The next morning.

Su Xiaoxiao opened her eyes and habitually reached her hand to her side. When she realized that the bed next to her had already become cold, she was slightly taken aback.

During this period, she woke up in Nangong Yi's arms every day. After exchanging good mornings, the two would get out of bed and wash up together.

But where did he go so early in the morning?

Su Xiaoxiao called Nangong Yi's name in the quiet bedroom. When she didn't hear a familiar reply, she immediately frowned and sat up in bed.

She picked up her phone and glanced at the time. When she noticed an unread message, a sweet smile immediately appeared on her lips after reading it.

Last night, after the two returned to the bedroom, she kept pestering him about the stars, but he just wouldn't tell her.

When he got annoyed by her questions, Nangong Yi simply sealed her lips with his and kissed her for a long time. Even Su Xiaoxiao couldn't remember when he let go of her.

She got out of bed and went to the balcony. Looking up at the clear blue sky, she stretched out a big, satisfied yawn.

Today is her day off, so she, a junior employee, doesn't need to work overtime at the conglomerate.

As for her second wave of retaliation, that's a tough one for her dear husband to handle.

"Xiaoxiao, come down quickly."

Nangong Cang, who was tending to the garden with the old housekeeper outside, immediately smiled and waved to Su Xiaoxiao when he saw her appear on the balcony.

"Xiaoxiao, Grandpa is going to the hospital to visit an old friend today. That unfilial grandson Yi'er went to the company on his own, so Grandpa can only trouble you."

Visiting an old friend in the hospital!

"Grandpa, please wait a moment, I'll be right down."

Su Xiaoxiao immediately guessed who her old friend was, and she quickly ran back to her bedroom to wash up.

From the day Shan Jinxi started taking care of her grandfather, she could only learn about his condition through video calls, and she dared not visit him in the ward casually, for fear that she would give herself away.

She sat in Nangong Cang's car, feeling slightly excited. She held the nourishing soup and medicinal cuisine that had been prepared in the kitchen tightly in her arms, not entrusting it to anyone else.

"Grandpa, is Grandpa Su feeling any better?"

Not wanting the atmosphere in the car to become too oppressive, Su Xiaoxiao pretended not to know anything and asked.

At this moment, Nangong Cang let out a heavy sigh, his expression filled with sadness.

"Grandpa, what's wrong?"

"Grandpa was just feeling sorry for his old friend. He should have been enjoying his retirement, but instead he raised a terrible ingrate at home."

Ungrateful wretch!

Su Xiaoxiao really liked this adjective; she hadn't expected Nangong Cang to have such a humorous side.

"Grandpa, do you believe those news reports?"

Why don't you believe it!

Nangong Cang's attitude was firm. When he learned that the news had first come from his own conglomerate's subsidiary, he immediately called Nangong Yi to ask about it, and that's when he learned that Su Xiangming had been poisoned.

He hadn't expected Su Xiaoxiao to have endured so much on her own, so he became even less concerned about Nangong Yi using the 'secret guards'.

"Xiaoxiao, you can't judge a person by their appearance alone. It's easy to draw the skin of a tiger, but hard to draw its bones!"

"Xiaoxiao, I'll remember that!"

...

At the hospital.

Today it was Xu Ziang's turn to guard the ward. When he saw Su Xiaoxiao and Nangong Cang visiting the ward and bringing medicinal food for Su Xiangming, he immediately had the doctor examine them.

The food was fine, but he still reported the matter to Shan Jinxi out of concern.

But he never expected that Shan Jinxi, who had always taken such good care of Su Xiangming, would order everyone to leave the ward, turn off the surveillance cameras, and stand guard outside, forbidding anyone from going in to disturb him.