Chapter 96
Chapter 96
He Qian was sick for two full days, and only began to feel slightly better on the third.
He Yuchuan called and asked her to come to his apartment, saying he had something very important to tell her.
He Qian said, “I can’t make it. I only just started recovering, and I don’t have any strength.”
He Yuchuan immediately said, “Then I’ll come to your place.”
He Qian hesitated. “Wouldn’t that be a little inappropriate?”
He Yuchuan said, “You’re sick. I’m coming to see you at home. What’s inappropriate about that, sis?”
After He Yuchuan arrived, He Qian was worried it would be inconvenient to talk at home, so she dragged him downstairs to take a walk in the small garden.
He Yuchuan crouched down and fiddled with a flower, then said with a grin, “Two days apart, and I’m no longer the man I used to be.”
He Qian said, “What kind of nonsense are you on about now?”
He Yuchuan said, “Hehe. Please call me Li Shihao.”
He Qian asked, “What does that mean?”
He Yuchuan gave He Qian a detailed account of how he had run into Zhang Qiong that day.
He Qian was a little confused. “You mean…”
He Yuchuan hurriedly added, “Let me finish! Yesterday afternoon, the two of them officially met at a café. After Zhang Qiong came out, I followed her the whole way. Guess where she went in the end? That bank! So I quickly pulled over and pretended it was a chance encounter. And the moment that woman saw me, she started bawling…”
He Qian was already stunned by the sheer amount of information. “That’s a lot to take in. Slow down!”
He Yuchuan slowed his speech. “Then I went along with it and brought her into my car. She kept crying and asked me to go drinking with her…”
He Qian said, “You went drinking with her?”
He Yuchuan said, “Of course! If she didn’t drink, how was she supposed to open her heart to me, a stranger who felt familiar?”
He Qian asked, “Then did she tell you what was going on?”
He Yuchuan said excitedly, “She did! She told me everything!”
He glanced around, then leaned close to He Qian’s ear and began speaking.
He Qian listened carefully, then nodded. “And then?”
He Yuchuan’s eyes shifted. “Then I took her home.”
He Qian looked sharply into his eyes. “Did you go upstairs?”
He Yuchuan said, “I did. She was dead drunk at the time. There was no helping it.”
He Qian said, “So what she means is… she’ll leave within a week?”
He Yuchuan said, “That’s her plan, but I talked her out of it. I told her I’d protect her.”
He Qian took a deep breath and asked angrily, “You said what?”
He Yuchuan patted her on the back. “Don’t get worked up. Listen to me. Huang Yuanrui is a hot-tempered idiot. You know that. That’s why she could say something like telling someone to leave within a week-classic case of watching too many TV dramas. As for Zhang Qiong, maybe she only agreed because she was scared for a moment or because she was threatened… In any case, there’s no way she’ll be able to leave within a week.”
He Qian lowered her head and thought for a moment, then nodded. “Within a week… you’re right. It’s impossible.”
He Yuchuan said, “Exactly. Even if she wants to leave, will her husband agree? How is she supposed to convince him? And if she doesn’t leave, won’t Huang Yuanrui go crazy again and keep harassing her? Then things get complicated all over again.”
He Qian asked, “Then why do you want to protect her?”
He Yuchuan laughed. “Protect my ass. I just want to make Huang Yuanrui drop this thing with Zhang Qiong as soon as possible. Since Zhang Qiong already plans to break up with Qin Song anyway, if I also cut off Huang Yuanrui’s idea of pestering her, Huang Yuanrui will very soon come knocking on your door to force you into a divorce.”
He Qian asked, “What are you planning to do?”
He Yuchuan said, “How hard is it to threaten someone? I’ve got plenty of good-for-nothing buddies. You remember Liu Dazhuang, right? My high school desk mate. When you were in your last year of high school, he even helped me bring you an umbrella! He came back from the army and spends his days doing nothing too. He’s all muscle, intimidating just to look at. And there’s Yang Wenbin. He’d be more than happy to get involved in something like this…”
He Qian said, “Are you going to beat Huang Yuanrui up?”
He Yuchuan answered solemnly, “We live in a civilized society, and we’re civilized people. Civilized men don’t hit people.”
He Qian nodded and paced back and forth.
After a long while, she suddenly asked, “Where did you go after you dropped Zhang Qiong off?”
He Yuchuan clearly had not expected He Qian to ask such a question out of nowhere.
He looked He Qian straight in the eyes. “After I dropped Zhang Qiong off, I went home.”