Night Fire Lingering

Chapter 326 Your Lover

Before he could finish speaking, the man slammed the door and left, leaving the room in complete silence.

This was the first time the two of them had such a heated and undignified argument since they started dating.

After an unknown amount of time, a thunderclap suddenly struck, "Boom—", and Jiang Xing regained his senses.

She walked quickly to the window, her body moving faster than her mind, and looked out. Below was a lawn.

"Boom!"

Another surprising clap of thunder.

Without a second thought, Jiang Xing quickly walked out the door and took the elevator downstairs.

The lawn was very large. Jiang Xing looked up at the position of his own window and tried hard to recall the angle from which Lou Qi had thrown the ring to judge where it would probably land.

However, after searching for more than an hour, nothing was found.

"Boom!"

After a clap of thunder and a flash of lightning, a torrential downpour began.

The patrolling property staff noticed Jiang Xing in the heavy rain and came to ask if he needed help.

Jiang Xing shook her head.

She didn't want anyone to know that she was looking for the ring that Lou had thrown away.

...How could she possibly have the nerve to ask for something back after she'd already rejected it?

It's such a shame to lose such a beautiful diamond ring. What if someone else found it and used it...?

The diamond ring wasn't wrong, it just wasn't suitable for her.

The property management staff tried to persuade Jiang Xing a few times, but to no avail. So they quietly walked away and dialed a resident's number.

“Mr. Lou, your wife is looking for something in the community in the heavy rain, wearing slippers and looking very anxious. We wanted to help her look, but she refused.”

Lou Qi was sitting in his office with a dark expression. The tightly closed glass blocked out all the sounds from outside. The torrential rain had filled the French windows with water, making it impossible to see anything except for the occasional flashes of lightning that were quite alarming.

"What is she looking for?" Lou Qi asked.

"I don't know, your spouse doesn't want to tell."

The diamond ring that Lou Qi had thrown away flashed through his mind. It was a design he had drawn himself, which he had a master craftsman help revise, and then he had the best diamond cutter to customize it.

Is Jiang Xing looking for that ring?

"Impossible." Lou Qi chuckled self-deprecatingly.

Even if the diamond ring is worth some money, Jiang Xing is not the kind of person who would compromise her principles for money... Otherwise, why wouldn't she marry him when he's so poor that all she has left is money?

"Mr. Lou, would you like to come back and take a look?" The property management staff knew how much Mr. Lou valued Ms. Jiang.

"Whatever!" Lou Qi angrily hung up the phone.

Feeling increasingly agitated, I couldn't concentrate on the report in front of me, so I grabbed a bottle of vodka and drank it.

The cold alcohol liquid went down my throat and into my body, but it did nothing to soothe my agitated nerves.

The torrential rain, the lightning, and the thunder that he couldn't hear from inside the house made him restless.

Damn, what kind of weird thing could make Jiang Xing go out in the rain to find it?

Couldn't she wait until the rain stopped before looking for it? Is she stupid?

He only lost the ring; he didn't accidentally lose any of her things, did he?

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They searched every inch of the lawn, but ultimately returned empty-handed.

When Jiang Xing took the elevator home, the reflection in the elevator car showed her looking extremely disheveled and soaked, with wet rainwater running down her clothes.

The property management specifically reminded her to take a hot shower and drink some hot water when she got home, to be careful not to catch a cold.

Jiang Xing obediently took a hot shower, but before she could even drink the hot water, she felt an uncontrollable chill throughout her body and couldn't recover.

Caught a cold.

Jiang Xing looked around and found that the cold medicine Lou Qi had left over from last time had expired, so she had no choice but to order takeout cold medicine and curl up on the sofa to wait for the delivery guy.