Chapter 689 Telephone Contact

Chapter 689 Telephone Contact

“You haven’t even sparred with me, how do you know I’m weak?” Sui Sui retorted. “I’ve been learning martial arts from Uncle Mo Mo and training with him all this time.”

"Compare?" Huo Zhizhou raised an eyebrow slightly.

Sui Sui thought about what Lin Bei had said and, after much consideration, denied it: "You're being too kind."

Huo Zhizhou: "What's wrong with me?"

As Sui Sui spoke, she walked towards her room: "You're such a big person, yet you're trying to out-strength a kid like me. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at by others?"

"Compared to you, I can only compare myself to you with one finger," Huo Zhizhou said, going along with his words.

"No." Sui Sui refused decisively, "I'm too lazy to comfort you if you cry after losing."

Huo Zhizhou chuckled: "Are you talking about yourself?"

Sui Sui: "I'm talking to you."

Huo Zhizhou brought up the old story again: "Who was that when he was four years old, he insisted on playing a game, and when he lost, he was crying there."

Sui Sui: "..."

Sui Sui walked into the room and opened her suitcase, her tone childish but still very serious: "It's been so long, why are you still bringing this up? How childish."

Hearing his words, Huo Zhizhou took a few steps toward him.

As he rummaged through the box for his belongings, Huo Zhizhou knelt down in front of him and asked, "Something on your mind?"

They've been arguing for so long, yet they're still so serious.

This is different from the usual year.

"I want to sleep." As Sui Sui spoke, she picked up her clothes, her chubby face looking very obedient. "Please go out first, I want to take a shower."

Huo Zhizhou stared at him for a while, then finally suppressed the words in his heart, patted his head and said in a doting tone, "Call me if you need anything, I'll wait for you at the door."

Sui Sui said "oh" and went to the bathroom.

Huo Zhizhou didn't stay in the bedroom any longer and closed the door for him.

He stood in the corridor opposite the door, looking at the night sky below, a sense of worry rising in his mind.

After a while.

He asked Lin Bei, "What did Sui Sui talk to you about?"

Lin Bei feigned ignorance: "Huh?"

Huo Zhizhou stared at him.

He gave me a look that said, "Don't even think about hiding anything from me."

"I just took the young master for a walk around here and introduced him to the nearby buildings and facilities." Lin Bei promised Sui Sui he wouldn't tell, and he wouldn't. "Apart from that, it was just everyday life."

Huo Zhizhou remained silent, his dark eyes unfathomable.

Lin Bei emphasized, "It's true! You can check if you don't believe me."

"You always add this line when you lie," Huo Zhizhou bluntly exposed him.

Sui Sui's reaction was strange.

He knew he was more mature than his peers and had his own insights and ideas on many things.

But it was obvious that something very important was being hidden just now.

"I admit that I did talk to the young master about some things." Seeing that he couldn't hide it any longer, Lin Bei said, half-truthfully, "but I can't tell you what we talked about."

Huo Zhizhou: "Why?"

Lin Bei: "I promised the young master I wouldn't tell you."

Huo Zhizhou's breath was somewhat cold.

He let them do whatever they wanted with other matters.

But since it concerns Sui Sui, he can't afford to be careless, especially since he's in such a bad state right now.

"I assure you this is insignificant. The young master just doesn't want you to know, but he agreed to let me tell Miss Jiang." Lin Bei said this after much consideration, his words laced with a mixture of truth and falsehood.

Huo Zhizhou looked at him.

Lin Bei remained silent, not daring to say anything more, adhering to the principle that the more you say, the more mistakes you make.

After all, no one knows whether the BOSS will go to the young master to trick him into saying something.

"Did you tell Ruan Ruan?" Huo Zhizhou asked.

"Not yet," Lin Bei said. "I plan to talk about it after Miss Jiang arrives tomorrow."

Huo Zhizhou didn't ask any more questions.

It was 10 p.m. that night.

After Sui Sui finished washing up and went to bed, Huo Zhizhou also returned to his own room.

Thinking about what Lin Bei had said, he considered it again and again before sending Jiang Ruan a message: 【Are you asleep?】

Jiang Ruan had just finished washing up and was lying in bed.

She rubbed her hair while replying to Su Zhu's messages on her phone.

Just finished replying.

Huo Zhizhou then jumped out.

She opened the chat window and replied briefly: 【Not yet, what's up?】

Huo Zhizhou: [After you left today, Sui Sui went for a walk with Lin Bei. They talked about something, and Sui Sui wasn't in a particularly good mood when she came back.]

Jiang Ruan made the call.

The call was connected quickly.

"What's wrong with him?" Jiang Ruan asked, somewhat worried.

"She's not as lively as before, like she's hiding something." Huo Zhizhou didn't hide it, after all, Ruan Ruan is Sui Sui's current guardian, she should know everything.

Jiang Ruan asked, "What did Lin Bei say?"

Huo Zhizhou: "He said that Sui Sui had said that I couldn't know about their conversation, but I could let you know."

Upon hearing this...

Jiang Ruan paused.

Almost instantly, a guess formed in my mind.

The reason Sui Sui said that was probably because he sensed something was wrong with Huo Zhizhou and was asking Lin Bei about the truth of Huo Zhizhou's situation.

"Is Sui Sui asleep?"

"She's asleep."

"It's alright, don't worry." Jiang Ruan was still reassured about Sui Sui. "I'll come over and ask tomorrow."

Huo Zhizhou: "Okay."

Jiang Ruan hummed in agreement.

Just as I was about to hang up the phone.

Huo Zhizhou, however, seemed hesitant to speak, as if he had a lot to say.

"Is there anything else?" Jiang Ruan asked naturally.

"No." Huo Zhizhou swallowed all his words, the once aloof man now becoming cautious. "I just wanted to ask if you're getting used to it?"

Jiang Ruan: "It's alright."

Apart from being a little tired, I'm not used to anything else.

After all, during school holidays, I often went out and played with Su Zhu.

Back then, I was young, and I would go out to play as soon as I got off the plane, so there was no jet lag.

I clearly don't have the same energy I had when I was in school.

"That's fine then." Huo Zhizhou's thousand words ultimately boiled down to these: "Then you should get some rest. I'll keep a close eye on Sui Sui, and I'll contact you if anything happens."

"It's okay, you go to sleep." Jiang Ruan knew Sui Sui well enough.

Huo Zhizhou wanted to say something more, but thinking that Jiang Ruan probably didn't want to chat with him, he finally just said, "Okay."

Jiang Ruan hummed in agreement and ended the call.

The phone rang right after I hung up on Su Zhu.

Jiang Ruan took it casually.

The latter naturally asked, "I just tried calling you, but the line was busy. Were you busy with work?"

“It’s not work,” Jiang Ruan said truthfully. “It’s Huo Zhizhou.”

Su Zhu remained silent for a few seconds.

It's clear that she has a lot of opinions about Huo Zhizhou.

However, since this was Jiang Ruan's private matter, she didn't comment too much, only asking as usual, "Did you see the person?"

Jiang Ruan: "Mm."

Su Zhu: "You're not dead, are you?"

Jiang Ruan: "It's fine."

It wasn't as serious as Huo Sinian described; it's probably been cured during this period of recuperation.

"What do you think?" Su Zhu asked the question that had been on her mind.

Jiang Ruan paused, then asked, "Hmm?"

Su Zhu put it bluntly: "You came all this way specifically for him, and now that you've seen him, what are your plans?"