Soft temptation

40.

Zhou's top office.

The coffee on the coffee table was steaming.

Shao Zheng looked back at Lou Ruan who was walking out the door.

The door was closed, he turned his head and looked at Zhou Yuetian who was sitting across from him, hesitant to speak.

"How long do you plan to stay abroad?" Zhou Yuetian asked.

"I don't know, let's see. If the food is delicious and you're happy, you can stay longer. If not, you can come back." Shao Zheng replied, then turned back after a pause, looked in the direction of the door, and said with a frown, " What do you plan to do?"

Zhou Yuetian lowered his eyes and put down the cup in his hand.

Shao Zheng waited for a few seconds, then asked again, "Do you know it yourself?"

"Ah."

"...Do you have to inherit this company?" Shao Zheng thought for a while and asked, "Wouldn't it be better to get some pocket money every month like me?"

Zhou Yuetian leaned there and paused for a while before speaking, "Well, I want to inherit."

41.

Zhou Yuetian helped others out of the siege at the wine bureau.

He doesn't remember the other party's name, it's a female star.

He looks very different from Lou Ruan, two completely different styles.

But at the wine table, when she was embarrassed by those people, Zhou Yuetian inexplicably thought of Lou Ruan who ran forward with his ears covered that year.

42.

After drinking, Lou Ruan and the driver waited in the parking lot.

He leaned against the window, and the person beside him handed over the anti-alcohol medicine:

"Mr. Zhou?"

Zhou Yuetian turned to look at her.

In the dim light of the parking lot, the outline of her face was hazy.

She called him Mr. Zhou more and more times.

Zhou Yuetian lowered his eyes, reached out to take the sober medicine, and the other handed him hot water.

After he finished drinking, he leaned on the car and shouted in a low voice, "Lou Ruan."

"what?"

"if……"

Lou Ruan waited quietly. After waiting for a long time, she didn't get the next word. She tilted her head and asked, "What if?"

Zhou Yuetian shook his head, "Nothing."

43.

Zhou Yuetian went to meet many wealthy daughters.

Lou Ruan didn't respond, it was still the same as usual.

She was his secretary and sometimes even helped arrange dinners.

But for the blind date dinner, she will not wait for him outside like other dinners.

Most of the time, Cheng Lei waited.

Zhou Yuetian leaned on the car, looking a little tired, "You said..."

Cheng Lei: "Huh?"

Zhou Yuetian was silent for a few seconds, lowering his eyes, not knowing whether he was talking to himself or the people around him, "She won't."

"what?"

"It's nothing."

44.

Zhou's mother's situation is getting worse and worse.

When Zhou Yuetian went, she cried most of the time, and when she cried, most of the things she repeated were from the past:

"I don't want to marry, I want to go to school."

Zhou Yuetian silently gave her the peeled boiled egg, and listened to her continue crying.

"Give this to me? I dare not eat it. Dad will beat me."

Zhou Yuetian paused, "No, you eat."

"really?"

"real."

She finally stopped crying, took small bites of boiled eggs and began to cry after a few bites.

Zhou Yuetian listened quietly for a while, put his hands on the hospital bed, and buried his head, "Mom."

"Don't do that."

"It's over, get well soon..."

45.

Jingjiang Hotel, business reception.

People come and go, drinking and drinking.

Zhou Yuetian was surrounded in the middle, and they were drinking by the window in the corner of the venue, and they were all asking him about the blind date.

Among them are some elders who knew Father Zhou.

Zhou Yuetian answered in a satisfactory manner.

"How about that girl from the Zhang family? I heard that you had dinner together the day before yesterday."

"She is too young, and there seems to be a generation gap with me."

"Ah, what about the Lin family? I heard that the girl of the Lin family just came back from abroad, she is beautiful and smart."

Zhou Yuetian said with a smile: "Miss Lin grew up abroad, and her habits in all aspects seem to be different from mine..."

In the end, I don't know who suddenly mentioned Lou Ruan.

"Your secretary seems to belong to the Xu family. I heard that she has a very good relationship with you in junior high school and high school. You don't think you have a crush on her, do you?"

Cheng Lei on the side was silent for a moment, then turned his head and looked over.

Zhou Yuetian still had a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, and his tone was calm, "How could that be?"

"It's just the Xu family's adopted daughter. How could I really take her to heart?"

"For people like us, we still have to be right."

46.

Not long after Zhou Yuetian finished chatting with them, Lou Ruan came.

Wearing a long white silk dress, she stood at the door of the meeting place, glanced at him from a distance, and smiled at them.

Because the distance was too far, Zhou Yuetian couldn't see the smile on her face clearly.

Before Zhou Yuetian got up, another group of people surrounded him, completely blocking the whiteness at the other end of the reception.

In the shadows, he saw an eye-catching figure appearing in the venue, which immediately attracted the attention of the whole venue, including Lou Ruan.

She also looked at him.

Zhou Yuetian sat in the corner without moving.

47.

When everyone was about to leave, Zhou Yuetian stood up and looked around the venue.

Before he had time to leave, he saw Xu Xuze approaching him with a baseball bat, and he gave him a blow with the stick.

When the people around shouted, Zhou Yuetian only heard the person pulling his collar whisper:

"You are quite noble, our Xu family is not good enough for you?"

"I have to kill you today!"

48.

The two entered the police station together.

Xu Xuze was sitting in the police station and didn't give Zhou Yue a good face. He was still very stubborn, "Yes, I did it first. I have a personal grudge against him, and I want to kill him directly."

"I hate it so much. I hate that I was holding a stick instead of a knife. I hate that when I heard the news, I was on my way to play baseball instead of cooking in the back kitchen of the hotel."

"I shouldn't be so impulsive, I should prepare a careful plan, and then find a way to dismember the corpse..."

Zhou Yuetian finally said, "Why are you going crazy at the police station?"

Xu Xuze immediately said, "None of your business! Shut up, I want to kill you just by watching you talk."

Because Xu Xuze's mental state didn't seem very stable, they sat in the police station all night, waiting for the police staff to adjust the hotel surveillance. Zhou Yuetian cooperated with the injury appraisal and called the lawyer over...

Toss a pass until ten o'clock the next day.

Lou Ruan never showed up.

No message, not a single phone call.

49.

According to the hotel video, Zhou Yuetian was acting in self-defense, and he left directly after completing the formalities.

After returning to the company, Zhou Yuetian still didn't see Lou Ruan.

She asked for leave.

Said he was sick.

Zhou Yuetian sat there, recalling over and over again the expression on her look at him last night.

He turned on the phone, but there was no phone number or message from her in it.

Zhou Yuetian asked Cheng Lei to call her, but she didn't answer.

No, it's not right.

It seemed like something was losing his grip.