Middle-aged tycoon: Twins come knocking on his door when he goes home for Chinese New Year

At this moment, Zhang Ruoran was sitting at home in the Yuhuyuan residential area next to Hanshi Tiandi.

She sat on the sofa in the living room, fidgeting and unable to sit still.

Although the restaurant headquarters had already issued a notice instructing her to rest at home for the next few days.

But she has been busy for over a decade.

Every morning at the crack of dawn, she has to get up and go to the store to arrange work, and she is busy until 10 p.m. before she can go home.

She had long been accustomed to this very busy pace of life.

Now, if things suddenly stop and she's not allowed to do anything, she simply can't stay at home.

She picked up the TV remote from the coffee table and turned on the TV.

A lively TV drama was playing on TV, but after watching for two minutes, she found it completely uninteresting.

She pressed the red button on the remote control and immediately turned off the TV.

She stood up, went to the balcony to look at the street outside, then turned around and went back to the living room, sitting down on the sofa again.

Zhang Ruoran felt that this couldn't go on, and she had to find something to do.

She took her phone out of her pocket and found the restaurant's new manager's phone number in her contacts.

Without hesitation, she pressed the dial button.

After the phone rang a few times, the new store manager, who was in his thirties, answered it.

Zhang Ruoran spoke politely into her phone, asking:

"Hello, Manager Wang. This is Zhang Ruoran. I'm currently resting at home and feel like there's really nothing to do. I was wondering if there are many customers at the store today? Are all the private rooms booked for lunch?"

The new store manager, upon hearing it was Zhang Ruoran on the other end of the phone, spoke in a very friendly tone and replied:

"Hello, Sister Zhang. There aren't too many customers in the restaurant today. There are still a few empty private rooms available at lunchtime, and there are also many empty seats in the main hall."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ruoran quickly added:

"Is the kitchen prepared enough food? Are the servers managing to keep up? If you need help, I can head out to the restaurant right now and help you out."

However, the new store manager chuckled on the phone and immediately rejected Zhang Ruoran's suggestion:

"Sister Zhang, really, it's not necessary. I can handle everything at the store, and the staff are all busy enough. It's not busy at all."

The new store manager continued:

"Yesterday, the head of headquarters specifically told me that you've been working too hard lately and need to rest for a few days. Just stay home today, eat well, sleep well, and don't think about anything. I'll look after the store, so don't worry."

When Zhang Ruoran heard the new store manager say all this, and even bring up the headquarters leaders, she really had no other choice.

She could only speak into the phone:

"Alright then, if there's anything the store can't handle, just give me a call anytime."

After saying that, Zhang Ruoran hung up the phone.

Zhang Ruoran put her phone on the sofa and let out a long sigh.

In the past, when she went to work every day, she always felt that there was always work to be done in the store.

After standing all day, both my legs were sore and I felt completely exhausted.

Back then, she thought to herself every day how wonderful it would be to have a few days off so she could stay home and do nothing but lie down and rest.

However, she is not used to staying at home and resting right now.

She felt that having nothing to do was even more unbearable than going to work.

She thought for a moment and realized that if it were just a few days before the Lunar New Year, the situation might be a little better.

Back then, she could get together with her eldest brother's wife, her second brother's wife, and her third brother's wife.

They can find a table and play mahjong or cards together.

While playing mahjong, you can also chat about everyday things and what's happening in the village.

Time passed quickly.

If there's really no mahjong to play, she can take her two children to the mall to go shopping, buy them some new clothes, or take a walk in the park, which would be a good option.

Even if she doesn't go out, she can still go to the market to buy some fresh vegetables and meat herself.

Then, he washed and chopped vegetables in the kitchen at home, cooked a table full of hot food by hand, and watched Li Menghan and Li Mengli eat heartily.

But now, the situation is completely different.

The children have all returned to the university in Seoul.

Moreover, even at lunchtime, they would not come back to this old house for lunch.

They can go back to that big house in Beichen Garden.

There, Li Ze spent a lot of money hiring a very professional culinary team.

Those chefs used to cook for very famous and important people.

The dishes they make, whether seafood or beef, are all exceptionally beautiful and delicious.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ruoran looked down at her hands.

At home, she can only cook the simplest dishes like stir-fried vegetables with shredded pork, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, or stewed pork rib soup.

The home-style dishes she made were nowhere near as good as the high-end dishes made by that professional chef.

Zhang Ruoran thought to herself that once the children had eaten those high-end meals prepared by professional chefs, they probably would never be able to get used to the ordinary home-cooked dishes she made again.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ruoran sighed heavily again.

To be fair, Li Ze gave the children a lot of money when he returned from abroad this time. He bought them a car and such an expensive house.

The children's living conditions have become very, very good.

Seeing that the children no longer had to endure hardship with her, Zhang Ruoran was actually very happy.

However, looking at the empty house now, Zhang Ruoran felt very lost.

She felt that now she had all the good things that Li Ze had provided.

Her two biological children seemed to be gradually becoming less in need of her care as their mother.

They don't need her to cook, they don't need her to give them living expenses, and they don't even need to live with her anymore.

This discovery inevitably left Zhang Ruoran feeling a deep emptiness in her heart.

She suddenly felt that all her perseverance and hard work over the past eighteen years seemed to have lost much of its weight in the face of Li Ze's money.

Zhang Ruoran sat on the sofa and rubbed her temples.

She knew she couldn't keep letting her mind wander like this.

When people have free time, they tend to think about unhappy things.

She still felt she had to go out.

Even if the store isn't busy, even if she doesn't need to work, she still has to go back to work.

Only when I return to that familiar work environment, watching the guests come and go, and hearing the voices in the lobby, can I truly understand.

This will make her feel more fulfilled and stop her from thinking about these worries.

Furthermore, besides wanting to go to work, Zhang Ruoran had another very small thought in her mind.

This thought was hidden deep in her heart, and she was even a little embarrassed to admit it herself.

That is, she seemed to want to see Li Ze as well.

Yesterday, Li Ze made such a big fuss by opening a Ze Ran Flower Shop diagonally opposite her restaurant.

They even put up so many signs with cheesy slogans at the store entrance.

Although she asked Li Ze to remove all those signs yesterday, Li Ze obediently complied and removed them.

But Zhang Ruoran knew that Li Ze was definitely still in that flower shop today.

After all, his shop was right across from his own, very close by.

If she goes to work now, she can sometimes see Li Ze across the street from her restaurant's large glass window.

She wanted to see what Li Ze was doing at the flower shop today.

The thought of secretly watching Li Ze made Zhang Ruoran feel her face suddenly flush.

The temperature rose suddenly, and her face turned red.

"Ruoran, what are you thinking about...?"

Zhang Ruoran quickly spoke up, whispering something to herself.

She reached out and touched her burning cheeks, realizing that her thought was really a bit strange.

She quickly stood up from the sofa, not wanting to waste any more time.

She walked to the wardrobe in the bedroom and opened the door.

She took out a black business suit that she usually wore to work.

He wore a black suit jacket, black trousers, and a white shirt underneath.

She quickly changed her clothes and straightened her collar.

Then she walked to the shoe cabinet by the door and put on a pair of black leather shoes.

She picked up the bag hanging on the wall, took out the Volkswagen car keys inside, opened the door, and went out.

She wants to go back to Han City.