After Huo Yao left Imperial Medicine Store, she went to buy some spices. Her phone started to ring in her pocket when she was done.
It was Min Yu calling.
“Okay. Wait for me at the intersection. I’ll be right there.”
Huo Yao placed her phone inside her bag. She headed out of the Chinese medicine market before long and spotted the black car parked by the roadside right away.
She headed over to open the back seat door and got in.
Zhuo Yun was driving the car as usual. “Miss Huo, good afternoon.” He had started to sound increasingly courteous.
“Hi,” greeted Huo Yao politely as well.
Huo Yao looked at Min Yu. He looked fine and seemed to be recovering well, so she could not help narrowing her eyes. “Didn’t you say your heart felt stifled yesterday?”
Stifled heart?
Zhuo Yun was puzzled. Why had he not heard his boss talk about this before?
Min Yu nodded with a straight face. Then he pressed his chest and coughed.
Huo Yao said, “Give me your hand.”
Min Yu extended his hand obediently towards her.
Huo Yao moved a little towards the center seat. She placed her hand on his wrist, resting her index and middle fingers on his pulse, and looked down slightly.
Min Yu looked sideways at the girl beside him. She looked serious but at the same time, lazy and casual. Before long, the cool sensation on his hand disappeared.
Huo Yao pulled her hand back and said calmly, “You’re fine.”
Min Yu straightened up as well. “Yeah. I think I’m much better now. Sorry for being a bother.”
Huo Ya moved back to the window seat and waved her hand nonchalantly. “It’s fine.”
Min Yu’s eyes landed on the bag beside her. He asked her casually. “Are you making meds again?”
“Kind of.” Huo Yao yawned, leaned back into the seat, and muttered. “Tell me when we reach the restaurant.”
“Sure.”
Zhuo Yun instinctively drove a little more slowly when he noticed that Huo Yao wanted to sleep.
In his eyes, Huo Yao had an even higher status than his boss now.
Many people in the capital would scramble to recruit her if they knew she was a master apothecary.
Zhuo Yun touched his nose as he looked into the rearview mirror. He wondered what kind of dumb luck did his boss have to get acquainted with Huo Yao.
The car pulled up at the restaurant entrance 30 minutes later.
Min Yu looked sideways at Huo Yao and was about to wake her up when she opened her eyes on her own. She still had a groggy look in her beautiful eyes.
Huo Yao rubbed her eyes and said with a hoarse voice, “Have we reached?”
“Yeah.”
Huo Yao glanced out of the window and opened the car door.
Before long, the three of them headed into a private room on the second floor.
The waiter exited the room after taking their order.
Min Yu picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea unhurriedly for Huo Yao. He glanced at her and clearly saw how tired she looked. “Didn’t sleep well last night?”
Huo Yao lay prone on the table and said lazily, “I’m okay. It’s just jet lag.”.
“Miss Huo, I’ve been following the contest you participated in. You were brilliant all throughout.” Zhuo Yun gushed.
Huo Yao turned her head and glanced at Zhuo Yun. “It was ok.”
Zhuo Yun’s lips quivered. She could get full marks with such a nonchalant attitude. Was she going to make those other straight-A students kill themselves if she took it seriously?
Huo Yao’s phone rang. She retrieved it before standing up and heading to the door to answer it. “Hi, Dad…”
Min Yu looked up before he raised the teacup and took a sip.
