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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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 then woke up startled. She

woke up again, put on her hearing aid, got out of 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

in winter, and the sky had not yet brightened. Lights were on in the yard where the elderly rise early;

good morning,” Wen

hearing. She noticed Wen Changling only after she spoke: “How come

up in the middle

quality had

little sleep as this old woman,” Granny Zhu said as she peeled the sweet potatoes. “It’s not even

must have

not going back to sleep, I

to so early?” Granny Zhu asked

Changling replied, “Going to buy some food.”

winter wind had blown down the night before, and breakfast stalls had already opened. There were a few stalls

had

cook to pack some pastries for Xie Shang, mentioning his fondness for Seo Ji Eight Taste’s Cloud Slice Cake and Plum Custard. However, all the pastries had been eaten, and they

the capital, always doing brisk business—its signature desserts were limited to two hundred portions each day, and people would queue up for them before

morning run to find two boxes of Seo Ji’s desserts on the table in the

Zhouzhou was organizing the auction items from the previous

put the pastries on

Zhouzhou said, “The landlady brought them

her tongue quite naturally. Qian Zhouzhou graduated from the top-notch

collected the pastries and went

days, and the sun was out. Huahua, ever so lazy, lay sprawled on a stone patch that caught the sun, barely moving except for its tail, forming a wide strip of

Tongtong called out “Brother!” and

see Changling

“Sister is sleeping.”

entered the

and she poked her head out from under the blanket at the slight

“Did I wake you?”

“I wasn’t asleep.”

didn’t have to work on the weekends and had been lying down for half an hour already but still felt no urge

Shang sat down by the bed, “Did you

Changling tucked the blanket tightly around her neck, revealing only her head, “I just happened to pass by

smile, the

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