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After the Taoist left, only Gu Yuanzhou and I were left in the living room.
The sll of incense pervaded the air, and a death-like silence lingered on.
Gu Yuanzhou did not speak to anymore. He walked to the prayer altar, picked up the ancestral tablets, and gently swept his fingers over them.
After a long ti, he lit so incense for the two children again.
I sat on the sofa, lost in thought.
At this mont, my phone kept ringing. I didn’t need to check to know that Wenya was texting .
“Uh, President Gu, can I leave now?”
He did not even acknowledge , his voice slightly cold:
“Go!”
I picked up my bag from the table, grabbed my phone, glanced at him, and hurried out of the room.
Once I reached the road, I saw a car with its hazard lights on in the distance.
I waved my hand.
The car approached and stopped beside .
The person driving was Ding Yinuo. He opened the car door, looked at with a worried expression, and asked, “Are you alright?”
I took out a mirror and checked my reflection. Apart from so smudged makeup, there seed to be nothing else wrong.
“I’m fine, what could possibly happen to ?”
Ding Yinuo nodded and started the car.
In the back seat, Su Peisheng was still ssing with a drone,
“Why did you take so long inside? Ding was worried to death. If I hadn’t stopped him, he would have barged in.”
Ding Yinuo handed a pack of wet wipes,
“Any progress?”
I wiped off my smudged makeup in the mirror and shook my head, “It’s not him!”
Sure enough, this answer did not sit well with everyone.
Wenya had the most extre reaction and snapped,
“Damn it, if it’s not him, then who is it? This man is terrifying; he’s even deceiving ghosts!”
Jiang Jing asked, “Did you ask him about sponsoring Ye ngyan? Did he admit it?”
I shook my head, “No! I didn’t get a chance to ask!”
“Ayun, you must not be deceived by him. Let tell you, when a man is good to you, he definitely has an ulterior motive. There’s no such thing as a good man in this world.”
While Wenya was still railing, Su Peisheng, sitting beside her, couldn’t stand it any longer,
“Can you speak properly? What do you an there are no good n in the world? Isn’t it just that you aren’t good enough to et one, so you’re denying the existence of good n everywhere?”
Wenya turned her head and shoved Su Peisheng,
“Are you an idiot? Can’t you tell who I’m talking about?”
“I’m the idiot? Huh, I don’t even know who the real idiot is here. You can’t even speak clearly, and you accuse of not distinguishing between friend and foe.”
“It was you who responded defensively. If you think my words are malicious, then that just proves that you identify with them. Why would you identify with them if you’re not a scumbag? You see, Ding Yinuo didn’t say a word. Why didn’t he? Because he is not a scumbag!”
Wenya logically put Su Peisheng in his place.
Su Peisheng was left speechless by her,
“I refuse to engage in a conversation with soone who lacks intellect!”
“That’s called being guilty! It’s fine if you don’t speak up, it’s not like anyone wants to talk to you.”
The atmosphere in the car was noticeably tense.
So, Su Peisheng angrily suggested to Jiang Jing,
“Let’s switch seats!”
Actually, Su Peisheng and Wenya were initially in the back seat, with Wenya in the front passenger seat.
Later, to make room for , Wenya gave up her seat in the front and sat in the back. As a result, she and Jiang Jing each occupied one side,
with Su Peisheng stuck like a sandwich in the middle.
Now, he wanted to change seats with Jiang Jing, to which Wenya rolled her eyes and replied, “Why do you want to switch seats?”
“I don’t want to sit next to you, isn’t it obvious?”
“Oh, why don’t you just get out of the car then? After all, I have breathed in all the air in this car, so even if you’re not sitting right next to , you will still be inhaling the air I’ve exhaled.”
“I get out? Are you sick or sothing? It’s my car!”
As the two of them quarreled, Ding Yinuo, growing irritated, snapped at them,
“Both of you, shut up! Can’t you see soone is not in a good mood?”
The mont he raised his voice in reprimand, the bickering in the car stopped abruptly.
Half an hour later, Ding Yinuo dropped Wenya and Jiang Jing off at their respective hos.
Then he drove the car back to Xishan Residence, No. 168.
After parking the car, he turned to ,
“Let’s go!”
“Please take ho, I can’t keep staying here.”
I was worried that my close contact with Ding Yinuo might be discovered by Gu Yuanzhou.
Besides, he already seed to be suspicious of .
What’s more, I can’t find a reason to continue being so close to Ding Yinuo.
He glanced at ,
“I want to discuss sothing about your aunt with you.”
“What happened to my aunt?”
He ignored and got out of the car first.
I had no choice but to follow him into the house.
Once inside, he removed his suit jacket to reveal the blue surgical scrubs he was wearing…
“I was in such a rush when I left the hospital. Wenya told that you had gone to Beilu Hill with Gu Yuanzhou, so I didn’t have ti to change…”
“Oh!”
“What would you like to eat?”
As he was unbuttoning his shirt, his clear eyes were focused on .
“I, uh, I don’t want anything.”
He opened a food delivery app on his phone and tossed the phone to ,
“I’m hungry. I haven’t had dinner because of your ss. You choose sothing, I’ll go take a shower. I sll like blood.”
“Oh, okay.”
Seated so close, I could actually sll the cold tallic scent of blood on him.
I took the phone and sat on the sofa. He then went into the bathroom.
It took a while to unlock the phone and place an order for food.
Right as I was about to put the phone down, a pop-up notification from WeChat appeared, indicating an incoming video call.
Seeing the caller ID picture was Jiang Jiaying’s, I was stunned for a mont.
After hesitating for a few seconds, I chose to decline the call.
I wasn’t sure about their relationship status now, whether they had broken up or were still entangled with each other.
This late at night, if she saw at Ding Yinuo’s place, would it affect their relationship?
Soon after I declined, Jiang Jiaying sent a ssage on WeChat,
“Yinuo, I’m back. Please answer the video call, I have sothing to tell you!”
From what I rembered, Jiang Jiaying seed to have gone abroad many years ago.
So, had she returned now?
Just as I was wondering, Ding Yinuo poked his head out from the bathroom door. He was shaving, and his chin was covered in white foam, “Who is it?”
“Oh, your ex…”
“What? Who?”
“How many exes do you have?”
“Quite a lot! More than one hand can count!”
“Ugh…Jiang Jiaying!”
After hearing this, Ding Yinuo just responded with an “Oh” and withdrew back into the bathroom, “Don’t bother with her!”
After his shower, he ca out wearing a grey bathrobe.
The takeaway hadn’t arrived yet.
He sat down on the sofa,
“You’ve been holding back, haven’t you?”
“What do you an?”
“Gu Yuanzhou isn’t that stupid! Does he really believe you’re being possessed?”
I fell silent. I had indeed hidden so information since there were many people around earlier, making it difficult to disclose them.
Who’d have thought that Ding Yinuo would see through .
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