Urban All-Round Master

Chapter 511: Chapter 506: Is This Still a Dog?

”Did he leave without saying anything?”

”No.” Nangong Bing’s expression was somewhat haggard, her eyebrows tightly furrowed, still maintaining her cold demeanor.

It seemed speaking even a word more would make her visibly annoyed.

”He had just come back yesterday and left today, isn’t that a bit too hurried?” Lin Zifeng really couldn’t understand what Nangong Shui was up to. He had just returned to the country yesterday and left abruptly today without even a word of explanation afterward, which seemed somewhat unreasonable.

What concerned Lin Zifeng the most was that last night when Nangong Shui was leaving, he had told him, ’From now on, she is in your hands.’

At that time, Lin Zifeng hadn’t found anything strange about it, but reflecting on it now, he always felt there was something bothersome about his words.

”Did he leave last night or this morning?” Lin Zifeng asked.

Nangong Bing did not speak; her slightly reddened eyes clearly showed she had cried recently.

Handing the white paper on the table to Lin Zifeng, Nangong Bing choked up before coldly heading towards her room.

It seemed the old master was not in a good mood today.

Only after he had read through the content on the white paper on the desk did Lin Zifeng breathe a long sigh of relief, pretty sure that Nangong Bing was by now probably running to her room to cry.

The white paper clearly had a line regarding farewell; thinking about it, she had just come back yesterday, and by this morning not even a trace of her was seen, plus there was this note left behind—anyone would inevitably feel a bit suspicious.

After all, Nangong Bing was also a flesh-and-blood woman who had lost her mother at a young age. She had always been a strong woman, but even the strongest women surely have their own pillars of spiritual support.

The reason Nangong Bing had done so much, not indulging in romantic relationships, freedom, travel, and night-outs during this vibrant phase of her life, and instead solely shouldering the entire Tianyu Group, it was clear how tough this year had been for her. Being just twenty-three years old, she had battled in the business realm for a year, enough to make those seasoned business tycoons dare not underestimate her.

After tossing the note into the trash, now that Nangong Shui had left, he had planned to find him to continue the story, but it looks like he would have to wait for his return.

Thinking this, Lin Zifeng’s brows furrowed deeper.

Watching the handsome dog depress its head and glance towards the direction where Nangong Bing had gone upstairs, then sweeping its gaze over Lin Zifeng a couple of times before continuing to cower on the sofa, it seemed a picture of excessive indulgence.

Lin Zifeng slowly approached it and crouched down to look at it.

He grinned and said, ”Meatball, what’s up? Fancy going for a walk with me?”

Lin Zifeng still hadn’t figured out the origin of this pug, and Liu Tangtang had been entrusting it to Nangong Bing these days. Now, the pug seemed to have gotten used to this comfortable life. An earlier attempt by Liu Tangtang to take it away had failed, as the pug just lay on the ground, regardless of what was done. Staring pitifully at Nangong Bing with a look that seemed to beg the old master to keep him. The hundred-pound dog, chubby as a pile of poop, remained lying on the ground, pathetically looking at its little owner playing rough with it, neither speaking out nor resisting, demonstrating a level of loyalty that even Lin Zifeng found surprising.

He was very aware of this stubborn dog’s terror; the last time Nangong Bing was captured in a hotel, it was this seemingly cowardly, clingy dog that saved her.

But what Lin Zifeng really couldn’t figure out was that if this clingy dog was so formidable, why then did Liu Tangtang’s parents manage to buy it for just nine million?

Most importantly, this pug hadn’t gone out these days, just lying at home like a house servant, living a cyclic life of eating and sleeping, a sort of cavalier dog life attitude. Was it just content with this ordinary life? Where exactly had it come from originally?

The handsome dog simply lifted its head indifferently, glanced at him with disdainful dog eyes, quickly got up, and headed towards the kitchen, clearly not wanting to deal with him.

”Hey!” Lin Zifeng was speechless.

He was actually being ignored—

Is this still a dog?

...

Until the afternoon, Nangong Bing’s mood had not improved. Nangong Shui had left abruptly without even a face-to-face goodbye, and the conversation she had with her last night made Nangong Bing extremely heartbroken. She even thought her father had contracted some incurable disease. But when she called him, the old man just laughed and said, ”Aren’t I just creating an opportunity for you two? An old man like me watching you lovebirds all the time, where should I even put my old face?”

This baffling reasoning almost made Nangong Bing smash the phone.

What exactly was the old man playing at?

In the afternoon, Nangong Bing called the office, saying she was feeling unwell these days and had handed all matters over to Zhang Xixi.

Thinking this was his chance, Lin Zifeng also wanted to sneak some time off, but Nangong Bing absolutely refused to grant him leave and insisted he go back to help Zhang Xixi.

Initially, enlisting Lin Zifeng in the finance department was Nangong Bing’s deliberate arrangement, specifically to counteract some people in the company who were using Zhang Xixi’s lack of influence to disrupt the finances. So, assigning him to the finance department was entirely Nangong Bing’s strategy.

In other words, Lin Zifeng’s entry into the finance department was a chess piece placed by Nangong Bing.

After all, with the complicated relationships among Tianyu Group’s board of directors, sometimes to avoid conflicts with these people, Nangong Bing wanted to use Lin Zifeng, the chess piece she had placed, to manipulate situations. Anyway, no matter what trouble he caused, Nangong Bing would bear the responsibility, and the board members would not harbor deep hatred over just a minor pawn like him.

After a quick lunch outside in the afternoon, Lin Zifeng spent some time idly wandering around the finance department.

Playing games for over two hours genuinely made him feel even more tired than fighting.

However, once he strolled over to the security department, he found the security guys unusually happy today. Dozens of them, both young and old, were gathered around, having lively conversations and even clapping their hands from time to time.

They were in a joyfully forgetful state.

As soon as Lin Zifeng got off the elevator and walked to the edge of the white marble flowerbed, he saw them shouting and cheering.

Then, one of the security guys, sharp-eyed, spotted Lin Zifeng’s arrival.

He stared with wide eyes and shouted, ”Brothers, Big Brother Lin is here! Brothers, Big Brother Lin is here!”

Whoosh—

True enough, as soon as that security brother shouted out, a group of younger and older brothers whooshed their heads over in unison.

Their eyes were red, gleaming with a shine, just like prisoners freshly released from jail seeing a beautiful woman, staring fixedly at him with reddened eyes.

”...”

Suddenly, a wave of black lines crossed Lin Zifeng’s forehead, almost scared to death by their intense stares.