Madame is Pretending to be an Academic Slacker Again!

Everyone: ”Even if you wanted to, how would you find Xinghe? Xinghe is even better hidden than Sister Xin, no one has ever seen him, okay? This path won’t work.”

Song Anjing deflated.

Another moment of silence.

Hu Yi suddenly spoke weakly: ”Actually, there’s something I’m not sure I should mention. Yesterday, I went home for dinner, and my mom invited my uncle to visit. After dinner, I was sighing over Sister Xin’s photo on my phone, and my uncle mocked me. I said Sister Xin was missing, but he insisted this woman was alive and well, dismissing my worries. We argued for quite some time...”

Everyone was curious: ”Your uncle? Si Moyu? He knows Sister Xin?”

Hu Yi: ”He claims Sister Xin agreed to perform surgery on him, and said Sister Xin couldn’t possibly have died because the surgery was already scheduled. Sister Xin would never break her word.”

Everyone: ”Then your uncle must know where she is? Or maybe we can see her when your uncle has his surgery?”

Hu Yi waved his hand: ”I thought the same initially, but when I asked my uncle if he even knew who she was or what her name was, my uncle just... went silent and couldn’t answer.”

Everyone: ”Ugh. Your uncle’s just fooling you, huh? There’s no way he actually knows Sister Xin.”

Hu Yi pursed his lips, feeling quite wronged: ”That’s why I didn’t say anything before. After all, my uncle’s a bit... off.”

Everyone: ”...”

It’s too difficult.

They’re having a really hard time, really not a single lead.

==

Lu Yi drove Qin Xin back to Xinghe Bay.

Along the way, he told Qin Xin everything he knew about Lan Qingxin.

He admired Miss Qin and felt sorry for Lan Qingxin, so he desperately tried to leave a good impression of Lan Qingxin with Miss Qin, hoping Miss Qin could regard Lan Qingxin as a sister rather than a rival.

As he rambled on, he did not forget to casually reveal something to cheer up Miss Qin: ”Today, Young Master fired that woman Jun Ruyi, and publicly told her to get lost. Miss Qin, now when you return to play at Nalan Group, you won’t have any annoying flies buzzing in your ear anymore...”

But Qin Xin’s expression was unsurprised: ”She should’ve been gone long ago. So much satellite surveillance data was lost; doesn’t she have to be accountable for it?”

Lu Yi was shocked: ”You knew already?”

Qin Xin looked at him: ”I’ve been there more than once.”

Lu Yi made a few ”oh-oh” sounds, realizing he had asked a silly question.

It took him a while to react and realize, wait a minute, Miss Qin had been to the monitoring room several times before, but that was in the past.

The data loss happened just recently.

How could Miss Qin be so well-informed?

==

President Mansion.

President Jun looked at his daughter, disheveled and red-eyed, and sighed:

”Forget it, Ruyi, it’s actually fine not working at Nalan Group. You could start your own company, or go back to school for a PhD... There are many paths in life to choose from, and you can walk them happily. Why must you insist on a path where you see no hope?”

Jun Ruyi glared at him and growled softly: ”You just don’t get it! What’s so good about it? I was kicked out! The path is mine to choose, and if I want to walk it, I will. It’s not up to the path to choose me, do you understand?”

President Jun had always indulged his daughter, but upon hearing this, he couldn’t help but put on a stern face: ”Ruyi, there’s a problem with your perspective on life. Feelings are free, choices are free, no one has the right to hijack someone else’s choice, and no one is a puppet waiting for you to choose. You need to reflect on your views on relationships.”