Chapter 181: Chapter 181

In this remote small town, Le Tong, who has been working tirelessly since her mother fell ill a few years ago, finally found some leisure. She began to live a life where she wakes up naturally and takes the little girl out to wander around.

Since her mother’s death, Le Tong has been conscientious in her work. She is a thrifty person, and coupled with her second job at Ji Family with its generous income, along with the compensation from that ruffian last time, Le Tong now has nearly two hundred thousand in savings. If she lives frugally, she can enjoy a relaxed life for quite some time.

The five million cash check from Ji Rui has always been with Le Tong. She took it only because she couldn’t stand Ji Rui’s arrogance. In reality, she had no intention of cashing in this enormous sum.

Of course, Le Tong didn’t plan to relax for too long either. It’s just that she felt exhausted from her recent dealings with Ji Rui, and now that she has completely severed ties with him, she wants to take some time to relax and clear her mind.

Le Tong fully supported Zhang Yi and several village folks who were planning to jointly cultivate crops on the hillside and even expressed her willingness to invest some shares. This way, she wouldn’t be idling away her resources.

During her first few days in the small town, Le Tong helped Sister-in-law Zhang purchase many household items, cleaning up the home and garden that hadn’t been lived in for quite some time until they were both bright and tidy inside and out.

Gradually settling in, she began taking the little girl Wenwen around to explore. Occasionally, she would visit relatives and friends with Sister-in-law Zhang. The people in the small town are simple and honest, talkative, and hospitable. Within a few days, Le Tong became quite familiar with the surrounding villagers.

At twenty-four years old, it seemed that Le Tong had always been a very planned person since she could remember. This kind of muddled life, living one day at a time, was something she experienced for the first time, yet she found it quite delightful.

As for the distant R City and the man who was once her boss, Ji Rui, who wanted to buy three years of her youth, they were temporarily pushed to the back of her mind.

In fact, not just now, ever since she cried at the graveyard, she forcibly sealed away all memories of Ji Rui. This was, of course, because this man brought her an unbearable pain.

Having escaped from Ji Rui, Le Tong was living well over here, but the Ji Rui she had temporarily and deliberately forgotten wasn’t living as freely and happily as she was.

Let’s talk about Ji Rui’s work.

The entire Ji Family was enveloped in a low-pressure atmosphere these days, naturally because President Ji had been wearing a dark face lately.

With Le Tong absent, the position of the president’s secretary was temporarily taken over by Lin Ling. It was originally thought to be a five-day replacement, but because of Le Tong’s unilateral resignation, Lin Ling is still sitting in Le Tong’s usual seat.

Clearly, Le Tong was not a senior executive in an important position, just a small secretary. Yet her departure made Ji Rui feel a lot of inconveniences.

It was as if the hand he was accustomed to using suddenly broke and was put in a heavy cast, making not only actions inconvenient but even basic small tasks almost impossible to manage.

Lin Ling was made very nervous by Ji Rui’s gloomy attitude these days. Every time she completes her work and brings it in for him to review, he almost always frowns, very clearly dissatisfied with her work.

"This material is not suitable; go and collect something with stronger applicability."

Ji Rui frowned as he tossed back the recently reviewed documents in front of Lin Ling. This sort of thing had happened countless times in these days, leaving Lin Ling nervous and every time she entered the president’s office she had to take a deep breath before she had the courage to go in.

"President, could you give some hints?" These documents were rejected for the third time by Ji Rui, leaving Lin Ling utterly demoralized and at a loss.

Ji Rui raised his eyes to look at her directly, "Do you want me to find them for you?"

Lin Ling immediately fled with the documents!

Other employees received similar treatment from Ji Rui as Lin Ling, so everyone speculated whether the boss had indeed, as rumors said, fallen out with the old boss?

Ji Rui couldn’t care less about what the employees thought or gossiped about. He returned to Ji Family early every morning and left only at nine or ten at night.

Originally, after Ji Baby moved in to live with him, he tried to make more time to spend with the baby, thus avoiding overtime whenever possible.

But these days, he was somewhat reluctant to go home because every time he heard the door sound, the little baby would patter over, asking eagerly with an upturned little face, "Daddy, has Sister come back?" Read complete version only at novel★fire.net

Upon seeing Ji Rui shake his head, he would then irritably blame Ji Rui, "Daddy is a bad guy, why did you let Sister go on a business trip?!"

That day, Ji Rui returned home as usual after ten o’clock, and as soon as Ji Baby, dressed in a nightgown, heard the door, he ran out, asking as usual, "Daddy, has Sister come back?"

Ji Rui, with a complex expression, ruffled his son’s head with his large hand, "Very soon, Sister will come back!"

His people had already started to expand the search area from R City to surrounding cities. He didn’t believe that with such high-density search efforts, Le Tong could continue to hide!

Until now, Ji Baby still fully believed that Le Tong was indeed out on a business trip as his father had said.

"No lying, if you lie, you’re a puppy!" Ji Baby was temporarily placated, extending his little pinky to Ji Rui for a pinky swear.

Ji Rui extended his finger to hook with the baby’s chubby little finger, bent down to pick him up, and entered the bedroom.

"It’s late, baby, go to sleep."

Ji Rui forcibly tucked Ji Baby into the blanket, sat sideways on the bed, and patted his back to lull him to sleep.

Ever since Le Tong’s disappearance and phone shutdown, Ji Baby refused to sleep alone, clinging to Ji Rui every day, no matter how late, waiting for Ji Rui to return before going to bed. Mo Xin told Ji Rui this was a sign of the baby’s lack of security.

With eyes closed, Ji Baby put his thumb into his mouth, sucking on it, which was a sign that he was about to sleep.

Ji Rui thought he was about to sleep, so his patting on the baby’s back became gentler.

But Ji Baby suddenly opened his eyes, staring at Ji Rui, "Daddy, did baby do something to make Sister angry, so she doesn’t care about baby anymore?"

Ji Rui felt like there was suddenly a fishbone stuck in his throat.

"Baby is very good, how could Sister not care about baby?"

He was naturally tongue-tied, and in such a situation, even more so didn’t know how to console his beloved son, especially since his mood was equally depressed.

Ji Baby looked at him steadily for a while, then reached out a small hand from the blanket to hug Ji Rui’s neck, crying, "Daddy, did Sister, like Mommy, not want baby anymore?"

[Sigh, I’m stuck on writing today, only one update. Tomorrow is our dear’s birthday, so there will also be just one update, which will be during the day. There are more things this week, so updates might be less frequent, but I will not stop updating. Next week or starting New Year, Zhu Zi will increase the updates. Mwah!]