Sitting on the sofa, Xu Wan looked around. It was quiet and cold, with no excessive decoration except for some books.
Ruan Chen took a bottle of water from the refrigerator and opened it for her.
Xu Wan reached out to take it and asked, "Why are you renting it here?"
Ruan Chen sat opposite her: "This is close to the school."
Xu Wan opened his mouth and realized that his school was only two blocks away from here.
Xu Wan even had an intuition that he had lied to her when he said he was dropping her off and renting another house. He should have been living here all the time.
She took a sip of water, lowered her eyes, and said in a very soft voice, "Did you go out again after you came home that day?"
After a long time, Ruan Chen let out a low hum.
Xu Wan held the water in his hand and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Probably seeing her intention, Ruan Chen said calmly: "I will not look for him again."
Hearing this, Xu Wan raised his head subconsciously: "Really?"
Ruan Chen nodded, because it was useless to look for her like this, Qin Yuhui would still harass her again.
Seeing that he really didn't seem to be lying, Xu Wan couldn't help but smile a little: "This is the best, there is no need to waste time and energy on scum like him, it would be better to do something else.
"
Ruan Chen met her gaze and spoke slowly: "Is this the reason why you came home with me?"
Xu Wan paused for a moment, feeling as if his heart had been exposed, but he still found an excuse: "No...no way, your sister said she would send you home."
With that said, she put down the water and stood up quickly: "Since you have arrived home safely, it's time for me to go. I still have work tomorrow."
Xu Wan had just taken two steps when someone grabbed his wrist.
Ruan Chen looked at her: "I just want to remind you that it is very dangerous for a person not to enter the home of the opposite sex casually."
After Ruan Chen finished speaking, the originally harmonious and relaxed atmosphere in the room suddenly changed, revealing a bit of inexplicable ambiguity.
Xu Wan looked into his dark and quiet eyes, a little lost in thought.
At this time, a text message from someone's cell phone rang.
Xu Wan suddenly came back to his senses, pulled out his hand, turned around and said, "I...I'm leaving."
After closing the door from the outside, Xu Wan hurriedly pressed the elevator button, his pace unprecedentedly hectic.
After Ruan Chen heard the sound of the elevator closing, he sat on the sofa and sent a text message to Ruan Xingwan, saying that he was home.
Immediately afterwards, he dialed Lin Nan's phone number.
After getting in the car, Xu Wan took out her mobile phone and saw that there was a spam text message on her phone five minutes ago.
She leaned on the car seat and took a long breath.
Thanks to this spam message, otherwise she wouldn't have known how it would have ended.
Following Ruan Chen home was indeed a bit impulsive, and I don't know what she was thinking at the time.
…
On the other side, Ruan Xingwan did not see this text message.
As soon as she returned, she was carried to the bathroom by a man who had been waiting for a long time and took a bath together.
It was already an hour and a half later when I came out of the shower.
Ruan Xingwan was tired and sleepy. When he was lying on the bed, he could hardly open his eyes. When he saw the man covering him again, he reached out and beat his chest, and said angrily: "Be a human being."
Zhou Cishen held her hand, lowered his head and kissed her: "You haven't promised me yet."
"Promise what?"
"Tomorrow, go get the certificate."
Ruan Xingwan said in a daze: "If I promise you, can I sleep?"
Zhou Cishen raised his eyebrows slightly: "You can consider it."
Ruan Xingwan: "..."
What a waste of time to think about.
She just wants to sleep now.
Ruan Xingwan nodded casually: "Just do what you say."
"Then I'll take it as your promise."
Ruan Xingwan said "Oh", closed his eyes and was about to go to bed when his lower lip was lightly bitten.
Sensing that the man's hand began to move up irregularly, Ruan Xingwan was silent before saying, "Didn't you say..."
"I said you can consider it."
Ruan Xingwan: "..."
Her curse words were blocked in her mouth.
…
Ruan Xingwan didn't wake up until noon the next day.
My whole body aches.
Just as she was about to lift the quilt and get out of bed, she saw a woman's white shirt placed next to the pillow.
Ruan Xingwan curled up his lips and took the shirt into the bathroom.
After washing, I put on light makeup.
When she went out, Zhou Cishen was reading emails on his computer.
Ruan Xingwan cleared his throat: "Have you eaten yet?"
Zhou Cishen gently raised his eyes to look at her and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Go out to eat."
Ruan Xingwan was wearing the white shirt Zhou Cishen gave him, paired with an apricot pink half-length skirt.
It looks gentle and elegant.
Ruan Xingwan said: "Shanshan and the others..."
"I went to the studio this morning."
Ruan Xingwan said "Oh": "Then let's go."
Zhou Cishen put down the computer, stood up and walked to her side, raised his hand and put it in front of her, saying in a low voice, "Let's go, Mrs. Zhou."
Ruan Xingwan couldn't help but tap the corner of his lips and put his hand on his palm.
On the way to the Civil Affairs Bureau, Ruan Xingwan kept looking down at the ring on her hand. She suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, do you know the man last night?"
Zhou Cishen hummed: "Qiaoen."
"It turns out it's him..." Ruan Xingwan was a little confused, "But haven't we found him before? How could he appear at Zhou's anniversary?"
Zhou Cishen pursed his thin lips slightly and did not answer for a moment.
When Ruan Xingwan was wondering, the cell phone in his bag suddenly rang. It was Li Duo.
Ruan Xingwan answered the call: "What's wrong?"
Li Duo said: "Ms. Ruan, the company just received an email and I have sent it to your mobile phone."
"Okay, who sent it?"
"It should be...that Chairman Lin from before."
Ruan Xingwan tightened her grip on the phone: "I'll take a look right away."
Ruan Xingwan did not hang up the phone, but switched to the page and opened the email Li Duo sent her.
The email was sent half an hour ago to an anonymous email address, allowing them to raise 50 billion U.S. dollars in two days in exchange for Daniel.
Otherwise, he killed Daniel.
At the back of the email, there was also a photo of Daniel tied to a chair, with his eyes blindfolded and his mouth gagged.
His face and clothes were covered with blood, and he looked like he was dying.
Ruan Xingwan took a deep breath and picked up the phone again: "Have you found where the email was sent from?"
"We are already investigating, but there are no clues yet."
Immediately afterwards, Li Duo said: "Miss Ruan, another email has just arrived, starting a two-day countdown."
At the same time, Zhou Cishen also received a call from Chen Xiao, also talking about the same matter.
Zhou Cishen and Ruan Xingwan looked at each other, and he said, "I'll be right over."
Ruan Xingwan also said to Li Duo: "Zhou Cishen and I are coming over now."