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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should have been very tired, but as soon as she closed her eyes, nightmares gripped her like algae at the bottom of a lake, tightly ensnaring

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

the yard where the elderly rise early; Granny

morning,” Wen Changling

noticed Wen Changling only after she spoke:

up in the middle and couldn’t

sleep quality had been poor

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

cold, it must

sleep, I need

off to so early?” Granny

to buy some food.” She finished her hot water

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

dark, signs of life had appeared, and smoke from

Xie Shang went upstairs to say goodbye to Su Nanzhi, while Wen Changling waited downstairs. She overheard Madam Zhai Wenjin asking the cook to pack some pastries for Xie Shang, mentioning his fondness for Seo Ji Eight Taste’s Cloud Slice

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

Shang returned from his morning run to find two boxes of Seo

Zhouzhou was organizing the auction items from the previous

the pastries

said, “The landlady brought

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

pastries

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 patch that caught the sun, barely

Xie Shang arrived, Tongtong called out “Brother!” and Huahua

see Changling

“Sister is sleeping.”

Shang entered the

blanket at the slight noise of the

“Did I wake you?”

“I wasn’t asleep.”

have to work on the weekends and had been lying down for half an hour

you

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

runs,” Xie Shang said with a light smile, the

in the light, their amber color even