Chapter 16

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

“Forget it. I’m not as close to him as you are either, so I’ll quit this guessing game with you,” Bai Ye said before stubbing out his cigarette and yawning.

Then, he added, “I’m going back to shower and sleep now. Let me tell you how I had to take advantage of numerous loopholes in the law and dispel much of my conscience in order to draft that outrageous contract. It was just the pits.”

“So, it turns out that the great Lawyer Bai actually has some form of a conscience?”

Bai Ye smiled thinly and said, “I still have some left, okay?”

He hung up and threw the cigarette butt into the trash can.

When he passed by Luo Nanchu’s ward, he chanced upon her signing the contract with a lowered head.

Bai Ye stopped in his tracks and shot a glance at Fu Tingyuan.

The man looked expressionless while emanating a unique, proud, and frosty aura.

He did not pretend to be someone else in front of Luo Nanchu anymore.

Frankly speaking, Bai Ye really could not understand what Fu Tingyuan was thinking.

Bai Ye was certain that Fu Tingyuan hated Luo Nanchu.

However, why did Fu Tingyuan force her to sign such a contract if he hated her? To tie his enemy down and force her to spend the rest of her life with him was not something that a normal person would do.

Xiao Fengting was right. Fu Tingyuan was definitely cuckoo in the head.

…

Luo Nanchu stayed in the hospital for a month. After the wound on her abdomen had scarred over, Fu Tingyuan sent someone to bring her to a villa situated halfway up a mountainside.

Even though the villa was decorated lavishly, there were few helpers around, and the help only consisted of a single old butler and domestic helpers in charge of preparing food and other daily needs.

The old butler brought her upstairs. Guiding her into a bedroom, he told her that she would be staying here in the future.

“Please feel free to request anything you need. I will get the chauffeur to get it from the city.”

“It’s alright. Thank you. This is good enough.” Luo Nanchu smiled.

It was impossible to complain about this north-facing, brightly-lit bedroom when she had previously stayed in a basement for half a year.

It seemed that Fu Tingyuan wasn’t so perverted that he would deprive her of her basic needs.

Luo Nanchu wanted to take a shower and then go to bed. After entering the room, a question seemed to pop into her head, and she turned around to ask, “What time does Mr. Fu usually return?”

The old butler replied respectfully, “Mr. Fu does not stay here often.”

Upon hearing this, Luo Nanchu’s eyebrows twitched in astonishment.

So she was a woman being locked up in a magnificent house by Fu Tingyuan?

Right now, Bai Zhiyan should still be living with him as his girlfriend. Luo Nanchu wondered how Bai Zhiyan would feel if she found out that he was keeping Luo Nanchu in this villa.

…

Indeed, Fu Tingyuan did not come by the villa often.

At the very least, she had not seen him once during her weeklong stay here.

She was getting more and more curious about the reason why that man drew up such a contract for her.

Right now, he seemed to have forgotten her. It was as if he would never return after throwing her out here.

Naturally, Luo Nanchu felt happy and carefree.

She was going to enjoy the freedom she had before he came up with some perverted way to abuse her.

…

The sun shone happily.

Luo Nanchu was lying on her bed on her stomach and playing computer games.

The computer beeped with an MSN notification.

Luo Nanchu looked at the profile picture. It was sent by her high school classmate.

[Nanchu, are you coming to the class reunion tomorrow?]

The person who sent her the message was her monitress in high school.

Luo Nanchu rarely attended school when she was in high school, so she wasn’t familiar with her classmates. Thus, she couldn’t imagine why she was still being invited to a class reunion after having graduated years ago already.

This made her a little surprised.

[No, I have something going on.]

[Don’t be like that, Student Luo. We all haven’t seen each other in such a long time. Just come and chat with us.]

Luo Nanchu cupped her chin as she looked at the computer screen. She couldn’t help but laugh.

She wouldn’t believe it if none of her high school classmates didn’t already know that the Luo family had gone bankrupt.