Xia Wan heard the hospital calling out numbers on her phone.
"Gu Qian, where are you now?"
"I'm not feeling well, so I came to the hospital today." Gu Qian said calmly, "Wanwan, is there anything I can help you with?"
"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask if you added anything strange to the soup you made yesterday, I'm not feeling well."
"It's just a regular tonic soup." Gu Qian's voice became noticeably tense. "Are you feeling unwell? Is it serious? Do you need to go to the hospital to get checked out? Aunt Wang was watching when I made the soup, so there shouldn't be any problems, right? The ingredients are all tonics and the like, which will only be good for your health and won't make you sick. If you're really worried, you can go to the hospital to get checked out. I'll go with you; I'm at the hospital too." There was nothing wrong with what he said.
Xia Wan didn't want it to be Gu Qian. If Gu Qian had harmed her father, what difference would it make from her doing it?
She once truly loved Gu Qian, wanted to marry him, and even considered spending her life with him. They were family, their bond deeper than friendship. They grew up together, and he was there for them through every stage of their relationship, from separation to reunion, from missing each other to making up, and now to their marriage.
She really didn't want Gu Qian to be the one who harmed her father.
"It's nothing, I just have a bit of diarrhea. Go home early after your appointment."
"OK."
After hanging up the phone, Xia Wan slumped into a chair, waiting for Assistant Zhang to return.
Assistant Zhang returned in half an hour with the test results: "Miss, the medicine has been switched."
With a loud "boom," Xia Wan gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with hatred.
"This is not the medicine that Chairman Xia is taking. The ingredients in this medicine are the same as you think, all of which are not good for patients with high blood pressure."
Xia Wan felt her blood surging, and her throat tasted of blood.
After the assistant finished speaking, he looked at her with a complicated expression, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated. Xia Wan noticed this.
"What else is there? Tell me, I can handle it." Even if you can't handle it, you have to.
This was a difficult thing to say. The assistant pondered for a moment, organized her thoughts, and realized that no matter how she put it, it wouldn't be quite right. So she gritted her teeth and said, "Miss, I saw Gu Qian downstairs. I'm not sure if I saw him correctly. He was wearing a mask and sunglasses, and he was with a woman who was holding a child. They seemed to have a close relationship. But I might have been mistaken."
There weren't many people around at that time. Assistant Zhang saw the other person by chance in a corridor. They looked very intimate, and Gu Qian even reached out to hug the child before the two left through the back door.
The assistant suspected that it was Gu Qian's illegitimate child. It's no wonder he thought that way; Xia Qingshan had been drugged and the suspect was Gu Qian. He couldn't think of anything good about this person right now.
That's how people are. Once they've been deceived, a gap will appear in their impression of that person. For example, if a thief is caught, and someone else has something stolen from them in the future, he will be the first person suspected because he has a criminal record.
The assistant was worried that Xia Wan wouldn't be able to handle it, but to her surprise, she didn't cry or make a fuss. Her eyes were just very red and filled with hatred.
"I just called Gu Qian, and he said he's in the hospital. The person you saw must be him, I'm not mistaken. Assistant Zhang, where did you see Gu Qian? Is he still here?"
"They probably haven't left yet."
"I want to go and see for myself. Could you investigate the women around him?"
"Okay, you go ahead, I'll take care of things here."
Xia Wan is already pitiful enough. She has no one to rely on, her father is seriously ill and bedridden, and her husband Gu Qian is not only useless but also cheats on her. Now he may even be the murderer who hurt Xia Qingshan. She is pitiful no matter how you look at her. He should help her as much as he can.
With Assistant Zhang watching over things here, Xia Wan felt more at ease. She ran downstairs, and as soon as she stepped outside, a gust of cold wind hit her face, causing her to shiver uncontrollably. She went to find Gu Qian according to the directions given by her assistant, and finally, she saw Gu Qian in the parking lot.
He was able to spot Gu Qian at a glance among so many cars in the parking lot because Gu Qian had driven her car out.
Xia Wan never suspected that Gu Qian was cheating on her. Gu Qian acted as if he loved her so much. They used to be close friends. He had promised her that he would do anything for her.
But now... can anyone tell her what this scene in front of her means?
Gu Qian carefully took a baby from the woman's arms. The woman smiled gently, raised her hand to tease the child, and leaned her head on Gu Qian's shoulder. Their actions were intimate, like a loving couple. They were a harmonious family of three. So what was she?
Xia Wan laughed. How ridiculous, truly ridiculous. She was the most pathetic and laughable creature in the world.
The more she trusted Gu Qian back then, the more painful the slap in the face will be now.
She abandoned Zhuang Yan, and this is the man she chose to marry? He cheated on her, lacked responsibility, repaid kindness with enmity, harmed her father, was hypocritical and selfish, and sanctimonious. All the derogatory terms can be used to describe this person. Her father had long seen through what kind of person Gu Qian was, but she didn't believe it and insisted on being with him. Now, karma has come back to bite her.
As she cried, Xia Wan squatted down and covered her face. She cried because she had gained nothing but empty baskets, and even more so because she had misjudged people.
"Slap—" Xia Wan slapped herself hard across the face.
"You idiot, you're such an idiot!"
Snap—
"Why didn't you listen to your father? Why did you choose Gu Qian?!"
Snap—
"You idiot, it's all your fault for running away from your wedding to be with Gu Qian!"
Snap—
"Fool, you've ruined the Xia family and Dad!"
Snap—
"You idiot, you deserve it! You've dragged your family down with you!"
Snap—
"Idiot, you're the one who should be lying in the hospital bed!"
Snap—
"You idiot, you deserve to be dumped by Zhuang Yan. You're just a cheap idiot, a fool who got swindled out of everything by Gu Qian!"
Snap—Snap—
As dusk fell, the dimly lit parking lot was filled with the sounds of slaps and Xia Wan's incoherent sobs. He forcefully wiped the tears from his face.
Her face was no longer cold, but hot. You could tell from the touch that her face was swollen from being hit.
Xia Wan used the most force to hit someone on her own face, but she didn't feel any pain because her heart hurt a million times more than her face.
She bit her lip until it bled, then stood up and, dragging her numb legs, staggered back upstairs.
The assistant was stunned to see Xia Wan in such a disheveled state. He asked in a deep voice, "Did Gu Qian hit you?"
Xia Wan shook her head: "It wasn't him." She looked up at her assistant. Who would have thought that during the most desperate moment of her life, the person by her side was one of her father's staff members?
Without family, without a lover, and without friends, she felt for the first time how much of a failure she was living.
"Assistant Zhang, you guessed right, that's Gu Qian, he's having an affair."
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