Chapter 68 She left the manor
His eyes widened suddenly, and he shouted, "Oh no! My wife has been stood up again!"
The lady... waited there alone for a full five hours!
"Hurry! Hurry!" He ran outside while pulling out his phone to call Fu Beichen.
"The number you dialed is temporarily unavailable..." came the cold, impersonal voice.
He quickly dialed driver Lao Wang's number.
The call connected quickly, and Old Wang's voice was urgent: "Assistant Lin! I was just about to report to you! President Fu went to rescue Miss Jiang! The situation is urgent; he just took a speedboat out to sea! Fortunately... Mr. Lu also sent people to follow him!"
Lin Qi felt a sudden darkness before his eyes and almost collapsed.
"My God!" he exclaimed all the way, jumping into the car with the butler, flooring the accelerator, and speeding towards the riverbank at top speed.
The car headlights pierced the darkness, illuminating the huddled figure by the riverbank.
Gu Xingnian sat leaning against a stone bench by the roadside, her face as white as paper, her lips devoid of any color, and the sleeve of her left arm soaked in blood, a dark red stain that was shocking to behold.
Lin Qi's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly braked and jumped off.
"Madam! Madam, how are you?" He rushed forward, his voice full of regret and apology. "I'm so sorry, Madam! It's all my fault! I'm late! I'm so sorry!"
He carefully helped Gu Xingnian, who was almost unconscious, to her feet and helped her into the back seat of the car.
The next day, when Gu Xingnian woke up, she found herself lying on a soft, large bed.
The left arm was properly treated and immobilized with a splint.
She moved slightly and could feel that yesterday's fall had completely reopened her wound, which was almost healed.
Lin Qi had been staying by her side the whole time. When he saw that she had woken up, he immediately came over, his face full of guilt.
"Madam, how are you feeling? The doctor said you lost quite a bit of blood, coupled with fatigue and catching a chill..."
Gu Xingnian ignored what he said after that, and only asked in a hoarse voice, "Where is Fu Beichen?"
Lin Qi's eyes flickered, and he said in a low voice:
"President Fu... there was a sudden emergency at the company yesterday, and he rushed back to handle it."
Gu Xingnian's expression remained unchanged, only her eyelashes trembled slightly.
"It's about Jiang Kexin, isn't it?" she said in a declarative sentence.
Lin Qi was momentarily speechless, knowing he couldn't hide it any longer, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say:
"It's...it's Miss Jiang. She's been kidnapped. Mr. Fu...Mr. Fu went to rescue her. The situation is complicated. We haven't had any definite news about Mr. Fu since last night..."
Before he could finish speaking, his phone suddenly beeped with a message.
Lin Qi glanced at it and was so startled that he dropped his phone on the ground.
Gu Xingnian quickly caught the entertainment news.
The headline is eye-catching: #Fu Beichen appears at Central Hospital late at night with actress Jiang Ying, covered in blood, suspected of being attacked#
The accompanying picture shows Fu Beichen carrying a pale-faced Jiang Kexin as he rushes into the Central Hospital, his white shirt stained with large patches of blood.
Gu Xingnian's gaze fell on the phone screen, and then she suddenly smiled softly.
The laughter was low, yet it carried a heavy sense of mockery, an unspeakable helplessness, and a kind of... utterly resigned calm.
Her eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of gray, devoid of their previous brightness.
After a long while, she slowly opened her mouth, her voice frighteningly calm.
"Lin Qi, could you please have someone take me home?"
Lin Qi was stunned: "Madam, your injury..."
"Take me back!" Gu Xingnian interrupted him, her tone leaving no room for argument.
Lin Qi hesitated: "But what about President Fu..."
Gu Xingnian turned her head and stared at him intently, her eyes cold yet carrying a resolute air:
"If you don't want anything else to happen to me and make it difficult for you to explain to him, you'd better arrange a car to take me out now."
Looking at her pale yet determined face, Lin Qi finally gave in.
He lowered his head: "Yes, madam, I'll arrange it right away."
We arrived at the lobby downstairs.
The housekeeper and a group of servants stood at the door, looking at Gu Xingnian with longing eyes, their eyes full of reluctance.
Gu Xingnian stopped and took out a delicate little box from her bag, handing it to the housekeeper.
She said softly, "Please give this chain to Uncle Fang so he can wear it."
She paused, then added, "This chain has been blessed by God, and I hope it will protect him and ensure his long and peaceful life."
The housekeeper, his hands trembling slightly, accepted the box, his eyes reddening, and moved to tears as he offered Gu Xingnian a long string of heartfelt blessings.
The car slowly drove away from the magnificent yet cold manor.
As the car pulled up to the grand entrance of the manor, Gu Xingnian looked out the window and saw a familiar black Maybach and a tall, familiar figure beside it.
Gu Xingnian's heart clenched suddenly.
"Stop the car," she said to the driver.
After the car came to a stop, she pushed open the car door, enduring the pain in her arms and legs, and limped toward the figure.
Lu Lie saw her almost the moment she got out of the car, and he quickly walked up to her.
When he saw her pale face, the splint on her arm, and her unsteady steps, his heart felt like it was being violently gripped, and he felt a sharp pain.
He rushed to her, and without saying a word, simply stretched out his arms and pulled her tightly into his embrace with utmost care. The force was as if he wanted to meld her into his very bones, yet was also afraid of hurting her.
The next second, he bent down, carefully picked her up horizontally, and steadily walked towards his Maybach.
The car sped away, carrying Gu Xingnian, whose injuries were even more severe than when she arrived...
afternoon.
Jiang Kexin's condition has finally stabilized.
Fu Beichen then belatedly realized that his phone had been smashed to pieces during his fight with those bastards last night.
He casually picked up the bodyguard's phone next to him and dialed Lin Qi's number.
As soon as the call connected, he immediately asked me a question.
"Gu Xingnian, is she alright? What is she doing?"
Lin Qi's voice on the other end of the phone sounded almost broken, with a heavy nasal tone.
"Boss...I'm sorry...it's my fault..."
Lynch began to confess incoherently, saying that he had been too careless and had left his wife alone on the riverbank in the cold wind for five hours.
In the end, she ran out to ask for help herself, but she accidentally fell and her already healing wound reopened.
When the doctor re-treated her wound, she had completely passed out and knew nothing.
As Fu Beichen listened to Lin Qi's intermittent report, his heart clenched.
pain.
It was a dull pain, with sharp, barbed marks.
A heavy, almost suffocating sense of guilt surged up over him.
When he rushed to save Jiang Kexin yesterday, he felt only anxiety and overwhelming anger. He had never felt such a heart-wrenching pain before.
"Where is she?" His voice was dry and hoarse.
Lin Qi paused on the other end, his voice even lower. "Sigh, the little bit of goodwill my wife has managed to build up is probably going to vanish."
"Lu Lie picked her up, and now... I don't know where she is."
Fu Beichen's fingers gripped the phone, his knuckles turning white. He didn't know when he had started to care about her so much, but no matter who she went with, it couldn't be Lu Lie!
He didn't say anything and hung up the phone immediately.
Then, he tried dialing Gu Xingnian's number.
"Sorry, the number you dialed is currently switched off..."
The cold notification tone was like a bucket of ice water poured over me from head to toe.
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