"But he is truly dead. Heaven has avenged you. You don't need to torment yourself, living in hatred and pain."
He was still struggling, saying hatefully, "Then what about you? You're his accomplice! How did he die, and why are you unharmed?"
"It's the cycle of karma. He was also shot and killed by the police. Whether you believe it or not, I wasn't with him willingly. I was also threatened."
Ai Yifeng no longer knew the meaning of his own life. He roared, covering his head, "You've managed to push all the blame away. So the Ai Group is gone for nothing!"
"Brother, why must you live with hatred?" Susu calmly advised him. "Although the Ai Group can't be recovered, if you let go of your hatred and resolve your inner turmoil, won't you live better? Don't you want to live a simple, peaceful life? You're still young, you can start over. It doesn't matter if you have money or not, as long as you live with peace and happiness..."
"Shut up!" Ai Yifeng's mind was in chaos. He couldn't bear to hear Susu say these things.
Susu hoped Ai Yifeng could regain his senses. He wasn't inherently bad and had never truly harmed anyone.
If he hadn't been so sentimental, he wouldn't have been deceived by Ai Yiwei and confused right from wrong.
"Ai Yifeng! No matter what, we are each other's only family in this world. Can we stop misunderstanding and resenting each other?"
Ai Yifeng just wanted to be alone now. He roared at her, "Get out! I don't want to see you again!"
Susu still wanted to try and help him understand, "Yifeng..."
Hearing her voice, Ai Yifeng felt his head was about to explode. He rushed forward and forcefully pushed her.
Susu lost her balance and fell to the ground, in so much pain that she couldn't get up immediately.
At this moment, Qin Tianyi arrived by car. He saw Ai Yifeng pushing Susu from a distance.
He stopped the car, got out immediately, rushed to Ai Yifeng, and threw a punch.
"How dare you hit my wife? You're going to die!"
Ai Yifeng hadn't expected Qin Tianyi to appear at this moment. He was stunned for a second, then immediately retaliated.
Qin Tianyi easily dodged, and with a swift counter-grapple, he threw Ai Yifeng to the ground and pinned him.
Ai Yifeng struggled furiously, but in terms of skill, he was far inferior to Qin Tianyi.
Taekwondo, Judo... Qin Tianyi had learned some self-defense martial arts beforehand. Otherwise, how could he have dealt with Jin Meiyao and her son's overt and covert schemes throughout his childhood?
Later, he even competed in boxing matches. His current skills were probably comparable to a professional bodyguard.
Susu finally got up from the ground and went to pull Qin Tianyi, saying, "Tianyi, I'm fine. He just wanted to ask me some things, he didn't hurt me."
Hearing Susu say this, Qin Tianyi's anger subsided by half. With an absolute, overwhelming advantage, he loomed over Ai Yifeng and warned him, "You'd better not come looking for Susu again, and don't provoke me. You can't afford to!"
After speaking, he released Ai Yifeng, helped Susu up, and asked, "Are you okay? You didn't get hurt when he pushed you to the ground just now?"
Susu patted the dust off her back and smiled, "I'm fine. He didn't mean it."
"Let's go."
Susu remembered something and said, "My phone, wait, I'll pick up my phone."
"You get in the car first," Qin Tianyi handed her the car keys and said, "I'll get it."
Susu obediently went to sit in the car. Qin Tianyi picked up her phone and glanced at Ai Yifeng, who was still lying on the ground, unmoving.
He reached out his hand, intending to help him up, and said, "For the sake of you being Susu's brother, I won't hold this against you."
However, Ai Yifeng didn't appreciate it at all. He looked up at the dark sky and cursed, "Get lost! All of you, get lost! I don't want to see you again!"
Qin Tianyi ignored him, his face cold, his brow furrowed. He got into the car and started the engine.
All the way, Susu saw his unhappy expression and asked, "Are you angry? I didn't expect..."
"You always don't think things through!" Qin Tianyi's displeasure was evident in his eyes, and his voice was low as he said, "Why didn't you tell me you had arranged to meet Ai Yifeng?"
Susu explained, "I didn't arrange to meet him... I was trying to call a ride-sharing car, but I didn't expect the driver to be him. If you don't believe me, look at my ride-hailing records online, see where the destination was."
As she spoke, Susu opened the ride-sharing app to show him.
He didn't look at it, and his tone softened slightly as he said, "In that case, you should complain to him on the online platform. He didn't follow the agreed route, changed the route without authorization, and put the passenger in danger!"
Susu put away her phone and said softly, "Let's forget it. He's fallen so low as to drive a ride-sharing car. I can't take away his livelihood. We'll just interact less in the future. After all, I don't have much luck with family..."
As she spoke, Susu became a little sad and couldn't continue.
Seeing her upset, Qin Tianyi's anger completely dissipated.
He had originally planned to make her happy tonight and give her a surprise. He drove back to the restaurant.
As a VIP customer like him, the restaurant manager dared not cancel his reservation when they couldn't reach her.
Susu, in a bad mood, walked into the restaurant with him and discovered it was a very high-class establishment, its luxurious decoration astonishing.
A waiter followed Qin Tianyi and asked, "Mr. Qin, shall we serve everything as you requested?"
"Yes, you can serve the food now. Light the candles on the candelabra."
Susu saw that the private room was even more luxuriously and romantically decorated and asked inexplicably, "What's wrong? Is today a special occasion?"
Qin Tianyi held her hands, gazed at her, and said, "Haven't we had a candlelit dinner together yet? I want to be romantic with you too."
The waiter had already lit the candles on the candelabra and turned off the lights in the private room, respectfully saying, "Mr. Qin, you and Madam can be seated."
Although Susu felt warm inside, she said, "Why come to such a high-class place to eat? Isn't the food cooked by Chen Ma at home delicious?"
"How can the atmosphere at home compare to this place?" Qin Tianyi said with concern. "It's good that everything is safe now. This is to calm your nerves."
"Oh." Susu's bad mood had completely vanished. Although heaven hadn't given her a good birth family, it had bestowed upon her Qin Tianyi. Heaven was fair after all. She joked, "The cold, icy Mr. Qin also knows romance."
Qin Tianyi saw that she wasn't appreciative and was even teasing him. He sat down and almost threw his fork at her.
He was trying to change himself and had learned many romantic tricks online, but she hadn't praised him much.
It made him incredibly angry. He ordered her, "Serve this young master his meal."
"Yes, master." Susu saw that his temper was flaring up again, so she stopped teasing him and obediently stood by his side, bringing him the pre-meal soup.