Reborn and awakened, this time I won't be a love-struck fool.

I don't know why, but she looks a little pitiful.

Lin Wu paused for a moment, "You have to answer me first, what do you like about me? Didn't I used to bully you all the time?"

He fell silent again, staring at her in silence.

Much later, he said, "I said before, I don't think that was bullying."

He didn't want to say anything more.

It feels like you want to tear open the scars and show them to others.

Lin Wu looked at him and suddenly asked a completely unrelated question, "Did you grow up with your mother?"

"Yes."

He didn't seem to understand why she asked that question, but he still answered patiently.

Lin Wu thought to himself that orphans and widows are always easy targets for bullying. He probably suffered too much when he was young, so now his mentality is twisted, and he mistakenly takes other people's bullying as protection.

He's a hidden masochist.

Has masochistic tendencies.

So, in his eyes, the things she bullied him in high school were actually a kind of "reward"?

Although it's a bit shameless of me to say that.

But Lin Wu couldn't think of any other way.

During the moment Lin Wu remained silent, Xu Jingwang could never have guessed that she had already achieved logical consistency.

Lin Wu suddenly picked up the teapot and poured him a cup of water.

Xu Jingwang raised an eyebrow, puzzled. "What's wrong?"

"Drink some hot water," Lin Wu said considerately.

For this kind of person, we should show humanistic care and let him experience what true goodness is, so that he will not fall into the vortex of masochism and be unable to extricate himself.

The man glanced at her, but in the end, he obediently drank it down.

From that day on, Lin Wu stopped mentioning moving out and instead began to seriously act as a personal assistant, constantly showing concern and care for Xu Jingwang.

Every morning, rain or shine, a hot latte was delivered to Xu Jingwang's office.

I eat breakfast and dinner at home, and lunch at the office.

Every day at noon, Lin Wu would spend half a day carefully selecting food at the company cafeteria, packing it into a lunchbox, and then going back to deliver it to General Manager Xu.

Her daily work is actually quite easy; she spends most of her time thinking about what to do next.

If we can successfully locate Ms. Jiang, then the only issue left is repaying the money.

Lin Wu scratched her head, thinking that she needed to have lofty ideals and couldn't stay a secretary or assistant forever.

Even if you lived ten lifetimes, you still wouldn't be able to pay off this debt.

"Bang bang—"

There was a knock at the door, followed by a quick push of the door open. "Lin Wu, we received an invitation. Go ask President Xu if he wants to go."

"Okay."

Lin Wu stood up and took it.

The invitation was beautifully packaged; she squeezed it and found it to be quite thick.

She knocked on the office door.

"Enter."

After receiving permission, she pushed open the door and went inside.

The office is well-lit and decorated in a minimalist black, white, and gray color scheme. A man in a suit sits on the sofa with his eyes closed, seemingly dozing.

He raised his hand and pinched the space between his eyebrows. "What's wrong?"

"There's an invitation." Lin Wu placed it on the small coffee table in front of him.

In fact, she had been living and eating with Xu Jingwang for most of this period of time, just like being classmates in school, so she witnessed firsthand how busy he was.

He's even busier than Lin Si, who works as a security guard at the entrance.

No wonder he can earn so much money at such a young age.

Speaking of Lin Si, since he came to work as a security guard at the gate, there are even more people coming and going every day.

Lin Wu felt that she was about to have another new sister-in-law.

Xu Jingwang picked up the invitation, tore open the outer packaging, and inside was a red folded card.

He glanced at it twice, then suddenly handed it to Lin Wu.

Lin Wu blinked. "What's wrong?"

"Take a look," Xu Jingwang said.

Lin Wu took it, glanced at it, and froze.

It was Xia Ruoruo and Xie Yanhuai's engagement invitation.

"..."

A year ago, Lin Wu would probably have fainted from anger just by seeing this.

Now, after watching it, she didn't feel much at all.

"……are you going?"

The man was probably taken aback by her first words, and paused for a moment, "What?"

Lin Wu shifted her gaze from the engagement invitation to his face. "So, are you going?"

"Come with me." He straightened up slightly.

"I……?"

Lin Wu was stunned.

Xu Jingwang: "Don't you want to go?"

"I really don't want to go," Lin Wu said, changing the subject. "But if you want me to go, I definitely will, after all, you're the boss."

Not only is he the boss, but he's also the creditor.

They are very respectable.

"Why don't you want to go?"

As it turns out, Xu Jing's focus in his arbitrary arrests was quite bizarre: "Didn't want to see them?"

"More or less," Lin Wu said. "I'm afraid I won't be able to resist going to the toilet, finding a basin of urine, and splashing it on Xie Yanhuai's face."

Xu Jingwang: "..."

Seeing his somewhat blank expression, Lin Wu scratched her hair sheepishly, "I was worried about causing you trouble."

A few seconds later, Xu Jingwang said softly, "It's okay, go and see them. With your blessing, they'll probably be even happier."

Lin Wu was instantly enlightened.

That's right.

If she ran over there, Xia Ruoruo would definitely feel annoyed.

"I'll go," she said, her eyes shining.

The engagement party was next month, and Lin Wu soon went out again.

It was almost lunchtime, so after delivering lunch to Xu Jingwang, she went to the security room.

Today is a warm and sunny day.

There was a deck chair at the entrance of the security room, where Lin Si was lying peacefully in the sun, wearing a military overcoat.

"Have you eaten?" Lin Wu leaned closer.

"No."

He remained lying down, saying, "I'm not very hungry."

Lin Wu wanted to chat with him, but after thinking for a while, she realized that the only topic was work.

So she started asking casually, "Are you busy today?"

"Not busy," Lin Si said.

They're not just not busy, they're practically idle.

A few seconds later, perhaps realizing he'd killed the conversation, he asked again, "Are you busy?"

"I'm doing alright," Lin Wu said. "This morning I went upstairs to make him a cup of coffee, helped him organize some documents, played on my phone for two hours, and then sent him an invitation."

"oh."

Lin Si gave a dry, perfunctory reply.

"..."

The siblings remained silent.

Lin Wu racked her brains for a topic to talk about, and then, as if struck by a sudden thought, her eyes lit up. "Well... why don't you guess what's in that invitation?"

Lin Si: "...I can't guess."

"Guess who it is? It's someone we both know," Lin Wu said.

Lin Si sat up and thought seriously for a while. "Is it related to Bo Shan?"

Lin Wu was taken aback when she heard Bo Shan's name.

The smile on his face slowly faded.

She hadn't thought of Boshan for a long time.

Because every time I think about it, I feel extremely sad, even more so than when I think about Xie Yanhuai.

Because I'm so heartbroken, my brain has become accustomed to blocking out this person.

"It's not her," Lin Wu said softly.

Lin Si glanced at her and silently bit the tip of his tongue.

I'll teach you to be so foul-mouthed.