Chapter 526

Shu Xia immediately looked at the photos on Gu Lao's phone.

She looked through the photos one by one.

Carefully and meticulously, not missing any details.

Gu Lao was a bit nervous, afraid that his old friend's items were all problematic; not only had he spent a huge sum of money, but he might also lose his life.

"There are no problems with these," Shu Xia said to Gu Lao after confirming it several times.

Gu Lao breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, that's good. I thought everything he bought back from abroad had problems, but now I can rest easy."

"Following your advice these past two days to pay attention to rest and diet has had almost no negative impact on me, and wearing Zhong Nainai's Amulet has allowed me to sleep an hour more than usual."

Hearing this, Shu Xia felt even more reassured.

"If Gu Lao feels there is no problem with your body at all, it means the influence of that bronze ware on Gu Lao was not as deep as I had estimated."

Gu Lao nodded repeatedly, "It's a good thing you were here. If I didn't have you, and I couldn't find Zhong Nainai's whereabouts, I would have fallen for it this time no matter what. It's strange to say, but something similar appeared over thirty years ago. After Zhong Nainai took action back then, these evil things hadn't appeared for all these years. How did they suddenly appear again?"

When saying these words, Gu Lao's brows were tightly locked.

"It is likely that someone is intentionally letting these things flow into Jing City," Shu Xia guessed with a solemn expression.

Gu Lao nodded, "Your words remind me; I will find someone to investigate this thoroughly later."

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During her lunch break, Shu Xia went to the shopping mall across the street.

There was a food court in the basement of the mall, all small snacks, very suitable for someone to solve lunch alone.

She ordered a portion of spicy hot pot; she hadn't eaten it for a long time, and today she felt it was still very delicious.

Just as she was eating slowly and carefully, she felt someone sit down opposite her.

She glanced out of the corner of her eye and saw it was a delivery person wearing a delivery uniform, so she didn't look up and continued eating the spicy hot pot earnestly.

And the delivery person sitting opposite her seemed to be staring at her the whole time.

She raised her head.

When she saw that the person sitting opposite was actually Lin Bin, her expression sank, revealing a hint of coldness.

Shu Xia had seen many sides of Lin Bin—when he was high-spirited and couldn't fit anyone else in his eyes, and when he was high and mighty pointing fingers at her—but she had never seen Lin Bin with a face full of stubble and looking so haggard.

At first glance, she didn't recognize him.

She even thought it was someone who looked very much like Lin Bin.

But someone who looked like Lin Bin wouldn't look at her with that kind of gaze.

While Shu Xia was scrutinizing Lin Bin, Lin Bin was also looking at Shu Xia.

He had been delivering food for the past two days and had even entered the Gu Corporation Building today; he would occasionally hear many people in the building discussing Shu Xia, all with admiration.

While they were disparaging Shu Xia in every way, Shu Xia was being recognized by others.

Thinking of the stupid things he had done before, Lin Bin felt very regretful.

After a round of calculation in his heart, he spoke first: "Seeing me now reduced to delivering food, are you very happy?"

For the past few days, he had believed that with his resume, having been the young Mr. Lin for so long and having strategized for so long, logically, as long as he wanted to go to any company, he would be successfully hired.

But he was slapped in the face time and time again, and rejected time and time again.

His pride as the young Mr. Lin had been stepped underfoot without him realizing it.

He had almost no money on him, the family needed money every day, Lin Qi was dispirited and drank at home every day, Lin Xu ran to film sets every day wanting to act, and the burden of life was all on him.

He didn't even have the money to hire a lawyer for his father!