Chapter 159: When Was the Box From?

Seeing Bai Shuruo stammering, Bai Shunan laughed: "Is it because after you returned to Beishi, you found that Brother Han was too popular with the girls there? Are you jealous and feeling insecure?"

"That's not it," Bai Shuruo said.

"Then is it something at the company? Did you encounter any difficulties at work? Can I help you?"

Bai Shuruo looked at her sister's concerned expression and suddenly didn't want to tell her about this matter anymore.

Her sister had a mountain of things to deal with right now, and the company was in a stage of rapid development and growth; if she told her, it would certainly affect her mood.

Forget it, let her bear this matter alone.

"Sister, before I came, I felt this matter was very important, but after seeing you, I feel it's actually not that important. I can handle it myself; I can't just come to you every time I run into an issue."

Bai Shunan asked while slurping rice noodles: "Are you really okay?"

"I'm okay."

Bai Shunan tapped her on the nose and laughed: "You little thing, if you really can't solve it, you must tell me. Don't carry it all by yourself, you know?"

"I know," Bai Shuruo laughed: "Sister, I want to sleep here tonight."

"Sure, it's so late now, and you came back alone; I wouldn't be at ease with you going back to Sunshine Garden. Let us sisters have a good chat tonight."

Bai Shunan didn't continue asking. She had been too tired lately; after finishing her rice, she went to take a shower, and then Bai Shuruo went to wash up as well.

When Bai Shuruo came out after her shower, she saw that Bai Shunan had already fallen asleep on the bed.

She smiled with a pang of heartache, then covered her sister with a thin blanket.

……

The next day, Bai Shunan got up at 6 o'clock.

It was rare for her to go downstairs to buy breakfast for Bai Shuruo, and she told Bai Shuruo she must eat it.

"Ruoruo, I'm off to work. If you don't want to go back to Sunshine Garden, just stay here. I have things to do at the company today and will be back a bit late."

"Alright, then go to work, don't worry about me," Bai Shuruo said understandingly.

After Bai Shunan left for work, Bai Shuruo ate her breakfast slowly.

After finishing breakfast, she grabbed her bag and went out.

After all, having lived in Fengcheng for a long time, she knew there were many gray-area industries in Fengcheng, such as private investigators.

On Jianyuezhonglu, there was an alley, and inside the alley was an old three-story building. The second floor housed a private investigator's office. Bai Shuruo had often passed by here when she was in school and had seen the sign.

She put on a sun hat, sunglasses, and a mask, then knocked on the door inside.

"Hello, Miss, welcome. Are you here to inquire about our services? We are professionals. Whether you want to investigate a lover's infidelity, a husband's assets, or an enemy's privacy, we can handle it for you."

A middle-aged man greeted Bai Shuruo enthusiastically.

Bai Shuruo said: "I want you to help me visit someone. His name is Xiang Dahai, a Fengcheng local, about 60 years old. Years ago, he worked as a high-level executive at a company called Sirui. Go visit him and ask if he knows Bai Jinming, and how Bai Jinming went bankrupt back then. If you succeed, I want the recording of the interview. Can you do it?"

The middle-aged man chuckled: "That... should be possible, but it does have a bit of difficulty. As for the price... it will be a little higher, because we use role-playing; we have to find different actors to fish for information based on the specific task."

"You name your price," Bai Shuruo said.

"It should be seventy or eighty thousand," the middle-aged man chuckled.

Bai Shuruo nodded: "Fine, I will give you a twenty-thousand deposit first, and pay the balance after the job is done."

She paid in cash.

"Good, good!" The middle-aged man was overjoyed: "I will arrange it for you right away, but the time isn't fixed. It might take up to half a month at most, or four or five days at the shortest. We have to lock onto the person you mentioned first, then carry out the subsequent actions."

"Just arrange it yourselves, I can wait."

The middle-aged man added: "Then, Miss, could you leave a contact method?"

"No need, I will pass by here in a few days to check the progress," Bai Shuruo said.

……

After leaving the private investigator's office, Bai Shuruo finally returned to Sunshine Garden.

Although she hadn't been back for a long time, it was still the same as before. The hourly cleaner would come every week to wipe the doors and windows and sweep the floors, so it was just as she had left it.

There were too many memories of her and Han Yangting here.

He would cook for her and juice fruit in the kitchen, he would watch TV with her on the sofa, he would exercise in the gym, the scent of his hormones filling the air.

All the memories were about his goodness.

He was too good to her!

Was this goodness driven by an ulterior motive?

Was it to make up for guilt?

Bai Shuruo sat on the sofa, staring blankly at the large television in front of her.

She still held a glimmer of hope in her heart, hoping that Xiang Dahai would say that Han Yangting was innocent, that he hadn't participated in the events of those years, or that he had his own hidden reasons.

If that were the case, she could return to his side and continue being a carefree little woman.

Thinking of this, Bai Shuruo couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The feelings between people are truly subtle; as long as you don't doubt, then they love you. But once you start to doubt, everything becomes unreal.

No wonder people in the world say that relationships are exhausting.

……

After Bai Shuruo thought for a while, she received a call from Han Yangting.

She answered it as if nothing were wrong.

Han Yangting's tone was as gentle as ever, full of doting, and he asked: "Ruoruo, are you getting used to being back in Fengcheng?"

Bai Shuruo said: "I'm used to it."

"You aren't by my side, and I'm not used to it at all."

Bai Shuruo laughed: "Then you'll have to get used to it slowly. I'm going to be away for a long time. I'm eating well and drinking well in Fengcheng; what if I don't want to go back to Beishi?"

"You dare?"

Bai Shuruo smiled and said, "What is there that I wouldn't dare to do?"

"Then do you believe that I will go and drag you back right now?"

"I don't want that."

"..." The two chatted for a while, then Han Yangting said he still had things to attend to on his end and would chat again later.

After hanging up the phone, Bai Shuruo's gaze turned cold again.

She returned to her room, wanting to find a set of loungewear to change into.

She clearly remembered that she hadn't brought any of her old loungewear to Beishi, but now that she had rummaged through the bottom layer of clothes, she simply couldn't find any.

She then moved a stool over to check the top layer.

Just as she opened the top cabinet, she saw a cardboard box inside.

Huh, was this box hers? When was it put here? Why did she have absolutely no memory of it?

She curiously moved the box out and took another look at it.

She discovered it was things brought over from the old house, all items from her middle school days, a miscellaneous collection.

She was puzzled; hadn't she asked Aunt Lin Wanfen to throw these things away? How were they still here?

Did Aunt Lin Wanfen send them over?