Chapter 35: Chapter 35: Cancel the Engagement with the Shen Family! Chapter 35: Chapter 35: Cancel the Engagement with the Shen Family! The three words suddenly became so hard to say!
Pei Jue unbuttoned his suit with one hand and sat down like a gentleman.
“Let me introduce myself again, I am Pei Jue, single, and I have grandparents who are not in great health, a useless father, and two foolish brothers. As you can see, I’m working hard to support my family.”
Qingwu glanced at him lightly.
What did his family have to do with her, and what did it matter if he was single?
“The woman who just called me has nothing to do with me.”
“…”
“I’ve never been in love, no romantic experience whatsoever.”
“Oh.”
Pei Jue’s handsome face was lit with a gentle smile like a breeze, the gold-rimmed glasses reflecting a bright light that added to his charm.
“I need a favor, and I was hoping you could help me.”
“Go ahead.”
“I want to meet the Ghost Doctor ‘Chang Yue’ from the High Tower. My grandparents are not in good health, especially my grandfather. His heart condition hasn’t been promising these past two years, and to be honest, I’m numb from signing critical condition notifications.”
On the Dark Web, the name Ghost Doctor Chang Yue was quite famous, but aside from knowing Chang Yue was affiliated with the High Tower, no one knew more about her.
Rumor had it that Chang Yue single-handedly saved all severely injured members during a collective mission with the High Tower, and even the King Yan couldn’t claim a life from her hands!
Qingwu pressed her lips together.
“Sure, when?”
“As soon as possible.”
“Will the twenty-first work?”
On the eighteenth, the Shen Family was hosting a birthday party for her, so she couldn’t find time to see Pei Jue’s grandfather.
“Of course, I’ll take care of everything, and I’ll come to pick you up by then! Just trouble you to contact the Ghost Doctor. I’ll have the consultation fee ready.”
“Alright.”
Qingwu agreed and then remembered Pei Jue’s financial situation, adding, “The consultation fee doesn’t need to be too much.”
The fee for a visit from the Ghost Doctor ran into thousands, and given Pei Jue’s situation, he might not be able to afford it.
Pei Jue chuckled softly.
This was the first time anyone worried about him not having money!
And yet, the girl in front of him was so pure and untainted, like a piece of uncut jade, making him reluctant to tarnish her beauty.
Pei Jue admitted he thoroughly enjoyed this concern!
“Don’t worry, I have it under control.”
“Mm.”
After the meal, the two walked out of the restaurant, and the long streets on either side were brilliantly lit.
A slightly old BMW was parked under the warm yellow streetlights, Lin Jingsheng came down from the car and rushed in front of Qingwu.
“Qingwu, did you take your grandmothers’ shares? I tell you, those belong to Chengcheng, you better return them! I can still forgive and forget!”
He tried to grab Qingwu’s hand, only to have an iron-like grip seize his wrist!
Standing in front of Lin Jingsheng was a cold-faced, handsome young man, nearly six feet tall like a wall. Clearly, he looked gentle and handsome, yet his hold made Lin Jingsheng unable to struggle at all!
The fear instilled by Shen Jishi was still lingering in Lin Jingsheng’s mind!
“Let go of me! I’m reprimanding Qingwu, what does it have to do with you?”
Pei Jue frowned slightly, turning to Qingwu, “Can I hit him?”
“You can, but there are cameras here.”
“Then let’s go to the alley over there.”
Lin Jingsheng’s eyes widened in disbelief!
What were they talking about?
“You still want to hit me? I tell you, your grandmother’s things are all the Lin Family’s; you must give them back to me!”
Qingwu said indifferently, “You didn’t attend grandmother’s funeral; she waited for you in the hospital for three days hoping to see you one last time, but you didn’t show up.”
“I, I was too busy with work. If I hadn’t been working hard, how would your grandmother have afforded such a good hospital room?”
“In the years grandmother was ill, you visited her a total of three times, each time less than ten minutes. The one who took care of her was me.”
When Old Lady Lin was gravely ill, she couldn’t recognize anyone and would repeatedly call out Qingwu’s name.
Before she passed away, she wanted to see Lin Jingsheng once more, to remind her incapable son to take good care of Qingwu.
But Lin Jingsheng thought Old Lady Lin had too many critical moments, which delayed his dinner appointment with a model he had just met…
For Old Lady Lin’s funeral, Qian Yueqiang thought it was inauspicious, and Lin Jingsheng also thought that, as a businessman, it was not suitable for him to attend a funeral, too unlucky…
He never went to see Old Lady Lin for the last time.
“I’ve been working hard in the Lin Family, you think you’ve grown up on nothing? Now you have nothing to do with the Lin Family, Chengcheng is my biological daughter, everything in the Lin Family must be returned to me!”
Qingwu said calmly, “I didn’t take anything.”
The day she left, she only took the computer that Old Lady Lin had bought her before!
“Since you didn’t take anything, where are your grandmother’s shares?”
Qingwu sneered sarcastically, looking at Lin Jingsheng as if he were insane: “Don’t you know whether grandmother had shares?”
Old Lady’s shares?
Reminded by Qingwu, he remembered that he never had any shares from Old Lady Lin…
What would a rural old lady do with shares?
“Let’s not talk about shares. Where’s the proposal you stole from me? Give it back quickly!”
Proposal?
With Lin Jingsheng’s intelligence, even the proposal he made, Qingwu felt it was insulting her eyes.
Someone who’d been in business for decades could still come up with such a lousy proposal, Lin Jingsheng sure had a talent.
“I’m not interested in taking your things, and as for where your proposal is, just go back and check the surveillance.”
The study at Lin Jingsheng’s house always had surveillance cameras!
Previously, it was to guard against Qingwu and Old Lady Lin. After Qingwu left the Lin Family, he almost forgot he had surveillance…
After saying that, Qingwu walked away, not giving Lin Jingsheng even an extra glance.
These people were mentally disturbed, and she didn’t want to waste a second more on them.
Pei Jue released Lin Jingsheng’s nearly dislocated hand and followed her.
His heart twisted with waves of pity!
So these were her family?
This was how she had been living!
Qingwu walked in the night, her slender body brimming with resilience, her cloud-like hair draping behind her ears. Just a gentle look from the girl standing under the street lamp was enough to stir a storm in one’s heart!
Yet, at this moment, Pei Jue felt a faint sense of sorrow from the Qingwu before him!
Pei Jue stepped forward, held Qingwu’s hand, wrapping her small hand in his palm.
Qingwu: “…”
“I drank too much; just support me for a bit.”
“Huh?”
“They aren’t walking with you anymore; you don’t need to be sad for them.”
Qingwu shook her head: “I’m not sad, but you can let go.”
She had long seen through the kind of person Lin Jingsheng was.
But thinking of Old Lady Lin, who, even in her final moments, kept looking towards the door with reluctance, those weary eyes filled with tears, her grip on Qingwu’s hand gradually losing strength…
Thinking about that scene, Qingwu still found it hard to let go!
Pei Jue graciously released her hand.
Watching Qingwu leave by taxi, Pei Jue stood where he was, feeling a trace of reluctance.
Annie parked the car behind Pei Jue, sighing, “I say, boss, you’re really bad at pursuing, aren’t you? She told you to let go, and you really did?”
Pei Jue’s smile faded, turning back to a face of icy sharpness.
“You don’t understand, I can’t openly pursue her until my engagement is annulled; it’s unethical.”
“So you just let her take a taxi herself? I was waiting behind you to bring her into the car!”
“She doesn’t know my identity, and I don’t want to burden her. It seems she doesn’t like wealthy families very much.”
Thinking about his previous probing, Pei Jue felt a slight headache.
He was afraid of scaring Qingwu away and had to disguise himself in the simplest way to earn her concern and trust.
Annie: “…”
Unbelievable, people!
Her boss, who dominated the business world with deals worth billions, turned out to be an innocent boy in love!
“What about the Shen Family engagement?”
“I will attend the Shen Family’s young lady’s birthday party, and you prepare a gift for that day. I will propose breaking off the engagement with the Shen Family then!”