"Not yet, but it should be soon." Yu Jiuyuan took out her phone and opened her email. "I had my assistant follow up..."
Before he could finish speaking, his phone suddenly vibrated, and a text message from an unknown number popped up on the screen, containing only a few brief words: "[The Su family has tampered with Yuan Xu's laboratory.]"
Yu Jiuyuan's face instantly darkened.
Xie Zhecheng keenly noticed her change: "What's wrong?"
“Yuan Xu might be in trouble.” Yu Jiuyuan stood up, the chair legs scraping against the floor with a screeching sound. “I have to go to the lab.”
"I'll give you a ride." Xie Zhecheng immediately stood up and picked up his coat from the back of the chair. "The roads in the suburbs are slippery, and my car is better."
As the car drove away from "Cloud Top Pavilion", Yu Jiuyuan was calling Yuan Xu, but all she heard from the receiver was a cold busy tone.
Her fingertips trembled slightly, not from fear, but from anger. The Su family dared to touch the people around her; they were practically challenging her bottom line.
"Don't worry," Xie Zhecheng suddenly spoke, his tone calm. "I've already had the technical department locate Yuan Xu's phone, and I've also contacted the security team near the lab. They should be here within ten minutes."
Yu Jiuyuan turned to look at him. He was focused on driving, his profile appearing exceptionally calm under the streetlights, his fingers moving steadily on the steering wheel as if everything was under control.
In her panic, she hadn't noticed that he had arranged everything in just a few minutes, with the precision of a pre-programmed sequence.
"Thank you," she said softly.
Xie Zhecheng glanced at her, his gaze behind his glasses softening slightly: "Didn't you say we were business partners?"
The car sped through the snowy night, the roar of the engine mingling with the sound of the wind outside the window.
Looking at Xie Zhecheng's focused profile, Yu Jiuyuan suddenly felt that the number 77 might soon change.
This always calm and composed perfectionist offered her the most solid support in his unique way during her most panicked moment.
This precise gentleness, like the system he designed, carries an irresistible sense of security.
Perhaps there is more than one way to tame animals.
Rong Shenghan's secretive entanglements annoyed her, while Xie Zhecheng's rational approach made her feel...unexpectedly comfortable.
Yu Jiuyuan tapped her fingertips lightly on her knees as a thought suddenly arose in her mind.
What if we focused more attention on Hsieh Che-cheng?
The thought had barely crossed her mind when she suppressed it.
But she could feel that the scales in her heart, which were originally balanced, had quietly tilted slightly but clearly to one side.
The snow started falling again outside the car window, landing on the windshield and quickly being swept away by the wipers, leaving a transparent mark, like a mistake covered with correction fluid.
Yu Jiuyuan looked at the mark and suddenly smiled.
Perhaps, some mistakes are not so difficult to correct.
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