“Ahem,” she cleared her throat and asked seriously, “Zhihan, do you need me to go to TO and keep an eye on the women?”

  Zhihan shook his head solemnly. “No need.”

  “Then we are good.” Lu Ning smiled in satisfaction.

  Linger looked at the interaction between them and sighed contentedly. Her brilliant and omnipotent brother had finally been conquered by a woman.

  It was really… A turn of the tide, and it felt good!

  “Ah Ning, you can rest assured that my brother is not a playboy. During his disappearance, he often sneaked into the house to see you…” Linger halted mid-sentence as Pingan kicked her under the table. Knowing that she had slipped, she quickly covered her mouth.

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  Sure enough, Lu Ning put down the knife and fork in her hand as she frowned and looked at Zhihan. “Was Linger speaking the truth?”

  Zhihan was speechless…

  …

  Shortly after, Pingan hurriedly left the apartment with Linger and Cutie. Lu Ning stomped to her room and began to pack her luggage.

  Zhihan stood there with a hand on his waist and the other on his forehead, looking unsettled. He said in a low voice, “Honey, don’t be angry, okay? It’s all my fault. I sincerely apologize.”

  “Hmph!” Lu Ning threw the clothes in her hands at him. “Yin Zhihan, you truly went too far. I thought you had lost your memory but you didn’t. You played me like a fool.”

  “Honey, I didn’t…”

  “You still dare to deny? No wonder I always felt weird when I woke up during your disappearance. I thought I missed you too much that I kept having erotic dreams. It turned out that you… you… you’re too brazen!”

  Lu Ning was too embarrassed to say it out loud. But just how horny was he? He had to f*ck her every time he sneaked back to the apartment at night. Most importantly, this wicked man did not have the intention to let her know about it and thought he could get away with it.

  If she was a little less brave, she would have been scared to death by him.

  So he did not have amnesia at all. But after she found him, he put on an act and pretended not to know her. He even let her take the initiative and seduce him. He was a wily old fox, and she was just like a silly, innocent lamb to fall into his trap.

  “Honey, let me explain,” Zhihan stepped forward and grabbed her shoulders, “I admit that I did not die nor have amnesia. When I got close to Ela, I found out about her conspiracy, so I was just playing along. As my identity has been exposed, you all and IRS will be in danger. So I made use of the explosion to ‘kill’ myself to buy myself some time.

  “For the past three months, I have been cleaning up the mess. Adhering to the plan, IRS has also successfully reorganized. I also made sure that by the time I resurfaced, the people I love would not be in danger anymore. For the past three months, I have been thinking of you every day, every night, every moment.

  “Honey, I knew all of your whereabouts. I knew when you went to the bar to drink, I knew you cried secretly at night. I knew all of it. It broke my heart to see you like that, so I couldn’t help myself, I had to come back to see you secretly.

  “You used Alva to get close to the IRS, so I made arrangements to let you find me. Honey, forgive me, please? I didn’t do anything wrong, and I’m innocent.”

  He gazed deeply at her with an aggrieved look in his eye, as if she had wronged him. Lu Ning was furious.

  Did he genuinely miss her? Or rather, was it his c*ck that missed her? After abstaining from sex for three months, he probably needed release so that’s why he f*cked her every night!

  He still had the nerve to mention Alva. When he could appear safely, he did not come out on his own accord. Instead, he laid in place plans to lead her to him. He was especially scheming and was indeed an excellent strategist.