Under Gu Jingran's gentle gaze, Ye Linchen's stubbornness softened.
She lowered her head and muttered softly, "Okay."
Hearing her agree, Gu Jingran's smile deepened.
He reached out and affectionately pinched the tip of her nose: "That's right."
"At least for now, let's arrange it this way, with my driver picking you up and dropping you off. This way, I can feel more at ease while I'm away on business."
Ye Linchen tilted his head shyly and said half-jokingly, "Then thank you in advance, President Gu."
The address "President Gu" eased the tension between the two considerably.
Ye Linchen's thoughts also shifted from her own affairs to Gu Jingran.
When are you going back to Hong Kong?
Gu Jingran raised his wrist, glanced at the time on his watch, and answered quickly: "I'm taking the late flight tonight."
He lowered his hand and looked back at her face: "We can still have lunch together, and then dinner together."
Ye Linchen's gaze fell on the faint dark circles under his eyes, and he felt a sense of relief.
He took the earliest flight from the port city to come back just to deal with her matter.
Just as things were starting to get going, he had to rush back on the last flight.
All this back-and-forth travel, which consumes both energy and time, is entirely due to myself.
A warm current slowly spread through my heart, dispelling all the gloom of the past few days.
Gu Jingran then took out his wallet from the inside pocket of his suit.
As he pulled out a business card and handed it to Ye Linchen, he said, "Just in case, I've contacted my lawyer, surnamed Zhang."
"If you need legal aid from the police station or for any other matters, just contact them directly."
Ye Linchen reached out and took the business card, looking down at the words "Lawyer Zhang Mingyuan" on it, and solemnly said, "Thank you."
After making the arrangements, Gu Jingran completely relaxed and lazily asked, "What are the plans next?"
Ye Linchen carefully put the business card away, then suddenly leaned over, stretched out her arms, and wrapped them around his neck.
She rested her chin on his shoulder, her voice carrying a hint of coquetry: "Let's keep President Gu company and get some rest."
That's what she said, but the so-called "accompanying" was nothing more than Gu Jingran being pushed into the bedroom to catch up on sleep, while she herself held her lesson preparation books and quietly studied at the dining table in the living room.
Even just being in the same space, listening to Gu Jingran's steady breathing in the bedroom, Ye Linchen felt her heart filled with something called happiness.
Ye Linchen and Gu Jingran's guesses were correct. At this moment, Meng Zihan was sitting on her small bed, looking at herself in the mirror, pondering what kind of excuse she could come up with to ask Gu Yifei out alone and rekindle their past relationship.
During this time, she tried every method she could think of, focusing all her efforts on recuperating her health.
I go to bed early and get up early every day, using methods from my past life to make myself a face mask.
Even when eating, she would deliberately eat half a bowl more, so that her originally thin body would gain some weight.
The face in the mirror was no longer as sallow and withered as when she first came back; her cheeks now had a healthy rosy glow.
If you press your cheek with your fingertips, you can feel the thin layer of soft flesh underneath.
She even went to a small barbershop at the street corner and got a neat student-style haircut, with her bangs obediently sticking to her forehead.
She also used her savings to buy several beautiful new clothes.
Most importantly, it was the makeup skills she had honed in her previous life.
She used a small jar of foundation to apply layer after layer, completely covering the unsightly scar on her forehead.
After this makeover, she looks completely different from her disheveled appearance a while ago.
The face in the mirror returned to its former gentle, innocent, and harmless appearance.
That's exactly what men love.
Meng Zihan tugged at the corners of her mouth in front of the mirror, revealing an innocent and endearing smile that she had practiced many times.
In her opinion, her failure in the last encounter with Gu Yifei was entirely due to her own embarrassing state at the time.
Looking so haggard and disheveled, not to mention Gu Yifei, any man would be heartbroken upon seeing her.
But things are different now.
As long as she appears in front of him with this face, she is 100% confident that she can win back Gu Yifei's heart.
Everything was ready, except for a plausible excuse to invite him out.
Just as he was racking his brains, the bedroom door was pushed open.
Meng Xueyun walked in carrying a cup filled with steaming milk.
She sat down on the edge of the bed, handed the cup to Meng Zihan, and frowned slightly.
"What did the police station call you for yesterday?" she asked grumblingly. "They kept you coming back until the middle of the night."
"The little bit of energy you managed to muster has been completely depleted. Quickly drink this glass of milk while it's still hot."
Meng Zihan held the warm cup, took a sip, and then said softly, "It's about Liu Mingxuan."
"He went to cause trouble for Ye Linchen, and things got so out of hand that Ye Linchen called the police."
"Judging from the situation, Liu Mingxuan is probably going to be locked up this time, and he'll probably get at least a few years in prison."
Upon hearing this, Meng Xueyun immediately pressed, "Then why did the police ask you to go? This has nothing to do with you."
Meng Zihan lowered her eyes, her fingers tracing the side of the cup, her voice even softer: "Liu Mingxuan saw that he couldn't escape, so he tried to drag me down with him."
“He was lying to the police; I was the one who instigated him.”
She pouted, feeling wronged. "Luckily, the police officer was discerning and didn't believe his nonsense, otherwise I wouldn't be able to come back."
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