Chapter 683

However, that day, Chen Rou ultimately did not tell Nie Zhao the news of her pregnancy. He was in the middle of a whirlwind trip, traveling from Tokyo to Singapore, and then to several cities across the Mainland. For days, his life was a blur of flights and private cars. She feared that if he knew, he would pressure his drivers to speed or run red lights to keep up with his schedule. He often did that in Hong Kong, but the danger there was relatively low—the traffic was better regulated, large trucks and heavy-duty dumpers were essentially banned from the island during the day, and he traveled in an armored car. If an accident occurred, others would be the ones to suffer, not him—a case of "let the other guy pay the price." But the Mainland’s highway network was not yet fully mature, and truck drivers there were notoriously aggressive. Just days ago, Xiao Zhang had mentioned on the phone that in the Northwest, a speeding truck had flattened a Santana, killing all five people inside—four of whom were aerospace experts. The driver was sentenced to twenty years, but the loss he caused could not be compensated even with a two-hundred-year sentence.