"Old Fang! When shall we go to the temple to get a fortune stick?"
Fang Siyan was sitting on the edge of the bed, peeling an apple for Ding Ruola. The red, yellow and green apple soon showed its snow - white pulp in his hands.
"Here, eat it!"
The man handed the peeled apple to Ding Ruola. He wiped his hands with a wet tissue, put down the fruit knife in his hand, and helped Ding Ruola sit up.
"Okay?"
Ding Ruola was chewing the apple, and her words were slurred. Fang Siyan could only catch the general meaning.
"It's not impossible! The Mid - Autumn Festival is coming soon. We'll go back to our hometown. My mom knows a place where the fortune - telling is quite effective."
These things were not much different from psychotherapy. They were just for psychological comfort.
"Going back home for the Mid - Autumn Festival?"
Hearing this news, Ding Ruola lowered her head and pouted. Obviously, she was a bit unhappy.
Fang Siyan was very sensitive to Ding Ruola's negative emotions. He sat sideways on the edge of the bed and reached out to stroke her face.
"What's wrong? Do you have other plans?"
Ding Ruola didn't dare to have other plans. She had been waiting for Fang Siyan to make arrangements, but she didn't expect it to be like this.
She wasn't ready to meet Fang's mom yet. Although they were neighbors when they were kids and often saw each other, Ding Ruola hadn't spent time with Fang's mom for a long time since high school.
It was like an ugly daughter - in - law meeting her in - laws. She was picking at her thumbs with her left and right hands alternately.
No matter what Fang Siyan said, she kept her head down.
"If you don't want to go back, I'll have my parents come here. The house in the south of the city has always been cleaned regularly!"
They had to meet sooner or later. Ding Ruola knew she couldn't escape this time.
"Let's go back. I'm just a bit scared!"
Fang Siyan couldn't understand what Ding Ruola was scared of. His mother wasn't a fierce person. Was it really necessary to be so scared?
The man shook his head helplessly. Since they had decided to go back home, Fang Siyan immediately called his family.
It was still a week before they went back. Fang Siyan was afraid that Ding Ruola would back out at the last minute, so he told his family first, cutting off her way out.
"Isn't it a bit too soon?"
Hearing Fang's mom's voice on the phone, Ding Ruola's whole body tensed up.
"Hello, auntie!"
She was so flustered that she didn't know what to say. She wanted to call her "mom" in her heart, but when she opened her mouth, she just babbled.
Fang Siyan noticed the girl's panic. He mouthed to Ding Ruola,
"Don't worry!"
Finally, the phone call ended.
Ding Ruola stayed in the hospital for a few days before returning to work.
Unexpectedly, on her first day back at work, Bi Shuang invited her out for dinner.
It was okay to go out for dinner, but going to the Hangu Binyan Building was out of the question!
She now refused to enter such places. The last time she was scared by Bai Lijingming, and she didn't know who she would meet this time.
She had already thought about how to decline Bi Shuang, but after being coaxed by Bi Shuang for a few words, her stance changed.
She cursed herself silently in her heart - Damn Ding Ruola, have you lost your mind?
Bi Shuang knew that Ding Ruola had been through something special these days, so she brought Li Yan to pick her up.
"Dingding! How do you feel?"
To ask about the feelings after being kidnapped, how miserable Ding Ruola was!
"Don't mention this to me."
Since Ding Ruola didn't want to talk about it, Bi Shuang naturally wouldn't say a word.
Bi Shuang had now found a job in a small studio in Beishi. She worked eight hours a day and had one day off on weekends.
She really liked this kind of human - oriented work arrangement.
"Do you mind if I bring a friend?"
A friend of Li Yan's? It shouldn't be too bad.
Bi Shuang was treating, so Ding Ruola had no objections.
When they arrived at the private room, Li Yan said he was going to pick up his friend and then left.
"Do you know who this friend of his is?"
Ding Ruola was always curious about new people. She secretly asked Bi Shuang, who was busy eating.
Bi Shuang glanced at Ding Ruola. She was really impatient. They would know when the person came.
Just as they were talking, the door of the private room was opened, and the white lights in the room were turned on.
"This - this - this..."
"Do you know him?"
Bi Shuang glanced at the bespectacled man standing at the door, then at the girl sitting beside her.
Li Yan looked sideways at the man beside him.
Before he could introduce, the man had already spoken.
"Shao Liubai!"
The man walked up to Ding Ruola and reached out his "claw" to her.
Ding Ruola stood there stunned. Bi Shuang, who was standing beside her, shook hands with Shao Liubai first.
What was going on between these two?
Bi Shuang forced a smile on her face, trying to disguise herself as a socialite.
"Do you two know each other?"
The man replied - they had only met once, while the girl waved her hands and shook her head.
There must be something going on between them.
Ding Ruola didn't enjoy this meal at all. She was now struggling with whether she should call the police or not.
"I'm going to the toilet!"
As an upright citizen, how could Ding Ruola allow such darkness to exist?
She took out her phone and was about to call the police. Just as she pressed a 1, a hand reached out from behind.
"Don't trouble my colleagues to come here!"
Ding Ruola was so scared that she jumped up on the spot and landed about a meter away from the man.
Ding Ruola couldn't quite understand what the man meant just now.
Wasn't she about to call the police?
If the police were Shao Liubai's colleagues, then Shao Liubai was...
"It's just what you think!"
Ding Ruola found it hard to believe. This man didn't look like a policeman at all. If she had to say what he looked like, the only thing she could think of was a general manager of a big company, one of those insidious and cunning characters.
Shao Liubai dragged Ding Ruola to a relatively secluded corner. Li Yan knew that there would surely be some private conversations here, so he had specially left a blind spot at the end of the corridor.
These kidnappers weren't stupid. It was Shao Liubai who had confronted the cyber - police at that time. Otherwise, how could Ding Ruola have been rescued so easily?
He had also noticed that Ding Ruola might be afraid of blood at that time, so he had someone lock her up. He didn't expect there to be a hole in the door. Ding Ruola had crouched down by the hole and seen something she shouldn't have.
"So you're not a bad guy?"
Ding Ruola was cornered by Shao Liubai. Shao Liubai was still very cautious. He knew there were still some of the enemy's informants in such a place, and this way of talking wouldn't arouse their suspicion.
Those people didn't notice, but he had caught Fang Siyan's attention.
Fang Siyan learned that Ding Ruola had come to the Hangu Binyan Building after work in the evening. He rushed over non - stop and saw this scene.
"Old Fang! You're here!"
"If I hadn't come, would you have flown to the sky?"
It wasn't that she would fly to the sky. She had just been so scared that she almost lost her soul.
"Hello, Mr. Fang!"
"Shao Liubai!"
Fang Siyan knew this man? Ding Ruola was clinging to the wall, trying to disappear from the sight of these two men.
The girl had just taken a few steps when Fang Siyan called her.
"Why are you shouting so loudly!"