Confusion had wrapped itself around her since returning to Suizhou.

Gu Lan was sent to a nursing home, and maybe she shouldn't have chased her there, but she couldn't have chased her there either.

Sheng Feiyu had already been sent to the FT for trial, while Gu Zhuyan was slow to get his hands around him.

It was a week, and Xiao Ze was also grounded at home by Gu Jin Chi because of his injuries, and she was bored alone in the hotel for seven days, and whatever thoughts she shouldn't have came out.

It's a testament to the old adage that one can't be too idle.

Another day in bed catching up on sleep when Ren Lords broke down and called her.

When the call came through, it was the awkwardness of opposing speechlessness, as if there was so much to say, but so much that couldn't be said.

After a long silence, it was Ren Lord who sighed softly and took the lead. "How have you been doing lately? Is life there as good as it should be?"

"It's okay, I'm able to spend time with Zee once in a while. What about you?" She subconsciously asked back, before feeling her scalp tighten.

Even if Lord Ren could say something, what could she do?

It's a good thing he didn't say anything to embarrass her, "Still."

After another moment of somewhat awkward silence, Lord Ren asked, "Considering a position at headquarters if you don't find a suitable position?"

"Do you mean the head office needs me, or do you just want to provide a place for me?"

If it was the former, she could go, but if Renlord was going to involve himself with her again, this was something she couldn't accept.

"What you wish to be is what you are."

His words were also somewhat ambiguous as to the answer to this matter.

"Let me think about it,"

She put her cell phone down and hung up, letting out a soft sigh.

Looks like he's still not dead.

It was nearly dark outside the window, and it sounded as if he sounded as if he'd been drinking and had a drunken buzz.

I'm afraid it's just a moment of drunken whining.

She closed her eyes and was about to continue to take another nap when her cell phone rang once again.

Expecting it to be Ren Lord calling, the phone number displayed on top of the phone was Ze's.

She got up and cleared her throat, dissipating her exhaustion before picking up the phone, "What's going on? Why no video call."

The sound from Ozawa's side was slightly noisy, causing her to hold the phone a little farther away from her.

"Mommy, come and help will you, Daddy's drunk."

With that, he made another effort, as if burdened with something.

Su Qinglan frowned, "Where's Anian? Where are you now?"

"I couldn't get through to Uncle An, Daddy was drinking with some of his uncles and was forced to drink too much, and now Daddy and I are ... at the Huahai Hotel."

"Mommy, Daddy won't wake up, I'm so scared, ooohhhh ..."

The sound of panicked whimpering coming from Ozawa's side instantly made her heart skip a beat, and she hurriedly got up from the bed, grabbed her clothes, and headed out of the room.

All things and concerns were left behind as she rushed downstairs regardless, the helpless Ze needed her!

The car sped along and she drove to the Huahai Hotel straight up to the floor that Zee had said he was on, but there was no way to get through to him again.

Ozawa ... where are you!

She ran through the entire floor in a panic before she noticed something was wrong through a doorway.

Xiao Ze was sitting in the doorway, while Gu Jinchi was slightly in a state of disarray on the table, and the rest of the place was similarly in a state of disarray, just like a drunken wreck.

She stepped forward and hugged Zee, patting his back gently, "Mommy's here, it's okay."

"I'm fine, but daddy he ..." Xiao Ze lifted his head from her arms and reached out to point at the unconscious Gu Jinchi on one side, his face full of worry.

"I can't wake Daddy, Daddy won't die, will he?"

Abruptly, her mind buzzed.

Thinking of the previous experience of Gu Jinchi's drinking and stomach bleeding in the hospital, she did not dare to delay, and hurriedly stepped forward and pinched Gu Jinchi's middle, "Gu Jinchi, wake up."

He was a man who didn't blush at all when he drank, and because of that, it was completely impossible for her to see his condition.

"Gu Jinchi!"

But no matter how much she screamed, Gu Jinchi kept his eyes tightly closed and indifferent.

Damn.

Cursing in her mind, she picked up her cell phone and was about to dial 120 when the room suddenly went dark.

Power outage?

In the next moment, her hand was also suddenly gripped tightly by a large hand, and her body immediately lost its center of gravity and planted into a solid and warm embrace.

Gu Jinchi held her tightly in his arms and slowly opened his eyes in the darkness, "You're finally back."

"Are you ... okay?" She stiffened, her mind going blank as the familiar embrace made her forget to struggle for a moment.

But he still smelled faintly of alcohol.

It was only when a soft slamming of the door sounded that she realized that she was being set up for a raw deal!

It was simply set up to trick her into coming!

Gu Jinchi joined forces with Ze and tricked him into coming here!

"A little lightheaded, I hope I'm not feeling like I'm drunk right now." His voice was husky as he buried himself deep into her neck, sniffing the familiar scent of perfume.

"... You are drunk." Su Qinglan subconsciously swallowed and struggled up as an afterthought.

"Let go of me."

He did let go of her hand but tightened his grip around her waist, "Yes, until then you're going to tell me what's going on?"

"None of this concerns you now."

She pursed her lips, thankful that the room was dark and Gu Jinchi couldn't see the embarrassment on her face.

But the posture between them was ambiguous to the extreme.

"Did you misunderstand something?" He laughed softly, his hot breath spilling over the skin of her neck, tickling it.

She couldn't help but shrink her neck as she continued to struggle, "What else could I be misunderstanding, let go of me first so we can talk to each other."

"It's not what you think between Gu Lan and I."

"Blu, I really miss you, don't push me away okay."

She took a deep breath, the sound of exhaustion through her voice might have shaken her a little, but she couldn't afford to get lost at a time like this.

"Let go, or I promise we'll never see each other again in our lives."

This time, as soon as she struggled, Gu Jinchi immediately obeyed and let go of her.

For a moment his eyes dimmed in the darkness, and the atmosphere became a little stiff.

When he didn't say anything, she took the initiative and asked, "You lied to me, didn't you?"

"If not, will you take the initiative to appear in front of me." He got up and went to turn on the room's lights, the blinding light Ran Su Qinglan couldn't help but close her eyes tightly for a moment.

The light burned her for a long time.

Since she was in a hurry to find Ozawa, her face was veiled even her hair was just casually tucked away, and her clothes were very casual, and she felt a lot of strange sights all the way here.

The security guards wouldn't have let her in if they hadn't seen her driving a valuable car!

Is this the predicament she was so anxious to come to the rescue from?

Stringing together the meanings that Xiao Ze had constantly conveyed to her in the previous days, Su Qinglan finally realized that the illusion at that time was not an illusion.

It was the two of them, father and son, who joined together to hint at her!

After a few days of brushing up on their good feelings, Gu Jinchi couldn't wait, and the two of them used a jeopardized situation to make up a lie to trick her over.

What a disappointment to her.

"Gu Jinchi, you still think you're justified in doing this, right?"

She had a cold face, and her eyes were full of self-deprecation.

Sitting in front of her, Gu Jinchi's tie was slightly loosened, and aside from looking a lot deeper, there was little difference from the man he was a year ago.

He hadn't changed much of course, it was her who had changed.

"You tell me what's been going on all this time and why you've been with him and won't even tell me about it."

"Even if what happened between Gu Lan and I was just a misunderstanding, you're not willing to forgive me?"

Gu Jinchi's brows furrowed.

The words that came out of his mouth only made her feel a little funny.

She stood up, hugging her arms to ease the chill, and taunted, "Gu Jinchi, are you thinking that I'm just like this because I saw you and Gu Lan out and about?"

"Then you are so wrong."

"Since you can now think you're in a position to question why I can't tell you the cause, please think for yourself why any lord can realize it and you can't!"

There are times when venting harsh words is a double-edged sword; when one stabs someone, the other stabs you.

The words stabbed her own heart with blood.

Why?

Why was it that the first person to realize that something was wrong with her 'corpse' was Lord Ren, and the first person to find her in her most desperate hour was him.

Again, he was the one who got her out of the water in the first place, helped her with things, and took care of her in every way.

And he was only going to gloss over it with these little tricks, easily trying to understand the pain she'd been in for a year with a single word.

To realize that if it wasn't for his fault, she could have avoided having to go through something as despairing as that!

Gu Jinchi's long and narrow eyes revealed a strong sense of incomprehension.

He took a deep breath to calm himself and reached out to take her hand, but she jerked it right out and ducked behind him.

"Blue, I know there are a lot of misunderstandings between us, and what's needed urgently is to unravel those."

"No, it can't be undone." That's not a misunderstanding, that brings about a knot in the heart.

There were times when her nightmares were still that way, so how could they be cracked open with a few words?

He, Gu Jinchi, hadn't thought things through a little too simply!

"Do you have to?" His brow furrowed slightly, and his outstretched hand retracted, vaguely palpable with some displeasure.

Su Qinglan then looked along with him emphasizing in this way, and there were hidden tears flashing in her eyes.

"Yes. There is no future between us, nor can there be."

"Gu Jinchi, I once thought of giving everything for you, giving myself to you completely, but then everything that happened disappointed me to the core."

Her voice trembled as she said the words.

But Gu Jinchi just asked her back with cold eyes, "Then you accepted him, right?"

"Yes."

She agreed through gritted teeth and directly shoved past Gu Jinchi's arm and left.

Since he's willing to misunderstand, let him.