CHAPTER 484: CHAPTER 359: WAITING FOR HIS DEATH?

Ru Huan sat alone in the empty apartment living room, casting the interface of the phone conference onto the white wall on the other side, then maximizing Ye Jiu’s sub-screen.

Leaning on the living room sofa, she held a wine glass in one hand, sipping slowly, her eyes closely fixed on the man’s face magnified to movie screen proportions, like a creepy fanatic, her lips slightly curved upward.

Whatever the other party said, Ru Huan didn’t hear a word; their voice sounded to her now like some special functional potion, making her body increasingly hot, unable to cool the sensation even by gulping down the icy wine and holding ice cubes in her mouth.

The ice was useless; what she needed was to swallow some other antidote.

Why wouldn’t he listen, come home obediently after work, and keep her company all evening?

Her former cohabiting stepson clearly never worked this hard, even defying her arrangements.

But it wasn’t Ye Jiu’s fault; it was Boss Mi who intentionally made things difficult for him, a scheme in which she was once an accomplice, even used as a pawn by Boss Mi, so she knew well.

Though she understood the reasoning, Ye Jiu’s inability to return home on time due to work was still unacceptable to Ru Huan.

The desire for control burgeoned in her heart due to unmet satisfaction.

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In the meeting room, Wen Nan’s true form remained focused on revising the report, simultaneously receiving a new system prompt in his mind and nodding towards Qiqi.

Qiqi quickly gave an "ok" gesture, maneuvering the mouse to disconnect the avatar labeled [Huan].

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In the living room, the projection of that magnified handsome face on the white wall suddenly disappeared, plunging the room into darkness.

Ru Huan furrowed her brow lightly, quickly sent a private message—

[Huan: Still in the meeting? Why was my signal interrupted?]

After a while, a message came through from the other side—

[Nine: Still in the meeting [smile]]

[Nine: Maybe the signal’s bad, try again, Huan [smile]]

Ru Huan furrowed her brow deeper, her gaze fixed on those last two smiley emojis.

Sending such emojis inexplicably, clearly shows a guilty conscience, doesn’t it?

Lying, the signal cut out probably because something went wrong with the meeting, why deceive her?

Thinking of this, Ru Huan’s hand gripping the phone trembled with force.

She had already told him before not to lie to her again, so why, within such a short time, had he broken the rules again, showing no regard for her feelings?

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Wen Nan No.2, leaving the main meeting room, headed to the pantry, savoring the plump, juicy abalone rice made by Xu Zhenzhen, successfully gaining pleasure value from her, thereby creating Wen Nan No.3.

Wen Nan No.3 was currently sitting in Yu Shujun’s car, speeding towards Ru Huan’s home.

However, as the car drove out of the office’s underground parking lot, he immediately received another system prompt in his mind—

9527: [Please note, the triggered attribute level of the character you bound "The Dominating Young Stepmother" has risen to 46%.]

Just a moment ago in the office, he had Qiqi cut off Ru Huan’s signal, and her trigger level was 24%; within these few minutes, it had doubled.

As he was thinking, a strange sensation arose from his wrist.

Wen Nan raised his hand, noticing iron bars resembling black rods emerging from the smart bracelet he wore.

The black rods, like steel rebars passed through an automatic bending machine, quickly curved towards Wen Nan, seemingly about to form a cage of black steel to trap him inside.

Yu Shujun, driving, glanced sideways at Wen Nan and furrowed her eyebrows, extending one hand towards Wen Nan with her palm glowing gold, "Don’t move."

Clearly ready to use [Root Breaking Slash] to cut through the forming cage around Wen Nan.

"No need, don’t intervene." Wen Nan hastily stopped her.

Yu Shujun showed a hint of confusion but withdrew the golden light from her palm immediately.

Sure enough, the next moment, the outer wall of the cage forming around Wen Nan slowly retracted into the bracelet.

Simultaneously, a system prompt indicated the trigger level had dropped to 19% in his mind.

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On the living room sofa, Ru Huan closely monitored the real-time location tracking system on her phone, a satisfyingly content smile appearing on her face.

Fortunately, she had checked Ye Jiu’s location promptly, thus discovering that the reason for his lie was because he was hurriedly leaving the office, rapidly heading towards her place.

Deceiving her likely to give her a surprise, right?

This kid, so... adorably candid.

Ru Huan relentlessly watched the little dot on the location system, counting in her heart every second, awaiting the overlap of that dot with her position.

Fifteen minutes later, the dot was finally nearing her position; Ru Huan jumped up excitedly from the sofa, ran to the door in a few steps, about to open the door to welcome him. Hearing footsteps outside the door, she reconsidered and withdrew her hand from the door handle.

The doorbell rang.

Ru Huan stood behind the door, waited a minute before stepping forward to open the door.

The man she had been thinking about all night appeared at the door, smiling lightly at her, calling out "Ru Huan."

Ru Huan raised her hand, pulling him into the room, reaching out to touch the silver halo he wore,