228: Chapter 228: The Seed of Fear 228: Chapter 228: The Seed of Fear At one-thirty in the afternoon, the surgery was over.
“Director Huang, I’ll leave the Lou Family to you; I won’t meet them.” Su He said.
Because there was no need to meet them, and she didn’t want to.
Director Huang nodded: “Okay, I understand, thank you for your hard work.”
Su He gave a slight smile, then left the operating room.
She took the staff corridor, conveniently avoiding running into anyone from the Lou Family at the operating room entrance.
When Lan Yan saw her come out, she immediately said: “Boss, An Rui is currently waiting for you in the office, he’s not troubled by anything, but he seems to be in a bad mood.”
Hearing this, a complex look flashed in Su He’s eyes.
…
As Su He pushed open the door of the office, she saw An Rui sitting properly in his chair, head slightly bowed, not even planning to look up at her when she entered.
She pulled a chair and sat opposite him, gazing intently at him.
Su He looked at him, silent for a moment, before speaking: “Speak, what do you know?
And why did you repeatedly avoid the surveillance cameras to go to the Lin Family?”
After a while, An Rui finally lifted his head, his expression dull and face filled with desolation.
Su He unconsciously furrowed her eyebrows.
His next words made her particularly speechless.
“All this while, I’ve regarded you as my closest sister, loving and respecting you, but why did you destroy our family?”
Su He slightly narrowed her eyes, and said: “Have you read yourself stupid?”
Stunned by her rebuke, An Rui was taken aback.
Su He said these words purely out of speechlessness, then she continued: “Did Lin Yue tell you something, or did An Xueyin tell you something?”
An Rui bit his lower lip, thought for a moment, and slowly began: “The night before yesterday, my elder sister called me, she said dad and mom are getting divorced, and dad had even kicked mom out of the villa, and mom even attempted suicide by slitting her wrists, urging me to hurry back to the Lin Family.
Then she also said that no one should know I had returned to the Lin Family, especially you, so she asked me to take a detour.
That’s why I took several detours, and then changed clothes in the restroom of the shopping mall on Financial Street, the clothes were prepared in advance by my sister and kept there.
After getting back to the Lin Family, they told me, because dad found out that An Mi and I are not born of the An Family, he decided to divorce mom.
They also said it was all your schemes, that you wanted to take back everything of the An Family, even went as far to send Grandma and my aunt to prison, and you also wanted to break mom and dad’s marriage, turning our An Family into a fragmented family.”
An Rui had been protected as he grew up in the An Family, and Chen Shurong was especially good to him, utterly spoiling him.
So when he heard that Su He had sent Chen Shurong to prison, he couldn’t remain calm.
After all, that was the grandma who had been especially kind to him, although sometimes he didn’t like her methods, but the familial bond was there, he couldn’t ignore it.
However, whether it was Su He or Chen Shurong, they were his closest relatives, so he was unable to accept it for a while.
Originally, after hearing what they had said, he wanted to find Su He, but then he suddenly fainted, and when he woke up, he was in an unfamiliar place.
A day and night passed, and then he was brought to the hospital, and now here they are…
After listening, Su He was even more speechless.
Lin Yue and her daughter really knew how to spin a tale!
She looked at him with a calm gaze: “So, you believed what they said?”
Hearing this, An Rui immediately shook his head, saying: “No, I wanted to leave the Lin Family and find you, but I suddenly fainted…”
Su He chuckled lightly: “It seems that reading hasn’t completely dumbed you down.”
An Rui: “…”
He innocently pursed his lips, “Sister, so what exactly is going on?”
“Do you really want to know?” Su He asked.
An Rui nodded, “Sister, please tell me.”
Su He looked at him, pondered for a moment, and then told him the truth.
…
After listening, An Rui was completely in a daze, the truth was utterly different from what he had heard the night before.
Su He didn’t share the details with him, she just outlined the general situation.
“An Rui, I don’t expect you to accept this truth all at once, but I hope you won’t be used by others.”
Although Lin Yue isn’t related to them by blood, she has at least taken care of them for eighteen years.
She naturally couldn’t let them be abandoned just like that, so she wouldn’t interfere with their choices.
Hearing this, An Rui, although unable to accept it immediately, understood that Su He meant well, and responded, “Sister, I…
I understand.”
Su He glanced at him and then said, “I arranged for someone to take you to Moon Gift Villa, An Mi is there.”
…
In the blink of an eye, a week passed.
During this period, Chen Shurong also tried to meet Su He through a lawyer, but Su He outright refused.
With Chen Shurong’s imprisonment, An Chengyuan took direct control over the entire An Group.
The matter of An Chengyuan divorcing Lin Yue was also announced directly in the company by his secretary, thus, whenever Lin Yue tried to see him, she was blocked at the company’s main entrance.
Xueyin was also dismissed from An Group, and An Chengyuan even ordered a cessation of all business collaborations with the Lin Family.
That day.
After finishing work at six, Su He didn’t go straight back to Moon Gift Villa, but went to meet someone instead.
Half an hour later, she entered a tea house.
Approaching a private room, Su He pushed open the door and saw a man leisurely sitting there drinking tea.
She walked in and sat down across him on a mahogany chair, saying, “Young Master Zhou, what wind has blown you back here again?”
He always chose to meet in a tea house and was always shrouded in mystery.
Zhou Yixing smiled, his expression forever gentle and refined, like a clean and gentle stream flowing through a mountain brook.
“I suppose you wouldn’t believe me if I said that I came back specifically to have tea with you?”
Su He leaned back in the chair, her eyebrows slightly raised, and without answering she asked, “Do you think I’d believe that?”
Zhou Yixing smiled softly, poured her a glass of water, and asked, “I heard that you went to X country recently, is that right?”
“You’ve been checking on my whereabouts?” Su He’s brow furrowed slightly.
Zhou Yixing replied, “Not really, I heard it from Ella.”
Su He: “…”
“Since when did Ella become such a gossip?”
Ella, who was far away in F country, sneezed several times.
Zhou Yixing looked at her with a gentle gaze, continuing, “She asked me for a favor, it was an unintentional slip.”
Su He listened with a normal expression, she wasn’t really angry, it was just a casual remark.
“So?”
Zhou Yixing sipped the tea slowly and calmly said, “You still remember the favor I asked you for before, right?”
Su He hummed emotionlessly, “What, your stepmother wants to fight you for the family property?”
She was just joking with the last sentence.
But Zhou Yixing looked at her somewhat surprised, “You know about that?”
Su He was startled, “I was just guessing, jokingly.”
“Uncle Zhou only has you as a son, legally speaking, you are the most qualified to inherit all the property and estates of the Zhou Family, the involvement of your stepmother shouldn’t matter much, especially since she hasn’t given birth to any children for the Zhou Family.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhou Yixing tugged at the corner of his mouth, a hint of sarcasm curling on his lips.
Then, she heard him say something that rendered her speechless.
He said, “You didn’t know?
My father has an illegitimate son, about the same age as me.”
“What?”
Su He asked in shock.
Five minutes later.
Su He could no longer find the words to describe the absurd and melodramatic situation.
“So, you’re telling me that your half-brother from the same father is Xi Jue?”
She couldn’t imagine that Zhou Yixing would get involved in this matter as well.
These two people, who had no previous interactions, ended up in such a drama.
“You sure kept your stepmother hidden well,” Su He said.
Speaking out only now, that’s pretty extreme!
In an instant, she suddenly felt something was off, “Wait, is there something wrong with your father’s health?”
Otherwise, why would that woman bring up Xi Jue now?
Zhou Yixing laughed, “See, the old man always praises your intelligence.”
He hadn’t said anything yet, and she had already guessed it.
Su He furrowed her brows, “So, you’re here to ask me to treat Uncle Zhou’s illness.”
Zhou Yixing nodded, “That’s one thing, the other is that I want to know about the grievances between you and Xi Jue.”
“…”
At 7:30 PM, the two of them left the teahouse together.
But just as they were leaving the teahouse, they happened to run into An Xueyin and Tang Sirou.
Yue City isn’t small, but they always seem to run into each other.
Zhou Yixing had been to Yue City once before, and he somewhat understood the relationship between these two people and Su He.
“Looks like, from now on when we meet, it’s better to choose a secluded place where no one pays attention,”
he joked.
Su He: “…”
Recently, An Xueyin was annoyed enough by being kicked out of the An Family, and today Tang Sirou brought her out to take her mind off things, not expecting to run into Su He.
Seeing Su He, fury filled her eyes.
Everything she had lost was thanks to her.
Su He just glanced indifferently at the two, then turned her head to Zhou Yixing and said, “I’ll be going first; you don’t need to see me off.”
Zhou Yixing said, “Alright, I will bring the old man over the day after tomorrow.”
“Okay.”
After she responded, she began walking away, but just as she passed An Xueyin, she reached out and stopped her.
Su He had to stop.
She glanced at the hand blocking her path, then looked at An Xueyin.
“Is there something?”
Her tone was neither cold nor warm, but her words carried a certain oppressive force.
An Xueyin had nothing left to worry about, glaring at her and accusing, “It was you who made Uncle An kick me out of the company, right?”
Su He had heard about her being kicked out of An Group, but she was merely aware and wasn’t interested in the specifics.
Su He sneered, “Why do you always come to me to complain?
Whoever kicked you out, go find them!
What are you looking for me for?
I’m not your mother, I can’t make decisions for you!”
“You…”
Su He really didn’t want to waste time with such foolishness.
She said sternly, “Take your hand away, or don’t blame me.
As the saying goes, good dogs don’t block the way!”
Zhou Yixing’s secretary watched the scene and muttered softly, “Young President Zhou, shouldn’t we help Miss Su a bit?”
Zhou Yixing curved his thin lips, smiling, “Forget it, she doesn’t need our help.”
An Xueyin was the kind of person who was weak yet always messed things up, never learning her lesson.
“You bitch, you dare call me a dog?”
As the words fell, she raised her hand, about to slap Su He.
Su He slightly narrowed her eyes, quickly grabbed the incoming hand with her left, and countered with a slap across her face with her right hand!
With a crisp “smack”.
Su He didn’t give her a chance to recover.
Another crisp “smack”!
Su He gifted her two consecutive slaps.
Secretary Wu, hearing each resounding slap, felt pain for the woman.
An Xueyin was stunned by Su He’s slap, her mind buzzing…
Tang Sirou didn’t expect Su He to strike so swiftly; she initially wanted to step forward to stop her, but the icy look in Su He’s eyes kept her frozen.
She exaggeratedly said that if she had dared to help, Su He would have beaten her up too.
“Why don’t you ever learn?”
Su He grabbed her wrist, exerted a slight force, and threw her to the side.
An Xueyin staggered, almost falling backward, but Tang Sirou quickly caught her.
“Su He, you dare to hit me?” An Xueyin glared with bloodshot eyes, raging.
She could accept being slapped, but Su He had slapped her twice, and now her left cheek was burning.
Su He coldly looked at her, saying, “One of the slaps was for An Rui.”
After speaking, she moved two steps towards them, prompting them to instinctively step back.
Su He’s oppressive presence was overwhelming, always giving off a chilling sensation.
Su He tugged at her red lips, a sinister coldness flashing in her eyes, her tone cold and nonchalant, “I’ve told you before, if you see me, just walk away.
I’m not a good person.
Since you never listen, I can’t be blamed, you chose this path yourself.”
“What… what do you want to do?” An Xueyin swallowed, suddenly afraid.
Su He scoffed, “I don’t want to do anything, but since you so love to blame others, I’ll fulfill that for you.
I’ll take on this blame, just to confirm the accusations you’ve placed on me.”
Tang Sirou’s eyes flashed differently, she spoke up, “Dr.
Su, to forgive when one can is a virtue, Xueyin hasn’t done anything, you don’t need to scare her like this.”
Su He glanced at her, stating, “This is not a scare.”
In a moment, she added, “Oh, and Miss Tang rest assured, I have accounts to settle with you too.
Seeing how deep the sisterly love you two share is, as the saying goes, what’s shared in fortune should be faced together in adversity, let’s do it together then.”
“This great gift, you two sisters will definitely like it, no need to thank me.”
After that, she turned around and left confidently.
Leaving the two standing there, stunned, understanding yet not understanding, Su He never explicitly stated how she would deal with them.
This undoubtedly planted a seed of fear in their hearts, invisible and intangible.
…
Watching Su He’s departing figure, Secretary Wu sighed, “Miss Su’s presence is so strong.
She didn’t do or say anything excessive, yet why do I feel a chill down my spine, such a terrifying feeling?”
Zhou Yixing didn’t respond, walking away with long strides.
…
For the next two days.
An Xueyin and Tang Sirou were nervous and on edge every day.
Outside, however, all was calm and quiet.