Already unsteady from drinking, Lord Zhao fell again, dropping the shell. Tao Yu quickly helped him up, apologizing, “Sorry, Lord Zhao, I… I was in a hurry to use the restroom…”
“It’s nothing, it’s nothing. I bumped into my lady,” Lord Zhao, though drunk, maintained proper etiquette and stepped back.
Tao Yu smiled, “Lord Zhao, please go back quickly. Lord Wu and the others are waiting anxiously.”
Lord Zhao heard this and hurriedly agreed, rushing back, though feeling he had forgotten something but too muddled to recall.
Tao Yu immediately searched for the shell, finally finding the muddy object in the grass, staring at it and falling into deep thought.
Now that Lord Zhao was proven not to be the mysterious person, who else could it be? Regardless, Lord Zhao’s ideas were clearly not ordinary, surely instilled by someone. Who might that person be?
The servant’s words suddenly emerged in her mind: “They are fellow students. Thanks to him, the City Lord was not left isolated.”
Seeing a familiar figure emerge from the tavern, Tao Yu inexplicably placed the shell on the path and hid in the darkness.
Yue Linze slowly walked out, pausing when his gaze met the shell, instinctively about to bend down. After moving slightly, he suddenly froze. In the darkness, Tao Yu could hear only her heartbeat, her eyes fixed on Yue Linze.
Yue Linze picked up the shell, remained silent for a long time, and finally wrapped it in a silk handkerchief, placing it in his chest.
She was told by the system that came through with her: You’ve transmigrated into a cannon fodder supporting female character. If you don’t hug the big boss’s golden thigh, you’ll be doomed, and you can only get tens of millions before being told to scram as far as possible! Are you scared now? So to change this miserable ending, you must work with me…
Meanwhile, Xie Chi looked silently at her stunning beauty in the mirror for a second.
Then… she burst out with a delighted pig-like laugh: Luxury yacht, Swiss snow mountains, Michelin restaurants, here I come!!!
System: ??!!
Xie Chi: I have a dream, which is to become wildly rich overnight and then let myself go, and now this dream is finally about to be realized (:D」ㄥ)
But…
The fact is, being wild and carefree for a moment can lead to a high-level cremation when someone comes knocking.
In the dim bedroom, the usually cold and ascetic man abnormally pressed Xie Chi hard onto the bed.
He leisurely loosened his Windsor knot, revealing his sexy and beautiful collarbone, and stared gloomily at the disheveled woman below, saying in a hoarse voice, “Even if you regret it now, it’s too late.”
A high-society drama triggered by a scumbag woman With mountains of gourmet food and bags, what do I need a man for? I’ll save him for the New Year!
Note: Contains some inappropriate scenes, proceed with caution.
☆ City Lord is Sick 8
In an instant, Tao Yu’s brain roared like a train had passed, and for a moment, she could hear nothing except the howling wind.
At this moment, the details she had always overlooked suddenly resurfaced, and she suddenly realized that besides the four people involved in the reform and sacrifice, there was another alter ego among those who had grievances with Zhou Ying and could influence the city’s affairs.
For so long, she had excluded the most suspicious person because of the harmless appearance of this alter ego.
After a long time, she wiped the sweat from her palm on her clothes, staring complexly in the direction of the lantern, where Yue Linze had already turned back.
Tao Yu’s eyes darkened. Now that the shell had been taken by the alter ego – let’s temporarily call him the mysterious person – more questions arose: Why did he have a gun? Why did he have a modern person’s thinking? Was he related to the abnormal deaths of the other alter egos?
She had too many questions, but the most urgent was that the alter ego had been alarmed by the shell and would certainly associate it with someone deliberately placing it there. She must extract herself from his suspicion to continue investigating him.
But it seemed not easy.
Yue Linze returned to the side room expressionlessly, his palm sweaty, the shell pressed against his chest burning like a flame, giving him no moment of peace.
But the instant he entered the room, he appeared as if nothing had happened, talking to his colleagues as before, chatting for a while before looking towards the door again. Wu Daren laughed: “What, couldn’t find your wife?”
“I didn’t go looking for her,” Yue Linze said spiritedly.
Li Daren immediately exposed him: “Ever since your wife went out, you’ve been distracted. You went out not long after, and now you dare say you didn’t go looking for her?”
“Don’t tease me, Li Daren. A Yu is here for the first time, and I was afraid she would get lost,” Yue Linze scratched his head, somewhat awkward. “But I just went out for a walk and didn’t wait for her.”
Wu Daren comforted: “Don’t worry, this inn isn’t big, and people are everywhere. If your wife really gets lost, someone will guide her.”
Yue Linze nodded, and before he could speak, Tao Yu entered with a chubby child in her arms. The child was not afraid of strangers and quickly attracted everyone’s attention.
Zhao Daren, who was most drunk, said confusedly: “The city lord’s child is already this big?”
“Don’t talk nonsense, this is the innkeeper’s child,” Tao Yu laughed. “I just found him interesting and held him for a while.”
Yue Linze hurried to her side, frowned when he saw how fat the child was, and took the child from her: “I knew you’d be late coming back.”
His worry still looked sincere and true, without any flaws.
Tao Yu looked at him deeply and said with a smile: “I was going to the bathroom, but before I could go, I saw Zhao Daren fall. After talking to him, I heard a child’s voice and couldn’t help but go play with him. When I remembered, I hurried back. I haven’t even gone to the bathroom yet.”
Her voice wasn’t loud, but everyone in the room heard it. Others smiled kindly, while only Zhao Daren, in his daze, confirmed: “Right, I seemed to have forgotten something. I stepped on a thin iron round thing and fell, making the lady laugh.”
“It’s good that Zhao Daren is fine. I saw you fall before going to the backyard and was quite startled,” Tao Yu smiled, subtly glancing at Yue Linze, knowing her conversation with Zhao Daren had already shown the shell existed before she went out.
This somewhat reduced her suspicion, but not enough. Tao Yu calmly looked at the child in Yue Linze’s arms, pinched his little face, immediately making him giggle.
It was also her luck that while thinking about how to clear her suspicion, she happened to see a child playing alone in a corner of the inn, so she ran over, played with the child for a moment, then held him and spoke to his parents before bringing him over.
Yue Linze looked at the three-year-old child and forced a smile: “Was it you who was monopolizing my wife just now? What did she play with you?”
“Played a lot…” The three-year-old could clearly say some words, answered Yue Linze, then reached out to Tao Yu, obviously wanting her to hold him.
Tao Yu laughed even more happily, taking him to the table to get something delicious. Children are the most timeless beings in this world, and also the most trusted witnesses by adults. Even if she couldn’t completely clear her suspicion, at least she wouldn’t make Yue Linze suspect her immediately.
Yue Linze saw that her eyes were only for the children, and a hint of dissatisfaction flashed in his eyes. He approached her unhappily: “Do you know how worried I was about you, and that I specially went to look for you because he hasn’t come back for so long?”
“Where did you go to find me?” Tao Yu asked, puzzled, with a completely unaware expression.
