Ji Yan was actually very handsome. Ji Zeming and Bai Yongwei were both good-looking people. How was it possible that their son did not look good? Even Ji Xue's appearance was one of the best among that of the notable young ladies.
"Are you hungry now?" A Miao grabbed hold of the dinner table. "Do you want something to eat?"
Shen Xinglan looked at the table and said, "Why is it different?"
"What?" A Miao did not react.
"Change it." Shen Xinglan frowned.
A Miao picked up her tray. "Do you want sweet-and-sour spareribs?"
He looked at her but said nothing.
"Eat, eat, eat." A Miao picked up a piece of food with her chopsticks. "Open your mouth!"
Shen Xinglan raised his eyebrows. Did she think he couldn't even move his arms...?
"Have some soup." A Miao blew on the spoon and carefully fed him. "There are pig's feet in it, so what you eat can supplement what you need."
He had never seen her so good. Shen Xinglan was a bit dazed now. Before he knew it, he had finished the soup and meal, and then found out that A Miao had not eaten a bite.
"Your meal is cold." He pursed his lips.
A Miao picked up the tray. "It's okay, I eat fast."
...So fast.
After looking at her for a few mouthfuls, Shen Xinglan pulled at her and her face sank. "Why are you eating so fast? I won't steal it from you."
"Get used to it!" A Miao was gurgling the soup down. "There is meat."
Shen Xinglan thought, "I'll have Auntie stew big elbows braised in soy sauce meat every day in the future."
After tidying up the bowl and chopsticks and washing their hands, the atmosphere became awkward when the two of them looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes.
"Um..." A Miao tried to find a topic. "This wasn't an accident, right?" The car came to him directly.
Shen Xinglan replied, "It was obviously not an accident."
"Was it that people surnamed Bai?" A Miao pointed in the air.
"The surname is Bai, but it is not the Bai you mentioned." Shen Xinglan gave her a look. "You think it's Bai Yongwei."
A Miao looked at him as if she had just seen a ghost. "How did you know that?"
"How terrible! How did he know that I was not talking about Bai Lu, but Bai Yongwei?"
"Wait a minute, was it Bai Lu?" A Miao long out a sigh of relief. "Is she crazy? She thought you would like her if she killed me?"
"She was going to hit me," Shen Xinglan raised the corner of his mouth.
"Why?"
"Your brain does not need to analyze such complicated problems." Shen Xinglan glanced at her. "I want to eat fruit."
A Miao picked up an apple and peeled it with great force as if she were peeling Shen Xinglan's skin. "Here." She cut off a small piece and put it in his mouth.
"You are so me(an)..." The "an" went down in the gloomy eyes of Shen Xinglan and was replaced by, "Are you just going to let it go?"
Shen Xinglan opened his mouth, and A Miao quickly inserted another piece of apple into it.
"Wait and see. There will be results soon."
He said things like he had not said it.
About a week after Shen Xinglan was hospitalized, one day, Shen II suddenly said,
"Boss, Bai Lu is missing."
A Miao was just waiting on Shen Xinglan to finish his meal and was packing up. She almost knocked the bowl over upon hearing the news.
"Missing? What do you mean?"
Shen Xinglan raised his eyebrows. "Does the Bai family know?"
"They should. Bai Youran has already sought help from people to find her."
"If you don't tell me, I won't give you any," A Miao said, holding a cut pineapple.
"Tell you what..."
"Tell me what you know!" A Miao looked up. During this period, she discovered a secret of Shen Xinglan, which was that this man liked eating sweet things just like she did.
She had to buy a cake to try later.
"Miss." Shen II looked at her speechless, just wanting to say their Boss would not be threatened by such a thing as a pineapple, when he heard Shen Xinglan speak a sentence.
"Have you soaked it in salt water?"
"Of course." As soon as she heard this, A Miao knew that he had agreed, and quickly inserted a piece into his mouth.
Shen II silently retreated to the corner to scratch at the wall.
"I don't know what Bai Lu's original plan was, but there must have been an accident. The people she hired didn't finish the task." Shen Xinglan looked out of the window at the tulips in full bloom.
"Didn't complete the task, so naturally can't collect the money. You said... If it were you, what would you do?"
A Miao thought for a moment. "Forget it."
"Then if someone else gives out a message that they want to catch you, and you can't afford to offend this person at all, you can only hide or run away."
"You released a message that you want to arrest them!" A Miao understood. "Then they needed money to run, so they kidnapped Bai Lu."
Shen II suddenly added. "Boss, I just got the news... Bai Youran transferred a sum of money and Bai Lu went home."
"In that case, it's my turn now." Shen Xinglan narrowed his eyes. "Find the person who hit me. You know what to do."
"I understand." Shen II nodded and left.
A Miao looked at Shen Xinglan with a strange expression on her face. "Did you finish it already?"
He did not look for those people first and waited for them to lay their hands on Bai Lu. He did not start until the two sides had reached an agreement. Today, A Miao witnessed the saying "mantis catching cicadas while a yellowbird was following them."
"So you must not deceive me, otherwise, the consequences will be very dire," Shen Xinglan said with a hidden smile.
A Miao shivered and thought that he was serious. If she deceived this lunatic, he would surely kill her.
The Bai family—
"I told you not to provoke Shen Xinglan but you didn't listen. Now, look at you." Bai Youran pinched off a cigarette butt with a face full of discontent as he looked at his sister.
Bai Lu shot him a glare. "What's the matter now? Isn't it alright?"
"What do think can be the matter?" Bai Youran fidgetted and said, "You've been photographed naked, is that not something?"
"What about the photos?" Bai Lu lit a cigarette. "Weren't they all destroyed?"
Bai Youran snatched her cigarette. "That's because I gave five million to those people!"
"Are you my brother or not?" Bai Lu pushed him away. "What's wrong with five million... as if you haven't taken my money before."
"Forget it, forget it! This is the end of the matter." Bai Youran rubbed his brows. "I'm getting engaged to Xia Wan at the end of the month. Don't get me into trouble again."
Bai Lu hissed. "I really don't know what happened to that woman. Be careful later to not be a cuckold."
"What nonsense." Bai Youran stood up. "Stay honest, or I will tell grandma to make you move back to live there."
When Bai Youran left, Bai Lu went into the bathroom and gently took off her skirt and touched herself while looking in the mirror.
"I am so beautiful, why doesn't Shen Xinglan like me!" Her hand slowly moved downward. "I will not give up, Shen Xinglan, you must be mine!"
A Miao stayed in the hospital for a month and finally recovered. Or to be more precise, Shen Xinglan decided to leave the hospital.
"Didn't the doctor suggest staying for half a month?" A Miao was a little worried. It was not an exaggeration to say that this was a life-saving matter. She sincerely hoped that Shen Xinglan would get better.
Shen Xinglan pushed away the dining table. He had already done it by himself a few days ago because he felt that the look in A Miao's eyes every time she fed him was too much for him.
He was not unfamiliar with that kind of impulse... It's called desire.
"It's all right."
Seeing that he did not want to talk, A Miao had to pack up his things and told him as she left, "I won't be able to come back if you leave the hospital tomorrow. I'll go back on the weekend."
"I see," Shen Xinglan said, but in his mind, he was uncomfortable thinking that this woman did not want to take care of him and was so anxious to leave.
Back at school, A Miao saw Jiang Hua before he entered the dormitory.
"Mr. Jiang, what a coincidence," she greeted him.
Jiang Hua shrugged his shoulders. "It's not a coincidence. I came specifically to wait for you."
"Wait for me?" A Miao stopped. "What's the matter?"
It turned out that someone was looking for Jiang Hua to identify antiques. Jiang Hua knew that A Miao had always wanted to find a chance to practice it, so he came to her.
"Are you free tomorrow afternoon?"
Of course, A Miao was willing and nodded immediately. "No, no, no! I can go."
"Well, I'll meet you at the back entrance and wait for you there."
The news made A Miao extremely excited and she was in a very good mood until the next day. At the appointed time, she ran to the back door of the school.
"Beep, beep..." A car horn honked on the roadside.
The window slowly dropped down, and A Miao saw Jiang Hua waving to her.
"Am I late?" She quickly sat inside.
Jiang Hua started the car. "No, fasten your seat belt!"
At this time, Shen Xinglan was also getting in the car, ready to leave the hospital.
"Boss, going to the company or going home?" Shen II looked in the rearview mirror and asked him.
Shen Xinglan closed his eyes. "To the company."
"I don't know what my good brother has turned Ji into..."
"President Shen!"
"You have been discharged from the hospital, Master Shen!"
The staff of Ji's building saluted when they saw Shen Xinglan come back. Shen Xinglan was about to enter the special elevator when he saw Ji Yan coming out of the elevator on the other side.
"Brother?" Obviously, he did not expect Shen Xinglan to appear in the company, but soon after he came up to him smiling. "Are you out of the hospital? Why didn't you tell us?"
Ji Yan was followed by two people, and upon seeing Shen Xinglan with an unnatural expression, they lowered their heads.
"If mom knows you're out of the hospital, she will make me drag you home for dinner!" Ji Yan looked at him. "Are you really all right?"
Shen Xinglan raised the corners of his mouth. "I wouldn't be standing here if something's wrong. It seems that you have adapted well."
"Well, I've done it before." Ji Yan thought of something and said, "I have a plan I'd like to discuss with you. When do you think you'll have time?"
"Come to my office tomorrow," Shen Xinglan said, then turned and got on the elevator.
Ji Yan pulled up the corners of his mouth and also turned to leave.
"Boss, the two men behind master Ji just now are both elites from the marketing department." Shen II quickly got the information first-hand. "They came very close."
Shen Xinglan snorted. "I was afraid he wasn't close."
After processing the backlog of documents, Shen Xinglan left the company. His bones had not healed well. Although he did not care about this injury, he did not want to have any future consequences. He still needed to go home and have a good rest.
"Boss... that seems to be miss..." Shen II said carefully when the car turned a corner.
Shen Xinglan looked sideways with dark eyes.
"That man again!" A Miao was sitting in a hotel with the man named Jiang Hua. She was very happy and gesticulating, and the man opposite her was looking at her tenderly.