Huo Shaoyan knows Gu Ru Yi is not like most won; her mind is definitely not a vase.
Therefore, he gets straight to the point: "I’m downstairs at your apartnt building, should I co up to find you, or will you co down to et ?"
Huo Shaoyan has a strong presence.
Frankly speaking, Gu Ru Yi feels sowhat intimidated when facing him.
Moreover, Huo Shaoyan has either co to interrogate her or to severely question her, so she cannot possibly go downstairs.
Therefore, she says, "President Huo, can this matter be discussed tomorrow? Tonight... it’s not convenient."
"How is it inconvenient?"
Gu Ru Yi: "I... have a new boyfriend here, and I have to accompany him tonight."
Gu Ru Yi fabricates a lie.
Huo Shaoyan just curls his lips into a cold smile, "New boyfriend? Does Lu Huai’an know? Should I call him now?"
Gu Ru Yi: "President Huo, you really have no sense of boundaries."
Huo Shaoyan has run out of patience: "Should I call Lu Huai’an now to catch your new lover, or will you co downstairs?"
Gu Ru Yi resigns herself to her fate: "I’ll co downstairs."
A dull dial tone.
Gu Ru Yi looks at the disconnected phone, contemplates for a few seconds, then calls An Ge.
She puts on her shoes while saying to An Ge:
"Huo Shaoyan has co for . He is probably here to interrogate severely, what should I do? He is the best at threatening people."
Pausing for a mont, she aningfully says, "You know, my brother who is always getting into trouble..."
An Ge thinks for a mont, then says:
"You... tell him what you can, don’t ntion anything you can’t. I’ll call him later to get him to leave."
Gu Ru Yi: "Okay." After a few seconds, she says, "But this is not a long-term solution. I plan to... hide at Lu Huai’an’s for a while."
Lu Huai’an’s influence among the younger generation in the Imperial City is significant.
Gu Ru Yi believes Lu Huai’an is capable of competing with Huo Shaoyan.
Moreover, she has hardly ever asked Lu Huai’an for anything, so Gu Ru Yi thinks Lu Huai’an would help her.
However, An Ge has reservations.
She says to Gu Ru Yi, "Weren’t you avoiding him recently?"
Gu Ru Yi says, "That’s the way it is. Compared to dealing with President Huo, I’d rather deal with Lu Huai’an; Lu Huai’an is easier to handle than President Huo."
An Ge presses her lips together, "Thank you."
Gu Ru Yi says, "No need to be polite. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll need your help too? Won helping won is never wrong."
After ending the call with An Ge, Gu Ru Yi enters the elevator.
After pressing the button, she pulls out Lu Huai’an’s phone number and calls him.
Lu Huai’an feels quite surprised.
After all, it has been a long ti since Gu Ru Yi looked for him.
Lu Huai’an exits the Lu Family building.
As he walks to the car park, he answers Gu Ru Yi’s call with an amused tone, "President Gu, do you need sothing from ?"
Gu Ru Yi can’t be bothered with small talk: "Co to my apartnt, I’m not feeling well."
Lu Huai’an frowns upon hearing this, "What’s wrong?"
Gu Ru Yi says, "It’s probably an old issue..."
Pausing, she adds,
"The illness caused by the three abortions I’ve had for you; it’s unbearably painful every ti I have my period. Can you co quickly? I’m about to die of pain..."
This is the first ti Gu Ru Yi has ntioned the abortion issues to Lu Huai’an, she never ntioned them before.
Therefore, once she brings it up, Lu Huai’an feels incredibly guilty.
His tone becos heavier, "Okay. No more than fifteen minutes."
After ending the call with him, the elevator soon arrives at the ground floor.
She steps out of the elevator and imdiately sees Huo Shaoyan standing under the apartnt building.
He has an unlit cigarette between his fingers.
Probably due to a craving for tobacco, but since he can’t smoke, he just raises the cigarette to his nose and takes a deep sniff.
Gu Ru Yi looks at his tall, formidable figure, and after building up a psychological defense, walks over.
"President Huo."
In the patchy lamplight, the man lifts his eyes to coldly glance at her, "I have a few questions for you."
Gu Ru Yi boldly says, "Ask away."
Huo Shaoyan says: "You’ve been close to An Ge recently, you should understand her quite well."
Gu Ru Yi nods and says:
"Indeed, Ms. An and I get along very well. However, in terms of understanding, I’m sure I don’t know more than you, President Huo."
Huo Shaoyan gives her a deep, inscrutable look, and says:
"She suddenly told tonight that she wants a complete break from , and also said she wants to give sole custody of the two children... this is extrely unusual. So I want to know why."
Gu Ru Yi shows an extrely shocked expression,
"Ah? An Ge... doesn’t want custody of the children? President Huo, honestly, as a fellow woman, even I find it hard to understand why An Ge would do this. In this world, there is no mother who doesn’t want her own children, so I also don’t know the reason."
Huo Shaoyan’s expression is extrely cold, "You don’t know? Or are you pretending not to know?"
Gu Ru Yi gives an extrely innocent look,
"President Huo, I truly don’t know. I do get along with An Ge quite well, but that affinity is rely based on us having sowhat similar experiences; we are both unloved by n, have had miscarriages,
and have always been let down by n... But this doesn’t give access to her inner thoughts; it doesn’t make her confidante with whom she shares everything. So, I really don’t know the reason..."
Young Master Huo spoke coldly: "Gu Ru Yi, you are lying!"
Huo Shaoyan’s gaze was too cold, as sharp as a knife.
Gu Ru Yi shivered, but continued coldly:
"President Huo, when I was accompanying President Lu Jinnian for social engagents tonight, I accidentally saw you having dinner with that woman, Mo Yuan. I... felt it was unfair to An Ge because of this, so I went to the hospital to see her. After eting her, I only ntioned your dinner with Ms. Mo Yuan, nothing more..."
She paused,
"Perhaps An Ge is utterly disappointed in you because of this? She just miscarried and lost a child, yet you, the father of the child, didn’t accompany her but had dinner with another woman. I think she was shocked and deeply disappointed in you..."
Huo Shaoyan interrupted her coldly:
"No way. Even if she’s extrely disappointed in , she wouldn’t abandon the child." He paused, "Tell , what trouble did she run into?"
Gu Ru Yi: "President Huo, I really don’t know."
The cigarette in Huo Shaoyan’s hand was snapped into two at this mont.
He had completely lost his patience, "Really don’t know?"
Gu Ru Yi, with a hardened expression, said, "I really don’t know."
Huo Shaoyan: "Soone saw you taking the elevator with Tang Jiuze at the hotel. I don’t believe Tang Jiuze didn’t ask you about An Ge’s situation."
Gu Ru Yi: "..."
Huo Shaoyan continued, "What did Tang Jiuze say to you? Did he use you to get in touch with An Ge?"
Gu Ru Yi felt guilty, but quickly, she said half-truthfully:
"Indeed, Tang Jiuze did ask about An Ge’s situation. But knowing he had hurt An Ge before, I only gave him a few vague remarks..."
Huo Shaoyan coldly said, "Give your phone."
Gu Ru Yi: "..."
Faced with Huo Shaoyan’s relentless pressure, Gu Ru Yi was nervous but didn’t show it.
She smiled slightly and said:
"President Huo, one must have principles. A modern person’s phone is akin to the last piece of sha cloth on a human body, part of personal privacy. Asking to hand over my sha cloth to you, I’m afraid I can’t do it..."
Huo Shaoyan: "Gu Ru Yi, I don’t have the habit of hitting won now. Don’t make use force!"
Gu Ru Yi’s face lost its smile, instinctively turning the phone behind her.
With a few quick moves, Huo Shaoyan snatched the phone from her hands.
Huo Shaoyan, nearly 1.9 ters tall, posed no challenge for Gu Ru Yi, who was jumping around.
Before she could get angry, Huo Shaoyan coldly said to her, "Password."
Gu Ru Yi said nothing.
Huo Shaoyan bit down on his back molar, quickly typed a string of code, and soon cracked the password on Gu Ru Yi’s phone.
Huo Shaoyan found the call records section.
The top three call records quickly ca into view.
The last two call records were one with Lu Huai’an and one with An Ge.
The third call record was with Tang Jiuze, lasting almost ten minutes.
This definitely seed suspicious.
Huo Shaoyan tapped on Tang Jiuze’s number and dialed out.
Gu Ru Yi was genuinely urgent at this point, "Huo Shaoyan, you’re crossing the line!"
Huo Shaoyan’s call quickly connected, and Tang Jiuze’s voice ca through, "Second Miss Gu?"
Afraid of being exposed, Gu Ru Yi quickly ca up with an idea, speaking to Tang Jiuze at the other end of the phone:
"Tang Jiuze, the confession I made to you in the elevator wasn’t just casual talk. Consider it, would you like to be my boyfriend..."
At these words, Tang Jiuze at the other end first paused, then reacted.
With a half-mocking tone, he said, "Second Miss Gu, do you want to test the size tonight to see if we’re compatible in bed?"
Before Gu Ru Yi could respond, Lu Huai’an arrived.
He rushed over, and before anyone else, coldly spoke to Tang Jiuze on the other end of the phone: "Tang Jiuze, are you tired of living?"
After yelling, Lu Huai’an snatched Gu Ru Yi’s phone from Huo Shaoyan’s hand, then glared at Gu Ru Yi, "Weren’t you having a stomach ache?"
Gu Ru Yi felt as though she had shot herself in the foot. She took a deep breath and said, "Chairman Lu, give back my phone."
Lu Huai’an asked coldly, "When did you start hooking up with Tang Jiuze? How far did you two go? Did anything happen?"
Gu Ru Yi had called Lu Huai’an to escape Huo Shaoyan’s interrogation, not to argue with Lu Huai’an.
With this in mind, she stepped closer to Lu Huai’an, looking up at him:
"I haven’t had the chance to try with another man, but I can assure you, Chairman Lu, we really fit well together in bed."
She paused, smirking, "Chairman Lu, I’m feeling pretty needy lately, would you like to accompany upstairs and satisfy ?"
Lu Huai’an: "..."
Huo Shaoyan: "..."
After saying this, Gu Ru Yi discarded the phone and headed towards the apartnt.
Lu Huai’an’s intention in coming was to see her and evaluate the possibility of getting back together.
Hearing Gu Ru Yi’s invitation to go upstairs for intimacy, Lu Huai’an couldn’t resist, having refrained for so long.
Hence, almost as soon as Gu Ru Yi turned away, he stepped forward to chase after her.
Huo Shaoyan didn’t follow.
Because he could tell it wasn’t easy to get the truth from Gu Ru Yi.
However, he was certain that An Ge’s determination to break up with him had to do with Tang Jiuze’s interference.
He planned to find Tang Jiuze.
But at that mont, An Ge called.
Huo Shaoyan answered, taking the initiative: "You want to break ties with because of Tang Jiuze, don’t you?"
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