Chapter 1207: Not Every

Yun Qitian turned and returned to his own office.

Shi Ran let out a sigh of relief, then went downstairs, where the driver Lao Huang was waiting—he hadn't taken leave at all!

This was a good point about Yun Qitian: he pursued, but he didn't pester.

……

Shangri-La Hometown Cuisine.

It was still the same as before, not a single change.

Shi Ran got out of the car and was just about to go in when her phone rang—it was a message from Class Monitor Chen: Peony Private Room, just come straight in when you arrive.

Shi Ran: ……

Did it have to be such a coincidence?

In the past, every time she came with Qi Heng, Qi Heng would always book the Peony Restaurant.

She thought for a moment, then replied to Class Monitor Chen: How about we change the place to eat? I know a restaurant that tastes very good.

She stood at the entrance and waited for a while, but the Class Monitor didn't reply.

Shi Ran suddenly laughed, laughing at herself.

What was she afraid of?

She was already at the door, so she might as well go in; time would dilute everything, and she couldn't let her normal life be disrupted just because of that person.

So she walked in.

When the waiter saw her arrive, they said enthusiastically, "Please, Miss Shi, it's been a long time since we've seen you."

"Yes, long time no see."

She replied absentmindedly.

Then she followed the waiter inside.

Actually, there was no need to be shown the way; she was so familiar with it that she could find it with her eyes closed.

Upon arrival, the waiter opened the door: "Please come in, Miss Shi."

There was no one in the room, but there was a cup of hot tea in front of the table.

She walked in, and the door closed automatically.

At this moment, a person flashed out from behind the door, and Shi Ran's expression changed—Qi Heng!

"Why is it you?"

She turned to leave; there was nothing to talk about with this person, and she never wanted to see him again for the rest of her life.

Qi Heng blocked the doorway: "Are you that afraid of seeing me?"

"Afraid?"

Shi Ran sneered: "Long time no see, Qi Xiansheng. I didn't expect your sense of humor to grow as much as your thick skin. Why would I be afraid of you? I just feel disgusted seeing you; the very air around you is suffocating."

Qi Heng's face looked very hurt: "Ranran, I know you hate me because I issued the Red Wanted Order without notifying you. Please also consider it from my perspective; if you were me back then, what would you have thought?"

"If I were you, I would commit suicide to avoid wasting social resources. I wouldn't have the nerve to be president and bring disaster to the common people, and I certainly wouldn't issue wanted orders indiscriminately, using the framing of good people as an excuse for my own incompetence!"

Qi Heng: ……

His face turned the color of a pig's liver.

He admitted that everything Shi Ran said was right.

But her knife-like words still hurt him deeply.

"Ranran, I know I was wrong. I don't expect you to forgive me; I just wanted to say sorry to you in person."

Shi Ran was expressionless: "Move aside. You've said what you wanted to say; now please move aside."

Qi Heng: "Since you're already here, can't we have a meal together?"

If he hadn't mentioned eating, Shi Ran would have almost forgotten that the Class Monitor had tricked her into coming.

Now that she remembered, she immediately took out her phone and deleted Class Monitor Chen's contact information right in front of Qi Heng.

She told him: "I didn't expect you to actually use our Class Monitor to ask me out. Please tell him for me that we are no longer old classmates."

She used this method to show her determination to break ties with him.

"Alright."

Qi Heng stepped aside.

Shi Ran opened the door and left, and Qi Heng shouted behind her: "Ranran, I will pay for my mistakes, and I will pursue you until I win you back."

She seemed not to hear him and walked out with quick steps.

Qi Heng only saw her back, not knowing that although she held her head high, her face was already covered in tears.

"Why is it you again?"

Shi Ran walked to the car, but the driver Lao Huang was gone, and Yun Qitian was in the driver's seat.

He smiled and reminded her: "Don't shout so loudly. Be more affectionate toward me; that person might be watching us from the window."

Shi Ran: ……

She went over and took Yun Qitian's arm, whispering "affectionately" in his ear: "I'm begging you, can you stop following me like a ghost?"

"No."

Her slender high heel stepped hard on his leather shoe, and she even ground it in twice.

Yun Qitian screamed in pain: "Shi Ran, you're going too far! Are you trying to murder your husband?"

Shi Ran: "If you keep spouting nonsense, I'll kill you!"

Yun Qitian: "Keep your voice down. Aren't we acting for that person to see? If we're going to act, we have to do it properly. Be professional."

So Shi Ran gritted her teeth and still "cooperated" with Yun Qitian to play the part; the two of them got into the car affectionately and drove away.

All of this did not escape Qi Heng's eyes.

He had been standing by the window, his gaze never once leaving the two of them.

If a scorching gaze could kill, Yun Qitian would likely have been killed by him hundreds of times over already.

Qi Heng clenched his hands tightly and secretly swore: "Ranran, I will definitely win your heart back again. You are mine, and you can only be mine."

……

Hospital.

Ji Yingjie demanded to be discharged for the Nth time, wanting to return to the Ji Family to take revenge.

"I'm telling you, you are not allowed to stop me again. Don't talk to me about patients needing quiet rest; the only illness I have right now is that my great vengeance has not been avenged."

Shi Youxuan: "You cannot go back now; going back is just throwing your life away."

Ji Yingjie: "You aren't even a member of the Ji Family, so stop meddling in my Ji Family's affairs. I know what I'm doing."

When this aunt and niece were together, they rarely spoke nicely to each other; most of the time, the air was thick with the smell of gunpowder, and even when they were discussing matters, speaking properly sounded like an argument.

Shi Youxuan: "If it were just you dying, do you think I'd want to care? But if you die, what will happen to my father? What will happen to my two young cousins? I feel sorry for them; do you think I feel sorry for you?"

Every time she thought about this, she got a headache.

She didn't know what kind of material her aunt was made of.

Although she was a mother, one couldn't see a single glimmer of the radiance a mother should have on her!

Her children and husband were in the hands of Zhu Qingrui, yet she didn't care at all—she truly didn't care.

In her heart, she only cared about the Treasure of the Ji Family and that the thousand-year foundation of the Ji Family must not be destroyed in her hands.

She wanted to go back for revenge, prepared to perish together with the enemy.

Ji Yingjie spoke with absolute certainty: "They don't need you to worry about them. Your father is my husband now, and Kexin and Ketian are my children. They are all people of the Ji Family; having enjoyed the dividends of the Ji Family, they must be prepared to bleed and sacrifice for the Ji Family."

The conversation ended on a sour note once again.

Shi Youxuan walked out of the Hospital Ward in a huff and ordered the bodyguards: "Watch her well; no matter what she says, you are not to let her out."

"Yes."

The bodyguards replied.

Ji Yingjie shouted in the room: "Ji Youxuan, you bastard! You dare to put me under house arrest? You have no respect for your elders, you are bold and reckless..."

Shi Youxuan walked forward with poise, her expression unchanged and her heart rate steady; who would know who she was scolding?

Who is called Ji Youxuan?

……

Ji Family.

Its original appearance had been completely ruined.

The ground was covered with pits of all sizes, a scene of utter devastation.

"Dig faster! You slaves, dawdling like that—you don't look like men at all..."

Those doing the work were all the men of the Ji Family.