Chapter 556 He's Going Crazy

Chapter 556 He's Going Crazy

"Haven't seen you for a few days, and you've already learned to curse me to get sick." Huo Zhizhou poked his forehead, still in that same tone, "Isn't this how you are when I wake you up in the morning before you're fully awake?"

Sui Sui didn't respond.

She was still half asleep, and her condition was completely different from her father's.

"Can you not go on business trips?" Sui Sui asked, looking at him.

Huo Zhizhou: "Call me 'Dad' and let me hear it."

Sui Sui pursed her lips: "Daddy."

Huo Zhizhou was taken aback.

Realizing that his current condition might really be very bad.

Otherwise, how could this kid have compromised so easily?

"If you call me a few more times, I won't go."

"I won't call you that." Sui Sui turned her face away.

Huo Zhizhou: "Really not going to call?"

"Give me your schoolbag." Sui Sui shrugged, not wanting to stay there any longer. "I want to go home."

Huo Zhizhou raised his hand and gently tapped his hand.

Sui Sui stared at him with her round eyes: "What are you doing?"

"Is this a place you can come and go as you please?" Huo Zhizhou gently flicked his forehead, his tone both indulgent and slightly deliberate. "Where do you want to go tomorrow? I'll adjust the time accordingly."

Sui Sui: "No need."

Huo Zhizhou pinched his cheek: "Are you still angry?"

"I'm not angry." Sui Sui didn't argue with him, and rarely faced him with her true emotions. "I just don't want you to waste too much energy on me."

Huo Zhizhou: "?"

This child.

What nonsense are you talking about?

Just as she was about to speak, Sui Sui continued.

“I don’t know what happened to you, but I know you’re unhappy.” Sui Sui rarely confided in him like this. “If I stay here, you’ll have to pretend everything’s fine so I can feel better, and I don’t want that.”

This moment.

Huo Zhizhou felt as if his heart had been struck.

He wanted to explain, not wanting to put too much psychological burden on the child, but Sui Sui's words continued to ring out.

“I came here to expose your fake business trip,” Sui Sui explained. “If I had known you were lying to hide your unhappiness, I definitely wouldn’t have come and caused you any more trouble.”

"Smack."

Huo Zhizhou slapped his hand.

Sui Sui winced in pain and shrank back, looking at him with her round eyes: "What are you doing!"

"What are you thinking about all day?" Huo Zhizhou's tone remained unchanged.

Sui Sui: "I wasn't thinking anything."

"I'm like this because I've been working all night these past two days. I just finished and fell asleep when you came." Huo Zhizhou lied with a straight face, but his tone was very sincere. "I'm going on a business trip tomorrow to coordinate a new project. How could you make up so much about that?"

Sui Sui stared at him: "Really?"

Huo Zhizhou: "Go ask Jiang Yu."

I believed half of it every year.

When my dad was busy in the past, he would indeed work through the night, and he looked a bit as tired as he does now.

"Didn't you say you didn't love me?" Huo Zhizhou tried to lighten the mood. "Why were you concerned about me just now?"

"I don't care." Sui Sui started being arrogant again.

Huo Zhizhou pinched his nose: "You're worried about him like that even if you don't care?"

Sui Sui: "I was faking it."

Huo Zhizhou: "Show me another one."

"I'm not talking to you anymore!" Sui Sui felt a bit like a clown, and now her father was smug again. "I'll go back after dinner, you go and get some sleep."

"I'll spend time with you when I get back from my business trip." Huo Zhizhou rubbed his head.

Sui Sui didn't respond to that, she just kept urging him to go to sleep.

Huo Zhizhou said he would accompany him.

He urged him on.

In the end, the father and son lay down on the bed together.

Seeing the dark circles under Huo Zhizhou's eyes, Sui Sui still felt a pang of heartache: "Uncle Huo."

"Hmm?" Huo Zhizhou turned his head.

"You're already so rich, why do you still work so hard?" Sui Sui looked at him, puzzled. "Can't you enjoy a more relaxed life?"

Huo Zhizhou: "I miss you when I'm not working, but you don't like me."

Sui Sui: "..."

Huo Zhizhou: "If you call me 'Dad' every day and call me every day to say hello, I won't want to work anymore."

Sui Sui: "..."

He knew he was teasing him.

I simply stopped talking.

That afternoon, Sui Sui stayed with Huo Zhizhou for two hours while he slept. After waking up, they spent some more time together, chatting calmly about everyday things. Around 5 p.m., Huo Zhizhou had dinner prepared.

When the father and son sat down to eat, Assistant Jiang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The boss would probably eat it in front of the young master.

However, he underestimated Huo Zhizhou's abilities. During the meal, he would put food on Sui Sui's plate one moment and tease him the next. He didn't eat a single bite of food by the end of the meal, but Sui Sui didn't notice.

Not only did he not notice it.

Jiang's assistant and Lin Bei and the others didn't notice either.

I only found out when I was clearing away the dishes and saw that they were clean and unused.

"I'm going back." Sui Sui jumped into the car and said to him through the car window with a little bit of emotion, "If you want to live a little longer, don't stay up all night working."

"Understood, old man," Huo Zhizhou said.

Sui Sui: "..."

Never speak to him again!

Huo Zhizhou walked over to Lin Bei in the driver's seat and said, "Drive slowly and be careful."

Lin Bei: "Okay, BOSS."

After saying that, he started the car and drove away.

As the taillights disappeared from sight, Huo Zhizhou's relaxed smile gradually faded, eventually returning to calm.

He turned and went inside, instructing Jiang Yu beside him, "Book a flight to go abroad."

Assistant Jiang: "?"

Assistant Jiang quickly thought about recent events.

It seems there are no overseas business opportunities.

"Or we could go to the island we bought before," Huo Zhizhou added. "As long as it's not in Haicheng, it's fine as long as we're on a business trip."

“Okay,” Assistant Jiang replied.

Back in the room.

Huo Zhizhou's emotions fell back into the same state as before.

These past few days he's been thinking about how to get along with Jiang Ruan. If things continue like they were a few days ago, he's afraid that Jiang Ruan will be driven to the brink of destruction, just as Gu Shixi said.

He suppressed his desire to see her and his urge to message her.

I don't want to cause her any trouble or annoyance.

But this result drove him almost insane.

His constant longing for her caused him to suffer a mental breakdown and loss of appetite.

I think of her when I'm awake, I think of her when I'm daydreaming, and sometimes I dream about her even when I'm asleep.

But he knew very well that he couldn't go to her, because she had said that if he really cared about her, he should prioritize her feelings and thoughts, instead of being selfish towards her.

Her thought was precisely that she didn't want to see him.

Now that Sui Sui is suspected of being away on a business trip, Ruan Ruan doesn't want to see him. It's a good opportunity to go out for a few days and see if she can control her longing and impulses and maintain a distant relationship with him.

[BOSS, the young master has arrived home.] Lin Bei sent a message.

Huo Zhizhou: [Hmm.]

Lin Bei continued: [On the way, the young master asked me how many days you were going on your business trip. I said I wasn't sure, it depended on your arrangements, is that right?]

"That's right, did you ask anything else?" Huo Zhizhou remained calm.

Lin Bei: [No.]

Huo Zhizhou felt somewhat relieved: 【Mm.】