Volume 2, Chapter 66: Boarding the Plane

"You're just a doctor, why do they need you to follow?" he asked calmly, but I could sense his displeasure.

"Because—Lin Zexiu has a chronic back pain issue, probably Lin Zefeng wants me to take care of him at all times," I reluctantly found an excuse, not daring to mention the bodyguard job; Dou Nan would worry, knowing that a bodyguard is a high-risk profession.

"Can you not go?" he pondered for a moment and asked, "If you want to visit Japan, how about I take some time off next month to go with you?"

"But—I've already taken the job." Before calling him, I knew I would be troubled, and now I could only stutter, "At most I promise you, a week after I get back from Japan, I will definitely resign, and then—"

I stopped myself because I didn't even know what would happen after that.