Huo Jin reminded him, "It's good that you don't want to be under your dad's nose and want to go out and hone your skills. But have you thought about it? Starting a housekeeping company seems like a sure bet, but it's very hard work. Are you sure you can handle it? Besides, your nightlife is like rushing from one place to another every night, where will you have the energy to manage a company during the day?"
"Yes, your sister is right," Li Qianru suggested. "If you're going to start a business, you should start something like a financial investment company. That would be much easier..."
"Don't you two give me random advice. I've already decided, I'm opening a housekeeping company." He put down his knife and fork, tried to please Huo Jin, and said with a smile, "Sis, can you do the feasibility report and market research?"
"No," Huo Jin refused outright, got up, and made a face at him. "You're starting your own company, so do your own research. If you really don't know, just search online. My shop is swamped every day, I don't have time to help you, Mr. Young Master."
"I took so many beatings for you when we were kids, you're so disloyal!" Huo Zheng glared at her angrily.
Huo Jin walked over to him, pinched his taut cheeks, and smiled. "Little brother, don't worry, I won't be disloyal. When your company is really ready to open, I'll definitely introduce you to a lot of business. That's settled. Work hard, I'm going to the shop."
After saying that, she patted his head like an older sister and left happily, feeling like the cute little brother who always followed her around had returned.
Li Qianru kept putting breakfast onto Huo Zheng's plate, saying, "Good son, it's rare for you to get up for breakfast, eat more. Look how thin you've gotten because you never eat at regular times. I've always told you not to skip breakfast, it's very bad for your health..."
Huo Zheng's head felt twice as big hearing his mother start her lecture, so he quickly made his escape, saying, "Mom, I'm full, you eat slowly."
Before his mother could say anything else, he scurried back to his room.
In the vast dining room, only Li Qianru was left. She lost her appetite facing the exquisite breakfast, but she was in a good mood.
Her son finally had some ambition, and no matter what, she had to convince Old Huo to support their son in starting his company.
...
In the evening, Sister Jing entered the club through the employee passage as if she were a thief, afraid of being stopped by Young Master Huo again to be interrogated.
She had insisted that she was not familiar with Susu and didn't know where she went after she resigned, but she couldn't stand Young Master Huo asking about her every day for no reason.
Tonight, she finally heard others say that Young Master Huo hadn't come, and she felt a lot more relaxed. She regained her usual demeanor, greeting guests with seasoned enthusiasm.
As Sister Jing was attending to some second-generation rich kids, she overheard them joking about Huo Zheng not coming to the nightlife venues recently because he was busy starting a housekeeping company.
Oh my god, Sister Jing thought to herself, she was driven crazy by Huo Zheng, so she casually made up an excuse to fob him off, and he actually believed it.
A few days ago, Huo Zheng had been coming to inquire about Susu's whereabouts every day, which annoyed her greatly. She had to say that although Susu was no longer working as a cleaner there, she might be looking for other jobs through a housekeeping company.
If he really wanted to find Susu, he didn't need to come to the club every day. He could go to every housekeeping company in Lancheng and ask.
She thought that by saying this, she could make him use his extra energy to look for her elsewhere and stop bothering her, but she didn't expect him to simply start a housekeeping company.
It seemed that this Young Master Huo was quite persistent in pursuing a girl, and she was completely convinced.
At two in the morning, Sister Jing got off work. As soon as she stepped out of the club, she was stopped by a tall, strong man who showed her his badge and said, "Police, I need to ask you something."
Sister Jing was startled, not knowing what she had done wrong, and quickly asked, "Officer, I have always abided by the law..."
Su Kangxi said, "I'm not here to arrest you, just to ask about someone."
"Who?"
"Wei Yanan." Su Kangxi asked strangely, "I haven't seen her doing promotional work here recently."
Sister Jing patted her chest. So the police were looking for her about this. She then asked, "Yanan, what happened to her again?"
Su Kangxi retorted, "Did she often get into trouble when she was here?"
"When she was a hostess, she often offended customers..."
"Hostess? She was a hostess?" Su Kangxi's expression immediately changed.
Sister Jing was a bit confused and asked, "What did Yanan do wrong? It shouldn't be. She went to start a business, she won't have any more trouble, right?"
"What business?" Su Kangxi became more anxious the more he heard.
Sister Jing remembered that Susu had instructed her not to tell anyone where they had resigned to.
She was unwilling to answer Su Kangxi's questions anymore and said to him vigilantly, "Fellow police officer, why exactly are you asking me about Yanan?"
Su Kangxi didn't use his authority to pressure her and said, "Yanan is my friend, I'm just concerned. Why don't we find a place to sit down, and you can tell me about Yanan?"
Chatting with a police officer? Sister Jing felt uncomfortable just thinking about it and immediately said, "Yanan resigned a while ago. As for where she went, I don't know..."
"Oh." Su Kangxi thought that Yanan might have resigned to avoid him, and said helplessly, "But I still want to know what happened when she was here."
Sister Jing hesitated for a moment, thinking that she couldn't offend the police. Susu had said not to tell anyone their whereabouts, but it shouldn't be a problem to talk about Yanan's past.
"Okay."
Su Kangxi found a 24-hour convenience store and asked Sister Jing a lot about Wei Yanan's affairs at the club.
After chatting for about an hour, they each left the convenience store.
His mood was turbulent and painful. He had already felt guilty when he learned that Yanan was doing promotional work.
But now he knew that she had also worked as a hostess in nightlife venues, had fallen into depravity for a while, got drunk every day, was taken advantage of by many customers, offended some powerful people, and was often beaten.
He didn't take a taxi and walked aimlessly. He was going crazy along the way. The excuses he had used to comfort himself could no longer deceive him.
As a police officer, he had done nothing wrong during his undercover work, but as a man, he was a scumbag. He had hurt her and deceived her, but there was no way to make amends, which made him constantly uneasy and tormented.
He walked to the shooting range inside the police station. The night watchman recognized him and greeted him, "Captain Su, you're here to practice shooting so late?"
"Can you let me in to practice now?"
The old man opened the door for him and said, "Of course, you can come in. Can't sleep again?"
Su Kangxi nodded, didn't say much, and as soon as he entered, he turned on the lights, put on his earmuffs, and vented his pain towards the distant target.
The old man glanced at the shooting range from the outside, shook his head, and returned to the duty room.