Watching Mu Jinyu's retreating figure, the expressions on the faces of the Shen Family's grandfather and granddaughter sitting in the car still seemed unsatisfied.
They had many medical questions they wanted to ask Mu Jinyu, but unfortunately, Mu Jinyu did not share their enthusiasm for medicine and could talk all day over a cup of tea with a peer.
When they dropped him off at his doorstep, after he answered the last question, he got out of the car without any hesitation, not dragging his feet in the least.
Seeing Mu Jinyu's figure finally disappear from sight, Shen Changchun withdrew his gaze, sighed softly, and said to Shen Shuyao, "My dear granddaughter, don't you have any feelings for him at all?"
"I don't even want to deal with you!" Shen Shuyao, sitting in the back, rolled her eyes at Shen Changchun's words and couldn't be bothered with him.
Shen Shuyao's face was indifferent, uncaring, but perhaps only she knew her true feelings.
...
After parting with the Shen Family's grandfather and granddaughter, Mu Jinyu went straight home.
Back and forth on the road took up a lot of time, and by the time he returned home, it was already past ten, almost eleven o'clock.
Mu Jinyu looked somewhat tired; ridding Jiang Wangchuan's body of the Gu insects had taken a considerable toll on him, making him want to eat and then sleep after getting home.
Of course, if there was an urgent matter, he could still suppress the weariness, but with nothing pressing and already at home, his whole body relaxed, and the sleepiness grew more intense.
Mu Jinyu entered the kitchen, quickly reheated the millet porridge Wen Rou had made in the morning, accompanied it with some side dishes just enough to fill his stomach, and then went back to his room for a nap.
"Ding-a-ling-a-ling!"
The phone rang.
As Mu Jinyu lay in bed, he slowly opened his eyes, rubbed them, yawned, then reached for the phone beside him, checking the caller ID. Seeing it was Gu Xiyan, he swiped the screen to answer.
"Hello, what's up?" Mu Jinyu asked lazily as he leaned against the headboard.
On the other end of the phone, Gu Xiyan, upon hearing Mu Jinyu's languid tone, was instantly irritated, but since she needed a favor, she managed to suppress her anger and said to Mu Jinyu softly, "Yeah, I've got a situation here. Can you come over and help me? I absolutely won't shortchange you."
Mu Jinyu flatly refused, "Not going, no time."
Joking aside, he was now a tycoon with a net worth in the billions; how could he run around for Gu Xiyan's petty cash again?!
Gu Xiyan was taken aback by Mu Jinyu's refusal and wanted to explode in anger. But remembering her current predicament, she had to swallow her wrath and pleaded in an even softer tone, "Come on, we're friends, don't be so heartless."
"I'm heartless? Heh..." Mu Jinyu's eyes gleamed with mirth as he gave a cold laugh, "I wonder who it was that, after getting help from someone yesterday, immediately gave that person the boot? Now that same person is calling others heartless, how amusing."
Mu Jinyu remembered how, after he had helped Gu Xiyan meet Trotsky yesterday, she just left him behind, causing him to almost have to pay for his own cab, which made him particularly annoyed.
Hearing this, Gu Xiyan's bottled-up anger dissipated, realizing she was somewhat in the wrong and mewled guiltily, "Wah... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to leave you behind yesterday. It's just that I had urgent matters to take care of at the company and couldn't drive you home, so it turned out this way, sorry sorry, I was too careless. Please forgive me this time."
Mu Jinyu was not heartless, and although he had planned to ignore Gu Xiyan, her apologies and coquettish pleading softened him, and he said resignedly, "All right, all right, I'll agree to it. Where's your company? I'll take a taxi there. But let's get it straight, you're paying for the fare!"
"No problem, thank you for being so generous, Mua~" Although inwardly she found Mu Jinyu's pettiness contemptible, since it was the first time he had been so agreeable, Gu Xiyan didn't dwell on it and even blew him a kiss.
"Boring. If you've got the guts, kiss me for real when we meet." Mu Jinyu complained and said, "Send me the address, I'll head over in a bit."
"Don't wait, come over as soon as possible. I really need you here, it's urgent," Gu Xiyan pleaded.
"Okay, okay... I got it, hanging up now." Mu Jinyu said impatiently and then hung up the call.
"Ding."
The call hadn't been disconnected for long when Gu Xiyan quickly sent the address of her company to Mu Jinyu.
At the same time, she also sent a beseeching emoji, looking pitifully cute.
Mu Jinyu glanced at it, memorized the address, then closed WeChat, and looked up at the time from the corner of his eye.
Wow, it was already past two in the afternoon.
He had had a solid nap, over three hours long, and felt quite rejuvenated.
Getting up and changing clothes, Mu Jinyu went downstairs, hailed a taxi, gave the destination, and asked the driver to hurry.
Upon arrival, Mu Jinyu paid the fare, followed Gu Xiyan's instructions to enter the building, walked into the lobby, approached the elevator, pressed the button for it to come down, got in, and pressed for the fifteenth floor.
Soon, the elevator reached the fifteenth floor, which was the office space rented by Gu Xiyan and Yu Linglong.
"Good afternoon, sir. Do you have an appointment?"
As Mu Jinyu walked towards the reception with the Face of Jade Group sign, the receptionist immediately greeted him with a sweet smile and asked.
"Yes, I'm Mu Jinyu. Your boss asked me to come over," he replied.
The clerk, clearly instructed by Gu Xiyan, gestured to Mu Jinyu, directing him to how to get to the CEO's office.
Mu Jinyu nodded at them, thanked them, and followed their directions to the door of Gu Xiyan's office. Not bothering to knock, he just opened the door and walked in.
Gu Xiyan was evidently also upset about something, too distracted to work, complaining to Yu Linglong, and kept glancing at her phone, hoping that Mu Jinyu would arrive soon.
When Mu Jinyu walked in, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and exclaimed with surprise, "You're finally here. Now we can handle the situation."
"What's going on exactly? Is there a problem with that tractor contract?" Mu Jinyu asked.
He thought that his value to Gu Xiyan probably lay in helping her secure a deal with Trotsky, and since she had taken him to meet Trotsky the day before, and now she had urgently summoned him, it was likely that there was a problem on Trotsky's end.
"It's not an issue with Trotsky... it's..."
Gu Xiyan started to explain grimly and said in an annoyed tone, "The real Lin Feng has shown up!"
"Lin Feng?!" Mu Jinyu was startled at first and then he also remembered that his acquaintance with Gu Xiyan began because she was originally looking for Soldier King Lin Feng to act as a shield to stop her family from nagging her. But by mistake, she had ended up bringing him into the picture instead.