Chapter 460: Chapter 449: Zhan Qipei is Almost Driven Mad Chapter 460: Chapter 449: Zhan Qipei is Almost Driven Mad Zhan Qipei quickly picked up his phone and saw the message sent by his subordinate.
“President Zhan, Miss Qiao went with Lu Zijin to the neighboring province for surgery in the afternoon. The two of them took a helicopter there, and they haven’t come back yet.”
After reading the message, Zhan Qipei’s dark eyes deepened, and the hand holding the phone showed protruding veins.
His fingers stiffly exited the chat box and opened the chat page with Qiao Jing.
All the messages were from him alone.
“Where are you? It’s so late and still not back, it’s very dangerous.”
“Send me your location, I’ll come to pick you up.”
“If you can see this message, reply. It’s very late now, I’ll come to pick you up.”
“Can you reply to my message?”
The messages he sent were all like stones dropped into the sea, with no response.
Zhan Qipei’s fingers quickly scrolled up, and it took a long time before he saw the last message Qiao Jing had replied to.
That was a message from the day before yesterday.
He then switched to the call log, which showed all the calls he had made, and except for that one call in the morning, none of the others had gone through.
The call in the morning had lasted only about a dozen seconds.
He had only exchanged a few words with Qiao Jing.
Zhan Qipei trusted Qiao Jing, but upon hearing that his wife had gone to another place with another man and hadn’t replied to his messages,
he felt as if a blunt knife was grinding over his heart repeatedly.
He could understand going for surgery, but why not answer the phone? Why not reply to messages?
And moreover, why not tell him in advance and just leave with Lu Zijin?
Zhan Qipei had been sitting on the cold living room floor for a full hour now, and his movements had become somewhat stiff.
He dialed Qiao Jing’s number again, clinging to hope.
Although he had heard the same waiting tone when he had called before, why did it seem like the waiting tone had lengthened by dozens of seconds after learning that Qiao Jing and Lu Zijin were together?
It was as if a century had passed in his heart.
Suddenly the waiting tone hitched, and Zhan Qipei’s dark eyes lit up instantly, thinking the call had connected.
But the next second, the voice from the phone poured cold water over him.
“Hello, the phone you have dialed is turned off, please try again later… Hello…”
Zhan Qipei’s heart completely cooled down.
Before, when he called, it was temporarily unreachable, but now it had automatically turned off.
His face turned grim, and he phoned Tang Yan.
Tang Yan, who was still in his sleep, was awakened by the phone ringing, which he had specially set to “Time to get up for work” for Zhan Qipei’s calls.
This caused him to reflexively sit up from bed and quickly grab the phone, carefully covering the microphone, fearful of waking Lin Xiuxiang beside him.
But the move was futile; Lin Xiuxiang was already up. In her grogginess, she pushed Tang Yan right off the bed.
Tang Yan quickly bowed and walked out of the room, then pressed the answer button.
“Tang Yan, check the latest flights to Cloud City. Book me a ticket; I’m heading there now.”
Tang Yan, who had been yawning continuously, instantly snapped to attention upon hearing this.
“What? Boss? You’re going to Cloud City now?”
Zhan Qipei hummed in confirmation, then suddenly remembered he had several helicopters.
“No need for a plane ticket, have them bring my helicopter to the top of the apartment building.”
Tang Yan was stunned for a moment.
“Ah? Boss, what are you going to Cloud City for? Yesterday’s project isn’t finished yet; we still need you to liaise.”
Why is his boss up in the middle of the night, not sleeping, saying he wants to go to Cloud City?
There’s only one person who can make the boss so anxious.
Zhan Qipei’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed.
“Stop dealing with it, I have to go to Cloud City right now, I’ll pay them the penalty fee.”
He can’t do anything without seeing Qiao Jing.
He only wants to see Qiao Jing.
Is work more important than his wife?
The answer is obviously no.
On the other end, Tang Yan was completely in a daze.
“Boss, are you going to see Miss Qiao? What is Miss Qiao doing in Cloud City?”
He suddenly remembered what Zhan Qipei had asked him this morning.
Could it be that the boss and Miss Qiao had a fight, and then Miss Qiao ran off to Cloud City to give the boss the cold shoulder?
Zhan Qipei was silent for a second before he spoke.
“She went to Cloud City with Lu Zijin for surgery and hasn’t yet returned.”
He can accept that Qiao Jing had surgery, and he can barely accept that she had it with Lu Zijin.
But he can’t accept that his wife went off somewhere without a word, doesn’t reply to messages, and even has to spend the night outside!
The image of Qiao Jing with Lu Zijin, staying in the same room, suddenly flashed through his mind.
Zhan Qipei only felt that his patience was reaching its limit, his thin lips tightly pressed into a curveless line of ice.
“Boss, Miss Qiao just went for surgery, after all. Besides, she definitely needs to rest after the surgery, having spent so much energy. If she rushes back from Cloud City to the capital overnight, won’t that exhaust her?”
He was now not only the company’s secretary but also the boss’s emotional consultant.
Zhan Qipei, who was teetering on the edge of losing his reason, calmed down a bit after hearing Tang Yan’s words.
“But she didn’t reply to my message, nor did she tell me in advance. No reply, and her phone is turned off.”
He certainly didn’t want to exhaust Qiao Jing, especially since she was pregnant.
After Tang Yan put it that way, he now understood why Qiao Jing hadn’t come back.
If he were in Cloud City, he certainly would not let Qiao Jing return to the capital either.
Tang Yan checked the time; it was one in the morning.
“Since Miss Qiao went straight to Cloud City, that must mean the condition was urgent enough to hurry over. It’s normal that she couldn’t tell you in advance for a while. As for not replying and turning off her phone, Miss Qiao didn’t have time to reply while in surgery, and the phone probably ran out of battery and turned off after such a long time.”
After saying all this in one breath, Tang Yan felt he deserved a raise.
Which other company’s secretaries have to manage both work and the boss’s emotions? Only him.
And ever since his boss got married, he’s been unreliable at times, sticking only to Miss Qiao.
This resulted in him handling many company matters, and the boss, who never listened to anyone else, only heeded Miss Qiao’s words.
Zhan Qipei’s tightly knitted eyebrows finally relaxed, thinking Tang Yan’s words made sense.
Seeing that he had finally managed to persuade him, Tang Yan cautiously inquired:
“So boss, about that project worth 1.5 billion…”
Zhan Qipei did not hesitate.
“I’m going to Cloud City now, I’ll give them the penalty fee.”
He now knew why Qiao Jing hadn’t replied to his messages, but he was still going to Cloud City.
He hadn’t seen Qiao Jing for a whole day and a half, and every minute and second was torture for him.
If he couldn’t even see his wife, what’s the point in talking about projects?