Chapter 34 Go Back to Be with Your Mrs. Huo
"I can't bear to leave Sui Sui, so come and see her." Huo Zhizhou's voice was gentle. After speaking, he stood up. His tall and upright figure was extremely imposing. His unfathomable eyes glanced at Jiang Ruan's face before continuing, "Close the doors and windows. I'll be right there."
“You can hurry…” Su Anran’s words were cut short when a clap of thunder suddenly sounded outside, and she screamed, “Ah!”
When she screamed, Jiang Ruan was also scared.
Huo Zhizhou saw through it, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he comforted Su Anran, who was pretending to be scared on the other end of the phone, and hung up the phone after calming her down.
As he was leaving, he noticed that Jiang Ruan was tense, and casually said, "If you're scared, put on your headphones."
"You don't need to worry about this." Jiang Ruan suppressed her fear. "Go back and be with your Mrs. Huo. Don't get in my way here."
As soon as he finished speaking, another bombshell dropped.
Jiang Ruan showed no emotion.
Huo Zhizhou didn't linger any longer. He played with his phone and walked out of the house, which seemed out of place with his status. As he got into his car downstairs, a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the horizon.
Huo Zhizhou subconsciously looked up at the floor where Jiang Ruan was: "Call Su Zhu and find any excuse to ask her to come to Jiang Ruan's place tonight."
"After you delivered the message to the Su family, Miss Su Zhu was tricked by her parents into going abroad," Assistant Jiang answered seriously from the driver's seat. "She probably won't be back tonight."
Huo Zhizhou: "..."
Huo Zhizhou fiddled with his phone, considered it carefully, and then sent a message: "Your mother is afraid of thunder, so go over and sleep next to her later."
Sui Sui saw the message but did not reply.
He can accept that his father is not good to him, but he cannot accept that his father abandons his mother for someone else, even if that person is someone he considers very, very important to him.
"Go to the waterside villa." Huo Zhizhou knew he would do as he was told, so he didn't send any more messages to urge him.
Jiang, Special Assistant: "Yes."
The car sped toward the Waterside Villa.
The thunder on the road grew louder and louder, with one every now and then sounding as if it would tear the sky apart. Huo Zhizhou's handsome brows furrowed, and his fingertips unconsciously swiped through the phone in his hand, his eyes fixed on the chat window labeled "Ruan Ruan".
He didn't send a single message until the car arrived at the waterside villa.
Assistant Jiang opened the door for him, and Huo Zhizhou put away his phone and strode inside, as if the worries in the car were just an illusion.
When Su Anran saw him return, she jumped off the bed and threw herself into his arms, wrapping her arms tightly around his waist: "You're finally back! The thunder was so loud just now."
"Go to bed and sleep, I'll stay with you." Huo Zhizhou gently pulled her hand away.
Su Anran hummed in agreement.
After lying in bed, she bit her lip, hesitating to speak: "Zhizhou."
Huo Zhizhou's refined and handsome face remained unchanged: "What's wrong?"
"Can you come up and hold me while we sleep?" Su Anran asked, holding his hand with a hint of expectation in her voice. "If you hold me, I won't be so scared."
As long as he's willing to share a bed with her.
She'll definitely be able to sleep with him.
Huo Zhizhou didn't respond to her words, but simply tucked the blanket around her and sat by the bed to keep her company.
"You don't want any physical contact with me, do you?" Su Anran sensed his distance from her. "You wouldn't touch me before, and now you don't want to sleep with me."
"Focus on getting better first, then we'll talk about other things." Huo Zhizhou's voice was flat. "Listen to me."
Having said that, Su Anran knew he didn't like her bringing these things up, so she suppressed her emotions and went to sleep.
Anyway, Jiang Ruan has already been kicked out.
One day, she will replace her.
The thunder outside the window was still loud. Su Anran had gradually fallen asleep. Looking at the person on the bed breathing evenly, Huo Zhizhou, sitting in the chair, couldn't help but think of Jiang Ruan, who used to cover herself with the blanket every time there was thunder.
Even though it was hot under the covers and it didn't block out much sound, she still insisted on crawling in every time. Even when he held her while sleeping and covered her ears, she still needed a blanket to cover her to feel safe.
Thinking of this, he took out his phone and sent Sui Sui a message: "How is your mother?"
At this moment, Sui Sui and Jiang Ruan are video chatting with Su Zhu.
She hasn't replied to any of the messages Jiang Ruan sent to Su Zhu since last night. At first, she assumed Su Zhu was catching up on sleep after working all night, so she didn't think much of it, since this kind of thing often happened before.
But now it's been a whole day and night, it's hard not to worry.
Fortunately, the other party answered the video call: "Your call came just in time. My dad just had someone return my phone to me and you called right away."
Jiang Ruan: "?"
Jiang Ruan asked with concern, "Give it back to you?"
"He and my mother teamed up to trick me into coming here, and they took my passport and phone as soon as I got off the plane," Su Zhu cursed, her anger rising. "I never imagined that their collaboration after so many years was actually to get back at me."
Jiang Ruan paused for a moment.
Almost instantly, I knew that this matter might be related to Huo Zhizhou.
"Oh, right, I have something to tell you." Su Zhu changed the subject when she saw that Sui Sui was there, without mentioning Huo Zhizhou.
Jiang Ruan picked up where she left off: "What?"
“I saw someone at the airport who looks a bit like you,” Su Zhu said, sending her a photo she had taken. “Take a look and see if he looks a little like you.”
Break the ginger into smaller pieces.
The person in the photo is wearing an expensive, high-end custom-made suit, is around forty or fifty years old, and is very good-looking.
"Judging from his clothes and demeanor, he's no ordinary person," Su Zhu said, also looking at the photos.
Jiang Ruan nodded: "They do look a little alike, but there are too many people in the world who look alike."
“That’s true.” Su Zhu didn’t delve into it further, but she subconsciously shared some things with her best friend, a habit they had developed together.
At this moment, Su Zhu was unaware that the person in the photo she sent to Jiang Ruan was the same person Huo Zhizhou had asked Gu Shixi to investigate.
It was past ten o'clock when the two finished talking.
Considering that the next day was Saturday and Sui Sui had to go to her martial arts class, Su Zhu didn't chat with Jiang Ruan for too long. By the time the call ended and the thunder outside had gradually stopped, Jiang Ruan hugged Sui Sui, who had come to her room, and they both fell asleep.
The next morning.
Jiang Ruan got up early to make breakfast for Sui Sui. After he finished eating, she took him to the place where he used to learn martial arts before she took a car to the Lu family.
Besides going to class today, she also wanted to test whether her job was truly needed by the Lu family, or whether, as Huo Zhizhou said, it was a job deliberately designed and tailored for her by Huo Sinian.
I arrived at the Lu family's house at a little past 8:40.
As Huo Sinian said, most of the time, besides Xin Xin, there were only servants at home.
It took her about ten minutes to become friends with Xin Xin. After seeing her dance, Xin Xin clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Teacher Jiang, you're amazing!"
"Xin Xin is amazing too," Jiang Ruan said, bending down to praise her. "She's won so many awards at such a young age."
Xin Xin smiled shyly.
Taking this opportunity, Jiang Ruan asked, "Can I ask you a question, teacher?"
Xin Xin, who adored her, replied, "Of course!"
"I see all your ballet awards outside, why did you suddenly want to learn classical dance?" Jiang Ruan spoke gently and asked naturally.
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