He is Lovestruck in the Revenge by Gu Nanxi

Chapter 284: 277: Sleep with me! Chapter 284: 277: Sleep with me! After washing up, Wen Changling went upstairs alone. The computer room had been locked by her, but she used her key to unlock the door, turned on the light, and closed the door behind her.

The computer was still on, and there were three new telephone recordings in the auto-saved folder. Wen Changling put on her headphones and opened them one by one.

The first recording was at 9:14 a.m., from Xue Boyong to Jiang Chengxue.

“Chairman Zhou has already met with several directors in private.”

“He’s still too idle,” Jiang Chengxue sounded like she had just gotten up, her tone lazy, casual as if it were all insignificant. “Find something for him to do.”

The second recording was at 11:08 a.m.

“Grandpa.”

The only person Jiang Chengxue would call like that was the former chairman of Eastern Automobile, Jiang Lisong.

“I am not your grandpa. When you pushed Rucheng down the stairs, I should have strangled you then and there.”

It was that incident that caused Jiang Rucheng to become lame in his right foot.

Jiang Lisong’s breathing was heavy in the call, his voice trembling: “You clearly promised me that you would let Rucai go.”

“Grandpa, why don’t you believe me? It wasn’t me who pushed Jiang Rucheng down the stairs; it was Jiang Rucai. They are both lying, saying it was me. See, isn’t this karma? One of them has crippled yet another foot, and the other fell down the stairs to his death.”

“You, you—”

Jiang Lisong’s side went silent, followed by a flurry of hasty footsteps, and then the call ended.

The third telephone recording contained a voice that Wen Changling was very familiar with.

“Young Master Jiang.”

It was Dai Qiu.

“She was late today.”

Wen Changling was late today.

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very tired, but as soon as she closed her eyes, nightmares gripped her like algae at the bottom of a lake, tightly ensnaring her limbs. She struggled in vain and

bed, and dressed. She only brushed her teeth and did not wash her face. Her throat felt dry, so she poured herself a cup of hot water and held it in her hands to drink. She wore

yard where the elderly rise early; Granny Zhu was already up, washing

morning,” Wen

a little hard of hearing. She noticed Wen Changling only after she spoke:

the middle and couldn’t fall

quality had been poor

sleep as this old woman,” Granny Zhu said as she peeled the sweet potatoes. “It’s not even dawn yet, go back and catch some more

was cold, it must have been below zero

not going back to sleep, I need to go

are you off to so early?” Granny Zhu asked while peeling

Changling replied, “Going to buy some food.” She finished

leaves that the winter wind had blown down the night before, and breakfast stalls had already opened. There were a few stalls out on the sparsely dotted street with

signs of life had appeared, and smoke from cooking

Zhai Wenjin asking the cook to pack some pastries for Xie Shang, mentioning his fondness for Seo Ji Eight Taste’s Cloud

Ji Eight Taste was an old and famous brand in the capital, always doing brisk business—its signature desserts were limited to two hundred portions each day, and people

Shang returned from his morning run to find two boxes

Zhouzhou was organizing the auction items from

the pastries on

“The

Qian Zhouzhou graduated from the top-notch Bochen University of Technology, so it was no coincidence that she was so

the pastries

was out. Huahua, ever so lazy, lay sprawled on a stone patch that caught the sun, barely moving

Xie Shang arrived, Tongtong called out “Brother!”

you see

“Sister is sleeping.”

Shang entered the

out from under the blanket at the slight noise of the door lock. Her hair, frizzed by static, was

“Did I wake you?”

“I wasn’t asleep.”

work on the weekends and had been lying down for half an hour already but still felt no urge to

by the bed, “Did you go out to buy these

her neck, revealing only her head, “I just happened

with a light smile, the sunlight from the window falling on his face, “You went out specially to buy them for

of his mixed heritage from Xie Jingxian, shone brightly in the light, their amber color even more prominent—no colored contact lenses