After Xu Tingyu returned to China, although she didn't act ostentatiously, after all, this was the capital city, and there were quite a few people who knew her.
Naturally, the old mansion had already heard the news.
However, for some unknown reason, they didn't come looking for her.
Maybe they thought she was no longer a threat.
Or perhaps, they knew there were many problems between her and Qi Shifeng, so they didn't need to take action themselves.
But they were bound to meet eventually.
Where could she hide anyway?
Moreover, why should she hide?
So she shook her head. "No need. What's meant to come will come."
Qi Ruixi looked at her with worry again and again, but in the end, she said nothing.
Because she was also very clear that the two people in the Qi family's old mansion were really stubborn and inflexible.
Once targeted, even if you were not in their sight, they would definitely find you.
So whether to hide or not really didn't make much difference.
When the news topped the hot search, Qi Shifeng was finally pushed out of the operating room.
The anesthesia hadn't worn off yet, and he was still in a deep sleep.
Qi Ruixi went to check on him and finally had him sent to the next - door ward.
A row of bodyguards had already arrived outside. It was easier to guard with the two wards separated.
After making sure everything was okay here, Qi Ruixi called Zou Yu again to ask if there were any abnormalities at home.
Zou Yu replied that there weren't, and Youyou had already gone to sleep.
"Sister, do you want to see Youyou? I can video - chat with Zou Yu."
Qi Ruixi knew she was worried about the child, so she took the initiative to hand the phone over again.
"No need. As long as he's okay."
Xu Tingyu refused.
Although she was very worried about the child, she was also afraid of disturbing Youyou.
Qi Ruixi didn't insist. Seeing the pallor and exhaustion on her face, she said softly again, "You should sleep for a while. I'll call you if there's anything."
This time, Xu Tingyu didn't refuse.
She was really tired. The painkillers could relieve the pain, but they couldn't relieve the exhaustion brought on by the great shock.
She didn't say anything else and just quietly closed her eyes.
She slept restlessly. Sometimes she was on the streets abroad, and sometimes she was on a speeding overpass.
The scenes changed, but her panicked heart remained the same.
She desperately wanted to escape, but she just couldn't.
When she woke up, she felt even more tired than before she went to sleep.
It was just dawn outside the window.
The ward was quiet, with only the occasional sound of current from the medical equipment.
She suddenly opened her eyes and saw a person sitting beside the bed, with their head down. She didn't know what they were thinking.
She was startled at first, and then really frightened.
"Qi Shifeng, are you crazy? You just had surgery. What are you doing sitting here?"
Xu Tingyu sat up anxiously and accidentally pulled her wound. She couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.
Qi Shifeng immediately leaned over and supported her. "Don't move. I just came to check on you."
He had just woken up from a deep sleep. The first thing he wanted to know was her situation.
The bodyguards had roughly told him the situation, but he was still worried, so he forced himself to come here in person.
When he came in, he found her sleeping, but her eyebrows were tightly furrowed.
As the anesthesia wore off, his chest ached faintly. He slowly shuffled to the bedside. His movements were very gentle, and he didn't wake her up.
But she still woke up soon.
"I'm fine. But you, you're so seriously injured. You can't move around casually, or you'll have sequelae."
Xu Tingyu was a bit anxious.
Why didn't this person know how to take care of himself?
But Qi Shifeng held down her hand, looked at her with a heavy gaze, and then asked her, "Tingyu, who is Alan?"
Just now when he came in, he happened to hear her mumbling something.
At first, he thought it was just the rambling of a nightmare. But when he got closer, he found that she was calling a name.
"Alan, no."
She repeated these four words, her eyebrows furrowing more and more tightly, and then she woke up.
When Xu Tingyu heard the name "Alan", her expression clearly froze.
Then she said, "Was I talking in my sleep?"
"Yes, you kept calling his name. Who is he?"
He stubbornly asked who this person was.
After experiencing such a great shock, who was the person she called in her sleep with a furrowed brow? Was he important to her?
Xu Tingyu also looked at him. After their gazes met for a moment, she adjusted her sitting posture and looked at him again.
"Before jumping out of the car, you asked me if I was afraid. Do you still remember how I answered?"
Qi Shifeng of course remembered.
She said she had jumped out of a car before.
It was just that he didn't have time to ask in detail at that time.
What did this have to do with Alan?
Xu Tingyu's fingers unconsciously grabbed a corner of the blanket on her body. After a moment of silence, she said, "The first time I jumped out of a car, Alan was sitting beside me."
At that time, she had already opened her own studio and hired a driver, who was this Alan.
He was a man in his late thirties with two very cute children.
He used to be a supermarket clerk, but during a certain work incident, he had a conflict with his superior and was then fired.
Moreover, his former superior had been spreading the news that he was not a hard - working employee and even had sticky fingers, which was why he was fired.
At that time, no one dared to hire him.
He gradually became desperate because he couldn't even support his children, and he also had a lot of conflicts with his wife.
Just when he was in the trough of his life, it was Xu Tingyu's company that hired him.
Alan had asked why. Didn't she hear those rumors?
But Xu Tingyu said she only believed what she saw.
It turned out that the reason Alan had a conflict with his superior was that the superior was embezzling company property. He used the company's loopholes to get goods at extremely low prices and then resell them.
As a result, he was discovered by Alan.
The superior invited him to join in the scheme, but he refused.
Then the superior started to make things difficult for him.
Xu Tingyu explained that once when she was shopping in the supermarket, it was raining heavily. She accidentally slipped and dropped a very expensive earring.
There were many passers - by, but most of them were very cold - hearted.
It was Alan who helped her up and picked up the earring that she herself hadn't even noticed.
She believed that a person like this couldn't be the villain in the rumors.
More importantly, she had also been in a difficult situation and understood the feeling of being at the end of one's rope.
So now that she had the ability and happened to have a need, she invited him to be her driver.
Alan agreed and quickly started working.
With an income, his family relationship also improved, and he gradually regained his former cheerfulness.
As a result, once when he was driving Xu Tingyu to a business meeting, their car was rear - ended.
At that time, their situation was even more serious. The fuel tank was damaged, and the car behind them even threw a burning gasoline bottle over.
They had no choice but to jump out of the car.
Fortunately, the car speed was not fast at that time. After the two of them jumped out, they were also unconscious for a long time.
But the scary thing was that after they jumped out of the car, the person in the car behind got out and followed them.