After a short nap, Shi Jinzhe and Shehe took the earliest flight back to their familiar city the next morning.
The ornamental trees in the green space have already sprouted new buds, and Cheng's driver was waiting at the airport entrance early in the morning.
The driver opened the car door for Shi Jinzhe: "Mr. Cheng tells us to wait for you and Miss She at the airport or high-speed rail station every day. He always talks about it in front of others when you're not around."
"Are you just nagging about how to spy on your son's nightlife?" Sheikh retorted coldly.
The driver could only manage a wry laugh after being rebuked.
“He’s just here to carry out a mission, forget it.” Shi Jinzhe played the good cop/bad cop with her and said to the driver, “Drive quietly, I’ll take it as you’ve completed your mission of saying nice things.”
The driver didn't say anything more, and remained quiet while driving the two of them when they arrived at their destination.
Cheng Yun stood at the door with a gentle smile, as if the events of ten days ago had never happened.
The evaporated market value and plummeting stock price were all weighed on his mind.
"It's good that you're back. Come to the company with me this afternoon."
It's time to make a comeback and reconnect with the past.
After lunch, he gave Shekh a thicker dress to change into.
It's still chilly in the north in early spring, so you need to wear an extra layer. After getting her dressed, Shi Jinzhe started changing into her own clothes.
Wearing a black suit, Sheikh noticed that he had a snake-shaped brooch pinned to his chest.
The striking combination of purple diamonds and gold is the only bright color besides the white shirt at the collar, making it instantly noticeable.
Before getting on the bus, Cheng Yun glanced at the brooch and praised its design.
It's better to be completely infatuated with a woman; it's troublesome to be carefree about nothing at all.
As the car drove out of the manor, in the spacious back seat, Sher looked at the scenery and occasionally glanced at his phone, while Cheng Yun remained silent.
The three seemed harmonious yet strangely connected.
Forty minutes later, the car stopped in front of a landmark building.
Shekh looked up: "So this is the Cheng family's building."
She and Shi Jinzhe had passed by him several times in the past when they rode together. He was tall and conspicuous; they could see him from a great distance.
Ignoring the prying eyes of others, she walked in as naturally as if she were entering her own home, listening to the whispers and murmurs behind the walls.
Mr. Cheng has become Mr. Xiao; the person has changed, and so has the surname.
More than half a year has passed, and things have changed.
Those below were completely bewildered, having no idea what Cheng Yun meant by bringing Shi Jinzhe here.
Standing in the elevator, Shi Jinzhe thought about what he had just seen on his phone and guessed what Cheng Yun was up to.
Online public opinion regarding Cheng Youan is shifting in another direction.
He went from being a spoiled rich kid who bullied others to a corrupted person who lived in someone else's home and whose upbringing and morality were distorted.
The Cheng family were the "victims" affected by him; his biological parents were a pitiful couple who never gave up searching for their child.
Cheng Yun is very clever; he knows how to use him and Qiao Huiyun to reverse the negative impact on the brand image.
Especially his image.
A good man who lost his son and whose wife had been mentally ill for twenty years, yet never cheated on his wife and remained chaste.
Especially when this good man is rich, handsome, and has raised a praised adopted son, in the eyes of the general public who are unaware of the truth, he is a deeply affectionate business tycoon with a tragic side.
To reinforce this contrast, Cheng Yun even had "uninformed people" dig out several charity projects he had been in charge of last year, as evidence that the Cheng family was doing good deeds.
With such good deeds preceding them, many people assumed that this wasn't a post-hoc remedy, but rather that the Cheng family was genuinely doing good for charity.
Those previous incidents were simply a case of attracting attention when you're successful; they were dirty business competition.
Shi Jinzhe smiled silently, saying, "It's not that complicated; it's all just preparing for the future."
Holding Shekh's hand tightly, he said abruptly, "The elevator ride was a bit long. If you feel dizzy, just say so."
"If you're not feeling well, you can go sit in the lounge for a while." Cheng Yun turned around and glanced at Shekh, then suddenly felt dizzy and fell to the ground.
Her heart, which had suddenly stopped beating, quickly resumed beating, but the assistant beside her was still pale with shock.
Those around him quickly helped Cheng Yun up. He clutched his heart and gasped for breath.
After a moment, he looked at Shi Jinzhe and Shehe and found that Shehe was silent, doing and saying nothing, still disliking him as before.
The slight doubt that had arisen in his heart disappeared. If she came to care about him or did anything else, it would be like trying to hide something obvious.
Cheng Yun instructed his assistant, "Take me to the hospital."
The feeling of being on the verge of death was too real; he was worried about his health and needed to get checked out.
When the test results came back, he only had some minor health problems.
It's not serious, but some people just don't believe it.
The sudden collapse of the group's CEO in front of everyone led many to wonder if Cheng Yun had a health problem.
After all, even the worst biological child will cause grief upon death, and with a wife like that, it's understandable that he would experience some health problems at his age.
Thinking about it this way, those who had been brainwashed online believed that Cheng Yun had been exhausted over the years and that his body had finally given out.
He called Shi Jinzhe back, probably to find a way out for the Cheng family.
As the story spread, some people even came up with ideas on how to arrange Cheng Yun's assets.
Who doesn't love hearing about the secrets of the wealthy? A group of people analyzed it with great expertise, as if he were terminally ill and about to die.
Shi Jinzhe didn't pay much attention to things online. These methods might work to deal with netizens who didn't know the whole story, but they wouldn't work on the board members.
In the following days, he went to the company as usual, but did nothing. He just attended meetings with Cheng Yun, sat there and listened, and came back after half a day.
Shekh can maintain her human form for up to 8 hours at a time, touching her three times a day. As long as she doesn't actively change back, she remains human all day.
When Shi Jinzhe wasn't around, she would sit in the lounge playing Snake on her phone for hours on end, enjoying herself immensely.
night.
Shi Jinzhe propped his face up with his arm and sat on the bed, waiting and waiting.
Electronic snakes are extremely harmful.
Shekh has been glued to his phone since noon, completely absorbed and oblivious to him all day.
Seeing the clock on the wall point to the number eleven, Shi Jinzhe could only helplessly say, "When is this snake in your phone going to sleep?"
"You can go to sleep first, I'm not sleepy yet."
"I need to log into the game tomorrow night, so you should set aside a whole day for me."
"I'm going into the game tomorrow, so I only have one day left to play with snakes."
"Then I only have one day left."
Shi Jin walked down behind her, propped his arms on the back of the sofa, and wondered how long she could play.
Hearing that the snake was blocking the light, Shekh shifted his body slightly to the side, but his arm bumped into a cushion, and his hand jerked, killing the snake.
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