When she returned, she leaned back on her seat in a daze, staring blankly at the scenery outside the car window.
Seeing Qin Zixin's dejected look, the old driver at home couldn't help but say, "Young madam, didn't you see Mr. Ji at the company?"
Qin Zixin shook his head blankly and did not respond.
The old driver was a little worried, but he didn't feel like asking anymore. He just wanted to talk to the old lady about it when he went back.
"Uncle Yu." Qin Zixin suddenly said.
The old driver slowed down the car and said, "Huh?"
"You stop on the side of the road first. I called and won't go home for the time being." Qin Zixin said to the driver.
"yes."
After the driver parked the car on the side of the road, Qin Zixin took out her mobile phone and dialed a series of numbers. The phone was quickly connected, "Hello..."
"Zi Xin."
"Imperial minister, are you in New York?"
"Um."
"I want to meet you. Is it convenient now?"
"It's convenient. Where can we make an appointment?"
"Just in the coffee shop where we often chat!"
"good."
After finishing the conversation with Gu Yuchen, Qin Zixin ordered the driver to drive the car to the coffee shop she had agreed with Gu Yuchen.
…
Twenty minutes later.
When Qin Zixin arrived at the coffee shop, Gu Yuchen had already arrived.
Gu Yuchen chose a seat by the window, which was quite quiet.
When he saw Gu Yuchen, Qin Zixin paused in his steps, as if hesitating, but still hesitantly walked towards Gu Yuchen.
Gu Yuchen opened the seat for Qin Zixin like a gentleman.
Qin Zixin said politely, "Thank you."
Gu Yuchen had the same gentle face as always, "Are you still drinking Blue Mountain?" he asked softly.
Qin Zixin shook his head, "I don't want to drink anything."
"What's wrong? Your face doesn't look good." Gu Yuchen frowned, concerned.
Qin Zixin said in a straight voice, "Imperial Minister, I have something to ask you."
"Well, you say."
"The night when I was preparing to leave Loren Arthur Island after spending three months in danger, it happened to be an important festival on the island. That night we were also invited by the island residents to dance around the bonfire to celebrate... I remember that day
I was very happy because my condition improved in the evening, and I couldn't match the enthusiasm of the local residents, so I drank some fruit wine that night..."
Before Qin Zixin finished speaking, Gu Yuchen had already guessed what Qin Zixin wanted to ask, "I have already explained to you that nothing happened that night. You were drunk. I just sent you back to your room. Because
I also drank a lot that night, so I passed out drunk on your bed...and wouldn't wake up in the same bed until the next day."
"Are you telling me the truth?" Qin Zixin kept shaking his head, staring at Gu Yuchen with dim eyes.
"Why do you ask that?"
"Because these photos can't lie." At this second, Qin Zixin threw a photo he brought from Ji Lingtian in front of Gu Yuchen.
The photo was taken on a bed…
Gu Yuchen hugged Qin Zixin, lowered his head and kissed her... This could not be explained at first, but his body was naked, and the most important thing was that her body was only covered with a sheet.
At first glance, they seem to be doing something consensual. The picture looks so charming and ambiguous...
Gu Yuchen glanced at the photo blankly, his eyebrows furrowing even more tightly, "Why is there such a photo?"
Qin Zixin's eyes were already red, and she lowered her head in shame, "This is what I want to ask you too."
Gu Yuchen hurriedly explained, "I didn't know there were such photos..."
Qin Zixin raised her eyes suddenly, staring at Gu Yuchen with tearful eyes, "What I care about is not this photo at all. What I care about is whether what is captured in the photo is the truth?"
"Zixin, I..."
"I slept very deeply that night, and I have no recollection at all... So please tell me, what exactly happened that night? Did you hide anything from me?"
Facing Qin Zixin's hysterical questioning, Gu Yuchen finally remained silent.
Qin Zixin kept shaking his head and looking at Gu Yuchen, "Even if we were drunk, nothing like that would happen to us. I know my own body... So, what did you do to me, Gu Yuchen, please tell me the truth!!"
"
"Zixin, calm down first..."
"Teach me how to calm down?" Qin Zixin shouted loudly, tears bursting out of her eyes wantonly.
Fortunately, they were sitting in a corner of the cafe, and there were not many customers around. Therefore, although Qin Zixin's roar attracted the attention of several other customers in the distance, no one could hear clearly what she was saying.
Looking closely at Qin Zixin's aggrieved and tearful face, Gu Yuchen's eyes showed distress, and he finally said slowly, "Yes, I did something sorry for you."
Qin Zixin looked at Gu Yuchen in disbelief, "No, you can't..."
Gu Yuchen's eyes were confused and depressed, "Zixin, I'm sorry..."
"You can't, you can't, you lied to me, Gu Yuchen, you are lying to me now... You said nothing happened to us..." Qin Zixin glared hard at Gu Yuchen, trying to read from his expression
Find a hint of a lying expression.
However, Gu Yuchen always looked at her calmly and firmly, "I'm sorry, Xinxin, I'm sorry for you..."
Qin Zixin suddenly covered her ears, "Stop talking, I don't believe it, I don't believe it..."
"Maybe it was alcohol that night. I couldn't control it. I originally just wanted to kiss you. I never thought that such a situation would get out of hand... I regretted it afterwards. I was afraid that you would never be together because of this."
Forgive me, so I helped you get dressed that night, and I also hypocritically deceived you that nothing happened between us..."
"Don't say it, don't say it anymore..."
Qin Zixin got up and ran out of the coffee shop.
Gu Yuchen rushed out and hugged Qin Zixin tightly at the door of the coffee shop.
However, Qin Zixin pushed Gu Yuchen away fiercely, reached out and slapped Gu Yuchen with all his strength.
Snap——
The sharp sound of the slap attracted the attention of the people around him.
However, Gu Yuchen always stood there, looking at her with self-blame and guilt, willing to bear all her punishment.
After Qin Zixin slapped Gu Yuchen, he turned around and rushed into the crowd of spectators...
By the time Gu Yuchen caught up with him, Qin Zixin had already disappeared into the sea of people.
"Old Madam, Young Madam..." Uncle Yu hurried in from outside and called anxiously.
Guan's mother and Qu Ranran were playing with Qianqian in the hall, and Yu An was playing with the little princess. When she heard Uncle Yu's call, Guan's mother couldn't help but frown, "What are you yelling about?"
Qu Ranran said, "Hey, Uncle Yu, didn't you send my sister to the company to find her brother-in-law? Why are you the only one coming back?"
Uncle Yu hurriedly said, "Old lady, young lady, this is what I was about to say... I will send the young lady to the company in the afternoon. I don't know if the young lady has seen Mr. Ji. I only know that when the young lady comes back,
I was not in a good mood. Later, the young lady made an appointment with a friend for coffee, so I sent the young lady to that coffee shop. Since the parking lot there was full, the young lady told me that she would call me when she left, so I
I parked my car in a parking lot far away from the coffee shop, but I waited in the parking lot for a long time, and the young lady didn’t even call me. Finally, I drove to the cafe, and found out that the young lady didn’t know anything.
It's time to leave. I called the young lady, but I couldn't get through..."
After hearing this, Guan's mother and Qu Ranran immediately stood up on the sofa, "What, Zi Xin is missing?" Guan's mother's face turned pale with fright.
"How is that possible? Sister is not someone who doesn't explain anything. If she wants to go somewhere alone, she will definitely call you." Qu Ranran looked at Uncle Yu in confusion.
"Auntie, did Mommy forget about Uncle Yu? Where did she go?" Qian Qian asked.
Guan's mother captured the sensitive information, "You just said that Xiaoxin was not in a good mood after going to see Ling Tian?"
Uncle Yu nodded, "I feel that the young lady must have had a quarrel with Mr. Ji..."
"How could there be a quarrel?" Qu Ranran was shocked, "Brother-in-law helped my sister celebrate her birthday yesterday!"
"Yes, Ling Tian just came back last night, so there's nothing to argue about..." Guan's mother said.
"But I can't contact sister now..." Qu Ranran put down the mobile phone that she just dialed Qin Zixin's number but couldn't dial, and asked worriedly, "Is something going to happen to sister?"
Qian Qian reached out and hugged Qu Ranran, "Auntie, I'm afraid..."
Qu Ranran comforted her niece softly, "Don't be afraid, aunt will send someone to find her now..."
"Call Ling Tian to inform him. Maybe Zi Xin is at Ling Tian's place..." Guan's mother hurriedly said to the servant at home.
"Well, let's inform my brother-in-law first."
…
At the same time.
Ji Lingtian leaned tiredly on the back of his chair, his dark eyes looking dejectedly at the photos scattered on the ground.
The secretary said she left the office alone and seemed depressed.
He admitted that he must have hurt her by revealing the matter so directly, but at the moment when he faced her, even though he tried his best to hold back, he still couldn't restrain the urge to explode...
These days, he is trying his best to find evidence to prove that the photos he investigated are not real. He even sent someone to personally go to Loren Arthur Island to confirm...
But Qin Zixin saw that there were quite a few islanders who spent the night together and came out of her room together in the morning...
He had no way to convince himself that nothing happened, even though he was not qualified to question her about it, after all, they were not together when she was with Gu Yuchen.
Maybe he shouldn't be so angry with her, but she concealed this matter from him, which he couldn't accept...
The vibration of the cell phone interrupted Ji Lingtian's thoughts at this moment.
Ji Lingtian picked up the phone and pressed the answer button, "Hello...what? Have you looked everywhere?"
…
As soon as Ji Lingtian stepped into Guanzhai, everyone surrounded him.
Qu Ranran asked anxiously, "Brother-in-law, have you found my sister?"
"Still searching, there should be news soon."
"Ling Tian, what happened between you and Xiao Xin? How come the good Xiao Xin disappeared? Didn't she go to the company to find you? Why didn't you come back with her?" Guan's mother asked a series of questions.
Ji Lingtian didn't answer Guan's mother and walked straight into the study room on the first floor.
Ji Lingtian's attitude acquiesced to what Guan Mu said about the quarrel, so Guan Mu anxiously followed Ji Lingtian into the study.
"Ling Tian, why can't you talk to Xiao Xin about something? Why are they quarreling again?"
Qian Qian ran into the study at some point and hugged Ji Lingtian, "Daddy, where is mommy?"
Facing his daughter, Ji Lingtian's cold face softened. He stroked his daughter's head and said, "Daddy is looking for her. Don't worry, Daddy will find your mommy."
"Daddy, why did you and Mommy quarrel again?" The child looked deeply at Ji Lingtian, with pain in his eyes that no child should have.
Ji Lingtian didn't know how to answer his daughter, so he kissed her apologetically.
"Brother-in-law, what happened?" Qu Ranran asked Ji Lingtian worriedly.
"nothing."
"It's nothing, why is sister in a bad mood? Weren't you all fine on my sister's birthday yesterday?"
"Birthday?" Ji Lingtian raised his eyes suddenly.
"What's your expression? Don't you know that sister was born yesterday?"
Ji Lingtian's eyes gradually turned dark.
Yes, yesterday was x month x day, her birthday, but he forgot...
Qu Ranran saw a clue from Ji Lingtian's expression, "Don't you know that yesterday was my sister's birthday?"
No wonder she took the initiative to hug him when she saw him coming back yesterday. No wonder she dressed up carefully...
He had arranged a birthday surprise long ago, but he didn't give it to her last night...
Ji Lingtian's eyes became darker and darker.
At this time, Ji Lingtian's subordinate Aji walked in from outside and said, "Mr. Ji."
Everyone stepped aside and looked at Ah Ji impatiently.
"Have you found it?" Ji Lingtian asked.
Ah Ji replied, "I found it. Madam has returned."
Everyone looked towards the villa hall, and sure enough, Qin Zixin appeared in everyone's sight.
Qu Ranran ran out of the study and hugged Qin Zixin hard, "Sister, you scared me to death. Where did you run away alone?"
"I'm fine, I just went shopping alone. I originally wanted to call the driver, but I found that my phone was out of battery." Qin Zixin's tone was calm, and there seemed to be nothing unusual about it.
Guan's mother followed her out of the study and let out a big sigh of relief, "It'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back..."
"Mommy, Qianqian is so worried about you."
"Idiot, Mommy is an adult, how can she still disappear?"
Qianqian snuggled into Qin Zixin's arms.
Qin Zixin kissed her daughter who was leaning on him and said gently, "Let's go play. Mommy is a little tired and wants to go back to the room and take a nap."
"Okay." Qianqian let go of her mother obediently, and felt relieved when she saw her mother by her side.
From the corner of his eye, he could see Ji Lingtian in the study, but Qin Zixin did not enter the study to say a word to him, but went straight to the second floor.
Any adult can tell from Qin Zixin's red eyes that Qin Zixin is forcing a smile at the moment...
In the study, Ji Lingtian looked at Qin Zixin's weak figure walking up to the second floor from a distance and asked, "Where did you find her?"
Lu Ji, who was standing behind Ji Lingtian, replied, "On the street, Madam is sitting alone."
"Yesterday was Zi Xin's birthday, why didn't you remind me?"
"Mr. Ji, I reminded you, but you were angry at the time, so I didn't dare to remind you again, but I thought you came back last night to help your wife celebrate her birthday... I didn't know until the morning that you didn't
Take your wife to the hotel where we are planning a surprise."
Ji Lingtian pursed his thin lips tightly and said no more.
Lu Ji quietly retreated.
…
Back in the room, Qin Zixin hugged her knees and sat on the bed.
Her strength in the past allowed her to maintain a smile in front of others, but at this moment, she could not control her emotions.
Although she didn't allow herself to cry, tears still fell from the corners of her eyes like broken pearls.
Suddenly, she let herself go, got out of bed and rushed into the bathroom.
Opening the cold water valve in the bathroom, she let the cold water pour on her body...
Her body slid weakly along the glass tile wall. She sobbed and hugged her knees, biting the back of her hand tightly to prevent herself from crying.