After being reborn as a rich and beautiful woman, she let herself go.

Chapter 42 They were like a couple

Luo Jiuyu's hand, which was holding a chopstick, suddenly stopped. Hua Meimei hadn't gone home at all. Li Xiang must have seen a ghost.

"You didn't see wrong?" Luo Jiuyu put down her chopsticks and took a sip of water.

“There’s no way I could be mistaken. I even told her you were eating and asked her to eat with you.” Li Xiang was absolutely certain.

"The flowers she was holding looked like champagne roses to me."

It seems that Hua Meimei has indeed arrived at the door, but she hasn't come inside. Could it be that she ran into an emergency and went out again?

Luo Jiuyu suddenly lost his appetite. He left the table and went to the bathroom to rinse his mouth.

Puzzled, Li Xiang opened the door and went to the corridor to look for the person, but the corridor was empty. Undeterred, she went to the stairwell entrance to check, but there was no one there either.

Luo Jiuyu returned to the living room and picked up his phone. Hua Meimei hadn't sent him any messages, except for those two words: "Not replying." He had already seen them.

During the week he was away from home, he went to the group's international headquarters.

The group has recently been busy applying for a Nasdaq listing, which has already been approved. The group's international headquarters and domestic headquarters will be listed separately.

The company is preparing for an IPO with a projected market capitalization of quite large, which has generated considerable buzz and attracted attention from various quarters overseas.

The domestic response was just a bit slower.

The son of the president of Tiancheng University works in the financial sector in the United States. He learned about the news in advance and discovered that he was the top leader of Huanyu Group.

I told the principal the news.

The principal immediately contacted him, hoping that he could set up a scholarship foundation for the school.

To put it bluntly, it's about setting up a donation program for impoverished students and asking them to contribute money.

They call it doing charity.

That's not impossible, so he didn't refuse. He went to Tiancheng University to deal with this matter as soon as he returned from the United States today.

Once a person's wealth reaches a certain level, they no longer value money as much, but instead value reputation more.

However, he did this not for fame.

He graduated from Tiancheng University with a bachelor's degree. Having some money in his pocket and sponsoring the education of future generations would benefit both the country and society.

We can also train more talent to work for Huanyu Group in the future.

The biggest surprise was meeting Hua Meimei at Tiancheng University.

If he hadn't met her, he would have left Tiancheng University and gone back to his villa tonight.

Strangely enough, during his few days of business trip abroad, he would occasionally think about what Hua Meimei was doing at home when he had some free time.

Although this little thought is not enough to form longing, it creates a habit that makes people think about this person slowly.

He was heartbroken for two days after being rejected by Mu Siran when he confessed his feelings.

But perhaps because he had already anticipated this outcome, he wasn't as heartbroken or distressed as he had imagined. This was quite unexpected.

I've probably gotten used to seeing news about her dating Lorne every now and then; in my mind, she and Lorne always seemed to have a complicated relationship.

Later, when he learned that her relationship with Lorne was still the same as when they were children, it was just Lorne's one-sided love. He couldn't change the impression in his mind for a while.

Love is certainly important.

However, after years of hard work and relentless effort in starting his business, he has devoted most of his attention to it.

Without love, he hasn't had a bad year; in fact, he's been doing quite well. But without a career, he would have certainly suffered a lot these past years.

After he adjusted his mindset, he was much more at ease when facing Hua Meimei than before.

He no longer avoided her like the plague.

When he got home, he saw the two flower placemats that Hua Meimei had placed on the dining table, and his heart softened.

There are two placemats, one of which should be for him.

In return, he sent her a WeChat message asking if she was coming home for dinner. She was probably busy dealing with Hua An'an hiring someone to give her a bad review and return the goods, so she didn't come back.

During the time he was away, she also bought a large pot of pink Phalaenopsis orchids and placed them by the French windows in the living room on a newly bought bronze flower stand.

Before this, there wasn't a single plant in the house.

He wasn't interested in flowers and plants, so he hadn't thought about buying them. Li Xiang assumed he didn't like them, so of course she didn't dare to buy them for the house on her own.

He walked over to the orchid and admired it for a while; it was indeed beautiful.

It was so beautiful it looked like an artificial flower. He couldn't resist reaching out to touch its petals, his fingernails gently pinching out sap to confirm it was a real flower.

"Sir, where do you think Meimei went?" Li Xiang muttered as she returned from outside and closed the door.

"Why don't you just give her a call and you'll find out?" Luo Jiuyu said.

Li Xiang smiled and said, "That's true, but I don't have her phone number. You should call her, sir."

Luo Jiuyu was taken aback. "You still don't have her phone number?"

Li Xiang shook her head shyly.

Luo Jiuyu opened her phone's contacts, read Hua Meimei's phone number to Li Xiang, and told her to save it. Then she asked Li Xiang to call Hua Meimei and ask if she had left again in an emergency.

In the house next door, Hua Meimei and Fei Chenfeng were eating and chatting in a pleasant atmosphere. Li Xiang's phone call interrupted their conversation.

Seeing that it was an unfamiliar number, Hua Meimei answered the phone with a rather indifferent attitude, saying, "Hello."

"MeiMei, it's Aunt Xiang. Why didn't you go home? Weren't you just at your doorstep?"

Hua Meimei was surprised that Li Xiang would call her specifically, showing that she was quite concerned about her.

I should have explained when I met Li Xiang in the elevator, so that she wouldn't worry.

"Aunt Xiang, I'm here to celebrate my friend's housewarming. It's right next door. I'll go home after dinner with my friend. We're just a wall apart, don't worry," Hua Meimei said with a smile.

Li Xiang was relieved and hung up the phone, relaying her words to Luo Jiuyu.

"What friend? Who bought the house next door?" Luo Jiuyu couldn't help but be surprised.

The house next door has been empty for several years and no one has lived there.

It feels a little strange to suddenly have someone living here.

Li Xiang said, "They didn't say what kind of friends they were."

"Male or female, didn't you say?"

"No."

Luo Jiuyu nodded, said nothing more, and turned to go to the study. Li Xiang then went to clear the dining table.

She thought Luo Jiuyu would knock on the door next door to look for Hua Meimei.

Three months into their marriage, their relationship hadn't progressed at all, and Li Xiang couldn't help but sigh.

It was 10 p.m., and Hua Meimei still hadn't returned.

Li Xiang finished washing up and was about to go back to her room to rest when she saw Luo Jiuyu coming out of her room.

He was wearing dark jeans and a black sweater, with a short, thin black down jacket over them.

He loves black, and most of his clothes are black.

That looks pretty cool.

"Are you going out, sir?" Li Xiang asked.

He nodded.

Amo invited him to drink.

Since being rejected by Mu Siran, although she's come to terms with it and isn't as heartbroken, she still feels a bit down. After all, he's been a secret crush for years...

It's good to go out for a drink occasionally.

I've been busy with the company's IPO lately, and I'm exhausted. This is a good opportunity to relax.

He had just stepped out when, unfortunately, the door across the street opened.

New neighbors have arrived?

Hua Meimei and Fei Chenfeng agreed to have breakfast together at the mall near their neighborhood the next morning. The two were smiling when they turned around and saw Luo Jiuyu coming out of the apartment across the hall.

The three of them were stunned at the same time.

Luo Jiuyu then realized that the friend she was referring to was Fei Chenfeng.

Fei Chenfeng actually became his neighbor?

"Hi." Fei Chenfeng greeted Luo Jiuyu, thinking that they were neighbors.

Luo Jiuyu, however, remained indifferent, letting out a snort.

Fei Chenfeng didn't argue with him, and smiled at him again, with a hint of provocation in his eyes.

Hua Meimei glanced at him; even dressed so casually, he couldn't hide his sharp aura.

She quickly looked away and walked back to the opposite door. "See you tomorrow, Chenfeng, goodnight!"

"Goodnight, Meimei, see you tomorrow." Fei Chenfeng smiled gently and waved to her.

Luo Jiuyu became like air caught between the two. The two seemed like a couple, while he, as her husband, felt like a third wheel, or an unwanted third party.

After saying goodnight to each other, Hua Meimei closed the door. Fei Chenfeng also closed his door.

Yu Liuluo and Jiu Yu stood in the wide passageway between the two doors.

Amo had been waiting at the entertainment club for quite a while, but he didn't arrive, so he called to urge him.

"Wait!"

Luo Jiuyu squeezed out two words through gritted teeth, her mood inexplicably becoming even more depressed.

Amo, on the other end of the phone, was startled and quickly hung up. He regretted asking him out for drinks...