novelraw Chapter 364: Just Come to My House! (Fourth Update)
Chapter 364: Just Come to My House! (Fourth Update)
That afternoon, Ji Rui, who said he wanted to spend more time with Baobao, acted out of character and didn’t cling to Le Tong after work as usual but packed up his things early and left."Le Tong, I have a social engagement tonight. Please tell Baobao that I won’t be there to accompany him tonight."
Le Tong, who was packing up, responded with, "Alright, I got it," while secretly wondering. His schedule for tonight was clearly blank.
Could it be that after hearing what Yang Sheng said during lunch, he suddenly had a conscience and truly wanted to take on some of the social engagements himself?
However, strange as it was, Le Tong didn’t ask further questions.
Ji Rui paused slightly beside her. Apart from hearing her faint "Got it," he heard nothing else and felt a bit disappointed, yet he had no right to blame her for being indifferent to him.
"Then I’m heading off." Ji Rui lifted his foot helplessly.
Just as he was about to reach rock bottom emotionally, Le Tong unexpectedly spoke up from behind, "Hmm, don’t drink too much. Make sure Brother Li prepares some stomach medicine and headache pills for you."
Ji Rui suddenly turned his head, trying to read something from Le Tong’s face, but she had already lowered her head to continue sorting out the documents on the table, as if that caring remark hadn’t just come from her mouth.
"Hmm, I’ll try to drink less. I’ll be over at 6:30 tomorrow morning to join Baobao for his morning exercises. While making breakfast, prepare mine as well."
After saying this, Ji Rui swiftly walked out of the office, not waiting for any response from Le Tong.
Le Tong raised her head, stared in a daze at his receding figure for a moment, then shook her head and set about organizing her desk before grabbing her bag to leave.
When Baobao heard that Ji Rui had a social engagement, he was very understanding and didn’t fuss. He just picked up the phone and sent Ji Rui a message.
"Daddy, don’t drink too much, okay!"
On the other end, Ji Rui took a moment to read Baobao’s message, shook his head with a smile, and thought to himself, indeed, mother and child are of one mind, thinking and saying the same thing.
Because of CoCo’s interference, Ji Rui had to pull a lot of strings to temporarily quell the situation.
In the afternoon, the person he entrusted the task to replied that CoCo and her private plane had been forcibly deported. But Ji Rui knew, while CoCo may have been deported, their game had only just begun.
Considering the nature of these matters, even if Le Tong asked, Ji Rui wouldn’t truthfully tell her.
And Yang Sheng, very tactfully, never mentioned anything about CoCo in front of Le Tong.
In the afternoon, Ji Rui and Yang Sheng went through the backgrounds of all the important partners of the Ji Family with a fine-toothed comb. Those potentially linked to CoCo were listed as investigation targets, and companies directly related were prioritized as key issues.
It is anticipated that in the near future, because of CoCo, Ji Rui will be much busier!
At around ten, almost eleven in the evening, Le Tong was on the balcony drying clothes when she heard a message alert on her phone. She returned to the living room and checked — it was from Ji Rui.
"Are you asleep?"
Thinking he needed something, Le Tong immediately called him back without second-guessing.
"Mr. Ji, what’s the matter?"
On the other end, Ji Rui seemed surprised that she called him back so promptly, hesitating a bit, "Not much, just wanted to see if you and Baobao were asleep."
That such a man like Ji Rui would send a message for something so trivial was a bit beyond Le Tong’s understanding of him.
"Baobao is asleep. I’m just drying clothes."
After responding honestly, Le Tong took the phone and walked out onto the balcony.
"What time do you go to bed at night? Isn’t it insufficient sleep getting up so early in the morning?"
Obviously, Ji Rui had remembered running into her this morning at around five.
Le Tong leaned on the railing with one hand and held the phone with the other, "I go to sleep after hanging up the clothes. Six to seven hours of sleep a day is enough."
Le Tong didn’t feel sleep-deprived; on the contrary, she felt her spirits had improved a lot since Baobao started living with her.
Probably because the heavy burden she’d carried for several years was finally lifted, making her relax, along with a corresponding improvement in her sleep quality.
"But what about you, are you still socializing outside this late?" Le Tong couldn’t hear Ji Rui’s voice and assumed he was still outside.
"No, finished with that, now on my way home." Ji Rui’s voice was accompanied by an extremely jarring honk.
And that honk simultaneously sounded in Le Tong’s other ear.
Peering out, Le Tong saw a black car parked not far from her building. If she wasn’t mistaken, it was President Ji’s vehicle.
This man...
Le Tong pinched her brow, feeling a headache coming on.
"It’s so late. You won’t get home until after eleven, Mr. Ji. You shouldn’t come tomorrow; I’ll just tell Baobao."
The voice from the other end was incredibly stubborn, "No, I will be there on time tomorrow."
Le Tong sighed softly in her heart and quickly calculated; from her house to Ji Rui’s was nearly an hour’s drive. If he went back now, coming back tomorrow morning would take two hours. It’s only a little more than seven hours until 6:30 tomorrow. Subtracting the two-hour driving time and another hour or two for bathing and other activities, he’d only have a little over three hours to sleep...
"Where is your car now?" Le Tong, succumbing to her soft-hearted weakness, asked without thinking, then wished she could bite her tongue off to take back the words.
"Let me check..."
After a pause, the other end replied, "Near the company..."
Ji Rui subtly glossed over this answer; Le Tong’s house was only a few minutes’ drive from the Ji Family anyway.
Le Tong rolled her eyes internally and then heard her voice, a bit helpless, breaking the silence of the night.
"If that’s the case, just come to my place directly. After all, you have a change of clothes here, it’ll save you the hassle of running back and forth."
Through the phone, she heard Ji Rui’s deep breathing, making Le Tong slightly exasperated with herself. She quickly added, "Of course, if Mr. Ji has other matters to attend to, go ahead. I was just saying it casually, don’t take it to heart."
Inviting a man to stay over at her place was a first for Le Tong.
Even though her intentions were completely innocent, merely wanting him to have more rest time, Ji Rui’s silence inexplicably embarrassed her.
Could the man on the other end have misunderstood and thought she was hinting at something?
[Update added, more updates to come later, as for how much is owed, Zhu Zi is too shy to say, you’re all aware... aww]