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

"Yes." Lin Wu thought for a moment, "We are friends, friends with a special bond."

Lin Si didn't say anything more and went to look at his phone.

Zou Dafa looked up and smiled at her, then looked down at his phone.

The atmosphere became somewhat awkward for a moment.

Lin Wu belatedly realized that the two seemed to be at odds.

She scratched her head. "Dafa, this is my younger brother, my biological brother. He's not a bad person, just a bit introverted."

Zou Xun: "..."

Redefining introversion.

Lin Si glanced at the person next to him. "Who is Dafa?"

Zou Xun recalled this incident and felt a wave of embarrassment. "Well..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Wu asked in confusion, "It's the person next to you. Didn't you exchange names before you arrived?"

Zou Xun: "..."

He felt a little flustered for some reason, and raised his hand to wipe his sweat. The handsome guy next to him turned his head and gave him a cold and indifferent glance.

"Aren't you called Zou Xun?" He emphasized, repeating, "The 'Xun' in 'searching'."

Zou Xun: "..."

What a vicious person.

You look like a pretty boy, but you're actually a cunning little devil.

"What?"

Lin Wu was taken aback. "Zou Xun?"

This was the first time Zou Xun had heard his own name from her. He rubbed his hands awkwardly and said, "Yes."

"So..." Lin Wu's gaze gradually turned incredulous, "Zou Dafa is a fake name?"

"Yes," Zou Xun said nervously, "I didn't mean to lie to you. I use this name outside."

You'll be rich! Who knows, you might strike it rich someday.

He thought Lin Wu might be angry.

She was only slightly taken aback before laughing again, "It's okay."

Zou Xun stared blankly at her.

Lin Wu cleared her throat. "Anyway, my name isn't Lin Tiantian."

Zou Xun was stunned: "Then what's your name?"

"Her name is Lin Wu," the handsome guy next to her said coldly. "Lin as in 'double wood forest,' and Wu as in 'mountain mist.'"

Zou Xun: "..."

Great, now we're even.

Lin Wu had packed three lunches from the restaurant before she arrived.

"Let's eat." She placed lunch on the table.

Food is the most important thing for people, and Lin Wu thought that if everyone had a meal together, the relationship might be eased.

As it turns out, it didn't work on these two people.

Lin Wu felt like he was in the Arctic during the meal, shivering from the cold.

I have indigestion.

After that meal, Lin Wu never came back at noon.

Lin Si and Zou Xun acted like strangers, ignoring each other completely.

Until the end of this month, we will be working normally in the mornings.

Zou Xun went to the toilet.

He didn't take his phone; it was lying on the table. The phone rang incessantly, and he didn't know who was calling.

When the bell rang for the first time, Lin Si ignored it.

When it rang a second time, he glanced at it irritably.

When the phone rang for the third time, he pulled out his walkie-talkie with a dark expression. "Someone's calling you."

"It's probably a delivery. I just bought a new locker," Zou Xun said. "Could you help me receive it? Just tell him to leave it at the door."

Lin Si refused, "You answer it yourself."

Zou Xun sighed, "Alright then, wait a few minutes."

Lin Si stared at his phone with a gloomy face.

Two seconds later, the bell rang again.

"Pleasant Goat, Beautiful Goat, don't underestimate me just because I'm a..."

Lin Si couldn't listen anymore and got up to answer the call.

The moment the call connected, the woman's shrill voice was like a knife scraping against his eardrums.

"Zou Xun, you heartless bastard! You're just going to let your own mother die in the hospital? How could I have given birth to such a thing? Heaven is truly blind! You'll get your retribution soon, watch out, you might get cancer someday..."

Lin Si was stunned for a moment before hanging up the phone.

Two minutes later, Zou Xun returned, humming a little tune and walking briskly.

Normally, Lin Si wouldn't even give him a glance.

This time, he finally managed to lift his head from his phone, looked at Zou Xun, his lips moved, then closed again.

Zou Xun opened his phone and glanced at the caller ID. "You answered?"

"Mm," Lin Si replied.

The phone number at the top of the contacts list belongs to Zou Lian.

Every time Zou Lian called him, she was cursing him.

Although the phone call lasted only half a minute, Zou Xun could imagine the foul language Zou Lian would utter.

He touched the tip of his nose a little awkwardly. "Um...did you hear anything you shouldn't have?"

Lin Si raised an eyebrow. "What shouldn't I have heard?"

In fact, this was the first time Lin Si had ever looked at Zou Xun properly.

He previously thought this guy was just a petty thug, a scoundrel.

He kept pretending to be pitiful to gain Lin Wu's sympathy.

Only now did Lin Si realize that he actually seemed a little pitiful.

The scars on Zou Xun's face gradually faded, and they were no longer as ferocious as before. However, when others looked at him, they would notice the faint scars first.

He was very thin, his trousers hanging loosely, but his hand holding the phone was beautiful—fair-skinned with long, slender fingers. Because he was so thin, the lines of his finger bones were particularly clear and long, the light blue veins resembling winding mountains.

Zou Xun chuckled awkwardly, "My mom is sick and in a bad mood. If she says anything unpleasant, I apologize on her behalf."

Lin Si pursed his lips.

He didn't know what Zou Xun's motivation was for apologizing.

After all, his mother didn't know him at all.

The few words he hurled at Zou Xun over the phone were actually directed at him.

He just happened to overhear it.

A mother who can verbally abuse her child like this... could the child really be her biological child?

"It's nothing." Lin Si frowned, and unusually asked, "What illness does your mother have?"

"Kidney disease," Zou Xun said. "We can't find a suitable kidney donor."

Lin Si paused for a moment, then said, "Okay."

He thought for a while, but still didn't understand. "Her illness has nothing to do with you, so why is she taking her anger out on you?"

Zou Xun paused for a moment, "They probably can't accept it."

"How was she to you before?" Lin Si asked.

"It's alright." Zou Xun sat down in the chair, thinking about what to say when he called Zou Lian later. "It used to be alright, I guess. She's probably just not good at expressing herself. I wanted to give her a kidney transplant before, but she didn't agree, saying she wanted me to be healthy."

Lin Si chuckled. He didn't think the person who had just cursed her own son to get cancer would be a good mother. He casually remarked, "What if she found you? What if you're not related by blood, or there's a mismatch?"

He was just saying it casually.

In just a few words, he could only sense the mother's resentment and malice.

Zou Xun was stunned.

He bit his lip.

In the past, he probably would have just taken it as a joke.

There is already the cautionary tale of Xie Xingbang.

If the father is fake, then what about the mother?

Zou Xun remained silent for far too long.