Chapter 25 I Will Never Give Up
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Han Zhan hasn't been at home very often these days.
Shi Yin had only met him twice.
One was the morning of the day before yesterday, when he had breakfast with her. Another was yesterday evening, when he had a new veterinarian come to treat Ah Xiu's old illness.
It's foggy this morning.
It looks like it's going to snow.
The HU alumni dinner had been rescheduled for this afternoon. Shi Yin changed into a white turtleneck sweater in the cloakroom, paired with straight-leg slim jeans and a pair of black, British-style leather shoes. She was a bit cold-shy, so she opted for a thick wool coat, gave her long hair a quick styling, and then went downstairs.
The servants had prepared breakfast and placed it on the dining table. She ate half a slice of endless toast and caught a glimpse of the housekeeper, looking hurried, flipping through a baking book in his hands.
"Uncle Han, what are you doing?" Shi Yin called him.
"Look at the style of the cake." The butler immediately stopped and handed her the thing in his hand: "The 16th is Mr.'s birthday. I want to make him a more novel cake."
After hearing this, Shi Yin had an impression.
On the day they got married, filling out the application form at the Chaoyang District Civil Affairs Bureau, she glanced at his ID information. He was born on December 16th. Whether it was because of their "couple revolution" friendship under the same roof or because of the Jin Baili incident, Shi Yin should give him a birthday present.
She put down her things and sent a good morning message to Ms. Bai: "Mom, this is Yinyin. The snow cake you gave me last time we had dinner at Han's house was delicious. I want to learn how to make pastry from you. Is that okay with you?"
After breakfast, Shi Yin went out.
After telling the housekeeper that he was going to attend a dinner with HU alumni this afternoon and would not be back for dinner, he drove the Porsche Macan and left Beishan Villa.
The car drove towards Shi’s Building.
All employees of the company are working hard for the New Year project, especially the design department, who are racking their brains to conceive drawings and strive to make the new designs sell well during the Spring Festival.
Ever since Shi Yin was promoted to deputy director and served as the head of the New Year project together with Shi Qinghe, everyone has been guessing which of the two young ladies of the Shi family will stand out.
Some people can't sleep at night.
Extremely anxious.
Shi Qinghe was so angry that as soon as he saw the drawing submitted by Meng Xi, he threw the paper in his face. He lowered his voice and couldn't help shouting: "Is this something a human can draw? Forget about beating Shi Yin, any intern in the design department can draw better than you!"
The sharp edges of the paper scratched Meng Xi's face.
She stood there without moving.
Let Shi Qinghe roar in anger.
After the other party finished scolding, Meng Xi bent down and said, "I'm sorry, Miss. My father's chemotherapy has not been going well recently, and he can't see Dr. Lu. I'm really worried. No matter how hard I push myself, I can't devote myself to drawing the design."
"Are you threatening me?"
"I don't dare."
"If I hadn't intervened back then, your father would have met his end long ago!" Shi Qinghe stared at her and sneered, "Thanks to my connections, your father has been staying in a high-end VIP ward these past few years and using special targeted drugs that aren't even available on the market. What else can you be dissatisfied with?"
Meng Xi pursed her lips and said nothing.
After the hard work, Shi Qinghe pushed the wheelchair in front of her and said softly, "I told you, the Lu family and our Shi family are collaborating soon. Once my father signs the contract and strengthens the relationship between the two families, I can go and invite Dr. Lu."
"What you need to do now is to quickly draw up some design drafts for the New Year project. Not the useless drafts lying on the ground, but drafts that are 100% guaranteed to outperform the old ones."
"Jin Baili's incident has already given her the spotlight and the upper hand. If she wins this New Year's project again, not only you, but also your father, will disappear from the capital forever."
Hearing this.
Meng Xi raised his head suddenly.
Seeing her nervous and frightened look, Shi Qinghe smiled. Money and power were nothing to this orphanage-bound bastard. Her only weakness was her adoptive father, whom she cared about the most.
Shi Qinghe held her hand, which was hanging by her side, and stroked the calluses on her fingers from the pen. "Meng Xi, you have to know that without me, your father would have no chance of survival. You can't afford his high medical bills, and you will never be able to marry into the Lu family, one of the eight great families, and hire Dr. Lu."
Meng Xi walked out of the office holding the album.
The woman looked haggard.
driven to distraction.
My phone vibrated a few times, and a message came from the HU alumni group:
"I picked up three professors from the school at the airport."
"(Group photo)"
"This afternoon at 5:30, Qinhuanglou Restaurant in the northern suburbs of Beijing, students, please be there on time!"
Meng Xi clicked on the image above and immediately spotted the gray-haired woman standing in the middle. This was her mentor. Without her, there would be no her. Upon learning that her long-ill teacher was coming to Beijing, Meng Xi, who had already severed ties with all her former friends, hesitated for a while before finally joining the group chat and attending the dinner.
She wants to see the teacher.
Just meet from a distance.
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The air grew hazy in the afternoon.
Visibility is reduced.
Shi Yin drove to the northern suburbs, far from the city center, and stopped outside the gate of Qinhuanglou Restaurant before going in. They had reserved the entire place today, and the hall was filled with HU alumni.
Three professors sat in the center.
Everyone was chatting happily.
"Where's Meng Xi?"
"She didn't come today?"
Professor Pei, who is nearly eighty years old, is kind and amiable. She raised her reading glasses and looked around again, but still did not see Meng Xi, her most proud disciple of Guan Shan.
"Meng Xi answered the call in the group chat and agreed to attend the banquet."
"Is she absent?"
"Still can't find the place?"
"With Professor Pei here, she definitely wouldn't miss it. I remember when she was studying at HU that year, Professor Pei treated her like his own daughter, taking her everywhere he went, securing various resources for her, and introducing her to many connections."
"If she hadn't come today, I would have looked down on her."
Everyone was talking about it.
Standing by the wall in the far corner, Meng Xi tightened her grip, took one last look at her most respected teacher, and decided to leave quietly. As she turned around, she bumped into someone. She looked up and started to apologize, but the words "I'm sorry" weren't even out of her mouth when she saw Shi Yin's face up close.
"Professor Pei is in poor health. After retirement, she has been recuperating in seclusion abroad. She came to Beijing specifically for you. She just wanted to see you. You're already in your eighties. Seeing you once is one less time. Why wouldn't you go and say hello?"
Meng Xi said nothing.
But his fingers pierced deeply into the flesh of his palm.
The pain made the veins on her temples stand out slightly.
If the teacher knew that she had secretly abandoned her qualification for graduate school, dropped out of HU, and took a small assistant job that had nothing to do with the design field, he would definitely be very disappointed.
She was too embarrassed to see her mentor.
She felt ashamed of the cultivation her teacher had given her.
As if she could guess what she was thinking, Shi Yin said, "It's your own choice to choose what industry you want to work in. Professor Pei won't interfere. But if she knew that you sold your soul and took your drawings to sell for money—"
"I don't."
"You accepted Shi Qinghe's money."
"wrong."
"Professor Pei taught you all his life's knowledge, but after returning home, you became Shi Qinghe's lackey for fame, wealth, and power."
"That's not the case!" Meng Xi collapsed. She leaned heavily against the cold wall behind her, holding her head in her hands. Her uncontrollable emotions shattered all her rationality: "I'm just a nobody. I have no family background and no connections. Without Shi Qinghe, there would be no special medicine to treat cancer. Dr. Lu, the big name in the field of oncology, has returned to Beijing. Without Shi Qinghe, how could I get into the Lu family on my own, and how could I possibly hire Dr. Lu? I've been an orphan since I was a child. I only have this adoptive father who loves me. How can I give up on him? I will never give up on him——"
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