92: 092 Disaster always seeks out the unfortunate.
92: 092 Disaster always seeks out the unfortunate.
“Shu Rui, I’m really sorry.”
The day after making the call, the money was transferred over, and even with ntal preparation, Liang Zhenlun still felt a hint of shock.
Almost subconsciously, he believed that this one million was still provided by Jiang Chen.
Truly seeing only the trees, not the forest.
How had he never seen this before?
Being able to casually co up with so much cash, there was no doubt that the young man whose love he had snatched away was definitely more capable than him, and by quite a lot at that.
While Liang Zhenlun internally celebrated his tily pulling back from the precipice, he further deepened his realization that he must not offend the other party.
“I hope you can tell him that this is the last ti, otherwise I will call the police.”
Li Shuru held her phone, establishing her bottom line.
Although she gave the money this ti, she was not going to be indefinitely submissive.
After all, she wasn’t running a bank, and didn’t have endless funds to be extorted by soone with the surna He, so to avoid the worst-case scenario, she just laid out her terms clearly.
“Shu Rui, Senior Jiang has also talked to about this; don’t worry, I will pass the ssage to him.”
“You spoke with Jiang Chen?”
Li Shuru asked, but her tone wasn’t all that surprised; after all, Jiang Chen had long since changed from his past self, and if Liang Zhenlun was taking this matter so seriously, nine tis out of ten it wasn’t because of her, but for the sake of Jiang Chen.
“Yeah, after I notified you yesterday, I called Senior Jiang to explain the situation.
He asked what your opinion was, I said you agreed, and then he didn’t say anything more.”
Liang Zhenlun grew suspicious.
Sothing wasn’t right.
If the money was given by Jiang Chen, then Li Shuru might not be aware he had called Jiang Chen.
Could it be that this one million ca from Li Shuru herself?
“I understand.”
Li Shuru wasn’t about to concern herself with what Liang Zhenlun thought and hung up the phone.
From the ti they parted yesterday until now, she hadn’t contacted Jiang Chen, nor had Jiang Chen contacted her.
Although she didn’t want to trouble him every ti nor could she seek to borrow money from him repeatedly, Jiang Chen’s lack of any response after learning about He Guangwen’s sudden price hike still left her feeling a bit uncomfortable.
She couldn’t help it.
Her thoughts returned to the love letter incident.
Could it be that Jiang Chen and Luo Peng really had perford a double act in front of her?
That the love letter was indeed Jiang Chen’s own will?
No good man exists.
That was a phrase Zheng Jingjing often had on her lips.
Perhaps most n are unreliable, but at least Li Shuru knew that within this group there were still good n.
She had t one.
Lone Shadow of the Cold River.
After the live broadcast ended yesterday, she chatted with him for a while; not only was he generous and magnanimous, but he also seed understanding, as if he knew she was going through a hard ti lately and kept comforting her.
Previously, this person in her mind was just a financial backer, but now, Li Shuru felt a kinship with him and, for the first ti, even wanted to beco friends with him.
There have been many n around her, but Li Shuru had never felt this way.
The previous n were too utilitarian, but Lone Shadow of the Cold River was different.
He seed to have no ulterior motives towards her, almost as if his appreciation was a kind of purity taken to the extre.
Li Shuru used to think that pure friendship between n and won was impossible.
But she no longer thought so.
If there could be such a male confidant, why not?
Yet every ti she asked for his na or his current school, he would be evasive and elusive, not giving straight answers, which at one point made Li Shuru almost suspect whether his secrecy ant he really might be a foreign fraudster?
But she imdiately dismissed the thought as soon as it appeared.
She had the national anti-fraud app downloaded on her phone.
And what kind of scamr would send you so many gifts?
All in all, Lone Shadow of the Cold River had spent over ten million on her.
If scamrs were all this philanthropic, then she wished the whole world was full of scamrs.
Li Shuru tidied up the room, planning to return to school; as she left the house and got into her car, she received a call from Xue Mingqin.
“Mom.”
“Rui Rui, co to the hospital.”
Xue Mingqin’s tone was very urgent, even with a clear hint of panic.
Li Shuru’s heart tightened, “Mom, is it Dad…”
“It’s not your dad.”
Xue Mingqin said hastily, “It’s Ni Ni, she suddenly went into ventricular fibrillation and was rushed into the ergency room.”
Li Shuru subconsciously rembered the little face that bead smiles and called her sister, and those bright, clear eyes.
“I’m on my way.”
“Bring Jiang Chen with you.”
Li Shuru put down the phone, spaced out for a good while, then finally called Jiang Chen.
“Can you co to the hospital with ?
My mom said, Ni Ni has been taken to the ergency room.”
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On the chaotic city streets.
Li Shuru tried to drive as fast as she could.
“Ni Ni is so good, heaven will surely protect her.”
Jiang Chen also felt very somber.
Although he had only seen the little girl a few tis, her voice, her laughter, her optimism and resilience in the face of illness had left a deep impression on him.
“From the way my mom spoke, the situation might not be good.”
Though there were no drastic fluctuations of emotion on Li Shuru’s face, the way she kept stepping on the accelerator showed that her heart was far from calm.
“Don’t think too much now, thinking too much is useless.”
Jiang Chen let out a breath, only able to silently cheer for the little girl in his heart.
They didn’t speak the rest of the way.
When they reached the hospital, more than an hour had already passed.
Li Shuru and Jiang Chen arrived outside the ergency room, only to see Xue Mingqin sitting blankly on a bench.
“Mom, what’s the situation?”
Li Shuru walked quickly over.
Jiang Chen followed beside her.
Xue Mingqin looked sorrowful, her lips moved, but she couldn’t utter a word, only shaking her head in pain.
Li Shuru was stunned.
Jiang Chen turned to look at the door of the ergency room and was montarily spellbound himself.
“Xue Sister, where’s Ni Ni?”
Soon, a man in a delivery uniform stumbled up, nearly falling over in his haste, and before stabilizing himself, he gasped and hurriedly asked.
Clearly, he was on his way working and had co urgently upon receiving the news.
Xue Mingqin stood up, her trembling lips seemingly weighed down by a thousand catties, unable to say a word.
“Xue Sister…?”
The man looked at her blankly, his shaking eyes filled with a strong plead.
But reality is always so cold.
Xue Mingqin obviously couldn’t give him the answer he wanted.
“Xiao Yang, I’m sorry.
Ni Ni…
didn’t make it through.”
Li Shuru’s pupils constricted, her mind went blank.
Misfortune really does seem to strike where the thread is thinnest.
Calamity always seeks out those with hard lives.
The man’s body trembled, like his soul had been extracted in an instant, his face turned ghostly pale, his eyes devoid of all life, as if burnt out.
Xue Mingqin’s eyes began to fill with tears, she turned her head away, unable to bear looking at his expression.
The hallway was terrifyingly quiet, the air as if it had frozen solid.
Jiang Chen clenched his hand, his chest felt stuffy, and he had so difficulty breathing.
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