"My friend is inside." Lin Li said to the man, staring at him.
"Even if so it is still no." The man said, he didn't look at her again, closed the door directly and blocked Lin Li out of the door.
Lin Li stared at the door angrily for a while, but feels some helplessness at this moment. Sitting on the plastic chair in the aisle, Lin Li looked worried at the closed door. She was nervous and not knowing how long it took, the door of the ward was suddenly opened. A man came out from inside and saw Lin Li, his face serious, he asked after a while, "You are Lin Li?"
Lin Li nodded and asked, "Can I go in now?" She is still somewhat worried about An Ran.
The man glanced at her coldly and leaned sideways, said, "Come in, we have something to ask you as well."
Because of the phone call from Zhou Han, Lin Li was also somewhat prepared going in. She turned sideways into the ward. She saw that there was someone standing on both sides of An Ran's bed and they watch her come in. A man who was older than the others asked , "Are you Lin Li?"
Lin Li nodded, looked at him, turned her head and looked at An Ran. The hand holding the mobile phone couldn’t help but tighten her grip. She had never been in such a situation before, and she was a little scared.
The man went to her and said, "My surname is Yan. I am the investigation team leader of the provincial party committee to thoroughly investigate Su Yi Cheng’s corruption and bribery case. I hope that you can answer some of my questions truthfully."
Lin Li looked at him and nodded and said, "What do you want to ask?"
"What is your relationship with Gu An Ran?" Yan Li asked, his eyes fixed on her eyes, seemingly to see through people, not letting out any slight changes on her face.
"Friends, best friends." Lin Li looked back at him and said with great conviction.
Not giving Lin Li time to react, Yan Li asked, “Did Gu An Ran sent you a million dollar worth pearl necklace on June 2 this year?” The eyes are still looking at her like just now, not blinking for a moment.
"Yes." Lin Li nodded affirmatively, looked at him and said, "I did receive a pearl necklace on June 2nd, but it was my boyfriend who handed it over to An Ran to pass to me."
Yan Li asked, "Who is your boyfriend?"
"Zhou Han." Seemingly without thinking, Lin Li said so very calmly, just as if stating facts, there is no unnaturalness to it.
Yan Li looked at her, and asked after a while, "Where is that necklace now?"
"In my home." Lin Li answered calmly, looked at him and said, "If you don't mind, you can go to my house with me now. I will show you the necklace and prove that what I am talking about is true."
Yan Li looked at her and nodded, said, "Okay." Then he turned his head and said to his colleague, letting him follow Lin Li to confirm whether her words were true.
Lin Li looked at An Ran, nodded at her, then turned and left with the staff.
When Lin Li left, Yan Li turned to look at An Ran and stared straight at her. After a while, he said, "If it is really just for Zhou Han to hand over the necklace to Lin Li, why should you transfer $5000 from your account to his?"
"I borrowed $5000 from him before, but I just haven't found the right time to give him the money back. Since he asked me that day, so I just asked him for an account and transfer it to him directly." An Ran looked at him and said so calmly, only under the quilt where he did not see, her hand was tightly gripped nervously.
Yan Li steadily looked at her and asked, "Do you know about the bidding for this Ke Ji city project? Has Su Yi Cheng already decided to give Zhou Han the demolition project in the north of the city?"
"I don't know." An Ran said truthfully, "Regarding work, he has never said anything at home, so he didn't tell me anything about the bidding of the Ke Ji City project. In addition, I believe in Yi Cheng as a person. He will not do anything that violates his principles. I believe that the final result of the bidding that choose Zhou Han’s company must be the result from a multitude of considerations.” In fact, she can see the relationship between Su Yi Cheng and Zhou Han is not good at all, there is also no contact between them in private. If Su Yi Cheng really has selfish motives, would he still have chosen Zhou Han? The man who once betrayed his friendship?!
Yan Li looked at her for a long time, and did not see anything suspicious from her face.
The two people stood in a stalemate, their faces still extremely serious, but he didn't ask more from An Ran. It seemed that they were waiting for Lin Li's side to confirm whether what Lin Li said was true.
Underneath the quilt, An Ran's hand gently covered her lower abdomen, seeming to feel the presence of the child in the belly.
Just when the atmosphere in the room got a bit awkward, there was a sudden knock on the door.
Yan Li frowned. When he first came in, he had already talk to the medical staff here. They had to do interrogate someone and to let them stop people from disturbing them.
His eyes gestured to let the colleague him to open the door. When the door opened, he heard Qin Yun’s voice coming from the outside. "Yan Li, what have you done to my daughter-in-law and grandchild?!"
Hearing this, An Ran and Yan Li in the room turned around and looked out of the ward, only to see Qin Yun standing in the doorway with a ferocious look and standing still by her side with a slightly serious look was Su Wen Qing.
Qin Yun was about to walk in as she was saying this, but she was stopped by the person of the investigation team standing at the door. "Sorry, we are still questioning."
"Questioning, what methods did you all use to ask questions, asked until the person is in the hospital now!" Qin Yun was very agitated, when she received a call saying An Ran was in the hospital, she almost fainted from shock, anyone else can be in the hospital, but An Ran is pregnant now, if there wasn't anything wrong how can she be at the hospital!
Seeing the situation, Yan Li turned and went out, stood at the door, looked at Su Wen Qing and Qin Yun, laughed awkwardly and said, "Brother, sis-in-law."
"Stand aside, let me go in." Qin Yun looked at him, her tone was very harsh, she can't be bothered about him. She is now worried about An Ran.
Yan Li said with difficulty, "Sis-in-law, look, I'm still doing official business, if you do this aren't you making things difficult for me."
"So what if I make things difficult for you, do people do things like you did? If you want to ask questions, fine, but now you even make it till people are in the hospital now! Yan Li, let me tell you, An Ran is pregnant now, if ANYTHING happens to her, anything at all, I want to see how you will be able to face our grandpa Su." Qin Yun said viciously. "Get out of the way, I want to go in."
Yan Li knows that if Qin Yun started her arrogant ways he won't be able to handle it, and Qin Yun's hot fiery temper can only be handled by Su Wen Qing. No matter what, so long as Su Wen Qing speaks up, she will not have any opinions. So as always, Yan Li looked with difficulty at Su Wen Qing standing on the side, hoping that he would speak up.
Su WenQing looked at him and nodded. He said to Qin Yun,"Alright now, Yan Li is also a public official doing his duty. We can't delay his work. Let him finish asking."
"But An Ran--" Qin Yun still wants to say something, but was interrupted by An Ran in the ward.
Only hearing the voice of An Ran coming from the ward. "Mom, I am fine."
Hearing this, Qin Yun finally calm down, and her hands kept patting her chest. She said muttering, "It's good she's fine, everything is good..." Then loudly said into the ward, "An Ran, don't you be afraid, it will be fine, mom and dad are outside."
"En." An Ran reply, her hands slowly caressing her stomach, and her heart also relaxed, not as nervous and afraid as before.
Yan Li closed the door and went back to An Ran. Looking at her slightly pale face, he couldn’t help but ask, "Are you really okay?" Actually, as Qin Yun said, no matter the investigation, if something really happen to An Ran and what's in her belly, he will really have no face to see the Su family again.
An Ran nodded, "En, it's nothing serious."
Yan Li then calm down. He looked at her and nodded. After such a disturbance by Qin Yun, he didn’t know what to ask anymore. At this time, his cell phone rang, it was the call of a colleague who had went to the apartment with Lin Li to take the necklace. After answering, he asked directly, "How is it?"
"That necklace is really in Lin Li's home, what she said was true." the man on the other side of the phone said.
Hearing this, Yan Li also lets out a sigh of relief, nodded, only said, "I understand." Then directly hung up the phone.
Looking at An Ran again, his face was not as serious as just now, now with a smile, and said, "The necklace was found in Lin Li's apartment."
"It was originally sent by Zhou Han to Lin Li after all." An Ran said only faintly.
"En." Yan Li nodded and looked at her frankly, "I watched Ah Cheng grew up since when he was young, he is almost like my own child. This time when I was told that he was corrupt and accepting bribes. To be honest, I was shocked. In my impression, Ah Cheng would never do such a thing. Later, the information showed that you received a million dollar gift behind his back. I believe in Ah Cheng but not a stranger like you."
An Ran didn't say anything, just looked at him, she could understand him, after all, she is a person whom he had never met before, if it was her, she would not believe in her either.
Yan Li looked and continued speaking, "At his age, for Ah Cheng to get to his current position and without relying on his family's influence is really not easy. Of course, sometimes the higher you go, the more jealous people become, especially in this society where power and influence matters. There is a saying that even if you do not offend people, other people will still offend you, it does not mean that if you do things well within your responsibility then you will be fine, those seriously looking for trouble will not let you off just because you are doing things within your means. You are his wife, so your every actions could potentially becomes something that lets others get a handle on him with, I hope in future you will look more on Ah Cheng's perspective when you handle things, consider things from his position more, although this time is a misunderstanding but it more than suffice to prove that someone is indeed looking to cause trouble for you both."
Hearing this, An Ran quietly listen and promised,"I will." She always thought that she was doing very well, because she knew the significance of his work, she never ask him about anything about work and never promised anything on his behalf in public, verbally or written form. She just didn’t expect that even if she did all this, there was still no guarantee. If others have the heart to do so, even a really small matter can be used to make a fuss. Something simple and ordinary will become deadly evidence. This time, if not for Zhou Han, she really doesn't know how the results will be...
Yan Li stopped at this point, did not say more, nodded to her, turned and went straight to open the door to go out, but was called by An Ran behind him.
"Wait a minute." Seeing him go, she hurriedly call out to him. He had finished his questions, but she still had questions for him.
Yan Li turned his head in confusion, looked at her and asked, "Do you still have something for me?"
An Ran nodded, looked at him and asked, "Ah Cheng, Ah Cheng is he..."
Without waiting for An Ran to finish, Yan Li said directly, "Although I know that this incident is a misunderstanding, we still have some matters that requires Su Yi Cheng's cooperation with to help in our investigations. I will not be able to say more about this. I can only say that if he has no problem. We will naturally not be difficult on him."
An Ran looked at him, she could only nod and no longer ask more questions. "I understand."
Yan Li took a glance at her and turned to open the door. The colleague who came with him from the investigation team also followed him out of the ward.
Outside the ward, Yan Li said to Qin Yun with a smile, "Sis in law, I have finished, you can go in now."
Qin Yun took a glance at him, annoyed, but because she was worried about An Ran's situation, she did not have time to bother about him. She purposely knocked her shoulders against his and entered the ward.
"An Ran." Qin Yun came in and saw An Ran's pale face, she felt even more distressed, and went up hurriedly to sit down on the stool next to her bed, pulled her hand over and said, "How is your face pale till like this."
"Mom." An Ran smiled at her, shook her head and said, "I am fine."
"This Yan Li, seriously, to think that Grandpa Su still instructs me to boil soup for him whenever he comes over, just afraid that he will not have soup to drink while outside." Qin Yun said angrily.
"Mom." An Ran held her hand back and explained, "It’s not because of Leader Yan, it's due to my own carelessness that I entered the hospital. Team leader Yan just came to ask me some things and understand the situation, that's all."
"Is that so?" Qin Yun frowned and said, "It is still his fault, if he wanted to ask questions then just ask, doesn't he know to find a better time for it, can't he see that you are unwell, and still bringing so many people over, he simply wants to affect your rest.", Qin Yun is really mad now, and she sounds quite unreasonable.
An Ran chuckled, knowing that she is worried about her, and she feels that she is so lucky. Others say that mother-in-law and daughter in law relationships are the most difficult relationships to manage in the whole world, but since she married Su Yi Cheng, Qin Yun has really been nothing but good to her, she does not believe in astrology or fortune telling or reincarnation, but at the moment, she suddenly feels that if there really is any previous life or past life, then she must have done a lot of good things in her previous life, for her to encounter such a good husband like Su Yi Cheng in this life and a good mother-in-law like Qin Yun.
"So how, what did the doctor say, no problem right?" Pulling her hand, Qin Yun pulled open the quilt and worriedly looked at her belly.
"There was some bleeding, but they have already injected progesterone. The doctor has checked that the child is all normal, but it's better to stay in the hospital for a few days for observation." An Ran said truthfully.
Hearing this, Qin Yun was distressed and touched her belly, and said gently to her, "You must be so scared just now all by yourself right, and Ah Cheng is not by your side."
An Ran nodded, when her tummy was throbbing with pain she was so frightened, and when she called Su Yi Cheng but couldn't find him her heart was so so flustered but thank goodness, their baby is strong, thinking so, her hand softly caressed her belly.
"Mom, Yi Cheng will be fine right?" An Ran asked softly, although she already knows the answer in her heart but she couldn't help asking, she wants others to tell her that Su Yi Cheng will be fine and will be back later.
Qin Yun gingerly caresses her head and said, "En, Ah Cheng will not do those things, and Yan Li will check things out clearly, Ah Cheng will be fine."
Hearing this, An Ran nodded, with a faint smile on her lips.
Qin Yun raised her hand and looked at the time. Only then did she know that it was already 6 o'clock in the evening. Thinking that she would have not eaten in the hospital yet. She asked, "Are you hungry? Mom will go buy some porridge for you."
An Ran shook her head, although she did not eat at noon, but her stomach did not feel hungry, just that she was a little tired, a little drowsy, knowing that Su Yi Cheng will really be all right, she felt immensely relieved. Looking at Qin Yun she said, "Mom, I am a little tired, I want to sleep a bit."
Qin Yun nodded repeatedly and said, "En, you sleep then, mom is here, you can sleep in peace." Saying so, she held her to let her lie down.
Today's experience seems almost like a whole year's worth of experience to her, the time seems to drag on endlessly and she feels really tired, both body and soul, she lays down, closed her eyes and in no time at all, An Ran gradually fell asleep.
Qin Yun sat at her side for a while, confirming that she was already asleep, and then got up and went out of the ward.
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In her drowsiness there was a familiar smell drifting by, and a familiar warmth slide across her face, and there's that familiar sound gently calling her name by her ear, a big palm was gently caressing her belly.
"En?" An Ran whispered, and gradually woke up, the lights in the ward were dimmed and was not glaring.
"You woke up?" That warm and nice sounding voice came from her ear, low and with some lingering undertones.
Turning around, she looked at that blinking eyes, at the handsome face that was close at hand. When he went to work in the morning, they had even kissed intimately. It had at most been only ten plus hours since they last saw each other, but now looking at Su Yi Cheng's familiar face, An Ran only felt that they had been apart for a long time, her nose soured and pain was stabbing her eyes, and completely without any control, the temperature in her eyes soared and tears immediately covered her eyes. She reached out towards his face, as if wanting to confirm that he is truly there and is within reach.
Su Yi Cheng placed her hand on his face letting her feels his own body heat, he smiled lightly at her, softly calling out her name. "An Ran~." He dragged the ending tone, making it very sensual.
The tears in the eyelids accumulates more and more, and finally the eyelids can no longer bear it, and then the pearl-like tears roll down from the eyelids. She was obviously crying, but there was a smile in the corner of her lips, whispering his name, "Yi Cheng...Yi Cheng..."
Su Yi Cheng pulled down her hand onto the sides of his lips and laughed, he reached out and wiped her falling tears, said softly, "Silly, what are you crying for?"
An Ran pouted and shook her head, but the tears wouldn’t stop, it can't be dried. She slid to a side of the bed creating a space, patted on the bed and said, “Come up.”
Su Yi Cheng shook his head, stroked her forehead and said, "The smell of smoke is all over me." Those people are like a chimney, and continue smoking one stick after another.
"Come up." An Ran looked at him persistently and patted the bed again.
Su Yi Cheng complied, helplessly shaking his head, stood up and took off his jacket and put it aside, then lay down beside her. Bring her whole person into his arms and letting her sleep on his arm.
An Ran placed herself onto him and clung to him tightly, more than ever.
Su Yi Cheng smiled and touched her head and said with a smile, "An Ran, I am here, I will not go anywhere."
An Ran did not speak, and held him even tighter.
Su Yi Cheng sighed and bowed to kiss her hair. He knew that today was a scary experience for her. She was not prepared at all. It was normal to be afraid. He was prepared for them to make a move on him in the near future, they would take advantage of the Ke Ji city project to find his loopholes, but he did not expect them to make a move on An Ran instead. This was something he had not been prepared for, so he had neglected this part and in turn did not prepare An Ran for it.
Kissing her hair, Su Yi Cheng said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I made you worried."
An Ran embraced him, just shaking her head, but not talking.
Su Yi Cheng hug her back, gently stroking her back, and the two lay like this in bed.
After a while, Su Yi Cheng remembered that when he came here, his mother told him at the door that she hadn’t taken dinner yet. She wants him to wait till she wakes up and sip the porridge that she had bought.
Whispering softly in An Ran's ear, "An Ran, are you hungry, let's get some porridge shall we?"
After waiting for a while, he did not hear her answer, Su Yi Cheng had some doubts and bowed his head. He only saw her closed her eyes and had already fallen asleep in his arms.
Shaking his head with a smile, he gently patted her back. Thinking of everything that happened today, he didn't want anything similar to happen again. Some things he might have withheld due to him caring about past relationships but apparently some people does not feel the same way, so instead of letting other people bully him like this, it seems to be time to counterattack now. At least compared to their despicable framing, at least he has real concrete evidence.
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Let's end the cliffhanger before Xmas! Enjoy the holidays everyone!
