The obedient girl glances up, and the tyrannical tycoon kneels down to pamper her.

Luo Huai was awakened by a loud alarm.

I groggily propped myself up and looked around.

Xing Yuru stood blankly by the desk, raising her hands in a gesture of surrender.

"Yu Rou?"

“Sister-in-law, you’re awake. I didn’t mean to touch your computer. I was afraid it would fall, so I moved it gently. It kept barking and seemed to be taking pictures.” Xing Yuru walked over and explained, “My brother called me in.”

"fine."

"Does your stomach still hurt?" Xing Yuru sat down next to her and reached out to pull the blanket over her.

Luo Huai touched her stomach. "Much better."

Xing Yuru breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good. You had a fever yesterday, and your brother got really angry, and he was angry this morning too. Actually, it wasn't a high fever, but I don't know why your brother just thought that having a fever would kill you."

Luo Huai's eyes flickered.

It sounds a bit like stress.

Where is your older brother?

"The company." Xing Yuru heard her stomach growl and immediately went to call the maid to bring up some porridge and brown sugar eggs.

Luo Huai also got off the spacious sofa.

Suddenly, a soft cracking sound came from my ankle.

Looking down, I saw a faded red thread tied around my ankle, with a round copper coin hanging down on my ankle bone.

She remembered the red string.

Brother Zhao always wore it.

How did it get onto her feet?

Xing Yuru followed her gaze and looked over. "Big brother is really strange. Other people wear bells on their feet, but he puts copper coins on your feet, and he even took them off his own wrist."

Luo Huai reached out and touched the warm copper coin.

She was eating brown sugar and eggs when someone pushed the door open and came in.

It's obvious that the person with such audacity is the owner of the room.

Luo Huai looked up, still chewing a red date, the sweetness spreading in her mouth.

“Brother Zhao”.

"Big brother..."

One voice was soft, the other timid.

Xing Yuru said timidly, "Sister-in-law, I'll go out first."

They even thoughtfully closed the door behind them when they left.

Luo Huai looked at the man walking towards her and said, almost unconsciously, "Brother Zhao, you scared Yu Rou."

After saying that, he suddenly realized how audacious he had been.

He carefully avoided eye contact.

She's afraid of a man saying, "That's just my temper, it's none of your business."

What I received in return were just three words: "I understand."

He had a very easygoing look on his face.

Luo Huai glanced at the time; it was five o'clock in the afternoon.

Brother Zhao left early again.

Seeing that she seemed hesitant to speak, Xing Yanzhao asked directly, "What were you about to say?"

Luo Huai remained silent.

"explain."

"You left early."

Xing Yanzhao was taken aback, thinking that all rich young masters were like this, only playing around and not doing anything serious.

Seeing that her face was pale, and remembering that she had a fever and was menstruating, as well as Xiao Chen's words, "If you always go along with everything, it's all your fault," I swallowed the words that were about to come out of my throat.

"Okay, I'll change it." It's impossible for me to say I was wrong.

Luo Huai: "???"

Something's wrong with Brother Zhao.

Did something happen to you?

"Brother Zhao?"

"Speak." Xing Yanzhao said decisively. After speaking, he pulled up a stool and sat down next to Luo Huai. The sweet aroma of brown sugar and eggs on the table kept wafting into his nostrils with the steam.

He glanced down at it.

Luo Huai simply picked up the whole bowl of brown sugar and eggs and held it to his lips, asking, "Want some?"

Xing Yanzhao doesn't like sweets.

His first words were: "Eat."

Luo Huai held the bowl in both hands, then picked it up with one hand and used the other to take the porcelain spoon. In a few gulps, he drank the egg and soup clean, leaving not even a single red date.

A tissue was handed to him.

Xing Yanzhao withdrew his outstretched hand, saying, "Do me a favor, my hands are sticky."

Luo Huai gently kissed him with a tissue. The two were close together, but the scene was less ambiguous than when they wiped each other's sweat last time.

Xing Yanzhao stared straight at her.

An irrepressible desire surged forth, only to be forcefully suppressed by him.

Luo Huai lowered her eyes, her delicate eyelashes trembling slightly. As she withdrew her hand, she said, "I'm sorry, I always cause trouble and you have to help me."

“What kind of trouble are you causing? It’s the Xing family’s situation that’s complicated, and my own situation is complicated too.” Xing Yanzhao raised his hand and pinched the back of her neck. “This isn’t causing trouble, and even if it were, I could handle it.”

"I don't cause trouble." Luo Huai explained the situation in detail, word for word, including what Pei Yuanzhou said. She had said before that no one could remain untainted in such a corrupt environment, and that choosing to stand with Xing Yanzhao was a way of being honest and surrendering.

Xing Yanzhao pinched the back of her neck again, this time without pulling his hand back, forcing Luo Huai to look up at him.

Did you reply to him?

He replied with, "Do you like me too?"

Luo Huai shook his head.

"If you won't reply to him, you can at least reply to me, right? Do you still like him?"

Both were trying to confirm her feelings.

But one is "也" and the other is "还".

Luo Huai was immediately at a loss.

……

Mid-December.

The large-scale bidding conference in Ningcheng is tomorrow. Companies that meet the bidding requirements are paying close attention and are making preparations early. Although they know they may not be able to beat the Xing family, they still want to give it a try.

Moreover, the two young masters of the Xing family are now crammed into the company. They may not be openly competing, but who knows if they will be secretly fighting? The higher-ups may not be at ease.

Because this bidding process was so important, Mr. Xing specifically instructed his two sons that evening to put everything else aside and work together to secure the project.

Although Pei Youyou offended Young Master Yu last time, Young Master Yu still has the final say on which family wins the bid.

Xing Zhengyu said, "Dad, I know."

Father Xing was very reassured about his adopted son. He turned to his own son and instructed him, "You come with us. If you don't understand anything, you can ask Zheng Yu. You don't have to do or say anything. Just don't cause any trouble."

“I don’t have to go,” Xing Yanzhao said lazily.

“No way, you’re my own son, and the investment manager, how can you not go?” Mr. Xing wanted to give him a serious scolding, but then he remembered what his daughter had heard from Luo Huai that his son was more responsive to gentle persuasion than harsh treatment, so he softened his tone and said, “I see you haven’t been late or left early lately, that’s good. You can learn about company affairs slowly, I’m not expecting you to rise to the top overnight.”

"You just need to look good."

Xing Yanzhao didn't speak, and his father took it as a yes and gestured for them to leave.

Luo Huai was sitting on the sofa in the living room. As soon as he heard the noise, he immediately got up and looked over.

The two walked towards each other.

Luo Huai didn't ask anything, but Xing Yanzhao confessed himself, "Dad told me to be a mascot tomorrow."

Mr. Xing, who came out of the study right after him: "..."

"It's to send you and Zhengyu to the bidding meeting," Xing's father said to him. "What kind of talk is that?"

Xing Yanzhao put his arm around Luo Huai's shoulder and went upstairs. Halfway up, his phone kept vibrating in his pocket.

He took it out, frowned after seeing the caller's name.

He only went to the balcony to answer the phone after he got to his room.

After the other person finished speaking, Xing Yanzhao asked, "Do you have any evidence?"

The person on the other end said yes, and asked for his opinion: "Boss, should we wait until the bidding meeting ends tomorrow? If we take the person away tonight, or even tomorrow, Xing's will be completely out of the bidding meeting."

Xing Yanzhao hesitated.

He had promised his grandparents that he would not interfere with the Xing family's interests.

He is a man of his word.

"The bidding meeting has ended."

However, just as Xing Yanzhao and Xing Zhengyu were about to swipe their cards to enter the bidding venue the next day, an alarm sounded from afar, and two police cars stopped at the entrance of the venue.