Hengtai's regular employees had a week off. Sun Binghe couldn't sit still and reported back early on the fourth day of the lunar new year. Yang Bin returned on the eighth, while Chu Yilan's return remained nowhere in sight.
Even after the Lantern Festival, Chu Yilan hadn't contacted either of his special assistants to ask how work was going.
Sun Binghe: "Boss still knows he owns a company, right? He does, right?"
Yang Bin: "He probably hasn't forgotten..."
Every day, Chu Yilan slept beside Shen Lian until eight or nine. If they'd gotten carried away the night before, they slept until noon. In the afternoons, they either curled up together to watch movies or chatted about old times.
Shen Lian bought two jigsaw puzzles, each enough to keep them occupied for most of a day.
Chu Yilan thought this was the most wonderful dream. He wouldn't mind never waking up.
That suited him just fine. Hu Kailan, not so much.
Brother Hu was practically steaming with anxiety at the office. His inbox was bursting with offers from potential partners. Hu Kailan had sifted out quite a few excellent opportunities and held on to them tightly, afraid Shen Lian might miss out.
Blazing Fire had emerged as the dark horse of the winter holiday season. Its lead, Lin Fu, was immensely popular, and Shen Lian had also become a hot topic without overshadowing him.
When Hu Kailan first took Shen Lian on, he'd thought that if Shen Lian achieved something, he could erase those stains on his past. Now the wind had finally turned in his favor!
These days, whenever Shen Lian came up, his haters jumped around making a fuss, but even dragging Zhou Tangsi into it didn't accomplish much.
As the online commenters put it: [All right, all right,