Chapter 270 Disappointment at one's own shortcomings
"No, thank you." Huo Zhizhou looked through the closed car window at Jiang Ruan as she walked out the door, his thin lips pursed for a moment before he spoke, "Let's go."
"Since we're already here," Lin Bei didn't want to leave just like that. "Let's at least meet once."
Huo Zhizhou glanced at him.
Lin Bei obediently shut up.
The car was started.
After turning the car around, Lin Bei lowered the window and greeted Jiang Ruan.
Before Jiang Ruan could say thank you, the car had already left her sight, but she vaguely remembered seeing a neatly dressed person sitting in the back seat.
"You stinky dad!" Sui Sui watched the car leave with her. "I just made him angry, and he didn't even come out to say goodbye."
"Is he in the car?" Jiang Ruan asked.
Sui Sui nodded: "Yes."
Jiang Ruan's gaze paused for a moment.
Sui Sui glanced at her out of the corner of her eye, and seeing that she showed no signs of being angry, she suddenly jumped up: "Oh no!"
Jiang Ruan's heart tightened: "What's wrong?"
"The things I brought back from Jingzhou are still in his car." Sui Sui looked anxious and ran outside with her short legs. "I'll go get them."
Jiang Ruan was about to tell him to wait, but he had already run several meters away.
Jiang Ruan chased after him and at the same time made a phone call to Huo Zhizhou.
The other end answered almost instantly: "Hello."
“Sui Sui left something in your car, pull over for a bit.” Jiang Ruan said, noticing the black car still driving ahead. “I’ll come with him to get it.”
Huo Zhizhou didn't think much of it and told Lin Bei, "Pull over."
Lin Bei: "Okay!"
He parked the car in just a few seconds.
After coming to a stop, he deliberately turned around and asked with a grin, "Do you regret not getting out of the car to say hello to Miss Jiang?"
Huo Zhizhou: "..."
"Should I turn the car around and drive back?" Lin Bei was completely unaware that Huo Zhizhou's call was still ongoing. "You can find another excuse to come in and have a cup of tea."
Huo Zhizhou's gaze fell on him, his eyes filled with coldness.
Lin Bei pulled his neck back: "Never mind what I said."
The next second.
The car window was knocked on.
Before Huo Zhizhou could even speak, Lin Bei had already rolled down both the front and rear windows.
"Could you please open the trunk?" Jiang Ruan said to Lin Bei, standing in the middle of the car.
Lin Bei: "?"
Lin Bei: "!!!"
Lin Bei turned around and looked at his boss in disbelief.
Was that phone call Miss Jiang made to the BOSS?
Huo Zhizhou looked at him as if he were a stupid donkey, and amidst his conflicted emotions, he said, "Open the trunk."
"Oh, oh, oh!" Lin Bei reacted quickly and unlocked the trunk.
Things have come to this.
Huo Zhizhou opened the car door and got out. He glanced at Sui Sui, who was rummaging through the trunk, and then his gaze fell on Jiang Ruan.
She pursed her lips, but ultimately didn't say the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
"Miss Jiang," Lin Bei greeted her as he came down.
Jiang Ruan glanced sideways and said, "Mm."
"It's already past 11:30. Is it convenient for me to come to your house for a meal?" Lin Bei's mind was full of thoughts of getting her and Huo Zhizhou back together, so he lied without thinking, "I haven't eaten since this morning, and I'm a little hungry."
Jiang Ruan glanced at Sui Sui, then turned her gaze to Huo Zhizhou.
Before he could even speak, Huo Zhizhou said, "There's a dinner party later, forgot?"
"Where..." Lin Bei swallowed the words he was about to say because of Huo Zhizhou's gaze. "There was a dinner party, look at my memory!"
"Where is the dinner party? You said this morning you were going on a business trip abroad tomorrow and wouldn't be able to take me with you." Sui Sui hugged a small box to her arms and ruthlessly exposed him, "Mommy, he lied to you!"
Huo Zhizhou: "..."
The little guy who lets the air out.
Lin Bei privately gave his young master a thumbs up!
"We've cooked dinner at home. If you don't mind, come in and have a bite," Jiang Ruan said casually.
"No, thank you." Huo Zhizhou noticed the aloofness in her eyes and the unwelcoming look in her eyes. "I still have to go to the branch office for an inspection later. You guys take your time eating. I'll be going now."
Lin Bei: "???"
The food was delivered to my door, but I still won't eat it!
Huo Zhizhou ignored all the emotions in his eyes: "Get in the car."
"Okay," Lin Bei said weakly.
After the car had driven some distance, Lin Bei mustered up her courage and said to him, "Boss, what are you thinking? Miss Jiang invited you to dinner and you refused. That's going to easily ruin your image!"
Huo Zhizhou did not answer.
Eating it would really ruin your goodwill.
He understood Jiang Ruan and knew that she had no intention of inviting him to dinner at that time. She only spoke up because Sui Sui was away, and she didn't want him to see their open arguments and conflicts.
The facts were pretty much as he guessed.
Jiang Ruan doesn't want to have much contact with him right now.
Although she was relieved of the suffocating feeling of being forced into a divorce, she hadn't completely let down her guard. She still hoped that they could live their own lives without interfering with each other.
"Is there anything else you haven't taken?" Jiang Ruan asked.
Sui Sui shook her little head: "That's all."
Jiang Ruan took his hand and walked back. She knew that Sui Sui was doing it on purpose, but she didn't call him out on it.
Lin Bei was still pondering, "When did the young master put his things in the trunk? Didn't he not open the trunk when he picked up the car at the airport?"
"It was placed there when it was just opened." Huo Zhizhou knew perfectly well.
Lin Bei: "???"
Lin Bei was first puzzled and shocked, then felt disappointed and frustrated.
The young master has gone to such lengths to help, but the boss is still unmoved. It's driving me crazy!
After that day...
Jiang Ruan and Huo Zhizhou's lives became two parallel lines that never intersected. One learned to stand on her own in Haicheng, while the other lived like a walking corpse in Jingzhou.
As for Sui Sui and Jiang An.
One was engrossed in learning, while the other was busy with something Jiang Ruan was unaware of.
Time flies, and it's already the 5th.
Jiang Ruan had just finished breakfast when she received a call from Qin Mo, who asked her to go to the Qin Group to test her abilities.
Jiang Ruan agreed.
"Once you come and read the mission statement, this matter will be officially accepted," Qin Mo reminded. "During this period, you cannot ask for help from anyone; you can only complete it through your own abilities. The ring that Grandpa gave you will not be of any use."
This is a test of the abilities of the younger generation of the Qin family.
Most of the major families in Haicheng knew about this to some extent.
Not only him and Qin Luofeng, but also the younger generation of other families in Haicheng, this was a test of pure personal ability.
"I know." Jiang Ruan had prepared for this long ago.
"You can study with your aunt for a while longer." Qin Mo knew that she hadn't learned these things since she was a child, and she also knew that this test was too difficult for her.
"No need," Jiang Ruan refused. Those thirty-odd days and nights of cooling off hadn't been for nothing. "I'm coming now."
Qin Mo's voice was somewhat cold: "Okay."
Jiang Ruan hung up the phone and took Mo Mo there.
She had barely arrived at the Qin Group when someone sent Qin Luofeng a message about her whereabouts: "[Jiang Ruan went to the Qin Group.]"
Qin Luofeng replied with three words: 【Understood.】
After sending the message, he pulled up his contacts and made a call, his eyes full of anticipation for the show to begin: "You can publish what I asked you to report before. Make sure as many people as possible see it."
The other person replied, "Okay."
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