As for what Qin Tianyi saw, only he himself knew. Xiao Anjing could not imagine what kind of主动勾搭 would have such serious consequences for a child.
"He's so pitiful, just like me. My father also had many women. But those women couldn't defeat my mother." Shu Yan could better understand Qin Tianyi's abnormal behavior towards her.
Xiao Anjing continued to encourage her, "Since that's the case, you can change Tianyi."
Shu Yan regained her confidence, thinking that her actions today might have been too hasty. No longer feeling wronged, she asked with a hint of guilt, "How is Tianyi now? Is he okay? What did the doctor say?"
At this moment, Xiao Anjing received a message from Aunt Chen, "Young Master is fine. The wound has slightly reopened, but the doctor has already treated it."
After reading the text message on his phone, he looked up and said to Shu Yan, "Tianyi is fine, there should be no major issues."
"That's good then," Shu Yan said with a smile. "Thank you for telling me all this today. I'll come to see him again tomorrow."
Xiao Anjing watched Shu Yan drive away, finally breathing a sigh of relief. He was fortunate that he had chased after her and appeased her emotions. If they lost the support of the Shu family now, their Ao Xiang Group would face a major crisis.
Too many things had happened recently, and Qin Tianyi had no time to deal with the group's affairs. He was unaware that an overseas investment company had arrived in Lancheng and was constantly snatching their group's projects.
Not only had they acquired Yi Mei Company, which competed with Mi Shang, but they had also intervened to help Ai Shi Group, hindering Ai Shi Group's acquisition project. The funds they had invested upfront were likely to be lost entirely.
If they were to lose the cooperation project with Shu Shi Group at this time, their group's capital chain would face significant problems.
Xiao Anjing turned and walked back to the ward, thinking that when Qin Tianyi was feeling better, he would persuade him that the marriage with Miss Shu could not be delayed any longer. After recovering this time, he should marry Miss Shu as soon as possible to establish an unbreakable cooperative relationship with Shu Shi.
...
After leaving the hospital, Gu Susu walked aimlessly on the street, not knowing where she was going, just following the crowd.
She had once longed to escape this place, hoping Qin Tianyi would let go.
But now, having reached this point, as she was about to embark on the life she desired, her heart ached so profoundly.
At this moment, her heartache was not for herself, but for the man, Qin Tianyi, who she felt was like a nightmare. Only at this moment of letting go did she suddenly realize that by leaving, she was leaving this man, whom she both loved and hated, alone on the edge of a cliff.
Love and hate, love and hate, did she love him? She kept asking herself.
Unable to escape any longer, she discovered that she had fallen in love with him at some point, but she shouldn't have fallen in love with this man!
Gu Susu didn't know how long she had been walking in such a daze. It wasn't until nightfall that she stood outside the glass window on the first floor of the mall and saw the children's themed restaurant through the floor-to-ceiling glass.
The theme of the restaurant had changed again tonight. It was no longer a pirate ship, but a SpongeBob SquarePants theme.
The restaurant was almost full of families with children. Gu Susu looked at the harmonious families inside and couldn't help but recall the time when Qin Tianyi and she brought Xiao Xingxing here.
Those dinners, which she had previously dismissed, now warmed her heart.
She walked in involuntarily, sat in a corner, ordered only a drink, and stayed there until the mall closed and all the restaurant guests had left.
But she was still immersed in that warmth and reluctant to leave.
Just then, a light rain began to fall outside the floor-to-ceiling window. A waiter walked over and politely said, "Hello, our restaurant is closing. May I have your bill, please?"
Gu Susu finally came to her senses and quickly said, "Okay, the bill."
She took out her phone and scanned the QR code to pay for her drink. As she left the restaurant, she found that the main entrance of the mall was closed, and she could only exit from a side door.
The rain outside had already become heavy, drizzling. Without an umbrella, she couldn't possibly dash into the rain.
She could only stand by the narrow eaves to shelter from the rain, not knowing when this downpour would stop.
Mall staff were leaving one after another. Those who went out through this door would look at Gu Susu, who was sheltering from the rain, with curiosity, but no one offered her an umbrella.
The rain had come suddenly, and many mall employees shared an umbrella as they went to their cars.
...
Yang Sijie and Su Kangxi had finished all the beer at home, and both were a little tipsy. Seeing that it had suddenly started raining outside, the cold wind also grew stronger.
Su Kangxi got up to close the window and told Yang Sijie to wait a moment, saying he would go buy more beer.
Yang Sijie stopped him, saying, "It's getting late, and it's raining again. Let's drink next time. I should go home."
Su Kangxi saw that the rain outside was getting heavier and didn't insist further. He gave Yang Sijie an umbrella and escorted him to the elevator.
Yang Sijie, holding the umbrella, had just reached the ground floor of Su Kangxi's rented apartment. Before he could open the umbrella, a black car was already waiting at the entrance.
A person in a black suit saw him come out, immediately got out of the car, and held open a large umbrella, shielding him from the heavy rain.
"Mr. Yang, shall we go back now?" the person holding the umbrella asked.
Yang Sijie shook his head and asked in a cold tone, "I asked you to follow Miss Gu today. Where did she go? Did you follow her?"
The person holding the umbrella replied, "As you instructed, we have been following her. She went to the hospital, walked on the street for two hours after leaving the hospital, then went to a restaurant, and should be leaving the restaurant to go home now."
"She was alone, no one else?"
"Yes, she was alone."
"Walked on the street for two hours, was she shopping? Did she buy a lot of things?"
"She didn't buy anything, she just... she just kept walking."
Yang Sijie looked at the heavy rain in the dark night and said to the person beside him, "Take me to that restaurant."
"But the restaurant should have been closed long ago."
Yang Sijie said lightly, "Mark, you've followed me for so long, do I need to repeat what I just said?"
"Sorry, Mr. Yang." With that, Mark opened the car door, always shielding Yang Sijie with the umbrella, ensuring not a single drop of rain fell on his clothes as he got in.
Mark's shoulder was half soaked, but he sat in the front passenger seat and drove as if nothing had happened.
...
Gu Susu waited until there were very few people left from the mall's closing staff. The rain was still heavy.
The heavy rain accompanied by the cold wind made her shiver. She didn't want to wait any longer, so she zipped up her collar and rushed directly into the rain.
She ran a short distance and stood by the roadside, getting drenched, trying to flag down a car.
However, all the passing taxis were occupied, and no car stopped for her.
She looked towards the bus stop opposite, hoping the last bus had not yet finished its route.
Just as she was about to dash across the road, a car speeding in the rain almost brushed past her, splashing the accumulated water all over her and nearly hitting her.
The sudden situation startled her, and she fell to the ground. She sat there in a mess, feeling utterly unlucky.
Just as she was about to get up, someone suddenly held up a black umbrella, shielding her from the rain overhead.