377: Han Ruoyu's Test

The designated driver accepted the money with a beaming smile, repeatedly saying, “Thank you, Boss, thank you, Boss!” He couldn’t believe that the owner of such a beat-up car was so generous.

Liu Xiaolin waved his hand and walked straight into the hotel, returning to his room. When he turned on the light and looked at the simple and unfamiliar room, his dizzy mind seemed to stop working: “Where is this? Why did I come here? What am I doing here?”

At that moment, his phone rang. He instinctively pulled out his phone and pressed the answer button: “Hello?”

“Hello what? Why didn’t you answer so many calls? Where did you go?” Hong Tongtong’s scolding came from the other end of the phone: “Do you know I was almost worried to death?”

“Ah? Tongtong, you called?” Liu Xiaolin instantly sobered up: “I was having dinner with a few General Managers today, so I didn’t check my phone.”

“I called so many times and sent so many messages, but you didn’t respond to me. I was so worried.” Hong Tongtong finally felt relieved when she heard Liu Xiaolin’s voice.

“I’ll be fine, what are you worried about? Don’t worry, I’m doing great,” Liu Xiaolin comforted her.

“You’re drunk, aren’t you? Alright, I’m not talking to you anymore. Go wash up and sleep. The first thing you do when you wake up tomorrow is call me, remember that!” Hong Tongtong hung up the phone after speaking.

After hearing the busy signal, Liu Xiaolin held his phone and looked at the missed calls—there were over a dozen! He also checked the messages, and there were also more than ten. He once again felt Hong Tongtong’s love for him, and his heart felt warm.

But in the middle of Hong Tongtong’s messages, there was a message from an unfamiliar number. Liu Xiaolin opened it and read: “I’m Cui Zhenzhong, let’s keep in touch.”

“Oh, this is Cui Zhenzhong’s phone number, I’ll save it first.” Liu Xiaolin, in his dazed state, saved Cui Zhenzhong’s phone number, then lay directly on the bed and fell asleep.

By the time Liu Xiaolin woke up again, it was already broad daylight.

He checked his watch; it was past eight o’clock.

“I need to get up. I agreed with Han Ruoyu to go to Haizhe Technology this morning, and it wouldn’t be good to be too late.” After a short nap, Liu Xiaolin got up, took a shower, and prepared to go downstairs for breakfast. The room rate here included breakfast, which was very cost-effective.

The restaurant on the first floor was not large, displaying various small dishes and breakfast items, which looked quite good.

Liu Xiaolin served himself a bowl of porridge, took a few pan-fried dumplings and a steamer of small steamed buns, and began to eat: “I wonder what Hong Tongtong is eating for breakfast today? Hong Tongtong? Oh, right, I promised to call her!”

Thinking of this, he quickly pulled out his phone and dialed Hong Tongtong’s number: “Tongtong, have you had breakfast? I’m having breakfast.”

“You’ve already started eating breakfast? I thought you hadn’t woken up yet, and I was waiting for your call, not daring to call you for fear of waking you up.” Hong Tongtong sounded a bit unhappy on the other end of the phone.

“Last night was my fault, I drank too much and didn’t check my phone, don’t be angry.” Liu Xiaolin began to coax his girlfriend: “When I woke up today, I was going to call you, but I was too hungry, so I came downstairs to eat breakfast while calling you. Don’t be angry, I love you, baby.”

“You have so many excuses, hmph! Don’t do this next time! I don’t know if you’ve been charmed by the beauties of Yuhai City, always ignoring me like this.” Hong Tongtong still felt a bit wronged.

“I haven’t even seen a single beauty yet, all I’ve seen are Aunties and big men. Don’t talk nonsense,” Liu Xiaolin said with a smile: “There’s only one beauty in my eyes, and that’s you!”

Hong Tongtong was beaming with joy after hearing a few sweet words: “Hmph, good for you for being sensible.”

“I still have to run errands after breakfast, so I won’t talk to you anymore. I’ll call you tonight,” Liu Xiaolin said with relief, seeing that he had appeased his girlfriend.

“You must call me tonight, or I’ll chase you to Yuhai City and beat you up!” Hong Tongtong said, half-threatening and half-coquettish.

“Don’t worry, I promise!” Liu Xiaolin continued to assure her.

“Alright, you can hang up now, bye-bye.” Hong Tongtong finally approved with a smile.

“Okay, goodbye, my dear.” Liu Xiaolin was eager to go to Haizhe Technology and quickly hung up the phone.

Walking out of the hotel and into the parking lot, he instinctively looked for his loves gift no. 1 flying car. After searching around and not finding it, he remembered that he had rented a car with a local license plate yesterday, and then he quickly found it. x33xs.com

Driving straight ahead, he soon arrived at the entrance of Haizhe Technology Company. Perhaps General Manager Han and the others had informed the guard, or perhaps the guard saw that it was a car with a local license plate; he didn’t even leave the guardhouse, directly opening the company gate and allowing Liu Xiaolin to drive the car into the company.

Liu Xiaolin parked his car below the office building and went directly to Han Ruoyu’s office.

“Minister Han, I’m not late, am I?” He stood at the doorway, knocking on the open office door and said.

“Manager Liu, not late at all, you’re always just in time,” Han Ruoyu said with a smile as he got up to greet him.

“Minister Han is too good at talking, I’m embarrassed,” Liu Xiaolin said, walking quickly to shake Han Ruoyu’s hand.

“Please sit, please sit. I just arrived too. We drank quite a bit yesterday,” Han Ruoyu said.

“No matter how much we drank, it wasn’t as much as your Uncle drank,” Liu Xiaolin said: “Has your Uncle arrived at the company? I bet he can’t get up this early.”

“Indeed, my Uncle drank quite a lot last night, it was like drowning his sorrows in alcohol,” Han Ruoyu said quietly, quickly closing the office door.

“Yesterday, I vaguely heard that there was a General Manager Cai who was very unreasonable, right?” Liu Xiaolin couldn’t believe that Han Ruoyu actually brought the topic to the key point he cared about. How could he not follow up?

“Exactly! You wouldn’t believe it, that General Manager Cai, relying on his status as a local bully, all those triad thugs listen to him. After going legitimate, he’s in cahoots with the officials of the Development Committee, and he’s been suppressing my Uncle and General Manager Xiang terribly,” Han Ruoyu said angrily.

“Isn’t there also Dr. Hai? What’s his story?” Liu Xiaolin asked, feigning nonchalance.

He thought that Han Xiaoguo raising a bunch of small-time thugs still couldn’t compare to Cai Chenghan, who was a big-time one.

“Oh, General Manager Hai is also quite unlucky. He fell for the trick of the Development Committee officials and cooperated with Cai Chenghan. In the end, when Cai Chenghan saw that General Manager Hai was disobedient, he forcibly pulled my Uncle and General Manager Xiang together to suppress him,” Han Ruoyu said with a hint of lingering fear.

“Ah? Was General Manager Cai that ruthless this time?” Liu Xiaolin asked, feigning surprise.

“Isn’t he? He came from a background of being a bully, having fought his way up. Unlike my Uncle and General Manager Xiang, who just make a bit of hard-earned money from small ventures,” Han Ruoyu continued.

“So what happened next? How did it turn out?” Liu Xiaolin continued to ask.

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