Chapter 4 Zhizhi and Yichen have been acting a little strange lately.

The two waited outside the door for a while, and Qin Shuzhi knocked on the door again.

Qi Yishan glanced at her phone; the time was 17:03.

"I guess he went out and hasn't come back yet?"

Qin Shuzhi thought it was possible.

Not knowing when he would be back, she thought for a moment and said, "I'll leave him my contact information so he can contact me later."

Qin Shuzhi took out paper and pen from the car, wrote down his contact information, and then slipped the note through the crack in the wooden door.

On the way back, Qi Yishan, who was driving, suddenly asked curiously, "Why did you bring pepper spray up the mountain?"

"It was given to me by one of my students."

Qin Shuzhi is a high school teacher who has been teaching senior high school classes for the past two years. Last month, after the college entrance examination, the students held a reunion. As their homeroom teacher, she received many handmade gifts from her classmates that night. One of the male students gave her a bottle of pepper spray.

The reason is: Qin Shuzhi is the most beautiful teacher in the school, and the risk factor is very high.

The usually mischievous boy then earnestly and earnestly told her, "Qin Ban, don't take this lightly. This is a mini version, it's powerful, and it doesn't take up much space in your bag. You should carry it with you at all times. Who knows, it might save you in a critical moment someday."

Now, his words have come true.

When Qin Shuzhi thought of all this, while feeling grateful to that classmate, she also felt extremely sad and ironic.

See? Even students who have only known her for a year care about her more than Shen Yichen does.

Thinking about it carefully, perhaps Shen Yichen didn't love her at all, but just used her to fill the void in his emotional life.

He used to be cold to her, but Qin Shuzhi just assumed it was his personality, since he was the cold and domineering CEO type.

But over the past month, his various attempts to please Zhou Siyan finally made Qin Shuzhi realize that he was only indifferent to her; in front of Zhou Siyan, he was just a sycophant.

It's ridiculous that she gave her heart to such a man for three years.

That's really stupid.

But thankfully, it was only three years, not the rest of my life.

the next day.

Qin Shuzhi felt that his hands were much more flexible, so he went back to the Qin family home in the afternoon.

She deliberately wore a white tulle dress, and the gauze on her hands was hidden under the white sleeves, so that the problem could not be seen unless you looked closely.

The maid saw her enter the room and said happily, "Miss, you're back!"

"Yes, Aunt Hua." Qin Shuzhi glanced towards the living room. "Isn't my mother home?"

"Yes, sir is here too. Madam just went to the study to bring him ginseng tea."

Upon hearing this, Qin Shuzhi went upstairs.

As I approached the study, I heard a conversation coming from inside the half-open door.

"...It's not too late to consider Zhiheng's marriage after Zhizhi gets married. What's the rush?"

Upon hearing Qin's mother's voice, Qin Shuzhi paused, raising her hand to knock on the door.

“Our company has a large loan waiting for Nanheng Bank. Mr. Liao from Nanheng has proposed a marriage alliance to me. If I don’t respond, wouldn’t that be like slapping them in the face?”

Mr. Qin said worriedly, "The company's situation is not as good as in previous years. If we can't get this loan, the company's biggest project will not be able to start, do you know that?"

"Besides, our daughter's marriage to Yichen is a done deal, so what's wrong with arranging a marriage between Zhiheng and the Liao family?"

“You don’t understand,” Qin’s mother said in a low voice. “I always feel that… Zhizhi and Yichen have been acting a little strange lately.”

Qin Shuzhi, standing outside the door, felt a sudden tightness in his chest.

Qin's father was also astonished and asked, "What did you say?"

“I went to see my daughter that day. As soon as I got downstairs, I saw Yichen leave in a hurry with a displeased look on his face. Then I went upstairs and saw that my daughter’s eyes were red, clearly she had been crying. I tried to ask her indirectly, but she wouldn’t say anything.”

Qin Shuzhi's pupils contracted slightly.

She remembered that day, because there was a movie premiere she liked, she asked Shen Yichen to go with her. Shen Yichen said he had something to do and declined. So she asked Yishan to go instead. Since the movie was not yet starting, the two of them went to the mall downstairs to browse around. As a result, they bumped into Shen Yichen accompanying Zhou Siyan to a women's clothing store.

The two argued over this, and Shen Yichen said she was being unreasonable and left her house with a cold face.

"Maybe it's just... a little tiff between the young couple?" Qin's father said. "It's normal for couples to have minor disagreements when they're together."

"It's okay to have disagreements, but women need to be coaxed, you know that?"

Qin's mother snorted, "How can he just walk away like that, leaving my daughter crying at home?"

"The first requirement for a good husband is to be gentle and considerate. If he can't even treat his wife well, then no matter how rich or powerful he is, it's all for nothing."

Father Qin: "..." He dared not speak, for fear of getting burned.

He sighed and asked his wife helplessly, "So what do you want now?"

"I didn't mean anything by it, I just feel... a little uneasy," Qin's mother said. "Anyway, the most important thing for our family right now is Zhizhi's marriage. As for the rest... put it aside for now, don't cause me any trouble."

Qin's father, "What about the Liao family..."

Qin's mother gave a direct order, "Find a way to handle this yourself."

Qin Shuzhi felt heavy-hearted and silently turned and left the study.

She went home intending to tell her parents about breaking up with Shen Yichen.

But she never expected that her marriage would indirectly affect her brother's marriage and the company's development decisions.

She had been on the first floor for a short while when Qin's mother came down.

He was overjoyed to hear she was coming back and immediately ran to the kitchen to prepare this dish and that soup.

Seeing her mother like this, Qin Shuzhi's eyes reddened.

Actually, she wasn't the Qin family's biological daughter; she was adopted.

But the Qin couple treated her as their own daughter and showered her with love.

Thinking back to what happened on her birthday night, she couldn't imagine how heartbroken her parents would be if they knew she had made such a mess of herself because of a man.

Even after finishing their meal and leaving the Qin family home, Qin Shuzhi didn't mention breaking up.

Feeling frustrated and depressed, Qin Shuzhi didn't go straight home. When her car passed a quiet bar owned by an acquaintance, she stopped.

*

Because he was in a hurry to take Qin Shuzhi to the hospital that day, Shi Yuanxing left a laptop at the old house. So when he returned from Thailand, he went straight to the old house.

He pushed open the door and stepped across the threshold, and by the moonlight, he saw a pink note on the ground.

Frowning in confusion, Shi Yuanxing bent down to pick it up, opened it, and his eyes immediately lit up.

It was the contact information she left for him.

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately entered the number and dialed it.

In the bar.

Having already drunk quite a bit, Qin Shuzhi was deep in thought: Her mother said that the most important thing in the family right now is her marriage. So how can she resolve her marriage without becoming a burden on the family?

The cell phone next to the wine glass suddenly rang. Qin Shuzhi glanced at it and saw that it was an unknown number.

Um?

Are salespeople still working this late?

She didn't answer and hung up immediately.

Then he picked up his glass and took another swig of wine. The next second, the phone rang again.

Truly dedicated.

Never mind, it's late at night, let's not make things difficult for those working people.

She grabbed her phone and answered, "Hello, what are you trying to sell me..."

Hearing the woman's clearly drunken voice, Shi Yuanxing paused for a moment, "Miss Qin, I am Shi Yuanxing."

"Who is Shi Yuanxing...?"

Qin Shuzhi felt a little dizzy, but she thought the other person's magnetic voice was very pleasant to hear, and she vaguely felt that she had heard it somewhere before. Suddenly, she remembered.

"Are you Mr. Shi?"

"Yes."

"Great, you finally contacted me! I still owe you money, oh~ not only that, I also owe you shoes, and a shawl..."

Hearing her somewhat incoherent words, Shi Yuanxing frowned with concern, "Is someone with you?"

"No, I'm drinking alone at the bar."

Shi Yuanxing: "Which bar are you at?"

Qin Shuzhi muttered to himself, finally managing to say the name of a bar, before the phone suddenly hung up.

Shi Yuanxing immediately looked up the address of the bar on his phone and drove there.