He said on television that it was all because he had personally gone deep into the mountains with the little star.
The production team released a group photo of him during his field investigation with the children there and the little star.
When those photos flashed by, Gu Susu stared intently at the TV screen with great reluctance.
Wei Yanan came out of the kitchen with noodles and found Susu sitting in front of the TV crying. She thought she was watching a touching TV drama. When she walked closer and saw that the person on TV was Qin Tianyi, she handed Susu a tissue and said, "The noodles are ready, do you want to eat?"
Gu Susu came back to her senses, decisively turned off the TV with her phone remote, and as she looked at the tissue Yanan handed her, she realized she had been crying.
She quickly wiped away her tears and said, "I've been hungry for a long time, of course I want to eat. After eating, we'll search online to see what night schools are suitable for you to attend here."
Yanan said okay, sat opposite her, and after eating a few bites of noodles, couldn't help but say, "Susu, how about I quietly go back to Lancheng and find Qin Tianyi to explain what happened before?"
Susu immediately shook her head and said, "Don't go."
Yanan couldn't understand why Susu still had feelings for Qin Tianyi but couldn't find him to clarify things so they could face Yang Sijie together.
"I admit I didn't like Qin Tianyi much before, I thought he was too cold and arrogant. I hoped you could find a warm man who could take better care of you. But now it seems Qin Tianyi is cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and he's actually quite good to you. Yang Sijie likes you a lot too, but he has psychological problems, and his way of loving you is too terrifying. Just escaping and hiding like this isn't a long-term solution. If Qin Tianyi could help you and face it together, wouldn't that be better?"
"No, that would drag him down and harm him," Susu said firmly. "Yang Sijie must still be looking for me everywhere, and he'll be watching Qin Tianyi too. As long as I'm not with Qin Tianyi, he won't go too far with Qin Tianyi and the others. If he finds out I'm with Qin Tianyi, even the little star might be in danger, do you understand?"
Yanan sighed and said, "Then do you plan to hide like this forever?"
"I don't know how long I can hide from Yang Sijie. If there comes a time when I can't hide anymore, then let me face him alone. If he really turns me into an idiot with no thoughts, don't tell Tianyi about these things. As long as he doesn't know, he'll only hate me. If he knew the truth, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to bear it and would be in pain his whole life."
Yanan felt a lump in her throat and said, "Why are you always thinking of him? Can't you be a little selfish and think about yourself?"
Susu made a shushing gesture and smiled at her, saying, "Please, don't let Tianyi know about this. Besides, if he knew, I wouldn't be able to face him either. Before and after my amnesia, Yang Sijie and I... we were intimate."
"But didn't you say Yang Sijie... he has problems in that area? He can't really have that kind of relationship with a woman." Yanan hadn't expected that the handsome and distinguished Yang Sijie would be impotent. Wasn't that no different from being a eunuch?
"Eat your noodles, they'll get cold if you don't," Susu didn't want to talk about it anymore. Even so, the days she spent with Yang Sijie were indescribable, and looking back now was unbearable.
...
Huo Jin was so annoyed by Huo Zheng's pestering that she had to agree to meet him at a restaurant near the luxury goods store to help him review some market research and feasibility reports.
For the past few days, Huo Zheng had been harassing her daily, insisting that she help him find a way to get his documents approved by their father.
Huo Jin arrived at the restaurant and found Huo Zheng already waiting.
As soon as she sat down, Huo Zheng, without any politeness, threw out a pile of documents and said, "Sister, these are all I've researched recently. Take a look quickly."
Huo Jin took a sip of the free lemon water on the table, picked up a document with a headache, and flipped through it. To her surprise, it actually looked quite professional, with pictures and data. She asked disbelievingly, "Did you do this yourself, or did you hire someone?"
Huo Zheng scratched his head. Through this attempt to start a company, he realized how weak he was in his family's eyes. No wonder Susu looked down on him so much. Thinking back, he had never earned a single penny through labor since he was a child.
When he was studying abroad, other classmates were working part-time, but he was the only one who lived in luxury cars and mansions with the money his mother secretly sent him. He only knew how to chase girls and travel, and in the end, he learned nothing and got a diploma. After returning home, he continued to live a dissolute life.
He just didn't want to become what his father expected, and the more disappointed his father was, the happier he became, as if he were retaliating against his father for all the beatings he had received since childhood.
Now, he suddenly realized that while he thought he was getting revenge on his father, he was actually ruining himself.
Susu was right. If he hadn't been born into such a wealthy family, he would have been a useless good-for-nothing.
"You underestimate me too much. I studied market economics abroad, so doing these documents is a small case."
Huo Jin rolled her eyes at him and said, "Keep bragging. I know how you got that diploma abroad. During those years you studied abroad, Mom didn't skimp on private accounts and didn't stop nagging Dad."
"Mom is also like that, what is she nagging about? No matter how bad Dad is, he wouldn't hit his wife."
"He wouldn't resort to family law for his wife, but with Dad's aura of yelling at soldiers at any moment, who could handle that?" Huo Jin lightly tapped his head with the document in her hand.
He immediately pretended to be in great pain and cried out, "Sister, hurry up and look. If there are no problems after you've read them, I'll go to the group company to find Dad this afternoon."
Huo Jin seriously finished reading a document and said, "I advise you not to go. While this isn't as bad as I imagined, some of the data is too scarce, and the economic arguments are illogical. Take it back and revise it."
"Take a look at the rest. It's impossible that the data is insufficient and illogical." Huo Zheng felt that he had put in a lot of effort to do this and only regretted not listening more carefully in class when he was studying.
Huo Jin didn't look at his other documents and had already made a conclusion: "If you don't believe me, take these and go find Dad this afternoon, and see if you'll be sent back directly."
"I just want to start a small company, does Dad have to be so difficult with me?"
Huo Jin heard him say it so lightly, "Whose money is not hard-earned? Why don't you use your own money to start a company, then you don't have to go through Dad. Mom gave you a lot of money before, don't you have any money on hand to start a company?"
Huo Zheng had always spent whatever he had, and said, "No. I don't save money, so where would I get the registered capital all of a sudden?"