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The other end of the line fell silent, as if her question was too difficult to answer. It was so quiet that only the faint breathing of a man could be heard.

After a long while, Pei Luoyi heard the man reply, "You don't want to be placed under house arrest, so I let you out. However, I can't control everything. I can avoid any unnecessary injuries."

She didn't fully understand what he meant, but she could hear something. He didn't want her to know too much, but he didn't want her to know nothing at all. He just wanted to tell her what was at stake.

She went silent, and then slowly asked, "What do you mean … Does that mean someone is trying to hurt me? "

Suddenly, she remembered that he had just met Suzhi. To be more precise, Suzhi had said something to him, so she added, "Is it Miss Su?"

The person on the other end paused for a moment as his voice turned colder, "No."

Pei Luoyi acknowledged and felt that she shouldn't go out at all. With a frown on her face, she said, "But I still have to go to work."

"I'll pay you as usual."

The man replied quickly, so fast that he had not thought about it before, and answered subconsciously.

Pei Luoyi, "…"

You think money is your grandpa series?

She didn't think it was feasible at all. She had hands and feet, and it wasn't practical to be cooped up at home all day without going out. But she didn't say it directly because she heard the faint sound of someone talking to a man on the other end of the phone.

He should already be at the company.

After the man finished instructing his subordinates, he placed his phone by his ear, listening to the voice that had gone silent, "Pei Luoyi?"

"Mm …" "I'm here."

She answered vaguely. When she heard that the man was going to continue talking, she got up and went over to the dining table and sat down. She took out the bag of takeout she had brought back and opened the lid one by one.

At this moment, Ye Zichen was eating, "I'll see you later when you come back tonight. I can't explain clearly on the phone at the moment, it depends on the time you have to work too, so I won't disturb you for now."

Hearing the woman's words in his ear, Gong Yan's eyes darkened as an undetectable trace of happiness flashed across his face, "Good."

Pei Luoyi blankly listened as the other side hung up the phone. After a moment of drowsiness, she returned the phone to the table.

Just now … She seemed to have heard that man's tone was a little bit, a little bit … Happy?

What was he happy about?

Could it be... When she thought of the possibility, her eyebrows couldn't help but twitch.

Did he hear her say that she would wait for him to come back at night, and then …

"..."

In the afternoon, Pei Luoyi did not go out. When it was almost time for dinner, that family servant sister-in-law came to the apartment to prepare dinner for her. She must have been instructed by Gong Yan to leave right after she finished preparing a table of food.

Pei Luoyi was sitting at the dining table with her hands on her cheeks. Her gaze shifted from the delicious dishes on the table to the black screen on her cellphone.

After waiting for more than a minute, his phone finally issued a short notification ring tone. Following which, the screen lit up.

It was a text message.

Pei Luoyi picked up his phone and clicked on it.

[Return later.]

It was short and concise, without even a single superfluous word.

As expected, Pei Luoyi nodded her head and replied. She then edited a few words, frowned, and deleted them all.

In the end, he didn't reply to her. He put his phone back to its original position and picked up his chopsticks to continue eating.

After finishing the rest of the meal, he looked at the time, then found his clothes and went into the bathroom to take a comfortable bath.

The man still hadn't returned.

She looked at her phone and saw that it was clean. There were no text messages or phone calls.

When she realized that she was actually waiting for a call from a man, her heart skipped a beat. She quickly threw away her phone, picked up her tablet, and flipped through it to find the movie she had downloaded earlier.

He couldn't see three minutes.

His cellphone rang.

The screen displayed an unknown number.

If it was a trash phone call, the system would automatically clean it up. However, it was clear that this was not the case.

The phone kept ringing. Pei Luoyi looked at it for a moment before picking it up and answering it.

"Miss Pei."

Although her voice wasn't familiar, she had heard it before. It was impossible for her to not recognize it so quickly.

Surprisingly, the other party's tone of voice was far too calm. In the few times they had met, the feeling Su Qizhi gave her was always gentle. This kind of emotionless and cold tone would make people feel that it was abnormal.

"Miss Su?"

"It's me," replied the other side, her voice still not very hot and cold, which was especially clear in the quiet of the room. "Does Miss Pei have time now? I want to meet you. "

Pei Luoyi held the phone in her hand and stared blankly for a moment, as if she hadn't expected that she would take the initiative to ask her out. After all, from what she knew, there was nothing for them to discuss.

"Is something the matter, Miss Su?"

At noon, the man had told her not to run around. Although she didn't understand, she didn't take it to heart at all.

The other side fell silent for a few seconds, but the woman's cold voice still rang out, "There's …" "Something very important to me. Can you come out and meet with me?"

Pei Luoyi was sitting on the bed with a soft bed under her. One of her hands was curling the ends of her hair. Her face was expressionless as she asked, "Is what Miss Su wanted to say related to Gong Yan?"

She couldn't think of anything else she needed to talk about other than the man.

"If it's about him," she went on, "I think it's the same thing over the phone."

After she finished speaking, she heard that person take in a deep breath. Her tone of voice wasn't as calm as when she heard it just now. Instead, it was a type of extremely suppressed emotion that was suppressed to the extreme.

"Miss Pei, maybe you already know that he and I are getting married. I also know that you don't like me and you don't even want to see me. I beg of you. "

Since the words' begging 'had come out, Pei Luoyi naturally could not remain indifferent. Her expression also loosened up a bit.

At noon, when the man was on the phone, she had asked him if the reason she couldn't go out was Susie, but he had denied it.

Does this mean that the woman on the other end of the line can be summed up as safe?

Besides, it's just a meeting...

"Well, where?"

"..."

Gong Family Group Building.

The night was dark, but the CEO's office on the top floor was still brightly lit.

Gong Yan sat behind his desk and opened his notebook, frowning as he discussed something with the man in the video call.

The screen of the phone on the table suddenly lit up. Since the mute mode was set, there was no sound from the bell.

His deep black pupils inadvertently scanned the name of the caller, and a frown appeared on his handsome forehead.

He gestured to the screen, and the man on the other side, who was reporting, shivered.

Long, clean knuckles picked up the phone and pressed the answer button, sticking to the ear.

"What is it?"

"I'm sorry, Young Master Gong. It was our fault, Miss Pei... Something's happened. "