Chapter 155: Family

Under the joint “coercion” of Xue Jing and Chu Xiang, Zi Shan still told Lin Hao about the phone call. Hearing that Zi Shan had a date with Lin Hao at night, Chu Xiang sat down to eat: “Hurry up and go to work, or else if someone is late at night, we’ll be the sinners of history. ”

Xue Jing also squeezed her eyebrows and made a few jokes, and likewise flew through her food and rushed to the store, nothing more than wanting Zi Shan to be able to have an absolutely generous amount of time to go on her date. Zi Shan appreciated her friends’ kindness, and because she had been married once, she didn’t think she needed to hide her feelings for Lin Hao from anyone – they were open and honest, and there was nothing shameful about them.

When Lin Hao comes to pick up Zisan in the evening, the baby waves her hand vigorously, “Remember to buy me something, Uncle Lin.” She is now having fun with Gao Yuan and Chu Fan, and has long been “bribed” by Chu Xiang and Xiao Jing, making up her mind not to go out with her mom and Uncle Lin.

After Zi Shan and Lin Hao got into the car, Lin Hao held Zi Shan’s hand: “It feels as if I haven’t seen you in a few years.” He had to drive and couldn’t look at Zi Shan, but the feelings he showed couldn’t be faked, “Did you miss me? I really missed you, very much.”

Zi Shan tilted her head and looked at him, a slight look of surprise in her eyes, “You, what’s wrong?” It had only been a day and a night since she had seen Lin Hao, but he had become much more haggard, “Did something happen?” It was the first time she had seen Lin Hao like this.

Lin Hao shook his head, “Nothing, I’m just a bit tired from work, and since I have a date with you tonight, I rushed to catch up on work. No matter what, it’s worth it to be busy and tired just to see you. Zixan, I love children, I love babies very much, in fact, I really don’t mind bringing them out.”

Zi Shan backhanded his hand, “I know.” Lin Hao indeed treats the baby very well, I should say very well – to be able to have Lin Hao, a barrister, crawling around on the ground to give the baby a horse to ride, can you say that he doesn’t treat the baby well? Buying things and all that was nothing, he really loved the baby.

Not only the baby, even the plateau ah, Chu Fan ah he also like, just to the baby is also a little better, may be it is love the sake of the house.

“You can’t be this tired, if you’re this tired next time, I won’t come out with you.” Zi Shan had to warn Lin Hao, because looking at Lin Hao’s appearance was really heartbreaking, Lin Hao was dressed to the nines, if they weren’t sitting so close together, Zi Shan really wouldn’t have been able to notice Lin Hao’s haggardness.

Lin Hao smiled, “I know.” He took advantage of the red light to pick up Zi Shan’s hand and put it on his lips for a gentle kiss, looking at Zi Shan’s eyes, “Did you miss me?”

Zi Shan smiled and turned her head away, “I won’t tell you.”

Lin Hao laughed, “I know if you don’t tell me, but I still like to hear you say it,” he finished and thought again, “Right, did you just get heartbroken because you got heartbroken when I was too tired?”

Zixan glared at him, “No it didn’t.” Of course there was, but she just refused to admit it.

Lin Hao laughed loudly and stepped on the gas, “It’s not, it’s not – when you say that, Zi Shan, I can be sure that in your heart you must be saying it’s there, it’s there.” His haggardness faded a lot in his laughter, and with it, the person was much more refreshed.

Even so, Zi Shan was afraid that his body could not endure, so after eating, she urged him to go back to rest, Lin Hao was reluctant, wanting to sit with Zi Shan for a while longer, but finally still twisted Zi Shan only to listen to Zi Shan’s words to go back. On the way home, he talked about the reason why he was as tired as an old cow today. In addition to the fact that he wanted to finish his work quickly, it was also because of an accident.

A document that was supposed to be in his secretary’s hands yesterday was not received in Li Rongqi’s hands until he was ten o’clock this morning – and it took his secretary two or three hours to process that document, and it was only after that that it was supposed to be handed over to him – Li Rongqi Yesterday’s failure to deliver the document had almost cost the client a lot of money, and the entire firm had to work overtime at noon as a result.

What could have been done by Lin Hao’s secretary alone had caused too much trouble because of Li Rongqi’s delay, and just placating the big client had kept the office busy.

After listening to Zishan, she remembered what happened to Li Rongqi yesterday: “Jiang Tao asked her to send the documents to your secretary, but she didn’t? Did she grow a brain.” She really didn’t believe that Li Rongqi could do such a stupid thing, but anyone with a little bit of brain wouldn’t do such a thing.

There were documents every day, even if they couldn’t be delivered to Lin Hao’s hands today, there was still a chance tomorrow, right? Well, even if there weren’t documents for her to send to Lin Hao every day, there wasn’t just this one chance, so what’s the point of holding back the documents?

Moreover, no matter which company it was the documents were generally sent to the secretary’s hands, who would be like Li Rongqi who had to personally deliver the documents to Lin Hao in order to meet him just for the sake of meeting him? Li Rongqi’s job was at the end of her rope, and I believe the firm wouldn’t keep her any longer.

This kind of person would not be used by any firm, because there was no way to distinguish between what was meant by personal feelings and what was meant by official business.

Lin Hao’s words really confirmed Zi Shan’s idea: “Li Rongqi’s last day of work today, even if she she sheds more tears, says more I don’t know, sorry, can’t recover our firm’s loss, that kind of innocent expression, in today’s occasion will only make people more annoyed, even if she can recover the loss we dare not use her again. ”

Zishan pursed her lips, “As early as when you found out that she appeared in the firm, you guys should have used some means to make her leave, because her heart is not in her work at all, you know that. It’s a good thing that you didn’t lose any of your clients this time, or else your firm’s reputation would have really suffered, and that Li Rongqi just couldn’t pay back your losses even if she smashed her own bones and sold them.”

Lin Hao shrugged his shoulders, “Indeed. It’s just that when we saw her like that, Jiang Tao and I both thought that we shouldn’t go too far, she was also a serious applicant for the job, and she was still doing a good job, and the colleagues that she shared with said that she was very good, that’s why we opened up our net, how could we have thought that after she had the chance to meet us, she would turn into such a person?”

Zixan suddenly smiled, “It proves that you lawyers are very attractive.”

“Charming? I’ve been chasing a woman for over ten years, and I haven’t even heard her say ‘I like you’ in person until now, and you still think I’m charming?” Lin Hao’s face was bitter, “Zi Shan, do you want to comfort me?”

Zi Shan turned her face to smile, “No.” Her heart was actually soft and sweet, but the hardness of her mouth was just a kind of naughtiness, it wasn’t that there was any embarrassment.

The two didn’t talk about Li Rongqi anymore, joking and laughing all the way back to Zi Shan’s downstairs, Lin Hao watched Zi Shan go up the stairs before he left, halfway there he received a phone call, his brow furrowed, “What you decided never changed, and did it all, is there any point in apologizing now? What do you take me for, a poseur, a puppet on a string? Can you do whatever you want to make arrangements?

After he finished he hung up the phone and slammed it on the passenger seat next to him, pounding on the steering wheel a few more times, when he heard his cell phone ringing again he stopped the car and was about to yell, luckily he saw the incoming call before he took a deep breath and answered it, “Zixan?”

“What’s wrong, I hear you seem to be angry, with whom?” Zi Shan was sensitive enough to hear the suppressed anger in Lin Hao’s tone, “Is something wrong, is it because of Li Rongqi?” She also couldn’t think of anything that could make Lin Hao angry at this time, just now Lin Hao was still full of joy.

Lin Hao sighed, “Nothing, a little–” he paused, “Family matter. I’ll tell you about it later when I have time, don’t worry about me, I’ll drive back on time and then I’ll take a shower and go to bed. You do the same, get a good night’s rest, your body especially.”

Zisan couldn’t be bothered to ask any deeper, all along Lin Hao had rarely mentioned his family, and she hadn’t asked him about his family, because Lin Hao’s family wasn’t in Blue Water City, and she’d really neglected that aspect. Now hearing Lin Hao mention it her heart sank, had Anping given her a boost? Actually didn’t hold it – how Lin Hao is is Lin Hao’s business, but what about Lin Hao’s family, can they accept her, can they accept the baby?

There is another thing, her heart is not good even after the operation she does not know if she can have another child, if in case the doctor does not allow her to have another child, then can Lin Hao accept it? Lin Hao was so fond of children.

When she heard Lin Hao say that he liked children, she didn’t think much about it, and Lin Hao didn’t mean anything else when he said that, but Lin Hao’s phrase “family matters” reminded her of too many problems – she wasn’t ready at all, and the most unfortunate thing was that she was not ready at all. But the most unfortunate thing is that when she wasn’t ready, she already had feelings for Lin Hao.

Slowly putting down the phone, she leaned against the window and watched the night scene until late at night. The light from the window stretched her silhouette to a long, long time, and with only her shadow to keep her company, Zisan was so lonely and isolated.

After Zi Shan woke up from her sleep, she decided to ask Lin Hao to make things clear, if his family really can’t accept her and the baby, or if she can’t have any more children – it’s not too late to pull out, at least, we won’t become enemies even if we can’t be friends again.

Her change in mood was detected by Chu Xiang and Xue Jing, after hearing her words the two of them also fell silent, they also did ignore that aspect of Lin Hao’s family, at the same time they also agreed with Zi Shan’s idea that there are some things that it’s better to talk about clearly, so as not to end up with both of them getting hurt.

Chu Xiang is worried about Zi Shan, because it’s not easy for a divorced woman to take such a step. If Lin Hao’s family doesn’t accept her, or if Lin Hao can’t accept that she can’t have children, it will make Zi Shan’s heart shrink even tighter and hide even deeper – will there be any man who can open Zi Shan’s heart?

Like her, she thinks it’s good for Zixan to start over, but she doesn’t have the courage to take that step; she’s too wary of men, too afraid to trust them.