Moonlight falls into my arms

Just as they reached the traffic light, Jiang Yuci stopped because there was a bit of traffic ahead. He looked at Ruan Li and said, "No matter what her reasons are, I have an obligation to answer her work-related questions."

Ruan Li clicked her tongue in amazement. She had thought Jiang Yuci was just slow to react to the nurse's advances, but she hadn't expected him to be so perceptive and cut off the source of the problem directly.

“Okay, I’ll go back then.” Ruan Li typed on the keyboard.

—Is there any problem with patient 023?

Ruan Li scratched her nose, as if she had been too cold-hearted.

Ruan Li saw that the nurse's message had a smiley face at the end, so she added a smiley face to her own message.

Only then did I click send.

The opponent responded almost instantly.

—No, no, I'm just a little curious. I see you eat in the cafeteria every day. Do you have good food there?

Ruan Li smiled and replied: They're all hard to eat.

The person opposite asked again: Then why do you still eat in the cafeteria?

Ruan Li's face scrunched up at the thought of the unpalatable cafeteria food.

I've only typed half of it.

The sudden, deep voice beside her startled her, "Are you still talking to her?"

"Oh, that's all, I'll tell her I'm busy now."

Ruan Li clicked "bye-bye," and an emoji popped up. Ruan Li reflexively clicked it.

For a split second, her heart stopped.

Because it was an emoji, a GIF of a kitten lying down.

The "byebye" at the end was followed by a heart shape.

Help! Jiang Yuci mustn't see this!

Ruan Li's throat went dry, and she immediately clicked delete.

hiss.

The brain then reacted.

The other party might misunderstand something, but once I've deleted it, I can't undo it.

Ruan Li tapped the screen randomly a few times.

"What have you done now?"

Jiang Yuci was steering the wheel when he caught a glimpse of Ruan Li suddenly becoming flustered.

Ruan Li's gaze drifted guiltily out the window. "Ah, it's nothing. I was just chatting with the big boss."

What she was really thinking was, what if the other side misunderstood and thought Jiang Yuci had feelings for her?

She quickly turned her body to the side, and with her back to Jiang Yuci, sent another message to the other side.

Sorry, my hand slipped and I clicked the wrong button.

After sending the message, he deleted Jiang Yuci's message.

The other side sent a very cute kitten emoji, which was part of the same series as the one Ruan Li had sent earlier.

Oh no, they really misunderstood.

Ruan Li covered her face with her phone.

In Jiang Yuci's eyes, however, her actions had a hidden meaning.

I was chatting with that big shot and I was so flustered that I was covering my face in embarrassment.

Furthermore, I heard last night that the other person was a high school student.

Although Jiang Yuci could not determine Ruan Li's exact age, he was certain that Ruan Li was not very old.

Wouldn't you call that a lack of professional ethics?

Ruan Li looked out the window as she drove from the bustling commercial district to a restaurant.

Jiang Yu stopped the car and told Ruan Li to get out.

Jiang Yuci led his men inside.

The two sat in a corner of the hall by the window.

The waiter brought a tablet for ordering, and Jiang Yuci handed it to Ruan Li, saying, "You order."

Ruan Li took it, somewhat confused by Jiang Yuci's actions, "Are you still hungry, so you came out to eat again?"

Jiang Yuci nodded.

Ruan Li asked, "Then why don't you order? What if I order something you don't like?"

Jiang Yuci was about to say that there was nothing she didn't want to eat, but then she changed her mind and said, "Everything here is quite delicious."

Ruan Li's eyes crinkled with laughter. "You didn't bring me here specifically for this meal, did you?"

Unfortunately, before Jiang Yuci could answer, another voice from the side drew their attention.

"Jiang Yu resigned?"

Ruan Li looked over and saw a man in a black and white suit walking towards Jiang Yuci.

It was the person who brought clothes to Ruan Li at the hospital that day.

Just like last time, when he saw Ruan Li, his gaze lingered for a few seconds before he sat down next to Jiang Yuci and rudely asked the waiter to add more bowls and chopsticks.

"I'm here to eat too, let's eat together." He said this to Jiang Yuci, but his gaze was on Ruan Li.

Ruan Li sensed a hint of wariness and probing in the man's gaze.

She glanced down at herself. Did her delicate and frail appearance warrant suspicion and probing?

It's like we're on some kind of secret agent mission...

Jiang Yuci's gaze fixed on Huo Xingzhou. "What are you going to do?"

While ordering food, Huo Xingzhou glanced at Ruan Li, who was also ordering food across from him, and said, "Nothing much, just ran into a friend and amused myself by having a meal with you."

"Hello, little sister." Huo Xingzhou extended his hand to Ruan Li, his gaze fixed on her intently. "What's your name, little girl?"

Ruan Li raised her hand and shook hands with him briefly: "Hello, Uncle, my name is Ruan Li."

Huo Xingzhou's lips parted slightly, "Me? Uncle?"

He picked up his phone and glanced at it through the glare of the screen.

Ruan Li smiled at him, then lowered her head to order.

Huo Xingzhou smiled and looked at Jiang Yuci, raising an eyebrow. "Does she call you 'uncle' too?"

“Brother, I’ve ordered, you can order now?” Ruan Li handed over the tablet in her hand.

The gaze sweeping over Huo Xingzhou was gentle yet carried a hint of provocation.

Jiang Yuci paused for a moment before taking the things.

Ruan Li, that's rarely what he's called.

Jiang Yuci couldn't explain what was on her mind.

But just as Huo Xingzhou gave him a questioning look, he grabbed Huo Xingzhou's shoulder and put his hand on Huo Xingzhou's shoulder.

He could sense the subtle tension between the two.

"How old are you? You're so young and you're already out of school?"

While waiting for the food, Huo Xingzhou leaned back in his seat with his arms crossed, glancing at Ruan Li.

Last time he only glanced at it hastily and thought Jiang Yuci had found someone who looked like Ruan Li. But today, looking closely, it's not just similar, it's practically identical.

Has cosmetic surgery technology advanced that much now?

It seems Jiang Yu really went all out to get rid of his parents this time.

Just to get him to go back, they even sent such a young girl to serve.

Ruan Li took a sip of water and obediently replied, but her words were barbed: "Uncle, I'm eighteen. What about you? You look like you're not even forty."

"Pfft—cough cough cough!" Huo Xingzhou put down his cup and looked at Jiang Yuci: "Didn't you say the little girl was quite well-behaved?"

That's a classic case of being shrewd and to the point.

Jiang Yuci glanced at Huo Xingzhou: "She's not usually like this."

Huo Xingzhou sneered: "Heh, so just because I'm not the one she's deceiving doesn't mean she doesn't need to provide me with emotional support, right?"

Ruan Li spoke so rudely simply because of the person's impolite gaze.

But when Huo Xingzhou mentioned the person he was deceiving...

Her eyes cleared, and she looked at Jiang Yuci: "The person you're deceiving? You've always thought I was deceiving you?"

Jiang Yuci looked up and saw that the girl's eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, and they quickly reddened. "I trusted you so much, and you still told your friends that I was lying to you."

Huo Xingzhou opened his lips and muttered, "Are kids this good at acting these days? You're good-looking, why don't you go into the entertainment industry and act? You'd earn a lot of money. Why are you here swindling people?"

Ruan Li suddenly stood up from her seat, "I didn't deceive anyone, I didn't lie to Jiang Yuci, I..."

Huo Xingzhou nodded. "Okay, I understand your situation. Don't worry, I've also traveled through time, I understand you."

Ruan Li felt powerless listening to the man's teasing words. In this world, neither Jiang Yuci, who called her by her name, nor the people who treated her like a child who had run away from home due to hysteria, would believe her.

She became a con artist who swindled and deceived people.

Even Jiang Yuci thought so.

Her long, drooping eyelashes trembled slightly, and as she slowly raised them to look at Jiang Yuci, a blurry glint of water appeared on her face.

"Then why are you still acting with me?"