Chapter 6
Huo Zixi gripped the bottle tightly, water spilled out, and he shook it twice. "If you're just a naysayer, I will never allow you to talk about my friend like that."
Chen Que was slightly taken aback, but also somewhat pleased.
If she were Chu Ci, she would be very grateful to have a friend like Huo Zixi who would protect her.
"After all I've said, has anything come to mind?"
Shen Que shook his head. "Do you have anything else to prove that I am Chu Ci?"
“You always were,” Huo Zixi said, somewhat exasperated. Suddenly remembering something, she took out her phone, logged into her account, and opened her photo album. “Look, this is a photo of us with Tiger and the others.”
The photo has a retro feel, with four young people smiling brightly. The girl in the middle has long blue hair and wears a seashell hair clip, looking as beautiful as a mermaid.
The background features instruments such as drums and guitars, resembling a band performing in a bar.
Shen Que smiled unconsciously.
"You remember now?"
“Uh,” Shen Que paused for a moment, “Chu Ci studied music, is she the lead singer?”
“No, drummer,” Huo Zixi said with some disappointment, “you studied software engineering.”
Shen Que was taken aback; she was also studying this major.
Is there anything else?
“That’s it. This is the only one. I found it when Tiger Bar was being renovated. My uncle doesn’t allow any information about you to be kept,” he said, lifting his eyelids slightly. “Go to Tiger Bar or check with your school. Everyone there knows you.”
Shen Que remained silent.
She had also visited Shen Que's school, and the teachers knew her. Zhou Yubai also took her to meet her former classmates and friends, who all called her Shen Que.
She couldn't very well go around the campus asking around and trying to verify her identity.
"I don't want anyone to know my current situation."
Huo Zixi understood. Chu Ci was inherently strong, and amnesia meant losing all of his past advantages.
Shen Que glanced at him. "What about Chu Ci's family?"
Family members are the hardest to fake. Chen Que's parents had already passed away. She had met two distant relatives. One of them asked her for money, and the other talked about some things from her childhood, but it was just repetitive and trivial matters.
It cannot be proven, nor can it be refuted.
She didn't consider either of them to be relatives.
“You never said that,” Huo Zixi paused, “You said you wanted to go to Africa to do infrastructure work and never come back. I guess you don’t have any relatives left.”
Shen Que raised an eyebrow slightly. "After you cremated Chu Ci, did no one look for her?"
“You probably don’t have any close relatives, and distant relatives won’t come looking for you.” Huo Zixi finished the remaining half bottle of water in one gulp.
He didn't know how to tell Chu Ci that after the body was cremated, Huo Junyan easily found out about Chu Ci's family. He was worried that the old lady wouldn't be able to accept it, so he thought he would wait and see.
Or we can wait until Chu Ci's parents look for someone and then subtly inform them.
Two or three years passed, and Chu Ci's parents never contacted their daughter or reported her missing to the police.
After that, Huo Zixi stopped paying attention.
Shen Que remained noncommittal. "You mean President Huo won't allow anything related to Chu Ci to be left behind?"
“My uncle took all your things.”
"Destroyed?" Shen Que asked, puzzled. "Does he hate Chu Ci? Then why did he want to marry me that day? Isn't that a contradiction?"
Huo Zixi didn't understand either, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "My uncle doesn't like to lose control of anything."
"Oh." Shen Que's lips curled up, his smile carrying a deeper meaning.
That smile looked familiar. Huo Zixi's brow twitched. "What do you want?"
"Can you take me to see him?" She wanted to test how much weight Chu Ci held in Huo Junyan's heart.
“My uncle is in the hospital, and I can’t see him without his or my great-aunt’s permission.”
Shen Que raised an eyebrow, not pressing for details, but seeing his expression, asked, "What's wrong?"
"Didn't you retrieve the airport's surveillance footage? My uncle was injured, and Secretary Wu at your house mentioned it twice." Huo Zixi had wanted to bring this up for a long time.
Secretary Wu repeatedly brought up the injury, partly out of workplace survival rules, but also with the intention of helping. They knew before knocking on the door in the middle of the night that Shen Que had requested the airport to provide surveillance video, which must have shown the entire process of Huo Junyan rescuing the child.
But that night she just wouldn't respond, which made people suspect that she was pretending not to know her.
Shen Que opened his eyes wide. "I watched the surveillance video. I bumped into something. Is it serious?" Uh... that's a really bad thing to say.
For someone of Huo Junyan's status and position, it's no wonder that a simple tap would cause such a commotion.
Huo Zixi stared at her, and Shen Que realized that he had misunderstood. She quickly explained, "I only watched the whole video after you left and recognized that it was President Huo who saved Xingxing, so I really didn't recognize him that night."
He believed her when she said that, "My uncle fainted in the elevator after leaving your house..."
That night, Huo Junyan stepped into the elevator, and as the doors closed, he collapsed without warning, nearly scaring Huo Zixi and Secretary Wu to death.
If Huo Junyan gets into trouble, Secretary Wu's career will be over, Huo Zixi will be expelled from the Huo family, and even his father will be implicated.
There is no warmth in wealthy families. Although Huo Zixi's father is Huo Junyan's cousin, he is a useless son of the Huo family and has been marginalized. As for him, the useless son's illegitimate son, the Huo family did not know of his existence until he was 20 years old.
His first public appearance was when Chu Cibing took a risky move, finally making the Huo family aware of his existence.
Later, it was because of Chu Ci that he had the opportunity to see Huo Junyan, the heir, more often, which finally made the Huo family acknowledge his identity within the circle.
Even though the Huo family had some reservations about him later because of Chu Ci, they didn't touch him. But if Huo Junyan got into trouble and it had even the slightest connection to him, then no one could save him.
Huo Junyan fainted in the elevator, and the two immediately took him to the hospital. His wound was seriously infected and required emergency surgery. They did not dare to lie to their superiors and immediately notified the Huo family. Huo Zixi was also taken away and locked up by his father. It was not until the third day that Huo Junyan regained consciousness and then ordered him to be released.
Shen Que truly hadn't expected it to be this serious. He tossed his hair, then suddenly stood up. "Xingxing?"
While talking to Huo Zixi, she kept an eye on her son. He had just been feeding the alpacas, and now he had disappeared.
She quickened her pace, stopping only when she saw the stars at the corner. Her heart pounded. She stood where she could see her son. "If it's inconvenient to see him at the hospital, I'll wait until he's discharged."
"It should be convenient. I'll send you the address."
Shen Que nodded, "I'll go in the next couple of days."
On the fourth day, Xingxing had her straps removed, and the checkup results showed that she was completely fine. She bought a fruit basket and took Xingxing into the elevator.
The address is a private hospital, and for convenience, we scheduled Xingxing's check-up at this hospital.
"Star, have you remembered everything Mommy taught you?"
"I'll remember. Say hello to Uncle and thank him for saving me."
"Anything else?"
She pursed her lips, looked up at Chen Que, and said reluctantly, "A person shouldn't run around."
Is there anything else?
"That's all." Xingxing let go of her hand and turned her head to look at the elevator buttons.
Chen Que squatted down and patiently repeated, "You can't climb high places, and you definitely can't jump down, because it's very dangerous, do you understand?"
Xingxing fiddled with the elevator buttons, and Chen Que took his hand, turning him around to look at his son.
“I remember,” Xingxing glanced at her, then looked down, her little mouth pouting, “Mommy, they were the ones who chased me.”
Shen Que affirmed her son's situation at the time, saying, "Mom said that next time you encounter this situation, you must seek help from an adult."
As the mother and son were talking, the elevator doors opened, and two bodyguards stood at the entrance. She paused for a moment, and Xingxing had already stepped out first.
Shen Que got up, carrying a fruit basket, and stepped out of the elevator, but was stopped by a bodyguard. "Excuse me, does Mr. Huo live here?" The corridor was spacious and the environment was comfortable.
The bodyguard politely replied, "I'm sorry."
She had no choice but to call Huo Zixi. After waiting a minute, she received a reply that Huo Junyan had been discharged from the hospital.
Slightly disappointed, Shen put down the fruit basket and took Xingxing down the elevator.
As they passed through the lobby, Xingxing kept looking back. When he was going down the steps, he stopped and said, "Mommy, my ambulance is still inside."
"Hmm?" Shen Que looked down, then glanced back. "Did you lose your toy?"
When he left, he was carrying a toy ambulance that was about the size of his palm.
She led Xingxing back to the lobby, searching as they went, until they reached the elevator. She pressed the button, and immediately saw no toy car.
"How about Mommy buys you a new one?"
Xingxing hesitated for a moment, then nodded, opened her arms, and with a smile, picked up her son, left the hospital, put him in the back seat child seat, and noticed that his shoelaces were untied again, so she tied them for him.
"oops."
Shen Que sighed and said, "Xingxing, Mom remembers now, I put your toy car in the fruit basket."
As Xingxing was carrying the fruit basket up the steps, his shoe fell off. He put down his toy and put on his shoe himself. Chen Que helped him tie his shoelaces and then put the toy car in the fruit basket.
She was in a dilemma. Firstly, she didn't want to go through the hassle of going back and forth. Secondly, judging from the security level of that floor, it must be a very important person staying there. It would be fine if the bodyguard didn't deliver the fruit basket to the room, but if he did, the person might think she was asking him for a favor or trying to strike up a conversation.
Xingxing looked at her with bright eyes, "I thought it was for my uncle."
“Oh, you remember?” Shen Que chuckled. “Never mind, how about Mom takes you shopping again?”
Private hospital, VIP wards.
Huo Zixi hung up the phone and looked at Huo Junyan with a forced smile, "Uncle?"
Huo Junyan stared at the fruit basket, picked up the "Sunshine" card from the Sunshine Rose with two fingers, threw it into the trash can, and then suddenly picked up the Sunshine Rose. A green grape fell off and rolled down the coffee table.
The tightly packed fruit basket immediately loosened, with yellow peaches, apples, oranges, plums, and mangosteens rolling together, and the large green mangoes turning over at the very end.
"Wu-li... Wu-li..."
Secretary Wu paused as he squatted down to pick up the green grapes, staring at the fruit basket in horror.
Ambulance music played, lights flashed under the large green mangoes, red illuminated "Peach You," and blue lit up "Like."
Huo Junyan picked up the card that read "Peach, you like it" between his fingers and sneered.
He picked up the toy ambulance, the sound stopped abruptly, he pressed the button again, "Whoa~", released it, the sound stopped, pressed it again, "Whoa~", released it, pressed it again...
The ward was both eerie and hilarious.
I want to laugh but can't.
Huo Zixi turned his stiff neck, and when Secretary Wu met his gaze, her eyes went unfocused, and she turned away without making a sound.
"Discharged." Huo Junyan glanced at the fruit basket.
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