Chapter 118: A Bit of a Sore Feeling in My Heart

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Nanxun’s anxious voice came through the phone.
“Ye Ning wouldn’t do that…”
Hearing the defensive tone from the other end, Shen Hanzhi’s expression grew complicated.
Just a colleague he hadn’t known long, yet she trusted her so much?
Trusted her to the point of refusing to come back with him, choosing instead to go home with a colleague?
“Stand right there, don’t move. I’m coming to get you,” he said, frowning, then spoke to her sternly.
But before he could finish, her hesitant voice came from the phone.
“I… I don’t want to go back.”
At those words, Shen Hanzhi’s face stiffened, his lips tightening in seriousness.
“Why not?”
There was silence on the other end…
Sitting in the car, phone in hand, his cold eyes fixed on the figure ahead who was following someone else, walking farther and farther away, treating his words like the wind passing by. Under the streetlights at night, her silhouette looked so fragile…
His fingers tightened around the phone, a sudden tightness gripping his chest.
Is this what she meant by behaving obediently?
…

On the other side, Lin Nanxun stopped in her tracks, still holding the phone.
The troublemaker said Grandma Xu has returned…
“What’s wrong?” Seeing her suddenly halt, Ye Ning couldn’t help but show a concerned look.
Before Lin Nanxun could answer, a car drove up from behind and slowly pulled over to the roadside.
Zhou Bei pushed open the driver’s door and hurried over to open the back door for Lin Nanxun.
“Miss Lin, it’s dark and cold outside, please get in.”
“You all…”
Ye Ning was startled, recognizing Zhou Bei as the man who had come to pick up Lin Nanxun that day, then quickly glanced toward the back seat.
Upon seeing the man’s striking, coldly handsome face, she was taken aback once more.
The mysterious handsome man from the car that day…
Lin Nanxun looked at Zhou Bei in surprise, then recalled something and cautiously turned her head to sneak a glance at the man inside the car.
The expression on the troublemaker’s face was just like when she had told her she didn’t understand and let her go—making her heart ache with a bittersweet feeling.
Seeing her standing by the roadside without moving, Shen Hanzhi frowned deeply, suppressing his displeasure as he looked at her, then ordered firmly,
“Get in the car.”
“Miss Lin, Aunt Xu brought you many gifts,” Zhou Bei added quickly by her side.

Hearing that, Lin Nanxun paused.
Grandma Xu brought her gifts, and if she didn’t go back, Grandma Xu would be very disappointed…
Thinking this, she turned to look at Ye Ning.
Before she could speak, Ye Ning understood and said generously,
“Since everything’s fine, you should go home. We can visit my apartment another time.”
Upon hearing Ye Ning’s words, Lin Nanxun finally gave her a grateful smile and slowly got into the car.
As soon as she got in, Ye Ning waved at her and worriedly reminded her,
“Don’t be upset when you get back. Try to think of happy things!”
The car slowly drove away. Inside, Shen Hanzhi, hearing the woman’s words just now, changed expression.
She was feeling upset?
He turned his head and looked at the girl sitting obediently beside him.
She kept her head down, silent, completely unlike the usual chatter she would whisper happily in his ear…
He stared at her for a moment, then his gaze fell on the cup she held tightly in her arms.