What’s so hesitant about an unknown number.
Wen Ying glanced casually, but could not help being stunned.
This number looked very familiar.
Looking closely again, it indeed matched the number in her memory.
This was He Zhen’s mobile number!
In her previous life, when Wen Ying and He Zhen first got to know each other, He Zhen had always used this number, ending in 8888, very easy to remember.
Later, after the two became familiar, Wen Ying had even teased him, jokingly calling it the tail number dedicated to tycoons.
He Zhen had laughed then and said it was specially applied for after returning from studying abroad and taking over the family business.
Business people were quite superstitious. He Zhen had to negotiate with a group of middle-aged bosses. Some bosses were prejudiced against him as a young second-generation successor. He Zhen took the initiative to cater to the middle-aged bosses’ preferences, downplaying his overseas study traces and trying to find common topics with the middle-aged bosses. The phone number with tail 8888 was actually a little trick taught by He Zhinian to his son. He Zhen had not taken it seriously at first, but after tasting the benefits, he accepted it willingly.
Later, He Zhen no longer needed such little tricks to open up social connections, but he never changed the number again.
He Zhen had always been such a pragmatist.
He could take Wen Ying to a music concert, or accept Wen Ying’s invitation to eat crayfish at a street stall.
If playing the bumpkin could make money, young President He did not mind others seeing him as a bumpkin.
Wen Ying, as He Zhen’s girlfriend… no, now ex-girlfriend, of course remembered He Zhen’s mobile number.
When Wen Ying had just been reborn, she had not thought of calling this number, because she knew He Zhen would only switch to this number after returning from studying abroad.
Moreover, at that time, she had no standing to contact He Zhen, so she was not even willing to try.
Later on, there seemed to be no need to contact him either. In this life, she hoped He Zhen could end up with his first love, Rebecca.
At the Modu signing event, He Zhen had stopped the troublemaking from the cap-wearing guy. Wen Ying had particularly wanted to seize the chance to get He Zhen’s contact information. Although she remembered the number, she also needed a natural opportunity to get acquainted.
Of course, wanting the contact information at that time was absolutely not about “rekindling the old flame” with He Zhen, but about figuring out He Zhen’s stance.
However, Zou Weijun interrupted, and Wen Ying missed the chance to exchange contacts with He Zhen.
Wait, the point now was not confirming the owner of the mobile number ending in 8888, but why He Zhen was calling Xie Qian. When did these two have any connection?!
A multitude of thoughts flashed through Wen Ying’s mind in an instant. On the surface, she tried hard to stay calm. “I do not know. Whether to answer or not depends on you. Whose call is it?”
In the dim light and shadow, Xie Qian’s expression was still unclear. His voice also had no fluctuations. “I thought you knew. This is He Zhen’s number.”
Wen Ying squeezed out a slightly stiff smile. “I do not know. How would I know!”
“Oh, so you really do know He Zhen.”
Damn, it was actually a chain trap question!
Wen Ying’s face was full of surprise.
“Of course I know He Zhen. Even if I did not before, after the accident at the Modu signing event, I should. He has dined with Zhao Dong. He is Ms Dai’s son. You would not ask me who Ms Dai is, would you? Ever since seeing her at the Macau hotel, I have never forgotten her. Now she is close to Zhao Dong, someone you absolutely must guard against!”
Wen Ying’s answer was watertight, and she took the chance to sound the alarm for Xie Qian.
She could not say that Xie Qian might be harmed to death by these people.
But every one of these people was someone Xie Qian should be wary of.
Xie Qian would guard against Zhao Dong, guard against Xie Jinghu’s lovers and illegitimate children, but he might overlook the He family side.
Xie Qian neither confirmed nor denied.
The hamster had great talent in writing. When it came to acting, she was completely outclassed by Li Mengjiao.
Should he remind the hamster that she could learn acting techniques from Li Mengjiao in her spare time, which would help improve the authenticity of her lies.
Never mind. Once she learned to lie, she would be even harder to manage.
The phone ringtone stopped.
After an interval of two seconds, it rang again.
Wen Ying could sense He Zhen’s persistence. It seemed He Zhen was determined to get through to Xie Qian today!
This behaviour was very unusual.
For even the most urgent matters, He Zhen would only call once.
Because the person receiving the call might be inconvenient. After seeing the missed call, they would call back to He Zhen. At least “young President He” had that much face.
Xie Qian hesitated for two seconds and answered the call.
“Hello.”
“Hello, this is He Zhen. You are Xie Qian, right?”
On the other end of the phone, He Zhen’s voice was also a bit hesitant. “You may know me, or you may not. I want to find you to confirm some things.”
Xie Qian glanced at Wen Ying twice. Wen Ying’s ears were twitching. Xie Qian covered the receiver and pointed upstairs. “I will take the call first. Wait for me a moment.”
Although he did not know why He Zhen was calling, Xie Qian clearly did not plan to let Wen Ying hear the conversation content.
This was Xie Qian’s privacy.
Wen Ying knew rationally that she should respect it, but emotionally, she felt it subtle.
Her heart was like being clawed by a cat.
Wen Ying did not understand Xie Qian’s business in Modu.
She also did not know how many times Xie Qian and his scumbag father Xie Jinghu had clashed remotely.
He had said he would not hide things from her?!
Liu Auntie, who had been peeking while shipping CP, did not know what happened and quickly moved from behind the curtains to the kitchen.
Xie Qian went straight upstairs.
Liu Auntie heard the door closing sound and became even more confused about the situation.
Was it not a confession?
Had the confession failed?!
Even if it failed, Xie Qian should have grace!
Liu Auntie brought out a glass of fruit juice. “Wen Ying, would you like some fruit juice?”
The little girl standing alone in the courtyard looked a bit silly, and a bit pitiful.
Wen Ying was dazed. She did not even taste what flavour the fruit juice was. No matter what, she could not figure out why He Zhen was contacting Xie Qian. She even felt a kind of fear.
Through six people, one can know the whole world. She had heard this theory.
In this life, He Zhen had Xie Qian’s contact information. In the previous life, he probably had the opportunity to know him too.
Was Xie Qian’s death really related to He Zhen?
Wen Ying did not hope so, nor did she want to believe that He Zhen in the previous life was connected to Xie Qian’s early death.
If he really was involved… Wen Ying hoped to change this matter.
It was still 2006 now, 13 years away from the timeline when Xie Qian had the incident in the previous life. Both she and Xie Qian were still very young. He Zhen was also very young. They all should have very bright futures!
…
In the upstairs study, Xie Qian was also a bit distracted.
For some reason, Xie Qian instinctively did not want Wen Ying to hear the content of this call.
He did not know how Wen Ying had met Dai Chenglan. This matter, since Wen Ying was not saying now, she probably would not say in the future either.
Xie Qian only knew that the way Wen Ying looked at He Zhen was different.
He could not say why.
This was the understanding from spending a long time together with Wen Ying.
Similarly, Xie Qian still did not understand why Wen Ying’s performance was so strange when they first met at his cousin Lin Lin’s house.
Collecting his thoughts, Xie Qian focused his attention on the call with He Zhen.
“Speak. What do you want from me.”
Xie Qian did not ask how He Zhen got his contact information. Those were unimportant details. What mattered was why He Zhen was making this call.
“I know some things and want to verify them with you. It concerns Zhao Dong, and also my family… Did Jin Hu Group invest in my family’s business because of a woman?”
The He Zhen of 2006 was not yet the pragmatist young President He of more than a decade later.
Relying on nepotism to do business made He Zhen feel ashamed.
The layer of nepotism the He family now relied on was, in He Zhen’s view, truly too disgusting!
