“Don’t rush. You go to Zhongji Park alone first. Once you get there, someone will guide you,” Ai Yiwei said.
Gu Susu couldn't help but feel anxious. “I can’t leave right now. Qin Tianyi has people guarding me, preventing me from stepping out of the house.”
“Oh.” Ai Yiwei said unhurriedly, “That’s your problem. Figure it out yourself. If you don’t go to Zhongji Park by the end of today, you’ll never see that child again.”
“Wait, Ai Yiwei, I can’t get past the two bodyguards at the door! You… you have children too, how can you be so heartless? Can’t you give me a little more time?”
“I have children?” Ai Yiwei burst into laughter on the phone. “Gu Susu, I don’t have your luck, being able to give birth safely in prison. I lost my child back then; the fetus died at eight months!”
Gu Susu was shocked. When she left Lancheng, Ai Yiwei was more than four months pregnant, and everything seemed normal. How could the child have been lost?
Ai Yiwei’s laughter was tinged with sadness as she continued, “Do you know what it feels like to have an induced labor? It’s like giving birth, giving birth to a child who has fully developed, but never gets the chance to open its eyes to this world. It was a dead child… a dead child!”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t know.” Gu Susu couldn’t bear to listen anymore. “I thought you had become a mother…”
“You must be very happy right now, thinking I deserved this, that I got what I deserved.”
“I never thought that.” Gu Susu disliked her, even hated her, but she didn’t feel any schadenfreude about what had happened to her.
Ai Yiwei said disdainfully, “Stop pretending to be good. Do you know what I hate most about you?”
Gu Susu was speechless and didn’t answer.
She continued speaking to herself, “I hate most that you pretend to be innocent, pretend to be kind, pretend that you are so great.”
“Ai Yiwei, that’s enough. What does what you’ve gone through have to do with me? I’ve never harmed you, yet you keep trying to frame me!”
“Right, the most hateful thing about you is that you appear to be detached from worldly affairs, yet in the end, all the good things come to you! You are truly detestable. It would have been so good if you had stayed in the orphanage in the county town forever. Why did you have to come to Lancheng, return to the Ai family, and take what’s mine!”
Gu Susu felt she was being unreasonably ill. “No one wants to take anything from you; you’re the one who’s psychologically unstable! You should have seen a psychiatrist long ago!”
Ai Yiwei smiled, wiped away a tear, and said triumphantly, “No matter what you say, you must go to Zhongji Park today. That child isn’t in my hands, and there are some things I can’t control!”
“But…” Before Gu Susu could finish speaking, the other party had hung up.
When she tried to call again, it was busy.
She wasn’t making excuses by talking to Ai Yiwei just now. There were two burly bodyguards standing at the door, and she couldn’t break through even with all her might.
What should she do?
She could tell from Ai Yiwei’s tone that she wasn’t joking. The child was likely in the hands of some vicious people, and she had to go to the park today as Ai Yiwei had said.
It seemed she had to find a way to leave the apartment. As she was worrying, she inadvertently glanced at the meal Xiaomei had brought in and placed on the table.
There was a steamed fish that made her want to vomit just looking at it. She picked up her chopsticks, picked up a large piece of fish, and put it in her mouth.
The steamed fish was already cold, and it tasted even fishier.
She forced down the nausea and urge to vomit, eating half the fish in large mouthfuls. Immediately, her stomach churned as if it were turning upside down.
Before she could throw up, she shouted, “Xiaomei, Xiaomei! There’s something wrong with this meal!”
Hearing her call, Xiaomei hurried into the bedroom. Seeing that a lot of the steamed fish on the table had been eaten, her face turned pale, and she looked very unwell.
“Miss Gu, what’s wrong? Are you okay? This fish should be fine; it was freshly killed.”
Gu Susu waved her hand and, with another wave of nausea, rushed into the bathroom and vomited everything out.
After vomiting, she knelt by the toilet, still retching.
Xiaomei followed her, asking worriedly, “What’s wrong? What should we do?”
Gu Susu recovered, clutching her stomach, and said, “I think I have food poisoning. Hurry and take me to the hospital.”
Xiaomei quickly said, “I’ll call an ambulance right away.”
Gu Susu grabbed her clothes. “Calling an ambulance will be too slow. Tell those two people at the door to drive me to the hospital quickly.”
Xiaomei immediately realized, Yes, this would be the fastest way. Food poisoning could be serious.
She remembered that in her village, someone had eaten poisonous mushrooms and died.
This fish was clearly fresh, bought by her today. She wondered if the unscrupulous vendors at the market would sell poisonous fish!
The young master was kidnapped while in her care. If Miss Gu also got sick from eating the fish she prepared, the young master would surely kill her!
She hurriedly opened the door and told the two bodyguards at the door that Gu Susu had food poisoning and asked them to drive her to the hospital quickly.
When the two bodyguards heard about this incident, fearing Qin Tianyi’s blame, they didn’t dare to delay.
One helped Xiaomei support Gu Susu out, while the other immediately went to start the car.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Gu Susu was sent to the emergency room. The doctor stopped Xiaomei and the two bodyguards outside.
It was then that Xiaomei called Qin Tianyi.
When Qin Tianyi received Xiaomei’s call, he was on his way to the apartment. Upon hearing that Gu Susu had food poisoning, he immediately rushed to the hospital.
Qin Tianyi hurried to the outside of the emergency room. He only saw Xiaomei, but not the two bodyguards.
“How is she? Is it serious? Is she still in the emergency room?”
Xiaomei, facing Qin Tianyi’s questions, didn’t know how to answer and burst into tears.
Qin Tianyi thought Gu Susu was seriously ill and said anxiously, “Stop crying. What happened to her? Why did she get food poisoning?”
Xiaomei stopped crying and said timidly, “Young Master, I’m not sure either. Miss Gu vomited a lot after eating the fish. We took her to the emergency room as quickly as possible, but… but…”
“But what? Is she in danger?” Qin Tianyi asked nervously again.
Xiaomei didn’t know how to explain and lowered her head fearfully, “She’s not in danger, it’s just that Miss Gu… she…”
“What exactly happened?” Qin Tianyi was losing patience.
“Miss Gu, she’s gone. The two bodyguards are searching the hospital for her.”
“Gone! How could she be gone? The three of you couldn’t even keep an eye on one person!”
Xiaomei said in a panic, “Young Master… we were waiting outside the emergency room, but just now… the doctor in the emergency room said that as soon as Miss Gu was admitted, she complained of stomach pain. The doctor had to let her go to the restroom inside. She went in and didn’t come out. The doctor also got anxious and went to the restroom to look for her, but she was nowhere to be seen.”
Qin Tianyi’s gaze was almost murderous. “Does the emergency room have another door?”