She came to her senses, pushed Qin Tianyi away, glanced at the mobile phone on the coffee table, and said, "Chen Ma must have called, afraid you would find out, and asked me to send Xiao Xingxing back."
Qin Tianyi didn't let go, preventing her from taking the phone, and said, "Don't worry about it. I'll explain to Chen Ma tomorrow."
"How can that be? Chen Ma will be worried all night. She's old and can't be made to worry like this," Gu Susu said anxiously.
Qin Tianyi released her, reached for her phone a step ahead of her, and answered, "Chen Ma, is something wrong?"
Chen Ma, hearing Qin Tianyi's voice on the other end of the phone, was stunned and stammered, "Young Master, why is it you? Miss Gu, she... she..."
"She's with me, and Xiao Xingxing is here too. We're not going back to the villa tonight. Don't worry, get some rest early," Qin Tianyi said, winking at Gu Susu.
Gu Susu stamped her feet angrily beside him. He had exposed everything like this, making her feel embarrassed to see Chen Ma again.
"Okay, okay, then you two should also get some rest early." Chen Ma listened as if in a dream, not expecting the young master and young madam to have reconciled. Her heart bloomed with joy. This was good, truly good!
After Qin Tianyi hung up, he set her phone to silent mode and put it down. "Now no one will disturb us anymore."
Saying this, he embraced her again. She hastily grabbed his hands and said, "Stop messing around, I have something important to tell you."
Qin Tianyi directly picked her up and tossed her onto the bed in their room before asking, "What important matter?" His movements to unbutton his clothes didn't stop.
Gu Susu looked at him, her voice becoming hoarse, "Ai Shunan and Yuan Shuna have both contacted me, asking me to return the assets of Ai Group to Ai Yifeng. I want to... I want to set conditions before returning them, asking them to cooperate with you to develop an online sales platform for Aoxiang. Do you think this is feasible?"
Qin Tianyi stopped and sat on the edge of the bed. "Do you really want to do this? They are your blood relatives after all. For me, you want to negotiate terms with them?"
"I want to help you." Gu Susu crawled to his side and hooked her arms around his neck. "Tianyi, I want you to know that it's not just Shu Yan who can help you, I can too. Although your acquisition of Ai Group failed this time, I remember you said you wanted to acquire Ai Group for Aoxiang's online business platform."
Qin Tianyi pulled her onto his lap and gently kissed her. "I know, I know you are very capable and independent. I did that back then simply because I didn't want to drag you into these messy affairs. Didn't you want a simple life? If you do this, you'll get entangled in the deceit and trickery of the business world. Actually, I agree with you simply returning Ai Group to them."
"As long as I can be with you and not be an obstacle to you, I don't care about a simple life or deceit and trickery." Gu Susu had made up her mind. "Even if you go to hell, I'll go with you."
Qin Tianyi lifted her chin and looked at her adoringly. "I won't let you go to hell, only take you to heaven."
"Mmm, as long as I can be with you, it doesn't matter where we go." She suddenly hugged him tightly, afraid of losing him.
"Susu." He embraced her with tender affection, biting her sweetly, and she was once again lost in a haze of passion.
...
Gu Susu woke up early. Without waking him, she went to the kitchen and made breakfast.
When he woke up and walked out of the room with sleepy eyes, Gu Susu had to rush to work.
"Later, you call Xiao Xingxing to wake him up. After he eats breakfast, take him to kindergarten." Gu Susu said, picking up her bag and preparing to change her shoes.
Qin Tianyi walked over and hugged her like a big child. "It's all ready, aren't you eating?"
Gu Susu stood on tiptoe and kissed him proactively. "I'm going to be late for work, so I won't eat."
"Hey, if you keep being so diligent, I think I won't have to work anymore," Qin Tianyi joked.
Gu Susu waved goodbye to him. As she stepped out, she remembered something and asked, "By the way, when are we planning to leave for the overseas vacation?"
"Of course, the sooner the better. It mainly depends on you." Qin Tianyi originally planned to go abroad to handle some matters, but now he was more looking forward to their family vacation.
Gu Susu thought for a moment and said, "I still have some work to do. It will take at least another week at the earliest. What do you think?"
"Then I'll book the tickets for a week from now."
"Okay." As she spoke, she glanced at the time on her phone and immediately left.
Qin Tianyi stood at the door, watching her get into the elevator before closing the door. He returned inside and leaned on the sofa, not expecting to live such a domestic life.
But he really liked being a normal couple like this, sweet and loving with Gu Susu.
...
Two days later, as agreed, she and Xiao Anjing arrived at the tea house where she had arranged to meet Ai Shunan.
She wanted to discuss online cooperation for Qin Tianyi, but she wasn't familiar with how an online sales platform should cooperate, so she asked Xiao Anjing to come along.
She had also mentioned this matter to Qin Tianyi. Qin Tianyi hadn't objected, only asking her not to force it, as he was her father after all. If the negotiation became too emotionally damaging, she should stop.
Gu Susu felt that the conditions she wanted to discuss with Ai Shunan were not excessive. Ai Group cooperating with Aoxiang should also bring benefits; it was a win-win situation.
When she saw Ai Shunan again, she noticed he looked much more haggard than the last time. Whether it was due to the company's affairs or Yuan Shuna's illness, his temples were completely white.
Ai Shunan arrived first. Seeing that Gu Susu was accompanied by someone he recognized as Qin Tianyi's capable assistant, Xiao Anjing, he immediately became nervous. His face stiffened, and he wanted to see what tricks Gu Susu was up to this time.
Following Yang Sijie's advice, he had initially transferred all of Ai Group's assets to a reliable person who had little connection to the Ai family, thus avoiding Qin Tianyi's threat.
He then thought of Gu Susu. However, after transferring all of Ai Group's assets under his name to Gu Susu, although Ai Group's counter-acquisition was successful, Yang Sijie had been obstructing them from getting Ai Group back from Gu Susu.
Only later did he realize that Gu Susu was actually in league with Yang Sijie. They wanted to snatch his Ai Group without any effort. He had been tricked and deceived.
But he was unwilling to give up and still wanted to try to negotiate and communicate with Gu Susu. After all, Ai Group was his lifeblood, and he only wanted to hand it over to his son.
"I don't need to introduce you; you should already know each other," Gu Susu said as she and Xiao Anjing took their seats.
Ai Shunan put on a smile and extended his hand to Xiao Anjing. "Of course, I know Mr. Xiao."
Even though the acquisition had failed this time, Xiao Anjing found people like Ai Shunan despicable. He did not shake his hand.
Ai Shunan's awkward smile froze.