Yang Sijie slowly raised his head again, his eyes bloodshot as he looked at him, smiling hazily, "Can we go back? Can she and I go back..."
Before he could finish, he slumped down again, as if dead drunk.
"We can go back, we definitely can," Allen put down the wine bottle, walked to his side, helped him up, it seemed he would have to let him sleep in the shop tonight.
Only he understood best that the girl named Susu was the dream that supported Yang Sijie through his time abroad. If this dream shattered, he didn't know if Yang Sijie could hold on.
...
Qin Tianyi was undergoing leg and waist training in the rehabilitation department of the hospital. A simple movement had to be repeated hundreds of times.
A large TV was hung on the wall of the rehabilitation training room, and he was not interested in the programs on it at all, never watching them.
Other people undergoing rehabilitation training would constantly change channels when they had nothing to do, to pass the dull and boring time of rehabilitation training.
Qin Tianyi wanted a dedicated private training room, but the hospital couldn't free one up at the moment, so he had to train with other patients, which also made it easier for the doctors to guide him.
Aunt Chen accompanied him with water and a towel, and would occasionally glance at the TV.
A fellow patient, unwilling to watch the boring idol drama, casually changed the channel, and entertainment news was being broadcast.
"Last night, the annual fashion awards ceremony was held in Lancheng, with unprecedented grandeur..."
Aunt Chen glanced at it and suddenly noticed Gu Susu appearing in a shot, naturally saying, "Miss Gu is on TV."
Qin Tianyi, who was stretching his legs with the equipment, immediately looked at the TV, but he saw a shot of Gu Susu holding hands with a man.
As the fellow patient was about to change the channel again, Qin Tianyi sternly said, "Just watch this, don't change the channel."
The fellow patient holding the remote was so startled that he almost dropped it. He glanced at Qin Tianyi and felt that this person was too terrifying.
Qin Tianyi ignored others' opinions and kept staring intently at the report of the awards ceremony on TV.
Gu Susu actually attended such a public event arm-in-arm with another man, and even won some award for the most potential fashion designer. Moreover, he had never heard of this ceremony having such an award.
"Young Master, Young Madam... Miss Gu is quite photogenic, she looks so beautiful in front of the camera, not inferior to those actresses at all."
Qin Tianyi, however, said coldly, "Turn it off, she's ugly."
As soon as Aunt Chen took the remote and turned off the TV, Shu Yan walked in.
She walked to Qin Tianyi with a distressed face, pointed to the wound on her forehead, and said, "Tianyi, look, look quickly. Yesterday, I went to the fashion awards ceremony and met your ex-wife. She hit me and pushed me. Look how she injured me, the wound still hurts."
Qin Tianyi glanced at the bandage on her forehead, not caring about her injury, and only asked, "Who was that man with Gu Susu last night? He looks unfamiliar. Is he a newly popular star?"
Shu Yan saw that he didn't care about her forehead injury but only asked who the man was who attended the ceremony with Gu Susu last night, and said with dissatisfaction, "You care so much about who she's with, could it be you're jealous?"
Seeing that she didn't answer, Qin Tianyi suddenly threw away the equipment in his hand, stopped training, and sat down.
Aunt Chen thought he was thirsty and handed him the towel and water. He didn't take them, but stretched out his hand and said, "Phone."
Shu Yan immediately blocked him and Aunt Chen, asking, "Why aren't you training anymore? What do you want Aunt Chen's phone for? Have you forgotten what the doctor said? If you want to fully recover within a month, you have to train more every day. Do you still want to appear normally at our wedding?"
Qin Tianyi finally looked up and opened his eyes to look at her, "Are you afraid I'll have the wedding in a wheelchair and embarrass you?"
Shu Yan quickly explained, "That's not it..."
"If you think I'm useless, then don't get married."
"Our marriage has already been announced in the newspaper, and it's known to everyone now. It must be held as scheduled." Shu Yan stared at him, "You were the one who asked Xiao Anjing to propose to me and my parents, and to announce it in the newspaper. Do you want to break off the engagement?"
"I never said I wanted to break off the engagement, you said that yourself." Qin Tianyi felt extremely annoyed by her constant nagging. Every day she repeated the same things to him, either probing if he was with other women, or urging him to train more, or constantly testing his limits, and then threatening him with the published marriage announcement.
Shu Yan was momentarily speechless, glaring at him, tears welling up in her eyes.
Qin Tianyi didn't want to deal with her anymore. He got his phone from Aunt Chen and started searching for news about the ceremony on his phone.
Within seconds, Shu Yan suddenly threw a tantrum and slapped the phone out of his hand, saying aggrievedly, "Qin Tianyi, what exactly do you want? I come to see you and accompany you every day, and you've never given me a good look. Since that's the case, why did you decide to marry me, and why was the marriage news published? Why!"
Qin Tianyi looked at the phone screen, which was already cracked from being dropped, and asked her with suppressed anger, "What do you want to do!"
"Is your broken phone better-looking than me?" Shu Yan said loudly, "Look at me, look at me!"
Qin Tianyi looked at her with a murderous expression. This woman was simply unreasonable, a damn lunatic!
Shu Yan's tears fell from her eyes and she said, "Look at me, who am I? I'm your fiancée! I'm not a tool! You all, for the sake of group interests, family interests, your position in the family... what do you all think of me? I'm a bargaining chip for my mother to gain my father's attention and stabilize her position in the family, and I'm also a bargaining chip you want to use, right?"
"Then aren't you also trying to use me to stabilize your and your mother's position and compete with your wolf-like siblings?" Qin Tianyi said indifferently and calmly, "We are all insiders, and we know clearly that we are each getting what we need. So what else do you want from me? I can't give you anything extra, and you've found the wrong person."
Shu Yan knew he was right. Reducing everything to interests made people very clear-headed. Wasn't it uncomfortable to have no love and no pain?
But for some reason, she had developed feelings for Qin Tianyi that she shouldn't have. Besides what he just said, she also wanted a little more, but was that a big mistake?
Qin Tianyi's words left her speechless. She turned away in frustration and ran out of the rehabilitation training room.
Qin Tianyi calmly bent down to pick up the phone from the ground and said to Aunt Chen, "Notify Xiao Anjing to find a way to appease Shu Yan and prevent her from causing bigger trouble."
"Okay," Aunt Chen replied.
He eagerly continued to search for news about the ceremony on his phone. Who was that man, who was he?
Soon, he found a brief introduction to Yang Sijie online, describing him as some kind of top hidden tycoon.
He didn't understand how Gu Susu knew such a person, but Yang Sijie's photo looked somewhat familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before, but he couldn't recall it for a moment.