"Don't answer." Fu Jingchen held Zhou Luo's hand. "It's not convenient to answer during work hours."
Zhou Luo immediately switched his phone to airplane mode.
Neither of them answered the phone, and Zhou Luo started overthinking again.
Could it be that Zhou Luo and Fu Jingchen were in a meeting together? Zhou Luo is just an ordinary HR specialist, how could she be in a meeting with Fu Jingchen?
Rong Bing felt increasingly uneasy; her intuition told her that something was amiss.
Rong Bing opened her phone's contact list, trying to find an employee she could strike up a conversation with.
In the hot spring.
A few minutes later, Zhou Luo turned off airplane mode in case someone from the company came looking for him.
Fu Jingchen rested his chin on the woman's shoulder: "You can block her."
Zhou Luo placed her palm on half of the man's face: "Why block me? We just reconciled. Rong Bing is a paranoid person. I have to keep her around so she won't overthink things."
"Of course I'm not afraid of her. I don't want to cause trouble for myself. If she contacts me, I'll just give her a perfunctory response occasionally." Zhou Luo wasn't ready to confront Rong Bing head-on.
After waiting for an hour without receiving a call back, Rong Bing tried calling again, this time directly to Zhou Luo.
The woman answered: "Bingbing."
With her sharp ears, Rong Bing heard birds chirping on the other end of the phone. There was no way there would be birds chirping at Fu Jingchen's company.
"Aren't you at work?" Rong Bing asked.
Zhou Luoxin's heart leaped into her throat. Had Rong Bing installed surveillance cameras? How did she know she wasn't at work?
"I'm at work, running errands outside," Zhou Luo said.
"Oh, I knew it! There was a bird chirping sound." Rong Bing believed Zhou Luo wouldn't lie since she didn't deny it.
“Yes, I’m out running around. When you called me just now, I was getting a client to sign something,” Zhou Luo continued, following Rong Bing’s lead.
"What do you need me for? I have to go to the next place, I don't have much time," Zhou Luo urged.
Rong Bing's voice suddenly softened: "I...I'm asking you if Jing Chen went to the company today? You're out there, so you probably don't know."
"I went to see him this morning. There's been a lot going on at the company these past few days. Everyone's busy with year-end summaries and making plans for the second half of the year. Didn't you find him? He's probably in a meeting. Try again later." Zhou Luo lied through his teeth.
Fu Jingchen's lips curled up. This woman's lies were so elaborate and convincing.
The man, deliberately being mischievous, suddenly licked the flesh in front of Zhou Luo...
"Ah!" Zhou Luo couldn't help but make a sound. The woman reacted quickly, "Be careful when you walk, you bumped into me."
Rong Bing was about to ask what was wrong when she heard the next sentence.
"Are you alright?" Rong Bing asked.
"Bingbing, I'm hanging up now. I bumped into someone while running and talking on the phone." Zhou Luo said and hung up the phone.
Fu Jingchen increased the pressure of his teeth, rubbing against the woman's skin.
Zhou Luo grabbed his ear: "Fu Jingchen, get off me. Do you know how dangerous that was? Luckily I reacted quickly."
The man released Zhou Luo, his tongue pressed against his cheek with a mischievous grin: "Didn't you manage to cover it up?"
"What if we can't smooth things over? Would it be good for us to know?" Zhou Luo was still in shock, and she was almost sweating.
"It's my fault, hit me." Fu Jingchen grabbed the woman's hand and slapped it against his own leg.
"Alright, stop being naughty. Get dressed, you need to soak your clothes." Zhou Luo pushed Fu Jingchen away.
Rong Bing only remembered after the call was hung up on that she hadn't asked Zhou Luo to tell Fu Jingchen about the news.
Rong Bing immediately sent a message to Zhou Luo: "After returning to the company, I saw that Jing Chen asked him to look at the news."
Zhou Luo squinted at the line of text: "As expected, you've found another excuse to contact me."
"Ignore it," Fu Jingchen said, and put Zhou Luo's phone on silent. "Go back to your room and rest for a while. Don't let anyone disturb us."
——
Lanshan Garden.
Han Yue felt increasingly aggrieved. Once this statement was issued, it would be as if all the blame was placed on her husband.
The woman sat alone in the living room, her wrists clasped in front of her, sulking.
A while later, the phone rang.
After seeing the news, Lao Deng was worried and immediately called to check on him.
"Xiao Han, are you free? I'm outside your neighborhood, is it convenient for you to come down?" Old Deng was carrying a sliced watermelon, ready to help Han Yue cool down.
There were still two hours before she was supposed to pick up her grandson. The nanny was coming over to cook dinner, and since there was nothing else to do at home, she replied, "Okay, I'll be right down."
She just happened to be looking for someone to vent to.
Old Deng waited for ten minutes and then saw Han Yue.
Her face was somber; she was probably unhappy after seeing the news.
"Little Han." Old Deng waved.
"Let's find a place to sit down." Han Yue forced a smile when she saw Lao Deng.
The two went to the square in the neighborhood center.
Old Deng bought an ice cream from the convenience store next door: "Are you feeling hot and bothered? Eat some ice cream to cool down, and there's also watermelon."
Han Yue took the ice cream and took a bite: "You saw the news too? You knew I was in a bad mood, so you came to comfort me?"
"Hmm, Xiao Han, I've heard you mention Lao Fu. I'm on Lao Fu's side this time. No company can guarantee it won't go bankrupt, especially now that the economic climate is so bad. Companies in Tiancheng are going bankrupt every day. Fu's Group only laid off some employees at first, and they even gave them extra compensation. Those people are too wicked." Lao Deng got straight to the point.
There's no doubt about her late husband's character. What angers Han Yue is that her son was threatened into signing an agreement. He and his daughter-in-law are more heartbroken than anyone else, yet those netizens are still criticizing them.
That's so unfair.
“Jing Sheng and Rong Yan must have felt so wronged. Those people know nothing, yet they call them cowards, saying that this is called being magnanimous, and that Fu Jing Sheng is not a man and does not have the courage of Old Fu.” Although Han Yue usually doesn’t give her son a good look, it’s only on the surface. She feels that her son needs to be strictly disciplined.
But others can't insult him like that.
Old Deng frowned: "I was angry when I saw it too. Xiao Han, should I find someone to beat up Lu? I'm not a public figure, and I'm an old man, so no one will pay attention to me."
"Oh, no need. You just need to stay safe. We can't let anyone else get hurt," Han Yue immediately stopped her.
"Isn't this Fu Jingsheng's mother? Auntie, I've seen your picture before?"
Han Yue and Lao Deng were chatting when a few people walked over, stopped, pointed at her, and asked her questions.
"It really is you, Auntie, I didn't expect to run into you here."
"Auntie, do you know why Dr. Song issued that statement? Has your husband really wronged the Lu family?"
...
Han Yue didn't expect to be recognized in such a small neighborhood center. What's more, it's impolite for several strange girls to come up and ask about her deceased husband.
The level of disgust on her face reached its peak.
At this moment, Old Deng stepped forward: "Young ladies, isn't it inappropriate for you to crowd around others like this? And to pry into their private affairs."
"Who are you two...?" One of the girls covered her mouth. "Could it be...could it be that you're Auntie's boyfriend, or that you're already married? Or that you're Fu Jingsheng's stepfather? My god, you two hid it so well..."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Han Yue stood up and shouted.
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