Gou An called Chen Jinli and invited him to return to the institute.

Then, in order to avoid any accidents, she closed the door of the basement, moved a small stool to stand on it, and leaned out of the only window in the basement, looking out eagerly -

The main thing is to see who arrives first, Chen Jinli or He Jinxing.

The tip of her nose was almost deformed by the pressure on the glass, and her neck was almost broken. Finally, seventeen minutes later, she saw a black Aventador very rudely crawling in from under the landing gear of the Ocean Research Institute, doing a beautiful drift, and stopping sideways in front of the empty entrance of the institute.

When the security guard rushed out of the security room in amazement, Gou An also stared in amazement at the strange car she had never seen before, thinking: It's over.

Then the car door opened, and Gou An saw the most handsome man in the world, He Jinxing, getting out of the car.

The man probably hung up the phone and went straight down from the office to the basement and got in the car. He was only wearing a shirt in the middle of winter without a coat. At this moment, he reached out and tugged at his tie. The moment he frowned slightly and turned his head, Gou An heard the sound of herself swallowing saliva: the scene in "Goblin" where Gong Yoo and Lee Dong Wook walked out of the tunnel would have to move a little further back in her life's heart-thrilling rankings from now on. After all, the first place would be reserved for her dear fiancé.

When He Jinxing walked into the research institute, Gou An had already jumped off the chair, opened the door of the basement and ran out -

So He Jinxing embraced his most passionate fiancée ever in his cold arms from a distance. The little girl rushed into his arms like an angry bird and hugged his waist tightly.

"I didn't even know you had a Lamborghini."

"I don't usually open it, but you said I wanted it to be quick."

The answer without thinking made Gou An stunned for two seconds. If the female counterpart also had a friendly relationship with the male protagonist, then the male protagonist now...

The points are increasing like crazy.

She tightened her arms around the man's thin waist. She was speechless and her mind was filled with: Thank you for the invitation. I love you. I love you.

The short distance from getting off the car to going up the stairs to the institute was enough to make He Jinxing's hands, who were thinly dressed, become cold. While responding to Gou An's words, he confidently put his cold hands into her neck...

It was warm indeed.

Gou An shrank his neck because of the cold, then he peeled himself off the man's arms and looked up at him.

The almond-shaped pupils were blingbling at this time, and they easily kidnapped He Jinxing morally. He scratched the soft cheek of the person in his arms with one finger and asked, "What's going on?"

In an instant, I returned to reality from the heartwarming romance drama.

He Jinxing found that the Blingbling looking at him disappeared in an instant.

"...Did you know that Chen Jinli's white-tip shark recently gave birth to two cubs?" Gou An paused, "He almost lived in the research institute for these two cubs."

He Jinxing thought for a moment and said, "I know."

Gou An said, "Oh!", "Just now, one died."

He Jinxing: “…” The calmness on He Jinxing’s face broke for a second.

He Jinxing: "Did you kill him?"

If I remember correctly, today is Gou An's first day reporting to the research institute.

Gou An shook her head and briefly explained the course of events, emphasizing that she knew that based on the content of the temporary job she applied for and Chen Jinli's attitude when assigning tasks, the job of raising fish should have been assigned to her on a one-to-one basis...

but--

These two fish were unlucky. As fate would have it, they finally fell into the hands of Lu Wan, the unlucky one.

Lu Wan killed the fish.

It probably wasn't intentional, but she is definitely involved.

"So, where is she?"

"I guess he was scared to death and ran away."

He Jinxing raised his eyebrows and Gou An shrugged.

While the two were talking, Gou An dragged He Jinxing down to the basement and invited him to take a look at the body of the deceased Fishbaby No. 1.

The man stretched his head to take a look, but his gaze did not stay on the body of No. 1 for too long. He just said, "From my layman's perspective, the remaining one does not look good either."

"It's really not good. The fish's life is at stake. I'm afraid of wasting time. I called Chen Jinli. I don't know why I felt like turning myself in."

“…”

"He should be on his way back too, that's why I asked you to come quickly."

Gou An also came over and looked at the lone fish in the fish tank, swimming restlessly with its nutrient bag. "The main thing is that I don't know what Lu Wan did, so I don't dare to act rashly."

"Why did she want to run away?"

"Remember my cat? It's just history repeating itself. She's used to it." Gou An was too lazy to say more. "Now we have to hurry up and check the surveillance."

"'We'? I'm not a police officer. I don't have to manage surveillance. Just let Chen Jinli come back. He has the most authority in the institute... Why are you so anxious to call me here?"

Hearing He Jinxing's confused tone, Gou An showed a shy face and raised her hand to gently touch her fiancé's chest lovingly.

"The whole purpose of your being here is to stop Chen Jinli from losing his mind the second he sees his son's body, killing me without knowing the truth or even checking the surveillance video."

“…”

"Have you ever heard of collective punishment or venting anger on others?"

“…”

In the man's silence, Gou An clasped his hands together devoutly.

"If you can act as a sedative and calm Chen Jinli down so that he doesn't take his anger out on an innocent person like me, then the rest of this matter -"

He Jinxing asked: "How is it?"

Gou An pursed his lips, revealing a contradictory expression as if he wanted to smile but didn't dare to, similar to the expression "It's a bit too early to be happy now, I'm afraid it's just a flag."

“Although I feel really sorry for the innocent and premature death of Fish Cub No. 1, right now, I am actually vaguely worried about what might happen in the rest of the follow-up.”

"?"

"There was a voice shouting frantically: Lu Wan is going to be in big trouble, I'm going to have a New Year's Eve."

As he spoke, the corners of his lips were already rising wildly.

He Jinxing remained silent.

"You really don't want to even try to hide your little thoughts."

He Jinxing thought about it and started bargaining.

"Then call me again."

"What?"

"That one just now."

“…”

oh.

The panicked address suddenly changed.

He lived in peace with an expressionless face and dug his toes into the ground with an expressionless face.

"No."

"Hmm? Fine. I'm leaving."

"?"

“…”

This devil.

When He Jinxing took out his cell phone to call Chen Jinli, asking him where he was and telling him mysteriously that he had something to discuss with him, Gou An reached out from the side and grabbed his ear.

The man leaned towards her cooperatively while talking on the phone, and then he felt her come close to his ear and call out the name again in a mosquito-like voice.

The corners of his lips curled up silently, and even the tone of his voice changed. Chen Jinli on the other end of the phone asked coldly, "What do you mean? Gou An also asked me to go back quickly. Is there something good?"

For a moment I felt guilty.

He Jinxing dropped his cheerful tone and said seriously, "No, it's nothing good. And you'd better really hurry up."

Chen Jinli returned to the research institute and was told to go to the basement after parking his car. At this time, he felt something was not right.

When he went down to the basement, he saw Gou An pulling He Jinxing's sleeve and standing in front of the familiar small fish tank. He walked over and stretched his head to take a look, and there was no sound of even breathing.

Professor Chen, who always seemed quite gentle outside, lost all expression on his face at this moment——

His dark pupils were clearly black and white, like a ghost in the dim basement. He raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows.

If the murderous intent was tangible, Gou An would have been torn into pieces by now.

She wanted to say something, but Chen Jinli didn't give her the chance. He had barely even caught his breath when he ran over from the parking lot. He had already taken off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, and started a series of swift and decisive actions.

Add medicine, salt, prepare the new seawater tank, warm up the water, and transfer the fish to the tank, all in one go.

In addition to the time when he carried the new tank over, the tank fell on the open ground and was slammed by him with a loud noise; a stool blocked his way and was kicked three meters away; the sea salt was placed in the cabinet, and when he took it out, the cabinet door was slammed and almost fell off...

Only the action of scooping the fish out of the tank is gentle.

The only fish that was still able to move was fished out of the slightly turbid water and transferred to the new aquarium. Chen Jinli supported himself on the operating table with both hands and observed the new aquarium for a while.

During this time, no one spoke.

The atmosphere was a bit depressing and scary. Gou An looked at Chen Jinli's silent profile and thought of someone jokingly calling this big guy "White Book Lantern", saying that he was a ghost who could kill people among the scholars in Jiangcheng...

But now, Gou An could sense a little discomfort from his emotionless silence.

Soon, the only fish fry that was transferred to the new seawater tank stopped swimming around aggressively and gradually calmed down, curling up at the bottom of the tank without moving.

Gou An stared with his eyes wide open, trying to observe whether it was still alive. Suddenly, he heard a "pop" sound. Chen Jinli suddenly stood up straight, threw away the fishing net in his hand, and turned around.

She shivered and immediately rushed behind He Jinxing.

Chen Jinli looked at the little girl who almost immediately disappeared behind the man and asked expressionlessly, "Did you find a man or a father?"

"As long as he stands in front of me," Gou An said, "I have no objection if you say he is my ancestor."

Chen Jinli was too lazy to talk nonsense with her. He thought for a moment before asking, "Did Zhou Yutong ask you to retaliate against me?"

“…You have a lot of ideas.”

“…”

“She only got to know about my work at the institute when I went to Jaipur district to collect samples this afternoon.”

"Then please ask the top student in the final score of the sophomore year of the School of Marine Biology of University A to answer me, what happened to the fish?"

Gou An ignored the strong sarcasm in his words: "From the performance signs, it may be a failure of overheating, stress (*fish suddenly change from higher water temperature to lower water temperature or vice versa, resulting in discomfort)... but I'm not sure."

The uncles selling fish at the roadside vegetable market all know this basic knowledge. Chen Jinli sneered loudly: "So, who gave you the courage to change the water for the fish without even asking?"

Gou An finally poked half of his head out from behind He Jinxing and answered quickly: "It wasn't me. I went to collect seawater samples. It was another top student in the grade who replaced it."

Chen Jinli was silent.

He remembered that before he left, the job of looking after the shark cubs was clearly taken away by Gou An.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, He Jinxing grabbed a ruler on the table from a distance, pushed Chen Jinli's chin with one end of the ruler, and forced his face to the side, reminding him: "There is a surveillance camera here, go check it."

Chen Jinli snatched the ruler and threw it away, glaring at him.

The latter smiled guilt-free: "It seems a bit strange for me to pinch your chin and ask you to turn around."

"I need your attention because there is surveillance in my basement?"

"Just a reminder, what's the problem?" He Jinxing said, "You look so angry that you can't think."

Chen Jinli was irritated by his words: "I snatched these two fish back from under the nose of the King of Hell! I watched their shit and piss for half a month! I have done something wrong to hire so many temporary workers——"

"It has nothing to do with her." He Jinxing interrupted him, "Why are you scolding her? Are you punishing her as a whole?"

"This was originally the task assigned to her."

"So she called you right away, otherwise you wouldn't be able to keep both."

“…………Where’s Lu Wan!”

“Run away.”

Chen Jinli kicked the bench that he had just kicked three meters away another three meters.

"Call her back to me!"

Twenty minutes later, in the monitoring room, Gou An saw the whole process.

In the surveillance video, the little white flower heroine was very conscientious. She would hang around the tank of fish every once in a while and make records.

Everything was fine at the beginning. At about four o'clock, Lu Wan stood in front of the fish tank for a long time. I don't know what he was observing. He even turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone to shine on the fish tank.

A moment later, she suddenly used a water-filling utensil to scoop some water from the ocean tank where adult white-tip sharks were raised and put it into the small ocean tank.

Maybe she didn't expect that there was a temperature difference between the two aquariums. Anyway, after adding that scoop of water, almost immediately, the two little sharks that had been sitting quietly became restless.

The different water temperatures made them swim faster. In the surveillance video, Gou An saw with his own eyes that one of them suddenly jumped out of the tank with a jumping ability that surpassed that of the fish fry.

There was silence in the monitoring room. Everyone's pupils were trembling and they all looked at Chen Jinli at the same time.

In the surveillance video, Lu Wan seemed to be frightened silly. He huddled aside and stared at it for a long time before he pounced on the baby fish, grabbed it and threw it back into the tank. Then he stood there blankly with his hands raised, not calling for help or doing anything else. He just watched.

Outside the surveillance camera, Chen Jinli's face now looked no different from that of the King of Hell.

No one dared to speak, so Gou An said, "See? This familiar rhythm... Professor Chen, do you need a glass of red wine?"

He Jinxing raised his hand expressionlessly, covered her mouth, and pressed her into his arms.

Just then, there was a knock on the door of the monitoring room.

Lu Wan, who was very punctual, slowly opened the door. She had already changed her clothes and was probably called over when she got home.

Perhaps she had guessed what had happened, for her long black hair fell down, and when she entered the monitoring room, she was shaking like a sieve, and there was not a trace of blood on her already pale face.

His eyes slid across the faces of everyone present, and everyone had a solemn expression—

Except for Gou An.

The corners of her lips curled up like Doraemon, and she looked at Lu Wan with her eyes shining like stars, and she was just about to say: Happy New Year, and best wishes for prosperity.

(End of this chapter)