Seven missed calls from the New York office. A dozen emails marked urgent. Three texts from his second-in-command asking about arrival times and meeting schedules.
Business as usual. The world kept turning, mergers kept needing attention, and money kept needing to be made.
And somewhere below him, growing more distant with every passing second, Zhou Yuxi didn't even know he was gone.
Might not even care when she found out.
Mu Yunchen closed his eyes and leaned his head back against the seat, willing the exhaustion to pull him under into unconsciousness.
But sleep, when it finally came, was fitful and full of dreams where Zhou Yuxi looked at him with cold, empty eyes and told him to leave.
Over and over and over again.
JIN FAMILY MANSION - MAIN SITTING ROOM
6:00 PM
