Chapter 68: Chapter 68 Accompanied Her All Night
Ye Shu was just about to explain when Ji Chunni’s voice, shrill as a shrew, came through the radio waves, “Ye Shu, you money-losing good-for-nothing, stop pretending! I’ve already heard about it, you’ve taken back the Ye Mansion. Don’t tell me this whole thing has been your doing from start to finish? You deliberately arranged for the court officials to put on this show, and then you even forced our Zifeng to go abroad, all so you could have the Ye Mansion to yourself, right?”
“Granny, what nonsense are you spouting? Give me the phone!”
“Am I spouting nonsense? What I’m saying is the truth!” Ji Chunni hung up the phone, fuming with anger.
Ye Shu wrinkled her brows, staring at the darkening phone screen, her head starting to throb.
“Miss Ye, this is the last IV bag. After this, you can be discharged. If you feel unwell at any time during this period, just ring the bell, and we’ll come at once.”
After the nurse changed Ye Shu’s IV bag and gave her some final careful instructions, she pushed the trolley out of the room.
Ye Shu stared blankly at the cold IV bag, her emotions complex and entangled.
Lifting her gaze, she saw Guan Jiu standing expressionless at the door, keeping watch.
It seemed he was waiting for her IV to finish so he could take her back.
Ye Shu beckoned him, “Guan Jiu, come in, I have something to ask you.”
Guan Jiu’s brows furrowed slightly. After glancing around to make sure Ye Shu was addressing him, he reached out and pushed the ajar door fully open.
But he didn’t step inside, just stood there at the door, bowing at a forty-five-degree angle, “Miss Ye, if you have any orders, please go ahead.”
Uh… Three black lines slid across Ye Shu’s forehead.
Was she some catastrophic beast? Why keep such distance?
Probably it was last night’s incident with Gu Zuocheng that had Sheng Shaochen, that guy, holding a grudge, not knowing what strange command he had issued.
Ye Shu didn’t want to dwell on such matters. After all, she had signed an agreement with the Sheng Devil, and there was no way she could do anything about his mischief-making.
She cleared her throat and began, “Was it Sheng Shaochen who brought me to the hospital last night?”
“Yes,” Guan Jiu replied in a formal tone.
“Did he mention anything to you about sending my brother abroad?”
Guan Jiu shook his head, “The young master stayed with Miss Ye all night and only left at eight this morning.”
He had stayed with her all night?
A warmth surged through Ye Shu’s heart and that tender feeling of being a small woman was invisibly drawn out.
Even knowing that their relationship was nothing but a transaction, she was still moved by these common and clichéd small details.
This must be a woman’s nature.
Ye Shu shook her head helplessly, “Where is he now?”
Some things, it seemed, could only be asked face to face for an answer.
“I am only responsible for obeying orders, as for the young master’s whereabouts, I am sorry, but I am not very clear,” Guan Jiu replied truthfully.
Ye Shu chuckled awkwardly; she had almost forgotten that the Great Demon King Sheng was a prominent figure in Jin City, and naturally, his whereabouts were not known to just anyone.
“If Miss Ye has urgent business with the young master, you can call his phone,” Guan Jiu said as Ye Shu fell silent, lifting his gaze slightly to remind her.
Ye Shu awkwardly tugged at the corner of her mouth, “Okay.”
She realized that she could be incredibly unreliable at times.
A problem that could’ve been solved with a phone call had become a convoluted mess with Guan Jiu.
Ye Shu silently diverted her gaze, fiddling with her phone.
In her mind, all the scenes from yesterday played back.
Sheng Shaochen getting out of the car in the pouring rain to move the log that had fallen on the hood.
His astute anticipation of Ye Zifeng’s actions.
After getting drunk, he stumbled upon her with Gu Zuocheng.
And the scene of him tearing her clothes in the car.
Every image of Sheng Shaochen was so vivid that it was impossible to ignore.