In an instant, many questions flashed through Ji Yanli's mind.
For example, why did Shen Nian appear here? For example, why did Shen Nian get involved with the Yu family?
He knew that although the Yu family had been semi-reclusive and had no interest in world affairs, it was not something ordinary people could afford.
And Shen Nian is just the daughter of a servant.
The luxury car drove slowly on the street covered with the setting sun.
The banquet ceremony did not notice that his face in the rearview mirror had been covered with a layer of frost that could not be broken away.
He thought of the men one after another surrounding Shen Nian during the days when Shen Nian and he were divorcing.
Ji Yanli is not a person who worries about gains and losses. He also understands that the presence of those men beside Shen Nian does not mean anything.
But he didn't know why, but when he thought of this, his heart felt inexplicably blocked.
At this time, the mobile phone placed in the car rang.
It was his assistant calling.
He frowned and finally pressed the answer button.
"Mr. Ji, what's wrong, Miss Zhou locked herself in the room alone today and swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills!"
The pupils of the quarterly banquet shrank.
"How are people?"
The assistant's slightly panicked voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Ms. Zhou is fine. Fortunately, Mrs. Zhou happened to find out shortly after swallowing it and rushed her to the hospital for gastric lavage. Now she is out of danger."
The banquet was relieved.
The assistant asked cautiously.
"After Miss Zhou woke up, she kept crying and yelling that she wanted to see you, otherwise she would have to swallow another bottle of medicine. Mr. Ji..."
He didn't say the rest of the sentence.
The knot between Ji Yanli's brows deepened, and a trace of complex emotions that were difficult to detect flashed through his eyes.
"What nonsense, can your life be considered a trifling matter? Didn't the people around her advise her?"
The assistant sighed.
"I tried to persuade you, but I couldn't persuade you. I still shouted that I wanted to see you. I was afraid that something would happen, so I had to convey it on my behalf."
Even though he is a humble worker, he is afraid of something happening.
The banquet was silent for a moment and then spoke again.
"Send me the address."
After that, he hung up the phone hard.
Hospital.
VIP ward.
Zhou Xiaojing lay weakly on the hospital bed, his face almost blending into the pale sheets, and his long hair was messy and scattered on the pillow.
Beside her bed, Zhou's mother was sitting with a heartbroken face, holding a bowl of steaming white porridge.
She scooped a spoonful of white porridge and kept blowing on it.
Mother Zhou looked at her lifeless and haggard daughter on the bed, her eyes filled with unconcealable distress.
She couldn't help but verbally reproach him.
"Your dad's affairs are important, but you can't... ugh."
She didn't say the last half of the sentence, but sighed heavily.
And Zhou Xiaojing, who was dying on the hospital bed, suddenly showed a cruel look on his face.
She sneered.
"If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cub? If I don't add fuel to the fire, how can Ji Yanli help me force Lawyer Shen?"
"I really don't understand how a lawyer can put on such a stinky air. The case is delayed again and again. She can wait, but I can't wait, and neither can the Zhou family!"
Mother Zhou put down the porridge bowl in her hand.
"You kid, you're not in a hurry right now. Didn't they agree to take over your dad's case?"
The ruthless look in Zhou Xiaojing's eyes became darker and darker. She gritted her silver teeth and revealed a trace of extremely discordant ferocity on her pretty face.
"I know, but I don't do it all for the Zhou family. I still have plans for our mother and daughter."
"For the Zhou family, it's just one of them, not all of them. If I make such a fuss, my father will feel more guilty towards us and love us more,"
Zhou Xiaojing sneered.
"Mom, it's not like you don't know that he has an illegitimate daughter outside. Although he has never been exposed to her, it is still a hidden danger. If I want to sleep with that illegitimate daughter, her status in my father's heart will never be worthy of being compared with mine. "
Mother Zhou originally wanted to persuade her, but when she heard her mention this matter, she suddenly put away her hesitant words, nodded, and looked at Zhou Xiaojing with a touch of pity in her eyes.
She knew that Zhou's father had a lover outside, and that lover gave him a daughter, who was now only two years younger than Zhou Xiaojing.
In the future, the struggle between Zhou Xiaojing and this illegitimate daughter is inevitable.
Zhou Xiaojing's incident can indeed arouse her husband's guilt.
Zhou Xiaojing saw that his mother's expression was relaxed, and then she became more angry.
"Besides, I can also use this to win the banquet's heart..."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was movement outside the door, and then, the door was suddenly pushed open.
Zhou Xiaojing was so frightened that all the remaining blood on his face faded away in an instant.
For a moment, Zhou Xiaojing had only one thought in his heart, and that was:
Could he have heard it?
She pursed her lips, her heart pounding so fast that it almost jumped out of her throat.
Ji Banli walked into the ward wearing a tailored suit. Although his steps were a little hurried, he still couldn't disturb the pure and noble aura around him.
Seeing that Zhou Xiaojing was not seriously ill, he frowned and felt quite unhappy.
He doesn't like to be disturbed by people over trivial matters.
Especially when you are upset.
Now seeing Zhou Xiaojing lying on the bed safe and sound, some of the eagerness in his heart was immediately diluted.
Instead, there was a slight displeasure at being disturbed for no reason.
He said solemnly.
"You insist on asking me to come over. What's the matter?"
When he spoke, his tone was unprecedentedly cold and distant.
Zhou Xiaojing, who was always good at observing words and expressions, suddenly noticed something was wrong in his expression and panicked.
Her hands under the quilt suddenly exerted force, and the sharp nails dug hard into the flesh of her palms, and a heartbreaking pain hit her.
Her face was filled with tears, and she looked at the seasonal banquet with tears in her eyes.
Zhou Xiaojing can guarantee that if he is a man, he will feel soft after seeing his pitiful expression.
However, when her eyes secretly moved to Ji Yanli's face, she didn't know why, but her heart still felt a little bit.
"The banquet, I...I'm just worried about dad's case..."
Zhou Xiaojing said, blinking deliberately, letting tears roll down his cheeks like pearls one by one.
But such a beautiful scene of tears, at this time, there was nothing wrong with Ji Yanli's face.
He didn't like such a pitiful little white flower, especially the one who put on such a pose was Zhou Xiaojing, who he had always regarded as his younger sister.
Zhou Xiaojing's behavior made him even more uncomfortable.
Seeing that he was unmoved, Zhou Xiaojing felt anxious, and her tears felt a bit more genuine.
"Brother Yanli, what's going on with my father's case? Didn't Lawyer Shen take over it? Why is there no news for so long?"
Ji Yanli did not answer immediately this time. He just looked at her for such a long time, which made Zhou Xiaojing feel anxious.
It took a long time before he spoke.
"Since Shen Lu has agreed to pick it up, just wait with peace of mind."
