"So, with nothing better to do, you’ve decided to check up on my nighttime activities?"
Zuo Fugui:...
Lu Nanchen first teases, leaning back against a chair. He briefly responds to Zuo Fugui, "I’ve got something to do later, too busy to join in on any shenanigans."
"What is it?"
"Setting up a new account at a securities firm." Lu Nanchen replies, his arms crossed.
"Investing in stocks? Why do you need to do that? Your wife is so rich," Zuo Fugui blurts out. He was just short of directly telling Lu Nanchen to be content with living off his wife’s wealth.
The investment projects your wife’s company funds are all in the hundreds of millions. Does Brother Lu really need to trade stocks to supplement his income?
Supplement what income?
Grocery money?
Lu Nanchen:...
After expressing these thoughts, the person on the other end goes quiet as if remembering something.
"Wait, Brother Lu, has something happened recently? Have those people approached you again?" Zuo Fugui asks gravely, a stark contrast to his earlier frivolous tone. His previously teasing demeanor instantly freezes. He is a little annoyed.
Upon confirming Zuo Fugui’s suspicions, Lu Nanchen rubs his brow while thinking back on recent events, "Nothing happened, nobody approached me. Just being cautious."
"If anything happens, tell me and Song Yue immediately." Zuo Fugui instantly replies.
After their conversation, the two men fall silent on their respective ends of the phone line, each lost in their thoughts.
"No, I’m going to talk to Song Yue right now." Zuo Fugui concludes, quickly hanging up the phone. He no longer wants to bother Brother Lu.
Inside the cramped cab, silence descends once again as Lu Nanchen continues to think.
...
Nanshan City.
The night deepens.
After dinner, Yu Ting retreats to her hotel room to review scripts. After digesting and relaxing for a while, she finally heads to the shower.
She enters the bathroom with her clothes at eight and doesn’t come out until nine.
Yu Ting takes her time soaking in the bathtub, her skin spectrum even more radiant and translucent under the light.
Yu Ting’s good skin, born and nurtured, has always been praised by Lu Nanchen.
Feeling thoroughly soaked, Yu Ting dons her bathrobe, loosely tied to modestly cover her exquisite body. Droplets of water still cling to her body and her hair is still wet.
As she walks, Yu Ting dries her hair with a towel. Once her body is almost dry, she changes into her nightgown.
Once fully dressed, she sits back down at the table to continue examining the scripts, intending to select a few at once so she won’t have to worry about it for the next few months.
She reads carefully, but quickly discards some scripts.
This one doesn’t work, it’s too ridiculous! How could the female lead be involved with the biological father of the male lead?
This one isn’t right either; the male lead dies.
...
The more she reads, the more bored she becomes. Yu Ting twists and contorts herself into various positions. After stretching, she reclines against the back of the chair, holding the script high while reading.
...
...
Before she realizes it, Yu Ting starts messaging Lu Nanchen.
[Are you on your way back? Have you finished with work?]
She sends message after message, bored out of her mind. Tossing the script back on the table, she decides to find something else to do.
*Ding dong*
The doorbell suddenly rings multiple times, the urgency of the rapid presses suggestive of some pressing matter.
Sensing she has something to do, Yu Ting quickly leaves her seat and goes to answer the door.
Upon opening the door, she sees a man standing outside and is hit by the smell of fresh showers.
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