Zhu Zhizhou was placed in a hospital bed, and Yan Shao stood beside Zhu Qianying and Chen Jing.

Chen Jing quietly inquired about Zhu Zhizhou's physical condition, while Zhu Qianying secretly glanced at Yan Shao.

He stood there straight, not showing any impatience, but his expression was indifferent.

It was as if the people and things around him had nothing to do with him.

However, it is true that, apart from her mother, Zhu Qianying felt that none of the people in front of her had anything to do with her.

Or rather, she hoped from the bottom of her heart that one day she could sever all ties with these people surnamed Zhu and never have anything to do with them again.

As for Yan Shao, she was probably someone he had no real connection with.

The questions her mother asked became increasingly detailed, and Zhu Qianying couldn't take it anymore, so she moved a few steps to stand by the window at the foot of the hospital bed.

Yan Shao glanced at her, then silently moved over to stand beside her.

"Young Master Yan, could you send me a copy of those photos from earlier?"

Zhu Qianying remembered that Xiaoyu had asked several times if she could see her wedding photos.

"Um!"

Yan Shao handed his hand to the driver, who understood and handed him his phone.

Yan Shao fiddled with the phone for a moment, then handed it to her. "Enter your email address!"

Zhu Qianying took the phone and entered her email address in the recipient field.

A moment later, her phone notified her of a new email. She took it out and saw that it was an email from Yan Shao, titled "Wedding Photos".

"This is my personal email address!"

When Yan Shao reminded her, Zhu Qianying said "oh," saved the entire compressed email to her own cloud drive, and also saved his email address separately before turning off the screen.

Yan Shao seemed quite satisfied with her actions. After she put her phone down, his gaze fell on the top of her head.

"Hello!"

Zhu Qianying raised her head and met his eyes, which held a faint smile. "Hmm?"

"Treat me to dinner tonight!" Young Master Yan said it as if it were the most natural thing in the world, without the slightest hint of being unreasonable.

Zhu Qianying was stunned for a moment, but quickly understood that he meant he wanted to ask for payment for bringing her and her daughter here today.

"Okay, what do you want to eat? I'll make it for you!"

After saying those words, Zhu Qianying felt like slapping herself twice.

Was this servility cultivated unconsciously after he used him a few times?

"Let's eat out!" Yan Shao gave her an unexpected answer.

Zhu Qianying was stunned for a moment, and it took her a while to get out of her self-loathing.

"Let's eat out?"

Zhu Qianying immediately grasped the key point: she only had tens of thousands of yuan left on her. Given how picky and refined Yan Shao was, he might be able to eat up all her belongings in one meal.

Yan Shao seemed to notice her hesitation and raised an eyebrow, "No way?"

Zhu Qianying quickly replied with a smile, "Sure, of course!! Hehe!"

He wore a smile on his face, but secretly he was in great pain!

If I had known these bodyguards were so expensive, I should have just hired a professional bodyguard from outside; that would have been much more cost-effective!

Indeed, there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world.

On his sickbed, Zhu Zhizhou answered Chen Jing's questions perfunctorily, but his gaze kept glancing at his daughter and Yan Shao at the foot of the bed.

He observed almost all of their interactions.

She was secretly pleased. Although Young Master Yan had clearly blocked her path, perhaps in the future, if her daughter could please Young Master Yan, he might lend her a helping hand.

Most importantly, we need to appease Chen Jing, the mother, now. That way, we'll have more leverage later, right?

With this in mind, Takeozumi's attitude towards Chen Jing became even more amiable.

After all, Zhu Qianying and Zhu Qianyu are both Chen Jing's daughters. Now that these two daughters have married into good families, if they don't treat their mother Chen Jing well, wouldn't that be cutting off their own future?

Chen Jing had no idea that Zhu Zhizhou had so many thoughts in his mind. She only felt that he was like a different person after he was injured. Not only did he answer her questions patiently, but even the way he looked at her was more tender than ever before.

And so, the heart that had died slowly began to revive.

"Ying'er, why don't you go back with Young Master Yan first? I'll stay here and keep your father company."

Chen Jing's words were exactly what Zhu Zhizhou wanted to hear.

He was just worried about not having a chance to coax her.

After all, she had been giving him the cold shoulder for quite some time, and he thought that now that she had her daughter backing her up, she no longer cared about him.

But it seems that this is not the case now.

Therefore, before Zhu Qianying could answer, Zhu Zhizhou hurriedly spoke to Zhu Shaofen and the others.

"Shaofen, you've all been here for most of the day, you must be tired. Go home and get some rest. Jing can stay here with me and take care of me today."

Zhu Shaofen and the others were definitely unwilling, but since Zhu Zhizhou had put it that way, they couldn't say much. They could only gather around and give Zhu Zhizhou a series of instructions one by one.

It took a lot of effort for the group to finally leave the ward in a noisy and chaotic manner.

Once that large group of people left, the ward became completely quiet.

On the hospital bed lay Zhu Zhizhou. Beside him sat Chen Jing.

At the window at the foot of the bed, Zhu Qianying stood with her arms crossed, quietly watching her mother.

From the moment her mother told her to stay and keep her father company, she had a bad feeling.

Judging from the way Mom looked at Dad and the tone of her voice, it's not hard to tell that Mom's feelings for Dad have been rekindled!

Zhu Qianying never imagined that accompanying her mother on this trip out of pity would ruin all her efforts over the past few months.

Zhu Qianying bit her lip and called out to her mother's figure, "Mom!"

Chen Jing turned her head and said, "Ying'er, you two should go back first. Doesn't Young Master Yan have to go to work?"

Zhu Qianying sighed silently in her heart, "You really want to stay?"

Chen Jing looked at Zhu Zhizhou lying on the hospital bed with a troubled expression, "With your father like this, I want to stay and take care of him..."

Zhu Qianying closed her eyes briefly, then opened them again with a smile. "Mom, alright, take care of him as much as you like. We're leaving now!"

After saying that, she grabbed Yan Shao's arm, didn't even glance at her mother, and walked straight out of the ward.

Chen Jing had been spending all her time with her daughter lately, so how could she not see that her daughter was angry?

He patted Takeshi's hand, got up, and chased after her.

“Ying’er…”

Zhu Qianying stopped in the corridor, turned around, and raised an eyebrow at her panting mother. "What's wrong?"

"Ying'er, I just wanted to spend time with him, that's all!" Chen Jing looked at her daughter nervously.

Zhu Qianying's eyes were cold as she spoke calmly to Chen Jing.

"So, I'm telling you to go along with it! Go ahead and go along with it if you want, but you deserve to lose yourself too, I don't care anymore!"