Chapter 165 - Coincidence (2/2)
“Drive” He Zhichu commanded the chauffeur up front
Gu Nianzhi was reminded of a joke: anyone ned a Rolls-Royce had to have a chauffeur; they could not drive the car themselves, because everyone automatically assumed the person behind the wheel was a chauffeur…
She ducked her head as she tried desperately not to laugh
He Zhichu saw her laugh; all the unhappiness and resent up within hi sun He smiled in response
The car stopped before a French restaurant He Zhichu led her inside
The restaurant was fah prices—and He Zhichu had actually reserved a private room!
In America, it was rare for a restaurant—any restaurant—to have private roo in such a classy restaurant She waited and waited, but no one else showed up When the waiters began to serve lunch, she knew so
“Professor He, isn’t this supposed to be a lunch ? Where’s everyone?” She looked doubtfully at the door to the private room
“Everyone’s here” He Zhichu picked up his knife and fork He cut up his ravy over it
Realization dawned upon Gu Nianzhi “So it’s just the two of us? How is this a lunch …?” she muttered as she cut up her crab-cake and slowly ate it
“What, two people can’t have a lass over to Gu Nianzhi without looking up “Pour me some of that red wine”
Gu Nianzhi reached for the bottle of red wine on the table and poured hi is about what you’ve been doing at work lately I heard you’ve been spendingout at the other offices?” He Zhichu rattled off a list of everything Gu Nianzhi had done in the past several days
Gu Nianzhi broke out in a cold sweat So there were spies lurking around her, reporting her everyoff and be more professional about my work in the future,” said Gu Nianzhi sheepishly She did not argue with He Zhichu Suddenly, she re” through the Co, “I think I knohat youabout?”
“You once told me that the Committee of Appropriations is the ress” Gu Nianzhi poured another sht I have a theory, and I’ it”
“Oh? Let’s hear it” He Zhichu had not expected Gu Nianzhi to catch on so quickly He lifted his glass and looked over the rim at Gu Nianzhi as he took a sip of red wine
Gu Nianzhi shook her head “No, not yet I’ll tell you when I’ht,” He Zhichu sloiped his , or you won’t be getting your birthday party”
“Huh? Oh, right…” Gu Nianzhi nodded She had alotten about the deal “I won’t disappoint you, Professor He!”
…
While He Zhichu and Gu Nianzhi were having lunch, Zhao Liangze was in the
After concluding his report, there was a brief pause as Zhao Liangze steeled himself to say: “Sir, I showed the data to Nianzhi”
Huo Shaoheng’s expression did not change, but Zhao Liangze suddenly felt a chill run down his spine He felt as though a ferocious, bloodthirsty beast were staring at hize said tentatively, his voice tre?”
“Little Ze, you know very well that Nianzhi has a photographicshe sees You showed her the data—and you expectwas irritated, but he could not put his finger on the source of his annoyance He jerked his hand away froan to sarette; the ensuing cloud of lingering sze ducked his head, not daring to ’s eyes He stammered, “I-I-I… I just wanted to find out the truth, as quickly as possible”
“That’s no excuse You shouldn’t have shown it to her, period” Huo Shaoheng rabbed hold of the mouse and opened another file
This was another set of data, a record of abnornetic field
This particular docuo
This set of data frooand his men had just discovered
The coordinates recorded in the old file were those for a certain street in C City of the Huaxia Empire
On that day, a serious car accident had occurred on that street Huo Shaoheng, who had been on bodyguard duty for the scientist exairl froirl was Gu Nianzhi
“The fluctuations in the n with the recent anoood idea to let Nianzhi know about this?” Huo Shaoheng’s grip on histhe mouse entirely
“Unless I’ up like this is definitely not a coincidence, andto do with all this, soations—ive her a free hand and see what she turns up” Zhao Liangze su squarely in the eyes as he said, “You agreed to let Nianzhi come to Aht? You wanted to see whether the people fro out of the orks”
To put it bluntly, Gu Nianzhi was acting as their bait
They would never be able to catch a fish with an e’s deep, dark eyes were inscrutable He was silent for a long ze had said Finally, he ado-ahead by saying: “Re” With that, he ended the video call and walked to the balcony with his cigarette in hand He gazed at the hts
It was the ht The Special Ops military base in C City was enveloped in total darkness The only flicker of light caers; it pulsed uncertainly,within him
…
Gu Nianzhi finished her “lunchin He Zhichu’s car
He Zhichu did not get out of the car He turned his head to look at her as he handed her a credit card “Take it I won’t be around for the next few days, I have sos to attend to Re my mailbox for them every day”
“I’ll send my reports,” said Gu Nianzhi dejectedly She tried to return the credit card to He Zhichu “Professor He, I can’t just take your credit card”
He Zhichu’s voice was cold “I give all raduate students their own cards The university pays for them”
Gu Nianzhi was forced to accept He Zhichu’s credit card She hastily shoved it into her backpack
She returned to the Capitol Building with a heavy heart, and went to find Brother Huang
Brother Huang saw her come into his office He asked anxiously: “Where have you been? Do you still want to have lunch?”
“Yes, of course, I’” He Zhichu had just left, and Gu Nianzhi was pretty sure no one else knew about her “lunchtook her to the s for lunch
The restaurant was crowded; it was lunch tietable juice She found a table in a corner and sat doith Brother Huang
Brother Huang stared incredulously at her vegetable juice “…That’s your lunch?! You can’t be serious! Don’t worry about the expenses, I always buy lunch with my credit card We don’t have to pay for it!”
Gu Nianzhi was surprised “You have a credit card, Brother Huang? Why don’t I know about it?”
He Zhichu had just given her a credit card, but Brother Huang had evidently received his much, much earlier
“Oh, Miss Wen said there were a few issues when she tried to apply for your card She’s still working it out with the bank,” Brother Huang hastily explained “You can use et so else to eat?”