Chapter 101 Stay Away from Glass, Don’t Walk on the Main Road
For the next month, every move of the Mu family became the focus of the entire Hai City.
"They say he went crazy from the excitement, but who knows if that's true. Maybe it was the illegitimate child who did it, tsk tsk tsk."
"That's not right. If it was the illegitimate child who did it, why didn't Mu Shicheng care? I heard that their family treated the illegitimate child very casually. They just gave him food to eat so that he wouldn't starve to death."
Qin Qinsen sat in a newly opened milk tea shop in the downtown area, drinking milk tea and listening to gossip.
"Asen."
One of the gossip protagonists greeted him familiarly and sat down opposite him. "Why are you drinking milk tea again? Didn't President Teng tell you to drink less iced tea in autumn and winter?"
Shaking the cup, Qin Qinsen shook his head indifferently, "He can't see it anyway."
"How about it?"
The two knew what was being asked.
"I listened to Mr. Teng and locked him up in a new nursing home. Someone is assigned to keep watch on him."
On the day the Painted Skin Ghost was eliminated, Qin Qinsen took away Mu Yunyou's jade pendant, and Mu Yunyou happily received his permanent residency card at the mental hospital. However, he remained uneasy and attempted to escape when the guards weren't paying attention. Fortunately, the mental hospital's strict management meant no patient had ever successfully escaped.
But Mu Yunqi was worried and asked Teng Su for help.
So Mu Yunyou was packed up and sent to Weining Sanatorium, which was called recuperation but was actually imprisonment.
"Where is your dad?" Qin Qinsen was not gossiping, but Mu Shicheng's performance at that time was really worrying.
A month ago, he suddenly learned that his lover had died tragically without his knowledge, and Mu Shicheng himself had been sleeping in the same bed with the murderer for nearly 30 years. The blow was indeed huge.
Seeing Mu Yunqi remained silent, Qin Qinsen said, "It's understandable that he was bewitched."
Suddenly finding out that the so-called illegitimate child is actually your biological child is something that anyone would have to digest.
You can't force him to recognize his father. Ten years have shaped their relationship. Suddenly, the father and son are living in harmony and love each other... Mu Yunqi chose not to go home and sleep on the floor at Xiaowen's place.
"Well, I'll go back tonight."
In fact, Mu Shicheng had contacted him yesterday, saying he had bought a plot of land to bury his mother properly. Even if her body was gone, a cenotaph would be a good reminder of her.
Qin Qinsen glanced at his face and said with a smile, "The doomsday has been averted, and your good days are yet to come."
"Qin Qinsen?"
A familiar voice appeared, and Qin Qinsen wondered why he always met her when he was reading people's fortunes.
"Shangguan, come and have some milk tea."
Facing Qin Qinsen's standard smile, Shangguan Yue felt inexplicably furious. "What on earth are you doing out there? Do you know that people in the company say that you are, are..."
Qin Qinsen laughed, "What are you saying about me? Even if you say I'm a charlatan outside, it shouldn't have anything to do with Shangguan, right?"
"But they all say you're selling your ass to get to the top, so I also..."
"They're the same kind?" Qin Qinsen put away his smile. "Let's not talk about whether they sold it or not. There are at least three other secretaries in the same department and position. How come they're fine? Or are they the ones who made up the rumor?"
Shangguan Yue's face turned grim. "Don't make wild guesses. This is all because of you. Rumors are spreading around the company that Mr. Luo and I are not clean. They say we got in through improper means. Otherwise, why would they hire inexperienced newbies like us?"
"Have you ever worked?" Mu Yunqi widened his eyes and screamed in surprise.
What kind of company would allow Master Qin to work from nine to five?
"Don't make things worse." Qin Qinsen pushed the troublemaker's head away and said to the indignant woman, "If you don't go find the person who spread the rumor, it's no use looking for me."
He spread his hands and continued, "You have a widow's peak, a mole under your eye, and peach blossom eyes. You are born with a peach blossom debt. If you don't work hard to stand up, you will be affected by emotional entanglements for the rest of your life and will not be able to stand on your own feet."
"That's enough!" Shangguan Yue yelled, "Stop using that charlatan stuff all day long. I don't believe it!"
"Ma'am, if you have any questions, please contact our staff. Please don't disturb other customers in the store."
While the waiter tried to stop him, he brought a hot drink on a tray. "Mr. Qin, this is something the boss specifically told us to do. Maintaining your health starts when you're young. Be careful with this red date and white fungus soup, it's just out of the pot. It's hot."
"Do you know the owner here?" Mu Yunqi was puzzled. How could this internet celebrity shop, which had just gone viral online last week, suddenly be so familiar with Qin Qinsen?
"You don't know?" Qin Qinsen watched the fully iced, low-sugar strawberry matcha being taken away and sighed, "The owner here is Teng Su's mother."
Shangguan Yue's anger intensified upon hearing Teng Su's name. Given their status, how could they possibly interact with those high-ranking figures without resorting to some cunning tactics? Qin Qinsen had completely changed in her eyes at this moment.
"And you said you didn't do those things!"
Shangguan Yue's eyes blazed with anger, irritated by the recent rumors circulating within the company. Luo Nanchen's behavior was particularly pronounced, with him frequently leaving her to work overtime alone and accompanying her to meetings, receptions, cocktail parties, and dinners. The other secretaries in the department had become mere scribes, their work crammed around with paperwork.
Her job had already changed. All she did was accompany the other children. She hadn't opened the office software for at least a week.
It was a rare weekend off, and Shangguan Yue originally wanted to come to the newly opened store to have a cup of sweet water. However, when she walked into the store, she saw Qin Qinsen's face. After taking two steps closer, she heard the man fiddling with the so-called face-reading technique again.
"Why can't you just be down-to-earth and live peacefully instead of resorting to those crooked ways?"
"What's wrong with you? You just come here and talk nonsense. Didn't your mother teach you to be careful with your words and actions when you go out?" Mu Yunqi stood up and looked down at the newcomer with displeasure.
"never mind."
Qin Qinsen was rarely in a good mood. "The peach blossom debt is only one step away from pushing you into the abyss. Either stick to your heart and be firm, or go with the flow and fall into the abyss. It's your choice."
"As colleagues, I'm going to tell you this: stay away from glass and don't walk on the main road."
Shangguan Yue was already furious. After hearing this, she felt that Qin Qinsen was just as the gossips and rumors said, a low-class person who did not do his job properly.
He left angrily and walked back the way he came.
Although her workplace is glamorous, her salary is not much and she has plans to save, so she pays more attention to cost-effectiveness when renting a place, so it is naturally some distance away from the internet-famous milk tea shop.
When the bus arrived at the station, Shangguan Yue got off angrily, Qin Qinsen's calm expression and what he said kept appearing in her mind.
The rented place is just 800 meters straight from the bus stop, but that sentence lingers in my ears like a curse.
—'Don't take the main road.'
Facing the four-lane, two-way road, Shangguan Yue stopped.
The new district had just been developed, and besides the industrial area, there were still some unrenovated self-built houses and high-end office buildings under construction. Even though it was the weekend, there were still not many people, and traffic was not as congested as in other districts every weekend.
"I was so angry that I didn't even get to drink my milk tea. I have to go buy a cup."
Shangguan Yue muttered as she turned a corner and headed towards the milk tea shop in the alley off the street. Just as she was thinking about what to drink, she heard a loud crash behind her, followed by the crackling of shattering glass.
Turning around in horror, I saw a bus crashing into a street shop, with dust rising and blood all over the ground.
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