Chapter 26 In Progress
The car drove out of the main road and headed towards a small path lined with sycamore trees.
The weather today is really not very good. It started to drizzle before the car reached its destination, and dense raindrops floated on the car windows.
The "crackling" sound of rain hitting the car window became louder and louder. Yan Sui glanced at the road outside the window and couldn't help frowning.
Lin Jingyang took the time to glance in her direction and said calmly, "We're almost there."
Yan Sui said nothing and nodded slowly.
The car drove along the small road and finally stopped in front of a restaurant called "Yuhexiang".
Yan Sui was about to get out of the car when Lin Jingyang stopped her. He pulled an umbrella from under the door and got out before her. He walked around the front of the car to the passenger seat, opened the door, tilted the umbrella in his hand, and extended his other hand to Yan Sui, saying with a smile, "Please."
Yan Sui's expression froze, but she looked at the hand in front of her and took it, using it to stand up. "Thank you."
Lin Jingyang's car was parked in front of the restaurant's main entrance, and he could walk straight into the room in just a few steps.
As the two entered, a doorman came up to greet them. "Good afternoon, sir and madam, do you have an appointment?"
"My last name is Lin, room 206," Lin Jingyang handed the doorman his car keys. "Please stop the car at the door for me. Thank you."
"Okay, Mr. Lin." The doorman covered the microphone and shouted twice, and soon another receptionist came out from inside.
The receptionist clearly recognized Lin Jingyang and came over to greet them warmly. "Our private room is ready. Please follow me."
"Um."
Yan Sui followed Lin Jingyang quietly. After walking through the corridor, she realized how big the restaurant was.
The entire restaurant is in the style of a Chinese courtyard, with the rockery and flowing water in the middle wrapped in the form of a quadrangle.
"There will be a performance here in a while. You can watch it if you like." Lin Jingyang leaned forward, made room for Yan Sui and introduced her.
Yan Sui had not noticed it just now because of his body blocking it. But after hearing what Lin Jingyang said, Yan Sui discovered that there was a built platform right in front of the rockery.
She had no interest in performing. When she came here, all she could think about was the promise made by the system.
Lin Jingyang stood beside her and introduced the performance to her for a while, but Yan Sui looked around absent-mindedly, wondering what the progress the system was talking about might be.
The private room was on the second floor. After the two of them sat down, the receptionist asked, "Mr. Lin, will we still have the dishes you usually order this time?"
Lin Jingyang waved his hand towards Yan Sui and said, "Please introduce the dishes to this lady."
Yan Sui was stunned and quickly waved her hand: "No need."
"Give it a listen? See if there's anything you like. I don't know your tastes yet."
The receptionist was used to this kind of scene and immediately responded, "Then let me introduce our restaurant's specialties to you, ma'am."
The receptionist spoke at a moderate pace, introducing the food while guiding Yan Sui to look at the menu. Her thoughts were quickly drawn in by the other party.
When Yan Sui looked up from the menu again, she found that Lin Jingyang was looking at her with a smile on his face.
His eyebrows and the corners of his lips were curved together. Although he was staring at her, there was no bad emotion in his eyes, but a hint of warmth.
Being stared at continuously, Yan Sui felt a little embarrassed, which was unusual for her. She closed the menu and handed it to the receptionist: "These are all I need! Sorry for the trouble."
After Yan Sui finished ordering, Lin Jingyang stopped the receptionist and asked for a few more dishes.
As soon as the receptionist left and the door closed, only Yan Sui and Lin Jingyang were left in the box.
There was sandalwood burning in the private room, which Yan Sui noticed as she entered. She felt uncomfortable being alone with her husband, so she had to start a conversation: "Does Mr. Lin like sandalwood?"
Lin Jingyang lazily leaned back in his chair, his elbows resting on the armrests, his fingers supporting his head as he smiled and asked, "Why are you asking that suddenly?"
Yan Sui lowered her eyes and replied, "Nothing. I noticed that there seemed to be a scent of sandalwood in your car, and the compartment here is also fumigated with sandalwood, so I just asked casually."
He chuckled twice and answered irrelevantly: "There is one person who likes it."
Yan Sui was stunned by the unexpected answer.
Lin Jingyang sat up straight, his hands resting on the armrests on both sides: "So I want to try it, does Yan Sui also like sandalwood?"
His eyes were bright and there was still a smile on the corner of his lips, but there was a hint of unknown emotion in his eyes.
Yan Sui suddenly felt a tingling sensation on her scalp and lowered her head to avoid his gaze: "Not bad."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Jingyang suddenly laughed.
The laughter was not loud, but it was particularly obvious in this quiet box.
Yan Sui subconsciously looked up, only to see the other party open his mouth and say two words to her.
"What did you say?"
Lin Jingyang shrugged: "Nothing."
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After the meal, Yan Sui discovered that Lin Jingyang was always staring at her and smiling. From the time they met until now, whenever their eyes met, he always had a smile on his face.
Although his behavior was strange, there was no malice in his expression.
Considering that Lin Jingyang's favorability bar always rises inexplicably, Yan Sui had a bad guess in her mind - there was also something wrong with Lin Jingyang.
Thinking of this, Yan Sui couldn't help but feel a headache.
After rebirth, the protagonists of both missions had problems. Yu Shuli was, and so was Lin Jingyang.
She had originally thought these two were simple tasks, and that she could follow the timeline of her previous life, using this as a "golden finger" to complete the tasks using the prophet's method. Then, she could focus on her main quest.
But now, each and every one of them is so troublesome.
The more Yan Sui thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. She exerted force with her fingers and the chopsticks in her hand slipped out of her hand.
With a clang, the chopsticks collided with the ceramic bowls on the table. Yan Sui was startled and snapped out of her thoughts.
"What's wrong?" Lin Jingyang asked.
Yan Sui frantically picked up the chopsticks from the table, and in her haste, she accidentally knocked over the bowls of soy sauce and vinegar. The bowls and dishes were overturned, and the dark brown soy sauce and vinegar flowed down the table, quickly soaking the entire tablecloth.
Yan Sui was stunned for a moment, then quickly picked up a towel to wipe the stains on the table, her face flushed red: "I'm sorry..."
Lin Jingyang grabbed her wrist, interrupting her. He pulled the sauce-soaked towel from her hand and replaced it with a clean one.
He turned Yan Sui's hand in another direction.
Lin Jingyang lowered her head and wiped the stains on her hands bit by bit with a towel.
He looked focused and wiped it carefully, as if he was treating some rare treasure.
Yan Sui lay motionless, allowing his fingers to be held in her palm. Her eyelashes trembled slightly, concealing the complex emotions in her eyes.
Until all the stains on her hands were gone, only a little bit of water-stained pearly luster remained on her scallion-white fingers.
Lin Jingyang smiled and let go of her hand: "Okay."
Yan Sui withdrew her hand silently without even looking at the other person.
Lin Jingyang didn't seem to mind and turned around to press the call bell for the room. The waiter walked in and pointed at the mess in front of Yan Sui: "The sauce here was accidentally spilled, please clean it up."
"Okay, please wait."
Lin Jingyang tilted his head and asked, "Would you like to sit on my other side? I'll have them bring you a new set of tableware."
Just as he finished speaking, the sound of a pipa came from outside the open window. He smiled and said, "The performance has just started. Sit here, near the window, so you can watch."
Yan Sui nodded, took her bag and sat down on the other side of Lin Jingyang: "Thank you."
"nothing."
Yan Sui's new seat was close to the window. The private room chosen by Lin Jingyang had an excellent location, perhaps the best private room in the entire restaurant. She could see the girl covering her face and singing the pipa next to the rockery downstairs by just turning her head slightly.
Because of the little incident just now, Yan Sui lost her mood to eat. She leaned against the window and listened quietly to the singing of the girls downstairs.
Lin Jingyang stood up and walked to the window. He leaned his hands on the window sill and glanced downstairs. Then he tilted his head and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Yan Sui didn't look up. "Listen to her playing the pipa, it's quite nice."
Lin Jingyang laughed and slowly uttered two words: "Lie."
Just as Yan Sui was about to raise her head to refute, her eyes suddenly stopped when they met the man in the corridor on the left downstairs.
This is Yan Zhaoting.
There was a man standing next to Yan Zhaoting whom she didn't know. The two of them were standing facing each other in the corridor. Their fingers kept fiddling as they spoke, as if they were talking about something.
Yan Sui stared at the two people in the corridor, her fair skin flushed red with excitement. She didn't even hear the people next to her calling her several times, and her attention was completely focused on the downstairs.
When the pipa music ended, the two men in the corridor stopped talking.
After a while, a woman came out of the inner room. At a glance, Yan Sui recognized her as the woman who went shopping with Yan Zhaoting in the mall last time.
She smiled and put her arm around the man's elbow. She said something to the man opposite her. The three of them burst into laughter before turning and walking towards the inner room.
"Yan Sui?" The moment Lin Jingyang grabbed Yan Sui's arm with one hand, she turned her head suddenly, and her eyes were dyed scarlet at some point.
Lin Jingyang was stunned for a moment, and his hand couldn't help but touch Yan Sui's cheek. He pressed his thumb on the corner of her eye and said in a hoarse voice: "What's wrong with you?"
Yan Sui glanced sideways and turned her head to avoid his hand.
Lin Jingyang looked in the direction she had just been looking, and found that there was no one in the corridor there.
There was no sound in the box, but the system's voice rang in Yan Sui's mind:
"Host."
Yan Sui asked in her heart, "You used your authority to predict that Yan Zhaoting would appear here with that woman, right?"
"Yes, host."
Yan Sui slowly calmed down and was thinking about how to get away from Lin Jingyang. When she went downstairs to follow Yan Zhaoting's cheating, the system spoke again: "Host, you are progressing too slowly."
Yan Sui was stunned: "What do you mean?"
"These few photos alone are not enough to prove your father's infidelity. The progress is too slow."
"But I came here—"
"Host," the system interrupted her, "just rely on the person in front of you."
As the system finished speaking, the electric waves in his mind disappeared.
Yan Sui was still pondering the meaning of the system's last sentence when Lin Jingyang leaned over and approached her: "Are you feeling unwell?"
Yan Sui shook her head, turned around and continued to lie by the window to think about the meaning of the system's last sentence.
Faced with her silence, Lin Jingyang was not annoyed. He leaned against the windowsill and watched the performance downstairs with her.
Yan Sui just lay on the windowsill, staring at the corridor over there without saying a word.
For a moment, the only sound in the box was the sound of the pipa coming from downstairs.
After an unknown amount of time, the door to the corridor was pushed open from the inside, and people from the inner room came out one after another.
Yan Sui's grip tightened, and just as she was about to continue reading, the last person who had emerged from the inner room suddenly looked up in the direction of their room. The next second, he raised his hand and waved at them, "Jingyang!"
This greeting scared Yan Sui so much that she broke out in a sweat. She was afraid that the voice would attract Yan Zhaoting's gaze upwards, so she shrank back quickly.
Without the time to pay attention to the surprise of the people around her, Yan Sui had already squatted down and hid under the window sill. Her heart was pounding, as if it would burst out of her body in the next second.
After a while, there was no response to the greeting. She looked up in surprise, but her eyes met a pair of eyes as black as ink.
Lin Jingyang stood there, holding the windowsill with one hand, with his head lowered, looking surprised.
For some reason, the moment Yan Sui met Lin Jingyang's gaze, something seemed to explode in her brain.
A flash of inspiration struck her, and she understood the meaning of the system's words. She also understood why the system asked her to accept Lin Jingyang's invitation.
Without thinking, she suddenly grabbed Lin Jingyang's wrist and said, "Can you do me a favor?"
After asking this question, Yan Sui suddenly felt unsure.
Although Lin Jingyang's favorability has been increasing, they have not met many times after all.
But Yan Sui understood the meaning of the system's words.
Meeting Yan Zhaoting and that woman here this time was definitely more than just a simple meal. Taking photos alone would only give her the most superficial evidence, not enough to force Yan Zhaoting out of the house.
And Lin Jingyang is her only way to get other clues.
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When the man pushed the door open, Yan Sui was sitting upright on the chair she had just been sitting on, while Lin Jingyang was leaning against the window, looking downstairs, wondering what he was thinking.
"So you have guests here?" The man straightened his clothes and pulled out a chair to sit down. "Why would you ask me to come here if you have guests?"
Lin Jingyang smiled, walked over to Yan Sui, and introduced: "This is my friend, Yan Sui."
He glanced sideways at Yan Sui and tilted his head towards the man: "Bian Jin."
Bian Jin was a little surprised, but still stood up and extended his hand towards Yan Sui: "Hello, Bian Jin."
Yan Sui suppressed the excitement in her heart and gently held the front half of Bian Jin's fingers: "I am Yan Sui."
Bian Jin raised his eyebrows: "What a coincidence, the client I met today is also named Yan."
He withdrew his hand and turned to look at Lin Jingyang: "What do you want to talk to me about? You don't want to introduce me to someone, do you?"
Lin Jingyang raised the corners of his lips and nodded his chin slightly towards Yan Sui.
Bian Jin was stunned for a moment and looked over in confusion.
Yan Sui took a deep breath and added, "I am the daughter of your client."
Bian Jin's cheeks twitched, as if he hadn't expected such an answer. "What a coincidence!"
"I'm sorry to bother you with making this special trip. I asked Mr. Lin to find you. I want to ask you some questions."
"What's the problem?"
Yan Sui: "What is your job, sir?"
Bian Jin glanced at Lin Jingyang and saw that he didn't react. He replied, "Work? I'm half an agent now, I guess."
Not knowing Yan Sui, Lin Jingyang also looked at him suspiciously.
Bian Jin scratched his face uncomfortably: "Amateur, amateur."
"Real estate agent?" Yan Sui asked in a low voice.
"Yeah, sort of."
"Did that gentleman just now come to you to buy a house?"
Bian Jin: "Uh, this is considered customer privacy, right?"
The next second, a pack of tissues landed in Bian Jin's arms. He looked up and met Lin Jingyang's gaze.
Bian Jin immediately surrendered: "Okay, okay, I'll tell you what I'm saying."
"Mr. Yan wanted to buy a house abroad from me. He said he was planning to move his family there at the end of the year. He came to our company a while ago and said he wanted a house in Italy. I happened to be there, so I introduced him to several houses I own, but we couldn't agree on the price, so we haven't signed a contract yet. Yesterday, he called me and told me that his wife liked this house and wanted to talk about it, so I made an appointment with him here."
"I talked to them about this house here today, signed the contract, and paid the down payment."
"But I didn't hear them say they had a daughter..."
Bian Jin spoke the second half of the sentence very quietly, but Yan Sui still heard it clearly.
She clenched her fists, her nails digging into her flesh. "Because that's not his wife."
Bian Jin exclaimed, "Ah!" and the atmosphere became a little strange for a moment.
Lin Jingyang was listening on the side. Bian Jin's words and Yan Sui's reaction made him guess what was going on.
His expression grew increasingly gloomy. “Who sent the 100,000 yuan deposit?”
"It seems her name is Ran Shuyi. It's probably the remittance account of the woman next to him!"
Lin Jingyang sneered.
Yan Sui wrote down the three words 'Ran Shuyi', this was probably the woman Yan Zhaoting had an affair with.
Yan Zhaoting has not divorced Sui Yuling yet, so he will not leave any handle on such an important matter.
Thinking of this, Yan Sui asked again: "Did he say when and how to hand over the rest?"
"Probably at the end of next month. They're anxious to get out before the end of the year, so the change of ownership is also urgent."
This time was just after the time Yan Zhaoting planned to trick Sui Yuling into signing the loan. It seemed that he planned to use this loan to buy this house.
"Please organize the information you have about the person who asked you to buy a house and send it to my email!" Lin Jingyang slowly looked at Yan Sui, "Once he has organized it, I will send these clues to you."
"These may be useful to you."
Yan Sui: “…”
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After returning to the company with Bian Jin, he spent the entire afternoon until dark. Lin Jingyang was worried that Yan Sui's family would be worried, so he reminded them of the time.
Yan Zhaoting had too many things, and Bian Jin was not very meticulous in his work, so many things were lost here and there, and now it took him a long time to find them.
He was panting at his workstation and waved his hand, saying, "I'll let someone else sort it out. I'll send it to Jingyang's email when it's done!"
It was already good enough that the other party agreed to provide these evidences. Yan Sui didn't dare to nag him for too long. After thanking him, she got into Lin Jingyang's car and left.
When the car drove back to Huiwan, the street lights on both sides of the road had already been turned on.
After a whole afternoon of worrying about Yan Zhaoting's situation, Yan Sui was a little tired. She slumped over in the passenger seat, staring blankly ahead.
Lin Yangyang glanced at her and said softly, "Have a good rest when you go back! I'll contact you after Bian Jin sends me the documents."
Yan Sui nodded but said nothing.
What the system said was indeed correct. After she came to keep this appointment, things progressed much faster.
After successfully resolving Yan Zhaoting's issue, her body had a moment to breathe, and then she began to think about Lin Jingyang's situation.
In addition to the system's advance prediction of what happened today, it was more thanks to Lin Jingyang's help that she was able to obtain additional clues.
Yan Sui knew very well that if it weren't for Lin Jingyang, Bian Jin would not help her just because of her few words.
In the restaurant box, he sat next to her and let her ask about Bian Jin, which made it clear that he stood behind her.
But why did Lin Jingyang do this?
This question, just like why Lin Jingyang's favorability showed such a strange phenomenon, kept spinning in her mind.
The orange light occasionally fell into the car, illuminating the faces of the two people inside.
Yan Sui exhaled slowly, and her shoulders dropped with the increase of the breath.
As if she had made up her mind, she called out Lin Jingyang's name.
It’s not “Mr. Lin”, it’s “Lin Jingyang”.
"Can you tell me why you are helping me so much?"
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