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Bai Qingqing slept poorly. When she finally fell asleep, she was then awakened by a nightmare.

In her dream, there was a dark shadow that kept chasing her again and again. No matter how she ran, the road seemed to be endless. But when she was determined to look back at what the man looked like, a face appeared suddenly before her without ears, eyes, lips, nose and tongue ...

Waking up with a shock, she found her back was soaked.

Suddenly, she heard the phone rang and she was scared.

An unfamiliar number?

At 4.50 am?

Who didn’t sleep and called her at this time?

At first, Bai Qingqing felt that was a crank call, and thus she directly hung up.

When she was preparing to sleep with her eyes closed, the phone rang again.

Hung up again.

Rang again.

On the other end of the phone, Huo Yunchen frowned tightly.

He finally picked it up, but he didn't know what to say.

"Hey."

"Hey."

The voice was low and cold, not a familiar one to her.

Bai Qingqing asked tentatively:

"Who are you?"

"Huo Yunchen."

Huo Yunchen?

Bai Qingqing searched the information stored in her memory briefly, and she answered directly:

"I don't know you. You made the wrong call."

“Beep-beep-beep-”

She hung up his phone! He seldom took the initiative to call a woman, and she hung up his phone!

Huo Yunchen held the phone for a while, and stayed there until the screen turned black.

Then he slightly smiled, and touched his ear. In fact, he didn't understand why he made the call.

It was just a dream.

For years that he had been entangled with that dream. In the dream, he and a woman were making love on a snow-white bed, but he had never seen her face. But he saw it today.

It was her. It was really ridiculous.

The Huo family was unlikely to accept a woman who had given birth to a child, especially a woman who even didn’t know the child ’s biological father.

He dropped his phone on the bed, took a cold shower in the bathroom, and was completely sleepless. Then the sky whitened.

He was troubled by that, and later he just wore sportswear and went out to run for a while on the mountain behind the manor. Standing on the mountain, he witnessed the yolk yellow sun rising slowly through the clouds.

Now his mood got changed for the better, no longer lost in missing that woman, but the more deliberately he tried to avoid thinking of her, the deeper her figure became rooted in his mind.

During breakfast, Liu Kai put a paper bag in Huo Yunchen’s hand, and said with a serious tone.

"Mr. Shen, I found out all the information about that woman."

"Well, put it down. I'll see it later. I guess you haven't had breakfast, so just sit down and eat together."

Huo Yunchen motioned him to sit down, but Liu Kai stood straight with a heavy face.

"What happened to you on such an early morning? Is there anything wrong with her? Was she sent by them?"

"No, she, she's fine, yes... yes..."

Liu Kai wiped tears as he said, and Huo Yunchen could not help despising him.

Why did he employ such a bodyguard at home? Kai was more sentimental than a woman. He would cry as soon as he seemed to cry.

"Okay, don’t waste time. If you have something to say, just say it."

"It's our old lady!"

"What's wrong with my grandma?"

"Just now I passed by the garden. Then I heard a few gardeners saying that her disease had reached the advanced stage. Her lifetime is only less than half a year."

As he said, Liu Kai cried even more sadly.

The fork held by Huo Yunchen suddenly fell to the ground. He was stunned. So the weakness of his grandma turned out to be true.

Grandma was really sick. But she didn't want to worry him so much, so she pretended to be in good spirits.

He got up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window. Now his grandma was sitting in a wheelchair in the garden, watching the grandpa playing Tai Chi. Seeing the scene, he felt like he had swallowed a big lemon, making his liver very sour and sorrowful.