It was nine in the morning in Moscow.
Yu Huan woke up and discovered that Zhu Heqing had sent her several messages.
The earliest one had been sent at eight.
[It’s going to rain in Moscow today. Remember to wear a jacket.]
Yu Huan calculated the time difference between Moscow and Beijing. When Zhu Heqing sent the message, it had been exactly one in the afternoon in Beijing—the company’s lunch and break period.
Yu Huan lay on the Lina Bear that her mother had specially bought the day before to keep her company while she slept.
She suddenly decided to launch a surprise inspection.
She was going to check up on Zhu Heqing.
The video call had barely rung for three seconds before he answered.
Zhu Heqing’s face appeared on the screen.
“Good morning, Fufu. Have you eaten yet?”
Fufu was Yu Huan’s nickname.
Her parents believed that she was the lucky little star of the Yu family, so they had always affectionately called her their “little lucky star.”
Over time, Fufu became her nickname.
A warm smile spread across Zhu Heqing’s handsome face as he stared intently at Yu Huan on the screen.
Yu Huan shook her head, her sleep-mussed hair swaying along with the movement.
“I’ll go eat in a little while.”
She curled her finger toward the screen and said coquettishly,
“Brother, come a little closer. I want to get a good look at you.”
Zhu Heqing obediently leaned closer to the phone.
Yu Huan traced his facial features on the screen with her finger, then noticed the faint dark circles beneath his eyes.
Even upon closer inspection, his expression clearly revealed his exhaustion.
He obviously hadn’t rested properly.
Actually, that slight weariness only added to the mature, captivating charm of a man in a position of power.
But Yu Huan didn’t like Zhu Heqing neglecting his health one bit.
Her almond-shaped eyes widened as she began interrogating him.
“Zhu Heqing, what time have you been going to bed these past few days?”
Her voice was fierce.
She didn’t even call him “Brother” anymore.
Zhu Heqing, who could normally handle any situation with ease, was completely helpless when faced with his girlfriend’s interrogation.
Knowing that he was in the wrong, he tightened his hand at his side.
But there was no way he could actually admit that he hadn’t been sleeping well because he was afraid Yu Huan would be distracted by the colorful world outside, fall for someone else, and break up with him.
He simply couldn’t bring himself to say that.
When Zhu Heqing failed to answer her question immediately, Yu Huan became even angrier.
They hadn’t been dating for very long, and Zhu Heqing already had secrets from her.
Men really were all fickle cabbages.
She slapped the Lina Bear beside her with a smack. The force wasn’t exactly light.
“If you don’t want to tell me, then don’t! I don’t care. You’d better never tell me for the rest of your life!”
“We have nothing to talk about anymore. Don’t send me any messages. I don’t want to see you at all right now. Hmph!”
As soon as she finished speaking, Yu Huan hung up.
She sat up, grabbed the Lina Bear, and treated it like Zhu Heqing, furiously rubbing and squeezing it until some of her anger finally subsided.
Whenever Yu Huan got angry, she spoke as quickly as a little train, leaving Zhu Heqing absolutely no chance to get a word in.
By the time she finished and he was finally about to explain, she had already ruthlessly ended the call, leaving Zhu Heqing alone, staring at their chat window.
Zhu Heqing: “…”
Because of the morning’s little incident, Yu Huan wasn’t in much of a mood for the rest of the day.
To make matters worse, the weather in Moscow remained gloomy all day. Yu Huan and her parents only took a casual stroll around the area near the hotel before ending the day’s outing.
That evening.
Yu Huan’s mother knocked on her bedroom door. After waiting a few seconds, she gently pushed it open and walked inside.
“Fufu, I made you a glass of warm milk.”
Her mother walked over to her and asked gently,
“Did something happen today that made you unhappy? You can tell Mom about it.”
The moment her mother asked, all the grievances that had been churning inside Yu Huan came pouring out.
“Zhu Heqing doesn’t love me anymore.”
Her mother gently stroked her daughter’s hair.
“What did he do?”
When Yu Huan had first started dating Zhu Heqing, her mother hadn’t been able to accept it very well.
Yu Huan had only just become an adult and was still a child in her eyes, while Zhu Heqing was already twenty-five.
On top of that, there was an enormous difference in their social standing.
The Yu family was an ordinary family, whereas the Zhu family stood at the very top of the social pyramid.
People born into such powerful and prestigious families were never simple. They were usually extremely calculating and knew how to manipulate situations.
On the surface, Zhu Heqing appeared gentle and refined, but for someone so young to have already taken over the Zhu family, there was no need to explain how capable and ruthless he could be.
For someone like him, you could call it courtship if you wanted to be polite.
Put bluntly, it looked more like he wanted to keep Yu Huan as his mistress.
Unfortunately, Yu Huan had been spoiled rotten by her family. She had a strong temper and had agreed to Zhu Heqing’s pursuit without a second thought.
Yu Huan’s mother had already prepared herself to go all out and confront Zhu Heqing if her daughter ever ended up being hurt.
Instead, the two of them actually fell deeply and sweetly in love.
In fact, Zhu Heqing spoiled Yu Huan even more than her own family did.
The way he treated her was practically as if she were the most precious thing in his life.
So when her daughter claimed, “Zhu Heqing doesn’t love me anymore,” Yu Huan’s mother didn’t really believe her.
“He even refused to answer my question today! I asked him what time he went to sleep, and he wouldn’t answer me!”
Even now, Yu Huan was still furious whenever she thought about it.
Her mother frowned.
That wasn’t exactly a difficult question to answer.
If Zhu Heqing refused to answer, it could only mean that he was hiding something.
Yu Huan’s mother took her daughter’s side without hesitation.
“Fufu, do you want to break up with Xiao Zhu?”
Yu Huan finished the glass of milk her mother had brought her and narrowed her almond-shaped eyes.
“I’m going back tomorrow. I want to find out exactly what he’s been doing behind my back.”
Yu Huan was a woman of action.
She immediately bought a plane ticket and boarded a flight the next day.
By the time she arrived home, Zhu Heqing still hadn’t returned.
Yu Huan glanced at the time.
He should have already gotten off work.
She ignored the messages Zhu Heqing had sent her and found his assistant in her contact list.
She asked whether the president had worked overtime that day.
After receiving a negative answer, a cold smile appeared on Yu Huan’s delicate face.
She opened the location-tracking app on her phone.
Zhu Heqing had had the company develop it himself. Once a couple linked their accounts, they could check each other’s locations at any time. Even if the phone was turned off, the tracking would still work.
The location showed that Zhu Heqing was at a bar.
Yu Huan had never heard of the bar before.
On the way there, she didn’t sit around doing nothing. She searched for the bar on Xiaohongshu.
There were quite a few posts about it.
Yu Huan casually opened one and skimmed through it.
The owner of the bar was a wealthy second-generation heir, and the people who usually went there were all well-connected and influential.
Even the employees were exceptionally good-looking.
Quite a few people in the comments claimed that many rich young heirs liked going there to find girlfriends.
Yu Huan: “!”
She clenched her small white teeth.
So Zhu Heqing had actually gone out drinking and partying while she was away.
That exhausted look on his face must have been from going out chasing women!
Without even caring whether she might alert him to the fact that she knew, Yu Huan opened their chat and immediately unleashed her anger.
[You jerk.]
[Liar.]
[Shameless bastard.]