The heavy snow fluttered.
This was the CEO's office at the Su Family Pharmaceutical company in Sijiu.
Su Zui, who had arrived at the company long ago, picked up her teacup and took a sip of water, then reached for her phone.
There was a WeChat message on the screen.
She opened it—
Her eyes snapped wide open!
"Mom!"
After a moment of stunned silence, Su Zui snapped back to reality and let out a piercing scream, leaping from her chair with a whoosh.
Her phone, however, rang.
Without even looking at the caller ID, she fumbled to answer, blurting out, "Mom! Is that you?"
"This is Li Wujiang."
Li Wujiang had been on her way back east with her team when she received Su Nanyin's last words. She immediately called Su Maomao.
After all, Su Maomao was carrying her first grandchild, so Sister Wujiang naturally had to prioritize her safety.
"Aunt Wujiang? I... I'm Mom."
Su Zui's lips trembled uncontrollably, and she could barely speak clearly.
"Calm down, Nanyin is fine."
Li Wujiang said, "I predicted that Nanyin would do something foolish today. So, I already asked Qianfan's grandfather to secretly protect her safety."
Qianfan's grandfather?
Who was Qianfan's grandfather?
Oh, oh.
It was that scumbag who shone across the universe—
Su Zui understood!
All her strength suddenly drained away like a receding tide. She sank softly into her chair, then felt a faint pain in her lower abdomen.
She hurriedly raised her hand to cradle her belly and leaned over the desk.
She had, after all, been so frightened by Su Nanyin's last words that her pregnancy was affected.
Fortunately, Li Wujiang's timely call allowed her trembling heart to quickly stabilize.
"Maomao, what's wrong?"
Li Wujiang, sensing something was amiss on the other end of the phone, asked anxiously, "Are you experiencing pregnancy complications?"
The fact that Su Zui was carrying her deceased husband's posthumous child wasn't exactly a secret.
It had been over four months, and she was already showing.
It was perfectly normal for Li Wujiang to know she was pregnant and to guess that she might be startled by Su Nanyin's last words, leading to complications.
"No, it's nothing."
Su Zui, her face pale, looked up and forced a smile, saying, "Aunt Wujiang, did Grandpa Li really go to protect my mom?"
"This is a matter of life and death, why would I lie to you?"
Li Wujiang said casually, "After all, Su Nanyin is my best assistant. And you're carrying my grandchild in your belly."
Huh?
What do you mean, "you're carrying my grandchild in your belly"?
How did you know!?
Su Maomao stared, her mouth slightly agape, looking incredibly cute.
"Alright, we'll talk about other matters later. You call Chongchong first, so she doesn't worry. I'll call Yaoyao. Don't worry, I've even invited the head of the Li family himself to personally protect Su Nanyin. Even if she wanted to die spectacularly, she wouldn't be able to!"
Li Wujiang said with a confident tone and ended the call.
As soon as the call ended, Su Maomao's phone vibrated rapidly again.
It was Shen Chongchong.
The moment the call was connected, Chongchong's tearful voice came through, "Maomao, what happened to our mom? You were by her side, how could you not know anything beforehand!?"
Whose child is it, whose heart aches.
Whose mom is it, whose heart aches.
Su Nanyin also felt great pain—
Even though she was unafraid of the cold as she approached her death, when her foot slipped on the uphill slope, and her left knee hit the ground heavily, she let out a low moan of pain, and tears couldn't help but well up.
The snow on the slope was relentlessly blown by the wind, revealing the natural color of the Great Wall's large blue bricks.
The crucial point was.
Su Nanyin was only wearing a short skirt and ultra-thin black stockings, the kind worn in summer. Was it any different from not wearing anything?
Anyone would injure their knee after hitting the blue bricks so hard, and let out a scream of unbearable pain.
"So unlucky. To take such a fall right before dying."
Su Nanyin, who was sweating cold sweat from the pain, slowly stood up after the darkness in front of her eyes cleared, murmuring softly to herself.
Her plan was to go to the "No Entry for Tourists" beacon tower ahead, drink the highly toxic medicine she had prepared, and then ascend into heaven while sitting at its base.
Just as she was nearing the end of her life's journey, she had fallen so hard.
As she struggled to stand up, she let out a mournful groan and knelt down again.
Her left knee had been hit very hard.
Let alone climbing the slope, she couldn't even stand up.
"Fine, I'll just go west from here then."
Kneeling on the ground, Su Nanyin looked up at the beacon tower and murmured, taking a small plastic bottle from her pocket.
As the deputy steward of the Dark Blade, obtaining such a potent poison that guaranteed death was incredibly easy.
"To the ones I love, and to the ones who love me, goodbye!"
Su Nanyin bit her lip hard, as if saying her final words to the world, and opened the plastic bottle.
But a hand reached from behind her and snatched the small bottle away.
"Who!?"
Su Nanyin froze, quickly cried out in alarm, and spun around to look.
Just as she knelt down, blinded by pain, a young man wearing a mask quietly approached her from behind.
Even though the young man was wearing a mask—
Su Nanyin recognized him instantly.
Li Qianfan.
It was that heartless little brat!
But, how did he get here?
Kneeling on the ground, Su Nanyin stared blankly at Li Qianfan. Her normally fast-thinking brain had completely crashed.
She watched as Li Qianfan removed the mask from his face and tossed it aside.
As the cold wind blew the mask away, Li Qianfan poured the pill from the plastic bottle into his own mouth.
Su Nanyin's crashed brain instantly came back to life at this point.
She let out a piercing scream: "Don't eat it! Quickly, spit it out!"
She no longer cared about the severe pain in her knee.
And from where she found the strength, she suddenly sprang up, lunged into Li Qianfan's embrace, and reached to pry open his mouth.
Su Nanyin knew better than anyone how potent the poison was.
She didn't have time to consider how Li Qianfan had appeared or why he would take the pill.
She only knew!
She had to get the pill out of his mouth with her fingers before Li Qianfan swallowed it!!
If that little brat truly died—
How would her Maomaochongya be able to live on!?
However.
The moment Su Nanyin's fingers touched the pill in Li Qianfan's mouth, he swallowed it.
Su Nanyin's attempt to pry out the pill instantly stopped.
She once again stared at Li Qianfan blankly, murmuring, "You... are willing to die in my place?"
If Li Qianfan could "commit suicide to atone," it could also resolve the scandal of being "beyond salvation."
(Reiteration: Due to Su Nanyin's unusual identity and influence, if an inexplicable scandal were to occur with Li Qianfan, she would only be able to prove her innocence by dying. However, just as the Miao family could only protect themselves once with the ancestral tablets, the fatal impact of scandal on Su Nanyin was also only once! The effect of certain moves was also only once.)
"Yes, I'm willing to die in your place. Are you very moved?"
Li Qianfan spat out the fingers from his mouth and retorted with a pale, forced smile.
A certain bunny who, due to the activation of the primal 209, treated the highly toxic pill like a bean and couldn't help but put on a show with the Guanyin girl.
Before he finished speaking.
He suddenly bent over, clutching his stomach with both hands, and fell to the ground like a shrimp.
The poison had taken effect.
Qianfan was dying.
He was proving my innocence by dying in my place!
Thinking this, Su Nanyin's subconscious hatred for the bunny was instantly replaced by indescribable pain.
She knelt down heavily again, pulled Li Qianfan into her arms, and sobbed, her voice hoarse as she cursed, "You bastard! You bastard! You little rascal! If you die, what will happen to me? What about Maomaochongya? How will I explain to your parents?"
Suddenly, she hated Li Qianfan with all her might.
Because the bunny's death would directly affect Maomaochongya's lifelong happiness.
Su Nanyin could be heartless and disregard Li Wujiang's feelings.
But she had to consider Maomaochongya's lifelong happiness.
Su Nanyin could no longer control herself—
Amidst the crying and cursing, she raised her hand and forcefully slapped Li Qianfan across the face.
With all her might.
"What the hell, that hurts?"
Blinded by the blow, a certain bunny secretly cursed, no longer able to pretend.
He quickly rolled over, got up, clutched his cheek, and stumbled backward, his face a mask of awkward laughter.
Su Nanyin stopped crying.
She slumped to her knees there, staring at him blankly again.
"Ahem, Aunt Nanyin."
The bunny coughed dryly and said, "Didn't I tell you before that once primal 209 is activated, there's no more poison in the world for me?"
Su Nanyin was stunned.
Li Qianfan then said softly, "In plain language, I've been immune to all poisons since I was a child. And after primal 209 was activated, I don't react to any highly toxic substances at all."
Su Nanyin still didn't speak, just stared at him with wide eyes.
But her gaze was sharp, almost frightening!
If the bunny had told her this earlier, why would she have cried and cursed in such a panic?
A hundred meters away, there were seven or eight tourists.
Among them were Su Xin and Xiaolu.
Seeing her aunt "hugging, kissing, crying, and making a scene" with Li Qianfan from afar, Su Xin felt a chill crawl up her spine: "So those rumors were true. The four beauties of the Su family have all been captured by Li Qianfan!"
"Sister Xin, let's go quickly."
Xiaolu was also smart. She grabbed the stunned Su Xin and turned to leave, saying, "Today, we were never here."