Chapter 74: 73. Likes to take shortcuts. Chapter 74: 73. Likes to take shortcuts. “Understood.”
As the two were dining, Aunt Zhang in the kitchen overheard their conversation and a flash of worry crossed her face.
Not long after, she returned to her own room and made a phone call to Xu Qianyu.
“Aunt Zhang, what’s the matter?”
At that moment, the Du Corporation building in the city center was brightly lit, many employees wearing ties had yet to leave work.
And Xu Qianyu, at this moment, was sitting in the CEO’s office on the top floor, working overtime with her fiancé.
“Miss, the mistress… she has arranged to meet with her daughter, and the master is planning to have her bring the daughter home to live with us.”
Even through the phone, Xu Qianyu could hear the urgency in Aunt Zhang’s voice.
She glanced at Du An who was reading documents across from her, remembered the gossip about Tang Shu she had seen on the Medical University forum, and furrowed her brows deeply.
Xu Qianyu had not expected Aunt Lin’s daughter to be a celebrity, nor had she expected her father to make such arrangements.
This, it seemed, would not bode well for peace at home.
She could only hope that Tang Shu was a sensible person.
After hanging up the phone, Du An across from her lifted his head.
“What’s wrong, has something happened at home?”
Xu Qianyu’s furrowed brows did not relax, showing a trace of irritation, “Father wants to bring Aunt Lin’s daughter to live at home.”
Du An nodded slightly and pinched the bridge of his nose that was pressed down by the frames of his glasses.
“Aunt Lin’s daughter… Uncle has always been fond of Aunt Lin, it’s just a case of love me, love my dog.”
“But she could have continued at Medical University, instead she chose to become a celebrity. A woman who likes to take shortcuts, bringing her to the Xu Family, who knows what trouble she might stir up.”
Listening to his fiancée’s complaints, Du An shook his head amusedly, “As you said, she likes to take shortcuts. Such a woman should be easier to deal with, right?”
On hearing this, Xu Qianyu’s expression lightened somewhat, “That’s true, maybe I’m overthinking it.”
“Right, have you figured out the recent movements of Cloudscape Pharma?”
“Not yet, it’s said that Jing Yu is back from Yun Province, but so far there has been no word from Cloudscape.”
Turning to work, the two quickly shifted from the previous topic and started discussing business matters.
After dinner, Tang Shu told her roommates Cheng Ranran and Ye Xiaohui that she was leaving and then exited the school gates.
Considering that Medical University wasn’t too far from East Lake Community, she decided to walk home.
However, after passing through a narrow, dimly lit alley that felt quite dated, she acutely noticed bursts of fighting noises nearby.
Tang Shu hesitated for a moment, intending to go around and not get involved in the fray, when a boy suddenly appeared before her and caught her attention.
The boy who ran out of the alley looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, with strikingly handsome features, though it appeared his mouth had taken a heavy blow as a mix of purple and a trace of blood made for a ghastly sight.
In the boy’s eyes, though, there was a stubbornness that others lacked.
Watching the boy she only had a fleeting acquaintance with draw closer, Tang Shu’s steps, which aimed to sidestep him, halted.
Behind the boy, several men in their twenties were closely following, their outstretched hands nearly upon him.
“Let’s see where you’ll run to now!”
The men had tattoos on their arms, clearly bad elements of society.
The apparent leader looked sinister, a type Tang Shu had seen all too often, obviously no good person.
Just when he thought his prey couldn’t escape, he noticed a passerby quickly and accurately grabbed the wrist of the boy in front, their skilled movements bringing him behind her.