"Ah? Why the sudden question?"
Du Ruoxin asked, puzzled. "What's wrong? What do you want to know?"
Rong Jingyang: "Your parents, why did you go to the orphanage? And, the days you lived with the Rothschild family."
Most importantly, talk about Cristiano.
He thought she had always feared him, been afraid of him, but was reality not like that?
Du Ruoxin: "Uh—"
How to explain?
As she pondered whether to tell him about her parents' entanglement, the doorbell rang.
Du Ruoxin turned her head to look outside—who was it, knocking so late?
While she was thinking, her phone rang. It was Caroline.
Du Ruoxin slid to the green button.
"Sister Xin, open the door, are you asleep?" Caroline said.
Du Ruoxin: "..."
It seemed she couldn't have a proper chat with Rong Jingyang tonight.
She gave him a helpless look, then got up. "Coming."
Hurrying to the door, she tidied her clothes and opened it.
Caroline, holding a bottle of wine, smiled mischievously. "Hello, did I interrupt something good?"
Wait, something's wrong.
Caroline sniffed the air. Why was there a smell of disinfectant and blood?
Du Ruoxin shook her head. "No."
Rong Jingyang walked towards the bedroom, reminding her, "Finish talking soon, and go to sleep early."
Du Ruoxin: "Okay!"
Only then did Caroline see Du Ruoxin's swollen hand and ask nervously, "Sister Xin, what happened to your hand?"
Du Ruoxin: "It's nothing serious. The doctor saw it, prescribed medicine, and said it would subside in a couple of days."
Caroline looked horrified. "How much did that hurt? How did it happen?"
Du Ruoxin: "It must have been star anise."
Caroline: ...What is that? I've never heard of it!
Wait, why is Sister Xin's leg also wrapped in bandages?
"What exactly did you go through tonight?" Caroline asked, her heart aching.
No wonder Cristiano wasn't answering her calls or replying to her messages; it turned out Sister Xin was hurt!
Du Ruoxin comforted her, "I just had a little fall, it's nothing."
She briefly recounted what had happened that evening. Then, she asked, "By the way, what did you come here for?"
Caroline: "—"
She hadn't quite processed it all yet!
Sister Xin's—
It was too thrilling!
Testing a car and ending up in the river? Then Cristiano and Rong Jingyang fighting?
Both injured?
Was he badly hurt? Was he okay?
She really wanted to ask, but Caroline realized she didn't have the right to call...
"Caroline?"
"Hey!"
Why are you spacing out?
Du Ruoxin nudged her, then shook her.
Caroline quickly snapped back to attention. "Oh—"
"I'm glad you're alright."
"Be careful in the future, don't scare people like this."
Putting away her worries, she took out her DSLR camera and notebook. "Teacher Wang just called me. The advertisement has started running."
"Choose one of these photos to post on Weibo and Douyin."
"He'll get the media to promote it."
Looking at the sweet moments they captured that afternoon, Du Ruoxin felt a myriad of emotions. If they had filmed a little later.
She and Rong Jingyang were both injured, how could they take beautiful and handsome photos?
After looking through all of them, Du Ruoxin chose a photo where she and Rong Jingyang were gazing deeply at each other, their eyes filled with love. "This one."
Caroline transferred it to her. "I knew you'd like it."
Du Ruoxin: "Do you think this one is the best too?"
Caroline: "Mhm, it feels like your husband loves you to death, hahahaha."
Du Ruoxin couldn't help but curve her lips upwards, her heart blooming with joy.
He doesn't.
But—
He promised to give her his heart, so she was looking forward to it.
The two women drank and discussed "copywriting" together, and had a video conference until two in the morning before retiring to their rooms.
However, on this side of peaceful days, someone in City E was in an uproar.