After hanging up the phone, Huangfu Shaohua sat and thought for a while. It seemed only Song Jiaping could help.
He asked his secretary to summon Song Jiaping to his office.
Within the entire group, besides his elder sister, only Song Jiaping knew about his and Daisy's affairs.
Moreover, Song Jiaping had even attended his and Daisy's wedding. Although Song Jiaping was a bit of a strange person, and Mengqi had warned him before going abroad to be wary of Song Jiaping harming the group, now, after much thought, Song Jiaping was the only one who could be of use.
Song Jiaping, upon receiving the secretary's notification, wondered why Huangfu Shaohua was looking for him so close to the end of the workday.
Furthermore, ever since Mengqi went abroad and Huangfu Shaohua returned to being a department head, he hadn't even looked at Song Jiaping directly, let alone called him to his office.
"Do you know why the second young master is looking for me?" Song Jiaping asked the secretary nervously.
The secretary shook her head and said, "I don't know. Hurry up and go. The second young master seems to have something urgent to discuss with you."
Song Jiaping didn't ask any more questions and headed directly to Huangfu Shaohua's office.
As soon as he entered, Huangfu Shaohua asked him to close the door and got straight to the point: "I need your help with something. I need to get rid of the bodyguards outside."
Song Jiaping asked in confusion, "They are protecting your safety. Why do you want to get rid of them?"
"Yes, they can protect my safety, but they are also used by my mother to monitor me." Huangfu Shaohua thought of Gu Susu waiting and said, "I'm going to meet someone alone, someone related to Daisy. I don't want them to follow."
Song Jiaping had already noticed that Daisy was no longer among the four bodyguards. It seemed something else had happened. He asked, "But how can I help you?"
Huangfu Shaohua had thought of a plan and said, "Let's switch clothes. I'll wear a hat and pretend to be you leaving the company. You help me by sitting in the office. Once we are far from the company, contact the bodyguards and tell them you'll be working overtime in the office tonight, so they don't need to guard."
"Will this work? Won't they see through you pretending to be me when you walk out?" Song Jiaping asked.
Huangfu Shaohua said, "I'll have them check the entire floor first for any suspicious individuals."
Saying that, he called the secretary and asked her to inform the four bodyguards outside.
As soon as the secretary left, he quickly changed his jacket with Song Jiaping.
His and Song Jiaping's builds were similar. The difference was that his frame was a bit sturdier than Song Jiaping's. Wearing Song Jiaping's clothes would be a bit tight, but luckily, they still fit.
Huangfu Shaohua learned that there was only one bodyguard at the door. He then asked the secretary to fetch coffee. Wearing a hat and carrying a stack of documents, he quickly walked out of the office, blocking his face, and first sat at Song Jiaping's desk for a while.
Seeing that no one had noticed, he pretended to pack his things and quickly left.
Song Jiaping sat in Huangfu Shaohua's office chair, with his back to the door. When the secretary brought coffee, he only said "Put it down."
As soon as the secretary left, he immediately locked the office door. This was a rare opportunity.
Before, he had sneaked into this office once but hadn't found anything useful and had almost aroused Mengqi's suspicion.
Huangfu Shaohua asking for his help was, in fact, mutual assistance.
Song Jiaping could also use this opportunity to thoroughly search for useful project materials or documents in this office and continue to implement his plan.
...
Susu had been waiting at the tea restaurant. She had finished a cup of iced black tea, and Huangfu Shaohua still hadn't shown up.
Huangfu Shaohua had agreed so readily on the phone. He wouldn't be deliberately playing her, but rather wouldn't show up for the meeting.
Susu felt angry thinking about it. Just as she was about to call Huangfu Shaohua again, he appeared at the entrance of the tea restaurant.
Huangfu Shaohua immediately spotted Gu Susu's seat, walked over, and sat down, asking, "How is Daisy's mother now? She's in the hospital, right?"
Susu saw that he still had some conscience and said, "Daisy's mother was rescued and is out of danger."
"What did her parents want from the group?" Huangfu Shaohua asked again.
Susu stared at him and said, "Daisy is pregnant, and they thought the child was yours. I guess they went to find you hoping you would take responsibility for Daisy's unborn child."
"You mean Daisy is pregnant? She's pregnant?" Huangfu Shaohua was completely stunned.
Susu didn't expect him to take responsibility and said, "You probably know about what happened to Daisy. She didn't intend to insist the child was yours. It's just that her parents didn't know about those things and thought it was yours, so they went to find you. But they didn't see you; they saw your mother instead."
Huangfu Shaohua seemed not to have heard her words and only asked, "How long has Daisy been pregnant?"
Susu had Daisy's pregnancy test result saved on her phone. She found it and showed it to him, saying, "Over forty days. But Daisy has a thin uterine lining since birth, so this child can only be born, not aborted."
Huangfu Shaohua took Susu's phone and stared at the pregnancy period column, calculating the date of his last intimacy with Daisy.
At that time, he had seen a video related to Daisy at his mother's villa. He hadn't known Daisy had been harmed yet. When he returned to their residence, he was furious.
As if to vent, he had forcefully taken Daisy. At the time, he had been surprised that Daisy hadn't resisted, hadn't hit him, and her emotions were not right.
At that moment, he felt it further proved Daisy had done something wrong, hence her inability to be righteous in front of him.
If Daisy had gotten pregnant then, the pregnancy period would be just right.
"Do you know the specific day Daisy was harmed by those two scoundrels?" Huangfu Shaohua asked.
Susu couldn't recall the exact date immediately. However, seeing Huangfu Shaohua ask like this, she knew the child Daisy was carrying might not be the perpetrator's. She quickly checked her phone's calendar.
She was also trying hard to recall the specific date. After confirming it, she told Huangfu Shaohua.
Huangfu Shaohua discovered that the date was about a week apart from the day he had been intimate with Daisy. This meant the child in Daisy's womb was very likely his.
Susu saw his expression change several times and anxiously asked, "After Daisy was harmed, did you and Daisy have marital relations again?"
Huangfu Shaohua nodded.
Susu's mood finally improved a bit and she asked, "Then the child Daisy is carrying is yours, right?"
With a week's difference, he couldn't be completely sure, so he couldn't answer Susu with certainty.
Susu saw his hesitation and said angrily, "Even if it's not yours, you have to tell Daisy it is. Only you can give her confidence, and she can then stop worrying. Let her safely give birth to this child first. This concerns her health!"
"Alright." Huangfu Shaohua couldn't ignore Daisy's tragic situation. He thought that after the child was born, even if a DNA test proved it wasn't his, he could still be the child's godfather.
Susu immediately got up and said, "Let's go. We'll go to the hospital now. You tell Daisy yourself and comfort her personally."
"Now?" Huangfu Shaohua was still preparing to face Daisy and her parents.