Su Mu recently felt that there had been too much news about Fu Shinian. Even though no one had ntioned him in front of her in three years, once ntioned, it felt as though she had never been absent.
Jiang Bei belatedly realized:
"Did I talk too much about him?"
Su Mu chuckled, "Whether you speak of it or not, the result is the sa. I’m fine."
In the past, Jiang Bei would never speak to Su Mu about Fu Shinian, nor allow anyone to ntion him in front of her. However, perhaps due to her pregnancy, many things had started to change.
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Fu Shinian was jogging in the gym when he received a call from Ji Nanfeng. Seeing the incoming call, he gradually reduced his pace and pressed the answer button:
"Calling so late, sothing urgent?"
"Late? Even if it were two hours later, I would still be making this call. Am I not your brother? When did you decide to get married without even notifying ?"
Fu Shinian slightly furrowed his brow:
", getting married? Who told you that?"
"Su Mu."
The na Ji Nanfeng blurted out made Fu Shinian instinctively press the pause button. "You said who?"
Realizing his blunder, Ji Nanfeng began to regret and after a few awkward seconds, tried to explain:
"I didn’t an to ntion her in front of you; it’s just that when I heard you were getting married, I was quite surprised and didn’t think much about it. Are you really getting married?"
Fu Shinian was silent for a mont:
"Have you been in contact with her?"
"No." Ji Nanfeng explained the situation. "It should be Xu Yansu looking for a place to shoot wedding photos, and she found Su Mu’s studio. Without your approval, Xu Yansu wouldn’t have done so, right? Or does she know about Su Mu’s identity and did this to deliberately probe?"
Fu Shinian didn’t respond imdiately, and after a mont, he spoke softly:
"It’s probably just a coincidence."
Not long after hanging up Ji Nanfeng’s call, Xu Yansu appeared in the gym, holding a bottle of mineral water and standing sowhat cautiously by Fu Shinian’s side; she seed worried that he might unleash his displeasure on her, yet she tried to please him with a smile:
"Your health isn’t great; maybe you shouldn’t engage in such intense exercise. Just a moderate amount would be better."
Fu Shinian glanced at her indifferently and restarted the treadmill, walking slowly:
"I don’t like to be disturbed while exercising; didn’t you know that?"
"I know, I just ca to tell you sothing."
Fu Shinian didn’t respond but didn’t ask her to leave either. Xu Yansu spoke softly:
"I’ve already booked the date for the photo shoot, the 9th of next month."
"Why should you tell about your photo shoot? You think I’m free?"
"We’re shooting wedding photos; of course, I need to tell you."
Fu Shinian had completely lost the mood for exercise, and pressed the stop button hard, his gaze burning as he looked at Xu Yansu:
"Who did you say? We?"
"I told you before, we are getting engaged."
Fu Shinian scoffed, stepped off the treadmill, and walked towards the lounge chair by the floor-to-ceiling windows. Xu Yansu watched him silently for a few seconds, then followed:
"The studio I found is very famous in the industry. I visited her studio today; although she looks young and not like a seasoned photographer, those many award-winning works can’t be fake. I believe she can take very good wedding photos for us."
Xu Yansu handed over a bottle of mineral water, but Fu Shinian didn’t even glance at it and spoke indifferently:
"Xu Yansu, can’t you understand human speech? I don’t like you, and I definitely will not marry you."
"I don’t need you to like , I just want to be with you."
"Being together is an action that two people can establish, not sothing you can decide on your own." Fu Shinian slowly looked up at her. "You should be very clear about why I keep you by my side; it’s because you could save Grandmother. But what have you done these three years? Grandmother is still the sa, and now even I am following in Grandmother’s footsteps. Is this your way of loving ?"
"I..."
"Xu Yansu." Fu Shinian interrupted her. "Right now I have nothing left, only this old mansion, but I still have the ability to drive you out of the mansion. Would you like to try it?"
Xu Yansu knew she wouldn’t get any pleasant words or affirmative answers from Fu Shinian. However, she had never imagined that he was actually considering driving her out of the mansion. She couldn’t help feeling a bit chilly as she looked at Fu Shinian:
"Are you going to drive away?"
"I let you stay in the mansion for Grandmother, but you have spent all your efforts on . Do you even rember how long it has been since you last went to the research institute? Do you rember when the old lady last was lucid? Did you ever care about these things? What you care about, you don’t need to say, you know it yourself."
After finishing these words, Fu Shinian got up from the lounge chair and walked towards the door. Xu Yansu stood silently on the spot for two seconds and then turned to call out to him:
"In your heart, is there only Grandmother?"
Fu Shinian stopped in his tracks, silencing for a few seconds before speaking softly:
"Grandmother raised since I was little, without her there would be no today. Her life is much more important than mine. You may not save , but you cannot treat her life as a joke. I can accept Grandmother leaving , but I can’t accept her becoming the victim of our power plays."
Xu Yansu looked up at him, feeling as though she had guessed sothing, yet not daring to be sure:
"You... I don’t quite understand what you an."
Fu Shinian scoffed:
"No one understands better than you, do they? Why does the old lady’s body have a virus, and why has a virus appeared in my body as well? Do you really think I would believe those explanations of genetics and mutation?"
"When did you find out?"
"Does that matter?" Fu Shinian turned to look at her. "What matters is, when will you stop? You have almost got everything you wanted from , haven’t you? Fu Corporation has been driven to its current state by you. What more do you want, my life? Fine, I won’t even blink, but first, make the old lady lucid."
Xu Yansu shook her head:
"No, no, I never wanted you to die. I just..."
rely followed orders, Fu Shinian knew, but in his eyes, it was still unforgivable. The harm to Grandmother, driving Su Mu away, and not seeing that child even once in three years, these things imposed on him by them, Fu Shinian could not possibly forget.
Fu Shinian didn’t speak, while Xu Yansu struggled. She hadn’t expected Fu Shinian to know everything, yet he had silently allowed them to do as they pleased for three years, not because he couldn’t stop them, but because they held Grandmother’s life in their hands, and he was powerless.
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