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Chapter 306: Occupational Injury
Tong Li’s face turned even uglier. “Aren’t you only daring to show me attitude now because you hooked up with the eldest young master of the Jiang family?”
Hmm? Gu Qinghuan’s ears perked up. Was this “eldest young master of the Jiang family” referring to Jiang Yuxuan? Had she run into someone she knew?
Although she wasn’t exactly close with Jiang Yuxuan either—they had only just added each other on WeChat.
Gu Qinghuan pulled out her earphones, pretending she wanted to listen to music to block out the arguing, but secretly whipped out her phone to tap on a chat interface.
Gu Qinghuan: [Brother Jiang, do you know anyone named Tong Li or Gao Changying?]
Jiang Yuxuan: [I know Gao Changying, but not Tong Li.]
Jiang Yuxuan: [Wait, is it Tong Li with a different character for ‘Li’? If so, then I do know him.]
Jiang Yuxuan: [What’s up? Did you run into them?]
Gu Qinghuan’s expression turned somewhat subtle. Why was Jiang Yuxuan’s texting style so remarkably similar to Qin Yue’s? Did the Jiang and Qin families cross-breed and raise each other’s kids?
Gu Qinghuan: [I ran into them on the bus. The two of them are having a bit of a dispute.]
Jiang Yuxuan: [That absolute bastard, trying to fleece my cash cow again!]
Jiang Yuxuan: [Little Gu, help me shield her a bit at the scene. If anything happens, I’ll take the fall!]
Just as Gu Qinghuan was about to reply with a “sure thing,” a transfer notification popped up on her screen.
[¥10,000 Please Collect Payment]
Jiang Yuxuan: [I’m counting on you then. Take this cash and buy yourself some candy.]
Gu Qinghuan: ?!
It had been a while since she experienced the Jiang family’s monetary onslaught. Gu Qinghuan stared at Jiang Yuxuan’s transfer in sheer disbelief.
Of course she wasn’t going to accept it. Gu Qinghuan swiftly hit the decline button.
Gu Qinghuan: [No need to give me money, I’ll handle it.]
Jiang Yuxuan smacked his lips. Turning around, he forwarded the money to Jiang Chuchu, tacking on another ten thousand. His liquidity wasn’t great right now—the initial stage of his project was an absolute money pit, so he had to spend thriftily. Otherwise, going by his usual habits, transferring money to Jiang Chuchu would at least mean rounding it up to a solid number.
Jiang Chuchu: [?]
Jiang Chuchu: [Transfer – ¥200,000]
Jiang Chuchu: [Who are you transferring twenty thousand to? Looking down on me?]
Jiang Yuxuan couldn’t resist the temptation and thick-skinnedley accepted Jiang Chuchu’s transfer. Without offering any explanation, he directly forwarded his chat log with Gu Qinghuan over to Jiang Chuchu.
After scanning the chat log, Jiang Chuchu accepted the twenty thousand back. Why on earth should I decline money meant for Qinghuan? She decided to set up a membership card for Gu Qinghuan at Yunjin Tower. When the time came, she would just frame it as a rollout for a new membership perk—allowing the holder to select a certain allowance of gifts every month. Since she couldn’t use her own, she’d give it to Gu Qinghuan.
Then again, that actually was a stellar idea. She’d discuss it with her dad later to see if it could be adopted.
While the Jiang siblings were busy chatting, Gu Qinghuan had already stowed her phone away, focusing entirely on listening to the prime drama right in front of her.
In fact, there was a fair share of passengers on the bus doing the exact same thing right now. Gu Qinghuan even noted a passenger who had originally walked over to the back doors to get off the bus, quietly shuffling back into a seat.
Traced from the dialogue between Gao Changying and Tong Li, the conflict between the two could be summarized into a textbook case of “sharing adversity but not prosperity.”
In the past, the two had been in a relationship while running a self-media account together. Tong Li was responsible for filming the videos, while Gao Changying handled the scripts and topic selection. After the two were accepted into the same university, Tong Li let it get to his head and started looking down on Gao Changying, leading the two to part ways and work independently.
Gao Changying caught Jiang Yuxuan’s eye and signed a collaborative contract with him. Meanwhile, over the past year, Tong Li had repeatedly triggered viewer boycotts and backlash due to inappropriate public remarks. His popularity continued to plummet, and his income suffered a massive hit.
In stark contrast, after splitting up, Gao Changying began building her own personal brand. Her follower growth remained exceptionally stable, and she managed to capture immense attention during several trending events, even getting quoted by official mainstream media.
Consequently, Tong Li regretted his actions and wanted to make up with Gao Changying.
Gu Qinghuan: Rebranding ‘I want to continue treating you like a blood bag’ as ‘making up’—where on earth does he get the face?
The other passengers on the bus thought the exact same thing. Several individuals had already begun secretly searching for Tong Li’s account.
The more Gao Changying spoke, the calmer she actually became. She remembered the ridicule Tong Li spat when they split up with absolute clarity. Contrasting it against his current demeanor only left her feeling utterly nauseated.
“You don’t need to come looking for me anymore,” Gao Changying said with a cold face. “I will never get entangled with you again.”
Having known her since childhood, Tong Li was acutely aware that when Gao Changying adopted this specific stance, the matter was entirely non-negotiable.
His face darkened. “If you’re going to put it that way, then I’ll have no choice but to go see your grandma.”
Gao Changying bolted upright. “You dare!”
Tong Li countered, “What do I have to be afraid of? During the winter break, Grandma even asked me why I didn’t come home for the New Year. Isn’t it perfectly normal for me to drop by for a visit?”
Gao Changying gritted her teeth. “Grandma is already at such an advanced age, and the doctor explicitly stated she cannot handle any emotional shock! Are you trying to kill her?!”
Tong Li wore a textbook expression of ‘what can you possibly do to me?’ “How could I want to harm her? I just want to inform her of a few facts, that’s all.”
In an instant, an unquantifiable number of curses flashed through the minds of the passengers in the bus cabin.
“What do I have to be afraid of?”
“Isn’t it perfectly normal for me to drop by for a visit?”
“How could I want to harm her?”
Hearing the words she had just caught play right back out, Gao Changying froze for a split second, looking down at Gu Qinghuan seated directly behind her.
The latter let out an “ah.” “I accidentally hit the recording button.”
Tong Li’s expression shifted. “Delete it!”
Gu Qinghuan looked entirely innocent. “It’s not exactly important dialogue, is it? Or rather, do you also believe these words constitute a threat to this lady?”
Gao Changying’s sharp eyes caught a glimpse of Gu Qinghuan’s upright phone screen—it was still resting on the recording interface, the seconds steadily climbing.
Tong Li was standing, and restricted by his viewing angle, he couldn’t see Gu Qinghuan’s screen.
Relying strictly on Tong Li’s verbal remarks, it might be impossible to legally determine his malicious intent; he could easily play dumb and wiggle out of it. But if he explicitly moved to prevent someone from publicizing those words, it became a blatant self-exposure—sufficient to prove he truly was weaponizing Grandma’s physical health to threaten Gao Changying.
Tong Li prepared to snatch the phone. “Hand that phone over to me right now!”
Gu Qinghuan gripped her phone tightly. “Robbery! Help!”
An older auntie seated in the back row eating popcorn strode straight over. Grabbing Tong Li by his collar, she threw him onto the opposite seat. “What do you think you’re doing?”
Gu Qinghuan was slightly surprised. She had only intended to generate a bit more evidence for the audio log; she was actually fully prepared to kick Tong Li away herself. She had, after all, joined Yu Yuan in learning a few defensive moves from Song Yi. The bus seats were bolted down securely; with her seated and Tong Li standing, she wouldn’t even have to worry about a recoil effect if she kicked him.
The auntie was dressed unassumingly, yet she radiated an exceptionally fierce aura. Standing squarely in front of Gu Qinghuan and Gao Changying with her hands pinned to her hips, her eyes blazed with fury. “You still want to bully a young girl, do you? I’ve been listening this whole time. You actually want to threaten her using her grandma? What an absolute, heartless piece of trash!”
A passenger in the crowd let out a full-throated shout of “Good!”
Tong Li’s shoulder had just slammed against the seat back, causing him to grimace in pain. Being berated now, he endured the ache to scramble back up. “What business is it of yours?”
The auntie’s voice boomed even louder: “This old lady is delivering justice on behalf of heaven!”
“Count me in!” The voice belonged to the person who had just shouted “good.” Walking over, the crowd realized it was a rather slight, gaunt young man.
The man glanced at his watch and said with absolute sincerity, “It just so happens that I don’t want to go to work overtime today. The moment you lay a single finger on me, I’ll have a legitimate reason to file for an occupational injury! Hurry up!”
Chapter 307: Something is Up
Tong Li was completely flabbergasted. Seeing the other passengers starting to eye him like tigers stalking prey, panic finally set in. Conveniently, the bus pulled up to the next stop right at that moment. The back doors slid open, and after throwing out a stubborn, parting threat of “you just wait,” he bolted off the bus.
Gao Changying let out a breath and stood up, politely apologizing to the auntie and the young man. “Thank you both for standing up for me.”
“Oh, it’s nothing,” the auntie waved her hand dismissively. “That little piece of trash wasn’t acting like a human being. How could we just watch you get bullied?”
The young man, however, still looked a bit remorseful. “My occupational injury… my overtime pay…”
The two returned to their respective seats, and Gao Changying sat back down, turning around to thank Gu Qinghuan as well. “Thank you too.”
“It’s nothing really,” Gu Qinghuan waved her hand. “Besides, I’m just doing what I was trusted to do.”
Gao Changying looked a bit bewildered. Gu Qinghuan explained, “Didn’t that guy mention the eldest young master of the Jiang family just now? Plus, you two called each other by name, so I reached out to ask him about it. Brother Jiang told me to lend you a hand.”
Gao Changying realized what happened. “You know Jiang Yuxuan?”
“To be exact, I know his younger sister, Jiang Chuchu.” Gu Qinghuan wore a beaming smile. “Chuchu and I are very good friends!”
“Chuchu went abroad for the summer break and told me to reach out to her brother if anything came up. I literally just added him on WeChat, and then I ran right into your situation. It’s quite a coincidence.”
Gao Changying agreed that it was remarkably coincidental, and the two struck up an animated conversation just like that.
Gu Qinghuan even added Gao Changying as a contact, casually forwarding the audio log she had captured over to her. “Save a copy of this; it can serve as evidence.”
Gao Changying shook her head. “He hasn’t actually done anything yet, so this won’t be of much use.” She didn’t want a situation where this would be useful either—because that would mean something had already happened to her grandma.
Gu Qinghuan blinked. “I didn’t mean for reporting him to the police. Aren’t you guys in self-media? You should be highly adept at leveraging public opinion. He’s already stooped this low, and you aren’t going to expose him?”
Gao Changying choked. Are high schoolers nowadays really this ferocious? Was she truly only three years older than Gu Qinghuan?
“I’ll give it some proper thought,” Gao Changying said. Her grandma was the most important person in her world. Since Tong Li had gone so far as to weaponize her grandma to threaten her, she truly couldn’t just let it slide.
Gu Qinghuan got off at her stop, bidding Gao Changying farewell. After stepping off the bus, she immediately messaged Jiang Yuxuan to ask for the account names of Gao Changying and Tong Li, intending to observe how the situation played out from the sidelines. If Gao Changying truly stepped up to settle scores with Tong Li, she could at least serve as a witness to deal Tong Li a definitive blow.
After all, a piece of drama left at this stage wasn’t satisfying enough; she wanted to see the aftermath.
Upon returning home, Gu Qinghuan resumed her daily routine of rushing through her summer homework, simultaneously keeping a close eye on the group chat to supervise the peers who shared the exact same schedule as her.
Lin Zhulu: [Ever since I adopted the Class Monitor’s schedule, my mom honestly suspects I’ve been possessed by a ghost.]
Song Yi: [The absolute best part of maintaining the exact same progress as Sis is that whenever I hit a problem I don’t know, I can directly ask her!]
Ming Xiaolan: [Actually, you can also ask the Academics Monitor.]
Shen Jianwei: [I always just leave a message for the Academics Monitor via private chat. She seems to be exceptionally busy this summer break.]
Yu Xin was indeed having a highly demanding summer break.
Following Yu Yuan’s departure from the Yu family, the household was short of a daughter, and after outsiders learned the truth, rumors and gossip targeted the family relentlessly. Yu Wenli and Cui Wanning couldn’t handle such public humiliation, putting every effort into reclaiming the household’s social prestige.
Yu Xin’s household registration had been transferred under Yu Wenli’s name, officially making her a member of the Yu family, which meant she had to safeguard the interests of the Yu household.
Compared to Yu Yuan, Yu Xin lacked artistic talents like the piano, but she was an absolute academic powerhouse! Not to mention, she had Xia He giving her private tutoring behind the scenes, allowing her to make astronomical progress.
When Yu Wenli and Yu Jinxin discussed corporate matters at the dining table, Yu Xin initially just listened. Later on, she began voicing her own perspectives. It had taken less than half a semester for Yu Wenli to go from dismissive to skeptical, and finally to actively seeking out Yu Xin’s views.
Consequently, with a prime opportunity like the summer break, Yu Wenli naturally wanted to escort Yu Xin to circle gatherings to show off that the Yu family had a worthy successor.
As for how massive a sense of crisis this induced in Yu Jinxin, Yu Xin couldn’t care less. Let him stew in his anxiety; it might actually force him to care a bit more about the family business.
Gu Qinghuan had caught a general recap of her summer itinerary from Yu Xin, so she made every effort to refrain from bothering her, strictly sharing amusing anecdotes via private chat to help her unwind.
Finishing today’s assignments, Gu Qinghuan stretched lazily and stood up from her desk. She was just contemplating whether to go out and buy a soft-serve cone when she received a barrage of messages from Qin Yue.
Qin Yue: [Save this kid! Save this kid!]
Qin Yue: [Class Monitor, urgent martial help needed!]
Gu Qinghuan called him back directly. “What happened?”
Qin Yue’s voice carried a mixture of panic and relief: “Thank goodness you answered, Class Monitor! What on earth am I supposed to buy for menstrual cramps? The people at the pharmacy recommended a mountain of different medications!”
Gu Qinghuan: “…Huh?”
She massaged her temples, deciding to temporarily ignore the context. “Is the lady who needs the medication currently in pain? Is it severe?”
“It doesn’t seem to be extremely severe?” Qin Yue sounded somewhat hesitant. “But her voice sounds thoroughly drained of energy when she speaks.”
“Aren’t you buying the medication for her because she asked?” Gu Qinghuan was slightly surprised.
“No, I just thought she looked incredibly pitiful, so I wanted to help out,” Qin Yue answered honestly.
Gu Qinghuan said, “Then you’d better skip the medication entirely. Buying heating patches would be far more appropriate, and pour her a cup of hot water.”
Women who suffer from menstrual cramps generally possess their own preferred painkillers or accustomed coping mechanisms. If a person hasn’t been requested to purchase them, even if they prepare them, the other party might not use them. It was highly possible the lady had already taken painkillers anyway; it was best not to make unauthorized preparations to avoid imposing unnecessary psychological pressure on her.
Qin Yue was astonished. “Isn’t it a known rule that telling someone to drink hot water at a time like this induces instant revulsion?”
“Telling someone to drink hot water vs. bringing the hot water straight to the bedside and helping her up to drink it are two entirely separate concepts,” Gu Qinghuan answered. “Plus, the manner of expression carries a massive impact. What’s required is consideration, not a lecture.”
Qin Yue repeated the word “consideration” twice under his breath. “Got it. I’ll go buy heating patches right now!”
Gu Qinghuan calculated the timeframe. Her own period was also due in a couple of days, so she begrudgingly abandoned the thought of a freezing cold soft-serve cone, deciding to go purchase fried chicken tenders instead.
Qin Yue hadn’t hung up the phone. Seizing the window while he went to purchase the heating patches, Gu Qinghuan also dug into what exactly was going on.
“Uh, it’s actually not that big of a deal. It’s just that Brother Jiang brought me and his friend along to have a meal at Yunjin Tower today,” Qin Yue explained somewhat vaguely. “He had business to take care of midway through and left, telling me to escort his friend to hang out for a while longer. But her cramps made her uncomfortable, so she told me I should just go have fun on my own.”
“Seeing her in that much discomfort, I felt too embarrassed to go play by myself, so I wanted to buy her something to alleviate the unease.”
Gu Qinghuan went silent for a few seconds. “Jiang Yuxuan’s female friend…”
Just as Qin Yue was about to clarify that she definitely wasn’t his girlfriend, he heard Gu Qinghuan continue: “Could it happen to be Gao Changying?”
“Huh?” Qin Yue was stunned. “Class Monitor, how did you know? Wait, how did you know her name?”
She actually guessed it correctly. Gu Qinghuan shook her head. “My encounter with Gao Changying was a bit unique. I’ll tell you the whole story when you have time, or you can just ask her directly.”
Going by the habits of the Class Three marmots, when there was drama, one absolutely had to harvest a bite. Qin Yue would undoubtedly ask Gao Changying for details, right?
Just as Gu Qinghuan was thinking this, she heard Qin Yue speak with a hint of bashfulness: “Ask her directly? That would be so embarrassing.”
Gu Qinghuan: Why on earth would he feel embarrassed… Wait, something is definitely up!
Chapter 308: Unrequited Love
After hanging up the phone, Gu Qinghuan completely lost her appetite for fried chicken tenders. She massaged her temples, feeling a distinct headache coming on.
Gu Qinghuan: [System, Qin Yue isn’t a love-brain, is he?]
System: [How should I put this…]
The moment she heard the system’s conflicted tone, Gu Qinghuan could immediately confirm at least two things.
First, Gao Changying was indeed tied to Qin Yue’s most desperate fate.
Second, Qin Yue’s most desperate fate was related to romance, though romance wasn’t the entirety of it.
Gu Qinghuan: [I’m actually a bit curious now about how many people in our class have a most desperate fate that involves romance.]
The system really wanted to tell her that the number was far from small, but to avoid butterfly-effecting the future, it swallowed the words back down. It decided to keep its focus squarely on Qin Yue: [In truth, compared to his most desperate fate, the timeline where Qin Yue meets Gao Changying has already been significantly delayed.]
According to the system’s explanation, in his original, most desperate fate, Qin Yue was actually supposed to run into Gao Changying before the end of last year.
Gu Qinghuan thought back. Did anything monumental happen at the end of last year? Something that could even alter the initial encounter between Qin Yue and Gao Changying? Gao Changying was brought into the picture by Jiang Yuxuan. At the end of last year, Jiang Yuxuan was still in university; the reason he would return to the city…
Gu Qinghuan had a sudden flash of realization: [Was it during the period when Chuchu’s mother passed away?]
System: [Yes.]
Since Zhu Qinglan’s fate had long been rewritten, and more than half a year had already passed, that chunk of history officially counted as the “past,” so the system could speak freely about it.
In that original world-line, because of his mother’s passing, Jiang Yuxuan saw his father steering the group entirely alone while his sister was in a terrible psychological state. Ultimately, he abandoned his independent entrepreneurial dreams and stepped up to assist his father with the group’s corporate affairs.
However, at that point, he had already established his studio and signed a contract with Gao Changying. Backing out prematurely involved a mountain of legal procedures to untangle. Capitalizing on the winter break, Jiang Yuxuan met with Gao Changying for face-to-face negotiations multiple times. To comfort Jiang Chuchu during that dark period, Qin Yue frequently dropped by the Jiang household, which was how he ran into Gao Changying.
One day, after Jiang Yuxuan and Gao Changying concluded their meeting, it was already late. Since Jiang Yuxuan had other arrangements, he requested that Qin Yue escort Gao Changying home. As a result, right after Qin Yue dropped her off at her residential complex, they ran straight into Tong Li.
System: [Tong Li found out that Jiang Yuxuan was pulling out, so he began ridiculing Gao Changying. Qin Yue couldn’t bear to listen to it and spoke up to defend her. In the end, Tong Li pegged him as Gao Changying’s suitor and mocked her for cradling the cradle.]
Gu Qinghuan fell silent for a few seconds. [And just like that, the sparks of love flew?]
System: [To be precise, in the beginning, Qin Yue only feigned being her suitor to bail her out and save her face. It was only after extensive interaction that he slowly developed genuine feelings for her.]
Well, talk about a slow-burn romance born of proximity. Gu Qinghuan compared that scenario against current-day Qin Yue’s attitude: [Even though the starting point is completely different, he still develops a favorable impression?]
Granted, Tong Li was just as detestable as before, but Jiang Yuxuan’s entrepreneurial business was currently thriving, and Gao Changying’s popularity was steadily climbing. When they ran into Tong Li on the bus earlier, as terrible as his attitude toward Gao Changying was, he was fully aware that his own current situation was pathetic, so he had to beg her.
Even without that specific rescue scenario, Qin Yue still managed to develop a favorable impression of Gao Changying? Did he just have a specific type?
Gu Qinghuan stroked her chin. [But right now, he shouldn’t be fully infatuated with her yet, right? He just has a slight crush on this older sister he recently met.]
Regardless, she would step up her monitoring of Qin Yue first.
Perhaps because Gu Qinghuan also knew Gao Changying, Qin Yue displayed zero resistance when it came to chatting with her about her.
Qin Min was still buried in work at the university lab and wouldn’t be home until later, while Qin Yanxia and Lu Danggui went to their jobs every day, leaving them with no time to look after Qin Yue. Coincidentally, Jiang Yuxuan had also been left entirely alone at home by his family—talk about a perfect alignment of stars! Qin Yanxia directly dropped Qin Yue off for Jiang Yuxuan to look after.
Gu Qinghuan reflected that it was no wonder Jiang Yuxuan and Qin Yue shared such an identical texting style; she suspected this exact setup had occurred countless times throughout their childhood.
Jiang Yuxuan inherently possessed a flashy, extroverted personality. When shooting the breeze with Qin Yue, he would constantly recount his entrepreneurial exploits, which naturally featured Gao Changying prominently.
Qin Yue would harvest the drama while simultaneously sharing it with Gu Qinghuan: [That Tong Li guy is a piece of absolute garbage.]
The details Jiang Yuxuan possessed were far more thorough, allowing Gu Qinghuan to learn about Gao Changying’s history through Qin Yue’s retelling with much greater precision than what she had caught on the bus.
Gao Changying’s grandma wasn’t actually her biological grandmother; Gao Changying was an abandoned infant. In her middle age, Grandma had lost both her husband and daughter to an accident and lived entirely alone. After finding the abandoned Gao Changying, her heart softened, and she adopted her, naming her and financing her education. It was precisely because of Gao Changying’s arrival that Grandma rediscovered the will to live.
However, her heart had always been in poor condition, meaning she couldn’t handle heavy labor and could only take on odd jobs, like helping mind a stall or a shop. While her late husband and daughter’s insurance payouts covered her daily medication without issue, it wasn’t enough to fund a major surgical procedure. Grandma wanted to save the remaining capital so Gao Changying could attend university. This was the exact reason Gao Changying launched into self-media so early; she wanted to earn enough money as quickly as possible to fund her grandma’s surgery.
Tong Li’s family lived in the same residential complex as Gao Changying’s. Tong Li’s mother ran a convenience store right at the entrance of the complex. Taking pity on Gao Changying and her grandmother, she had hired Grandma to mind the store, paying her a steady wage. Consequently, Tong Li and Gao Changying had known each other since childhood, making them textbook childhood sweethearts, so transitioning into a relationship had been a natural progression.
Grandma had always worried that she might pass away suddenly from her heart condition, leaving Gao Changying with no one to look after her. Knowing that Tong Li’s mother was a wonderful person and believing Tong Li was a boy whose character they knew inside out, she pinned her hopes on the two getting married after university graduation. Once Gao Changying had a family of her own, she could pass away in peace.
Under these circumstances, if Tong Li ran to Grandma’s face to spew venom, the emotional shock to Grandma would be catastrophic. It wouldn’t be a matter of getting angry at Tong Li, but rather weeping over her own blindness for nearly ruining Gao Changying’s life, compounded by agonizing worry over what Gao Changying would do in the future.
Therefore, even if strictly for her grandma’s sake, Gao Changying had to put every effort into painting a picture of perfect peace—at least until she possessed the financial capacity to pay for the surgery out of her own pocket. Once the surgery was finished, she would find a peaceful place to accompany her grandma for recuperation and gently break the actual situation to her.
Gu Qinghuan found her heart aching as she listened, wishing she could track Tong Li down and beat him up herself: [He explicitly knows her grandma’s medical condition is incredibly severe, yet he still weaponizes Grandma to threaten her. What an absolute scumbag!]
Qin Yue: [Exactly! Honestly, Brother Yuxuan really wants to punch him out too, but he’s both the son of the Jiang family and Gao Changying’s boss. If Tong Li seized upon those identities to throw mud, it would end up dragging Gao Changying down instead.]
Once Gao Changying was dragged down, Grandma’s situation would turn catastrophic. It truly was an incredibly thorny knot to untangle.
Qin Yue: [Actually, I’m planning to borrow some cash from my brother once he gets back. If he doesn’t have enough, I’ll borrow some from Chuchu.]
Gu Qinghuan: [And then lend it to Gao Changying for the surgery?]
Qin Yue: [Yeah. Being in financial debt is infinitely better than delaying her grandma’s medical condition, right? I’m confident I can persuade her to accept it!]
Gu Qinghuan thought to herself that she hoped Qin Yue’s definition of “confident” wasn’t relentless, shameless pestering.
However, looking at Gao Changying’s personality, she likely wouldn’t decline the offer out of misplaced pride.
It was just that… once things played out this way, that hazy, embryonic crush Qin Yue harbored would in all probability be seen right through. Gao Changying would likely find a way to systematically extinguish his feelings.
Should I just sit back and watch Qin Yue experience unrequited love? Gu Qinghuan pondered. Who knows, maybe getting his heart broken was exactly how he would shake off his most desperate fate?
Qin Yue, who was currently chatting with Gu Qinghuan in soaring spirits, suddenly let out a massive, violent sneeze. He rubbed his nose, thinking to himself with some bewilderment: Did I set the AC temperature too low? Why did a sudden wave of sinister chill just wash over me?
