Shi Tian glanced at Ji Yuanlin beside him and found that he seemed to be caught up in some uncontrollable emotions and had not yet fully recovered.

　　A new incoming call popped up on the screen. He held the phone in silence for a moment, then swiped the screen and answered it.

　　The sound of the waves around was too loud. Shi Tian was worried that the other party couldn't hear him, so he raised his voice a little: "Hello?"

　　“…”

　　After hearing his voice, the owner of the number suddenly fell silent.

　　The other end of the phone.

　　That all-too-familiar voice came from the phone, echoing in the spacious president's office, mixed with the sound of wind and waves, broken and somewhat intermittent.

　　Zhou Sifu's expression froze, and he immediately handed the phone to the secretary in front of him and motioned for him to speak.

　　secretary:"???"

　　No...what can he say?

　　He just watched his boss with an impatient look on his face but he kept calling again and again. He frowned because the other party didn't answer the phone, but he didn't know what his boss wanted to say to Mr. Shi.

　　Under Zhou Sifu's intimidating gaze, the secretary swallowed and took the phone with his hand: "...Please, is this Mr. Shi?"

　　The other party paused for a moment, then politely said: "Yes, I am. May I ask who you are?"

　　"I'm the secretary of the president's office of Danofi. You can call me Alan."

　　The secretary spoke cautiously, watching the boss's expression as he spoke.

　　Seeing that the boss didn't seem to react, he suddenly had an idea and continued to speak with courage: "It's like this, Mr. Shi, our company's financing department is interested in understanding some of your company's LED lamp bead investment strategies to see if there are opportunities for cooperation in the future. But colleagues in the financing department made several calls to you and found that your company's CFO, financing channel director, and legal director were all unavailable, so I want to ask what's going on."

　　Seeing the boss glaring at her coldly, the secretary suddenly felt like crying but had no tears.

　　Apart from saying this, he had no other choice. How could Feng Yu, a lighting company, have anything to do with a car company like Danofi? !

　　The person on the other end of the phone said "Wait a moment", and soon the noise in the receiver became much quieter. It seemed that Mr. Shi had gone to find a quieter place.

　　"I'm sorry Alan," he heard the other party say, "Our company is organizing an overseas trip for employees these two days, and these few managers are coming with us. I'm very sorry that I couldn't handle the work in time. As for the situation where I couldn't get in touch, I will follow up and give you a reply later."

　　This is a very standard workplace communication technique, polite, calm, and generous.

　　The secretary opened her mouth, not knowing how to respond for a moment, and then she found that the boss had quickly written two lines on a piece of draft paper and pushed it in front of her.

　　Following the key points on the draft paper, he cleared his throat and said with a smile, "Is that so... Thank you, Mr. Shi. We also thought it was a bit strange that the person in charge of the company's finance department was not here, but the calls from other departments were all connected normally. I feel relieved when you say that."

After hearing his words, the person on the phone was silent for a few seconds, and then slowly said: "I see, thanks for the reminder."

　　Then, another person's voice was heard from the other end of the phone, seemingly asking who he was calling. It was most likely Mr. Shi's husband, Mr. Ji.

　　He didn't hear clearly what Mr. Shi said to her husband. Just as he was about to continue following his boss's eye signal, he suddenly heard Mr. Shi ask slowly on the phone: "Alan, you have to tell me everything. Does your boss have no words?"

　　As soon as Mr. Shi finished speaking, he saw his boss's face suddenly darkened.

　　The next second, the boss snatched the phone from him.

　　"Bye."

　　After saying these two words to Shi Tian on the phone, Zhou Sifu decisively and quickly pressed the hang-up button.

　　The secretary had never seen her boss's expression so varied in such a short period, but she did not dare to mention the obvious sarcasm that Mr. Shi had just said.

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　　There is a three-hour time difference between Maldives and China. It is still dawn over there, but here the sun is already shining brightly. After filling up the coffee cup for the boss at the table, he asked, "Mr. Zhou, what should we do next?"

　　Zhou Sifu lowered his eyes, tapped his fingertips lightly on the desk, and said expressionlessly: "Wait."

　　--

　　Shi Tian had no idea when he returned to the hotel last night. He only remembered that he and Ji Yuanlin took a walk along the coastline in the middle of the night, and then climbed up a large rock on the edge of the cliff, looking at the stars above their heads and chatting for a long time.

　　He received a strange phone call from Zhou Sifu's secretary. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he even heard Zhou Sifu's voice at the end of the call.

　　After coming down from the big rock, he found that Ji Yuanlin's mood seemed to be a little unstable. The two returned to the resort, and Ji Yuanlin took him to a roadside pub, where they drank a lot of wine.

　　He was still worried about what Zhou Sifu's secretary Alan had said and wanted to go back to the hotel to ask a few executives about the situation. However, he didn't expect Ji Yuanlin to suddenly hug him start crying while drinking, and talk about everything that happened between them during their student days.

　　There was no way to leave her husband alone, so she could only comfort the big man in her arms while calling the waiter to come and settle the bill.

　　I helped Ji Yuanlin stagger back to the hotel. For some reason, he felt very dizzy. He closed his eyes and lay on the bed, knowing nothing.

　　The moist sea breeze hit his cheeks, bringing a slight chill. Shi Tian opened his eyes and saw a rainbow outside the window after the rain.

　　He was the only one in the room; Ji Yuanlin was not there.

　　Getting up from the bed, Shi Tian couldn't help but let out a soft "hiss". He raised his hand touched his lips, and found a spot of dried blood at the corner of his lips.

　　Sitting on the bed in a daze for a moment, staring at the dense kiss marks on his neck in the mirror in front of the bed, Shi Tian gradually realized something.

　　Ji Yuanlin touched him last night.

　　For some reason, he lost his memory of this incident.

　　Love affairs are the collision of hormones between partners that are mutually agreed upon, and are never just one-sided coercion. In the past eight years, Ji Yuanlin has always been considerate and gentle in such matters and has never once ignored his wishes forced him to have sex in his sleep, and did not clean him up afterward.

　　Strangely, she didn't seem to do anything to resist her husband, but let him do whatever he wanted to her.

　　The kiss marks on Adam's apple and the corners of his lips were evidence of this. For these two places to leave such deep marks, he had to actively tilt his neck and cater to the other person.

　　Shi Tian frowned and slowly got up from the bed. He was about to find his cell phone to call Ji Yuanlin when he suddenly received a call from the hotel front desk.

　　The front desk told him that someone had called their hotel's switchboard, but since they didn't know his room number, they could only give his name and passport information and asked the hotel to help look it up, saying it was an emergency.

　　Shi Tian asked the hotel to transfer the call to him. As soon as he dialed the number, he heard Assistant Chen's very nervous voice from the other end of the line: "Mr. Shi...is that you?"

　　"It's me." His temple was still slightly swollen and painful. Shi Tian rubbed his brows and leaned against the headboard and asked, "Why didn't you call me directly?"

　　Assistant Chen's tone sounded a little shaky, and he took three breaths to say one sentence: "Your phone kept saying it was turned off, and I couldn't find you, so I found the hotel's contact information online--"

　　Hearing Assistant Chen says this, Shi Tian suddenly remembered that from the time he woke up until now, he had never seen his clothes and mobile phone, as if these two things had disappeared out of thin air.

　　Putting on the bathrobe on the back of the chair, Shi Tian began to look for his mobile phone all over the room. He found that not only his mobile phone and clothes, but also his wallet, ID card, and all the clothes and suitcases that he and Ji Yuanlin had placed in the closet had disappeared from the room.

　　He suddenly had a bad feeling.

　　Assistant Chen hurriedly said on the phone: "Someone from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau came this afternoon and said they wanted to find you and President Ji to investigate the company's guarantee for Mingde Technology last year, as well as the company's debt problems this year and last year."

　　"Secretary Qiu told me that President Ji has already returned to China ahead of schedule and has just arrived at the airport, ready to cooperate with the investigation."

　　Assistant Chen's voice was filled with a hint of grievance as he spoke: "I just went back to the company to get some documents, but I couldn't swipe the office door card. HR came to me and said that I was verbally fired by the two bosses. I saw that you didn't return to China with President Ji, so I wanted to call you to ask what was going on, but I didn't expect your phone to be turned off. I thought you blocked me and didn't want to answer my call-"

　　"etc--"

　　Shi Tian covered his aching forehead and interrupted Assistant Chen, "You said Ji Yuanlin left me here and went back to China alone to be investigated, and fired you by the way?"

　　"Yes, so I also find it strange—"

"Where are Lao Cui and Ah Hao?" Shi Tian asked immediately, "Did they go back with us?"

　　Lao Cui and Ah Hao are the company's financial director and legal director, and they are most familiar with the company's financial transactions and various legal regulations. If there is any misunderstanding, these two people can play a crucial role in the investigation process.

　　Hearing Shi Tian's question, Assistant Chen replied hesitantly: "Okay, it seems that only President Ji has returned."

　　Shi Tian: “…”

　　He is a very rigorous person at work. Before leaving for his honeymoon, he had already arranged all matters for nearly two weeks in all departments of the company in case there were sudden new orders or unexpected needs.

　　The only thing he didn't expect was that the company's financial problems would suddenly arise at this time.

　　But even though there is a risk in this regard, someone called him last night to remind him indirectly.

　　If he had not been awake all night, he would have gone to question the three executives in person last night.

　　Unless someone took action against him in advance to prevent the matter from being exposed.

　　After a while, Assistant Chen suddenly heard Mr. Shi say coldly on the other end of the phone: "Wine."

　　Assistant Chen was stunned: "What?"

　　"He drugged my drink."