Madame is Pretending to be an Academic Slacker Again!

The van headed towards the hotel.

Xiao Bailu watched the familiar street scenes all the way, her smile gradually fading, and her brow slightly furrowed.

The driver joked with her, ”Secretary Xiao, have you been to Qingcheng before?”

Xiao Bailu’s eyelashes fluttered, then she immediately put on a smile that didn’t reach her eyes, ”Yeah, lived here for a few years.”

Driver: ”There’s a road by the Qingcheng Sea called Couple Road, have you walked it?”

Xiao Bailu: ”Walked it, yeah.”

Driver: ”With your boyfriend?”

Xiao Bailu chuckled, ”With a dog man.”

Driver: ”Walking... a dog with a man?”

Xiao Bailu: ”Hahaha!”

Laughter almost brought tears to her eyes.

Huo Tingzun in the back seat spoke with a somber face, ”No chatting during work.”

Xiao Bailu stopped laughing, ”Is this considered work time too?”

Huo Tingzun: ”Since you’ve signed the work contract, didn’t you read the clauses? Law firm employees must respond to the boss’s work assignments 24 hours. In this line of work, all time belongs to the company. If you can’t endure this hardship, it’s still not too late to leave.”

Xiao Bailu pouted, ”Who said I can’t endure hardship.”

She wasn’t going to fall for it. Want her to resign herself? Dream on.

The car fell into deadly silence for the rest of the journey.

Xiao Bailu was almost suffocated, yet Huo Tingzun was leisurely, as if he wouldn’t get bored even if he didn’t speak for a century, who knows what he was thinking.

Pfft, acting all solemn like a gentleman.

Does he think people haven’t seen his indecent side?

Xiao Bailu on the passenger seat looked disdainfully via the rear-view mirror at the certain man in the back seat.

Suddenly, a thought emerged in her mind: If she’s really working with Huo Tingzun 24 hours a day, could she discover whether this man genuinely doesn’t remember her or is pretending not to know her, not wanting to be accountable for the mess he created?

With 24-hour contact, the man is bound to show some flaw, right?

Xiao Bailu promptly called the hotel switchboard, ”Please help me cancel a reserved standard room, just leave one presidential suite.”

Huo Tingzun in the rear was unsettled, ”What are you doing, who gave you permission to leave only one room?”

==

Qingcheng Railway Station.

Qin Xin tipped the driver generously and jumped off the car.

The driver was delighted to receive such a large sum and saw Qin Xin still leisurely admiring the night scenery, couldn’t help but kindly remind her:

”Miss Qin, you’d better hurry up. I heard rumors that Qingcheng will be sealed... tonight.”

”Why?” Qin Xin asked curiously.

She traveled south all the way, only to fulfill Lan Qingxin’s last wish, visit Master Tuantuan, and tell Master Tuantuan she is now living well, so he doesn’t need to worry even if she disappears from then on.

Therefore, she hadn’t really paid attention to any recent news about Qingcheng.

The driver, being a local, had wide connections in this line of work and whispered to her: ”Perhaps you outsiders haven’t heard, but since the beginning of the year, Qingcheng has encountered a strange disease, those afflicted have persistent high fevers, speak nonsense, act bizarrely, and eventually fall into lethargy, unknowingly dying in their sleep.”

”The elders call it the ’Nightmare’ disease, while the hospital experts call it a plague.”

”It’s terrifying regardless of what it’s called; it’s deadly, and if one person in a family contracts it, the whole family perishes. If someone in the village contracts it, the whole village perishes. Many people in the countryside have died by now.”

”To prevent it from spreading to other cities, all transportation routes, planes, and trains will be stopped at 12 o’clock tonight, preventing people from leaving the city or entering.”

”Miss Qin, I felt you were particularly kind, that’s why I’m secretly telling you. You should leave quickly, hurry up and go...”

Qin Xin was baffled by this unexpected news.

Such a horrifying infectious disease, yet no news comes from outside.

The crucial point is, if she leaves now, what about Master Tuantuan?

What if someone in the village is infected and passes it on to Master Tuantuan?

Should she take Master Tuantuan with her when she leaves?

The clock already pointed to half-past eleven at night.

She simply couldn’t make it back to the village in time...

[Master Yun: Good night kiss! Guess what Master Xin will do]