“Hello?” Greeted the polite, female voice again when there was no response.
Ascertaining that the phone number belonged to Qin Jinhuan, Jiang Wenwen looked surprised. She gently tugged Mu Yu’s sleeves to calm her down and asked suspiciously, “Where is Young Master Qin?”
“Our boss is currently in a meeting; this is his secretary speaking. Would you like to leave your name so that our boss may contact you later?”
Jiang Wenwen let out a breath and kept silent as she turned toward Mu Yu.
Mu Yu had already recognized Zhi Xiaoyin’s voice and realized that she had made a mistake. She was secretly relieved that she had not reacted impulsively and bared her teeth at Jiang Wenwen as she said, “This is Mu Yu, Secretary Zhi. Please have Huan call me once he is done with his meeting.”
“Madam? Of course. Do you have anything else that you would like me to relay to him?”
“Just tell him I have something important to ask
“I’m back in my room. You heard everything, didn’t you?” Qin Chengxi spoke softly into the phone.“How many candies did she take?” Dong Yueyun asked hastily. “All of them. Mom, did you put poison into the candies?”“Silly child, why do you not trust me? Do you think I’d be so cruel? And, even if I was so cruel, I still understand the logic behind taking a life. Do you think I’d poison candies?”“Then, tell me what was in the candies.”“Haven’t I told you repeatedly that the drug is harmless? The drug, when consumed by a woman, would only cause light bleeding that is similar to menstruation. It will neither endanger the woman’s life nor harm the baby she carries in her womb—I made sure of it when I measured the dosage.” After saying this, Dong Yueyun heaved a sigh. “It’s an agreement I made with Yin Anran to secure your sister’s job at Qing Tian Group; I have to make it seem as though Mu Yu suffered a miscarriage, or y
Li Xianglan let out a shriek. “Oh my goodness! What happened to Miss Qin?”Mu Yu immediately dashed over and began examining Qin Chengxi.“It looks like poisoning. Quick; get her to the hospital!”Before she could finish speaking, Qin Jinhuan had picked up Qin Chengxi and was now running out of the room. Mu Yu followed closely behind him. Qin Chengxi was soon in the emergency room at Fraternity Hospital. “What in the world is going on? Xi was fine! How did she get poisoned all of a sudden?” Qin Xiaozhi roared outside the emergency room.“Grandpa, please calm down. It’s probably a bad case of food poisoning,” Mu Yu said assuringly as she steadied the old man, worried that he might hurt himself in his state of panic.“Is Xi’s life in danger?”“No, of course not, Grandpa. Take a seat, and let’s try to remain calm.” Mu Yu eased him onto a chair and began rubbing his back in soothing
Hearing Yin Anran’s name brought up by Dong Wanqing, Mu Yu felt her skin prickle in surprise. “Yin Anran gave you those fruit gummies?” Mu Yu demanded with urgency.“Yes!” On this, Dong Wanqing’s response was unwaveringly certain. It was with disbelief that she asked, “Was there really poison in those fruit gummies? And, Xi was poisoned because she ate those gummies? Are you sure? Could there be some sort of misunderstanding?”Qin Jinhuan did not answer any of those questions but enquired instead, “Where did you buy those gummies?” “The gummies aren’t sold at supermarkets or shopping malls. They were specially made at a workshop, and Anran happens to be a regular customer—she gets on well enough with the owner. Were the gummies really poisoned? My goodness!” Dong Wanqing looked horrified. “The owner must have not known that Anran meant for those gummies to be a gift. What if the owner was out to get Anran?”“Wanqing!” Dong
Qin Chengxi was far more nervous than they were. Her body stiffened as she began to stutter out the words, “Grandpa, the whole thing was my fault; it had nothing to do with Mom and Dad. Please don’t be too hard on them.”“Nothing to do with them?” Qin Xiaozhi fixed a dark look on Qin Wentao. “Of course,” Qin Wentao insisted, though his gaze flickered. “Of course, it had nothing to do with us.”Dong Yueyun pulled her husband back and shot Qin Xiaozhi a nervous smile. “Listen to what you’re saying, Dad. Xi is our only child; even if she isn’t good enough, we wouldn’t push her beyond her limits. All we ask is that Shang Qi treats her well—isn’t that right, Wentao?”“Yes, yes, that’s right.” Qin Wentao was doing an excellent impression of a woodpecker as he nodded profusely.“Grandpa…” “Fine. Regardless of whose fault it was, this matter ends right here, right now.” Qin Xiaozhi punctuated his words wi
At the Splendor Residency, Yin Anran was listening to music as she lounged on the rocking chair with a face mask stretched over her skin. When the ringtone she had specifically set for Qin Jinhuan sounded, she sat up and hurriedly ripped off the face mask before picking up the call.“Jinhuan! You’ve finally called! Did you miss me?”When she called Jinhuan’s name, it felt as though someone was wrenching her heart out. Her nose pricked and her throat tightened; it had been so long since Qin Jinhuan had called her number, particularly at night. “I need to ask you something. Did you give Dong Wanqing any fruit gummies made by Yun Ji Workshop?”She did not expect those to be the first words to come from Qin Jinhuan, especially since he was the one who called her first at this time of night. Yin Anran was disappointed, but she sounded composed when she answered, “No, I did not.”“Are you sure?”“Of cour
Mu Yu gave him a sideways glance. “What do you think?” she asked in a sing-song voice, clearly mocking him now. Qin Jinhuan stared at her for a moment and said nothing more. “Regardless of what you actually saw…” he began in a cautioning tone, “it’s company-related and highly confidential—you can’t tell anybody about it. We’d get in trouble if word of it gets out.”“Company-related and highly confidential?” Mu Yu was incredulous, but regarded him with suspicion as she demanded, “Well, then, tell me who’s this Qing Qing.”“Secretary Zhi,” Qin Jinhuan answered plainly.“Secretary Zhi?” “Yes,” Qin Jinhuan confirmed, leaning his weight against the edge of the desk as he geared up for an explanation. “Qing Tian Group is a huge corporation, and there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes—most of which are confidential—to make sure the company continues to progress. We’re trying to avoid unnecessary risks, so we never use
“What do you want to say?” Qin Jinhuan asked as he dialed Rong Jian’s number. “I’ll tell you about it later.” Mu Yu hastily took the phone from him and pressed it against her ear as she listened to the dial tone from the call.“Put it on speaker,” Qin Jinhuan ordered.“Okay.” The moment Mu Yu put it on speaker, Rong Jian’s voice came from the other end of the call. “Huan?” he said.“Chief Rong, it’s me, Mu Yu. I need to ask you; have you looked into Qiqi’s family history?” she asked.“Qiqi’s family history?” Rong Jian was clearly confused. Qin Jinhuan flashed Mu Yu a curious look as well. Mu Yu ignored him as she continued to talk on the phone. “If I recall correctly, Madam Feng is 30 this year, right, Chief Rong?”“She turns 30 in 3 months,” he replied.“Qiqi just celebrated her 14th birthday, and Madam Feng’s about 16 years older than her. According to our investigation, Madam Feng left Lin
“Why don’t you think so?” Mu Yu hurried over and sat down right beside him. She then stared at him earnestly as if she was a student waiting for her teacher to provide her the answers to a tough question. Qin Jinhuan had initially wanted to keep her guessing for a while longer, but he couldn’t bear to do it once he saw the look on her face. “What else does Li Jianyun enjoy apart from women?” he asked.“Gambling!” Rong Jian’s voice came from the phone while Mu Yu was still deep in thought. Qin Jinhuan nodded. “You guys have been placing the focus of your investigation on his interest in women because of how he had previously harassed Feng Rubing. However, I think this might simply be a psychological trick that the murderer pulled in order to frame Feng Rubing as the perpetrator. Li Jianyun’s death—and his arms that had been chopped off before he died—might have something to do with his gambling habits. Perhaps you guys should check if he had offended anyone in the past b
"You ...""Dad, mom, you guys go back first," Shang Qi Qiang stopped his father who was about to have a seizure, and turned to Qin Jinhuan to apologize, "Big brother, a thousand mistakes are my fault, you let me meet Xiao Xi, I'll make amends to her and beg for her forgiveness.""Why are you the one making amends and begging for her forgiveness? It's not like she caused the accident! She caused it herself, okay?" Chen Juan was very dissatisfied with her son's words and immediately spoke out angrily, "It was her own fault that she deliberately found a reason to quarrel with you in the middle of the night and then ran out to meet another man before she got into the accident! Wasn't she at fault?"Chen Juan said while presenting the cell phone page about the intimate contact between Qin Chengxi and Fu Shaoyan to Qin Jinhuan and Mu Yu to see, afraid that they do not know as if, completely ignoring the side of the husband and son who made all kinds of winks.Mu Ye
"Sister-in-law, go and pull my brother, but you can't ...""I know I know." Muyi pressed her to lie down, "You don't want to hurt the wound!""Don't mind me, I'm fine!""Okay, okay, I'll go persuade your brother." Knowing that she was in a hurry, Mu Yu waited for her to lie down and then ran out and instructed the nurse who had made special arrangements to take care of Qin Chengxi before leaving in a hurry.Seeing that Qin Jinhuan's figure had long since disappeared from the elevator entrance, she hurriedly called him and, upon learning that he was in the underground parking lot, immediately ordered him to wait for her to go down."What the hell is going on? Wasn't Shang Qi always good to Xiao Xi before?" Mu Yu expressed her disbelief after getting into Qin Jinhuan's car."That's for Shang Qi to ask." Qin Jinhuan glanced grimly at Bian Zijun.Bian Zijun answered, "I've already gotten through to Mr. Shang, and he said that he'll immediately a
Qin Chengxi had never actually thought of leaving the Shang family because she never thought she would have such a rigid side."Xiao Xi ah, you're too honest and have a weak nature, your brother is always worried that you'll be bullied outside, and always asked me to advise you to put on a stronger personality. You are a member of the Qin family, you should show the Qin family's vigor. Your brother said, no matter when, no matter where, no matter what happens, he will always be your strongest backing. You have to memorize these words."Her ears rang with the words her sister-in-law had spoken to her so eloquently today.Previously, she had been silently putting up with Chen Juan's mouthiness in the Shang family because of Shang Qi, and now that Shang Qi was talking to her in such a tone, what reason did she have to put up with them?Today she was going to show them that she, Qin Chengxi, wasn't as weak as they thought, and that she also had a personality!
"Isn't it just a picture? Making a big deal out of it is not something the Hoshi I know would do!""Is this just a picture in your eyes? Is it not your disloyalty to our relationship?""When have I ever been unfaithful to our relationship? Hoshi, you're breaking my heart when you say things like that, do you understand?""Your attitude breaks my heart even more!""My attitude ..." Seeing her crying more and more sad, he only had to give in, "Okay, okay, it's my fault, I'll make amends to you, I'll apologize to you, okay?""It would have been your fault. Think about it another way, if the picture was of me with another man ...""No ifs!" He immediately interrupted her with a scowl."You know to be angry too.""Haven't I already admitted my mistake?""You drove Joey Zhi Yun.""No way!" Shang Qi refused Qin Chengxi without even thinking, "I need her badly now!"Qin Chengxi bit her lip, "So do you need me?""That's
Seeing that it was Chi Sihui's caller, he wanted to not answer it, but after a moment's hesitation, he answered it.In the end, the two families were family friends, and he and she had grown up together as little ones."Shangqi, where are you?" As soon as the phone was connected, Chi Sihui's petite voice came through."What is it?" He asked back, faintly."Let's have dinner together, we haven't seen each other in a long time.""Not available.""Alright, alright, don't be angry with me, I invited you to dinner today just to apologize to you.""Apologize to me? Isn't it an apology for Hoshi?""To her?" Chi Sihui's voice was through contempt, but she didn't continue, turning to say, "I'll give her an apology, but I only want to see you today. Come on, I've reserved a seat at the Fate Restaurant.""No time.""Eh!" Seemingly knowing that he was about to hang up the phone, Chi Sihui immediately exclaimed, "You're going home for d
"Uncle, Auntie."With Shangqi gone, Qin Chengxi has no one to rely on, and Chen Juan makes her apprehensive.Chen Juan didn't enter the room either, but just looked at her with a face full of compassionate concern,"Xiao Xi ah, how's your body toning up these days? Why are you getting thinner and thinner?""I've been a little sick the last few days, so I've been eating very little. Always sleepy."Afraid that she would bring up another topic that she couldn't face, Qin Chengxi made a gesture of yawning, looking really sleepy, hoping that it would make her realize that she was leaving."You can't even take care of yourself, how can I expect you to take care of Sang-ki in the future?"Qin Chengxi wanted to say, "Shangqi will take care of herself," but thought better of it and smiled dryly, "I'll get my body well as soon as possible. Don't worry, uncle.""You just can't carry on the flavor for the Shang family even after you've toned up your bod
"Eh! Shangqi, let go!" Qin Chengxi struggled sharply."Shang, Mr. Shang?"The group of people who came in originally wanted to ask Qin Chengxi to look into the break because there was an argument, but they didn't expect to run into this scene, so they were all embarrassed and subconsciously tried to turn away."If you're here, why don't you finish before you leave?"The one who spoke, Shang Qi, at this time he had let go of Qin Chengxi, but his hand was still on her shoulder, as if he was swearing a kind of sovereignty, as if he was saying, you guys can watch out, your boss is my daughter-in-law, if you dare to bully her, you are bullying me.The corners of Qin Chengxi's mouth twitched as he looked at him unnaturally, but he let him.The crowd exited her office immediately after saying what they had to say briefly and succinctly.He grinned and held her hand as he took her out to dinner.She finally smiled at the thought.Since s
Qin Chengxi answered Mu Yan's call.She knew that her sister-in-law was worried about her situation, and immediately stated that she had the support of Shang Qi as well as the Shang family's parents, and only then did Mu Yan say nothing, and advised her a few more times to take care of her health."I know, I'll go back in a few days to see you and Redeemer. I miss Redeemer." She responded with feigned relief."Isn't it easy to miss her? I'll come home from work and bring her to video you.""Okay, that's a deal."A few more words were exchanged before she hung up.When he came back to the office again, Sang-ki was already buried in papers.Looking at him, who had also lost weight, she felt both guilty and heartbroken.She's the one who dragged Sang-gi down.If it weren't for her, the papers in front of him wouldn't have accumulated like a mountain.Meetings were pushed back and forth, and some matters that needed to be handl
"Brother! Don't!"Qin Chengxi was also terrified and cried as she went up to beg Qin Jinhuan.Although she has been in her heart not ashamed of what her parents did, but in the end is her biological parents, she can not sit back and do nothing, not to mention the grandfather's corpse is not yet cold, and in any case the family can not be so farce."Ah Huan, calm down!" Mu Ye also immediately stepped forward to dissuade Qin Jinhuan.Qin Jinhuan didn't make a sound, but just looked askance at Qin Wentao with a chilly face, without the slightest look of being persuaded by them.The sound of running footsteps outside approached.Qin Chengxi, who was afraid of seeing blood, was terrified, but she knew she couldn't say anything about her big brother and could only cry and go up to her father and beg him to leave.Qin Wentao knew that he couldn't restrain his son, and was worried that he had no place to vent his anger, when Qin Chengxi crashed into