Left hand, three packs of cigarettes; right hand, a bag of glutinous rice balls.

And on his shoulder, a stylish satchel.

Bai Yingying wouldn't waste a single opportunity Zhou Ze allowed her to leave the bookstore. Heaven knows how she managed to buy cigarettes and tangyuan at such speed, and then even snag a satchel!

Pushing open the bookstore door,

Bai Yingying saw two men embracing. She immediately dropped her things, covered her eyes,

and yet peeked through her fingers as she eagerly watched,

while stomping her feet and coyly saying,

"Eeeek,

did I come back at the wrong time?"

Xu Guiren,

oh no,

Xu Qinglang glared at Bai Yingying, that hint of aggrieved sentimentality almost transforming into summer dew, about to drip down.

Such magnificent resentment of a neglected maiden!

Terrifying!

It even made Bai Yingying doubt whether she was the zombie or if the noodle shop owner in front of her was!

"You bought everything?" Zhou Ze stood up.

He straightened his clothes.

Xu Qinglang also rose, pretending to button up his shirt.

"Boss, I bought everything." Bai Yingying answered obediently.

"Good, I'm going out."

Zhou Ze walked over, picked up the cigarettes and tangyuan, and said to Bai Yingying, "Watch the shop."

"Got it."

When Zhou Ze walked out of the shop, Bai Yingying and Xu Qinglang crossed their eyes at each other.

"What are you looking at, corpse?" Xu Qinglang said in annoyance.

"If you keep hiding in the cabinet, I wouldn't be able to see you." Bai Yingying retorted.

"You're icy, icy! Cold enough to freeze into an ice pop!"

Xu Qinglang continued his counterattack!

"Hmph!"

"Hmph!"

The two parted unhappily. Xu Qinglang returned to the noodle shop, while Bai Yingying imitated Zhou Ze, sitting in the boss's chair behind the counter, pouring a glass of hot water, and then randomly grabbed a book, pretending to read with great ambiance.

…………

Zhou Ze planned to go to the Confucian Temple. No matter how much sadness life gives you, you always have to bear it first, and then live as you should.

It was like the last night of a short vacation; the thought of having to get up early for work the next day was utterly despairing.

You wanted to give up, but you could only set your alarm clock.

That's life. For some successful people, people always talked about and were concerned with the secrets of their success, envying their current good fortune.

It was like when a pregnant woman had just given birth to a baby; relatives and friends all came to congratulate her, but no one cared about the abuse she suffered in order to conceive this baby.

The words might be rough, but the sentiment was true.

Zhou Ze could only comfort himself.

As for that so-called cousin and the truck driver, how to respond to them needed careful consideration. At least, Zhou Ze wasn't so magnanimous.

He couldn't be as arrogant and domineering as that colleague in Rong City, but since this matter involved his "murder," he definitely couldn't let it go lightly.

Taking out his phone, preparing to call a taxi, he happened to see a WeChat message:

"What are you doing?"

It was a message from Doctor Lin.

Zhou Ze hesitated, feeling conflicted. To be honest, he was feeling complex emotions because Xu Le wanted to kill him precisely because this beautiful female doctor had been secretly in love with him.

Okay, being secretly loved by a beautiful woman,

being secretly loved by a beautiful married woman,

being secretly loved by a beautiful married woman who was still a virgin…

It was indeed something to be proud of.

But in his previous life,

he was killed by her like that!!!!!!

"At the shop." Zhou Ze replied to the message anyway.

He wasn't Xu Le, he wouldn't be so irresponsible. His and Xu Le's roundabout karma had nothing to do with Doctor Lin.

And to be honest, after discovering Doctor Lin's infatuation with him step by step after his death, it was impossible for him to have no good feelings for this woman.

Especially after the confession at the hospital last week,

she was afraid,

and also terrified,

even her body was trembling,

but she still hugged him without hesitation.

Zhou Ze didn't know if God was blind, but Doctor Lin's existence was indeed the biggest highlight in his life after his rebirth.

"I'm on the road outside your shop."

Zhou Ze looked up and around, and sure enough, he saw a white Maserati at the corner of the road.

The previous Cayenne was scraped against a telephone pole when he was driving that night. Clearly, Doctor Lin had bought another one.

The evils of materialistic ideology!

Zhou Ze walked over, opened the car door, and sat in the passenger seat.

Doctor Lin was a little restrained, a little at a loss, but it was clear that she had come to see him with great courage.

After all, he was a ghost.

"Xu Le, he's already…"

Zhou Ze frowned slightly. He didn't want to hear anything about "Xu Le" now.

"Don't mention him, just pretend he never existed." Zhou Ze interrupted bluntly.

"Then… won't that make you think… I'm a bad woman?" Doctor Lin asked.

The three obediences and four virtues,

Although not so rigid and dogmatic, the fact was that Doctor Lin was indeed deeply poisoned by feudal ideology due to her parents' influence.

Now her husband was Zhou Ze,

so what about the original Xu Le?

"Don't think so much."

Zhou Ze shook his head.

The fact was that it was so humorous.

When Doctor Lin knew that Xu Le was Zhou Ze, her tone and manner became much more humble, as if she had returned to the time when she was just an intern, and Zhou Ze was still her teacher.

At that time, Zhou Ze wasn't polite at all to those interns, regardless of whether they were male or female, and directly used them as "intern dogs," making them do all the dirty and tiring work and buy coffee.

And Zhou Ze, after confessing, also slowly revealed that "superior" attitude in front of Doctor Lin.

The tendency of male chauvinism began to become more and more obvious.

Those who are loved are always fearless.

"Okay." Doctor Lin nodded.

Then,

silence.

Zhou Ze didn't want to be silent. He looked at Doctor Lin and found that she was wearing a pink down jacket today, with jeans on her lower body. Although her figure perfectly highlighted her curves, and it looked really good with her temperament, Zhou Ze always felt that something was missing.

"Wear stockings next time, I like to see women wearing stockings." Zhou Ze said.

Doctor Lin was stunned, her pretty face flushed.

She felt that she should be sad. After guessing that Xu Le was likely dead, she, as his wife, should be sad, instead of being teased by Zhou Ze in the car like this.

But that feeling of shame and annoyance made her unable to resist.

Perhaps,

she was actually a bad woman.

A mentally unfaithful, bad woman.

Doctor Lin closed her eyes and resigned herself to fate.

"I'm talking to you." Zhou Ze reminded.

"Oh… okay." Doctor Lin responded, her face even redder.

A smile appeared on the corner of Zhou Ze's mouth.

He knew that the reason he was speaking so presumptuously was also to deliberately take revenge on Xu Le. Perhaps, he wasn't a good man either.

Okay,

one thought she wasn't a good woman, and the other thought he wasn't a good man.

In ancient times, they would almost be a replica of Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing.

As for the middleman, Wu Dalang,

who cared?

"Are you hungry?" Doctor Lin asked.

"Not hungry." Zhou Ze replied.

Then,

there was silence again.

Zhou Ze now truly felt that the reason he had always been single in his previous life might not only be because he was obsessed with his work and didn't have time for other things, but also because his emotional intelligence was very low.

You always had awkward silences when you chatted with strange girls, which was normal,

but if you still had awkward silences when you chatted with your legal wife, then you definitely had some problems yourself.

"Let's just live like this, don't tell anyone about my affairs, just pretend I'm… Xu Le." Zhou Ze said those two words through gritted teeth.

"Okay." Doctor Lin nodded, which was also what she wanted.

Everything, as before.

"But there's one thing I want to remind you."

"Please speak."

"…You're only allowed to call me Zhou Ze." Zhou Ze picked at his ear with his little finger. "I don't want to hear you suddenly call out the name Xu Le. When there's no one around, you can only call my name."

Doctor Lin's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Although she had been a wife for a long time, she was still a virgin.

This kind of topic and hint,

was really embarrassing!

But she still nodded as if possessed, and responded softly,

"Okay."

Zhou Ze really felt that this Doctor Lin had a bit of Stockholm syndrome.

If the original Xu Le hadn't been so timid,

he might have gotten his wish, and it wouldn't have been cheaper for him.

But thinking about it another way, if Xu Le… wouldn't he have hated himself for hiring someone to kill himself?

So which was better?

To get a virgin Doctor Lin?

Or to continue living in his previous life?

Which one was really good?

Zhou Ze reached out and patted his forehead.

"What's wrong?" Doctor Lin looked at Zhou Ze with concern. "Is your body… having some problems because of that matter?"

Oh my gosh,

the title of "you" had come out,

Master Zhou felt elated.

This Doctor Lin might not just have Stockholm syndrome, she might also be a masochist.

No,

wait a minute,

something seemed wrong?

His body was having problems?

Zhou Ze immediately looked at Doctor Lin,

How could a man's body be allowed to have problems?

Impossible!

Zhou Ze looked at the car seat. It was a bit cramped in the front.

"Get out of the car." Zhou Ze said.

"Okay."

Although Doctor Lin didn't know what she was going to do, she still got out of the car.

Zhou Ze opened the rear car door, pointed inside, and said, "Get in."

Doctor Lin got in with a puzzled expression.

It was already dark,

and this area of his bookstore was deserted.

"Isn't your appetite not good?" Doctor Lin, sitting in the back seat, asked with a puzzled expression.

Zhou Ze's body stiffened.

Was she saying that the problem with his body was that he couldn't eat?

Huff…

He breathed a long sigh of relief,

releasing the psychological pressure…

"What problem?" Doctor Lin was still puzzled.

Then, Zhou Ze also squeezed into the back seat,

and closed the car door.