They chose a secluded corner. Gu Susu was still distracted, letting Qin Tianyi order the desserts.
Whatever Qin Tianyi introduced, she ate. She ate a bowl of bird's nest soup and finished the sago with fruit.
The desserts here were really good. In her memory, she had never eaten such delicious desserts. Unconsciously, she finished everything Qin Tianyi had ordered, and only then did she feel much better.
Gu Susu looked at Qin Tianyi and tried to speak, "Can we not sue that person? I think he was also a victim. Why don't we settle with him privately and see what went wrong with the contract that Mishang Company originally signed with him?"
"You know that person? Are you very familiar with him?" Qin Tianyi asked with displeasure.
Gu Susu quickly shook her head, "I don't know him. I've never seen him before today. I don't even know his name now."
"Then why do you sympathize with him? You know he tried to kill me and injured you!" Qin Tianyi couldn't understand what she was thinking.
Gu Susu said, "Don't you think he had his reasons? We're both fine now, aren't we? If you let the lawyer sue him with such serious charges, it will ruin his life..."
Qin Tianyi interrupted her with a cold laugh, "Stop, stop! According to you, having reasons allows one to freely use a weapon to kill someone? Who doesn't have reasons? If everyone acted like this, what would happen? Instead of letting such a person go to jail, should we let him continue to harm others outside? Absurd, ridiculous, womanly kindness!"
Gu Susu bit her lip but couldn't refute him. However, she still felt that the person deserved some punishment. But they should still understand the contract issue clearly, especially since it was related to Mishang Company. Moreover, they shouldn't give that person another chance, not when he was pushed to a dead end.
But Qin Tianyi clearly did not agree with her words and did not want to communicate with her further. He took out his phone and scanned the QR code on the table to pay, saying, "Let's go, it's time to go back."
Gu Susu got up and followed him out of the dessert shop. They returned the way they came to the parking spot.
Only then did she notice the scent of osmanthus along the way, sweet and refreshing. It was indeed the season for osmanthus fragrance.
The dim yellow streetlights cast their shadows long on the ground. Qin Tianyi was clearly unhappy about her earlier words and remained silent.
Gu Susu took a deep breath and said again, "Tianyi, what I meant just now was not that he shouldn't be punished. I hadn't finished speaking. Punishment is necessary. But can you not be so harsh and leave him a sliver of hope? You're fine, and I only suffered minor injuries. Can't you give him a chance to reform?"
Qin Tianyi suddenly stopped and turned to face her. He gripped her chin and pushed her against the wall by the roadside, his eyes coolly staring at her, "Gu Susu, have you lost your mind? You're pleading for a stranger who just stabbed you with a knife? If you want to show me how kind and great you are, this isn't the way. No one can change what I've decided, so don't plead for that trash anymore!"
"Trash? In your eyes, anyone pushed to desperation with no way out is trash, right?" Gu Susu couldn't help but find it amusing. Although Qin Tianyi's situation in the Qin family wasn't good, he was still a young master with a comfortable life. He wouldn't understand her. She knew that in the future, when he learned about her past, she would only be considered trash in his eyes.
"You woman, you're so inexplicable. Who am I doing this for?" As he spoke, Qin Tianyi's lips were almost touching her face.
Gu Susu looked around in panic. This was on the road, and people could walk by at any moment. "Don't do this, you're hurting my stitched wound."
Only then did Qin Tianyi release her chin and warn her, "Don't plead for unrelated men anymore!"
Gu Susu dared not say anything more. She licked her dry lips and nodded.
Qin Tianyi strode towards the parking spot, and Gu Susu had to quickly follow.
On the way back to the Qin family mansion, Qin Tianyi drove very fast, silently watching the road ahead. The car was terrifyingly quiet.
Gu Susu watched him treat the flowing traffic like a race track. She held onto the armrest above the seat, almost screaming in fear.
They returned to the entrance of the Qin family mansion at such a speed. Qin Tianyi stopped the car and said, "Get out, we're switching seats."
Gu Susu unbuckled her seatbelt and said, unable to bear it any longer, "Drive slower from now on. You don't care about your life, but I don't want to die."
Without waiting for Qin Tianyi to retort, she forcefully opened the car door and got out.
Qin Tianyi rested his hands on the steering wheel for a few seconds before switching places with her, reminding her, "Drive slowly on the road inside. Can your injured arm still move?"
"I know, it's fine." Gu Susu slowly started the car, trying her best to control the steering wheel with her uninjured hand.
It took five minutes to drive from the first gate of the Qin family mansion to the main building, which was where they lived.
At the entrance of the mansion ahead, Gu Susu saw that it was brightly lit. Qin Zhaoye, Jin Meiyao, and Qin Tianlang were all there. Even standing outside the door, she could hear their laughter and joy. This family of three was truly harmonious.
Qin Tianyi stopped by the floor-to-ceiling window outside the hall. Seeing his family so warm and loving inside, he felt like an outsider, unable to blend in.
Gu Susu stood beside him and could feel his unspoken sadness and loss, in addition to his anger. She asked softly, "Can we go to the old lady's small building without passing through this hall? I get goosebumps whenever I see your eldest brother, and I don't want to run into him."
She deliberately framed it as her not wanting to enter the magnificent hall. Qin Tianyi said, "We can go around through the corridor on the side that leads directly to the kitchen."
"That's great." She tugged at Qin Tianyi's sleeve to distract him, "Which side is it? Left or right? Let's go quickly, lest they find us and insist on us going in. The old lady must be waiting for us eagerly."
"Left, follow me." Qin Tianyi finally shifted his gaze from the floor-to-ceiling window and led her down a narrow corridor to the left of the large house, only wide enough for one person.
As soon as they reached the entrance of the small building, Rong Ma, who had been looking out, happily turned back into the house and called out, "Old Madam, Young Master Tianyi is back."
"Tianyi is back." The old lady hurried to the door to welcome them in, stretched out her hand to touch Qin Tianyi's face, and asked with a slightly trembling voice, "Are you hurt?"
Qin Tianyi shook his head blankly, "Grandma, I'm fine. I'm very well. But my wife is injured, on her arm. It was very scary, she bled a lot, and the doctor had to give her an injection. I was so scared."