After one night of indulgence, the abstinent tycoon kissed her every night with his hand on her hip.

Li Rui hurriedly got out of the car and walked up to Ling Jingyuan, wanting to take the trash from Ling Jingyuan's hand. Ling Jingyuan shook his head slightly upon seeing this.

"No need, I can do it myself."

Li Rui was slightly taken aback upon hearing this. If he remembered correctly, his boss was a germaphobe.

How come you've lost your germaphobia now because of love?

Is the magic of love really that great?

With a slight smile on his lips, Ling Jingyuan walked straight to the trash can, casually threw away the trash, took out a tissue to wipe his hands, and then returned to his car.

"Go to the company."

In the back row, Ling Jingyuan looked down at his phone and spoke softly.

"Okay, boss."

Assistant Li Rui responded and quickly started the car, which soon drove out of the residential area.

Ling Jingyuan's long, slender, and handsome fingers tapped on the phone keyboard to send a message to Jiang Zhi.

[Ling Jingyuan: Be good, get some rest and remember to think of me.]

The assistant glanced at his boss's slightly upturned lips and uncontrollable smile in the rearview mirror and silently looked away.

The entire train carriage smelled of their bosses' romance...

Jiang Zhijia.

Jiang Zhi breathed a slight sigh of relief as she watched Ling Jingyuan finally leave. She lowered her eyes, her heart filled with a myriad of emotions.

She felt something for Ling Jingyuan, that man...

She shook her head slightly, trying to calm herself down.

Is love something to believe in?

In the end, it's all for naught. No matter how wonderful it was at the beginning, it will eventually end up riddled with holes.

Like her parents, she always thought she had the most loving parents in the world until she was eighteen.

But it wasn't until her mother fell ill that she realized it was all a lie. Her father, who had been having an affair for over a decade, suddenly dropped his pretense, abandoned his wife and daughter, and brought the woman he had been having an affair with and her child home, disregarding her mother's serious illness.

He stopped pretending and couldn't even wait any longer. His heartlessness and shamelessness directly accelerated his mother's illness.

That year, her gentle and kind mother finally succumbed to her illness and died, and she also ushered in her dark year.

No one knows how she spent that year, or how many times she stood on the rooftop contemplating jumping. Finally, one day, her mother appeared in her dream. In the dream, a gentle and beautiful woman smiled faintly, stroked her head, and earnestly told her to live well and live her own life.

She promised her mother to live a good life.

But she was opposed to love and marriage.

She wasn't a blockhead; how could she not see Ling Jingyuan's feelings for her? At the very least, this man seemed to have some sincerity.

She wasn't an emotionless machine; she was somewhat moved.

But reason told her that she could go, but not fall in love.

Physical infatuation is acceptable, but genuine emotional attraction is not. There can be no future for him and her; true love is a luxury in this world.

Love is always a luxury and an expensive thing. Even the most beautiful love is like fireworks, which are dazzling at the beginning but end up as ashes!

If that's the case, Jiang Zhi would rather have only indulged in physical pleasure from the beginning and stayed true to her heart, so that she wouldn't have been hurt.

Jiang Zhi looked up slightly at the cleaned-up dining table and kitchen, as well as the emptied trash can, and her eyes darkened slightly.

So be it.

Their relationship was purely physical; he clung to her body, and she craved his warmth.

She has the right to stop and end things at any time, so let's leave it at that.

Ling's Group, President's Office.

Ling Jingyuan had just sat down when his phone rang. He knew without a doubt why Ms. Zhou was calling, and he answered the phone with a sense of helplessness.

"Hey son, where's my daughter-in-law? When are you bringing her to meet me?"

"Are you even capable? Did you even win her over?"

Ling Jingyuan: ...

Is Ms. Zhou really his biological mother? Is there any mother who doubts her own son this much?

Whether he's capable or not, Jiang Zhi should know best!

He's not just capable, he's incredibly capable! If it weren't for him controlling her, she might already have grandchildren by now!

"Mom, am I really your biological child? Why do you doubt me so much? I'm pursuing him, I'm pursuing him. Stop calling me every day and I know what I'm doing."

Ms. Zhou said unhappily, "What do you know? There hasn't been a single step forward. Ling Jingyuan, you're not lying to me to avoid arranged marriages, are you?"

Ling Jingyuan was truly at a loss for words when facing his mother, Ms. Zhou. "Mom, didn't you already investigate whether it's true or false behind my back?"

Ms. Zhou was slightly taken aback, and paused, feeling somewhat guilty: "Alright, hurry up. You can't even get a girl, you're really nothing like my son."

Ling Jingyuan: ...

Ms. Zhou gave a few more instructions before hanging up the phone. Ling Jingyuan looked at the disconnected phone and rubbed his forehead helplessly.

Fu Group, President's Office.

Fu Libai's beautiful peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly, and his well-defined fingers unconsciously touched his lips, his eyes filled with an unfathomable darkness.

……

Jiang Zhijia.

Jiang Zhi calmly returned to her room, took out a book on lighting technology, and began to read it seriously. Reading could calm her mind and help her stop thinking about unnecessary things.

She hadn't been looking at it for long when her phone rang.

"Hey, Zhibao, are you working overtime tonight? I'd like to ask you out for dinner."

When the phone connected, I heard my friend Shen Yutong's somewhat listless voice coming from the phone.

Hearing her friend's voice, Jiang Zhi couldn't help but feel worried. "Yutong, what happened? You seem to be in a bad mood."

"I'm not working today, so I have time at home."

Shen Yutong paused slightly upon hearing this, and then she couldn't help but think of the scene from last night, and she sighed softly.

"Then wait for me, I'll come to your house right now."

Shen Yutong hung up the phone as soon as she finished speaking. Jiang Zhi looked at the phone being abruptly disconnected and shook his head with a faint smile.

Forty minutes later, Jiang Zhi's doorbell rang.

Jiang Zhi opened the door and saw her friend Shen Yutong walking in with a bag of food, smiling. Shen Yutong gave Jiang Zhi a big hug as soon as she saw her.

"Ah, my darling, I miss you so much. Have you missed me too?"

Jiang Zhi smiled gently upon hearing this and nodded in agreement, "Yes, I've thought about it."

Shen Yutong chuckled softly as she watched Jiang Zhi cooperate with her. She let go of Jiang Zhi and pulled her to sit down on the sofa.

Shen Yutong put down the bag of delicious food in her hand and looked at her best friend. What she saw startled her.

Her best friend looked deathly pale, with dark circles under her eyes, and looked haggard as if she had been drained of her life force.

Looking at Jiang Zhi's appearance, she said without thinking, "Sister, have you been bewitched by a vixen?"