Lou Xi was momentarily stunned when she heard Ji Nanming mention her persistence with Qin Mobai.

How persistent was she with Qin Mobai?

They were seated in the car on their way back, with Ji Nanming driving. He seemed very familiar with the roads in the Capital and didn’t need navigation to find the hotel they were staying at.

"I love him deeply, so I can’t accept him leaving at this moment. Whatever I do, I want him to wake up." Lou Xi thought for a long time before giving Ji Nanming an answer, "Moreover, it’s not that he doesn’t want to wake up. The nurse said he has a strong will to live; I believe he’ll wake up soon."

Ji Nanming steered the car with one hand, his other hand braced against the car window, "Hopefully."

Afterward, the two maintained silence throughout the ride.

Lou Xi was pondering how to get the National Land Bureau’s stamp in the future.

Ji Nanming was reflecting on the love he had abandoned years ago, perhaps it was called love. He must have loved her, but not to the extent of Lou Xi and Qin Mobai, for whom even life and death couldn’t separate them.

Then, the car slowly drove onto the road leading to the hotel.

As they approached the hotel, unsurprisingly, Ji Nanming noticed suspicious vehicles near the hotel.

Ji Nanming’s car didn’t drive through the hotel’s main gate, which puzzled Lou Xi a bit.

"That black car across from the hotel, it was parked there when we left this afternoon." Ji Nanming explained, and then directly drove the car into the parking lot of the building opposite the hotel.

They stayed at the Twin Hotel, which comprised two towers connected by a sky corridor on the thirty-seventh floor.

However, the sky corridor wasn’t accessible for guests to walk across, so those staking out downstairs certainly couldn’t have anticipated that Lou Xi and Ji Nanming would take such a route.

But what kind of person was Ji Nanming? Definitely not purely a good person; how could he lack in intelligence?

Ji Nanming escorted Lou Xi to the door of her room, saying, "Go back and get a good night’s sleep. Before Qin Mobai wakes up, the road ahead will only become more challenging."

A word of advice from Ji Nanming.

Lou Xi originally wanted to say, isn’t there you?

But in the end, she didn’t say it; Ji Nanming was Ji Nanming, even though he stayed to help Lou Xi now, it didn’t mean he would remain here indefinitely.

She understood that in this world, apart from Qin Mobai who would always stand by her side and help her, no other man would assist her selflessly.

So she wouldn’t ask Ji Nanming to do anything for her.

"Thank you."

"How many times have you thanked me today? Give me something tangible."

"What... tangible?" This man didn’t want money, so what tangible thing could it be?

Ji Nanming seemed to seriously consider this question.

"Invite me to more meals!"

That’s all he asks?

That’s all he asks.

"Thank..." Just as she started to say thank again, Lou Xi corrected herself, "I will invite you to more meals!"

Ji Nanming smiled and nodded, then turned back to his room.

Lou Xi also returned to her room, took a hot shower to wash away the fatigue, ready to face tomorrow’s challenges.

...

Getting the stamp was more difficult than she imagined. Qin Family had their eye on a plot of land in Nancheng, but not for commercial use.

But for some unknown reason, someone seemed to be obstructing them, even getting a piece of land to build a park encountered immense resistance.

It seemed to validate what Ji Nanming had said—

Before Qin Mobai wakes up, each step she takes will be extraordinarily tough.