Chapter 1771 - 727: Black Gold

Chapter 1771: Chapter 727: Black Gold

What time is it?

No, what date is it?

Zhou Wang was jolted awake by a sudden thought, then abruptly broke free from a bizarre dream. In his struggle, he nearly rolled off the bed.

The bed in the master bedroom is normally quite large, so such a thing couldn’t possibly happen. But Zhou Wang was sleeping in a guest room, and his position was rather close to the edge.

Zhou Wang first grabbed the phone beside him, seeing that it was still the 2nd, he breathed a slight sigh of relief. But upon seeing the time, it was already past eight in the evening, he felt bewildered again.

Damn it... Another day gone?

What have I been doing?

Zhou Wang took a deep breath and started to recall while massaging his slightly aching forehead.

When he realized the only scenes he could remember were related to one person, Zhou Wang understood... "What" could be directly replaced with "Jiang Qingkui".

He wasn’t sure how things spiraled out of control again.

He distinctly recalled that last night he only intended a little indulgence before sleeping because the original plan was to take the flight back to Qin Island in the morning.

Not to mention, the night before he had already indulged with Jiang Qingkui for eight hours, and theoretically, even an iron-clad body couldn’t withstand that. But the end result...

All he remembered was the last time pressing Jiang Qingkui’s slender waist against the bathtub edge, the sky outside seemed to have already brightened.

No, that’s not all. There were other interludes.

For instance, after successive inundations, the master bedroom’s bedsheet offered no dry place to set foot.

Zhou Wang thought that was the end, but then Jiang Qingkui, biting her lip, provocatively nudged him with her fair, rosy foot, saying:

"Hmm, what’s up, Zhou Wang... Does your house only have this one bed?"

Then, needless to say, the guest room met the same fate.

Glancing over at the equally chaotic guest room bed, Zhou Wang finally remembered why he ended up sleeping at the edge, although originally, he should have had Sister Qingkui clinging to him like an octopus in his arms.

Zhou Wang turned and got up, searching around to confirm Jiang Qingkui was already gone, taking her luggage with her. All Zhou Wang could find were three torn pairs of socks of various styles and a shredded black shirt.

Picking up his phone, Zhou Wang turned off "Do Not Disturb" mode, first calling Jiang Qingkui only to find her phone off, then dialed Xu Lingyue.

"Hello, boss~ Are you looking for me?"

Xu Lingyue’s cheerful voice quickly sounded on the other end of the line.

"Hmm, do you know the whereabouts of Mr. Jiang? Her phone seems to be off..." 𝑓𝑟ℯℴ𝓂

"Oh oh, Mr. Jiang’s phone likely ran out of battery. She seemed in a hurry when she called me, so didn’t have time to charge it... As for now, she should still be on the plane. I’m on my way to Pudong Airport to pick her up."

"That’s fine."

Breathing a sigh of relief, Zhou Wang felt at ease.

Though he didn’t understand why he was even worried...

Perhaps because such a wild, alluring, and entangled Sister Qingkui was a side of her he had never seen before, wondering if it was a brief appearance or Jiang Qingkui’s special "farewell ceremony," possibly preparing to completely depart from Zhou Wang’s world.

To speak of it, once bitten by a snake, one fears even a rope for ten years, Ji Xiaoxi’s incident still leaves lingering shadows in Zhou Wang’s mind.

"Boss, boss... Are you still there?"

Just then, hearing no response from Zhou Wang, Xu Lingyue called a few times from the other end.

"Hmm, I’m here... Thank you, Yueyue, I have nothing else, then... wait a moment!"

Zhou Wang was about to hang up when suddenly remembering something, he stopped Xu Lingyue.

"Ah? I’m here, what do you need, boss?"

"Yueyue, can I trust you?"

Zhou Wang asked in a deep tone.

"Uh... What do you mean, boss? You, you can definitely trust me... I mean, we were classmates after all, so in my heart, I’m actually closer to you. Hmm, are you saying something to me?"

Where Zhou Wang couldn’t see, on the other end of the line, Xu Lingyue suddenly braked hard, parking the Porsche Panamera on the roadside, her heart pounding wildly, sitting upright, and with that full chest in the constraints of the safety belt, appearing even more perked.

Could it be Zhou Wang finally... finally making a move on her?

Xu Lingyue didn’t know her own feelings, yet her face turned red, awaiting Zhou Wang’s next words with excitement and trepidation.

"I need to assign you a task, a task that only you and I can know about, absolutely no one else must know... Especially your Mr. Jiang, do you understand?"

"Mm-hmm, rest assured, without your permission, I won’t tell anyone. So... what is this secret task?"

Inadvertently biting her lip, Xu Lingyue’s lovely face beneath the frameless glasses flushed slightly, emphasizing the "secret task."

"I want you to, secretly observe Sister Qingkui for me... Hmm, ’observe’ might not be the right word, just keep an eye on her over the next period for any irregularities and report to me regularly."

"...Uh?"

Xu Lingyue was stunned, it turned out to be just monitoring Mr. Jiang... Wait, monitoring Mr. Jiang?

Mood gone instantly, Xu Lingyue who had leaned back was sitting upright again, with the safety belt squeezing her full chest making a creaking sound once more.