"We haven't seen each other for so long, can't we sit down and talk?" Gao Yue's voice was calm, his eyes slightly lowered, and his emotions could not be seen.

"Mr. Gao, do you have something to say?" Shi Wenwen pulled her hand back indifferently, "Sorry, my sisters and I have something else to do. Mr. Gao is busy, so I won't disturb you."

Proud like a peacock, with a proud look on her beautiful face, she is even more eye-catching.

Gao Yue's greedy eyes swept towards her, and then disappeared. "Since we've met, why don't you sit down for a while? I just happen to have something to talk to you about."

Shi Wenwen didn’t think there was anything left for them to communicate. It had been so long since they broke up, and it was really a scumbag for him to hold his ex-girlfriend’s hand in front of his current girlfriend.

Being handsome doesn't mean you can tolerate everything.

There was a hint of disgust in Shi Wenwen's eyes.

This disgust stung Gao Yue deeply. He put his empty hands in his pockets and unnoticeably brushed away Hao Yunran's hand on his wrist. He continued, "You've been gone for so long, and you haven't asked about the medicine garden once. Don't you want to know?"

As soon as Shi Wenwen opened her mouth, Gao Yue seemed to have guessed what she would say. He continued, "We signed a contract. Even if we're not together anymore, we're still work partners. We've also settled everything about the Leader brand that you invested in together."

As for settlement, Shi Wenwen naturally thought of parting ways amicably, because his tone indeed expressed such an attitude.

"I don't have time right now." Shi said gently.

Gao Yue immediately said, "Then tomorrow."

Shi Wenwen hesitated for a moment, thinking that she would not be free in a few days, and nodded.

After saying that, she continued to leave with her sisters.

This time Gao Yue did not stop her. He just watched her walk away silently, with an imperceptible tenderness in his eyes.

The first time, it was a woman's intuition that sensed a crisis. This time, it was from Gao Yue. Hao Yunran felt terrible, with a thousand ants gnawing at her heart. She shamelessly clung to Gao Yue's arm and pulled him into the teahouse. "Yue, let's have dinner together tonight, okay?"

"No time." Gao Yue said without thinking.

Hao Yunran acted coquettishly, "We haven't had dinner together for a long time. How about tonight?"

Gao Yue really didn't like the way she was clinging to him, as if there was really something going on between them, and there was no one around who required them to act like they had an intimate relationship.

"You've crossed the line." Gao Yue reminded her coldly, and shook her off without giving her any face.

Hao Yunran couldn't hold back the smile on her face and asked, "Then why did you come here with me?"

Gao Yue said: "It just happened to be needed."

So he was using her? Hao Yunran was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood, "So, you knew Shi Wenwen was out today and that she was in the teahouse, so you just followed my lead and just used me to come see her!"

Hao Yunran spoke in an affirmative tone, her eyes red as she finished speaking.

The relationship between them was limited to cooperation, but she seemed to have forgotten this. Gao Yue didn't want to have any other relationship with her beyond cooperation. He looked at her and responded indifferently, "Yes."

"Gao Yue!"

Although Hao Yunran was very angry, he quickly calmed down after taking a deep breath.

It was she who had been longing for Gao Yue, and Hao Yunran knew this very well. In addition, she was the one who wronged him first by choosing to marry Gao Jinan, so it was also her fault that he was unwilling to accept her easily.

Things have changed, and now she is the one pursuing him.

Hao Yunran figured it out and stopped being angry. He forced a smile on his face again and said, "Yue, I'm busy tonight, so how about we have dinner together tomorrow night?"

She believed that as long as she persisted in pursuing him, she would get him sooner or later.

Hao Yunran is still very confident about this. If a girl pursues a boy, it's easy.

Besides, Shi Wenwen was abandoned by Gao Yue back then, so he must have come just to see if she was doing well. Of course, he would be happy to see that she was not doing well.

However, we still have to be on guard. Who knows, when Shi Wenwen meets Gao Yue tomorrow, a single man and a single woman, will she take the opportunity to seduce Gao Yue?

It would be perfect to move the dinner date to tomorrow night to prevent them from having a tryst at night!

Who would have thought that Gao Yue would still say, "I'm busy."

"Yue..." Hao Yunran showed a pitiful expression.

Gao Yue frowned as he watched, "Hao Yunran, you are not a woman who would act unreasonably. I chose you because you are smart. If you forget who you are, then this cooperation should end now."

Hao Yunran's heart suddenly stopped beating, his face turned pale and he was unable to speak.

She didn't expect Gao Yue to be so ruthless as to end the relationship so easily, not even bothering to pretend. She stood there in shock, unable to react until Gao Yue left.

…

Shi Wenwen and Gao Ruoyi played with each other until dinner in the evening, then dispersed and went home. Shi Wenwen got off the rickshaw with a lot of bags in her hands. When she was almost at the door of her house, she suddenly stopped and looked towards the alley next to her.

There was nothing under the dim street lights.

Maybe she was too tired and her eyesight was dizzy, Shi Wenwen walked into the house carrying the things.

The moment she stepped into the house, Gao Yue, who was hiding on the other side of the corridor, appeared again under the street light. He held a cigarette between his slender fingers and looked at the door of the Shi family in silence.

The cigarette slowly burned out between his fingers until it went out automatically. He seemed to have turned into a statue and remained unmoved.

Until Shu Wang Chai, who was in the shadows of the alley, stepped forward and said reluctantly, "Brother Yue, if you want to see her, otherwise... I'll go call her down."

Gao Yue seemed to come back to his senses after hearing this. The cigarette butt in his hand fell off and he smiled bitterly: "Even if you go and ask her, will she come down?"

Yes, what happened back then was between them, and he was Gao Yue's subordinate. If he called someone else, there might be a chance, but the closer someone was to Gao Yue, the harder it would be to get close to her now.

"What should we do then?" Shu Wang Chai was really worried about the two of them, and still hoped that they could reconcile in the future.

"You go back first." Gao Yue said.

Shu Wang Chai moved his lips, looked at the gate of the Shi family again, and finally swallowed back the words he wanted to say.

Time has tempered Gao Yue into a more mature man. His career has made him more stable, and his temperament seems to have become more stubborn through the hardships.

Shu Wang Chai has always known that Gao Yue is a very opinionated person. He insisted on staying here. Even if they carried him back, he would still come back.

Matters of the heart are hard to judge.

Shu Wang Chai sighed, silently handed the car keys to Gao Yue, and went back first.

After he left, the dim alley seemed even quieter. Gao Yue lit up his second cigarette, took a puff, and slowly exhaled the smoke. Following the swirling smoke, his sight fell in the direction of Shi Wenwen's room on the second floor. This look lasted for another cigarette.

It is long and quiet, as if appreciating a masterpiece.