After listening to Xu Yansang's description, he subconsciously felt that she was exaggerating the facts. If he had really been unconscious for sixteen days, he would have starved to death long ago, but he was not hungry at all now.

Chen Ranxing knew him too well. After so many years of getting along, she knew what he was going to do as soon as he raised his butt. She quickly put her makeup mirror in front of him and said, "Look at what a horrible state you are in now. You have been on nutrient solution for sixteen days to keep you alive. Now you look like a skeleton with your eyes wide open."

Zhao Zhao was disdainful in his heart. He was handsome and knew it. Skeleton? Ha.

However, as soon as his eyes moved to the mirror, Zhao Zhao was stunned. The person in the mirror was skinny, with a pale face and two big eyeballs embedded in the eye sockets. Was it really him?

Zhao Zhao decisively reached out to push the mirror, "Take it away! This is not me!"

As a result, there was still a needle in his hand. When he raised his hand, the needle tip became crooked. Zhao Zhao screamed and quickly pulled his hand back.

Chen Ranxing was so angry that he was speechless. "Why are you making such a fuss? You are already so thin that only a layer of skin is left. Now the blood is flowing back. How can it be easy to give you some nutrition?"

She felt distressed and anxious, and pressed the bell hard to ask the nurse to come quickly.

After the nurse came, she gave Zhao Zhao a new injection, gave him a few instructions, and left.

Chen Ranxing sat beside him with his arms folded across his chest, his brows tightly knitted.

It was Xu Yansang who spoke first. She looked at Zhao Zhao and said, "This is not a solution."

Zhao Zhao was puzzled. "What's wrong with me? I'm just sick. Don't worry, I'm in good health. I'll be back in a few days!"

Xu Yansang sighed, "You lied to everyone, even me and Ran Xing? You were so sad, but you pretended to be calm. Ran Xing and I didn't dare to tell you about the drinking that night. How thin were you at that time? When we sent you to the hospital that day, the doctor said you were severely malnourished. Zhao Zhao, if you continue like this, something bad will happen!"

Zhao Zhao used to be in such good health. During the school physical test, he could run a thousand meters without even getting out of breath. But now, his resistance is so low that a bout of flu almost took his life.

She and Chen Ranxing have been in agony these past few days, unable to understand how such a good person could have become like this.

Chen Ranxing even wanted to go to Country M to settle accounts with Cancel, but was stopped by Gao Yuan. On this point, Gao Yuan and Fu Zhenzhuo agreed: since Zhao Zhao had already broken up, then he should never have anything to do with Cancel again and just wait for time to pass.

Chen Ranxing couldn't swallow this, so how could Xu Yansang swallow it either?

Now seeing that Zhao Zhao was still forcing a smile, Xu Yansang could no longer hold back.

Chen Ranxing, who was standing next to her, had tears in his eyes after hearing what she said.

Zhao Zhao was so full of energy just now, but now he suddenly became like an eggplant hit by frost. He lowered his head and remained silent.

There are some truths that are clearer to bystanders than to those involved.

Three months ago, in order to beg Cancel not to break up with him, he even found Cancel and offered to be his underground lover. He didn't even mind Cancel getting married and having children, as long as he didn't leave him.

But it was ruthlessly rejected by Cancel.

He found it difficult to talk about these things even to his best friends.

He hated himself for being a slut and also hated himself for not being able to let go.

But now, after hearing Xu Yansang's words and looking at Chen Ranxing's swollen eyes, he sighed softly and said after a long while, "I want to start over, but it's too difficult for me... But I will try my best, I-I am trying my best."

Chen Ranxing still didn't speak. Xu Yansang sighed again and sat down beside the bed. "He is your soul mate. He is the Mr. Right you have been looking for for so many years, but he is not worth you paying any price for him. We all know that it is difficult to suddenly give up someone you have loved for a long time, but Zhao Zhao, you have to do it for yourself."

Zhao Zhao nodded thoughtfully.

What made Xu Yansang and Chen Ranxing excited was that from that day on, Zhao Zhao ate very well and enjoyed every meal. In just one week, his face became much rounder.

A week later, he was officially discharged from the hospital and rested for more than a month before joining his family's company to help his father with official business.

He and his two best friends kept this serious illness a secret, and his parents still don’t know that he almost lost his life.

Zhao Zhao had excellent work ability. It didn't take him long to adapt to the company's rhythm and he also started to promote some of his own ideas. Zhao's father was very satisfied with this. When he got off work that day, Zhao's father smiled very proudly and said to him, "Didn't you ask me to find a suitable girl for you? I just happened to have an old friend whose daughter came back from abroad. She studied finance, is proficient in several languages, and is also beautiful. How about you go and meet her tonight?"

Zhao Zhao smiled calmly and said, "Okay."

Zhao Zhao has been back in China for more than a month. Perhaps because he has two good friends by his side all the time and do everything they can to make him happy, he feels much better now than when he was abroad.

In addition, he deliberately kept himself busy, and his longing and reluctance for Cancel really faded a lot.

Xu Yansang and Chen Ranxing spent more than a month educating him and successfully brainwashed him into thinking Cancel was a scumbag. Even if Cancel came back to him, he couldn't want this scumbag. So when Zhao Zhao occasionally thought of that man now, he was still quite calm.

After he asked his father for the girl's basic information, he drove to the hotel his father had arranged for him.

After arriving at the hotel, Zhao Zhao did not get out of the car. He called the girl first. When the call was connected, a sweet female voice came from the other end, "Hello."

Zhao Zhao was in a calm mood and asked in a polite yet enthusiastic tone, "Excuse me, are you Miss Zhang Yurong?"

"I am," the female voice asked, "who are you?"

Zhao Zhao introduced himself, "Hello, I'm Zhao Zhao, this is your contact information my father gave me, are you almost at the hotel now?"

"Oh...Mr. Zhao." The girl's voice was a little hesitant, and she quickly said, "I-I'm almost there, right away, about ten minutes, are you there already?"

Zhao Zhao smiled and said, "No, I'm not there yet, so you don't have to worry."

"That's good." The girl breathed a sigh of relief. "Then I'll be there right now - no, I'll be there soon. Let's talk when we meet."

Zhao Zhao said, "Okay," and hung up the phone.

Of course he could tell that Miss Zhang had probably forgotten about the date. The flurry of activity and the words that came out of her mouth without her noticing could prove this.

But that didn't matter to him.

He didn't even take it personally.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, a Maybach stopped at the door of the hotel. The door opened and a slender pair of legs stepped down. Zhao Zhao looked at the photo on his phone for a while and confirmed that the girl was Zhang Yurong whom he was waiting for.

She was very tall, perhaps over 1.7 meters, with an incredibly good figure. She was wearing a short dress, a pair of flat diamond-studded shoes, a brand-name bag in her hand, her hair was loose, and she was wearing sunglasses on her face. As she walked into the hotel, she took off her sunglasses and put them back into her bag.

Zhao Zhao felt that his father had spent a lot of money to find a blind date for him this time. A beauty of this level was something he would not have been able to meet a few years ago.

Zhao Zhao got out of the car and walked towards the hotel.

As soon as he walked to the hotel entrance, he saw a group of people walking out. The moment he saw the person walking in front, Zhao Zhao's body stiffened.

But he quickly forced himself to return to normal, and then passed by without even looking at him.

On the contrary, the man opposite subconsciously stopped and stared at Zhao Zhao's decisive back for a long time.

The assistant next to him asked in confusion, "Cancel, what's wrong?"

The man retracted his gaze and said, "It's okay, let's go."

Several people strode out of the hotel.

Zhao Zhao walked all the way to the back door of the hotel, only to find that he had become clumsy without knowing when. A layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his mind was full of the scene of him passing by Cancel just now.

He never thought that he would be able to meet Cancel in his lifetime. After all, Cancel's career and family are all abroad. If nothing unexpected happens, he may never come to China, let alone North City.

Wasn't the reason he returned to North City with the intention of never seeing Cancel again?

But unexpectedly, he actually saw Cancel at the hotel entrance today.

What was Cancel doing in China? Didn't he say he had no business partners in China? Was he here to expand the market? But why would he need to do this personally?

It took Zhao Zhao a long time to calm himself down. He kept telling himself in his heart: everything in the past is over, everyone will have a new direction in life, and where Cancel is has nothing to do with him. None of it has anything to do with him.

After he calmed down for several minutes, his cell phone rang. It was Zhang Yurong calling. Zhao Zhao didn't answer it. Instead, he took the phone and turned to walk towards the hotel lobby.

He walked directly in front of Zhang Yurong, shook the vibrating phone in his hand at her, and smiled, "Sorry, I'm late and kept you waiting."

Zhang Yurong was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "It's okay, please sit down."

She handed the menu to Zhao Zhao, "I'm taking orders now, take a look, what do you want to eat?"

Zhao Zhao took it, took a quick look at it, and then ordered a few dishes to the waiter in pure French.

After the waiter respectfully put away the menu and left, Zhang Yurong looked at Zhao Zhao in surprise, "You can actually speak French?"

Zhao Zhao smiled and said, "I stayed in France for a while because of work."

"No wonder," Zhang Yurong smiled at him and stretched out her hand, "Then I think I can have a lot in common with you - I also spent two years in France."

She greeted Zhao Zhao in the same authentic French.

Zhao Zhao was a little surprised, "When have you been to France?"

"The year before last and last year," Zhang Yurong said with a smile, "I studied for my master's degree at the University of Paris."

"What a coincidence, I was also in France the year before last and last year," Zhao Zhao was even more surprised, "I didn't expect that we would be together in the same time and space."

Zhang Yurong blinked and said, "Maybe this is the legendary fate."

Zhao Zhao paused, then smiled and nodded, "It's fate, what a coincidence."

Zhang Yurong is a very delicate and generous girl. You can see that she has a cheerful and lovely personality. She has a pair of small canine teeth and squints her eyes when she smiles.

The two chatted about their time in Paris, and were surprised to find that they both liked the same dessert shop. During those two years, they had spent an entire afternoon there more than once.

"I actually have no impression of you at all," Zhao Zhao was in a strange mood. He just felt that this fate was amazing. "I went to that store no less than a hundred times in the past two years."

Zhang Yurong felt the same way. "Me too, maybe I've been there more often than you, but they were all perfectly staggered. Does this mean that, in another sense, we are not meant to be together?"

She was just joking, and Zhao Zhao would not think too much about it. If he couldn't get the person he loved, it didn't matter who he was with. If this person could happen to have a chat with him, it would be a gift from God.

The two of them got along better and better as they talked, and Zhao Zhao smiled more and more, but he always had a very strange feeling, as if someone was staring at him in the dark. The feeling was cold and terrifying, as if he was being stared at by a poisonous snake, making his heart panic uncontrollably.

But when I looked back, there was nothing.

He couldn't help but laugh at himself for being a victim.

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