Wen Zhan looked at his car, which had been knocked askew, with a sense of frustration. Then he walked over and saw the scratches on Duan Sisi's car. He tried to calm his anxious mood and knocked on Duan Sisi's car window.
"I'm sorry, I have an urgent matter and I'm in a hurry..."
The car window slowly rolled down, and when he saw Duan Sisi sitting inside with a half-smile on her face, the word "urgent" suddenly got stuck in his throat.
"Why is it you again?" Wen Zhan blurted out.
"I'd like to ask that too! Why am I so unlucky to run into you, this jinx!"
Duan Sisi complained as she walked down.
Wen Zhan waved his hand impatiently, "Tsk tsk tsk! Auntie, this is my bad luck! I have urgent business and don't have time to chat with you. Just tell me how much!"
He casually pulled out his wallet from his back pocket, opened the purse, grabbed two red bills, and tossed them in front of Duan Sisi.
Duan Sisi didn't even answer the call, frowning as she looked at her car and exclaimed an exaggerated "Oh!"
"This is really not a matter of three or five hundred."
Wen Zhan: "Are you trying to scam me again?"
Duan Sisi adopted a condescending tone and began to lecture: "Why are you saying such harsh things! What do you mean by 'extortion'? You bumped into my car, shouldn't you pay for it? Besides, little brother, if you can't drive, then don't drive. Look how much trouble this is causing!"
Wen Zhan was already anxious, and his mood was already bad. Hearing her say such unreasonable things only made him angrier.
"Auntie! Why don't you ever reflect on your own problems before criticizing others? I did run a yellow light, but your lane isn't exactly a turning lane, is it? To be fair, we're both half responsible, so neither of us should blame the other."
Duan Sisi leaned back in the car with a relaxed expression. "Since we have conflicting accounts of this matter, let's wait for the police to arrive. Let them judge; they'll be fair!"
Looking at her, Wen Zhan could tell she was doing it on purpose.
He paced anxiously in place for a moment, then pointed at Duan Sisi and spat out through gritted teeth, "Fine, Auntie! I guess this is my bad luck! How much do you want? Name your price, and I'll transfer it to your Alipay account."
When Duan Sisi saw his discomfiture, she felt instantly relieved and even vented her anger from the last time.
"Sorry, I only accept cash."
She's deliberately making things difficult for herself; Wenzhan clearly doesn't see it.
He clenched his teeth and pointed at Duan Sisi for a long time, too angry to utter a single word.
He turned and walked to his car, reached through the rolled-down window, took out paper and pen, and lay down on the car to write earnestly.
Duan Sisi looked at his behavior with suspicion, and as she walked over, she casually asked, "What's the matter that makes you seem so anxious? Is your wife giving birth?"
She tried to guess.
Wenzhan quickly wrote an IOU on the paper and hastily signed his name at the end.
He slapped the IOU onto Duan Sisi, saying, "You're half right. You are indeed in a hurry to have a child. But it's not my wife, it's someone else's wife."
Duan Sisi frowned deeply as she listened to these awkward words and looked at the IOU in her hand.
"What the hell?"
Wen Zhan didn't explain further, and pulled out another business card from his wallet, tossing it over.
"Auntie, even if you can't find me now, you can still take the IOU to court. Are you relieved now? I'm leaving."
He said those words, got into his car without looking back, and sped away.
Duan Sisi stared dumbfounded at the taillights, then looked at the business card on the ground, and fell into deep self-doubt.
"Is this guy crazy?! What does it have to do with him that someone's wife is giving birth? He's more concerned than the emperor!"
She stepped on the business card without even thinking of picking it up, then turned around, got into her car, and casually tossed the IOU aside.
"What bad luck!"
Duan Sisi cursed under her breath and drove towards the coffee shop.
Chengdu Research Institute of Technology.
As Yi An listened to the busy tone on the phone, a gray gloom settled over her face.
Zhao Bo watched as his hand holding the phone fell limply to his side and couldn't help but ask, "Still not answering your call?"
Yi An sighed deeply, frantically rubbing her hair and covering her face with her hands.
"It's all my fault. I couldn't control myself and didn't consider her feelings at all."
Zhao Bo felt deep sympathy for his plight and patted him on the shoulder in comfort.
"If you ask me, no one is to blame but Su Yan for having such a mother. Growing up in that kind of environment, it's inevitable that her mind would be a bit distorted."
Yi'an's mood didn't improve after hearing his words of comfort; instead, she became even more confused.
"You mean just her mother's affair and divorce could have such a big impact on her? Our family situation is so complicated, I'm not going to end up like her. Do you think there might be some other things we don't know about?" he asked worriedly.
Zhao Bo thought about it carefully and nodded in agreement.
“What you said seems very likely. Things like divorce and infidelity are quite common. Out of ten families, it’s probably five or six, if not seven or eight. And Su Yan’s severe stress reaction doesn’t seem to make sense just because of this one reason.”
He tentatively suggested, "Why don't you ask Su Yan again what else happened?"
Yi An shook her phone weakly. "I want to ask too, but she's completely shut herself off and won't give me a chance to speak at all!"
Zhao Bo frowned in distress, thought for a long time, and then suddenly had an idea.
"Why don't you go and ask Su Yan's father for some information?"
The moment those words reached Yi An's ears, He Zimo's words automatically popped into her mind.
"Be careful of Su Yan's father; he's the most abnormal person there."
Duan Sisi slammed the car door shut with a loud bang, and with a long face, she entered the coffee shop and saw Su Yan sitting in a booth.
She immediately changed her expression and ran over with a cheerful laugh.
"Honey, when did you arrive? Why didn't you tell me?"
Su Yan turned her head and looked at her running towards her, and smiled wearily.
"But you, instead of staying in the store during work hours, where have you been running around?"
Duan Sisi sat intimately beside her, with one arm around her shoulder, and whispered something in her ear.
"I'm telling you, I went to the hospital for a check-up with Qiao Chen today."
Su Yan immediately perked up and asked anxiously, "Really? What was the result?"
Duan Sisi deflated again. "Don't even mention it. We had a huge fight before the results came out."
Upon hearing this, Su Yan involuntarily furrowed her brows.
Since Qiao Chen's accident, their once solid relationship has been ripped apart as if by an invisible knife. They argue every two days and have a major fight every three days.
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