Exhausted, Su Li walked straight to her bedside. She picked up her phone from the nightstand and collapsed onto the bed, physically and mentally drained.
She tilted her head slightly, her gaze settling on the screen. It was already past nine o'clock. She wondered if Shen Ye had gone to sleep yet. Her fingers hovered over the screen, scrolling aimlessly as a sense of hesitation gnawed at her. Finally, she tapped the screen, opened WeChat, and sent a message: "Are you asleep?"
After returning home, Shen Ye had gone straight to his study. The work he had set aside to search for Su Li in recent days had piled up like a mountain. Beyond the files on his desk, his computer screen blinked with dozens of unread emails. Taking a deep breath, he began to organize them methodically. His fingers flipped through the papers rapidly, and he picked up his pen to annotate important information, placing each completed document onto a neatly stacked pile.
Chapter 188