Ruan Jianguo felt like he had a bitter secret he couldn’t share. Especially those filthy matters, he really didn’t want a young girl like her to know. He felt that just letting Jiaojiao hear about it would taint his precious girl’s ears.

Over the years, Ruan Family’s business had grown bigger and bigger, attracting as much envy as jealousy.

Especially after Ruan Jianguo and Shu Jiao got divorced last year, Ruan Jianguo became single again, with substantial assets. Though he couldn’t quite match Ruan Hao’s popularity, he wasn’t far off.

The reserved ones would throw a glance, while the shameless ones would directly climb into bed.

The woman who answered Jiaojiao’s call today was the secretary that a business partner forcibly assigned at last night’s banquet. These kinds of secretaries are usually female students who have just graduated from college, pretty in appearance, with some business capabilities. But hiring them wasn’t just for business; it was more about accompanying prospective partners during negotiations—eating, playing, and even sleeping with them to ensure smooth cooperation in the end.

If you put it bluntly, they were just bar girls. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Although Ruan Jianguo had divorced Shu Jiao, he never thought about finding someone new, especially not that kind of woman. So he refused at the time, but the other party didn’t give up, thinking he was just acting proper on the surface, playing hard to get.

The hotel where he and Lu Zhiwei were staying was arranged by the other party, so the secretary had a key to their room. Ruan Jianguo and Lu Zhiwei stayed busy until midnight before returning to the hotel. When Ruan Jianguo entered his room, he took off his clothes and went into the bathroom to shower. Upon coming out and lifting the covers without lying down, he saw the secretary lying scantily clad on his bed.

He was genuinely startled at that moment.

The female secretary looked at him with sultry eyes, twisting her body to crawl onto him. Ruan Jianguo was so shocked he ran out wrapped in a towel to Lu Zhiwei’s room, leaving behind not just his phone but even his entire set of clothes.

Afterwards, he had someone bring him a new set of clothes. As for the phone and the entire set of clothes left in that room, he discarded them all, feeling they were dirty!

This afternoon, he bought a new phone and got a new SIM card, suspending the old one after setting up the new phone card.

Now hearing Jiaojiao’s barrage of questions, he couldn’t explain clearly, afraid these dirty things would disgust her.

However, he was a bit worried. What if someone called him before he suspended that card, like Shu Jiao... Although it wasn’t likely, what if it happened? Could there be misunderstandings that he found someone new?

Thinking of this, Ruan Jianguo became anxious and asked Jiaojiao, "Sweetheart, did your mom call Dad on that phone number this afternoon?"

"I don’t know." Jiaojiao was not satisfied with Ruan Jianguo’s vague explanation. Even if it was a secretary forced by a business partner, why should something as private as a phone be touched by others?

Unbeknownst to the father and daughter, this "what if" did happen. However, it wasn’t Shu Jiao who made the call, but Old Master Shu.

Old Master Shu was the typical character who realized his mistakes after losing something. He previously wasn’t satisfied with Ruan the Tycoon on various things. But when Ruan the Tycoon really divorced Shu Jiao and didn’t visit Shu Family once in a year, he couldn’t stand it. Especially seeing Shu Jiao lonely every day without mentioning finding someone new, he felt even more regretful, prompting this call.