A person entered the room and directly instructed, "Mark, help me up. Now is a critical time to help the Ai Corporation counter the hostile takeover by Aoxiang. I can't just lie here."
The person who entered was Gu Susu. Hearing him say he was helping the Ai Corporation against Aoxiang, she was momentarily surprised.
"Brother Sijie, don't move yet. What did you just say? You're helping the Ai Corporation? Why?"
Yang Sijie, hearing Gu Susu's voice, knew it was bad. He didn't want Susu to know about this.
"I want to establish a foothold in Lancheng, so I can only cooperate with the Ai Corporation," he said vaguely. "In business, there are no eternal enemies, nor eternal friends..."
Before he could finish, he grimaced in pain and said, "My back, it feels like it's going to split open."
Gu Susu didn't understand their business matters. However, she noticed that ever since Yang Sijie came to Lancheng, the corporations or companies he acquired or cooperated with all had conflicts with Aoxiang.
She found it strange and feared she was overthinking. Seeing Yang Sijie's pained expression, she prioritized treating his burns.
She quickly went to his side and said, "Don't move. Your wound didn't get inflamed last night, but the skin will be very dry when it scabs over. You absolutely cannot move around at this time. Lie down properly, and I'll apply the medicine."
Saying this, she picked up the ointment left by Allen and gently, little by little, applied it to the large burned areas on his back.
Yang Sijie felt her fingers touching his skin. The ointment made his back feel cool, and his skin was no longer so tight. He felt an uncontrollable, strange sensation.
"I thought you were dreaming when you said you were staying last night. I didn't see you earlier, where did you go?" Yang Sijie asked softly.
Gu Susu was still carefully applying medicine to him, afraid of hurting him. She said, "Seeing you hadn't woken up early this morning, I went to the kitchen to make some food. I'll bring it to you later. No matter how important something is, don't go out for the next few days. Rest well at home."
"Okay, I'll listen to you," Yang Sijie said, feeling no more pain in his back and his heart filled with sweetness.
After Gu Susu finished applying the medicine, she said, "I've already contacted Mark. He'll be here soon. I need to go to work. Take good care of yourself."
Yang Sijie was reluctant to let her go. As she stood up, he reached out and held her hand. "Do you really have to go to work? Can't you take a leave?"
Gu Susu nodded and said, "I haven't been at the fashion company for long, so it's not good to ask for leave. With Mark taking care of you, it should be fine. I've already instructed him on when to take the anti-inflammatory medicine and when to apply the ointment..."
As Yang Sijie listened to her chatter, he inadvertently saw a blanket on the chair by the bed. He interrupted her and asked, "You stayed by the bedside all night, and now you're going to work. Are you feeling alright?"
Gu Susu said energetically, "It's fine. I slept on the chair last night too. I'll go get your breakfast and we can eat together. After we eat, Mark should be here."
Yang Sijie forgot about his injured back and smiled radiantly. "Okay, have Mark drive you to the company when he gets here."
"No need..." Gu Susu suddenly remembered that it was difficult to get a taxi near the villa where he was staying. "I'll drive myself. You can't be left alone here."
"Will you come back after work?" Yang Sijie still held her hand.
Gu Susu pulled her hand away and said, "I promised Allen that I would take good care of your burns until your back heals."
Yang Sijie hugged a pillow and laughed happily like a child. "It's so noisy having a little gossip like you around."
Gu Susu put her hands on her hips and glared. Remembering a trick she used to deal with him when they were kids, she directly shouted in his ear, "Try calling me a gossip again, and the more you say it, the more I'll bother you. Once upon a time, there was a mountain, and in the mountain, there was a temple, and in the temple, there was a little monk... Once upon a time, there was a mountain, and in the mountain, there was a temple..."
Yang Sijie laughed and covered his ears. "Alright, alright. Are you still going to work? Even if you don't, I'm hungry."
Gu Susu glared at him fiercely. "Then do you dare call me a gossip again?"
"I'm afraid you'll start chanting, so I won't dare."
"That's more like it." She said, smiling triumphantly, and turned to get the breakfast.
...
After Gu Susu arrived at the company, several colleagues asked her about the car she drove today.
She didn't want to trouble Mark, and Yang Sijie's condition truly required someone to be with him, so she decided to drive herself to work.
She hadn't expected that the few cars at Yang Sijie's villa were all luxury cars worth millions. She had chosen the most low-key one, but parking it in the lot near the company still attracted a lot of attention.
She had to explain to her colleagues that a friend had lent it to her and she would return it in a couple of days.
Some nosy colleagues continued to inquire about her friend's profession and whether he was the one who sent her flowers last night.
Gu Susu stopped responding altogether, and the colleagues stopped asking.
After arriving at the company, during her free time, she was still thinking about Yang Sijie helping the Ai Corporation with the counter-acquisition. How would Qin Tianyi respond?
If Qin Tianyi's acquisition failed, would his Aoxiang Group suffer losses?
And last time, Ai Shunan insisted on transferring all the assets of the Ai Corporation to her name, which was also very strange. Now she was the legal representative of the Ai Corporation.
However, she was only a nominal figurehead. She didn't know, nor did she want to know, the current situation of the Ai Corporation or what it was doing.
At that time, Ai Shunan said transferring it to her name was simply to save the Ai Corporation. Did Yang Sijie know that the Ai Corporation was now under her name?
The more she thought about it, the more confused she became. She vaguely felt that these matters should be connected in some way, but she couldn't figure it out for a moment. It seemed she needed to find an opportunity to talk to Yang Sijie properly about this.
Lu Zhiming strode to her desk and knocked on it. "Little Gu, a few custom-made gowns for Miss Sasha will arrive soon. You and I will deliver them to her house. I need to personally check the effect when she wears them, and you'll assist me then."
Gu Susu immediately snapped back to attention and stood up. "Okay."
As Lu Zhiming turned to leave, he reminded her, "Have you had any ideas for the design drafts I asked you to do? Don't get distracted during work hours."
"I'm sorry, I was thinking about creative ideas," Gu Susu said to his retreating back, lacking confidence.
After he left, Gu Susu sat down again, not daring to think about her own matters anymore, and quickly got to work on the design drafts.
The few high-end custom gowns Lu Zhiming mentioned arrived at the company in the afternoon.
Gu Susu carefully carried the gowns with Lu Zhiming as they left the company. It was already four in the afternoon when they arrived at the famous celebrity Sasha's house.
She looked at the time and wondered if she would be able to get off work on time today and return to the villa to take care of Yang Sijie.
Sasha lived in Lancheng's most upscale hotel-style apartment. Lu Zhiming had already made an appointment. After they entered the lobby, the security guard politely swiped their elevator card and pressed the floor.
When they reached the door, Sasha's assistant opened it and invited them in to wait.