My father's inheritance is my mortal enemy.

The day after Zhou Yanshao went to Northern Europe, Li Bo went to the Li family again. This time, he entered the ancestral hall, went through the ceremony of recognizing his ancestors, and truly became a member of the Li family.

After the ceremony and dinner, Li Bo returned to Zhihuai for a meeting. At 8 PM, the lights were still on in the conference room of the Zhihuai Group building. It was very common for Li Bo to have his employees work overtime; even at Zhihuai Group, he hadn't broken this bad habit.

Li Botai wanted to resolve the potential troubles as soon as possible and establish a firm foothold in Zhihuai.

Li Bo has been working in Zhihuai for less than a week, but many things and rules have already begun to show results.

Firstly, it was due to his incorruptibility, decisiveness, and his ability to win people over after punishment, as well as his compassionate concern that left no room for criticism.

Secondly, Vice President Cheng is currently abroad discussing a project, but his return has been delayed due to weather conditions, so he won't be back for the time being, making it difficult for the project to progress. With fewer obstacles and no one to oversee things, the lower-level employees in the company naturally can't cause any trouble.

The meeting ended at 10 p.m. Li Bo said thank you for your hard work and told the employees who attended the meeting to take a half-day paid leave the next morning. When he returned to his office, Uncle Zeng followed him in, put down the meeting minutes, and brought Li Bo a cup of hot water.

Li Bo took a sip of hot water and looked out the floor-to-ceiling window.

It's snowing in Beijing. This is the first snow of the year, and it's come way too late.

Uncle Zeng noticed Li Bo's gaze and realized it was snowing. He exclaimed, "It's snowing..."

"It's rare for it to rain this late."

"Yes! One November, Beijing had a blizzard that closed the roads." Uncle Zeng reminded him, "President Bo, you should wear more clothes. This weather is peak flu season, so please take precautions."

"Hmm." Li Bo raised his chin, indicating that Uncle Zeng should go home first.

After Uncle Zeng left, Li Bo finished his water and went downstairs. Uncle Liu's car was waiting at the entrance of the group. It was only a few steps to the car. Without an umbrella, he stood in the snow when he suddenly stopped, took out his phone, and took a picture.

The snow in the photo is not clear at all.

Li Bo is a very nostalgic person. He hasn't changed his phone in a long time, and he usually opens his work documents on his computer, so his phone is still relatively fast. But after a while, it inevitably falls behind the times.

For example, the pixels are not clear enough, there is a delay, etc.

Li Bo knew he should get a new phone, but he didn't dare. He didn't know if the messages he had deleted from his contacts would be able to be transferred during the message migration process... He had many things he wanted to keep.

Li Bo could have gotten the answer to this question by simply trying, but he didn't dare to try. He didn't want to face the fact that he had been deleted, so for the past two years, he had been putting it off, as long as it worked, he hadn't changed his phone.

Li Bo glanced at the photo, stood in the snow for a few more seconds, and without deleting it, sent it to Zhou Yanshao.

It's snowing in Beijing.

There's a time difference between Northern Europe and Beijing, so Zhou Yanshao was asleep at this time. Li Bo put his phone in his pocket, got in the car, and replied to Zhou Yanshao's text messages one by one on the way home.

Zhou Yanshao was very busy training in Northern Europe. He would send messages whenever he had a spare moment to drink water. Because of the time difference, texting and voice messages were almost their only way to communicate.

Zhou Yanshao would tell him everything, such as who he met today, the weather, what he ate... The only thing he wouldn't say was whether the training was tough.

Li Bo always asked him for photos of his hand. Zhou Yanshao sent them twice, then said it was basically healed and stopped sending them.

When he got home, Li Bo washed up and went to bed. He used a voice recorder to record the voice messages Zhou Yanshao had sent on his phone, transferred them to his phone via computer, and placed his phone on his bedside table to charge. He played the recordings and listened to Zhou Yanshao's voice as he fell asleep.

This made Li Bo feel particularly at ease and able to get a good night's sleep.

In the following days, Li Bo's contact with Zhou Yanshao was intermittent, with very few instant replies, and the number of phone calls could be counted on one hand, continuing until the end of December.

Li Bo is checking his phone more and more frequently, and he's been sending significantly fewer messages from Zhou Yanshao.

Zhou Yanshao is training, an even busier training schedule.

Li Bo would always check his phone, not just recently, but also two years ago... In the two times after Zhou Yanshao went abroad, Li Bo checked his phone more and more frequently.

He missed Zhou Yanshao and wanted to go home.

Finally, one weekend morning, Li Bo received a phone call from Northern Europe.

It was an unfamiliar phone call. On the other end, Zhou Yanshao asked, "Are you home?"

Li Bo got out of bed: "Hmm."

"Let's go for a stroll around Beimu Mountain tonight."

"Huh?" Li Bo paused for two seconds, "You went back to the capital?"

"No, just go when I tell you to. Don't ask so many questions."

"Okay, what time?"

"11:30."

"Okay." Li Bo asked, "How's it going in Northern Europe? Is training tough lately?"

"It's okay. I still need to recover from the injury and can't fully resume training. I'm not as tired as before; I'm just doing physical rehabilitation."

"Okay, be careful." After Li Bo finished speaking, the two remained silent for a long time. Neither of them spoke nor hung up. The silence was sweet, and they were content just to hear each other's breathing.

Finally, Li Bo broke the silence: "Zhou Yanshao, actually, trophies aren't that important. Don't push yourself too hard."

"I know, I know what I'm doing."

"Hmm..." Li Bo held the phone tightly to his ear, as if he could hear Zhou Yanshao's breathing: "I've been doing fine lately, eating on time, don't worry. By the way... the pathology report came back and there's nothing wrong."

Zhou Yanshao said with satisfaction, "You've been good this time."

Li Bo asked, "Are you going back to Beijing for the Chinese New Year this year?"

"I probably won't have time. I need to focus on training next month."

"it is good."

After a moment of silence, Zhou Yanshao asked, "Did you miss me?"

Li Bo smiled and said, "It's alright."

"What do you mean 'okay'? Li Bo..."

"I've thought about it," Li Bo said. "Cooking for myself is too much trouble; I want to find someone to serve me."

"I'm not in Beijing right now, so I'll hire a nanny for you first..."

"No need, I have some."

"Male or female?"

Li Bo clicked his tongue helplessly, "An auntie like you, why are you so jealous of everything?"

"..." Zhou Yanshao muttered, "Who told you not to say anything?"

Zhou Yanshao's way of chatting was to tell Li Bo everything about his side of the story, and Li Bo would reply, but he rarely talked about his own affairs.

"Alright, alright, I'll hang up now. You get back to training."

"Oh..." Zhou Yanshao said somewhat discontentedly, "You're the only one who's busy."

Li Bo hung up the phone, his hand trembling slightly. The call had left him with mixed feelings; their conversation felt too much like the chat and concern between lovers… but he and Zhou Yanshao had never formally confessed their feelings.

Zhou Yanshao was going abroad for training, and Li Bo was very busy. Due to the Li family's influence, they couldn't get too close to Zhou Yanshao.

For Li Bo, this relationship was just right, but deep down he felt a little unwilling.

If we disregard his ex-boyfriend, will Zhou Yanshao still remember this ambiguous, unconfirmed relationship?

Li Bo didn't know the answer.

All he knew was that Zhou Yanshao would be returning to China next year, and he needed to get everything sorted out before then.

Time was too tight and there were too many things to do, so he couldn't spend more time with Zhou Yanshao.