20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3783 Stories and Accidents

As women who have seen the stars and the sea, He Cai and Chu Yun know that men, especially successful men, have dark and wicked morals and perverse tastes hidden in their hearts. They enjoy tactile, auditory, visual, and even gustatory pleasures, and they seek to conquer and control those who achieve success.

In fact, women also have this preference, but it's the conqueror who becomes the conquered, driven by a desire for strength. However, the men they get to know well are rarely the ones who are worthy of their wholehearted devotion; it's something that can only be encountered by chance.

So the windows were closed, the curtains were drawn, the air conditioner and electric heater were on, and the bright lights were on, bringing everything out of the darkness with distinct images and vibrant colors.

The three of them chatted and laughed for a while. When Zhao Chang'an saw that it was already 3:30 in the morning, he said to the two women, "You two can have a good night's sleep tomorrow morning. I won't go to the R&D center first. I'll go to the hotel for a buffet and then go with them. If the contract can be negotiated, I'll stay for a few more days next time I come, and we can go out and have fun together."

"But we don't want to sleep in at all!"

He Cai's voice was lazy and cloyingly sweet: "I'm a little hungry now. I wanted to get up early to have breakfast this morning."

"Snapped!"

Chu Yun laughed and slapped He Cai's butt: "You're so cutesy, it gives me goosebumps. But we really don't want to sleep in. The early bird catches the worm. I know a place that makes really good hot dry noodles, but it's only good when there are few people. When there are a lot of people in line, the owner becomes more laid-back and doesn't mix the ingredients as well, so it's not as good."

"Your voice sounds even sweeter than mine!"

Not to be outdone, He Cai grabbed Chu Yun, and the two of them playfully wrestled close to Zhao Chang'an, which made him feel a little aroused.

However, it was indeed getting late, and we should be more restrained. Zhao Chang'an said, "Alright, let's stick to the original plan. You two should get some sleep and recover your energy. I won't go back to Tian Xue's dormitory; I'll rest on the first floor."

When Zhao Chang'an left Tian Xue's bedroom, he had no intention of going back. Sleeping on the lower bunk with a sad beauty sleeping on the upper bunk made it difficult to fall asleep.

It's much more comfortable to sleep on the big sofa on the first floor.

"Then you might as well sleep here. I'll share a bed with you, and He Cai, who's fat, can sleep in her own bed."

Chu Yun suggested, "The ground is too cold, otherwise we could make do."

"I'm fat? You're joking! You're as skinny as a monkey, and you're jealous and slandering me because I'm fat!"

He Cai pouted, clearly indicating her disagreement: "You really know how to think!"

"I can't sleep like this at all. I have a lot to do tomorrow. Besides, wouldn't it be better to take a break during the break?"

Zhao Chang'an put on his clothes, slung his bag over his shoulder, and knowing that the two of them still needed to tidy up, he didn't turn off the light. Instead, he gently opened the door with a creak and went out.

As I walked out, I carefully closed the door behind me.

The bright lights in the bedroom were suddenly blocked by the door, and the corridor was filled with the dim light from the moonlight and the small wall lamps in the server room, which could not shine directly out but were diffused through the walls and chairs in the room.

In the dim light, Zhao Chang'an saw a dazzlingly white object standing in the middle of the corridor less than 1.5 meters away from him, wearing dark red glazed high heels.

He was so startled that he shuddered violently, his back went numb, and he almost cried out in alarm, "Who?"

I was immediately reminded of a widely circulated ghost story from my freshman year of college when I lived in the dorm. It was about a guy who went to the bathroom late at night and saw a long-haired female ghost wearing red shoes standing silently at the other end of the dark corridor, watching him. The story itself isn't scary, but walking into an empty dorm bathroom with eight stalls late at night is definitely a creepy experience.

Fortunately, Zhao Chang'an immediately realized that there was no female ghost in the world that could be seen directly. After looking more closely, he realized that it was Lin Xiaojie.

Her long hair was disheveled, her face was deathly pale, her eyes were tightly closed, and her entire body was swaying as if she were about to fall over.

Her whole body went limp and she collapsed to the ground.

Zhao Chang'an, with quick reflexes, swept her into his arms. This was the second time he had held her like a domineering CEO. The only difference was that last time she was wearing a bright red cheongsam, while this time she was only wearing a pair of red high heels.

A soft, warm fragrance enveloped him, and the light weight of her body and the sight he could see at that moment told Zhao Chang'an that this was not a carefree dream.

Seeing Lin Xiaojie seemingly faint in his arms, Zhao Chang'an knew from her trembling and stiff body that she hadn't actually fainted. If she had, she would be weak and limp, not like a taut bowstring.

Zhao Chang'an knew she had run out of tricks and had no choice but to play dead, just like she did in the car yesterday.

In the dimly lit corridor, Zhao Chang'an looked at the woman in his arms. She was completely different from women who had had boyfriends and children. Her skin was snow-white, with only a slight hint of light brown pigmentation. Her lower abdomen was slightly swollen, and Zhao Chang'an guessed that she probably couldn't hold it in and needed to go to the toilet.

That evening, Zhao Chang'an drank several cups of water, but each time he only drank about half a cup. He Cai and Chu Yun would then refill his cup with water, and they would also refill Lin Xiaojie's cup each time. Once, Zhao Chang'an glanced at her and saw that she had nervously drunk the entire cup of water.

I was wondering what she ate for dinner, why was she drinking so much water?
The girl was still so cautious, afraid of disturbing others and making them unhappy. It was a perfectly normal thing to turn on the light, find the place where the cheongsam was hanging, and put it on, but she was afraid of disturbing Tian Xue's rest, which made things so complicated.

This made Zhao Chang'an both annoyed and amused.

Of course, it was also her bad luck. For someone like her to go to the restroom, the total time she spent walking back and forth through the corridor should not have exceeded twenty seconds, but Zhao Chang'an just happened to run into her.

Seeing that Lin Xiaojie was clinging to him, Zhao Chang'an had no choice but to carry her to the restroom at the end of the corridor, gently open the restroom door, go inside, and close it.

The room was quiet at the moment, and of course, there was no red-clad, red-shoes female ghost at the end of the corridor as rumored in the dormitory.

From this angle, the moonlight shone directly onto Lin Xiaojie, who was nestled in Zhao Chang'an's arms, through the small, closed glass window, making every detail visible.

Zhao Chang'an walked to the squatting position and squatted down, helping Lin Xiaojie to find a convenient position.

He remembered seeing Qiao Shasha when she was still a toddler. Xue Yunzhu would come to Xia Wenyang's house for dinner, and sometimes she would burn firewood downstairs to steam milk-flavored buns. Because it was inconvenient to go upstairs, she would lean against the wall downstairs and let Qiao Shasha pass by.

But after a while, the bathroom was still quiet. Zhao Chang'an saw that she was still 'unconscious', but her breathing was becoming more and more rapid, her slightly swollen belly was heaving violently, and her heart was beating like a herd of wild horses.

We know that the only way to solve this problem is to address its root cause.

He sighed and said softly, "Actually, it's nothing. It just means we're destined to meet. It was also fate that I went to the bathroom just now, and Chu Yun happened to open the door to go in too. I went in and talked to them about work for a while. I'm going to Zhengzhou tomorrow night, and you know I'm short on time. I came all this way tonight not just to pour my heart out to Tian Xue, but also to talk to them about work. After talking for so long, I wasn't planning to go back to my room and bother you, but to make do with the night on the first floor, and yet we still bumped into each other. Isn't that fate?"

(End of this chapter)