A chill welled up from the bottom of Bo Jingming's heart.
He was almost sixty years old, half of his body was already on the verge of the grave.
Right before his eyes, his father was critically ill, and his two sons were openly fighting against each other like fire and water, disliking each other.
The root cause of all this stemmed from himself.
This was the punishment from God.
If he hadn't met Jiang Ying, if he had followed Bo Yanhai's advice and had a family alliance as arranged, would all these heart - wrenching things have happened?
"It's me. It has nothing to do with Jingyu," Bo Jingming said.
Bo Siming's expression froze. "What... what did you say?"
"I was emotionally excited. I pulled father and complained about many things, which affected his mental health. It's all my fault."
"If you want to blame someone, blame me. I'm not a qualified son, nor am I a qualified father," Bo Jingming said weakly.
The heart - pounding hour had almost exhausted his strength.
It was as if half of his soul had been taken away, and he felt weak all over.
Qian Li watched him silently, understanding his intention.
The fact that the old master had just woken up couldn't be said in front of them.
The eldest young master had evil intentions. God knew what he might do.
It seemed that the master had already started to be vigilant in his own way.
"I'll watch over things at the hospital myself. You all go back to work."
"But!" Bo Siming was anxious to say something else, but was silenced by a look from Bo Jingming.
"Deputy General Manager Bo, father has said for us to go back. We should just follow his order. After all, you have no less work on your hands than I do, right?"
Bo Jingyu said expressionlessly.
"Grandpa almost died, and you can still say such heartless words. You've been such an annoying person since childhood and haven't changed at all!"
Bo Siming retorted angrily and left resentfully.
"Father, I'll be inspecting the nearby commercial building. Call me if you need anything. I can come here quickly," Bo Jingyu said and then left in a hurry.
"Go and apply some medicine. I'll watch over here," Bo Jingming said to Qian Li as he sat down on the chair weakly.
"Master, are you sure you won't tell the young masters before going abroad?"
"Let's not make things more complicated than they need to be."
Based on the intense situation just now, he had changed his opinion of Bo Jingyu.
With an assistant like Qian Li who knew how to handle things properly by Bo Jingyu's side, he was relatively at ease. "You don't need to worry about me. Go and do your own thing."
"Okay, master."
Just as he was about to leave, he was called back.
"Send me the recent visitor records."
Bo Jingming looked at the face - recognition records and registration forms on his phone. He was particularly bothered by a female nurse, He Honghong.
If he remembered correctly, Qian Li had reported to him before.
It was said that Bo Siming had caused a big scene in the hospital and injured the nurse at the front desk. Now the nurse was in a state of mental instability and receiving treatment.
The reason for the scene was that he was looking for this He Honghong.
"Can you get the information of this nurse?"
Qian Li was also in a difficult position. "There's no such person in the hospital."
The second master had warned him not to reveal Shen Ximan's identity.
Otherwise, this well - laid plan would surely be disrupted by unstable factors.
The old master's current recovery was probably mostly due to her.
"Investigate. Do it now! You must find out before the end of the month."
Su Minghan was sitting in his office, rubbing his phone with his fingers.
At last night's dinner, Su Hao and Bo Jingming had a great chat. If it hadn't been almost dawn, they would have kept chatting until morning.
During that time, he had also talked a lot with Bo Jingyu.
He planned to stage a grand and luxurious banquet just for show.
The purpose was to make Bo Siming show his true colors.
But only one female companion could be invited to the banquet. When Su Hao was drunk, he suddenly decided on Tian Danni and even forced Su Minghan to send a message to inform her using his phone.
Until now, he didn't know how to explain it to Xiao Shujing.
The matter from that day hadn't been resolved yet, and now this new thing came up.
To be honest, Su Minghan didn't want to offend either side.
Buzz, buzz.
The phone in his palm suddenly vibrated. The note was Shujing.
He licked his lower lip gloomily, calmed his emotions, and answered the call.
"Minghan, where are you?"
"I'm at the company. What's up?"
Xiao Shujing smiled and exchanged a look with Yan Yueyue. "The design competition held by the school was cancelled temporarily last time. It was announced yesterday that it will be held again. It's tonight. Will you come and watch?"
"Um, I..."
Hearing that he didn't agree, she frowned slightly. "I'm a judge, and I'm participating as an artist. Aren't you going to come?"
"Shujing, I really have some official business to attend to today, so... next time. Can I go next time?" Su Minghan said with a smile.
"Next time? I'm already a senior! I'll graduate soon! How many more next times can I have? Can't you postpone it? Or, you can just come and stay for half an hour."
Xiao Shujing threw a tantrum, and her tone was full of displeasure.
"This isn't something that can be solved in a short time. Moreover, it's not in Yancheng but in another place. Just bear with it today. I'll make it up to you when I come back, okay?"
Su Minghan always kept his tone gentle.
"No! If you don't come today, just wait for me to get angry!"
Beep, beep, beep. The call was hung up.
He sighed irritably. No matter how many times he called, no one answered.
Afraid that she would be angry, he quickly sent a few messages to comfort her.
Only then did he find that his account had been blocked. The red exclamation mark stared straight into his eyes, looking both glaring and unreasonable.
"Fine, block me? Then let's not talk at all!"
Su Minghan got angry too. Without saying a word, he called Tian Danni.
"Are you done?"
"The banquet is in the evening, isn't it?" she replied listlessly.
Hearing her still sleepy voice, his anger subsided a little.
"Get dressed and come out now. I'll treat you to dinner."
Tian Danni insisted, "I'm not going. Who do you think you are to control me? You didn't even apologize to me yesterday, and now you want to act like nothing happened? If you want me to have dinner with you, buy some groceries and come to my place."
Su Minghan looked at the phone screen after the call was hung up, looking surprised.
The personalities of these artists these days were really more overbearing than one another.
He was the boss!
An hour later, Tian Danni opened the door of her apartment.
Leaning against the door frame with her arms crossed, she smiled and said, "Who is this? Carrying big bags and small bags. I don't seem to recognize you."
Su Minghan was sweating. "Stop joking around. Hurry up and help me!"
On the dining table, the steam from the two - flavored hot pot was slowly rising.
"On a sunny noon, you want a wounded person to eat hot pot with you?"
Tian Danni stirred the dipping sauce in her bowl and laughed in disbelief.
"Why are you so picky? I prepared the two - flavored hot pot just for you. Eat more and talk less," Su Minghan retorted angrily.
Seeing his irritable attitude, she could more or less guess.
"Did you quarrel with Xiao Shujing?"
"… It's none of your business."