Even now, he still remembers the softness and warmth of her embrace.

"Young Master Lin." A woman's voice brought him back to his senses. He turned his head and looked at her with a puzzled expression.

This is Mo Jiao, the female assistant his mother recently hired. She has earned his mother's trust.

Her presence meant that her mother had also come.

What's going on?

He looked at his assistants, completely bewildered. The assistants lowered their eyes, avoiding his gaze.

"Young Master Lin... such a big matter, we dare not hide it from the old lady..." Only one assistant dared to speak in a low voice.

"Young Master Lin, the old lady is waiting for you in her room upstairs," Mo Jiao said.

Lin Zhibai had no choice but to go to the room Mo Jiao had mentioned.

"Mom?" He called out twice after going inside, but received no reply.

Suddenly, the door lock clicked, and he immediately turned around to see that the door had been closed and locked.

He strode forward to pull the door open, but it was already locked.

"Mo Jiao, open the door," he commanded sternly.

"Young Master Lin, this is the old lady's order," Mo Jiao said loudly, and her footsteps immediately faded away.

Lin Zhibai immediately took out his phone to call his assistant, but the call couldn't go through at all; a small cross appeared in the signal bar.

Blocking the signal in a room is not difficult to do.

He glanced at the landline on the bedside table, and upon closer inspection, found that the telephone line was gone.

Looking out the window again, this is the 27th floor.

Speechless.

"Lin Zhibai." At that moment, a familiar voice rang out from outside the door.

"Mom!" He immediately came to the door. "How old am I? Why are you still locking me up?"

"You've been working hard these past few days," Lin's mother's voice came from outside. "Rest well in your room. Once I've taken care of things, we'll go back to China together."

"Mom! I'll handle things! I'm the president of Lin's Group now!" Lin Zhibai said loudly.

There was a moment of silence outside the door, followed by a sneer from Lin's mother: "Have you forgotten? I own 15 percent of the shares in Lin's Group."

"I have activated the company's emergency procedures."

Lin Zhibai was speechless.

That's right. Lin's mother owns more shares in the company than he does, and has the right to temporarily take over all company affairs in accordance with the company's articles of association.

Needless to say, the company's board of directors already knows what he's been doing here.

“Mom,” he said helplessly, but he didn’t care about any of that. He only had one request: “Gu Fanyan knew nothing about what happened today, so please don’t make things difficult for her.”

After a long while, there was no answer from outside the door; Lin's mother had already left.

She returned to her room, so angry that she picked up her water glass and then put it down again, feeling so choked up that she couldn't even drink the water.

“Madam,” Assistant Mo Jiao said as she walked in, “Miss Gu has arrived. She’s in the lobby on the first floor and says she wants to see Young Master Lin.”

"How dare she come!" Lin's mother slammed her water glass down. "She almost killed my son today!"

After calming down, Lin's mother said, "Go tell her that Zhibai doesn't want to see her."

"Have Zhibai's assistant tell him not to show his face," she specifically reminded him.

Mo Jiao nodded in understanding.

Gu Fanyan sat on the sofa in the lobby on the first floor, waiting for Lin Zhibai to appear.

After returning home, she figured out some details and had a question in her mind.

Did Lin Zhibai know beforehand that there was something wrong with the car she was driving today?

Did he misunderstand that she was in cahoots with Liang's father and wanted to harm him?

She wanted to ask these questions in person and get a clear explanation.

“Miss Gu,” however, the person who came to see her was Lin Zhibai’s assistant, “Young Master Lin is busy right now and it’s inconvenient for him to see you. Why don’t you come another day?”

Another day? This isn't something that can be done another day!

"Let him go ahead with his work, I'll wait for him here," Gu Fanyan said.

Her assistant tried to persuade her to leave, but she cut him off first: "Pour me a cup of coffee, no sugar, just a spoonful of milk."

The assistant had no choice but to do as she was told and brought her a cup of coffee.

Lin Zhibai still hadn't appeared, even after drinking several cups of coffee.

Gu Fanyan called him again, but he couldn't get through.

The assistant didn't approach her again, but just watched her from a distance, like a statue.

Give her the cold shoulder and let her leave on her own.

Actually, they were quite anxious. They could imagine how happy Young Master Lin would be if he knew that Miss Gu had come.

But now they all have to listen to the old lady!

Mo Jiao went into Lin's mother's room again. "Madam, Miss Gu has been waiting on the first floor for 5 hours."

Lin's mother put down her teacup. "Do you think I'm being too heartless?"

"I wouldn't dare," Mo Jiao said, bowing her head. "The Lin and Gu families have very deep business collaborations and personal relationships..."

Lin's mother smiled, unconcerned. "That year, my son planned to marry Gu Fanyan. Our Lin family showed our utmost sincerity. Gu Fanyan said she couldn't have children, but we didn't mind."

"In just three years, she quietly got married and had a child."

"Do you think it's the Lin family that's disrespecting the Gu family, or the Gu family that's disrespecting the Lin family?"

Mo Jiao hadn't expected such a past event. "Madam, I'll go out now."

Lin's mother stopped her and instructed, "Have Zhibai's assistant tell Gu Fanyan that she can leave now, Zhibai doesn't want to see her."

Soon, Lin Zhibai's assistant said these words to Gu Fanyan.

Gu Fanyan was slightly taken aback, her face turning pale, but she remained calm: "I'll wait here. He can just say so whenever he wants to see me."

The assistant sighed, "Miss Gu, there are some things I may not be able to say..."

Gu Fanyan looked at him and said, "Go ahead and tell me. I'm not that easily angered."

The assistant took a deep breath: "We were all very worried after Young Master Lin went out today. If anything happens to him, we are prepared to pay with our lives."

Gu Fanyan was taken aback by the surprise.

Gu Fanyan felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, and her legs suddenly lost all strength, causing her to collapse onto the sofa.

“Miss Gu…” The assistant quickly helped her up.

Gu Fanyan waved her hand, indicating that she was fine. "You mean..." she began with difficulty, "you know that my car has been tampered with?"

The assistant nodded. "We found it yesterday."

She understood; his strange reactions after getting in the car all made sense now.

Sure enough, he thought she was in cahoots with the Liang family to repay him.

"If he knew that, why did he still get on the bus?" Gu Fanyan asked.

The assistant sighed deeply: "Before Young Master Lin left, we all tried to persuade him not to go... but he said that if he really died at your hands, he would accept it."

“Miss Gu, our Young Master Lin has always been devoted to you and that has never changed.”

"No one can predict matters of the heart, but at least don't hurt him..."

“I hurt him…” Gu Fanyan didn’t understand, “Why do you say I hurt him?”

It was he who made her leave alone at the airport.

“Miss Gu, you are aware of the situation the Lin family was in three years ago,” the assistant said. “Young Master Lin had no choice.”

"But do you know what kind of life Young Master Lin has been living these past three years!"