Soon Fu Huaiyi brought over a few books and asked Lin Yuyao to help with the registration.

When he saw her looking down at the book title, he asked her, "I heard that Lu Jiangting went out yesterday. Did he look for you?"

Lin Yuyao paused and nodded slightly, "Yes."

Fu Huaiyi took a breath, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay. I hid in my next-door neighbor's house. There are two girls living next door to me. They work in a nearby factory."

Just a few simple words made Fu Huaiyi's heart clench.

If the neighbor next door hadn't helped her, would Lu Jiangting have been violent towards her?

Although having sex against a woman's will is a crime, it is difficult to determine whether it is voluntary in a marital relationship.

He endured it again and again, and tried to speak in a calm tone: "You don't need to live there anymore, you can live here."

Lin Yuyao was stunned for a moment and looked up at him.

Fu Huaiyi said, "There is a storage room in the attic. I'll talk to my boss and ask her to clean it up and let you live there temporarily. You can find a house after you get your salary this month."

Lin Yuyao thought about it and finally refused.

She had already caused a lot of trouble for them. Even if he had offended their family when he didn't understand the situation clearly, he had helped her so much and she had paid it back.

"No, I can take care of myself. I... I'm not afraid of him." Lin Yuyao bit her lip and said firmly.

Fu Huaiyi thought that her puffed-up cheeks looked both coquettish and funny; she looked pretty no matter how you looked at her.

He still knew what she was thinking.

She didn't want to cause herself any more trouble.

If it were someone else who was so disobedient, he would definitely use tough measures to force the other person to obey.

But she was different, and he didn't want to embarrass her.

"All right."

Still can't be too impatient.

Since she was unwilling to move out, he could only find ways to cause more trouble for Lu Jiangting.

"Then be careful."

Lin Yuyao had registered and helped him pack the book and handed it to him. "I will, thank you."

Fu Huaiyi took the bag and didn't leave.

Lin Yuyao asked, "Brother Fu, is there anything else?"

Fu Huaiyi took a deep breath and said, "It's almost noon, how about we have a meal together?"

ah?

She agreed to share the meal with Zhou Jing and the others. The three girls could order two servings so they could save the money for one.

I have already told them everything.

Fu Huaiyi saw her hesitation and was considering how to deal with the matter when Yi Yunshuo arrived.

"Hey, Ayi, are you still here?"

Yi Yunshuo trotted in and was a little surprised to see Lin Yuyao, "Hey, Comrade Xiaolin, why are you here?"

Lin Yuyao said, "I work here."

"Ah? You work here?" Yi Yunshuo touched his chin and kept brushing his eyebrows at her and Fu Huaiyi's faces.

Fu Huaiyi grabbed him and said, "What are you looking at? Let's go and have dinner."

He directly pulled Yi Yunshuo away without even mentioning inviting Lin Yuyao to dinner.

Lin Yuyao also breathed a sigh of relief.

Fu Huaiyi took Yi Yunshuo to the restaurant across the street and ordered a few dishes at random.

Yi Yunshuo was full of doubts, but he didn't dare to ask.

Pointing at his book, he said, "Why are you reading novels?"

"I have nothing to do, so I just took a look."

Um?

"We are very free recently? We are almost busy."

Fu Huaiyi stared at him coldly.

Yi Yunshuo shrank his neck and said, "Well, I'm really busy these days, so you might be the only one who has time."

The food came, but it didn't stop him from talking.

"Why did Comrade Xiaolin come to work at Sister Le Yi's bookstore?"

"have no idea."

"Huh? You don't know either? Did you just run into her by chance?"

Fu Huaiyi said nothing and just lowered his head to eat.

Yi Yunshuo took this as his consent.

He sighed, "What a coincidence."

"Oh, by the way, Lu Jiangting knows about this, right?"

He hoped that Lu Jiangting would come here to disturb her, so he said, "I just asked her, and she said she didn't know, and told me not to say anything."

Um?

"Why?"

"How should I know? Ask her."

"That... forget it. I respect people's privacy."

That's what he said, but he asked again while eating, "Hey, you said she came here to work but didn't let Lu Jiangting know, what does that mean?"

"I don't know." Fu Huaiyi said lightly.

“Can I ask her about this?”

Fu Huaiyi's face darkened, "Didn't you just say that you should respect other people's privacy?"

Yi Yunshuo: “…”

"Yeah, that's a bit embarrassing to ask, so forget it."

"Oh, that's right..."

Before he could finish his words, he met Fu Huaiyi's cold eyes.

Yi Yunshuo shrank his neck and said, "Forget it, let's eat first."

He always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know how to ask.

…

Lu Jiangting felt extremely insecure and always felt that something was out of his control.

I had just finished an outbound communications assignment today and had just returned when I suddenly received a call from Fang Qing.

He didn't feel anything when receiving calls from Fang Qing before, but now, because of Lin Yuyao's disturbance, he suddenly felt a little scared when he heard the word "Fang Qing".

He was afraid that he would be asked to help with something again, but Yuyao would not be willing to do so and would get angry.

However, thinking about the fact that Wang Jianjun had saved his life, his complex sense of morality made it impossible for him to refuse.

"Hey."

The call was connected, and Fang Qing's crying voice came from the other end.

"Jiang Ting, Jiang Ting, I...I seem to have met a gangster, what should I do?"

Lu Jiangting's heart skipped a beat. "How did I run into a gangster?"

"A man came to my salon to get his hair washed every two or three days. He kept complaining that it itched here and there, and pointed at his head, pretending to touch my hand casually.

I didn’t take it seriously before, thinking it was just a coincidence, but today when he suddenly held my hand while we were washing, I realized he had been doing it on purpose.”

Lu Jiangting's heart suddenly tightened. He asked angrily and worriedly, "Have you reported it to the police?"

"No, I wouldn't dare to do such a thing. I don't know how people would look at me if I made a scene."

"So how did you handle it?"

“I…I endured it.”

Lu Jiangting: "..."

"It's not a big deal if I can endure it once, but I'm afraid it will come again in a few days. What should I do?"

Lu Jiangting didn't know what to do for a moment.

Fang Qing added, "He heard that my husband was dead and that I was a widow, so he dared to treat me like this. But... wuwu, if only Jianjun was still alive."

These words made Lu Jiangting feel extremely guilty.

Yes, it would be great if Wang Jianjun were still alive.

He is his best friend, they went to college together and were assigned here together after graduation.

He and Wang Jianjun are the best, followed by Fu Huaiyi and Yi Yunshuo.

Unfortunately, during that battlefield mission, they were ambushed while taking the risk to lay cables and install signal towers.

Wang Jianjun died, but he survived.

When he thought about his wife and young children waiting for him to return, Lu Jiangting felt so sad that he wished he could die in his place.

Unfortunately... everything is a foregone conclusion.