“Mom, I’m so hungry, is there breakfast at home?”

The lazy voice of Huo Ji came from the phone.

Chu Shuzhen looked at the crying girl in front of her and asked hesitantly, “Where are you?”

Huo Ji murmured, “I’m almost home. I played games with Lin Li all night, and now I’m hungry and tired. I want to eat the porridge made by Aunt Zhang. Can you tell her?”

Chu Shuzhen said angrily, “Hey…okay, what are you doing staying up so late? You can’t play games like this. You’re already a grown-up, don’t you know your own physical condition?”

Huo Ji said, “I know, I’m driving now, I have to hang up.”

Chu Shuzhen looked at the blank screen of her phone and the obviously more shocked Ji Yafu in front of her, and her face gradually darkened.

“Yafu, what is going on with this matter? I hope you can give me an explanation.”

She turned around very angrily, stepped on her high heels, and left.

Ji Yafa stood still, unable to understand why the planned thing turned out like this. She saw Huo Ji enter this room with her own eyes.

But she didn’t have the courage to knock on the door again. That man just now was really scary.

Where did things go wrong?

Ji Yafu gritted her teeth and decided to go back home and figure out what Huo Ji had done.

The man inside the room who was awakened by the noise couldn’t sleep anymore. At this moment, he realised what had happened last night.

He seemed to have been drugged by those bastards.

The bed was in a mess, and there was a credit card on the bedside table, with contact information still on it.

Li Qinghong’s long fingers picked up the paper and the card.

What does this mean?

He was treated like a one night stand, but it seemed like the other party was the one who suffered.

His already gloomy eyes became even darker. He bent down to find his phone from the messy sheets and quickly dialled a number.

Someone picked up the other end, and there was a flirty laughter from the receiver.

“Hehehe, why did you wake up so early? Did you have fun last night? I told you, happy things should be enjoyed early.”

“Yeah, time is money, brother. We found such a great specimen for you, and she’s still a young one. We’re doing you a favour.”

“Why aren’t you talking? Are you still in bed? Then we won’t disturb you.”

Li Qinghong’s fingertips held the credit card, which required a certain amount of consumption to be opened. In other words, the other party was not short of money.

He asked in a very calm voice, “Which room did you give me?”

“Why are you asking that? Room 602, Are you still asleep?”

The next moment the phone hung up.

Li Qinghong opened WeChat, left the group chat, blocked everyone, and then looked at the card in his hand.

When he closed the door just now, he saw that it was room 601, not the one they had prepared in advance.

He made a mistake.

His memory, which had been confused due to the effects of drugs, slowly returned at this moment. He remembered how he had stripped the other person’s clothes off and pinned them down…

He had no experience, and he was heavy-handed.

Thinking of this, his eyes fell on the bed sheet next to him, which was stained with blood, looking very glaring. It reminded him of what he had done last night.

Li Qinghong felt the card was a bit hot in his hands. Although he was not a good person, the compensation was directed at him. Usually he had nothing to worry about, even if he died now, he would not be afraid.

But now he felt that he should do something.

Li Qinghong opened his phone and saved the number, tore up the note, and then cleaned himself up and went to the hotel bar.

There was surveillance in the corridor, so he could know what the other person looked like. No matter why that person left here, he needed to meet them.

At this moment, Huo Ji had finished taking a shower and was lying in bed wrapped in a blanket.

All the residual smells on his body had been washed away, and he only now realised that his injury was quite severe, and his head was even more dizzy.

He, who always acted rigorously, endured this uncomfortable feeling and processed all his clothes before lying down.

The reasons for fever were many, and as long as he did not say anything, no one would think about it.

Since this body’s mother already knew that he had returned, she would definitely come looking for him. He couldn’t die for a while.

With this in mind, Huo Ji fell into a deep sleep.

In a daze, there seemed to be hurried footsteps, a woman’s crying, and a cool hand resting on his head.

He felt a slight stinging sensation on the back of his hand, and then all his senses disappeared.

When he woke up again, it was already dark outside, and there was a lamp on the bedside. The light was very dim and could only illuminate a small area.

Huo Ji turned his head and saw a glass of water on the bedside. He propped himself up and drank the water in one gulp. Then the door was opened right after he had finished drinking, and a woman’s voice called elatedly “A Ji, you’re awake!”

This was the mother of this body, Chu Shuzhen.

Huo Ji could call her “mom” over the phone, but he couldn’t say it in person.

His mother had left him the year he ascended the throne to find his father.

Chu Shuzhen turned on the light and walked over anxiously. “You said you stayed up late playing games and caught a cold. You know your own physique. Why can’t you take care of your body?”

Huo Ji looked at the woman in front of him. She still loved her child very much, but why did she abandon her own child just because he was caught cheating in that book?

Chu Shuzhen looked at Huo Ji in a daze and became even more anxious. “Is there anything uncomfortable? I’ll call the doctor.”

Huo Ji said, “No need, I… I’m fine, just hungry.”

His throat was very dry, and his voice was very hoarse, which didn’t sound like he was fine at all.

When Chu Shuzhen heard him say he was hungry, she stood up and said, “The porridge Aunt Zhang made for you is still hot. I’ll go get it for you.”

After speaking, she hurriedly opened the door and went out.

Huo Ji finally breathed a sigh of relief and leaned on the pillow.

His butt… was really hurting.

Thinking back now, regardless of if the other party was arranged by that woman or not, he really wanted to beat him up anyway.

His phone beeped with a low battery reminder, and the charging cable was on the bedside table. He plugged in the charger, turned on the phone, and there were several messages stored inside.

The messages were from Lin Li.

Huo Ji had already talked to Lin Li before he came back, and now the other party was digging into the matter this quickly?

He ignored a series of messages and then his eyes landed on the friend request.

Who added him as a friend?

Huo Ji clicked on it. The profile picture was a book that looked like a psychology research book, but the message in the remarks made him pause.

The other party’s remark was 601.

He had expected the other party to find him, but he didn’t expect it to be so soon.

He really wanted to know what the person was thinking.

Huo Ji casually clicked to accept, and before he could check the information, the door was pushed open.

Chu Shuzhen was holding a bowl of steaming porridge and walking towards him slowly.

Huo Ji subconsciously turned off his phone and put it upside down on the bedside.

Chu Shuzhen said, “You just woke up and you have to look at your phone. Can’t you rest for a while? Eat something first.”

She put down the porridge in her hand and then reached out to touch his forehead.

“It’s okay, the fever is gone.”

Huo Ji was surprised by this sudden action. Before, who dared to risk their life and touch his forehead.

The touch quickly disappeared, and Chu Shuzhen insisted on watching him eat.

Huo Ji didn’t have much appetite, but his stomach obviously disagreed with the idea of not eating for a day. He had no choice but to eat half a bowl.

“I can’t finish it, you can take it away… now.”

Chu Shuzhen was worried about the half bowl of porridge left, and didn’t pay attention to what he said.

“If you still want to eat, just call Mom. Close your eyes and rest, don’t play with your phone anymore.”

As she spoke, she took his phone away from the bedside.

“Give Mom your phone for now, and I’ll give it back to you when you feel better.”

Huo Ji thought for a moment. Fortunately, the message settings were set to not show strangers, otherwise if the newly added friend said something bad, it would all be exposed.

Just as Chu Shuzhen reached the door, Huo Ji suddenly said, “Cancel the engagement between me and Miss Ji.”

This woman had originally approached Huo Bo by means of their engagement, and had schemed to break it off with him for the sake of Huo Bo.

Now that he was bringing it up on his own initiative, he wanted to see how the other party would react.

After all, the Ji family relied on their Huo family for survival.

Chu Shuzhen stopped in her tracks and turned to look at her son.

Since earlier, she had felt that this child was different from before, too quiet.

Huo Ji leaned against the bed and said slowly and calmly, “We agreed to the engagement when we were young for the sake of celebrating, but now it’s a different era. Such thinking should be eliminated. Besides…my health hasn’t been good these years.”

His words seemed to contain a hint of complaint.

Chu Shuzhen didn’t know why her son would bring up this matter. He had been looking forward to marrying Yafu just a while ago.

She stood there in silence for a moment, remembering how earlier that morning, Ji Yafu had cried and held onto her arm, saying that her son had done something wrong to her, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

There was something suspicious about this, could it be that the two had some conflict?

Chu Shuzhen didn’t give a hasty answer, but said softly, “Let’s discuss this matter after you recover from your illness. Go to sleep now.”

Huo Ji lay down, covered himself with the blanket, and closed his eyes, but his mind was still restless.

Ji Yafu was a woman with deep scheming, and could not be kept around for long, but he couldn’t be too hasty either.

As for that “601”…

He would see what their purpose was when he woke up tomorrow.

“601” looked at the message they had sent, which seemed to have sunk into the sea without any trace, and furrowed their brow.

They had become friends online an hour ago, and he had sent several messages as soon as they appeared online, but the other person didn’t reply at all.

Li Qinghong lowered his gaze and flipped his phone over in his hand, his mind flashing inexplicably with the scattered bloodstains on the bed.

He leaned against the sofa, silent for a long time, and made a phone call, “Have you found out the person’s identity?”

The other side said something inaudible.

Li Qinghong sat up straight, his brow furrowing even tighter. “They’re sick? Send me their address.”

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