Aren't we friends? Why are you rushing at me?

"Is there anything else?"

Lin Shi continued to inquire, based on his understanding of Shen Zhixiao, this young lady usually wouldn't contact him unless it was for important business.

The female lead is very busy every day, so she can't chat with her friends all the time. Even if she doesn't chat for ten days or half a month, he will just think it's normal.

There was silence on the other end of the phone; no one spoke for a long time.

The two fell silent, and the atmosphere gradually became awkward.

Looking out the window at the somewhat dark surroundings, the occasional birdsong from the forest, and the semi-closed racetrack, Lin Shi shivered and suddenly felt a chill.

"fine."

After waiting for a while, Shen Zhixiao finally gave her answer.

Lin Shi finally breathed a sigh of relief, intending to exchange pleasantries before hanging up. After all, she was his "client" with the highest favorability rating, and he couldn't afford to be too neglectful.

"Mr. Shen, how have you been lately?"

"good."

"Um, how's the company?"

"good."

"Emmm, have you eaten...?"

"have eaten."

"emmmmmm".

Lin Shi looked out the window somewhat awkwardly, feeling as if a flock of crows had flown over his head.

He couldn't figure out why Shen Zhixiao was calling; his attitude seemed indifferent, and he didn't really want to chat with him.

I tried to think of other topics, at least I couldn't be the one to hang up first.

Shen Zhixiao suddenly came to his rescue, continuing in a calm tone:

Go home early.

"Well then, Mr. Shen, I'll hang up now. It's still quite a distance to get home, so please take care and get some rest."

After saying that, the phone was hung up.

Lin Shi could only shrug his shoulders, feeling helpless towards himself.

......

The next morning, Lin Shi was still fast asleep on his three-meter-wide bed.

"You are the most beautiful cloud in my sky, making me..."

The piercing sound of the phone shattered Lin Shi's beautiful dream.

Lin Shi closed his eyes and groped around on the pillow, looking for his phone.

After touching it, she struggled to open her eyelids and looked at the caller ID "Natsuno." Not knowing what she wanted to do, she clicked to answer and mumbled:

"Feed".

Upon seeing the call connect, an incredibly excited voice immediately erupted from the other end of the line:

"Lin Shi, have you heard? Liu Ruyan has publicly announced her breakup!"

The sound was so loud it was almost ear-piercing that Lin Shi immediately straightened his arm and tried to keep the phone microphone away from his ear.

The piercing sound completely defeated his beloved dream, bringing Lin Shi back to his senses.

He sat up abruptly, rubbed his eyes, and yawned.

"Just break up, it's normal for her to break up now that Fang Hao is back."

Xia Ye paused for a moment on the other end of the phone, then mumbled two "uh-huhs," naturally omitting the fact that "Liu Ruyan actually sent Fang Hao abroad overnight, using her own connections."

"That's true."

Lin Shi sighed, ignoring Xia Ye's startled reaction. He picked up his phone and saw it was only 7:30 in the morning. He was puzzled: he'd cooked something and washed up by noon yesterday, and this girl would have stayed up even later to meet her friends. Did she have that much energy?

"Natsuno, do you have so much energy? You woke up so early."

The phone first rang with a chuckle, then a voice spoke in an extremely proud tone:

"Just kidding, I'm still very young. It's not that I woke up early, it's that I haven't gone to sleep yet! Want to come find me? Let's go out and play for a while. I have a little sister here~"

Lin Shi walked into the bathroom with his phone in hand, looking a little sleepy, and said:

"No, I have to go to work. It's Monday today."

"ah--"

Xia Ye let out a loud exclamation, as if she hadn't expected Lin Shi to need to work. Lin Shi was once again forced to move her phone away.

Did this kid stay up all night and get a little too excited? His mood changed too quickly.

With toothpaste in his mouth, Lin Shi mumbled indistinctly:

"That's right, shouldn't the first thing you young ladies do when you meet me be to send your men to check where my ancestral graves are?"

"Tch, I'm not like them. Oh well, poor working class, go to work. I'll call you to play again tonight."

She suddenly remembered something and quickly added:

"Not tonight, I might not be awake yet. Let's do it later. I'll come find you later, you really have a sister."

Lin Shi continued vaguely:

"Mmm. I..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xia Ye had already hung up the phone.

Lin Shi didn't pay any attention and continued brushing his teeth with his head down.

Stepping outside, a woman appeared in the room. She was the personal "maid" that Shen Zhixiao had found for him, responsible for his food, clothing, and lodging, but she was rather old, already over fifty.

Even so, Shen Zhixiao required that the "maids" not be allowed to appear in the villa after 8 p.m.

Perhaps they were worried that the maid might steal small things. After all, there are many examples online of nannies who were caught stealing and then framed their newly arrived biological daughter, forcing the daughter to leave, and in the end, the whole family regretted it.

Watching the maid's clean and efficient movements in the kitchen, Lin Shi didn't think Aunt Su would act this way, but since he had eaten her food, he couldn't say anything.

"Good morning, Aunt Su."

Lin Shi greeted the maid and suddenly remembered that Aunt Su and Su Ningshuang actually shared the same surname. It seemed that there weren't many people with the surname Su. Life was truly full of coincidences.

Aunt Su turned her head, but didn't stop working; a gentle smile appeared on her face.

"Young Master, you're awake!"

"I've told you so many times, you don't need to call me young master, just call me Lin Shi."

Lin Shi waved his hand, still not quite used to this title.

Aunt Su smiled, turned her gaze back to her hands, and retorted:

"That won't do. Miss said you are a distinguished guest of the Shen family, so you should definitely call him Young Master."

"What distinguished guest? I just helped out with a few small favors."

Lin Shi walked to the dining table, moved out a chair, and sat down.

Aunt Su didn't reply, but continued with her work. She moved steadily, preparing the food precisely at eight o'clock and placing it in front of Lin Shi.

According to Lin Shi's usual biological clock, he gets up at eight o'clock, washes up briefly, sits at the dining table, and the food has just become slightly cool, which is the best time to eat it.

After setting the plates down, Aunt Su turned to head towards the bedroom. Lin Shi quickly stood up and blocked her way:

"Aunt Su, I only wore those clothes yesterday for one day, do I need to take them away?"

Although Aunt Su was quite old, she was still very agile. With a nimble step, she dodged him.

"That won't do. Miss said that every day should bring a new look, so we need to wear new clothes."

Shouldn't it be a new look every year? Lin Shi grumbled, but could only sit back down at the table and continue eating.

This kind of thing happens every day. At first, he tried to argue his point, since he changed his clothes every day and they were all high-end items, which was really too wasteful.

None of them succeeded. Realizing that they couldn't defy him at all, they had no choice but to submit, though they still tried to resist every day.

Looking at the exquisite food on the plate and the delicate patterns on the chopsticks, he sighed: Is this the world of the rich? They change their clothes every day, and after changing them, he never saw those clothes again.

I didn't think about it any further; I just attributed any illogical things to the world of the novel.

After quickly finishing his food, Lin Shi returned to the locker room, casually picked out a set of casual clothes to put on, and looked in the mirror: looking clean, upright, and very handsome.

He called out towards the bedroom, "Aunt Su, I'm going to work!"

"Be careful on the road!"

"good!"