Lu Muqian was away on a business trip. He said he would be gone for half a month, and An Yin couldn’t sleep that night.
No matter how many messages An Yin sent him, there was no reply from the other end, as if they had sunk into the sea.
The next day…
An Yin went to the studio for work as usual, looking listless. When Jiang Mengyue saw her swollen eyes and distracted appearance, she knew things hadn’t been resolved.
“Yinyin, are you okay? Didn’t you manage to explain things clearly?”
“No, he didn’t believe me.” She sighed. For someone who had been reborn, what was the point of it all if things ended up like this?
“A Yue, what should I do? He got angry and left on a business trip last night. I don’t even have a chance to explain things to him again.”
“Are you silly? If you can’t meet in person, are your phones just for show?”
She shook her phone anxiously. “I’ve been messaging him all night, but no reply.”
“Then go find him.”
“I don’t know where he went for his business trip. Qiao Yi doesn’t know either.” In her previous life, An Yin had never asked about Lu Muqian’s business trips. Last night, she immediately asked Qiao Yi, but he said his boss hadn’t told him either.
“Haven’t you realized yet? If even his assistant doesn’t know, he’s probably avoiding you. It might not even be a business trip—he’s likely somewhere licking his wounds.”
An Yin suddenly recalled the scene from her previous life where Lu Muqian committed suicide in front of her tombstone. She tightly grasped Jiang Mengyue’s hand, her voice trembling slightly.
“A Yue, help me. I don’t want to leave him alone.”
An Yin had very little experience from her past life to rely on. Even with a second chance, she was still a novice when it came to love.
“Don’t worry, I’ll find out for you.”
Jiang Mengyue immediately took out her phone and asked her brother, Jiang Peiyan.
Jiang Mengyue: [Bro, I need to ask you something.]
He replied quickly, [Speak!]
Jiang Mengyue: [Where is Lu Muqian right now?]
Brother: [Don’t know.]
Jiang Mengyue: [How could you not know? Can’t you ask around and find out?]
[Good brother, please help your little sister out. (Puppy eyes emoji.)]
Brother: [Wait.]
Jiang Peiyan quickly found out Lu Muqian’s location.
Brother: [He’s in Jiangcheng.]
Jiang Mengyue: [Thanks! (Emoji)]
Jiang Mengyue had guessed her brother would know, but she didn’t expect Lu Muqian to have gone so far.
“What? He’s in Jiangcheng?” An Yin was shocked to hear that Lu Muqian had gone all the way to Jiangcheng.
“Absolutely true. Leave the studio to me and hurry up to book a ticket to go comfort him.”
Jiang Mengyue was like An Yin’s love and marriage strategist; she seemed more like the one who had been reborn.
“I’ll make it up to you when I get back. Love you! 😘”
An Yin booked a flight to Jiangcheng that very day.
Jiangcheng…
Due to the time difference between the two cities, it was still daytime in Jiangcheng, with clear skies and bright sunshine.
Lu Muqian, who was indeed in Jiangcheng on business, had no idea that his young wife would travel thousands of miles to find him. He was fully immersed in his work, using it to ease his longing.
Lu Corporation had a branch in Jiangcheng. This time, Lu Muqian was here to address the issue of the stock price hitting the limit-up. Recently, most companies in Jiangcheng had joined forces to suppress Lu Corporation’s branch, causing a significant drop in the stock price. The local manager couldn’t resolve the crisis and had to seek help from the headquarters.
Lu Muqian hadn’t originally planned to come in person, but it happened to be a convenient excuse to escape.
In the conference room of Lu Corporation’s subsidiary…
“Is this the kind of solution you came up with?”
“How long has the stock price been falling? None of you implemented any preventive measures—instead, you let the situation worsen?”
The man sat at the head of the conference table, legs crossed. In front of him lay the documents he had just thrown down. His king-like aura and icy demeanor left every employee in the room intimidated.
Lu Muqian’s thin lips curled into a cold smile, his frigid eyes gleaming like shards of ice. “So this is the best solution you can offer?”
“It seems that after this crisis passes, I’ll have to reorganize the company from within.”
From the moment he arrived, Lu Muqian had identified the internal issues plaguing the company. The submitted proposals alone revealed the employees’ lack of initiative, poor attitude, and overall slackness.
“President Lu, the stock price crisis is genuinely difficult to resolve, but at the same time, our competitors have been suppressing us relentlessly.”
One department manager foolishly chose to challenge him head-on, and the outcome was… predictable.
“Hah—blaming others for your own incompetence?”
“You have one week. If no effective solution is submitted by then, pack your bags and get out.”
Lu Muqian was already prepared to work overtime. However, Lu Corporation did not tolerate useless employees. He could devise the solution himself and knew exactly where to start, but if he did everything, what was the point of having employees?
…………
At Jiangcheng Airport, An Yin’s flight landed on time. She collected her luggage, walked out of the airport, hailed a taxi, and gave the driver an address.
She had mentally prepared herself to win back Lu Muqian no matter what—her journey to reclaim her husband was about to begin.