Chapter 84

Chapter 84: As Long As It Works

After hearing this, Yin Bai Lu also felt shocked: “People like this are getting more and more crazy these days. How dare he do something like that? Is he not afraid she will get mad and fight him to the death?”

“Exactly. After I read it, I remembered it very clearly. I thought how both our families have daughters. Men outside are all so crafty now. If our girls meet someone like that, won’t their whole lives be ruined?”

When she heard this, Yin Bai Lu got upset: “Bah, bah, bah, gossip is one thing, but you are not allowed to curse our Jing Yi.”

Du Lian Shuang: “…”

[You are already exploding when I am just talking. If you knew this is what your Jing Yi is going to face in the future, wouldn’t you carry a big cannon over there right now and blow Cui Jue Yan and his son to pieces?]

After thinking it through, Du Lian Shuang felt that this actually sounded like a good idea. Anyway, she had to investigate Cui Jue Yan. That brat had probably only just met Jing Yi. There was still time.

Before, she did not know anything, so she could only let it go. Now that she knew, there was no way she would let that brat get close to their good girl.

Hearing Du Lian Shuang’s explanation, the tight string in Du An Rao’s heart finally loosened.

[So it was from the news. That makes sense. Art comes from life. Some things that happen in real life are even more explosive than in novels. After all, novels still need logic. Real life doesn’t.]

Only then did Du Lian Shuang and Mother Du relax.

Du Lian Shuang even raised her brows proudly, pleased with her own amazing reaction speed.

They were still talking when someone suddenly knocked on the door of the ward. Then two men walked in from outside.

“What are you talking about? The mood is so serious.”

The one who walked in first was Liao Yu Qian, the husband of Yin Bai Lu, whom Du Lian Shuang and the others had just mentioned.

He looked a bit over forty. He wore a spotless white suit and seemed very gentle and polite, like an easy person to deal with.

But only people who really knew him understood that under this white shell, he was all black water. If you dared to treat him like a harmless Buddha, he would dare to chew you up until there was nothing left.

Acting very natural, Yin Bai Lu went up to hook her arm through her husband’s and said with a light smile: “We were just talking about some crazy news. Where did you go? Why were you gone so long?”

“I went to the bathroom, and then I happened to run into someone I knew, so we talked for a while.”

“Someone you knew?” Yin Bai Lu leaned forward in doubt. Only then did she notice the young man behind her husband.

“Let me introduce you. This is President Xi, Xi Jing Yue from Shengshi Group. I mentioned him to you before.”

Yin Bai Lu was a little surprised. Liao Yu Qian had indeed mentioned this President Xi to her, but she had always thought he was a boss around the same age as her husband. She had not expected him to be this young.

“Hello, President Xi. I’ve heard Yu Qian mention you many times before. Seeing you today, it really is better to see someone once than to hear about them a hundred times. I didn’t expect President Xi to be so… young and successful.”

“Madam, you flatter me. I only have this position because President Liao thinks well of me.” After being modest for a couple of sentences, Xi Jing Yue put his attention on Du An Rao.

Him showing up here was not exactly a coincidence. A hospital under the Xi family’s name was working with this hospital on some technical talks and cooperation, so they needed someone to come ahead of time to communicate.

Normally, a minor thing like that did not need a major shareholder like Xi Jing Yue to show up in person. But Xi Jing Yue had already found out earlier that the Du family owned shares in this hospital. So he used this as an excuse to come and see if he could pass by and run into Du An Rao or anyone from the Du family.

Sure enough, as soon as he stepped into the hospital, he bumped into Liao Yu Qian, who had come with Madam Liao to visit a patient.

When he heard that the person Madam Liao was visiting also had the surname Du, Xi Jing Yue immediately chose to come along. A few meters away from Du Lian Shuang’s ward, he could already hear Du An Rao’s voice full of resentment and righteous anger as she ranted.

To listen a bit longer, Xi Jing Yue even ignored the weird look from Liao Yu Qian and dragged out a long talk about recent international economic trends. So by the time he came in, he had already mostly figured out the relationship between Du An Rao, this Ms. Du in the hospital bed, and the people of the Liao family, as well as the plot points this group of people had just triggered together.

Thinking back on how excited Du An Rao had been earlier, thinking up ways to make that pair of phoenix man father and son snap, Xi Jing Yue could almost picture a tiny version of her in his mind, jumping around and waving her arms. His eyes held a bit more laughter.

“Miss Du, what a coincidence. We meet again.”

Seeing Xi Jing Yue, Du An Rao was also very surprised: “Mr. Xi, how are you here?”

“One of my hospitals is working with this hospital. I came here on a business trip and stopped by to take a look.”

Du An Rao frowned slightly and thought it over.

[This sounds really familiar. Last time I went to the hospital to see Brother Yang, Mr. Xi said something like this too, right? Ah, no, that hospital last time was his own. This time he is just here to learn as a partner hospital. If you think about it, it makes sense. Big hospitals like this often have ties with each other. That way, if there is a very hard case, they can call for help.]

[Mom also mentioned before that Third Hospital works with First Hospital, and many doctors at First Hospital are good friends with Dad. Mr. Xi’s situation should be about the same.]

Seeing that Du An Rao was suspicious of him and then helped him come up with a reasonable reason all on her own, Xi Jing Yue felt helpless and amused.

So it was true. Excuses did not need to be many. As long as they worked, that was enough.

Du An Rao was a bit slow when it came to tricks like this. She could not see through them. But that did not mean the older generation would be just as easy to fool.

Especially Du Lian Shuang. Because of Cui Jue Yan and his son, she already had a kind of PTSD when it came to strange men whose background she did not know. After hearing Du An Rao’s muttering, the alarm bells in her head went off wildly. She looked at Xi Jing Yue with sharp, wary eyes.

“An An, you know this… Mr. Xi?”

Without thinking much of it, Du An Rao kindly introduced them: “Mr. Xi is President Li’s cousin, the one who invited me and Fourth Sister to the banquet. We met President Xi a few times back in City J and got a lot of help from him.”

As soon as Mother Du heard “President Li,” the one who had invited the girls to a banquet, she instantly matched the Li family to the person in front of her. She narrowed her eyes a little without thinking.

So this was the President Xi her second daughter had mentioned. He did look quite handsome and refined. Looking at his appearance alone, he really was not bad.

No wonder her second daughter acted like he was a huge threat every time she talked about him, afraid he would steal their little one away.

Thinking of that, Mother Du also felt a bit suspicious. This man showing up here today, was it really just bad timing, or was there something else behind it?

“Miss Du, you are too polite. What I did before was just a small favor. Actually, the one who did us a big favor is you.”

When he said this, Xi Jing Yue paused. He thought of his cousin, who was still in City J right now, sweating and trying to clean up a mess, and kindly decided to explain a bit for him.

“Yesterday when he heard I was coming here, he reminded me to thank Miss Du for him. He still has a lot of things to deal with and really cannot get away. Once he finishes everything, he will personally come to City S to thank Miss Du and… Miss Du’s sister.”