Rose manor（玫瑰庄园酒店）

Chapter 82: Miss Me?

Shen Jianian couldn't help but feel puzzled, "Have you had too much to drink?"

Her tone wasn't great, and in the past, Fu Jichen might have been angry, but now he felt relaxed just hearing her voice, forgetting all the squabbles at the dinner table.

He asked again, "What are you doing?"

He seemed to hear the wind; was she outside?

As long as Fu Jichen didn't mention asking her to go to Beicheng, Shen Jianian softened her tone and replied gently, "I went to the supermarket with Aunt Jane in the afternoon to buy ingredients for tomorrow's New Year's Eve dinner. I ate a lot of snacks and pastries in the supermarket, wasn't hungry in the evening, just ate a bit casually. Now I'm out walking the dogs."

That's also why she hadn't answered his calls in a while; she was walking three dogs alone and couldn't free up her hands.

Fu Jichen chuckled, "The estate is so big, they can wander wherever they want. Do you really need to walk them? I think you're just idle."

"It's the holidays, isn't it normal to be idle?" Shen Jianian retorted unceremoniously.

Fu Jichen snorted, "Am I enjoying my time off?"

"Do you have to ask?" Shen Jianian said, then suddenly screamed. There was a commotion on the other end of the phone. Fu Jichen furrowed his brow, about to ask what happened, when he heard her gasping for breath, "Benny, slow down! Big sis is going to be dragged down by you—"

Fu Jichen's heart that had been lifted dropped back down. He could imagine her being dragged by the dog just by hearing her voice, couldn't help but smile.

The door was symbolically knocked twice, then pushed open.

Fu Yuling came in with a wooden tray, seeing Fu Jichen sitting on the sofa by the window, his smile so obvious even from a distance, she noticed it right away. He was propping his chin with one hand, the other hand holding a lit cigarette, the ash was quite long.

His phone was on the glass table, like he was on a call, looking relaxed.

Fu Yuling fixed her gaze and said, "Mom was worried that you didn't eat enough dinner, so she instructed the kitchen to make some of your favorite dishes again and asked me to bring them to you."

The smile on Fu Jichen's lips slowly faded, he raised his hand, and the long ash of the cigarette broke off and fell.

"Take it away, I'm not hungry," he said.

"Stop lying, you hardly ate anything at the dinner table. I bet you didn't eat much on the plane either," Fu Yuling ignored him, bent down to put the tray on the glass table, and sneakily glanced at his phone. Just as she suspected.

The screen showed 'on a call, speakerphone on'.

The person he was talking to was his rumored girlfriend, Shen Jianian.

"Fu Jichen, I'm done talking to you, I can't hold the dogs," Shen Jianian's voice came from the phone, hurried and impatient.

Fu Jichen, as if accustomed to this, picked up the phone from the table and reminded her, "Be careful, it's cold outside, go back soon."

No one responded on the other end, just the sound of running footsteps.

Fu Jichen waited for a moment, then hung up the phone.

There was a meaningful look in Fu Yuling's eyes. In her imagination, even if her brother had a woman, she would be the one who would pamper him in every possible way, always accommodating him and showing him respect. Who would have thought that their private interactions would be like this?