When Liu Yanbo arrived home, it was already midnight. The living room was dark, he didn’t turn on the lights and headed to the second floor with light steps.
‘Squeak~’
Before Liu Yanbo could even open the door to his room, the door beside it opened instead, and a formally dressed Yin Hanruo came out.
As soon as she stepped out, she could smell the strong scent of alcohol coming from Liu Yanbo’s body, and she couldn’t help but frown: “You came back so late just because you were drinking?”
Liu Yanbo turned his head, scratched his neck, and said, slightly embarrassed: "I was treated to dinner by a friend tonight, so I couldn't help but drink a few glasses."
Liu Yanbo opened his bedroom door, and asked: “How come you’re still up?”
Yin Hanruo gently fanned in front of his nose with her hand, trying to dispel the alcohol smell that had filled the corridor: "Just finished some work."
Liu Yanbo was already accustomed to Ji Ruyan's time-insensitive way of working, and casually said, "If you're done with your work, rest early, it's not good for you to stay up all night like this."
After saying that, Liu Yanbo walked straight into his room and waved: "I’m gonna take a shower then sleep too. Good night!"
“Wait.” Yin Hanruo stopped Liu Yanbo. “I want to ask you something.”
“What is it?” Liu Yanbo turned his head back and asked.
Yin Hanruo walked up to his bedroom door and looked at him up and down as if trying to look thoroughly at his entire body before she shook her head and said: “Let’s talk inside.”
This was the second time Yin Hanruo had entered his room after Liu Yanbo moved in.
The room was clean and tidy. It wasn’t an exaggeration to describe it as spotless. There was no peculiar smell in the air. It was like an empty room cleaned every day but with no one living in it.
Mrs. Huang would tidy the house every day, but Liu Yanbo’s and Yin Hanruo’s rooms had always been their own responsibility to tidy.
Yin Hanruo couldn't help being a little surprised, this was completely different from the messy pig nest she had imagined.
It didn’t seem at all like the room of a man who loved drinking and smoking, and looked lazy all day!
With just a glace, Liu Yanbo could already figure out what Yin Hanruo was thinking, he laughed: “I’m not like you, that has to work late every day. I have a lot of free time, so except for sleeping, I can only clean my room.”
“It’s not that you have nothing to do, you just don’t want to look for something.” Yin Hanruo angrily said.
She was angry for a reason.
Although they were a fake couple, it was still a real legal marriage.
As time went on, the number of people who knew about their marriage would definitely increase. Once it was fully exposed, the disparity in the two's current status would cause a huge stir in the business community of Haishi, and then all sorts of questions and public opinion would overwhelm them. In fact, it was extremely likely that it would not only affect their everyday lives but even Ruomeng Group’s development.
To eliminate these hidden dangers, the best solution was to smooth out the obvious "strong female weak male" situation. So that when people knew about the marriage in the future, they would give a thumbs up and say it was a good match. Rather than malicious speculation.
Not to mention that everyone had pride, what kind of woman didn’t want her husband to be a successful man in society?
If Liu Yanbo was really just a mediocre to worthless man, Yin Hanruo would have seen it, but what she saw wasn’t such a person.
He was a man who took out a prescription of great value like the Black Ink Ointment and generously gave it away without blinking an eye.
A man who had a rising star in the military like Bai Bin behind him.
A man with extraordinary skills and a good mentality.
…
These were the qualities Yin Hanruo saw in Liu Yanbo, any one of them could lead a man to success.
But how could she not be angry when her man just abandoned everything and chose to live so incompetently?
Seeing Yin Hanruo's burning anger, Liu Yanbo shrugged indifferently, and said seriously: "If you have something to ask me, just ask!"
Yin Hanruo gave up.
She seemed to realize that she wouldn’t be able to arouse her cheap husband’s fighting spirit with just a few words. His heart had probably already gone shameless.
In other words, he was a person with no fighting spirit at all.
Either way, he was basically a hopeless man. Yin Hanruo shook her head disappointedly and pointed at him: "Take a bath first then we’ll talk."
Liu Yanbo nodded, holding his pajamas obediently to take a bath.
The room was very quiet.
Yin Hanruo looked around, and the furnishings in the room were the same as before, some of them were left untouched, nothing was missing, and nothing really different had been added.
He didn't regard this place as his home, did he?
Yin Hanruo softly sighed and thought: Fortunately, I didn't plan to live with you forever either.
Thinking like this, the haze in her heart was wiped out, and she opened Liu Yanbo's wardrobe with a bit of curiosity.
The wardrobe was huge and there are dozens of hangers in it, but there weren’t many sets of clothes.
Two formal suits, a Zhongshan suit and a casual suit, two sets of work clothes, a few short sleeve shirts, and two pairs of jeans.
Most of the clothes were mainly black. The only formal clothes he had were the two suits Yin Hanruo had bought for him, but she had never once seen Liu Yanbo wearing them.
Yin Hanruo didn’t know that Liu Yanbo didn’t like suits, she had thought it was because he was unfamiliar with them, but she didn’t care either. After a casual glance, she turned her gaze to the bottom corner of the closet, where there was a black luggage bag.
The bag was small and very old. It looked like it had been used for at least two or three years. Like its owner, it was ordinary and had nothing special about it.
What could be inside this bag?
Yin Hanruo lightly bit her lip. She wasn’t a person who liked to spy on other people's secrets behind their back, but at this moment she couldn't suppress the growing curiosity in her heart and stretched out her hand involuntarily.
The sound of splashing water could be heard from the bathroom, there was no telling when it would stop.
While opening the bag, Yin Hanruo kept looking back from time to time, and the zipper that could have been opened in a few seconds took Yin Hanruo 2 minutes to open instead.
Her guilty conscience both made her feel nervous and excited.
But to her greatest disappointment, there wasn’t anything in the bag. It was empty.
Yin Hanruo was not satisfied, reached out his hand, and fumbled around in the bag for a long time until she finally found a mobile phone in a small pocket inside the bag.
It was an old fashioned button phone that didn’t even have a brand.
After pressing the power button for a long time, there was no response at all. Yin Hanruo was naturally very disappointed. She had to put it back again.
“What are you looking for?” Liu Yanbo had been standing behind Yin Hanruo for who knows how long.
“Ack!” Yin Hanruo was startled, almost bumping into the closet when she got up. “How can you walk without making a sound? Like a ghost.”
Liu Yanbo glanced at the opened luggage bag and smiled: “don’t you already look in all six directions with your ears on alert*, and now you’re becoming a thief, isn’t it shameful?"
*refers to a nosy person, that eavesdrops on the conversations of everyone passing by and carefully observes every movement, to guess what happened to them.
"Who's a thief? Am I a thief just because I went through your closet? Who would believe that? Do you believe it?" Yin Hanruo stepped forward and acted quite calmly, her face wasn’t red nor was her heart beating fast.
A wife going through her husband's closet really couldn't be considered a thief.
Liu Yanbo retreated a few steps, raising his hands in surrender: ”Fine, you’re not a thief. But then what were you doing?”
‘Heh.’ Yin Hanruo snorted, a little arrogant, "I noticed that it was a little messy, so I was just helping you tidy it up, don't be ungrateful!"
Helping me tidy it?
Then why are my work clothes still lying in the closet so wrinkled?
Liu Yanbo didn't believe a word of Yin Hanruo's explanation, but he didn't bother to break through the insincere lie and went straight to re-zip the luggage bag, then put it back in the lower corner of the wardrobe.
"Why do you still have such an old mobile phone?" Although I have studied it for a long time, it looks like a bad mobile phone, but it is hidden so tightly that Yin Hanruo still has some curiosity.
Although she tried fussing it, the phone didn’t function at all. But for it to be hidden so tightly, Yin Hanruo was still left with some curiosity.
Liu Yanbo closed the wardrobe door and explained, "An old friend gave it to me in the past, and I kept it as a souvenir."
Many souvenirs held more than just memories, they had secrets that were not known to outsiders and couldn't be told.
(T/N: Detective Yin Hanruo! This was a cool chapter. I’m even more curious about Liu Yanbo’s past now.)
I feel like it’s been forever since Yin Hanruo has appeared.
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