Suxin watched Aunt Xu come through the door. First, she draped a coat over Young Madam’s shoulders and gently coaxed her with a few words. Then she walked over to Shen Dongjun and said something to him in a low voice.
In the end, Shen Dongjun stormed off, slamming the door behind him.
Suxin believed he was genuinely furious, because he did not even spare her a glance amid the crowd.
Aunt Xu helped Han Qingzi to the bedroom nearby, while the cleaning lady went in to tidy up.
The entire process was so practiced and orderly.
After thinking it over, Suxin entered Han Qingzi’s room first.
Han Qingzi was holding a cup of warm water, sitting by the window in a daze.
When she saw Suxin, she managed to force a smile.
Suxin sat down beside her and asked, “Would it be convenient for you to tell me what happened?”
Han Qingzi said quietly, “Nothing.”
She clearly did not want to talk about it. Suxin sat with her for a while before getting up and going to the study.
Shen Dongjun was still wearing his bathrobe. He was furiously processing some data on the computer, striking the keyboard so hard it nearly started spitting sparks.
When he saw her, he said coldly, “Who let you come in?”
Suxin adopted a slightly more casual attitude toward him. She snapped her fingers, and a cup of dark-blue drink, wreathed in white mist, appeared beside Shen Dongjun.
Shen Dongjun said coldly, “Couldn’t hold back any longer and decided to poison me?”
Suxin: “…You really do look like you’ve gone mad with anger.” If he had retained even a little sense, Shen Dongjun would not have spoken to her like this.
The moment Shen Dongjun heard that, he stopped hesitating and picked up the cup, downing it in one go.
—It was actually pretty tasty.
Silence settled over the study.
Half a minute later, Suxin asked, “Calmer now?”
Shen Dongjun’s expression shifted unpredictably. After a long while, he finally asked, “What did you give me to drink?”
Suxin found a chair and sat down, saying smugly, “A little drink I made myself. Refreshing and calming. How is it? The effect is pretty good, right?”
Shen Dongjun fell silent.
His reaction was undoubtedly an admission that the drink had worked.
Suxin’s mood improved further, and she asked him, “What happened between the two of you? Why were you making such a commotion in the middle of the night?”
At that, Shen Dongjun showed signs of losing his temper again. But the drink’s effects were still active. Every time his anger was about to erupt, it was as though a basin of ice water came crashing down in his mind, extinguishing the flames completely.
In the end, he merely said coldly, “This has nothing to do with you.”
“Of course it does. I’m a fan of your CP!”
Suxin was very puzzled. “Based on my observations, you like her quite a lot, and she likes you too.”
Shen Dongjun’s eyes abruptly widened, and he shouted, “What nonsense are you talking about? I don’t like her!”
Suxin: “…”
Before she could say anything, she heard him continue coldly, “I would never like a woman who has another man in her heart!”
Suxin’s lips moved, but Shen Dongjun said warily, “We agreed last time that you’re not allowed to casually read the words in my mind! And you can’t turn back time whenever you feel like it!”
Suxin let out a regretful sigh. She was a person with principles. Since she had agreed, she would not break her promise.
All she could do was ask, “Then tell me what happened tonight.”
Given Shen Dongjun’s habit of keeping his mouth shut, this sort of thing would rot in his stomach for the rest of his life. He would never tell anyone, even on pain of death.
But the person standing before him had a bizarre background and was not even human.
She could even use an unfathomable method such as turning back time. There was no point in trying to hide anything from her.
Shen Dongjun wanted to get angry again, but another basin of ice water immediately doused him, jolting him into alertness.
He lowered his eyelids and said listlessly, “I saw that man send her a message.”
Suxin understood at once. That man should be the white moonlight Han Qingzi had once secretly loved.
Shen Dongjun’s words were fierce. “What kind of person sends messages to someone else’s wife in the middle of the night? He obviously has ulterior motives!”
Zhu Yin asked first, “How did Young Madam reply?”
Shen Dongjun gave a cold snort.
Zhu Yin: “?”
She stared at Shen Dongjun suspiciously for two seconds. “Don’t tell me she didn’t reply at all?”
Shen Dongjun said coldly, “She just hadn’t had time to reply yet.” He had seen it first.
He had been jolted awake from a nightmare. When he got up to pour himself a glass of water, he saw the light from Han Qingzi’s phone screen beside her pillow.
【Qingzi, while admiring the lotuses today, I remembered the photograph I took of you seven years ago.】
The sender’s note bore the name he hated with all his heart.
He had been unable to sleep after that. He stood silently by the head of the bed for quite some time, until Han Qingzi woke up groggily and was startled by the sight of him.
After that came questioning, conversation, and an argument.
Then the entire Shen Residence was roused, and everyone came to work several hours early.
“…”
Zhu Yin could not hold back. She stared at him. “Are you sick?”
Shen Dongjun stared back at her coldly.
Zhu Yin was not afraid of his stare. After all, apart from glaring at her and radiating cold air, he had no other way to deal with her.
Zhu Yin sighed with emotion. “Young Madam has such a good temper. If it were me, and you liked staying up in the middle of the night to stare at people, I’d lift your eyelids and make you stare for three days and three nights.”
Barbara shuddered and hurriedly said, “Host, we’re butlers, not villains!”
Zhu Yin stared at Shen Dongjun, deep in thought.
“Barbara, don’t you think there’s something wrong with the male lead?”
Based on her observations over the past few days, she was certain that, in every respect, Shen Dongjun fit the human world’s definition of an “elite.”
His looks, family background, abilities, and methods were all perfect. Countless young people within Shen Corporation regarded him as their idol.
And yet, whenever Han Qingzi was involved, he kept losing control, as he had with this inexplicable behavior tonight.
Zhu Yin was practically beginning to suspect that he had some sort of illness. But not long ago, Shen Dongjun had undergone an extremely thorough examination after accidentally becoming dizzy. His body was perfectly healthy, and he had no mental problems.
Zhu Yin was utterly baffled.
Barbara suddenly said, “I know, I know! It’s to highlight the heroine’s unique position in the male lead’s heart!”
Zhu Yin: “?”
Barbara said excitedly, “A calm and restrained male lead who loses his rationality only when something related to the heroine happens—how wonderfully romantic!”
Zhu Yin: “??”
Loses his rationality? This was more like losing his intelligence.
So this was where the difficulty of the Quick Transmigration Bureau’s missions lay.
After leaving the study, Butler Zhu Yin gave everyone an extra day’s wages as compensation for their mental distress.
Shen Dongjun did not come out for breakfast.
Han Qingzi quietly finished her meal alone and said that she was going out.
The moment she rose, a cold voice came from upstairs. “You’re going to see him, aren’t you?”
Han Qingzi gave a cold laugh as well. “Yes. In any case, haven’t you already decided that’s what I’m doing?”
Zhu Yin: “?”
Half an hour earlier, she had happened to pass by while Han Qingzi was on the phone and had heard everything clearly. It was obviously a friend who had invited her out shopping.
While Zhu Yin was still staring blankly, the tyrant CEO on the staircase had already erupted. “Get out! Once you walk through that door, don’t ever come back!”
All color drained from Han Qingzi’s face, and she turned and left.
“Hey—”
Zhu Yin could stop her, but she felt that doing so would be somewhat unfair to Han Qingzi. After all, Shen Dongjun looked genuinely unhinged at the moment.
The others were so frightened that they did not dare even breathe loudly. Each of them found a dark corner to hide in, pretending they were not there.
Zhu Yin frowned and looked toward Shen Dongjun, only to see him clutching his stomach in pain.
Aunt Xu emerged from a corner and said softly, “Young Master’s old ailment has flared up.”
Zhu Yin: “? What are you talking about? He only had an examination last month, and he’s perfectly healthy.” An old ailment that had lasted for over ten days?
A trace of bewilderment flashed across Aunt Xu’s face.
Zhu Yin could not be bothered to dwell on this unreasonable setting. She walked up to Shen Dongjun, but before she could get close, he shouted harshly, “Don’t touch me!”
Zhu Yin smiled. “Of course, Young Master.”
A violent gust suddenly blew in through the door. Aunt Xu and the others instinctively raised their hands to shield themselves. When they recovered, Young Master was nowhere to be seen.
Only Butler Zhu Yin remained standing where she was, smiling brightly as she said, “Aunt Xu, it looks like Young Master’s body has no problems after all. Look how nimble he is.”