Chapter 128: I Am Her Husband

The meeting ended, having lasted for a full three hours.

These three hours felt like years, every minute and every second was agony; as soon as the meeting ended, Gu Tingyan walked out with a cold, dark face, carrying his suit jacket.

Just as one of his feet stepped out of the conference room door, he suddenly heard a scream.

At a workstation, a female employee was secretly slacking off on her phone when her expression suddenly changed; she had swiped onto a "trending" post on Weibo and exclaimed, "Ahhhhh... Oh my god, Qin Shu was in a car accident and died on the spot."

"No way, for real?"

"It's real, look at the news, it's already on the hot search!"

Were they talking about Qin Shu?

How could it be Qin Shu? It was likely just someone with the same name.

"Is it that very popular female celebrity Qin Shu from the entertainment industry?"

"Yes, yes, yes, the Imperial City awards ceremony is today, and she was very likely to become the Best Actress; this is just too unlucky."

The female employee's face was full of regret, carrying a heart-wrenching pain, and the corners of her eyes were even moist: "The fire spread too fast, the person is gone."

She was a loyal fan of Qin Shu, having followed her since before she was popular; she never expected that she would leave them in such a way.

Because she followed Qin Shu on Weibo, including all topics related to Qin Shu, Weibo pushed the news to her immediately, making her one of the first people to know about Qin Shu's situation.

Weibo posted three photos: one of Qin Shu entering a hotel to eat with someone, one of her coming out alone, and then getting into a car and driving away.

Then there was one of the car flipped over, burning with raging flames, with the person inside not having come out; the car was about to explode, and the person was likely already gone.

When Gu Tingyan heard this, his brain stalled for a moment; he took out the phone in his pocket with trembling fingers and found his hands shaking violently.

He opened his phone and clicked into Weibo; sure enough, the news of Qin Shu's car accident and death was hanging on the hot search, followed by three "trending" tags.

Gu Tingyan's face was deathly pale, and he only felt a darkness before his eyes; ahead was an abyss constantly trying to swallow him whole.

With a white face, he stumbled and staggered as he ran wildly toward the outside, running like a madman.

Impossible, it must be that group of paparazzi writing nonsense by any means necessary for traffic.

How could his Qin Shu be in a car accident?

They must have made a mistake.

Clearly, three hours ago, they were still on the phone; how could she be gone in such a short time?

Gu Tingyan ran outside like a madman; suddenly seeing the president so composed, the company employees all felt very surprised.

"What's wrong with the president?"

"I don't know, this is the first time I've seen the president lose his composure like this."

Gu Tingyan followed the incident location posted on Weibo, which was near the company; he drove, slammed his foot on the gas pedal to the floor, and drove directly toward that direction.

While driving, Gu Tingyan kept calling Qin Shu, but no one answered on the other end; he immediately called Su Tuantuan, wanting to ask if Qin Shu was with her.

Su Tuantuan answered quickly, and she was already sobbing uncontrollably on the other end.

"Gu Tingyan, Qin Shu is dead, Qin Shu had an accident."

"It can't be her." Gu Tingyan felt that asking her was useless, so he immediately hung up the phone and called Ji Yanli.

Ji Yanli was silent for a moment, then said, "Is something the matter?"

"Is Qin Shu with you?"

At this moment, Gu Tingyan could no longer care about jealousy; he wished so much that Ji Yanli would say yes.

Ji Yanli: "We went our separate ways home after we finished eating."

"What happened?"

"Which restaurant?"

Ji Yanli reported the name; it was a hotel on the street near the Gu Group, which was also the inevitable route on the Weibo hot search.

Everything indicated that the person who had the accident was indeed Qin Shu.

Gu Tingyan's face was deathly pale; he hung up the phone and cursed under his breath.

By the time he drove to the scene of the accident, he could only see a car body burning crazily in raging flames, tongues of fire rolling with thick smoke straight into the sky; the fire was like an out-of-control beast, baring its fangs and claws as it swallowed the car body.

Gu Tingyan's whole body was stiff, and he looked at the scene before him in disbelief; his heart ached as if it were being twisted by a knife.

The man got out of the car and ran toward the burning car like a madman, but was quickly held back by kind-hearted people nearby: "Don't go over there, it's going to explode, it's dangerous!"

Gu Tingyan was like a wolf that had lost its mind, his eyes bloodshot, his whole person on the verge of a breakdown and being driven mad, roaring crazily: "My wife is still inside, my wife is inside."

He was desperate, in pain, and broken.

No one could save Qin Shu, only him; only he dared to go up and save her.

The voices of the people around him were also filled with regret; they looked at him with great sympathy and blocked him from going over: "She can't be saved, she can't be saved, it's going to explode immediately."

"This car caught fire too fast, she can't be saved."

"She can't be saved."

Several car owners nearby had self-reproach and sympathy in their eyes: "The person in the car couldn't get out."

And they, too, were helpless.

Gu Tingyan broke free from them like a madman and ran quickly toward the car body that was about to explode; just as he took a step out, with a loud "Bang, bang, bang," the car let out a massive explosion.

Gu Tingyan stood stiffly in place, his face ashen, and could only watch helplessly as the car Qin Shu was riding in exploded before his eyes.

For the first time, Gu Tingyan felt a deep sense of fear; he felt as if his whole body had no strength left, and his heart ached with spasms, causing him extreme pain.

The massive explosion caused people's ears to ring with a piercing sound.

All around were screams from the crowd, and the sirens of fire trucks reached his ears.

Gu Tingyan looked at the exploding car, his whole person becoming numb; his knees went weak, and he collapsed directly onto the ground, tears sliding down his cheeks continuously.

Despair, an endless darkness, swept over him deeply, leaving him in unbearable pain.

The man kept comforting himself in his heart that this was not Qin Shu's car, and the person inside was definitely not her.

Qin Shu would not die, Qin Shu would not have an accident.

The fire department received the call and rushed over at the fastest speed possible, but it takes a certain amount of time to travel from the station to the scene; by the time they arrived, the car had already exploded.

After the fire was extinguished, Gu Tingyan staggered forward, pushed aside the traffic police blocking his path, and stared at the car with bloodshot eyes: "I am her husband."

Once these words were spoken, the crowd gasped; everyone knew that Gu Tingyan was unmarried and about to get engaged to the Chu Family, so how could he be Qin Shu's husband?

Gu Tingyan walked up to the car, but there was nothing there, only some fragments; the violent explosion had not even left him Qin Shu's intact body, as her remains were almost carbonized.

Seeing this scene before him, Gu Tingyan's body staggered, a mouthful of blood sprayed out, and he collapsed toward the ground.