The nurse was currently administering an injection to Huo Tingyun, the syringe slowly advancing into his vein.
Hearing Xu Linyun’s words, she followed her gaze and saw Su Qi buying lunch for Xu Linchuan.
“Oh my!” the nurse exclaimed.
Blood began to flow backward in the syringe attached to Huo Tingyun’s wrist, almost filling the entire tube in an instant.
Blood reflux was typically seen with extreme emotional agitation.
However, the man’s stern and deep face showed no expression whatsoever.
“How could you do this? How did it get like this? Hurry and pull it out!”
Xu Linyun was anxious, afraid something would happen to Huo Tingyun. She couldn’t care about anything else and berated the nurse.
The nurse snapped back to reality and quickly removed the syringe, replacing it with a new one for Huo Tingyun. But as soon as it was inserted, blood still flowed backward.
“Mr. Huo, please remain calm and don’t get so agitated. Your blood circulation is too fast, and we cannot administer the IV fluid…”
“Tingyun?” Xu Linyun looked up at Huo Tingyun blankly, then turned her gaze towards Su Qi.
Su Qi opened the lunchbox she had packed for Xu Linchuan. Seeing that Xu Linchuan couldn’t eat with the needle in his hand, she picked up the lunchbox. “Eat it, I’ll hold it.” Xu Linchuan was surprised. He raised his other free hand.
Actually, he wasn’t hungry at all, but since Su Qi was holding the lunchbox for him, he ate, and ate quickly. The usually elegant and gentle Xu Linchuan wolfed down the food in the lunchbox.
Xu Ruyun watched all of this, both shocked and helpless.
If Su Qi had been holding a bottle of pesticide at that moment, this foolish child would probably have drunk it too!
“I’m full, thank you.”
Su Qi raised her hand, her fingertip brushing across Xu Linchuan’s lips, wiping away a grain of rice that had gotten there from eating too quickly. Xu Linchuan instinctively glanced in Huo Tingyun’s direction.
Su Qi knew Huo Tingyun was there, yet she still wiped the rice from Xu Linchuan’s mouth.
Su Qi woke up very early the next day to make soup.
Wu Sao had taken the day off. When Su Qi went downstairs, the living room was empty and desolate.
The blood from her bumped head yesterday was still on the stair railing.
Having lived alone in this house for a full year, even though she was accustomed to it, a sense of loneliness couldn’t help but surface in her heart.
Suddenly, there was an urgent knocking at the door.
Su Qi thought it was Huo Tingyun, but she hadn’t expected him to return to the villa so soon after his injury.
Besides, didn’t he have a key?
Su Qi went downstairs to open the door.
“Mr. Huo, I heard you’re divorcing our Su Qi. Our Su Qi is young and doesn’t know any better, so please don’t hold it against her…”
Standing at the door was not Huo Tingyun, but Su Qi’s adoptive mother, Li Cuiping.
“Su Qi?”
Seeing that the person behind the door was not Huo Tingyun, Li Cuiping’s fawning, smiling face instantly fell.
“Mom, why are you here…”
“Can’t I come?”
Li Cuiping pushed Su Qi aside and walked boldly into the villa.
She looked around and found that Huo Tingyun was not there.
“Do you know your place? How much good fortune did you cultivate in your past life to marry Huo Tingyun? And you don’t cherish it! If I hadn’t visited the Huo family yesterday, I wouldn’t have known you and Huo Tingyun were planning to divorce!”
Seeing Su Qi’s distracted state, Li Cuiping’s anger intensified. She poked Su Qi’s chest with her finger.
“Are you listening to me! What is your dignity worth? Do you know how much help the Huo family provides to the Su family? If it weren’t for the Huo family’s assistance every year, do you think your father’s company could have survived until now?”
If she divorced Huo Tingyun, what would happen to the Su family?!
When the old man found Li Cuiping and wanted Su Qi to marry Huo Tingyun, the only condition he proposed was fifty million, and an annual subsidy of ten million to the Su family’s company.
The old man agreed without a second thought.
Relying on this money, the Su family paid off all their debts and lived a prosperous life, even hiring more maids and eating delicacies every year.
If she hadn’t drunk that bowl of porridge back then, she wouldn’t have been muddled into Li Cuiping’s hands and thrown onto Huo Tingyun’s bed.
He was supposed to live forever in her heart.
Su Qi clenched her fists tightly. “Mom, I didn’t ask for the divorce.”
“You didn’t ask for it, but can’t you refuse?! As long as you don’t sign, can Huo Tingyun divorce you?!
I’m telling you, Su Yan was crippled by a car accident because of you. He needs a lot of money for chemotherapy. If you have any conscience towards your brother, you shouldn’t divorce Huo Tingyun!”
Without the Huo family’s support, the Su family would have to return to their former life.
“I will find a way to raise money for Brother Su Yan’s treatment…”
“You’ll find a way?! Can you earn ten million a year?! The Huo family can casually throw ten million at you. I’m telling you, Su Qi, even if you beg Huo Tingyun on your knees, you cannot divorce him!”
Su Qi had already made up her mind to divorce Huo Tingyun, and no one could change it.
She didn’t refute Li Cuiping outwardly, only agreeing.
Li Cuiping snorted and put her hands on her hips.
“Look at the place you’re living in now, it’s more luxurious than the Huo family’s. Your father worked hard his whole life, but he doesn’t have a house as luxurious as any random property of the Huo family. You still don’t know how to cherish what you have now.”
“Did you hear me?! You are not allowed to divorce Huo Tingyun! If you want a divorce, make the Huo family give you a hundred million! As compensation for your youth!”
Li Cuiping directly grabbed Su Qi’s ear.
A flicker of disgust flashed in Su Qi’s eyes, but she suppressed it. “Mom, I heard you. You’re being physical with me. If the Huo family sees this, they’ll ask me more questions later.”
Only then did Li Cuiping let go. “You know that’s enough. If it weren’t for you, Su Yan wouldn’t have been crippled by Huo Tingyun’s car. You owe Su Yan your life. If you divorce Huo Tingyun, you need to think carefully. Without the money, Su Yan will never be able to stand up again!”
Su Qi’s whole body trembled violently.
Long after Li Cuiping left, Su Qi’s limbs remained ice-cold.
She leaned against the wall, slowly squatting down.
Over the past year, the Su family had benefited greatly from the Huo family.
Yet Li Cuiping was still not satisfied.
Su Yan didn’t lack money, but a good doctor.
Without an excellent orthopedic surgeon, no amount of money spent on Su Yan’s treatment would be effective.
She asked herself, with all the enduring humiliation she had suffered over the years, she no longer owed the Su family anything.
She had to get this divorce.
The stewed chicken soup was steaming.
The savory aroma of the chicken soup instantly filled the entire hospital room.
The hospital room door was open, and even the hallway could smell the fragrance of the chicken soup.
“Try it, is it good?”
Su Qi, feeling guilty, brought the chicken soup to the hospital, having specifically made it for Xu Linchuan.
Before Xu Linchuan, she had only cooked for Huo Tingyun.
It was a pity that despite making soup over three hundred times, the man had never drunk it.
“Let me try.”