Lin Zhibai curled her lip in disdain and walked past him, saying, "Mind your own business."
Gu Zheng watched him walk into the office, a cold smile playing on his lips.
Lin Zhibai walked into the office and asked his assistant, who was waiting for him, "What brings Gu Zheng here?"
“There are several areas in the ancillary projects that are under the Gu family’s responsibility, and he’s here to coordinate,” the assistant replied, while tidying up various documents on his desk.
Lin Zhibai then asked, "Have you finished the material calculation I asked you to do?"
The assistant nodded, but looked troubled: "Young Master Lin, according to your calculations, the cost is much lower than the budget. What should we do with the extra money?"
Lin Zhibai frowned unhappily: "Have you ever done this before? Why are you asking me such a simple question?"
"Why would I go through all this trouble if not just to make some money?"
"You blockhead, you're asking me what to do with the extra money?"
"I'm firing you right now!"
The assistant was severely berated, but fortunately another assistant intervened and allowed him to leave the office first.
Neither of them noticed that a figure had been hiding in a corner outside the office.
Lin Zhibai was still furious and cursed, "Where did you find this guy? Fire him immediately! Also, tell other companies that anyone who dares to hire him is going against me, Lin Zhibai."
The assistant gasped, "Young Master Lin has such a terrible temper."
But he dared not offend them, so he could only nod repeatedly.
Once Lin Zhibai's anger subsided a bit, he braced himself and asked, "Young Master Lin, how should we handle this matter?"
“Go and take care of this for me,” Lin Zhibai said. “I need to see this money in my private account in three days.”
The assistant nodded repeatedly, but couldn't help but complain inwardly.
Is Lin Shao's allowance not enough?
Are they going to squeeze money out of the project?
I don't understand what these young masters are thinking.
"Alright," Lin Zhibai waved his hand, "I'll read through these documents. You can go now."
The assistant left the office, though he was skeptical that the intoxicated Lin Zhibai could actually read the documents.
The office door closed, and Lin Zhibai raised his face, the drunkenness on his face completely gone.
He picked up the documents on the table and examined them carefully, only occasionally glancing at his phone next to him, as if anticipating something.
Suddenly, a phone rang, but it wasn't the cell phone on the table.
He opened the drawer, took out another phone, and his eyes softened: "I've been waiting for you."
"I just got home," came Gu Fanyan's voice from the other end of the line.
The voice made him relax completely. "How's the situation at the hospital today?" he asked.
“Nurse Ren hasn’t contacted me yet,” Gu Fanyan said with some worry. “She has been working for Lin Guangchen for quite some time, so she might not betray him.”
"Let's wait and see." Lin Zhibai didn't believe there was anyone who wasn't greedy for money, especially since Nurse Ren needed money so much.
"Where are you? What's going on?" Gu Fanyan asked.
“Gu Zheng has taken the bait,” Lin Zhibai replied. “I was throwing a tantrum in the office just now, and he was hiding in a corner outside the office.”
"I reckon his next move will be to go find that assistant I fired."
Gu Fanyan was silent for a while before saying, "Do you think our method will succeed?" She was a little unsure.
Lin Zhibai answered without hesitation, "With me here, there won't be any problems."
The claim that the two had a conflict is false.
Back at the hospital, the two secretly discussed it, and Lin Guangchen's intention was clear: he wanted them to fall out.
So the two of them had a falling out, which allowed them to extract Lin Guangchen's true intentions.
Gu Fanyan cheered up: "Then let's keep going. I also trust my intuition; Gu Zheng is definitely involved in this."
"However, when I sent people to investigate Gu Zheng, they found nothing amiss."
"What have you found out?" Lin Zhibai asked.
“He is a very close relative of the Gu family. His upbringing and environment were very ordinary, nothing special.”
"His relationship with Lin Guangchen was somewhat unusual, but it wouldn't have led him to do anything excessive to the Gu family."
Lin Zhibai nodded; what she found was not much different from what he found.
“I will continue to send people to investigate. Sometimes we can’t find them because they are very well hidden. Such people are even more dangerous.”
"Go to sleep early, leave everything else to me."
Gu Fanyan gave a lazy "hmm," her languid voice immediately stirring up countless thoughts in his mind.
"Do you think that if I come to find you now, all my efforts will be in vain?" he asked.
"You absolutely mustn't come," Gu Fanyan immediately stopped her, "unless you want to prolong our acting!"
Lin Zhibai was a little frightened when he heard this.
It has been a full 11 days since their argument at the hospital. He hasn't been able to see her, to bury his face in her thick, beautiful hair, and to enjoy her beauty.
He would rather die than have to go through those 11 days again.
Gu Fanyan stopped talking; the more she said, the more impulsive he would become.
"Lin Zhibai, just bear with it. As long as we get solid evidence that Lin Guangchen and Gu Zheng conspired to scheme against us, we can see each other every day."
Lin Zhibai sighed, "How about I have them arrested and beaten up? I'm not afraid they won't tell the truth."
“What if they really don’t tell?” Gu Fanyan countered. “Then you’ll be the one arrested.”
"Don't overthink it, go to sleep early," she said deliberately, putting on a stern face. "If you don't listen, we won't see each other again next time."
“I’m asleep,” he replied immediately, and then began snoring.
Gu Fanyan smiled, reluctantly hung up the phone, and softly said "Goodnight".
A few days later, it was time for Lin Zhibai to convene a meeting with all the project leaders.
Gu Fanyan also received the message. After having breakfast with her mother in the morning, she prepared to go to Lin Zhibai's company.
At this moment, Nurse Ren walked in, carrying a tray of medicine.
She comes at this time every day to give Gu's mother an intravenous injection and also to give her medicine.
However, today, from the moment she entered the door, she began to give Gu Fanyan meaningful glances.
Gu Fanyan had no choice but to stop.
Nurse Ren put down the medicine tray and said, "Miss Gu, Madam Gu has two more kinds of medicine. Please come with me to the nurses' station to get them."
Gu's mother pointed to her medicine tray: "Don't you have a lot of medicine here?"
Nurse Ren smiled slightly: "These aren't just the medicines for your ward; they belong to other patients."
"Mom, you rest first, I'll go get your medicine."
Gu Fanyan followed Nurse Ren out of the ward and onto the small balcony at the end of the corridor.
The small balcony is located between two walls and has only one entrance/exit, so there's no risk of being eavesdropped on.
Gu Fanyan thought to herself, "This Nurse Ren is so professional in choosing locations, could she have done this kind of thing quite a bit?"
"Miss Gu, Dr. Lin changed the medication prescription today." Nurse Ren said breathlessly, taking out two sheets of paper.
"I've brought yesterday's and today's medication prescriptions so you can see them more clearly and directly."
"I haven't contacted you these past few days because I'm trying to find recent evidence. When it comes to health issues, if too much time has passed, it's no longer accurate to look at the medication used back then!"
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