CHAPTER 74: THE MORE CALM, THE MORE DANGEROUS

Chi Yu’s tranquility was broken by Yi Shu’s voice. He rolled his clear eyes and looked at Yi Shu: "Love is my life, what do you know."

Yi Shu pulled up a chair and sat down: "This is what you call being lovestruck and brainless."

Chi Yu: "..."

"Why didn’t President Gu arrange for you to have a VIP room? A standard room is too risky for you," Yi Shu said.

Chi Yu snorted proudly: "Yuanyuan originally wanted to get me a VIP room, but of course, I refused. I can’t bear to let my woman spend money on me."

Of course, he wouldn’t admit that Yuanyuan hadn’t even settled his medical bills.

Chi Yu was making it up, and Yi Shu actually believed him.

Thinking of what happened just now, Yi Shu said to Chi Yu: "There are reporters lurking outside every hospital today. I was careful to disguise myself as much as possible when I came, and guess what?"

Chi Yu ignored him.

Yi Shu continued, his expression extremely animated: "There was a patient sitting in a wheelchair near the nurse’s station, his leg in a cast. It looked very serious, so I didn’t suspect anything. But when I asked the nurse for your room number, damn it, that guy with the cast suddenly stood up from the wheelchair and pulled out his camera."

Chi Yu: "..."

"Once he pulled out the camera, it was clear what he was up to. The worst part is he recognized me, and he also got your room number. In the end, I had to pay him off."

Yi Shu looked heartbroken.

Yet another sum of money gone.

The phone rang, and Yi Shu adjusted his expression to seriousness: "Let me take this call."

Then he got up and went to the window to answer the phone.

A minute later, after hanging up, Yi Shu checked Weibo and saw the trending discussions, then returned to the hospital bed with a serious look and said to Chi Yu: "Li Yan is stirring up trouble again using your fame."

Chi Yu: "What did she do?"

Yi Shu recounted the phone conversation he just had, along with how things were escalating online.

After listening, Chi Yu was surprisingly calm.

But Yi Shu could see the stormy seas beneath that calm surface—it was all the more terrifying...

"... Chi Yu?" Yi Shu called out nervously.

Chi Yu: "It’s nothing."

Nothing?

That’s it??

Actually, last time, Chi Yu showed some restraint with Li Yan out of consideration for him, not doing anything too extreme... But thinking about it made Yi Shu feel guilty. He knew Chi Yu didn’t do it just to save face for him; it was also for the shallow connection between Chi Yu and Weng Lan.

He was no longer young, and there had never been anyone special around him. Weng Lan had been divorced and was now single.

Yi Shu had that idea in mind but never voiced it. Weng Lan’s thoughts were hard to guess; they were basically more than friends but not quite lovers.

If Chi Yu had been ruthless at that time, the artist Weng Lan had a hard time signing would have been ruined, and eventually, Weng Lan would be helpless against Chi Yu, drifting even farther from Yi Shu.

Sometimes Yi Shu really couldn’t figure out Chi Yu.

To say he was passionate, he truly was, but only to President Gu.

To say he was indifferent, he was, as he had no feelings for others.

Yet his thoughts always remained inscrutable.

The night of the concert was supposed to be a proposal, so why the sudden change of heart? What on earth happened to him?

Yi Shu couldn’t understand, and simply decided not to think about it anymore. Instead, he would call Weng Lan and tell her to discipline that idiot Li Yan properly.

After Yi Shu went to deal with his tasks, Chi Yu sat up, picked up his nearly broken phone, which had been malfunctioning since the water damage last time, likely nearing the end of its life.

He dialed the number from that day.

The other party answered respectfully: "Young Master, what can I do for you?"

Chi Yu: "Get something done for me, make sure there are no mistakes, and it needs to be fast."