Li Zhao watched the bicycle disappear into the distance before slowly looking away.
Just then, Gu Zhen came running out.
"Brother Li, why didn’t you wait for me? I was only in the bathroom for a minute and you vanished."
Li Zhao shot him a sidelong glance. "Are you a child?"
With that, he walked off.
Gu Zhen: ...?
’What’s he so mad about?’
──
"Honey, was that man a new colleague of yours?" Qin Wenhao asked.
"He’s a colleague, but he’s not on my team. Our two teams work closely together, though."
Fu Mingxue wouldn’t discuss the specifics of her work.
Qin Wenhao heard the perfectly normal tone in his wife’s voice and assumed the man was just a regular colleague.
But he knew the look in that man’s eyes was anything but ordinary.
’He wanted to say something, but it felt like anything he could say right now would be inappropriate.’
Just then, Fu Mingxue asked, "What time did you get the train tickets for tomorrow?"
"Eight in the morning. I’ll take you to the train station."
"Of course you’re taking us. How else would we get there? Director Geng had offered to send a car to take us to the station, but I turned him down, figuring you’d have it covered."
’They had the children and luggage with them. Qin Wenhao was still at the base and not away on a mission, so how could he not be the one to see them off?’
"Right, I’ll take you." Qin Wenhao would only be able to rest easy once he saw them safely aboard the train.
It was a shame he couldn’t get the time off; otherwise, he would have personally escorted them all the way back to Beijing.
"Oh, right. I might come back for another visit, or I might not. If you can’t make it back for the New Year, just celebrate here. You don’t need to worry about us."
Qin Wenhao: ...?
’She was his wife; how could he possibly not worry about her?’
The bicycle was quite fast.
They were home in no time.
"Honey, do you want a bite to eat?"

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