Staying at home until it got dark, Shen Youjin was about to go out for something to eat when she suddenly received a call from a delivery man.
"Ms. Shen, are you at home? A gentleman has ordered you a bouquet of flowers."
"Just leave it at the door!" Shen Youjin said while tidying her hair.
"This..." The delivery man was in a dilemma. "The gentleman wants to deliver it to your hands in person."
Shen Youjin paused. "Okay, then wait a moment."
She hadn't received any flowers for a long time. Apart from Gu Zhiyuan, her boyfriend who had finally ascended to that position, there was no one else.
She opened the door and saw that the delivery man was holding a large bouquet of camellias, which almost blocked half of his face.
At this moment, Shen Youjin knew that the person who sent the flowers was not Gu Zhiyuan. He would never send her camellias.
"Ms. Shen, right?" The delivery man gave her the flowers without noticing her strange expression. "Please give me a good review. Thank you!"
Shen Youjin stood still without saying a word. The delivery man's phone rang with a new order. He left in a hurry and didn't even have time to listen to her answer.
"Camellias..." She sneered and walked to the trash can, throwing the flowers nearby. "Childish."
The flower language of camellias is, how dare you despise my love.
The only person who could give her this bouquet of flowers was Fu Qingye.
Back in the bedroom, Gu Zhiyuan sent her a message.
"Do you want to move in with me? I'm not very reassured about you living there alone."
Shen Youjin thought for a moment. "Let's talk about it three months later. Otherwise, it would be very troublesome to move back and forth."
Gu Zhiyuan didn't reply after that. She didn't say anything else and drove to a good restaurant to satisfy her appetite.
She could not eat, but the baby in her belly was hungry! She had obviously felt that her appetite had been getting better these days.
Just as she sat down and had eaten a few bites of the food that had just been served, her phone vibrated a few times.
She impatiently picked up her phone and saw, as expected, a message from Fu Qingye.
"—Did you receive the flowers? Do you like them?"
"—If you don't want to never get back the villa left by your mother in this lifetime, you'd better break up with Gu Zhiyuan immediately."
"—You know that I don't have much patience. Don't challenge me!"
Shen Youjin pretended not to see them and directly muted her phone, continuing to eat.
One billion. She had to calculate how much she could take out in the next few days.
If things continued like this, she was really afraid that one day, while walking on the road, she would be captured and held under house arrest by Fu Qingye, and be threatened by the seaside villa to stay by his side.
She believed that Fu Qingye could do such a thing. It was better to kill off this thought of Fu Qingye's earlier.
After she had eaten her fill, she picked up her phone again. Fu Qingye had already called her a dozen times.
Sure enough, muting her phone was the right decision.
"—Shen Youjin, you won't be able to take away the seaside villa without ten billion!"
After seeing this new message, Shen Youjin could not hold it in anymore.
"Are you blackmailing me?" Shen Youjin could not help but call him. "Why don't you just rob someone with ten billion?"
Fu Qingye's voice was like a snow mountain in winter, cold and leaving no room for negotiation. "I'm a law-abiding citizen. Is it illegal for me to sell my own villa for whatever price I want? The willing take the bait!"
"Fu Qingye, I thought you had changed, but I didn't expect you to be the same as before." Shen Youjin tightened her fingers. "When will you finally understand that no one will fall in love with someone because they are threatened?"
Fu Qingye was silent for a few seconds and then began to scoff. "I don't care about love. I only care about the outcome and whether I can get what I want. Shen Youjin, I'm telling you, as long as I'm alive, you don't even think about running away!"
After he finished speaking, he directly hung up the phone and did not even give Shen Youjin a chance to fight back.
Shen Youjin was so angry that her temples hurt. Why did she think so wrongly back then and provoke such a young master?
After an unknown period of time, she settled her bill and left. The street lights had already come on one by one.
On the way, Gu Zhiyuan called her, asking her what she was doing and whether she had eaten well in a gentle voice.
Shen Youjin answered them one by one and did not resist like before. However, the atmosphere between the two of them was still not like that of a couple.
It was more like... a familiar stranger, a superior or a teacher-student relationship. In any case, it was not right.
They continued to talk until she got home. Only then did Shen Youjin say, "I'm going to take a bath and rest. You should also go to bed early."
Gu Zhiyuan replied, "Okay, good night."
After hanging up the phone, Shen Youjin went to the bathroom to fill up the bathtub with hot water and slowly lay in it.
The warm water flowed over her body and most of her exhaustion of the day had finally faded.
She took her phone and apart from Fu Qingye, the other three men were all quiet.
It was normal for Li Nanchuan not to send her a message with his personality, but it was still a little shocking for Bai Beichen and Jiang Zeshen not to make a sound at all.
She did not think that their silence was a good thing at all. With the personalities of Bai Beichen and Jiang Zeshen, there was a high chance that they were holding back something bad. She did not know what they were planning.
Especially Jiang Zeshen. His moral sense in relationships was very low. He had even said, "The people who truly like you will not care if you have a boyfriend, so just let those who like you chase you" such words which were clearly ready to poach the corner. He was truly someone who had to be guarded against.
Just as she was thinking this, her bank card received a notice that five million had been transferred into it. She immediately sat up from the bathtub.
Which living Buddha had sent her money at this time? Gu Zhiyuan?
Just as she was about to send a message to Gu Zhiyuan, a message popped up in Li Nanchuan's chat box. "The matter has been clarified. The mastermind is Fu Qingye's mother, Bai Wenjing, but the Li family is also responsible. This five million is compensation from my mother. Accept it!"
Shen Youjin looked at this message and Li Nanchuan's handsome face appeared in her mind. A trace of sadness flashed through her clear eyes.
"I don't want such a thing to happen again." Her slender fingers typed a sentence on the screen and after hesitating for a few seconds, she added, "Thank you."
In any case, Li Nanchuan had done a lot for her. Not everyone could seek justice from their own family for an outsider who was not related to them.
It was just a pity that she and Li Nanchuan were fated to be together but not meant to be.
After a long time, Li Nanchuan replied. "Xiaojin, no matter what reason you have for being with Gu Zhiyuan, I hope that you don't wrong yourself. Life is very long. You have to love yourself."
For some reason, Shen Youjin's nose turned a little sour when she saw this message.
Was she wronged? Everything that Gu Zhiyuan had promised her was what she had once wanted the most.
But why did she inexplicably feel sad when she thought of the days to come after seeing Li Nanchuan say this?
Was it because... she still loved Li Nanchuan in her heart?
She closed her eyes and was deeply conflicted.