Chapter 32
The three-day sea voyage ended and the Raphael returned to the port in the evening. As soon as they got ashore, Sheng Jinyu was picked up by the driver.
Su He checked with Assistant Fang's schedule for tonight and knew that Sheng Jin would probably stay out and not come back.
He did not follow them, but took a taxi back to Xiaoxie Garden alone. As soon as he entered the gate, he felt a long-lost sense of familiarity.
Sister Ling called the chef to make him some midnight snacks. The pearl fish tank placed in the middle of the living room was flowing with water. Two plump goldfish were swimming among the water plants. The room fragrance that he and Sister Ling had picked out together filled the house with a warm fragrance.
Every place is so familiar.
S037 came forward with his plump, boiled-egg-like body. "Su He, you're back! Welcome home! We haven't seen each other in ages. During the days you were away, Jinzi didn't say a word, and he wouldn't let me talk either. It was so suffocating!"
He patted 037's head and said, "It's okay. I'm back now."
"I heard you were injured. Are you okay?" A crying face appeared on S037's screen.
"I'm fine now. Thank you for your concern." Su He smiled. "By the way, I have something to give you."
“What what!!”
He opened his suitcase and took out the bottle of origami sunflowers that Sasha had given him. There were two sunflowers, one large and one small. Su He took out the smaller one and said, "I'll give this to you, okay?"
After being in this strange world for so long, S037 is the first "person" who can talk to him. Although it is not a person, this intelligent program has indeed accompanied Su He during his lonely years.
He was very grateful to 037 for talking to him. Even though he didn't want to admit it, Su He did have a sense of belonging to this place. When S037 said "Welcome home" for the umpteenth time, Su He was no longer a homeless person for a moment.
S037 made her eyes pop when she saw the origami, giving it a lot of emotional value: "It looks so good! It's so beautiful, Su He, I love your gift so much, thank you! Can you stick it on my head for me?"
Su He immediately got up and ran back to the house. After a while, he took out the double-sided tape and stuck the sunflower on the empty white shell of S037. S037 happily turned around twice on the spot.
While spinning, he hummed a funny tune: "Sunflower~Sunflower~What a beautiful sunflower~"
Before Su He returned to his room after having supper, he asked S037 to leave a light on in the living room. Although Sheng Jinyu had arranged not to come back tonight, there might be emergencies, so he would not enter the room in the dark.
While packing his luggage, the piece of letter that Sheng Jinyu had misunderstood flew out from a compartment and fell to the ground. Su He bent down to pick it up, thought about it, took out his mobile phone and sent a few messages to Sheng Jinyu.
She asked him if the social events were over, if he had eaten, and if he had drunk any alcohol, just like when she was a child and kept asking her grandmother questions, she was very worried.
Perhaps it was because of S037's words that made him feel a little emotional. Ever since his grandmother passed away, it had been a long time since he had anyone he cared about.
In the past, when Su He returned to his rental house, he was greeted only by a cold and dark room. Or rather, it could not be called a home at all, but just a place to stay.
But here, there are people waiting for him to come back, and he also has people to wait for. It is more like a "home" than the rental house before. Sheng Jinyu is not only his host, but also the family he lives with.
Family...people?
Su He suddenly realized that his subconscious had already put Sheng Jinyu in this category, and it had only been a few months...
I don’t know what image he has in Sheng Jinyu’s heart now, and how much weight he holds in it. As long as he insists on not causing trouble for Sheng Jinyu, he shouldn’t have to die.
After the message was sent, there was silence on the other end until Su He fell asleep. Then the phone screen lit up quietly and lit up several times before stopping.
The next day, Assistant Fang sent Sheng Jin and the travel arrangements for the next week. Su He roughly went through them and planned in his mind how to arrange them. If it was just a daily commute to and from the company, there would be no need to prepare too much, and the tolerance rate would be higher.
But three days later, Sheng Jinyu had another travel arrangement, which was to the mountainous area north of Guangzhou City for two days. It seemed that he was going to attend the opening party of some film crew.
For trips like this that require overnight stays, Su He always has to contact the person responsible for arranging hotel accommodation and meals to ensure that the environment and location of the hotel room are comfortable and safe, and that there are no allergenic ingredients on the food and beverage list.
He made arrangements in advance, which saved him a lot of trouble when they set off three days later. Just before departure, Su He was not sure whether he should go, so he asked Sheng Jinyu directly.
Sheng Jinyu had an expression that said, "Do you even need to ask this kind of question?" and without saying a word, he urged him to get in the car.
Su He climbed into the car resignedly.
Compared to the present time when the young master takes him with him wherever he goes, he actually misses the days when he was abandoned and stayed in the villa.
Mount Hewang is a nature reserve, close to the inland, and not as humid and hot as the eastern part facing the coast. It is a good place to escape the summer heat in Guangzhou, where it is summery all year round. It also happened to be a statutory holiday, so it was crowded and lively.
After checking into the hotel, Su He went to the front desk to get the room card prepared by Assistant Fang, and came back to wait for the elevator with Sheng Jin. A group of people came out of the elevator next door. Judging from their attire, they were probably crew members. They passed by behind the two of them while chatting.
The sound is neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough to be heard clearly.
"The leading actress in our drama is called Cai what? Cai Xinmei? Who is she? She's unknown, yet she's already in Director He's drama before she even graduated, and she even has Chen Lan as her supporting role. That's quite a big deal."
"Haven't you heard? The Sheng family invested in her just for her. Even the prince is coming to support her. Who else could they be? A wealthy sponsor!"
"Yes, she's good-looking and has a nice figure. She looks so sexy when she's sleeping. No wonder the prince likes her..."
The crew has always been a gathering place for gossip. Whenever a dog comes, a romantic affair will be made up. However, Su He felt that the name Cai Xinmei sounded familiar. After thinking about it, he found that he had heard the name of Miss Cai on the phone.
That day, Sheng Jin didn't even go home after getting off the boat at Qingshui Port. The person he went directly to meet was Miss Cai. He had heard about it on the phone with Special Assistant Fang.
Su He tilted his head to look at Sheng Jinyu. The person who was being framed seemed calm and composed, as if the gossip he heard was not about him.
After entering the elevator, Su He saw Sheng Jinyu pick up his cell phone and dial a number. With a tone of disgust and intimidation, he reported a few names.
Then he said coldly, "There are definitely more people with dirty mouths than just these people. Just check the elevator security camera and sue them for defamation. Put them in jail for a few days, and then post the verdict in the hotel lobby."
Su He knew that Sheng Jinyu could definitely do what he said casually with his power.
Although this act of killing the chicken to scare the monkey cannot shut everyone up, anyone who plots it again will have to consider the consequences.
After hanging up the phone, Sheng Jinyu said to Su He, "I have something to go out this afternoon, so you don't have to follow me."
Su He asked without thinking: "Are you going to see Miss Cai?"
He seldom asked about Sheng Jinyu's private affairs before, and even avoided them on purpose, fearing that Sheng Jinyu would find a way to suspect him of bad intentions, so this accidental question seemed particularly special.
Sure enough, Sheng Jinyu turned around with a frown and said, "You weren't this curious before... Do you think what they said is true?"
"No, I'm just asking."
Su He lowered his head and stopped asking. In fact, he didn't particularly want to know, and he didn't know why he was asking. By the time he realized what was going on, he had already asked.
He would not have been like this before, but at that moment, he became extremely curious about the relationship between Cai Xinmei and Sheng Jinyu.
After the impulse passed, Su He retracted his unconscious tentacles and honestly became the "Assistant Su" who knew his limits and when to advance and retreat.
The elevator arrived quickly. The two of them were not in the same room. They said goodbye at the door. Sheng Jinyu didn't say much, just said, "I'll be back tonight."
Su He said "Oh", quickly returned to his room, and began to deal with the email sent by the publishing house regarding the final edition.
The whole afternoon was wasted like this. When he looked up again, it was already dark outside the window. There was a WeChat message from Sheng Jinyu on his phone, asking him to order food and have it delivered to his room for him to eat when he got home.
Su He stretched and immediately called the hotel's service hotline. He had already decided on the dishes in advance, so he didn't have to spend time choosing.
The hotel is very efficient. The food was delivered within ten minutes. Su He worked with the waiter to place the plates on the table and began to process the ingredients that needed secondary processing.
As a result, Assistant Fang called and made Su He's efforts in vain, saying that Sheng Jinyu was temporarily delayed by something and could not come back at the moment.
Su He was not angry, but he was a little hungry after being busy for a while, so he definitely couldn't touch the food on the table.
He simply took his room card and went downstairs to find something to eat. After eating and drinking his fill, he came back for a nice walk and began to doze off on the chair. It turned out to be retribution for staying up late to write the manuscript last night. His sleep deprivation and the full stomach made him feel sleepy.
Su He fell asleep on the dining table.
He slept so soundly that he didn't even notice Sheng Jinyu had returned.
"This quarter is almost over. Tell them to hurry up and get it ready for me as soon as possible..."
Sheng Jinyu passed the entrance hall and the sensor lights lit up one by one. As he walked into the living room, his steps and mouth paused, and he stared blankly in the direction of the dining room.
The restaurant area was dimly lit with only a small lamp on top of the table for illumination.
Su He curled up in the light area, his head resting on his arms like a kitten, and seemed to be sleeping soundly.
Next to him, a dazzling array of dishes was laid out. The soup was served in bowls, the pigeon meat was meticulously separated from the bones, and the fruit after the meal was cut into bite-sized pieces...
But it was obvious that it had all gone cold, and it looked so deserted, like someone who had carefully prepared a dinner but was unable to enjoy it.
The person I didn’t wait for was Sheng Jin and myself.
Didn’t I already tell him that I wouldn’t be coming back? Why are you still waiting here?
A sudden feeling of annoyance filled my heart, and the scene before me became even more glaring. Sheng Jinyu said briefly into the phone, "That's it."
He hung up the phone, walked over and patted Su He's shoulder. After patting him several times, Su He woke up from his daze: "Sheng Jinyu? You're back. Have you eaten?"
The person in front of me didn't even open his eyes, and I didn't know if anyone could see him clearly, but I started to worry about whether he was still hungry.
Plop~plop~
Somewhere in Sheng Jin's heart, without him even noticing, was grabbed fiercely.
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