Fleeting Fortune: A Pampered Life

Chapter 561: 359 fell and got caught? Old bull prefers young grass?

The restaurant's light was dim, paired with the tender, enthralling music; the flickering candle flames on the

table made everything seem dreamlike and illusory, heartlessly moving.

Shen Shuci kept her head down eating until her phone vibrated, then she wiped the corner of her mouth, "Mr.

Huo, I'm going to step out to take a call."

The man nodded without a word.

"Hello—Wanwan."

"Did you meet up with your friend?"

"Mm."

"That's good, just be careful on your own." Tang Wan was just worried and asked a few more questions. After

Shen Shuci ended the call, she didn’t return to her seat, but went straight to the cashier to settle the bill instead.

"Table No. 12, right?" The cashier operated the computer, "This bill has already been paid."

"Paid already?" Shen Shuci frowned.

"Our restaurant requires a corresponding deposit when making a reservation, and the meal cost is deducted

from it, so there is no need to pay again."

Shen Shuci’s lips were pressed tightly together, calculating at the bottom of her heart how much she owed him,

and how to pay it back.

When the two left the restaurant, the neon lights were just coming on, bright as day. Shen Shuci turned her

head, tilting it slightly to see the face of the person beside her clearly. The mottled neon lights fell on his face,

revealing a bone-deep chill and desolation that seemed like it couldn’t be melted, even in the scorching summer

sun.

So cold it was almost devoid of temperature.

"Mr. Huo, did you drive?"

"No."

"How are we going to get back?" Shen Shuci had cover in a car with Jiang Yanting and Shen Zhixian, so

naturally, she hadn't driven.

"Should | call them to cover?"

"From Hexi?"

"Yes."

Shen Shuci had an intense headache. Driving over here without traffic jams would take an hour, and now it was

rush hour, "Let's just take a taxi ourselves, or take the bus and subway."

At this time, taking a taxi could be a death trap in traffic. After discussing it, they decided to head to the subway

station, take it for over a dozen stops, and then hail a cab. This would be most convenient.

Members of the Huo family who followed the two were initially amused.

"Wow, our guy moves fast. After dinner, continuing the date? Shopping, watching a movie, or going for a walk?"

It wasn’t until the two entered the subway entrance that they were dumbfounded. Soon a message popped up

on their phones:

[Head back first.]

Having a car but choosing the subway? With so many people, jostling around? What's going on?

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Beijing's subway is not so easy to take during peak hours. You might wait for two or three trains without being

able to squeeze in. Fortunately, it wasn’t too crowded at this time, so buying a ticket and boarding the train went

smoothly, and she even found a seat, which, ladies first, naturally meant Shen Shuci sat down.

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The man stood in front of her, grasping the handrail with one hand, shielding her with his presence. His height,

combined with his intimidating aura, drew many sidelong glances.

About two stops later, a large crowd surged into the train—men, women, elderly, and children. Shen Shuci, out of

the corner of her eye, saw a woman carrying a large bag and holding the hand of a child around two or three

years old. She quickly got up and offered her seat to the woman.

"Thank you so much," the woman said in haste.

"You're welcome." At this point, the car was very crowded. After standing up, Shen Shuci reached for the

handrail, but at that moment, the subway suddenly moved, her balance shifted, and before she could stabilize

herself, she stumbled backward...

Instinctively she reached out to grasp something to steady herself, scrambling, she grabbed the corner of his

clothes, while the man stretched out a long arm to catch her...

When Shen Shuci cto her senses, she gasped slightly and abruptly looked up at him, the two of them very

close to each other.

The man’s breathing was heavy, so close she could distinctly feel every bit of his hot breath.

Her own breathing inexplicably quickened, panic flickered in her eyes.

His hand rested on her lower back, holding her steady, their eyes met, and their breathing seemed to suddenly

pause for a moment, as if the surrounding air had frozen into stillness.

Suddenly pushed from behind and caught off guard, Shen Shuci bumped firmly into him again.

The rushing sound of the subway, the noise of the surrounding crowd, but all she could hear was her own

thumping heartbeat and the dry, clean scent from his body.

"Can you stand steadily now?" A voice from above, husky and rich.

Shen Shuci took a breath and nodded mutely, "Yes, | can."

She reached to grasp the handrail overhead, in her flurry nearly grabbing his hand again. Once she steadied

herself on the handrail, the hand at her waist released its hold.

A restrained and controlled demeanor; even when he had been holding her waist, one would not feel violated.

The surrounding noise and crowd, the angle at which the two stood, seemed to envelop her entirely in his

embrace.

His large frcast a shadow over her, impenetrable and suffocating to breathe in.

"Say thank you to the sister," said the woman who was now seated, putting her child on her lap and prompting

him to thank Shen Shuci.

"Thank you, sister," the little boy grinned at Shen Shuci.

But his gaze suddenly met that of the man beside her. Children are sensitive; his smile ceased abruptly, he

shrank his neck, and clung tightly to his mother’s neck.

This uncle is scary.

"He's a little shy and afraid of strangers," the woman hugged her son tightly.

"How old is he?" Shen Shuci smiled.

"Two and a half." The woman smiled back, having witnessed their interaction; everything didn’t escape her eyes.

She then asked, "Is this your boyfriend?"

"He... isn't," Shen Shuci cleared her throat.

"Sorry about that, | thought you two were that kind of couple." The man was clearly protecting her, and outsiders

tend to see things more clearly, "By your accent, you're not local?"

"Yes."

On this part of the trip, Shen Shuci ended up having a long conversation with the mother and son, but it wasn’t

until their stop that the little boy waved his hand and said goodbye to Shen Shuci, "Goodbye sister..."

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the man by her side. Mom said to be polite!

He bit his lip and gestured a farewell to him too, "Goodbye, uncle!"

Sister? Uncle?

That categorization decidedly put them in different generations.

The man raised an eyebrow slightly. Did he look that old? The boy shrank back, nervously holding his mother’s

hand, and didn’t dare to look back.

They soon reached their destination too. Shen Shuci pulled out her phone a little ahead of tand called a taxi.

A driver accepted the job quickly, but according to the route, it would take another three to four minutes to

arrive.

The two stood on the roadside waiting for the car, needing to find sconversation to avoid the awkwardness.

Shen Shuci coughed softly, "That little boy just now was quite cute."

But the person who hadn't spoken in a while managed to say something that left her unsure how to respond:

"Do you like kids?"

There really was nothing wrong with the question, but to Shen Shuci, it felt odd, and the subsequent

conversation took an even more oddly twisted turn.

"Well... they're okay."

"Do you prefer boys or girls?"

"I don’t really have a preference; Jiangjiang and Taotao, one lively, one quiet, both are cute."

"Now that the policy has relaxed, if you like, you can have more children after you get married."

Shen Shuci felt her heart pierced by

something, her heart skipped a beat.

and her ears started Burk faintly.

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Aren't people said to be low-key and subtle in their communication in China? But the person in front of her was

being straightforward and disarmingly so.

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It was quickly connected.

"Hello, Old Huo, how's it going tonight? Everything smooth?"

"Any progress?"

"How far have you guys gotten?"

"Progress?" The man’s voice was low and husky, revealing no emotional fluctuation.

"Have you held hands?"

Shen Shuci had grabbed his hand. Rounding up, that counted as holding, right?

"Hugged?"

He had embraced her waist in the subway, though it was just for a few seconds, so that was a hug.

"Or kissed?"

Qi Zeyan asked for quite a while, seeing him not responding, got a bit anxious, "Old Huo, are you there? Speak

up?"

"Is there anything else?"

"What else could there be? I'm just concerned about you, wanted to ask..."

Before he could finish, the call was cut off. Qi Zeyan wasn’t angry, he hummed a tune on his way back to his

room and got ready for a bath.

He was determined to keep this a secret, and cwhat may, he wasn’t going to tell Jiang Jinsang a thing. He

was curious to see what kind of expression he’d have when he found out the truth!

Just the thought amused him.

But then again, Old Huo is like this old

iron tree that hasn't blossomed in

years, how could head ating to

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This old man, usually so quiet, turned out to be so coy. All these years without a situation, is he into this type of

tender grass?

Tang Wan seemed to be a formidable figure herself.

Qi Zeyan clicked his tongue: "An old bull eating tender grass, but that grass isn’t easy to chew..."