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Chapter 75 He was by my side
Jiang Guier slept very comfortably. When she opened her eyes again, her vision was slightly blurry, and a layer of lingering weariness still clung to her eyes. Her eyes were a little blurry, and the faint sweetness of osmanthus cake still lingered in her nose. The quiet breathing in the car was not her own, but Shen Huaizhou's.

She subconsciously turned her head and saw Shen Huaizhou's profile. He was looking down at his phone, his fingertips swiping across the screen, his expression serious and focused. The contours of his profile appeared particularly soft under the dim streetlights. Apart from a hint of fatigue in his eyes, he gave off a strong and impactful feeling.

Jiang Guier's heart skipped a beat for no reason, and a blush crept onto her cheeks. She suddenly remembered that she had fallen asleep just now, and she must have looked quite disheveled. Shen Huaizhou must have seen it, right?

He must have seen it!
Sigh... I don't snore or drool in my sleep, do I?

Jiang Guier, who suffers from severe anxiety about her appearance, was somewhat anxious at the moment. However, this anxious thought only lasted for a short while before being replaced by curiosity. What was he looking at? Was there some new information? Or something else?

She leaned slightly towards Shen Huaizhou, her head darting closer, her eyes secretly glancing at his phone screen. Then, as if burying her head in the sand, she asked, "Hey, what are you looking at so intently?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Huaizhou quickly turned off his phone screen, the action was so fast that it was almost subconscious. Jiang Guier, who was about to peek, only had time to catch that 0.01-second moment with her eyes, which seemed to be a photograph.

"Why aren't you letting me see it yet? Are you doing something secretly?"

Faced with Jiang Guier's curious question, Shen Huaizhou met her gaze, and Chen Wen's tone was unexpectedly lighthearted, "It's nothing, just looking around."

"Just looking around?" Jiang Guier dragged out the last syllable, sensing that Shen Huaizhou was flustered and his explanation was too abrupt. She straightened up, the weariness in her eyes disappearing, and a smile curved her lips, her tone teasing and expectant. "What is it that you're just looking around? President Shen is so busy, how could you possibly be looking at such trivial things? And you're hiding it? Oh, I know, it must be something I can't see, right?"

Her deliberately goofy manner was so adorable that Shen Huaizhou couldn't help but laugh. "It's really nothing." He suddenly moved closer to Jiang Guier. "You really want to see?"

He handed her the phone, so close that their breaths almost mingled. Now, it was Jiang Gui'er who panicked. A blush slowly spread across her cheeks, even tinging her neck with a faint pink. "I want to see it, will you give it to me?"

"Oh?" Shen Huaizhou's smile deepened. He moved closer to Jiang Guier and watched her eyes widen suddenly. He unbuckled her seatbelt from behind. As soon as his fingertips touched the buckle, Jiang Guier instinctively reached behind her, and their hands intertwined.

Her hand pressed against the back of his hand, and they both paused simultaneously.

"Click." The seatbelt buckle was released.

Jiang Guier quickly withdrew her hand, picked up the paper bag, and said with feigned composure, "It's getting late, I'll go upstairs first, you should go back and rest early too."

"Okay." Shen Huaizhou looked at her for a long time before responding. His voice was deep and gentle, and his gaze remained fixed on her.

Jiang Guier knew, but pretended not to.

Shen Huaizhou watched her push open the car door and walk briskly. He looked at her back, leaning against the driver's seat, his gaze following her.

At this moment, all he could see was longing and tenderness in his eyes. His phone screen lit up again, showing Jiang Guier's sleeping face.

Actually, he only stopped looking down at her when he realized that Jiang Guier was about to wake up. He pretended to be looking at his phone, but when he opened the phone, it showed her picture, which he was so engrossed in that he didn't switch to another picture.

He didn't start the car until the phone screen went dark again, and then he drove away.

Jiang Guier breathed a sigh of relief as she entered the building and went upstairs. She had been standing in a blind spot since entering the building, where she could see outside but not inside.

She didn't know what she was thinking or what she was expecting.

When Shen Huaizhou left the residential area, he was charged 100 yuan for parking. He was slightly surprised when he scanned the QR code.

This parking fee is really expensive.

The next morning, Jiang Guier got up very early, tidied herself up briefly, and went downstairs.

As soon as I stepped out of the wooden door, I saw the familiar car parked in the parking space downstairs, with Chairman Shen leaning against it.

She paused for a moment, then quickly walked over. "Shen Huaizhou, what are you doing here? Aren't you busy lately?"

"No rush." ​​Shen Huaizhou gestured for her to get in the car. Jiang Guier sat in the passenger seat and saw the coffee and sandwiches on the center console.

"I bought you an Americano without ice this morning."

"Thank you."

Jiang Guier took a sip and couldn't help but tease, "I remember seeing you delivering food before, and you were always so protective of your delivery scooter. Now I'm not used to seeing you drive. Are you not delivering food anymore? Or was delivering food before just a persona you were putting on?"

Shen Huaizhou casually steered the conversation away from the topic, saying, "Delivering takeout is life, but driving isn't." He then urged Jiang Guier, "Eat something first, I'll drive."

His avoidance of the topic made Jiang Guier suspicious. While drinking her coffee, she asked, "You haven't been taking care of the studio lately?"

"Sold."

"Sold!" Jiang Guier almost exclaimed in surprise.

“Setting up a studio was a temporary measure. Now I’m back in my original field of work, and I wouldn’t say I sold it off, just changed the form.” Shen Huaizhou’s explanation made Jiang Guier even more curious about why, but it was clear that Shen Huaizhou didn’t want to say any more.

The two found the place where their great-grandfather lived, but unfortunately, he seemed to be out today. Shen Huaizhou told Jiang Guier to wait in the car while he went to the street to ask around and see if he could get his phone number.

Shen Huaizhou sent a message directly to Lu Qing, getting straight to the point: "President Lu, I want to ask you something. What's the situation with Shen Huaizhou's studio?"

Lu Qing's reply came quickly. When the voice message was played, her voice was almost a shout: "Shen Huaizhou has gone mad. He's driving me crazy too. Miss Jiang, please talk to him!"

"what's the situation?"

"Why else? For you, of course." Lu Qing blurted out, "He was the one who pushed for your trip to Taiwan, and he also pushed for all the subsequent work. Although the trip to Taiwan didn't cost him anything, the problem was that some of the orders he had taken on before just happened to be due at this time. To avoid trouble, he refunded them directly. His financial situation isn't great, so he just gave me his studio as collateral. He's just taking advantage of me!"

Lu Qing complained bitterly. He thought that if he took over the studio, his senior brother would work for him, but he didn't expect it to be a losing proposition, as he couldn't even find the person.

He has truly lost both his wife and his army.

"Ah, how much? I'll pay. You just give the studio back to him," Jiang Guier said without hesitation.

Jiang Guier felt guilty for all he had done behind the scenes.

"Forget it, my senior brother won't agree."

Don't tell him.

“How could I not tell him?” Lu Qing sighed. His senior brother was the best at analysis; he could figure out the whole story in just a few words. “Miss Jiang, please don’t say I told you. You should handle your own affairs. Please don’t drag me into this.”

Lu Qing said I hung up the voice call.

Jiang Guier was thinking with her head down when "knock knock knock." There was a knock on the car window. She turned her head and saw Shen Huaizhou's enlarged face looking at her through the window.

She rolled down the car window. "What's wrong?"

"What are you thinking about? Get out of the car, we've found the person."

Shen Huaizhou opened the car door to let Jiang Guier out, but Jiang Guier grabbed his hand and said, "Let's talk."

The determination in the girl's eyes made Shen Huaizhou frown.