Chapter 197 Be a decent human being!
Huo Zhizhou stared at her with dark eyes.
Jiang Ruan met his gaze calmly.
The atmosphere was tense.
No one seemed inclined to speak.
After an unknown amount of time, Huo Zhizhou spoke first. He reached out and tucked a stray hair behind her ear, his expression as calm as ever: "Then I'll try my best to get your mother to accept me."
Jiang Ruan gave a perfunctory "Mm".
Huo Zhizhou's fingertips slid down her ear to her face: "Then I'm going back. Take good care of yourself in the hospital."
Jiang Ruan: "Mm."
Huo Zhizhou: "Call me if you need anything."
Jiang Ruan responded like a wooden doll: "Okay."
"So cold?" Huo Zhizhou gently pinched her cheek, his voice still full of affection. "I just got scolded by Mom, aren't you going to comfort me?"
"I don't know how to comfort you." It's very obvious when Jiang Ruan doesn't love someone. "Go back and get some rest."
Huo Zhizhou's gaze remained unchanged: "Alright, I will follow Ruan Ruan's instructions."
Jiang Ruan didn't even bother to talk to him.
Huo Zhizhou knew she was unwilling, so he didn't force her to make herself uncomfortable: "Go back."
"Okay." Jiang Ruan turned and left without pausing.
As he watched her walk further and further away, until she disappeared from sight without ever looking back at him, Huo Zhizhou's calm black eyes finally churned with emotion, turning into a cold indifference.
The driver quickly got out of the car and opened the door for him.
Huo Zhizhou sat down without any emotion, and before he could even sit up straight, he saw that there was another person sitting next to him.
"Hi." Gu Shixi greeted him with a smile.
Huo Zhizhou frowned slightly: "What are you doing here?"
Gu Shixi said naturally, "I just heard that your wife's father is the chairman of the Li Group, so I came to gossip a bit. Who knew I would accidentally stumble into such an awkward situation?"
If he had known the outcome would be like this, he would have waited until the car was about to start before crawling out.
Huo Zhizhou pursed his lips, his eyes slightly cold.
Driver: "Boss, to the company or back to Soft Park?"
Huo Zhizhou: "The company."
"What are you going to the company for at this hour?" Gu Shixi asked, noticing it was already past 5 p.m. "By the time you get there, everyone will have left."
Huo Zhizhou did not speak.
If I don't work overtime beforehand, how can I play the game of running away from home with her, and how can I teach her a lesson so she'll remember it?
"Is the chairman of the Li Group really your wife's biological father?" Gu Shixi wasn't embarrassed when he didn't answer, so she changed the subject and continued.
"Hmm," Huo Zhizhou replied casually.
He opened his phone and asked Jiang Yu to transfer the money back to Jiang An.
If he really takes this money, he'll lose all face.
Gu Shixi continued gossiping: "Then wouldn't it be very difficult for you to keep her here?"
Huo Zhizhou's gaze was still fixed on his phone screen: "Whether or not we can keep her has nothing to do with her family background, it only depends on her own character."
As long as she can't let go of her friends Su Zhu and Ye Yanzhi, even if she reunites with Li Zhishen, she will still consciously return to his side out of concern that he might be too ruthless towards them.
Gu Shixi hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.
I wanted to persuade him to honestly admit his mistake, apologize, and let the person go, but I knew he was very stubborn.
"You can cancel everything I asked you to do before." Huo Zhizhou said slowly after Jiang Yu replied and put away her phone. "There's no need to stop her when she leaves."
Gu Shixi: "?"
Gu Shixi looked at him with an expression as if the sun had risen in the west: "You've figured it out?"
Huo Zhizhou said calmly, "I couldn't stop her from leaving, but the happier she was when she left, the more anxious and regretful she would be when she found out her friend was in trouble."
Gu Shixi fell silent.
He shouldn't have had any expectations of him.
"What if she regrets it?"
"She will," Huo Zhizhou said confidently, believing he understood her in these matters. She only cared about a few people; if she wouldn't, she wouldn't have abandoned Su Zhu and the others' aid because of that threat.
Gu Shixi said seriously, "Have some decency!"
Huo Zhizhou did not respond.
Gu Shixi genuinely felt that Jiang Ruan was a good girl: "From beginning to end, Jiang Ruan has never done anything to wrong you. You've been tormenting her again and again. Aren't you afraid of breaking her heart?"
"Even if you die, you must stay by my side." Huo Zhizhou's calmness was almost extreme.
Gu Shixi felt that something was off about him: "You..."
Huo Er's condition hasn't been good since that guy got into trouble.
He appears calm and humble, but in reality, he is an extreme person who could go crazy at any moment if his sensitive points are touched.
It wasn't until he got together with Jiang Ruan that he saw the same vitality and energy he used to have in him. At that time, he and Si Ning thought he had moved on.
Now it seems...
Instead of coming out of it, he's gone even crazier.
"What if she doesn't care about you at all in the end? Will you go after Su Zhu and the others?" Gu Shixi asked a rather cruel question.
“Not caring means I haven’t done a good job.” Huo Zhizhou said without any emotional fluctuation. “Anything, when taken to its extreme, will have a reaction.”
"Huo Er..." Gu Shixi wanted to persuade him.
Huo Zhizhou instructed the driver, "Stop the car."
Gu Shixi: "?"
Huo Zhizhou glanced sideways: "Get out of the car."
Gu Shixi looked at the straight road and asked, "Where am I supposed to go from here?"
Huo Zhizhou found him too noisy and that it was affecting his mood: "This is your business, it has nothing to do with me."
"Go ahead and cause trouble." Gu Shixi was forced to get out of the car and cursed at him a couple of times. "Don't ask me to come and collect your corpse when you get beaten up one day."
"You'll have to wait in line if you want to come," Huo Zhizhou said coldly, closing the door and leaving.
Gu Shixi: "..."
Gu Shixi was furious and called Si Ning: "Come pick me up. I've sent you my location. That bastard Huo Er is a real scoundrel. I don't want to get involved in his affairs anymore."
Si Ning was happy to be carefree: "Isn't it all because you spoiled me?"
Gu Shixi's forehead was covered in question marks: "Explain yourself clearly."
"Giving him everything he asks for, isn't that just spoiling him?" Si Ning took the car keys and went out to pick him up, her words casual. "Sometimes I even wonder if you have a crush on him, otherwise why would you go along with everything?"
Gu Shixi: "!!!"
Where is his knife?
...
Time flies.
Friday arrived in the blink of an eye.
Looking at the schedule reminders on her phone calendar, Jiang Ruan's eyes darkened with a complex mix of emotions. According to their original plan, they would have already obtained their divorce certificate by now, and she and Huo Zhizhou would have no connection whatsoever.
But all he ever did was play along with her antics, completely shattering all her plans.
Jiang An noticed her mood: "Are you thinking about divorce?"
Jiang Ruan nodded: "Mm."
Jiang An placed her hand on her shoulder to give her strength: "Once I can walk a little further, I will arrange to meet that friend to help you talk about the divorce. She is an excellent lawyer."
"Okay." Jiang Ruan's expression softened.
"Did you tell Sui Sui about leaving?" Jiang An asked her.
“I want to talk to him about this after his summer camp ends.” Jiang Ruan didn’t want to discuss these things with her child over the phone. “He’ll be back in a few days.”
If he is willing to come with her, she will try her best to make him happy.
If he doesn't want to...
She wouldn't force her ideas on him.
From a certain perspective, she hoped that Sui Sui would leave with her, and she would work hard to earn money so that his life would not be worse than when he was with Huo Zhizhou.
"Mom." Jiang Ruan made a decision in her heart.
Jiang An: "Hmm?"
Jiang Ruan's eyes shone brighter than ever before: "I want to learn how to start a business, can you teach me?"
She also wanted to be like her mother, so that if something happened to Sui Sui someday in the future, she could easily take out a huge sum of money and give it to him to spend as he pleased, instead of sending him back to his father, Huo Zhizhou.
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