Miracle Pill Maker Bullies the Boss

eve her.
If it were him, he would not have bothered explaining either.

Huo Yanxi wiped his face and smiled bitterly.

***

Huo Yao walked out of the shower with her hair still dripping wet.
She picked up her phone while it was charging as she blow-dried her hair with a hairdryer.
She pressed the power button, and the phone came back to life in a few seconds.

Many notifications for messages and missed calls bounced on the screen.
Among them were texts and calls from Huo Yanxi and some unknown numbers.

Huo Yao checked them all.
Then she turned off the hairdryer and decided to call her grandmother again.
This time, her phone was not unreachable.

The call went through very quickly.

Huo Yao held the phone without saying a word.
Her grandmother did not speak either.
Other than the slight noise of breathing, it was very quiet.

After a while, Huo Yao said gently, “Granny.”

“Mhm, I… I’m here,” replied the old lady.
She seemed to have dropped something, and there was a loud noise that almost completely drowned out her voice.

Huo Yao rubbed her forehead helplessly.
She pulled up a chair to sit down and sighed.
“Are you going to keep letting me listen to you tip things over?”

The noise suddenly disappeared from the phone.

Two seconds later, the old lady meekly explained.
“Cough… I was just about to pour myself some water and dropped it accidentally.”

Huo Yao’s brows quirked up.
She languidly leaned back into the chair and the warm light in the room scattered on her face.

Then she said in a warm and unrestrained manner, “Mhm, I get it.
Say no more.”

Old Madam Yang, “…”