At around 7 o'clock in the evening, Ying Chanxi followed Ying Zhicheng, took a plane from London, and landed smoothly at the airport in Ohio.

After taking the car all the way to Cleveland, Ying Zhicheng arranged to stay in the best hotel in the area.

"Dad is going to meet a friend tonight. If you are hungry, you can have a meal in the hotel restaurant, okay?" Ying Zhicheng said to Ying Chanxi before going out, "I will ask Secretary Rong to accompany you to eat later.

"

"Oh, no problem." Ying Chanxi nodded and watched his father go out. Then he took out his mobile phone, took a few photos of the night view outside the hotel, and eagerly sent them to him.

But after a while, Li Luo didn't respond.

So Ying Chanxi couldn't wait and called Li Luo.

After waiting for about ten seconds, the call was finally connected.

Li Luo's weak and vague voice came from the other end: "Hello? Who is it?"

"Hey, what are you doing?" Ying Chanxi asked, "Sleeping in?"

"Xixi..." Li Luo muttered twice, probably rubbing his eyes and finally regaining consciousness, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just want to chat with you, but if you are still sleeping, forget it, you can continue to sleep."

"It's okay." Li Luo yawned, got off the bed, walked into the bathroom and washed his face, "I'm up, let's continue chatting."

"Didn't you go to the store to help today? It's already seven o'clock in the morning over there, right?" Ying Chanxi turned over on the bed, facing up, holding the mobile phone to his ear.

After rubbing his feet hard for a few times, he took off his shoes to the ground, revealing a pair of small feet wearing white socks.

"Well... I stayed up late last night and slept a little late." Li Luo picked up the disposable toothbrush and toothpaste in the hotel bathroom, put the phone on speakerphone and put it aside, and started to wash up.

After finishing coding last night, Xu Youyu and I went out for a late-night snack and drank some beer.

When I came back, I brought some peanuts and melon seeds. I continued drinking when I returned to the house, eating melon seeds and chatting while drinking.

Because Xu Youyu had just written a plot that he was very satisfied with, he took Li Luo and kept talking about the book.

We chatted from midnight to three o'clock in the morning. Li Luo roughly provided Xu Youyu with some inspiration based on the "The Age of Literature" that he had watched in his previous life, which often made her eyes light up. She took the notebook and quickly put it in her hands as soon as she patted her thigh.

Record these inspirations one by one.

Later, both of them drank a little too much.

Then...then...then what happened?

Li Luo couldn't remember clearly.

But at this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the bathroom.

Li Luo looked up at the mirror and saw a figure with dazed eyes walking in from the bathroom door.

Xu Youyu rubbed his eyes and looked like he hadn't woken up. After walking into the bathroom, he muttered: "You... ugh!"

As soon as Xu Youyu uttered a word, he felt Li Luo in front of him sway and rush in front of him in an instant.

With a bang, she was pushed to the wall by Li Luo, who covered her mouth to prevent her from making any sound.

Now that she was being treated, Xu Youyu woke up instantly, whimpering and struggling.

Until Li Luo gritted his teeth and whispered in her ear: "Shh! I'm on the phone with Xixi, don't make any noise!"

Hearing this, Xu Youyu finally reacted, blinked his eyes, turned his head and looked at the sink, and saw the cell phone that was on a call.

"You scared me." Xu Youyu put away Li Luo's hand and whispered angrily, "I thought you were going to do something, but you suddenly turned into a beast so early in the morning."

Li Luo's face was covered with black lines, and he complained in a low voice: "It's not all you. You drank so much last night that you slept directly with me. I even forgot about it when I woke up in the morning."

"Isn't this a happy chat?" Xu Youyu said with a smile, "I don't mind, what are you afraid of? It's not like we haven't slept together before."

"Li Luo, what's wrong?" Ying Chanxi's confused voice came from the other end of the phone, "Are you talking to someone?"

"Oh, it's okay." Li Luo let go of Xu Youyu, quickly returned to the sink, and said nonsense, "There was a courier delivered to my door just now, I went to get it."

"Then why did I hear a bang? It seemed like something hit me."

"I just woke up and was a little confused. When I walked out of the bathroom, I bumped into the door."

"Ah? Are you okay? Does it hurt?"

"fine."

Xu Youyu on the side rolled his eyes when he heard Li Luo lying here, then rolled his eyes and thought of something interesting.

So while Li Luo was chatting with Ying Chanxi and washing up, Xu Youyu quietly walked up to Li Luo and blew into his ear.

Li Luo: "???"

【What are you doing?】

Li Luo spoke with his mouth, covered his itchy ears, looked at Xu Youyu with wide eyes, and asked silently.

【Do you care about me?】

Xu Youyu smiled proudly, took out a new pair of disposable toothbrushes from the sink, stood next to Li Luo and started washing.

Li Luo saw this, wiped the corners of his mouth after brushing his teeth, and quickly slipped out of the bathroom.

"I just came to the United States with my dad, but I didn't go to places like New York or San Francisco. I came to Ohio in the north."

Ying Chanxi didn't pay much attention to what was going on over there, and shared his itinerary with Li Luo enthusiastically, "But my dad said he was going to meet a friend, so he asked me to stay in the hotel first."

"That's it." Li Luo nodded, sat down at the desk and opened his laptop, "Then you haven't eaten yet?"

I'm chatting with Ying Chanxi right now, and if I have nothing to do, I might as well write an outline of a novel or something.

"Not yet, I'm going to eat right away." Ying Chanxi said, "You also remember to have breakfast, and don't stay up late all the time, it's not good for your health."

"I know, I listen to you."

"It's good to know." Ying Chanxi turned over happily, raised her little feet, and swayed in the air, "But the food from abroad feels so unpalatable and not to my liking. The food in the Chinese restaurant tastes bad."

It’s weird, I really want to eat your cooking.”

"There will be plenty of opportunities to eat when you come back." Li Luo responded with a smile, "Are you sure when you will return to China?"

"Well, Dad said that he has already booked a flight back on the 15th, but it will probably be late at night when he gets home." Ying Chanxi said, "Dad said that he has made an appointment with your parents, and we will be together on the 16th.

Let’s go buy new year’s goods, and then we’ll go back to the countryside together on the 17th.”

"Okay, then I'll wait until you come back."

"Hmm~" Ying Chanxi nodded, and there was a knock at the door. It was Secretary Rong who came to find her downstairs for dinner, so she said to the other end of the phone, "I'm going to eat, you also remember to have breakfast."

,Bye~"

"Bye-Bye."

By the time Li Luo hung up the phone, Xu Youyu had already finished washing, walked out of the bathroom, threw himself on the bed, and wrapped himself in a quilt: "Xixi, why did you call you so early in the morning? I was sleeping well.

Zhengxiang was woken up."

"It's nighttime over there, and there's a time difference from ours." Li Luo put the phone aside, and while he was awake, he simply coded for a while.

But Xu Youyu, who was on the bed, heard the sound of him typing on the keyboard, and immediately complained silently: "Are you sick? Are you getting up so early in the morning to type? Can't you just sleep a little longer?"

"I advise you to go back to your room quickly even if you want to sleep." Li Luo complained while typing on the keyboard, "What if your dad doesn't wait for noon later and comes upstairs to call us to prepare for lunch?

Then I saw you in my room again, how should I explain it then?"

"Hiss..." Upon hearing this, Xu Youyu immediately jumped up from the bed, "If you didn't remind me earlier, you would have slipped away."

With that said, Xu Youyu jumped out of bed, hugged his notebook, and prepared to go back to his room to catch up on his sleep.

But as soon as he reached the door, Xu Youyu turned to look at Li Luo and couldn't help but laugh: "Hey, do you think we are having an affair? It's like we are secretly meeting with the underground party."

When Li Luo heard this, he immediately rolled his eyes: "Go to sleep quickly."

"Recruiting materials, you are so boring." Xu Youyu pouted, opened the door and walked out of the room, waved to him, and slipped back to his room.

After Xu Youyu left, Li Luo typed for a while until nine o'clock in the morning, when his cell phone rang again.

Li Luo originally thought that Ying Chanxi came to find him again after eating.

I picked up the phone and looked at it, only to find that the call was from Yan Zhusheng.

"Hello?"

"Li Luo, are you busy?"

"I feel like you like to pick me up when I'm coding."

"You are too diligent. It's still morning over there."

"The early bird catches the worm. If you want to make more money, don't you have to get up early and work hard?"

"So you want to code?"

"If you insist on chatting with me, it's not like you can't take a break."

"Then you take a rest." Yan Zhusheng said, "Mom went out to meet friends. I'm a little bored alone."

Upon hearing this, Li Luo was stunned for a moment.

Ying Zhicheng went out to meet friends, and Yuan Wanqing also went out to meet friends?

What was Ying Chanxi talking about just now... She and her father had just arrived in Ohio, the United States...

"By the way, you and your mother are in the United States, right?"

"Yes."

"Where in America?"

"Cleveland." Yan Zhusheng said honestly, "Cleveland Medical Center, their research and medical conditions on heart disease are among the best in the world. My mother's heart disease was cured here."

"Cleveland...is it in Ohio?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Uh...nothing."

Li Luo blinked his eyes, probably having some guesses in his mind.

He just found out a while ago that the film and television group company where Yuan Wanqing worked was the same company where Ying Zhicheng usually worked.

Strictly speaking, do the two people have a superior-subordinate relationship?

There is a saying that they all happened to be in the same place in the same company, and they all said they were going out to meet a friend.

Li Luo felt that there should not be such a coincidence in this world.

Moreover, this made Li Luo think of another thing.

He remembered that in his previous life, when he had just entered college, when he went home for dinner during the Chinese New Year, his father casually mentioned at the dinner table that Ying Zhicheng was getting married for the second time.

It's just that at that time, Li Luo and Ying Chanxi had not been in contact with each other for several years, so they didn't care much about this matter.

After all, Ying Zhicheng's conditions are excellent, so it would be very easy for him to get married for the second time.

But now it seems that after Li Luo pondered for a moment, a very surprising guess came to his mind.

It shouldn't be such a coincidence, right?

However, it stands to reason that given Ying Zhicheng's level, he may not be required to personally take part in negotiating endorsement contracts.

Seeing as he took Ying Chanxi to Paris and London for only four or five days in total, the contract was signed so easily. Is it necessary for Ying Zhicheng to personally take action?

Today, I arrived in Ohio on the 9th. The area there is mainly based on agriculture, mining and manufacturing. It has nothing to do with the entertainment industry, and it is not a famous tourist city.

In other words, Ying Zhicheng went to Ohio purely to meet friends.

What kind of friend wants to meet for five or six days in a row? Will he not come back until the 15th?

…

In a private room of a high-end restaurant in Cleveland.

Ying Zhicheng changed into a crisp custom-made suit and sat quietly on the window seat.

It wasn't until the phone on the table vibrated that he looked away from the night outside the window and picked up the phone to connect.

"Hello?"

"Are we here yet?"

"Okay, a waiter will bring you up."

"See you later."

After hanging up the phone, not long after, the door to the private room was pushed open by the waiter.

Following the waiter was Yuan Wanqing, who was wearing a black dress.

Ying Zhicheng, who was sitting on the chair, had already stood up, picked up a handful of white violets that had been prepared from the cabinet next to him, and handed it to Yuan Wanqing with a smile.

"Thank you, Mr. Ying." Yuan Wanqing smiled reservedly, took the bouquet of flowers, held it in her arms, and politely thanked her.

"In private, you don't need to call me that, right?"

"Zhicheng... let's sit down first." Yuan Wanqing walked to the table holding the flowers, lowered her head and smelled the flowers, "Thank you for the flowers, I like them very much."

"Just put it aside if you like it." Ying Zhicheng helped her open the seat, took the bouquet into her hands, then handed it to the waiter next to her, and asked her to insert it into the vase she had prepared, and then returned to the opposite side.

He took his seat and said, "It's time to serve."

"Actually, you don't have to come all the way here to see me." Yuan Wanqing said with a helpless smile, "It's a bit too much trouble."

"It's okay." Ying Zhicheng shook his head, "I originally planned to take my daughter on a trip, but I just stopped by to see you."

"Are you just dropping by?" Yuan Wanqing clasped her hands together, supported her chin, and looked at him with a smile in her eyes.

"Okay." Ying Zhicheng admitted, "I just made a special trip to see you, but it is true that I am traveling with my daughter."

"Thank you for your concern."

"It should be." Ying Zhicheng said, "What's the result of the review?"

"Everything is normal." Yuan Wanqing said with a smile, "As long as you don't participate in particularly strenuous exercise or have severe emotional ups and downs, you are basically almost like a normal person."

"That's good." Ying Zhicheng nodded and raised the red wine glass in his hand, "We have to celebrate."

"The doctor said it's best not to drink."

"Don't worry, your cup is plum juice."

"You are really thoughtful." Yuan Wanqing pursed her lips and smiled, picked up the wine glass and clinked it with him, "But don't drink too much. It's better to drink less when you are older."

"Of course, I only drink a little when I'm happy."

It was a very enjoyable meal.

The two of them chatted while eating, and it wasn't until about nine o'clock in the evening that they saw the two of them coming out of the restaurant.

Ying Zhicheng held Yuan Wanqing's shoulder with his right hand and whispered in her ear: "Shall I take you back?"

Yuan Wanqing glanced at him and laughed softly: "What you say is not what you mean."

With that said, she leaned gently into Ying Zhicheng's arms and whispered: "Let's go to your place."

"good."
Chapter completed!