Chapter 343: Subtle Influence
Junyi Building is located on the south bank of Pujiang River in Nanjiang District. It is a high-end residential building managed as a hotel apartment.
It has forty-six floors and a total height of over one hundred and fifty meters, overlooking the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Huangpu River.
The smallest residential unit in this building is 200 square meters, and the current selling price is over 150,000 yuan per square meter.
Gu Qingran owns a house in Junyi Building.
Not far from the building, there is a cafe called Carving Time, which is popular for its business meals.
When Gu Qingran has no social engagements or is in a hurry, he often comes to this cafe for dinner or lunch.
Tonight, Gu Qingran walked into the cafe again, found a secluded booth and sat down, ordered a cup of coffee and a simple meal of lamb chops.
It was very quick. In less than ten minutes, the steaming hot lamb chops meal was served.
Gu Qingran had just taken a bite when he noticed the light in front of him dim. He looked up and saw a charming and mature woman with long wavy red hair and fiery red lips standing in front of him with a cup of coffee and a smile on her face.
"Handsome, can I sit here?"
Gu Qingran looked the woman up and down, smiled faintly, and made a gesture of invitation.
The woman sat down across from the booth.
She stirred the coffee elegantly twice with a coffee spoon and looked at Gu Qingran with interest.
"Sir, what happened to those two people was not our intention. It's just that plans can't keep up with changes."
Gu Qingran was slightly startled, bit off the food in his mouth, and drank a sip of water.
"How do you say it?"
The woman's eyes flickered, but she said, "My people found a sufficient amount of opioids at that person's residence, and I plan to expose this matter."
"That's enough opioids for them to take care of. It also fulfills the Master's instructions to teach them a lesson."
"Last night, my people were at the bar and put opioids they had taken from their residence in their drinks."
"Then, report them for speeding and dangerous driving."
The woman smiled and whispered, "I didn't expect that when the police car asked them to slow down and stop, they actually sped away. Eventually, they lost control of the vehicle and rushed off the overpass."
Gu Qingran chuckled and said, "This is God's will. You will suffer the consequences if you do evil."
"Yu Zhiming, who heals illnesses and saves lives, is turning misfortune into fortune, but they have done something immoral, turning a minor disaster into a major one."
After a pause, he asked with concern, "Will your actions be discovered?"
The woman said confidently, "We are professionals. How could we be caught?"
"Besides, in this whole thing, we just secretly put a little powder in their wine without anyone noticing."
"That powder is their own."
The woman asked again with great interest, "This time, Yaoming Pharmaceutical will definitely be in big trouble."
"Sir, are you interested in adding more fuel to the fire and seizing a suitable opportunity to take over Yaoming Pharmaceutical?"
Gu Qingran rolled his eyes and said, "You think too highly of me. I'm just the vice president of Ning'an Hospital."
"I have no say in the decisions of the group and the Gu family."
"Besides, biting off more than you can chew..."
Gu Qingran said slowly: "We have the very early cancer screening indicators and the new nerve damage recovery agent. If any one of them succeeds, it will allow Ning An to reach a higher level. There is really no need to divide our attention any further."
The woman picked up the coffee and took a small sip.
She put down her cup and said, "That woman said that as long as she could stay at Gulou Hospital and have a permanent job, she would cut off all contact with Dr. Yu and stop disturbing his life and work."
Gu Qingran nodded gently and said, "Promise her. With the Hua family's connections in Jinling, it will be easy to accomplish this."
The woman asked doubtfully, "Sir, I don't think it's necessary to get involved in this kind of thing, right?"
"When it comes to matters of the heart, it's better to let nature take its course."
"I think that although Dr. Yu is a bit straight, he is not easy to fool. Even if that woman really comes to pester him, Dr. Yu will eventually find out that she is not a good match at all."
Gu Qingran snorted and said, "A man's first love is a very strange thing. It can blind him."
"I don't want my sister and that guy's relationship, which is progressing smoothly, to encounter any unexpected twists and turns."
"It's worth it to pay a small price to solve a potential big problem."
The woman uttered a soft "oh" and said with envy, "Sir, it would be so great if you were my brother. I wouldn't have to live such a hard life."
Gu Qingran snorted softly and said teasingly, "With your personality, if you were to live an ordinary and dull life like Qing Ning, you would go crazy in less than half a year."
"The one who understands me is you, my lord!"
The woman replied with a smile, then pretended to be mysterious and said, "Sir, while investigating Dr. Yu's past, we may actually uncover a big secret."
"Big secret?" Gu Qingran's face turned serious.
The woman quickly explained, "It's a secret that has nothing to do with Dr. Yu's character or behavior."
"There is no doubt that Dr. Yu is a highly skilled and respectable doctor."
"This secret is about Dr. Yu's life experience."
"life experience?"
Gu Qingran frowned and urged, "Don't keep us in suspense. Tell us what secrets you have."
The woman picked up the coffee again, took a sip slowly, then slowly put down the cup and stirred it with a coffee spoon.
Seeing that Gu Qingran was showing signs of anger, the woman smiled and said, "Doctor Yu may not be a child of the Yu family."
Without waiting for Gu Qingran to ask, she continued, "An old man in their village said that at the time, in addition to Dr. Yu's mother being pregnant, there was another pregnant woman living in the Yu family."
"Who is that pregnant woman?" Gu Qingran couldn't help but ask.
The woman replied softly, "She's the younger sister of Dr. Yu's brother-in-law, the mother of Zeng Yan."
"At that time, she was only fifteen or sixteen years old."
"It's said that two pregnant women went to the hospital together to give birth, and Dr. Yu's mother gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl."
"But Zeng Yan's mother did not return to the village with them. They said that Zeng Yan's mother's parents took her and the child away."
"But I learned that Zeng Yan's mother never had a child as old as Dr. Yu."
"She only has Zeng Yan as her daughter."
The woman's eyes sparkled as she said, "Sir, twenty or thirty years ago, adopting a son and giving birth to a daughter resulted in twins, a boy and a girl. This situation was quite common in rural areas where boys are valued more than girls."
The woman added with a lively tone, "Sir, I suspect that Doctor Yu knows about my life experience."
"Otherwise, he wouldn't be so kind to Zeng Yan and use so much connections to help her transfer to another university and major."
"He should be repaying his kindness."
The woman added: "Of course, this is just my own analysis and inference, there is no solid evidence yet."
"Sir, do you want me to investigate further? Find out who that cheap father is?"
Gu Qingran pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Let's end this matter here."
"Whether Yu Zhiming is a child of the Yu family or not, it's the same to us."
"It won't change our opinion of him one bit."
"Forget about this matter. Don't cause trouble for yourself..."
Around seven o'clock in the evening, Yu Zhiming returned to his residence in Zijinyuan, carrying dinner he had brought from his sister's canteen.
Gu Qingning came over happily.
"Zhiming, Zhiming, I have great news for you. Grandpa's operation was successful."
"Hey, he even sent us a video."
Yu Zhiming saw that every pore on this girl's face was filled with joy, and knew that she was truly happy.
He was also happy about it and naturally reached out to rub Gu Qingning's head.
Gu Qingning smiled, and shook her head with great enjoyment as she rubbed Yu Zhiming's palm.
"Zhiming, watch the video too!"
Yu Zhiming looked at the mobile phone video in Gu Qingning's hand and could see that it was shot outside the large transparent window of the ICU ward.
He could clearly see the old man lying on the hospital bed, with a drainage tube inserted into his body and several monitoring data cables connected to it.
The old man was awake and seemed to be conscious. He even blinked at the camera.
"Zhiming, given Grandpa's condition, when can he come back to recuperate?"
Yu Zhiming pondered and said, "After all, the old man is old, and it's a major heart surgery, so it will take at least one or two months."
"Besides, the winter in Binhai is not good for people. It would be best to wait until spring comes and flowers bloom before returning."
"We have to wait so long." Gu Qingning looked a little disappointed.
Yu Zhiming tapped Gu Qingning's forehead and chuckled, "Are you stupid?"
"The old man can't come back, you can go see him!"
Gu Qingning chuckled and said, "I'm really stupid. I'll fly to Guangzhou and Shenzhen to see Grandpa in the next few days."
Oops, I said the wrong thing.
Yu Zhiming quickly stopped him, saying, "You can't do that in the next few days. The old man needs to rest and calm down to recover from his heart attack."
"It's best to go again in a month..."
He thought that a month's recovery period should be enough for the old man's body to return to normal state and be transferred from the South Asian subcontinent to a hospital in Guangzhou and Shenzhen for rehabilitation.
Gu Qingning pursed her lips and said, "I'll discuss this with my eldest brother. The family should organize a group visit."
Yu Zhiming secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Indeed, the old man has so many younger generations. You should organize them and go together."
Gu Qingning said excitedly, "To celebrate Grandpa's successful surgery and to celebrate those two bad guys getting their comeuppance, I even made a dish tonight according to the instructional video."
Yu Zhiming went to the kitchen worriedly and found that the dish was steamed egg custard!
He tasted it.
It's edible, so it's a success...
After having dinner with Gu Qingning, Yu Zhiming played two pieces of erhu and then went back to his bedroom to read and study.
Gu Qingning also picked up a decoration design book published abroad and started reading.
One of the reasons why she became so fond of learning was that she actually developed an interest in design at work.
The second is also due to the subtle influence of Yu Zhiming.
Gu Qingning wants to become a girl who loves to study, is motivated and also loves cooking, and actively approaches the top student Yu Zhiming...
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