100,000/Hour Professional Stand-in Chapter 77.3: Why Didn’t You Reply to My Text? (3)

When the two of them finally stepped onto the red carpet laid out in front of the hotel’s main entrance, Ji Fanyin casually picked a ‘Queen of Sweden’ rose from the flower archway and handed it to Bai Zhou.

Bai Zhou retracted the umbrella before looking at Ji Fanyin with a questioning look.

“Your birthday present.” Ji Fanyin inserted the rose into the folds of the umbrella and teased, “I didn’t go back on my word.”

Bai Zhou, “What the f… These flowers are Li Xiaoxing’s!”

“Throw it away then.” Ji Fanyin coolly waved her hand and walked away.

At the turn of the corner, she spotted Song Shiyu standing by the main entrance with a half burnt cigarette between his fingers. There was a long ash trail sticking to the end of his cigarette butt, suggesting that he had been standing still for a long period of time.

“Hey, Ji Fanyin…” Bai Zhou chased after her with the umbrella in one hand and the rose in the other. As soon as Song Shiyu appeared in his view, he subconsciously slipped the pink rose into his breast pocket.

“Young master Song.” Ji Fanyin acknowledged Song Shiyu’s presence with a nod as she continued making her way into the hotel.

Song Shiyu hurriedly extinguished the cigarette. “Fanyin, can I have a word with you?”

Ji Fanyin halted her footsteps to take a good look at Song Shiyu.

He looked like he had aged a few years. His gentlemanly appearance was marred by his inconcealable dark eye circles and fatigued look on his face.

With a polite but cold voice, Ji Fanyin said, “For work-related matters, please contact Zhang Ning or my personal assistant, Shen Qi.”

“It’s not work-related…”

Ji Fanyin interrupted, “Then there is nothing to be said between us.”

In a bid to separate them, Bai Zhou thrust the wet umbrella between the two of them, mainly toward Song Shiyu, and exclaimed, “Make way please. You’re blocking the path.”

Song Shiyu glared at Bai Zhou, but the latter did not seem bothered by it. He even gleefully flaunted his rose.

Ji Fanyin ignored the two bickering men and headed right into the hotel lobby.

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