Cheng Sisi froze for a moment and instinctively responded, "No, I haven't been on the phone with Jiayin. She just got married recently and is still on her honeymoon. How would I dare assign her any work? I haven't been in touch with her for a few days."
"..."
As she spoke, Shi Zhen's eyes filled with shock, disbelief, incomprehension, even a sense of existential doubt.
He fell silent suddenly, and the only thing audible over the phone was his increasingly heavy breathing. It was then that Cheng Sisi realized something was amiss.
Although she wasn't sure what had happened, she sharply sensed that she might have misspoken. She hurriedly tried to salvage the situation, "Wait, no, I did just talk to Jiayin on the phone, Uncle! Oh, look at my head, I've been so busy I'm all mixed up! I..."
Before she could finish her sentence, there was a sharp click in her ear—the line had already been disconnected.
