At the dance, everyone poured out their enthusiasm and sweat, and the party didn't end until midnight.
Lin Xiao said goodbye to Feng Bairan and then left the hotel.
Wei Ruolan caught up with her; she had a great time dancing tonight and had stolen the show.
"Lin Xiao, it's so late, the school dorms are already closed. Why don't you stay at the camphor forest for the night?"
Wei Ruolan tugged at Lin Xiao's arm, then quickly pulled it back.
Lin Xiao paused, his peach-blossom eyes giving Wei Ruolan a deep look.
After a moment of silence, he finally chose to refuse.
"No, I'll just find a hotel to stay in for one night."
"Mr. Lan, it's late. You should go home early and get some rest. Good night."
After saying that, Lin Xiao strode away, heading towards his Maserati without looking back.
Wei Ruolan was stunned.
Mr. Lan?
Why did he call President Lan back?
They were dancing so close just now that she even thought they were in love and just one step away from confessing their feelings. But what's going on now?
Their relationship plummeted from its peak to the ground.
It was as if a thick wall had suddenly appeared between her and him.
But why?
What did she do wrong?
Why did he treat her like that?
Did the Feng family say something to him?
Yes, the Feng family.
Why did the Feng family invite Lin Xiao to the dinner party?
At this moment, driver Lao Yang drove up in a black Bentley Bentayga, rolled down the window, and respectfully said, "Mr. Lan."
Only then did Wei Ruolan get into the back seat of the Bentley, looking completely lost.
Old Yang glanced at Wei Ruolan through the rearview mirror and tentatively asked:
"I just saw Mr. Lin here too. Did you invite him? It's so late, why didn't you invite him to stay at the camphor forest for the night?"
Wei Ruolan had no interest in paying attention to Lao Yang, and only muttered, "No, I didn't invite him."
Old Yang's eyes flickered, seemingly puzzled, but seeing that his boss was in a bad mood, he awkwardly shut up and didn't ask any more questions.
Lin Xiao sat in the car, calming down. He was tired after dancing all night.
He checked his bank card balance: 18,300,000.
If we persevere for a while longer, we'll have saved up 20 million.
A sense of satisfaction from having money welled up inside him.
He then put down his phone, drove to a hotel near Jiangda University, booked a room, washed up, and lay down to rest.
It was already past 1 a.m., the time when the liver meridian is active. Perhaps because it was too noisy at night, Lin Xiao felt a bit thirsty and couldn't fall asleep no matter how much he tossed and turned.
The last time Lin Xiao couldn't sleep was three or four years ago.
The hardest time was right after his parents passed away. He was like a walking corpse, not knowing what he was doing.
He dared not sleep at night, and when he couldn't sleep, he would sit alone by the door of the Feng family's basement, hugging his knees, listening to the chirping of insects outside, staring blankly at the moonlight that couldn't shine in, until he drifted off to sleep without realizing it.
His life became very difficult after that, and he worked several jobs at the same time to earn tuition and living expenses.
He has worked as a restaurant server, a private tutor, and a teacher at a training institution.
He comes through wind and rain, always in a hurry, and is always alone.
At that time, he would occasionally miss that not-so-warm home and his parents who were not very affectionate towards him.
But what's the use of thinking about it?
They're all gone now.
He had no time to think about his deceased parents; he had to try to live.
The sudden diagnosis of uremia by their aunt was like adding insult to injury for the two of them.
For Lin Xiao, his aunt was his only remaining family member in the world.
He was afraid his aunt would die.
He was afraid of death.
To stop himself from overthinking, Lin Xiao started running, running ten kilometers every day, and was able to fall asleep quickly at night.
Why am I having trouble sleeping again tonight?
Lin Xiao sat up irritably, opened a bottle of purified water provided by the hotel, gulped down half of it, sat cross-legged for a while, felt sleepy, lay back down, and slept until dawn.
Since he no longer needed to spend lunch with Bai Youyou, Lin Xiao had more free time in the morning.
He went back to school to change his clothes, and then went to Gulou Hospital to visit his aunt.
I ran into Chu Yingying in ward 505.
The atmosphere wasn't exactly awkward.
Ever since Chu Yingying misunderstood that Lin Xiao and Bai Youyou were together, she was distracted at work and was reprimanded by her supervising doctor Wu Chi. In anger, Chu Yingying fired Wu Chi, and her situation in the nephrology department became awkward.
Wu Chi is a petty and vengeful person. He used his connections to suppress intern Chu Yingying, so no one in the entire nephrology department was willing to mentor her.
Wu Chi once called Chu Yingying to his office and implied that as long as she slept with him, he would forgive her and continue to take her with him, and even put her name on his soon-to-be-published authoritative academic paper, thus sending her to the top.
Chu Yingying refused decisively.
However, not long after, Wu Chi, the chief physician of the nephrology department, was dismissed by Gulou Hospital.
The husband of a newlywed nurse filed a formal complaint against Wu Chi, accusing him of having an improper relationship with his wife and requesting the hospital to take serious action against Wu Chi.
In addition, Wu Chi's wife, who is also a doctor, prepared a 68-page PowerPoint presentation, revealing solid evidence of his infidelity, and then filed for divorce in court, winning custody of their two children.
And so, Wu Chi, the once highly regarded chief physician, lost his reputation, was dismissed from the best tertiary hospital in Jiangcheng, his wife and children left him, and he became an unemployed bum.
He believed that Chu Yingying was behind this, because after he suffered misfortune, Chu Yingying had good luck.
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