Chapter 72 Huo Yan's Meeting in the Southern City Dialect
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Huo Yanzhi immediately rejected the idea.
He didn't want things to be that way.
Ruan Yao's smile gradually faded as she keenly sensed the change in Huo Yanzhi's emotions.
What's wrong with him?
Did she say something wrong?
"Huo Yanzhi?" she called out tentatively.
Huo Yanzhi snapped out of his daze, quickly concealing the fleeting gloom and pain in his eyes, but his palms remained icy cold.
"Okay." He reached out and smoothed her wind-blown hair, his voice gentle. "I'll do whatever you say. Just let me know if you change your mind."
"Mmm." Ruan Yao nodded, feeling a sweet warmth in her heart.
Once she has earned 15 billion for Lexing Island and paid off all the debts she owed him in her previous life, she will then consider her own studio.
All she wanted in her life was to love him wholeheartedly, without any burdens.
By the time we got back to the villa, it was completely dark.
The two had finished dinner, and it was still early.
When it was time to go to bed, Ruan Yao changed into her silk slip dress and deliberately lingered in the living room for a long time, drinking water and watching TV, but didn't go back to her room.
She became a statue waiting for her husband.
They were watching to see if Huo Yanzhi would find another excuse to go to the study tonight.
Sure enough, when Huo Yanzhi came out of the bathroom and saw her still lounging on the sofa, he raised an eyebrow almost imperceptibly.
"Why aren't you asleep yet?"
"I'll wait for you to come with me." Ruan Yao winked at him, her voice sweet and soft.
Huo Yanzhi paused in his act of wiping his hair.
He walked up to her, bent down, and placed a goodnight kiss on her forehead.
"I have a meeting to attend, and I might be busy until very late tonight."
His voice was gentle, and his reasons were as impeccable as ever.
"You go to sleep first, don't wait for me."
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the study.
With a soft "bang," the dark door once again separated the two into two different worlds.
Ruan Yao sat alone in the empty living room, staring at the closed door, feeling overwhelmed by frustration and confusion.
She no longer doubts Huo Yanzhi's feelings for her.
If he didn't like her, he wouldn't have done so much for her.
But what is the purpose of his deliberate avoidance?
Does he really have no interest in his own body?
Ruan Yao looked down at herself.
She has curves in all the right places, fair skin, and everything she should have.
Ruan Yao sat on the sofa with her knees drawn up to her chest for a long time, her fingertips sullenly poking at the plush pillow, feeling more and more unwilling to give up.
No, she can't continue to be so passive.
Happiness is something you have to strive for.
She jumped off the sofa, spun around twice, and an idea popped into her head.
She ran into the kitchen, took a box of fresh strawberries from the refrigerator, and poured a glass of warm milk.
Knowing herself and her enemy, she decided not to wrong Huo Yanzhi first, but to see if he was busy with work or deliberately avoiding her.
If she finds out he wasn't even in the meeting, let's see how he tries to explain himself.
Ruan Yao carried the tray and tiptoed to the study door.
The study door was ajar. Ruan Yao was about to follow when she heard clear conversation coming from inside.
He really was in a meeting.
She crept closer and peered through the crack in the door, hesitating slightly.
If I go in now, will it disturb his work?
Huo Yanzhi sat with his back to her behind the large desk, talking to the computer screen.
"...This proposal lacks sufficient data support and is rejected."
"Market expectations are too optimistic; redo it."
His voice was calm and decisive, carrying an unquestionable authority, completely different from when he was alone with her.
Just as she was about to slip away quietly, a middle-aged man's voice rang out in the meeting.
He spoke Chinese, but with a very heavy accent, heavily influenced by southern Chinese, and kept repeating the same word.
No one else in the meeting understood, and there was a few seconds of silence.
"Ya Sao"?
Ruan Yao almost burst out laughing when she heard this word.
As a native of Nancheng, she naturally understood.
The person wasn't referring to "elegant and refined" but rather to "ballast stone" in the southern dialect, meaning something absolutely reliable and dependable.
She was secretly smiling when she heard Huo Yanzhi speak.
"What Mr. Li means is that this project is their 'ballast' and they are very confident in it."
He not only translated the sentence, but also spoke fluently and authentically in the southern dialect with the other party.
His tone and word choice were even more authentic than those of Ruan Yao, a local.
Outside the door, Ruan Yao, holding a tray, stood there completely dumbfounded.
She covered her mouth in shock, her eyes wide with disbelief.
Huo Yanzhi... how come he can speak the Nancheng dialect?
She remembered clearly that in her previous life, after they got married, she had to go back to her hometown in Nancheng, but Huo Yanzhi, contrary to his usual behavior, did not accompany her.
She even asked him if he had never been to Nancheng.
He said he disliked the humid and hot climate of the South and hated the ubiquitous insects there.
His impression on her was that he had never even set foot in the southern part of the city.
But why would someone who has never been to Nancheng speak such authentic Nancheng dialect?
A huge mystery suddenly struck Ruan Yao's heart.
Her mind was a jumbled mess, lost in thought, when the meeting in the study ended.
Before she could decide whether to slip away or go inside, the dark-colored door in front of her was pulled open from the inside.
Huo Yanzhi looked at her, who was standing dumbfounded at the door.
What are you doing standing here?
Ruan Yao was caught red-handed. She lowered her head guiltily, her heart skipping a beat.
Feeling guilty, she instinctively tried to hide the tray behind her back.
"I...I..."
She stammered for a long time, unable to utter a single complete sentence.
Huo Yanzhi looked at her expression, which resembled that of a little animal caught red-handed, and a helpless smile flashed across his eyes.
Didn't I tell you to go to sleep first?
He stepped aside to make way for her to come in.
"Come in."
Ruan Yao then realized what was happening, picked up the tray and went inside, her heart finally settling down a little.
Fortunately, he didn't seem to notice she was eavesdropping.
The study still retained a hint of the serious atmosphere of the meeting, with densely packed data reports on the computer screen.
It seems he really was working just now.
Ruan Yao placed the tray on the corner of the desk, and her initial urge to "catch the adulterer" vanished instantly.
She fidgeted with her fingers, a little embarrassed.
"I saw you were still busy so late, so... so I brought you some food."
She had originally intended to use the excuse of delivering something to confront him, but seeing his exhausted appearance, her little scheme turned into heartache.
"Are you very tired? Why don't you take a break today and get some rest?"
After she finished speaking, she belatedly realized that her words sounded like a suggestion to him to go back to his room and sleep together.
Her cheeks flushed even more intensely, and even the roots of her ears turned a suspicious pink.
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