fanyan became alert. "You didn't put something in the lunchbox, did you?"

Lin Zhibai smiled and said, "Of course I won't miss this opportunity. Why don't you wait an hour and see how the medicine works?"

"You...you're a fucking lunatic!" Gu Fanyan angrily hung up the phone, not wanting to say another word to him.

Gu Fanyan was also annoyed with herself, wondering why she hadn't thought more about it earlier.

Why is there a bento box here out of nowhere, and it's still warm?

Even if Lin Zhibai had his family send him lunch every day, it would only be lunch.

Isn't his social engagement enough to feed him tonight?

What kind of medicine would he put in it?

For relaxation, or for adding to the fun...

She lay quietly on the sofa, no longer wanting to pursue the matter.

There's no way to change it anyway.

She took out her phone to pass the time and read through the messages in every group.

Time passed second by second.

An hour passed quickly, but she didn't seem to feel anything special.

I'm a bit tired, and my eyelids feel heavy and gritty.

She hasn't been sleeping well these past few days.

She closed her eyes, intending to rest, and unknowingly drifted off to sleep.

...

Yun Suiwan was awakened by a phone call.

The first light of dawn was breaking outside the window; it was not yet 6 a.m.

The caller was Da Wen.

Yun Suiwan tensed up. She knew that if it wasn't something important, Da Wen wouldn't bother her at this time.

"What happened?" she answered the phone.

"Young Master Lin unilaterally announces that he is canceling his engagement with Yun Wanqing," Da Wen replied.

Yun Suiwan was completely awake.

Lin Zhibai is serious.

It made the headlines in both the finance and social sections.

Starting at 6 a.m. this morning, a huge billboard in the city center continuously played excerpts of an interview with him by a financial magazine.

The most frequently mentioned message in the clip is: I enjoy being single and have no plans to get married anytime soon. Any rumors about me getting married are definitely false.

On the internet, a "famous quote" he made in an interview has gone viral.

"I don't have a girlfriend or a fiancée that I've publicly acknowledged, so where did this third party come from?"

Videos or articles containing this phrase always receive numerous comments.

[Another quote from a scumbag boyfriend]

I have a feeling he's intentionally protecting someone.

[The much-discussed third party from before was actually his childhood sweetheart, as some experts have uncovered.]

But his previous fiancée, I heard, was someone he grew up with.

[Looks like it's a love triangle involving a rich family's princess and prince.]

A group of children may appear to grow up together, but there will always be differences in their closeness.

It seems the other woman is the one who's favored.

Sigh, that fiancée thought she was going to become the original wife, but she never expected that Young Master Lin would go to such lengths to sever ties with her.

It seems that in the eyes of the wealthy, women really are just tools for bearing children.

For a time, all sorts of opinions were circulating online.

But the unchanging fact is that Lin Zhibai and Yun Wanqing are determined to draw a clear line between themselves.

Yun Suiwan ran downstairs with her phone in hand and asked Aunt Li, "Where is Lu Dongjue?"

Aunt Li smiled slightly: "I just arrived and am having coffee in the garden."

Yun Suiwan was taken aback: "Why isn't he coming upstairs now that he's here?"

Aunt Li laughed and said, "It's only a few o'clock, I was afraid of disturbing your sleep."

Yun Suiwan then realized that it was only a little past six o'clock.

He's been coming over around 8 or 9 o'clock these past few days, and she's gotten used to it.

"Lu Dongjue," she came up behind him and held her phone up to his face, "Have you seen these messages?"

Lu Dongjue raised an eyebrow. "Now you believe what I said, right?"

He said it, and Lin Zhibai was serious.

Yun Suiwan pursed her lips: "I don't know what Lin Zhibai's intentions are, but what he's doing is just causing trouble for Sister Fanyan."

Lu Dongjue scoffed: "What waves can Yun Wanqing stir up? What waves can the Huo family stir up?"

Moreover, the one in the Huo family who is most capable of stirring up trouble is on the same side as Lin Zhibai.

"Aren't you being too confident?" Yun Suiwan worried. "After all, people are very fragile; even a chopstick can kill someone."

"Don't worry," Lu Dongjue comforted her, "Lin Zhibai had already thought of a solution. Otherwise, why do you think he delayed taking action for so long?"