"Yes, it's very convenient to eat here," Yang Xi added.
Huo Nanchen took Gu Ruochu's hand, and they all went to a nearby restaurant. Gu Ruochu secretly let out a sigh of relief. His senses were too sharp.
Yang Xi felt that the atmosphere was a little off, especially now that they were sitting down to eat face-to-face. There was something wrong with one of them, but she could not tell what the problem was.
Huo Nanchen kept putting his favorite dishes into Ruochu's bowl playfully. Even though Ruochu smiled at him, Yang Xi felt that something was wrong.
Huo Nanchen's enthusiasm was strong, but Gu Ruochu did not match it. Yang Xi did not dare to raise her head. She almost pressed her head into her bowl.
It was almost one o'clock when they finished their meal. Yang Xi followed behind quietly. It was rare for her to be so obedient.
As Huo Nanchen was settling the bill, Yang Xi walked over and poked Gu Ruochu. "Ruochu, a man should not be spoiled. If he feels uncomfortable, he'll torture you to death."
"Yes, I understand." Gu Ruochu nodded and was amused by Yang Xi's exaggerated facial expression.
Huo Nanchen left, and Gu Ruochu returned to the office.
Gu Ruochu stayed in the office for the entire afternoon. She had a lot of company affairs to deal with and had assigned all the socializing activities for the day to Rong Xiao.
When she looked at the time, it was six o'clock. Her phone was buzzing non-stop. She slowly closed her fingers and did not want to answer Huo Nanchen's call.
Gu Ruochu did not know if she could hold on for the forty days. She stubbornly stared at the bottle of medicine in her hand. It was the kind that Huo Nanchen used.
One bottle of sleeping pills, and one bottle of imported pills to relieve his psychological disorders.
It turned out that in Huo Nanchen's eyes, she was just a type of medicine, no different from the one in her hand. She was his medicine, that was why he had treated her with such gentleness and love.
"Ruochu, Ruochu!" Xu Yichen's voice rang out desperately. He looked at her crouching in the corner of the office table, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong? Are you not feeling well?"
"I'm fine." Gu Ruochu looked straight into his worried eyes. The corners of her lips slowly curved upwards. "I'm going back, don't worry about me."
Gu Ruochu stood up and opened the drawer containing the divorce agreement before locking the medicine inside.
"I'm fine."
Huo Nanchen was standing by his car when she came out. The ground he was standing on was filled with cigarette butts. If Gu Ruochu had not come out of the building when she did, he would have gone in.
Under the dim light, his tall figure cast a long shadow across her body.
"Why didn't you pick up the phone?"
His deep voice had a hint of anger in it.
He had never been treated like this. It was one thing for her to stand him up, but she was now ignoring his calls. He had been raised with a noble status and lived in a privileged environment.
Who would dare to treat him like this?
"I just took a nap in the office, so I did not turn on my phone." Gu Ruochu shook her phone at him and opened the passenger's seat door.
When he heard her explanation, Huo Nanchen's anger subsided. Perhaps she had been too busy with work. However, he still felt a faint sense of unease.
"..."
"Grandma!"
"Hey, Cheng Xi, my good grandson."
Zhang Xuan had received a video call from Ning Tangxi. Listening to her grandson's childish voice softened her heart.
From the video, she could tell that the child had grown a lot stronger.
Lately, Zhang Yuan had been busy with Gu Yanwei's affairs, and at the same time, she had visited her daughter and grandson in Country M a few times. She had been so busy that her head was about to explode.
At that time, Cheng Xi's injuries had not healed, and it was not suitable for him to return to the country. Now, Tangxi was almost ready to return. Zhang Yuan would finally be able to take good care of her daughter and grandson.