Chapter 174: He felt for the first time that Gu Tingyan was so despicable and sordid!

Chu Xuanming looked at Chu Sheng and spoke with an ambiguous meaning: "Tomorrow, Qin Shu and the others will have a public clinical trial; you can go to the scene to take a look."

Chu Sheng pursed her lips: "Dad, are you trying to make me go see how successful she is?"

"You know full well that this is what I care about most, yet you still want me to go."

This was clearly rubbing salt into her wounds!

Chu Xuanming: "........."

"If this experiment fails, tell me, will the Anti-cancer drug developed by Qin Shu still have such a good reputation once it hits the market?"

"Once the reputation collapses and the common people and patients lose trust in her, they will start to boycott her."

"Whether she can succeed is another matter entirely," Chu Xuanming sneered.

Originally, he had offered an olive branch today; a smart person would choose to reconcile, after all, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.

But Qin Shu was too much of a thorn in his side, she had been like that since she was a child, making it impossible for anyone to control her.

If she were to suffer a major setback at a critical moment, Chu Xuanming could then appear before her as a savior and buy out the ownership of the Anti-cancer drug development in her hands.

Qin Shu's things would then be in the pocket of Chu Xuanming.

This isn't called being sinister; this is outsmarting others in business.

Hearing the hints between the lines of her father's words, Chu Sheng's eyes brightened slightly; she was not stupid, and no matter how dull she was, she could hear the subtext in Chu Xuanming's words.

Chu Sheng: "Dad, I will go tomorrow!"

She wanted to see what it would taste like for Qin Shu to fall from the altar to the bottom of the valley!

After this press conference ended completely, it was already 10:00 PM, and the sky had turned completely dark.

Qin Shu and Ji Yanli walked out of the company side by side; a pitch-black, gleaming luxury car was parked on the side of the road, and Gu Tingyan's tall and upright figure was leaning against the car body, his fingertips pinching a scarlet cigarette.

He watched the two walk out side by side, his gaze landing on Qin Shu, and his eyes dimmed slightly.

"Huahua."

The man's deep, magnetic voice was like a cello, carrying doting affection; the magnetic and mellow voice drilled into the ears like an electric current, making one feel a sense of numbness.

Gu Tingyan stood where he was, his dark and profound gaze landing on Qin Shu, his voice hoarse: "The child misses you."

I miss you too.

But these words, Gu Tingyan had no way to say to her now.

In just a short nine years, they went from the initial friction to lovers deeply in love with each other, to now being shattered and becoming the most familiar strangers.

Another man was already standing by her side.

And he, now, had no qualifications to ask for more from her.

Even those words, "I miss you very much," fell to his lips and became words that could not be spat out.

For four whole years, four years, 1,440 days and nights, Gu Tingyan had been missing her every day.

He had never forgotten Qin Shu.

Hearing Gu Tingyan's words, a coldness appeared on Ji Yanli's handsome face; for the first time, he felt that Gu Tingyan was so despicable and sordid!

Qin Shu could be heartless and cold toward Gu Tingyan, but toward Gu Yichen, no matter what, a mother could not refuse a child.

Ji Yanli looked coldly at Gu Tingyan and turned his head to hold Qin Shu's hand: "I'll take you there, and I'll wait for you at the door."

He did not want Qin Shu and Gu Tingyan to meet alone.

It was not that he didn't trust Qin Shu, but that he was afraid Gu Tingyan would suddenly go crazy.

Qin Shu: "Okay."

Gu Tingyan's dark and profound eyes landed on their clasped hands, his heart aching with spasms; the gentle expression on his face vanished completely, replaced by an irrepressible rage and sorrow.

Qin Shu...

Really chose Ji Yanli.

She did not resist Ji Yanli's touch, and even let him hold her hand.

How far had they actually progressed?

Jealousy made Gu Tingyan almost lose his mind.

Gu Tingyan's cold, thin voice sounded: "Get in the car."

Gu Tingyan opened the car door and looked at Qin Shu, looking provocatively at Ji Yanli: "Sit in my car."

The man said it as a matter of course: "Otherwise you won't be able to see Chenchen."

Qin Shu felt like he was sick.

She looked at Gu Tingyan's handsome and cold face, sneered, reached out and held Ji Yanli's hand, and led him toward Gu Tingyan's car.

Ji Yanli was stunned for a moment; he had already compromised, letting Qin Shu sit in Gu Tingyan's car while he drove over himself.

Because he knew that Qin Shu cared about that child, and he did not want to have a conflict with Gu Tingyan, as in that case, the one who would get hurt would only be Qin Shu.

He didn't expect that Qin Shu would directly hold his hand and get into Gu Tingyan's car.

Gu Tingyan's dark, heavy gaze landed on their clasped hands, and he was directly angered into a laugh.

He gritted his teeth as he looked at Qin Shu and sneered: "That's just great."

Qin Shu wore a smile, smiling gently and softly: "President Gu, it is better for us to keep a certain distance."

"If someone takes a photo of me getting into your car alone and it gets out, it won't be good for your reputation."

Would Gu Tingyan care about such things?

He listened to her nonsense and got into the car with a cold face.

Ji Yanli and Qin Shu sat in the back seat; he sat in the driver's seat, looking like the two's chauffeur.

This act of lifting a rock only to drop it on his own feet was truly infuriating.

Gu Tingyan radiated a gloomy aura, like the King of Hell, with an aura of terror that kept strangers at a distance.

In the past, Gu Tingyan's temper was not this good; let him drive as a chauffeur?

He would make Ji Yanli walk in upright and be carried out horizontally, beating him until even his own parents wouldn't recognize him.

But now, he dared not make Qin Shu angry.

Having lost her once, the terror from that great fire made Gu Tingyan begin to fret over gains and losses, filled with more panic and unease, terrified of losing the woman he loved most again.

The car soon arrived at the destination.

Gu Tingyan drove the car to the entrance of the bridal chamber he and Qin Shu once shared.

Qin Shu got out of the car, looked at the familiar villa, and was slightly dazed, feeling a sense of trance.

She had not expected that one day she would return to this familiar villa.

Ji Yanli got out of the car: "I will wait for you outside."

Qin Shu: "Mm."

Qin Shu walked into the villa; the decor inside had not changed, still remaining exactly as it was four years ago.

Gu Tingyan looked at Qin Shu's face with a gaze that was burning yet restrained, his voice hoarse: "I have never brought Chu Sheng here."

Qin Shu glanced at him, not knowing why he was explaining this to her.

Qin Shu: "You and she are now engaged; whether you have brought her here or not has nothing to do with me."

Gu Tingyan's face turned deathly pale, his body swaying as if about to collapse; these cold and heartless words were like a knife plunged into his heart.

The things he cherished were of no concern to her at all.

Even when mentioning his engagement to Chu Sheng, Qin Shu had never once asked; she was not jealous at all, not caring in the slightest.

It had only been a mere four years.

They had actually become so like strangers, not even as close as the most basic of friends.

"Which room is Chenchen in?" Qin Shu asked.

Gu Tingyan's voice was hoarse: "On the second floor."

Gu Tingyan looked at Qin Shu, flustered and nervous, his burning gaze fixed upon her: "Are you hungry? Shall I cook you a bowl of noodles first?"