SWNOVELS Chapter 38
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Su Shaoqing walked over and took a close look. "She's been drugged, and it's a pretty strong one too. How long has it been? Since she's your woman, you should have just gone to me instead of asking me to come over!" he said with a smile, noticing that the woman was quite good-looking.
But the more he looked at her, the more familiar she seemed. Recognition flashed across his eyes after a long while. "Isn't this the girl from the Shi family?"
Fu Chengyan raised an eyebrow. "You know her?"
"Don't be mistaken. I don't know her!" Su Shaoqing was no fool. From just one sentence, he could understand the hidden meaning behind Fu Chengyan's words and immediately made himself clear. "Heheh, I don't know her, but I've met her once.
Rather, I'm curious why would get yourself tangled up with the Shi family. According to my information, the son of that small branch from your family, Fu Yuqing, is also connected to the Shi family!" "Yeah, he is," Fu Chengyan nodded.
"So what should we do now?" Su Shaoqing asked while stroking his chin.
"You're a doctor and you're asking me what to do?" Fu Chengyan asked sternly. "Why else would I call you over?"
"That's not it, bro. I'm saying there's such a beautiful woman in front of you, and you're actually not making a move? That's unlike you!" Su Shaoqing said exaggeratingly. "I have to tell... cough, I may be a doctor, but this isn't my specialty.
Besides, you haven't given me any information and I rushed over right after I finished my operation. Why would I have the antidote on me?
"I'm saying that the antidote is right here with you, so why did you still come looking for me?" Su Shaoqing asked in desperation.
Fu Chengyan pursed his lips. His darkened expression looked rather terrifying.
Su Shaoqing's eyes widened and immediately got it. "Are you saying you haven't done anything with her yet!?"
"Cut the nonsense and get to work already!" Fu Chengyan responded as he looked at the woman tossing and turning in bed. "Are you a quack doctor or what?"
"Hey, Chengyan, you're the one needing my help... Fine, I guess I don't have a choice. We'll have to lower her temperature, so get Zhou Zheng to bring some ice cubes over. But after cooling her down, she'll definitely be feverish the next day. I'll prescribe some medication, so do your best tonight!"
Once Su Shaoqing's words fell, Fu Chengyan turned to Zhou Zheng standing by the door, and the latter immediately came over. "I'll get some ice cubes right away!"
Shi Nuan was under the influence of the drug, so it wasn't ideal to leave her in someone else's care. However, there were no maids inside the Wutong Residence. It was just the three men. Fu Chengyan chased Zhou Zheng and Su Shaoqing out of the room.
Fu Chengyan filled the bathtub with water and dumped a pile of ice cubes into it before carrying Shi Nuan into the bathroom.
Shi Nuan climbed out of the tub the moment she felt the cold water touch her body. She grabbed Fu Chengyan's arm tightly and said with tears streaming down her face, "You're so mean! Stop bullying me! It's cold."
Fu Chengyan retracted his dark gaze a little and patted Shi Nuan on the forehead. "Be a good girl and don't move. Stay in there for a while!"
"Then you'll have to stay by my side!" Shi Nuan pouted. "I'm afraid of the cold."
Meanwhile, Su Shaoqing dragged Zhou Zheng out to the living room and looked at him with an innocent smile. Zhou Zheng suddenly shivered for a moment and looked at Su Shaoqing in fear. "Heheh, there's no point looking at me like that, Mr. Su! I don't know anything. I really don't know anything!"
Every member of Jiang City's Big Four sure had their own unique personalities. Su Shaoqing wasn't a businessman, but he was a well-known figure of authority in Jiang City. The city's greatest hope was in Su Shaoqing's field.
Zhou Zheng had worked under Fu Chengyan all this while, but he also often had to help Su Shaoqing out. So even if he didn't understand the latter very well, he still knew a thing or two about him.
Su Shaoqing was different from Fu Chengyan. Fu Chengyan was the kind of person who would do anything to get what he wanted, without any mercy. Meanwhile, Su Shaoqing always appeared to be smiling on the surface and treated others kindly, but as for what he wanted to do behind the scenes, nobody really knew.
Therefore, whenever Su Shaoqing smiled like this, it meant someone was about to get unlucky.
Su Shaoqing narrowed his eyes and let out a cold snort. His hands, which were always stained with bleach all year round, looked extremely slender and more delicate than a woman's hands.
He took off his white coat and threw it at Zhou Zheng before casually sitting on the couch with a perverse smile on his face. "You don't know? You're always by Chengyan's side and you're telling me you don't know?"
Zhou Zheng quivered. "I really don't know, Mr. Su. There are things Mr. Fu won't tell me."
"Is that so?" Su Shaoqing squinted. His smile looked rather sinister. "You really don't know? The Shi family's eldest daughter, Shi Wei, recently got engaged to Fu Xicheng, and now Chengyan is with the second daughter. Even if you don't tell me, do you think I wouldn't know?"
"Well, since you already know about it, then why are you still asking me, Mr. Su!?" Zhou Zheng wanted to cry. "I really don't know about what happened today. All I know is that Mr. Fu had gone to Old Man Shi's birthday celebration and came back with Ms. Shi in his arms."
"Ohhh...!" Su Shaoqing dragged out his word. "I see!"
He tapped the sofa with his slender fingers and was just about to say something, but looked up vigilantly and saw Fu Chengyan standing in the hallway.
Su Shaoqing's scheming face instantly turned into a happy smile and his narrow eyes also made a 180-degree change. "Bro, is Ms. Shi better now?"
Fu Chengyan narrowed his eyes. "You haven't left yet?"
Was he just getting cast aside like this? He had rushed over from a surgery right after receiving Fu Chengyan's phone call, and now he was being treated this way. "Come on, bro. You're being so unkind now!" "Unkind?" Fu Chengyan scoffed and looked Su Shaoqing right in the eye. "There's no need to talk about kindness with you!"
"Hey, hey, hey, I just lent you a hand. Do you have to be like this?"
He wasn't going to let Fu Chengyan chase him away this easily. "Besides, aren't you worried that something might happen to Shi Nuan late at night? I'm a doctor, so keeping me here would be good for you!" "There's no need!" Fu Chengyan frowned, clearly not wanting to continue the conversation with Su Shaoqing. "Send him off, Zhou Zheng!"
Su Shaoqing still wanted to act out a bit longer, but Fu Chengyan headed upstairs directly, not giving the man a chance.
Su Shaoqing raised a brow. Seeing Fu Chengyan walk away, his expression immediately changed again. He cast a cold glance at Zhou Zheng while leisurely adjusting the third button on his shirt. "You heard the man. Hahh... I'm exhausted. Hurry up and send me home!"
Zhou Zheng really wished he could lash out at this man whose attitude changed as quickly as a child's. But of course, Zhou Zheng dared not saying anything. He could only pick up the car keys in defeat and drive Su Shaoqing home.
Fu Chengyan returned upstairs and let out a gentle sigh of relief upon seeing Shi Nuan laying peacefully in bed. He stood by the bedside and watched her with an unusual hint of warmth in his dark eyes. The man reached out to cover Shi Nuan with a blanket, then walked to the balcony with a cigarette in his hand. He had lit it, but he didn't take a puff.
Fu Chengyan had always been a restrained man. Nobody could make him do what he didn't want to do. And yet... He turned to look at a sleeping Shi Nuan. Maybe she's just a coincidence.
He had no intention to pull her towards him, but since she was now here, he didn't want to let her go either. The timing wasn't right, but Fu Chengyan never cared about such things.
But looking down at his own body, he really didn't expect the woman to have such an influence on him. No matter how much Fu Chengyan restrained himself, there were times he couldn't deceive others. In fact, he nearly gave in to her. But when he thought about how she might panic or regret when she woke up the next day, he endured it as much as possible.
Fu Chengyan stood by the balcony for a long time, enjoying the breeze. He only left for the study room after Zhou Zheng had returned.
"This is the footage of the events that happened at the Shi family's home, sir." Zhou Zheng had been by Fu Chengyan's side for many years, so he knew the man's habits. On his way back from sending Su Shaoqing home, Zhou Zheng had already begun looking into the incident that had occurred at the Shi family home earlier tonight.
With a cigarette in one hand, Fu Chengyan glanced at the information then lifted his head slightly to look at Zhou Zheng, causing the latter to quiver. "Sir?" Did I do something wrong this time? "You get a double bonus this month!" Fu Chengyan said with his lips curled.
Zhou Zheng was overjoyed. He immediately said, "Mr. Su tried to dig up some information through me, but I didn't say anything. It's just that with his personality..."
"It's fine. Let him do whatever he wants."
"By the way, sir, it's true that Yun Shen agreed to pump some capital into Shi Jingzheng's business, but it's merely a verbal agreement. Moreover, Yun Shen never really has a say in Yun family matters. It's still up to Old Master Yun to make decisions, and it seems that the old man isn't even aware of this agreement."
Zhou Zheng noticed that Fu Chengyan didn't seem to take this matter to heart as he spoke, indicating that Yun Shen wasn't much of an obstacle at all. But Zhou Zheng didn't quite understand. "What on earth is Shi Jingzheng up to? I once heard that Shi Wei is the one Yun Shen is after."
Fu Chengyan frowned, showing a slight change in expression. "You're saying Yun Shen is into Shi Wei? Pfft. You underestimate him."
Zhou Zheng was rather puzzled. Everyone knew what kind of man Yun Shen was. "Then what should we do now, Mr. Fu?"
"Just leave it be for now. There's no need for you to worry about this!" Fu Chengyan briefly glanced through the information. "Check up on Huancheng's recent condition."
"Yes sir!"
"By the way," Fu Chengyan said while tapping his index finger on the desk and thought for a moment. "I told you to reduce the number of orders for Fucheng back then. How is it going?"
"It's being carried out now, but it seems like they're still unaware about it!" Zhou Zheng remembered that there indeed hasn't been much commotion on Fu Yuqing's side. This was strange too. Fu Yuqing was just a small branch from the Fu clan. He was honestly nothing much to the huge family at all.
But for some reason, Old Master Fu had personally asked Fu Chengyan to take care of Fucheng for the past few years.
Fu Chengyan never liked being given additional tasks so when he found out that Fucheng was just a small company, he didn't put much thought into it. But the past two years made Fu Chengyan realize that Fu Yuqing wasn't a simple man.
"Reduce it by another 10%! Isn't it about time for the South District to bid for tenders?" Fu Chengyan stroked his chin as his sharp gaze landed on the project reports on the desk. "Make it quick!"