For the next few days, Xu y visited her father in the hospital daily since he didn’t allow her to inform anyone about his condition. He didn’t want Fu Lan or Xu Liqing to know about the fact that he took the bullet for Xu y.
One day after her visit to Xu Cheng, she ca across Lin Shen in the hospital. She followed him to his office and took a seat languidly.
"How’s your dad?" Lin Shen asked.
"Hmm... He’s doing better now." She replied. "Shen-Ge, where is Ju-Ju? It seems like I haven’t seen her in forever." Xu y inquired about Lin Shen’s fiance, Sun Ju.
"She’s in Paris. But she’ll be back in a few days." Lin Shen answered her question looking at her face as she played with her long ponytail. After observing her face for a while, Lin Shen asked, "What are you planning on doing?"
"Huh?" Xu y lifted her eyes to look at him. "What are you talking about?"
"I’m talking about Xu Liqing and Fu Lan."
"Oh!" Xu y nodded in understanding and said, "Shen-Ge, as the Chinese proverb says, ’Life is an echo, what you send out cos back.’ So, isn’t it given that I’ll treat them according to what they deserve."
"You have thought of a plan?" Lin Shen questioned.
"Nope!" Xu y replied honestly making Lin Shen raise his brows. He really thought that she’d have already co up with a perfect plan. "But I know who I want to attack first."
"What do you an?"
"Well, to hunt the mother, I’ll make her daughter the prey. Because the more Xu Liqing will be in pain, the more our Ms. Fu Lan will be tortured. I’m just gonna wait for the perfect ti and then I’ll strike." Seeing the way Xu y was confident, Lin Shen felt at ease.
He stood up and walked up to her. Patting her head, he said, "I don’t care how you take care of everything but just let know if you need any help."
"Shen-Ge should just focus on healing people, leave the hurting part to ." Xu y bead.
Lin Shen shook his head lightly saying, "Just because my profession doesn’t allow to hurt soone doesn’t an I’ll allow other people to hurt our Xiao y. You just tell , okay?"
Xu y nodded. She stayed with Lin Shen for a long ti to chat.
After leaving the hospital, Xu y went to her office where unexpectedly, Ye Jun was waiting for her.
"Hey, sis!" Ye Jun excitedly greeted Xu y and she couldn’t help but roll her eyes at his antics.
"What are you doing here?" Hearing Xu y’s question, Ye Jun’s smile dropped.
"How an of you, sis? Obviously, I ca to see you because I missed you. I couldn’t see you in the past few days then bro told that your dad was in the hospital. So, I ca myself." Ye Jun related the whole thing in a single breath.
"Are you sure, you missed and that’s why you ca here?" Xu y raised her brows as she wrapped her arms around in front of her chest in an intimidating manner.
"You’re smart." Ye Jun grumbled and held her wrist, making her take a seat beside him. He pulled out an envelope from his jacket and extended it towards Xu y. Xu y suspiciously looked at the envelope.
"What’s in this?" She questioned.
"Open it, you’ll know." Ye Jun’s face lost his earlier playfulness as he replied in a serious manner to her.
Xu y curiously opened the envelope to find multiple old photos. Xu y abruptly raised her head and t Ye Jun’s gaze. "That’s bro’s real father, right?" Ye Jun pointed at the teen boy in the picture. "You don’t have to hide it from . He looks like an exact replica of bro. So, it’s a given that he’s bro’s father."
Xu y knew she couldn’t hide. So, she nodded. Zhu Chen wasn’t the only one in the old pictures. He Susu and Zhou Ning were also in those photos that Ye Jun passed to her. "How did you find these?" Xu y asked curiously.
"A few days ago, I asked dad about mom’s school and early life. Before I only knew that mom’s family was from a common background. That day, dad also told that she studied in a military school through the help of her best friend." Ye Jun looked at the young version of his mother in the photo and went on, "So, I tried to find out about her school days. That’s how I ca across these."
Xu y reclined back in the couch and heaved a long and tired sigh. There were so many things happening around her that she was confused about which one she should focus on.
At one side, she had to take care of her psychotic step-sister and step-mother. She also had to focus on nding her relationship with her dad. On the other side, she had to find the mystery behind Ye Jie’s real parents and fake ones.
She felt a headache coming up. She pinched her brows to ease the pain a bit but it only intensified with her ssed up thoughts.
"Jun, leave the pictures with and go."
"Huh? Aiyo! Sis, are you kicking out?" Ye Jun acted pitifully but Xu y wasn’t in the right state of mind to hang around with him.
"Jun, listen up! I will give you all the answers when I have them all myself. For now, I think you should be thinking about how you’re gonna co clean to Ah-Jie about the fact that you already know about him not being your brother." Ye Jun stiffened at the reminder.
He was really scared of that certain topic. He had a bad premonition that their relationship as brothers might change if he ever voiced out to Ye Jie that he knew all along about Ye Jie not being his brother.
Since Xu y had dampened his mood entirely, he could only get up to leave. Xu y called her assistant, Qin Hao inside the office and asked, "What about the things, I told you to investigate?"
"President Xu, Ms. Xu Liqing seems to be scared of sothing lately as she’s not leaving her house at any cost." Hearing Qin Hao’s report, Xu y sneered. "But I have a hunch of where she’ll be going next week."
"Even if it’s just a hunch, tell ." Xu y ordered.
"Mr. Fu Shuang’s birthday party is next week and as his only cousin, I believe that Ms. Xu Liqing will be there." Qin Hao courteously stood at the side in silence after speaking his piece until Xu y waved him off.
Xu y stood up from the couch and walked to her mahogany table. She pulled open the drawer and picked up a gold invitation in her hand.
On the invitation in silver was written:
’We invite you to share your blessing with the young master Shuang on the joyous day of his birth.’
At the rightmost corner, in Fu Shuang’s own handwriting was written: ’I hope President Xu allows to et her excellent husband whom I can’t dare to even match up to.’
Xu y paced up to the glass wall and smirked, "I’ll show you a lot more than just my husband, master Shuang."
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