Zhai Yu’s deep, sharp, slightly upturned eyes seemed capable of seeing right through a person.
At that time, He Yanxing and her sister had already registered their marriage, though they hadn’t held a wedding ceremony.
Song Ziyan was officially registered in the household.
Now, she needed to have a husband.
She lowered her gaze, avoiding Zhai Yu’s eyes, and walked over to tuck Song Ziyan’s blanket in.
“His work is very special, he’s abroad and won’t be able to return for a while.”
Zhai Yu snorted coldly, “Can’t even make a phone call if he can’t come back?”
“He’s very busy. I don’t want to disturb him. I can handle things myself.”
“If you could really handle things yourself, would you be standing in the cold wind and then getting a ride from your ex-boyfriend?”
Zhai Yu’s words struck right at the heart.
Song Ruannin knew that taking his car would inevitably lead to something like this.
She didn’t speak, just quietly looked at Zhai Yu.
Zhai Yu raised an eyebrow, “Or is it that you and your husband don’t get along well?”
Song Ruannin chuckled lightly, “We get along very well. After all these years, if I hadn’t married him, I wouldn’t have made it through what happened back then.”
If they got along so well, why would he leave her and their daughter in the country and go abroad alone?
Zhai Yu gritted his teeth, “Song Ruannin, you have terrible taste in men.”
Hearing this, Song Ruannin’s eyes welled up, “Yes, I have terrible taste in men.”
In this lifetime, she only chose one, and it turned out to be Zhai Yu.
Truly terrible.
After Zhai Yu left, Song Ruannin opened her phone and found his WeChat.
Last time, after receiving the money, she had deleted him. This time, she added him back again.
She transferred 3,000 yuan to the person on the other end, but it was returned the next day.
Song Ruannin transferred it again, and it was returned once more.
It wasn’t until the fourth time that the person on the other end accepted it.
Song Ruannin felt at peace. She didn’t want to owe Zhai Yu anything, just as Zhai Yu hadn’t wanted to owe her anything many years ago.
After accepting the money, Zhai Yu sat in his office at Zhai Corporation, twirling a pen.
Then, he set his phone aside and opened a document to sign.
The screen remained lit, but no message came from the other side.
The pen in his hand remained still for a long time, and the ink that seeped out stained the document.
Seeing this, the assistant immediately went to print a new document and brought it in.
When he entered, Zhai Yu was sitting on his chair, constantly spinning his phone.
The phone screen lit up, and he accidentally tapped the chat box, sending a symbol to the other person.
Just as he was about to retract it, he looked at the screen and his face darkened.
An annoying red exclamation mark.
Song Ruannin had deleted him.
Just like back then, after sending the breakup message, she had deleted him.
This was already the second time.
Zhai Yu slammed his phone heavily onto the desk.
The assistant walked in with a stack of documents and immediately noticed Zhai Yu’s gloomy expression.
Their young Mr. Zhai had only recently joined the company. He was astonishingly handsome, and people said he was a top student from abroad who had just returned to inherit the family business.
Everyone in the company thought this new young Mr. Zhai was cold.
Today, his face was not only cold but also carried an intimidating aura.
The assistant nervously approached him.
“Mr. Zhai, the land in the northern city forest belt is a cooperative project jointly undertaken by Zhai Corporation and the government. The government representative arrived today—the mayor’s secretary. He’s waiting outside.”
Zhai Yu closed the pen cap, “Let him in.”
Not long after, the assistant led in a middle-aged man with a large head and ears.
The man rambled on for a while, but the main point was one: to get Zhai Corporation to pay.
After the man left, the assistant prepared to leave as well.
Zhai Yu called the person to a halt.
“After the previous secretary Song Sixun stepped down, was this person the one who took his place?”
The assistant nodded.
Zhai Yu asked again, “What’s his surname?”
“Surnamed Yao, named Yao Lei,” the assistant continued. “I heard he was pushed up by the Yao family.”
Ruan Ning brought up the matter of investing with Shen Yi again these past two days.
Shen Yi had no issues on his end.
But Zhai Corporation was now the largest shareholder of Yunmeng, which could already be considered a subsidiary internet celebrity company under Zhai Corporation.
This matter still required Zhai Yu’s approval.
Ruan Ning asked Shen Yi to help arrange a meeting with Zhai Yu.
They met at a café near the company over the weekend.
Zhai Yu was dressed in casual clothes, his hair down, making him look several years younger.
Ruan Ning and Shen Yi were both dressed very formally.
Throughout the entire process, Zhai Yu didn’t even lift his eyelids, appearing lazy and weary.
Song Ruannin’s heart was in her throat.
Fortunately, Zhai Yu surprisingly didn’t give her a hard time.
After the matter was settled, Shen Yi received a phone call and left.
Song Ruannin, afraid of the awkwardness of being alone with Zhai Yu, immediately gathered her things to leave as well.
“Using your ex-boyfriend’s money to support your current partner and his child, Song Ruannin, you’re really something,” the man’s lazy voice rang out.
Ruan Ning looked up at him. “Well, I have to live too.”
The man stood up and walked over to her. “Does your man know about this?”
“Does he know you’ve been meeting your ex-boyfriend frequently lately?”
Song Ruannin smiled. “He knows. He doesn’t think it’s a big deal. It’s all in the past, and he’s not that petty.”
Zhai Yu’s face darkened, his jaw tightening. “Song Ruannin, do you enjoy supporting the poor? You just like finding broke men, don’t you?”
Song Ruannin replied calmly, “Not exactly. If I like someone, I don’t care if he has money or not. As long as I like him, that’s enough.”
She was speaking from the heart; back then, she had liked Zhai Yu simply because she liked him.
Zhai Yu snorted coldly.
So, her excuse back then about wanting someone with power and money was just that—an excuse.
She had simply grown tired of him and wanted to break up.
Zhai Yu left before she did.
After he was gone, Song Ruannin let out a sigh of relief.
Stepping outside, the sky was growing dark. Winter in Yancheng always darkened so quickly.
A red flag car drove past Ruan Ning, the passing wind lifting Song Ruannin’s long hair.
The car stopped not far away, and a middle-aged man with a large head and ears stepped out.
Song Ruannin recognized him at a glance—it was Yao Lei, Yao Wankun’s uncle.
The man who had taken over the mayor’s secretary position after her father’s death.
Almost instinctively, she followed him.
The man walked for a while, arriving at the entrance of a bar, and went inside.
After waiting nearly two hours in the cold wind, Yao Lei finally emerged from the bar.
When he came out, he was holding a slender, young woman.
The two of them turned into a small alleyway, and Song Ruannin, wearing a mask, quietly followed.
Unexpectedly, the two stopped right at the corner of the alley.
The sky had completely darkened, but Song Ruannin could still clearly see what the two people not far away were doing.
Indecent sounds pierced her ears.
Song Ruannin snapped back to reality and, suppressing her disgust, opened her phone to start recording.
Someone tapped her on the shoulder.
Turning her head, she met Zhai Yu’s dark eyes.
Song Ruannin immediately reacted, covering Zhai Yu’s mouth.
Her eyes pleaded: Please, don’t say a word.
She raised her phone and began recording the two people in the corner.
The two not far away grew more and more engrossed, their voices rising and falling.
The fragrance from Song Ruannin’s body unknowingly drifted into Zhai Yu’s nostrils.
He couldn’t help but recall the past, his breath warming by several degrees.
Song Ruannin’s skin was very fair, Song Ruannin was beautiful, and Song Ruannin’s voice was incredibly pleasing when she was aroused…
He didn’t know how much time had passed before the two over there finished. Song Ruannin turned off her phone, grabbed Zhai Yu’s hand, and hurried away.
Everything that had just happened was too sudden.
Only when they reached the main street did she realize she was still holding Zhai Yu’s hand.
She immediately let go.
“Song Ruannin, was that exciting?” Zhai Yu stared straight at her face.
Song Ruannin’s face flushed instantly. It was only then that she realized what an outrageous thing she had just dragged Zhai Yu into doing.
She was speechless.
Zhai Yu continued to tease, “How did it feel, dragging your ex-boyfriend to eavesdrop on others?”