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.

*****

as soon as she closed her eyes, nightmares gripped her like algae at the bottom of a lake, tightly ensnaring her limbs.

and did not wash her face. Her throat felt dry, so she poured herself a cup of hot water and held it in

had not yet brightened. Lights were on in the yard where the elderly rise early; Granny Zhu was already up, washing sweet potatoes in

Zhu, good morning,” Wen

She noticed Wen Changling only after she spoke: “How

middle and

sleep quality had

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

was cold, it must have been

going back to sleep, I need to go out

early?” Granny Zhu asked while peeling the sweet

some food.” She finished her hot water before heading

still lit, sanitation workers were sweeping up fallen leaves that the winter wind had blown down the night before, and breakfast stalls had already

had appeared, and smoke

cook to pack some pastries for Xie Shang, mentioning his fondness for Seo

always doing brisk business—its signature desserts were limited to two hundred

find two boxes of Seo Ji’s desserts on

organizing the auction items from

the pastries on

Zhouzhou said, “The landlady

Qian Zhouzhou graduated from the top-notch Bochen University of Technology,

Shang collected the pastries

on winter break and was playing in the yard. The weather had cleared up in the past few days, and the sun was out. Huahua, ever so lazy, lay sprawled on a stone

Tongtong called out “Brother!”

you see Changling

“Sister is sleeping.”

entered

aid, and she poked her head out from under the blanket at the slight noise of the door lock. Her hair, frizzed by static, was a

“Did I wake you?”

“I wasn’t asleep.”

weekends and had been lying down

“Did you go out to buy

only her head,

to me, you never go for morning runs,” Xie Shang said with a light smile, the sunlight from the window falling on his face, “You went out

shone brightly in the light, their amber color even more prominent—no colored

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