Night Rose

"It has nothing to do with anyone else. I only met him after I returned to China, but my determination to break up with you was already prepared when you were avoiding me for a month. This is nobody's fault." Su Jin looked at him with disappointment.

She had never felt that this man was so unfamiliar at any moment. His words and actions made him seem like a complete stranger to Su Jin.

"Lu Mingzhou, you must be very busy with work. Go back as soon as you're done making a scene today. Do you need me to buy you a plane ticket?"

Lu Mingzhou probably really understood that the two of them could not go back. It felt as if a stone was pressing on his heart, and the heavy weight made it difficult to breathe.

"You know, I'm not that busy with work."

"Oh? So how long do you plan to stay in China with me? A week?" Su Jin sneered.

Lu Mingzhou was speechless. He had only managed to get two days off, and his words just now were only meant to lower Su Jin's guard, but Su Jin was no longer listening to him.

"See, you can't do it. If you can't do it, then don't say it, okay?" Su Jin grabbed a blanket from the house and threw it on the sofa. "You can sleep on the sofa. Leave tomorrow morning. Don't waste your time here."

"..." Lu Mingzhou was silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Su Su, can I borrow your computer for a bit? I... need to work. I have time, but I forgot to bring my computer."

"Why don't you go to an internet cafe? You can play all night. Still so dedicated to your work, Mr. Lu," Su Jin said with a mocking laugh.

Lu Mingzhou is hardly a "President Lu." There's a leader above him who might never be able to escape his grasp.

"It's a company secret, you know that, so we can't handle it on an untrusted computer outside," Lu Mingzhou said in a low voice.

His submissive demeanor finally made Su Jin unable to bear it. After all, they had been together for five years, and Su Jin didn't want things to get too ugly.

She took out her personal computer and placed it on the coffee table.

"I'll give you ten minutes out of politeness. Give me back the computer in ten minutes." After saying that, Su Jin turned around and went back to her room.

She closed the door and, with mixed feelings, turned on the living room security camera footage. Ling Keke was right; Lu Mingzhou's return to China at this time to see her likely meant he wanted something from her.

After Tu Ying helped her move, she brought her a small surveillance camera in case it was unsafe for her to live alone.

The small surveillance camera was hidden among the plush toys on the sofa; it was practically invisible unless you looked very closely.

Su Jin put on her Bluetooth earphones, leaned against the edge of the bed, her heart pounding, and she was even a little afraid to look at the surveillance footage.

Facing someone she once loved, revealing their deepest mask, and confronting their true nature was somewhat difficult for her.

But Lu Mingzhou's request for a computer is very unusual. What does Lu Mingzhou want to do?

Su Jin took a few deep breaths, staring at the computer screen to see what he was doing.

On the phone screen, Lu Mingzhou glanced furtively at Su Jin's room a few times. After hearing no sound from her room, he opened her file.

Su Jin stared at his movements, watching him type a string of numbers into the computer. At first, Su Jin didn't remember what day it was, but when Lu Mingzhou started searching, she suddenly remembered that it was the day before the car accident at the New York Rally.

Lu Mingzhou knew her habits very well. Every time she modified the race car, she would generate a log, along with core data and tactical analysis.

But why did he need to look at the data from the day before the car accident? If he just wanted to steal her technology, why didn't he look at the data from every day, instead of choosing that one particular day?

Su Jin was puzzled. She had already handed over this data to the company. If Lu Mingzhou wanted to see it, he could just go to the company. Why did he have to look at the data on her computer?

On the screen, Lu Mingzhou was so nervous that sweat beaded on his forehead, his eyes fixed on the search progress.

Su Jin calmly moved her chair, making a noise to startle Lu Mingzhou.

Lu Mingzhou pricked up his ears, watching the room warily, ready to withdraw from the search at any moment.

The commotion quickly subsided.

He turned his attention back to the computer, and that day's log popped up, making his heart pound.

Lu Mingzhou clicked on it impatiently, and a password input box popped up.

He didn't expect Su Jin to set a password. When they were together, none of Su Jin's things had passwords for him, whether it was her social media accounts or her work logs and data.

But Su Jin has now set a password.

Lu Mingzhou pondered for a moment, looked up at the closed room door, and began trying to enter the password.

He tried to find out Su Jin's birthday.

failure.

He stared blankly at the computer, then hesitated before typing in his birthday, still clinging to the hope that Su Jin still liked him.

failure.

Lu Mingzhou stared at the screen with some frustration, and vented his frustration by typing out several passwords in a row.

Failure! Failure! Failure!

Su Jin watched his almost frantic actions, silently mocking him. The password she set was the day she broke up with Lu Mingzhou; she wanted to remember her boyfriend's ruthlessness and make herself completely give up.

The last bit of goodwill she had for Lu Mingzhou vanished from that moment on.

This man was definitely not worth her sincere feelings.

Su Jin turned off the phone monitoring software and deliberately made some noise before opening the door.

When she appeared, Lu Mingzhou was sitting upright in front of the coffee table, his fingers flying across the keyboard as if he were seriously replying to emails.

If Su Jin hadn't seen him checking the contents of her computer with her own eyes, she would have been fooled.

"Ten minutes are up," Su Jin said.

Lu Mingzhou closed the email page. For some reason, he felt that Su Jin had become even more indifferent.

"Thank you, Susu."

Su Jin ignored him and gave him a final ultimatum: "If you're not leaving by tomorrow morning, I'm going to kick you out. What's the point of a relationship if it's come to this?"

"I understand," Lu Mingzhou replied in a low voice, his head slightly lowered and his eyes looking tired.

This is a tactic Lu Mingzhou often uses: to feign weakness and gain Su Jin's sympathy, and it always works.

Now, Su Jin, who is unaware of the truth, might feel sorry for him for a second, but the fact that she didn't throw him out right now after watching the surveillance footage is already a great favor.

"Susu, are you still considering coming back to work? I can find you a job at another company in New York. It may not be as good as Top Chain, but it will definitely allow you to live comfortably and not have to squeeze into this small house!" Lu Mingzhou said earnestly.