Chapter 156: She Will Take Tingyan Away

As soon as Qin Shu and Ji Yanli left, the banquet hall immediately erupted into an uproar.

They all knew of the entanglements between Qin Shu and the Gu Family back in the day; Qin Shu had been at the peak of her popularity, then an incident occurred, and she vanished without a trace.

Now, four years later, she had appeared again.

That very day, Qin Shu hit the Weibo trending list; someone had posted a video of the scene online, and the netizens in the comments section were in a frenzy.

"Qin Shu, it's actually Qin Shu! She didn't die?"

"The police said she died back then, how did she suddenly come back to life?"

Regarding that car accident four years ago, the police report had become a mystery.

"What on earth happened in between? The police couldn't have lied, right?"

"Could this Qin Shu have been reborn, like in those novels?"

The discussions in the comments section surged one after another; regarding Qin Shu's return to the public eye, fans and netizens were in an uproar.

On the other side.

Ji Yanli bent down to pick him up and pinched the little one's nose: "You are not allowed to sneakily follow me next time."

Nangong Jin nodded and gave him a smack of a kiss on his cheek.

Ji Yanli carried the person into the car and sat him down; Qin Shu followed into the car, and she sat in the back seat.

The car drove all the way toward the villa, and Ji Yanli looked at the rearview mirror and said to Qin Shu: "There is a car following us behind."

That car was clearly Gu Tingyan's car; Qin Shu could not be more familiar with it.

Qin Shu looked at the rearview mirror and said: "It is Gu Tingyan."

Ji Yanli furrowed his brows: "Going to my place?"

Qin Shu nodded: "Mm."

Ji Yanli drove the car into his own villa; there were rooms for the mother and son in the villa, and his villa was right next to Qin Shu's, with both villas registered under Ji Yanli's name.

Even if others came to investigate, they wouldn't be able to find anything.

Ji Yanli parked the car outside the villa, opened the door, got out, and carried Nangong Jin out of the car.

Qin Shu got out afterward and followed them inside.

Gu Tingyan watched the three of them walk into the villa as if they were a family of three; his complexion was exceptionally pale and unsightly, and his heart ached with a dull pain, a spasmodic pain that made him almost unable to breathe.

Gu Tingyan drove down and slammed the door shut with force, wanting to go up and question Qin Shu and Ji Yanli about what kind of relationship they had now!

But the steps he took suddenly stiffened.

What standing did he have now to question Qin Shu?

Ex-husband?

Or someone else's fiancé?

A thick sense of self-mockery permeated Gu Tingyan's face; he turned and returned to the car, and made a phone call: "Help me check where Qin Shu has been these past four years."

"Also, what is her relationship with Ji Yanli."

"Whether they have had a child together."

Lu Ziqian was also at the Chu Family, so he naturally knew about Qin Shu's return; the Chu Family's engagement banquet had caused quite a stir, and now the Beijing Circle was discussing this matter.

Furthermore, the male host's abrupt departure added even more fuel to this public opinion.

Lu Ziqian heard that Gu Tingyan's tone was off and said calmly: "Tingyan, don't be impulsive."

"Control your emotions."

Over these past four years, Gu Tingyan's emotional instability had reached a state of near-severe depression, and he had to rely on medication to keep going.

Once the illness flared up, he was prone to going mad.

Gu Tingyan slammed a fist onto the steering wheel, his eyes bloodshot, and he roared in a low voice: "How can I control my emotions? She had a child with another man!"

As soon as he thought of this, Gu Tingyan became violently enraged as if he had gone mad, wanting to kill someone.

Lu Ziqian quickly finished investigating Qin Shu's affairs and immediately sent a message to Gu Tingyan: "Qin Shu's past four years are a blank slate."

"Ji Yanli also went abroad four years ago."

At that time, they all thought that Ji Yanli had gone abroad again because he couldn't bear the blow of Qin Shu's death.

"Looking at it now, he knows best where Qin Shu went during these four years."

"It is even more likely that they have been together the whole time."

Hearing this, Gu Tingyan felt even more agitated in his heart.

"What about the child?" the man asked in a hoarse voice.

"That child is three years old."

If it were Gu Tingyan's seed, the age did not match.

Moreover, when Qin Shu left back then, she had just lost a child due to a difficult labor and was in a depressed and low state of mind; Gu Tingyan had not had any physical relations with her.

Furthermore, the child Qin Shu gave birth to during that difficult labor was a girl, and that child died the moment she was born.

The one she has by her side now is a boy.

Neither the age nor the gender matches.

That child is not Gu Tingyan's seed.

"Tingyan, he is not your child."

Lu Ziqian pursed his lips and could only comfort him: "Perhaps, that is a child they adopted."

"Qin Shu had just lost a child, and being heartbroken and unable to move on, she adopted one?"

Hearing this, a faint glimmer of hope appeared in the depths of Gu Tingyan's eyes.

Gu Tingyan's eyes were unfocused as he gripped the steering wheel and whispered: "Could it be like that?"

Subconsciously, he wanted to choose to believe Lu Ziqian's words, instinctively wanting to escape what might have happened between Qin Shu and Ji Yanli.

Four years, four whole years.

Gu Tingyan's fingertips were pinched white, his face pale and listless.

Four years of living day and night together; whatever should have been done, and whatever shouldn't have been done, must have all been done.

Ji Yanli liked Qin Shu, had liked her for so many years; a deep-feeling and loyal, young and handsome man loved her so deeply.

It would be hard not to be moved, right?

What's more, at that time Qin Shu was at the lowest point of her life, at her most psychologically vulnerable moment, and Ji Yanli was by her side every moment; could she really bear not to be moved?

Whenever Gu Tingyan thought of the intimate posture of the two of them before, his heart would tighten and ache in waves.

A sudden wave of fear surged over him.

Fear that Qin Shu had truly fallen in love with Ji Yanli.

In the past, there was the restraint of marriage, and Ji Yanli practiced self-restraint and kept his distance, rarely meeting with Qin Shu during the marriage.

But now that there was no restraint of marriage or moral pressure, would Ji Yanli still keep his distance from Qin Shu?

They were both men, and men understood men's thoughts best.

Ji Yanli was a gentleman; a friend's wife should not be encroached upon.

But now, Qin Shu was his ex-wife.

Gu Tingyan sat in the car, his head splitting with pain, while the phone in his pocket vibrated incessantly; it was Lin Jingshu calling him frantically.

She was terrified that her son would go find that vixen Qin Shu again!

Gu Tingyan picked up the phone and chose to turn it off directly.

Unable to get through to Gu Tingyan's phone, Lin Jingshu's expression was incomparably gloomy; she looked at Chu Sheng, who was sitting on the bed crying incessantly, and said coldly, "You really are useless."

"It's been four years, and you still can't tie down Tingyan's heart."

She had thought Chu Sheng had some ability, but who knew she would be so useless; the moment Qin Shu returned, all their previous efforts were wasted!

Chu Sheng felt very aggrieved as well; today was supposed to be her most important day, but it had all been ruined, and Gu Tingyan had even left her at the Chu Family and departed himself.

"Mom, what do we do now?" Chu Sheng looked at Lin Jingshu with eyes red from crying: "Qin Shu must have come back to take revenge on us!"

"She will snatch Tingyan away."

"She won't let us off."

Lin Jingshu turned back and scolded coldly: "Shut up."

"You are the Eldest Miss of the Chu Family, what are you afraid of?"