Chapter 16: Playing Hide and Seek with Me?

“Shanshan?”

Su Yiren sneered, her eyes lowered as she looked at Lu Yunting. She wasn’t sure if he had just called out “Shanshan” or “Sasha.”

His voice was muffled, but the sound he made definitely wasn’t her name, Su Yiren.

When a person’s consciousness is weak, they are most likely to speak their mind.

It seemed that this Ouyang Sasha was very important to him.

The most ridiculous thing was that she had just been feeling self-important, thinking that he cared about her.

Ha…

Su Yiren took a deep breath, her chest feeling like it had been sprinkled with a handful of sharp ice shards. It was cold and painful, making her entire heart tremble with coldness.

She raised her chin, the ripples in her calm lake of a heart becoming still again, as dead as the water, because of that name.

If she had convinced herself to stay and take care of him before, it was for Lu Mama and Lu Ye Ye.

But now, staying here would only make her look ridiculous.

“I still have to sleep in my beauty sleep, I’m leaving now.” Su Yiren said coldly, turning to leave.

Zhou Tong’s face turned white, and he hurriedly explained:

“What mountain and river, Boss was calling Susan! He was calling you!”

Su Yiren looked at Zhou Tong silently, her gaze full of pressure, making Zhou Tong sweat on his forehead.

“Do you believe that?” she asked seriously.

Zhou Tong’s lips moved, clearly not believing it either.

He had always thought that the Boss was calling Susan, but when he listened carefully, it didn’t sound like it!

Who was Shanshan? He had never heard of her!

Could it be that he was really calling that pretentious woman, Ouyang Sasha?

What was going on?

Zhou Tong was speechless and couldn’t argue anymore. He could only hear Su Yiren say:

“I’ll find two more caregivers, and you can take turns resting. After all, he was injured for me, and I’ll pay for it.” Seeing Zhou Tong hesitate, Su Yiren smiled without any emotion,

“You’ve been a pretty good assistant. If Lu Yunting doesn’t give you a raise, I’ll feel sorry for you.”

Before leaving, she took one last look at Lu Yunting，

“If his condition stabilizes, remember to remind him to go through the divorce proceedings.”

Zhou Tong watched Su Yiren turn and leave gracefully, and he glared at Lu Yunting in frustration,

“You dropped the ball at a crucial moment!”

The Madam had already softened her heart and was going to stay, but it was all because of that stupid name that made her upset!

Ugh, he was an assistant who had to worry about work and his boss’s personal life. Not getting a raise was really a loss!

When Su Yiren got into the car back to the hotel, it was already two in the morning.

The car drove onto the main road, the speed gradually increased, and there were more and more trucks.

She looked out the window, her expression tired, at the streetlights flashing past and the rumbling of the trucks passing by, but her mind kept replaying the scene of him rushing over to protect her, and the way he frowned and called out another woman’s name.

As Zhou Tong said, he did protect her, but it was just a natural bodily reaction.

After all, they were a nominal couple who had been together for five years, so they would naturally care for each other more than strangers.

But it was only a little more.

And calling out the name of his beloved in his unconscious state was also definitely an instinct.

Therefore, Su Yiren was just his contractual wife, and now that the contract had expired, it was time to go their separate ways. Ouyang Sasha, on the other hand, was the woman he had loved for years, the woman he thought about day and night, both when he was awake and in his dreams.

The more she thought about it, the more painful it became.

She simply closed her eyes, squeezed her temples, and deliberately stopped thinking about what had happened today.

As soon as she relaxed, Su Yiren’s eyelids started to droop, and she soon fell asleep in a daze.

The car was going very fast, and she didn’t know how long they had been driving when suddenly, a bright light flashed, making her open her eyes with difficulty.

Then came a series of ear-splitting screeching brakes and the sound of a collision!

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When Lu Yunting woke up, it was just before dawn.

He had just had a dream, dreaming of a woman standing in the firelight, with a beautiful figure but a blurry face.

Who was it? Who was there?

He couldn’t see her face clearly, but he could feel a pain in his heart.

The woman stood in the firelight, smiling at him, her smile hazy, like the mist in the mountains. It was right in front of him, but he couldn’t catch it no matter what.

He subconsciously reached out his hand to grab her arm, but the woman’s figure disappeared into the mist in an instant.

Lu Yunting rubbed his tired brows and saw Zhou Tong answering a phone call at the door.

He slowly sat up, using his arm to support himself, making rustling sounds.

Zhou Tong noticed that he was awake and immediately ended the call and walked in, excitedly saying:

“Boss, you’re awake!”

Lu Yunting asked, “Who were you talking to?”

“The new autumn designs from the design department, they’re waiting for your opinion.”

“A few similar designs, they dare to submit them.” Lu Yunting was full of disdain,

“Have them redo it.”

“Okay,” Zhou Tong secretly clicked his tongue, remembering something, and quickly said,

“The Madam called last night and asked why you didn’t go back to the ancestral home. I lied and said you were on a business trip.”

Lu Yunting just nodded, then heard his phone buzzing. He looked at the caller ID and sighed inwardly.

“Mom.”

The voice on the other end of the line was slightly anxious, asking, “You got hurt?”

Lu Yunting subconsciously glanced at Zhou Tong, who quickly waved his hands, indicating that he hadn’t said anything.

“No…” Lu Yunting was about to make up an excuse, but was interrupted by the other party.

“It’s already on the news, and you’re still lying to me! If I hadn’t seen the news, would I even have the right to know if you were alive or dead?”

“Mom, I’m just afraid you’ll worry.” Lu Yunting rubbed his temples,

“It’s just a minor injury, I cut my arm, it’s nothing.”

“Stop talking nonsense, come back to Jiangcheng immediately.”

Lu Yunting knew that she was always the one who called the shots, and he didn’t want to argue with her over this, so he had to agree.

But then the other party said:

“I heard you got hurt because of Yiren? Why did she suddenly go back to Rongcheng? Did you two have a fight?”

Since they hadn’t gone through the divorce proceedings yet, Lu Yunting didn’t want to make things worse, so he didn’t say much, vaguely saying:

“She’s taken over the Su Group.”

Lu Mama didn’t have any objections to this answer, and only told him to bring Su Yiren back to the ancestral home today.

After ending the call, Lu Yunting felt a little headache.

With their current tense relationship, would she be so obedient and go back with him?

Lu Yunting picked up his phone and was considering whether to call Su Yiren and tell her what his mother had said, when he suddenly saw a WeChat message she had sent him at two in the morning.

【Su Yiren: Tomorrow at 10 am, Jiangcheng Civil Affairs Bureau. Don’t look for any excuses, you hurt your left hand, it won’t affect signing the papers.】

Lu Yunting took a deep breath, so angry that he almost threw his phone away!

She was really heartless!

She was so eager to divorce him!

She didn’t even care about his injured arm!

What’s more, this arm was injured because he saved her!

Since you want a divorce so much, then fine, he would give her that chance!

“Pack your things, we’re going back to Jiangcheng!”