"Or do you have some hidden secrets?"
Hongxiu seemed to have met an old friend. She even reached out to grab Shen Jianyi's hand and forced her to sit still.
Shen Jianyi really couldn't figure out what this woman was up to. All her actions were so puzzling.
"Don't get me wrong. I'm just bored and want to talk to you."
Shen Jianyi didn't answer. Her gaze still fixed on the direction of the villa.
Then, she heard a rustling sound beside her. Turning her head, she saw Hongxiu taking out two packs of cookies from her bosom.
"Do you want some?" Hongxiu tried to hand them to her.
Shen Jianyi was stunned for a moment. She really didn't expect that this girl had two sides.
Seeing that she didn't take them for a long time, Hongxiu simply stuffed the cookies into her arms.
"Actually, I've noticed something strange since I joined this research institute."
Shen Jianyi was confused. "What?"
"Zhou Sang is a bit off. He contacted a guy named Ke Yi'an in private, but I didn't catch what they said exactly..."
While eating, she continued, "But I seem to have heard them mention the chip."
Hearing this, Shen Jianyi fell into deep thought.
Ke Yi'an was actually Xu Wenji. Everyone in this research lab knew this, but since Hongxiu joined later, she wasn't aware of it.
So... it was very likely that Xu Wenji had been slandering her all this time, and Zhou Sang trusted him completely.
Just as Shen Jianyi was scratching her head, the girl beside her suddenly said, "Do you need my help?"
This made Shen Jianyi hesitate. She didn't think Hongxiu had any reason to help her.
After some thought, she still refused.
Hongxiu snorted and stood up from the ground when she caught a glimpse of a figure.
"If you change your mind, you can come to me. I'm always willing to help you," Hongxiu looked at her. "After all, I like your personality."
With that, she left.
...
Not long after Hongxiu left, Lu Jinsheng appeared in front of her.
"Where is she?"
Shen Jianyi knew who he was referring to. She tilted her chin backward and said absent - mindedly, "She's gone."
"The matter should be resolved. Let's go back."
"Okay..."
On the way home, Shen Jianyi kept thinking about other things. It was mainly because Hongxiu's actions were so strange and hard to figure out.
The man also noticed. He frowned slightly. "What are you thinking about?"
"What do you think of Hongxiu?" She didn't intend to hide it from Lu Jinsheng and told him everything.
Immediately, Lu Jinsheng chuckled. "Interesting. I investigated Hongxiu before. She's a loner with a strange personality, but... she never lies."
If what Lu Jinsheng said was true, it meant Hongxiu could be trusted.
Anyway, the reason Hongxiu gave her was really hard to understand.
Did she just want to help her because of her special personality? It was too hasty. Shen Jianyi decided to put this matter aside for the time being.
...
It was nearly midnight when they returned to the Lu family's villa.
Lu Jinsheng went to the garage to park the car first. She dragged her tired body and pushed open the door.
A ray of light shone in. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw that there seemed to be a person sitting on the sofa. She thought she was seeing things.
But after she turned on the hall light, she found that there really was a man sitting there, staring at her intently.
She knew this man. In fact, "familiar" was a better word to describe their relationship.
"Why are you here?" Shen Jianyi stood still, with a chill gathering in her eyes.
Obviously, she didn't want to see this man.
Pei Xiuyuan got up from the sofa and walked towards her.
"Juanjuan, I got stabbed for you, but why didn't you visit me once when I was in the hospital?" Pei Xiuyuan looked aggrieved. "Aren't you afraid that I wouldn't make it?"
She took two steps back in disgust, trying to keep a distance from him.
"I've said before. I'm not the Juanjuan you're talking about. Stop being so stubborn and stop pestering me."
But obviously, Pei Xiuyuan didn't believe her.
He was always so stubborn. Once he made up his mind about something, no one could change it.
Just like now, he thought Shen Jianyi was the Juanjuan in his mind, so he would always insist on this belief.
Shen Jianyi glanced at the door. She clearly saw that the man outside had already parked the car and was walking in.
"Go away," Shen Jianyi frowned. "Instead of wasting your time on me, why don't you go and look for the Juanjuan you're talking about?"
But Pei Xiuyuan seemed not to understand. He kept approaching the woman. He stretched out his arm, his eyes full of affection. "Aren't you Juanjuan?"
"I've said I'm not."
She turned around and bumped into Lu Jinsheng's arms. Shen Jianyi's first reaction was to hide behind him.
Now that there was someone to protect her, she didn't have to face Pei Xiuyuan, the crazy man, by herself.
Lu Jinsheng looked at the man in front of him with hostility. His clenched fists were against his trouser legs, and the anger in his eyes was gradually spreading.
The man's words were also full of gunpowder. "Pei Xiuyuan, why did you come uninvited?"
The moment Lu Jinsheng spoke, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly dropped to its lowest point.
In the midst of the hostility between these two men, Shen Jianyi seemed out of place.
Pei Xiuyuan didn't feel ashamed for barging into someone else's house. Instead, he was very confident. "I'm here to find my Juanjuan. Let her go!"
"Juanjuan?"
Lu Jinsheng had no impression of this name. It seemed to have happened during that lost period of his memory.
Pei Xiuyuan sneered. "What? Do you think you can just act like nothing happened just because you've forgotten the past?"
Hearing this, Lu Jinsheng didn't say a word.
"Give her to me!" Pei Xiuyuan said in a low voice.
The man in front of him wasn't easily intimidated. His strong possessiveness was fully demonstrated at this moment.
"Dream on."
Seeing the hostility between the two men out in the open, Shen Jianyi really couldn't stand it anymore. If it continued like this, they might really fight.
If that happened, since both of them were still injured, they would definitely end up in the hospital again.
Pei Xiuyuan knew that Lu Jinsheng wouldn't let Shen Jianyi go, and Shen Jianyi wouldn't leave with him voluntarily either. So he wanted to mock the man in front of him.
"Lu Jinsheng, you're a loser. You couldn't protect your mother back then, and now you can't protect Juanjuan either. What do you have—"
Before he could finish his sentence, the woman finally couldn't bear it and stepped forward to slap him.