Chapter 477: Don’t Treat Me Like A Child
The last thing Li Qianxue wanted to hear was Su Chenghui’s name. However, she had no choice but to return to Lin City this time to deal with the unresolved issues between Su Chenghui and herself.
“Alright, this matter is between adults. Don’t worry about it.”
Li Qianxue’s words made Su Qingsang laugh. “Mom, I’m married now, so don’t treat me like a child.”
“I do want to treat you as a child.”
If Su Qingsang was still a child, then she would be able to start over again build the mother-daughter relationship they never had. Despite the current circumstances, and no matter how much she cared about her daughter, there was still a gap of twenty years.
If Su Qingsang was still a child, she would have stopped and prevented her from studying medicine. She should have studied business. That way, she could keep her on her side to help with the company.
Nevertheless, some things were in the past, and there was nothing she could do besides regret. However, she couldn’t let the person who caused it all to be off the hook.
Su Qingsang could not convince Li Qianxue, but only watch her enter the boarding gate and then leave.
“Let’s go.”
When both of them could no longer be seen, Huo Jinyao hugged Su Qingsang’s shoulder.
“Huo Jinyao,” called Su Qingsang. She suddenly turned to look at Huo Jinyao and asked, “why am I developing an anxious feeling?”
“You think too much.”
The hatred Li Qianxue had for Su Chenghui was strong enough for her to get a divorce and leave him penniless.
Li Qianxue wouldn’t go and murder Su Chenghui, though. She would have already done it if she had wanted to. If she did not act on her anger in the past, she could not be driven by the same impulse anymore now, right?
“Let’s go, Maybe I’m overthinking it.”
She hadn’t felt sorry for Xiang Caiping before this. However, now that she knew what Su Chenghui had done, she pitied her.
“Jinyao, what do you think Aunt Xiang is doing now–”
“If you want to know, I’ll find someone to investigate it.” Huo Jinyao also knew that Xiang Caiping was a good person. He had nothing but respect for her after spending a few months together with her.
“No, it’s alright,” said Su Qingsang as she thought of the news she had gotten previously. “Anyway, Su Peizhen has already recognized her, so I am assuming that they would be having a good time together.”
Xiang Caiping was a very good person. Su Peizhen would come to realize Xiang Caiping’s goodness sooner or later.
Once she realized it, with some time, she would eventually accept Xiang Caiping. Then, Xiang Caiping would finally get what she deserved.
Huo Jinyao couldn’t agree with this, because Su Peizhen was a girl who was used to being treated like a precious lady. Now, she suddenly recognized a woman with no power nor a decent background. He was on the fence in this matter, knowing Su Peizhen’s personality.
However, he decided not to convey his predicament to Su Qingsang. She might overthink, so he said, “let’s go home.”
“Yeah. Let’s go.” Su Qingsang needed to get ready to start work tomorrow. ……
Soon after Su Qingsang and Huo Jinyao had left the airport, another plane landed on the runway.
Xiang Caiping hadn’t expected herself to come back here after everything. She only left for a few months, but what had happened made her feel like years had passed.
“Mom…… Be careful.” Su Peizhen held Xiang Caiping’s arm with a sweet smile on her face. “You haven’t fully recovered from your lower back injury. You should be more careful when going up and down the stairs.”
“It’s fine. I feel like I have almost recovered.”
Since Xiang Caiping recognized her daughter, her mood gradually improved. She had a complete transformation from being her lifeless old self to participating actively in physical therapy.
Now she could engage in her daily routine with no problems, except when carrying heavy duties or doing extreme sports.
“You should be careful nevertheless,” Su Peizhen told Xiang Caiping. “When we get home, I am going to hire two caretakers and a housekeeper to take care of you.”
Su Peizhen’s expression looked very firm when she said this. “I need to earn more money so that you can have a good life.”
“Oh you,” teased Xiang Caiping. “Mom doesn’t need you to do anything for me.” Xiang Caiping felt happy, hearing Su Peizhen’s sweet words.
Su Qingsang’s personality was not terrible but a bit cold. Once she got to know someone, she could make some jokes and get closer to them. However, she never could say nice things to make her happy as Su Peizhen did. Su Peizhen was a sweet talker and it was even more comforting that it was her own daughter.
After spending some days with her, Xiang Caiping accepted her as her daughter and felt closer to her.
After calling a cab, the two went to the place where Xiang Caiping had previously been living.
Before coming over, Xiang Caiping had called her cleaning lady to clean up the place. She had asked her to come over to clean the house from time to time even before she had left for Lin City.
Now that the place was ready, they could just move in right away.
Xiang Caiping liked a place with a yard, so she bought this small house with the remaining money after she had paid off the bank loan.
The house was two and a half floors, so not a big place. There was a small courtyard on one side and a parking lot in the back.
At the time she bought it, she had thought that the place would be big enough for herself. Even with a helper, there were still rooms left. When she was free, she did some gardening out front.
“Look, since I haven’t taken care of it for a while, this garden has fallen.”
When Xiang Caiping entered the front door, she found her plants lifeless. It had snowed before, and even though the snow had melted, some plants couldn’t take the chillness.
She was so focused on her garden that she did not notice Su Peizhen’s expression.
Su Peizhen had previously heard from Xiang Caiping that she was doing some business at Rong City and had some money saved up. She thought it would be a big industry.
Now that she saw this two-and-a-half-story house, she felt quite disappointed.
What kind of house was this? Even the building for the helpers behind the Su Mansion was bigger than this.
“Peizhen, Come in.” Xiang Caiping opened the door and asked Su Peizhen to enter. Su Peizhen put away the disappointment on her face right away and stepped forward with a smile.
“Mom, your place is so elegant.”
“It’s not. Look, the flowers and plants are dead. I’ll plant some more. I’m sure it will look good when spring arrives.”
“I believe you.”
“I was too lazy to go upstairs, so I made the room on the first floor. There are three rooms upstairs, you can take the largest master bedroom.”
“Alright! I will listen to you, mom.” While Su Peizhen was talking, she took her luggage upstairs.
Looking at this place, which reeked of low status, Su Peizhen bit her lips firmly.
She entered the door and took a look at the room in front of her. The room was indeed bigger than she had expected, but it was nothing compared to her room in the Su Mansion.
Xiang Caiping was arranging her luggage downstairs. Su Peizhen threw the suitcase on the ground and lay on the bed with a blank face.
The quilt sheets were newly changed and smelt of sunshine. Yet, for Su Peizhen, such a small room made her feel uncomfortable and unhappy.
She stared at the ceiling above her head, and her mood suddenly changed for the worse.
There was no princess-like dreamy white dress. There were no gorgeous and noble crystal lights. She resisted the urge to scratch her head and forced herself to calm down.
‘You are no longer Su Family’s eldest daughter, Su Peizhen.’
She kept reminding herself but it only deepened the hatred she felt. A few minutes later, after Su Peizhen had calmed down, Xiang Caiping came upstairs.
“Peizhen, what do you think? Do you like this room?”
She was in a hurry to come back, so she had only had a little time to do some cleanup. Xiang Caiping looked at this room and realized that it was too plain.
“I like it,” said Su Peizhen as she got up, and quickly stood beside Xiang Caiping. “I really like it”
“Is it true?” Xiang Caiping felt a little bit upset. “Is it not too small for you? Is the room not too empty?”
“Mom……” Su Peizhen hooked her arm. “Who am I now? I’m not a wealthy lady anymore. I’m satisfied with staying in a room like this.”
Xiang Caiping was quite delighted at seeing her being so understanding. “It’s great that you like it. Don’t think about work right now. Settle down first and spend some time visiting. There are some nice places in Rong City. As for what to do next, we will talk about it later.”
“Alright! Sounds perfect.”
Su Peizhen behaved like a filial daughter. Xiang Caiping was very satisfied but felt sorry at the same time.
She decided to delegate to Su Peizhen the right of management of the two chain supermarkets she owned. She believed that once she had something to do, she would stop thinking about her past in Lin City. ……
Su Qingsang and Huo Jinyao had a discussion with Old Master Huo. He finally agreed to let them live in an apartment in the city.
However, Old Master Huo asked them to come back to the Huo Mansion every weekend for dinner. Su Qingsang could not refuse such a demand.
The day after their discussion with Old Master Huo, Su Qingsang finally started working.
Monday morning was the busiest time at the hospital. As soon as Su Qingsang arrived, there was a group of female patients sent to her for a check-up.
She didn’t even have the time to say hello to her other colleagues in the department. She was asked to start working right away.
In the morning, Su Qingsang was so busy that she didn’t even have time to sip water.
It was only in the afternoon that Sun Huiya was free to introduce Su Qingsang to the other colleagues in the department.
One of her students, a former male physician Zheng Chenyu and Su Qingsang had already met before. Su Qingsang hadn’t realized it until now, that even though Zheng Chenyu was a man, he was quite good at this job. He was one of Sun Huiya’s favorite students.
There was a deputy director called Shen Lingyun in the department, who was a bit younger than Sun Huiya. There was another deputy director doctor named Yang Lu, who seemed to be in her thirties.
Aside from the two deputy directors, there were three physicians: Ling Fei, Li Ting, and Zhang Qi. Along with these three, some other colleagues had gone to the countryside, so they were not here today.
The head nurse of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department was Li Meilin. Several nurses also came to greet Su Qingsang.
As Su Qingsang tried to remember the people she had gotten acquainted with first, someone knocked on the office door.
As everyone’s attention shifted, Su Qingsang looked at the visitor with wide eyes.
Huo Jinyao? Why is he here?
“Sir, this is the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department. If you are here to visit a patient, you need to go to the inpatient department–”
Li Meilin’s words were interrupted by Huo Jinyao. He looked at Su Qingsang with a light smile in his eyes. “I’m here for her.”
Chapter 478: Since You’re So Young, I Assume You’re Single
“I’m here for her.”
Huo Jinyao’s words made everyone in the office fix their eyes on Su Qingsang.
Su Qingsang immediately felt extremely awkward. What was Huo Jinyao doing? It was only her first day working there.
Su Qingsang looked at Huo Jinyao with an awkward expression, but he seemed not to notice the embarrassment on her face.
He made a few steps forward and walked up to Su Qingsang. Then, he put the box in his hand on the desk in the middle of the office.
“It’s my first time visiting you guys. I didn’t prepare any gifts for all of you, but I brought some desserts from Xiangshan. I hope you like it.”
Xiangshan. Upon hearing the word, the people in the office had their eyes glowing.
Xiangshan was a grand hotel. They did not only sell delicious food but also very famous desserts. It was said that one of the ancestors of the dessert chef in Xiangshan had made desserts for the royals long ago.
Later on, he had joined Xiangshan and made some rules. They could make three types of desserts each day, and twenty portions each kind only.
Xiangshan was opened from morning till night. Countless people would wait in line to purchase their desserts every day.
The desserts from Xiangshan needed to be ordered in advance. Surprisingly, Su Qingsang’s husband brought her colleagues desserts from Xiangshan on her first day. He must have had planned all this before already.
Su Qingsang had only been in Rong City for a short time, but Huo Jinyao had brought her and her family to Xiangshan once already, so she surely knew how the place operated.
What on earth was Huo Jinyao doing?
She couldn’t help but glare at him again and again. However, Huo Jinyao ignored the look in her eyes, but looked at the others and said, “good to see you all, I’m Huo Jinyao, Su Qingsang’s husband.”
“Nice to meet you.”
“Hi.”
The girls in the office stared at Huo Jinyao. The relatively older ones, like the director, didn’t do that as they were all married. They even had grown-up children.
Unlike them, a few young nurses had their eyes fixed on Huo Jinyao, filled with astonishment. Huo Jinyao made eye contact with the nurses and recognized the look in each other’s eyes.
“Hi,” said Huo Jinyao. He spotted Sun Huiya at first glance and asked her, “you’re the director, right?”
Huo Jinyao looked at the badge that was worn on her clothes and continued asking, “director Sun?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Qingsang is still young. Director Sun, please guide her if she has problems doing her job.”
Sun Huiya had witnessed how Su Qingsang did her work in the morning. She worked hard on her first day and never talked too much. Along with the fact that she was a student of one of her old classmates, Sun Huiya had a good impression of Su Qingsang because of the quality of her work.
“Hi, Mr. Huo. Oh, we’re colleagues, and we learn from each other. We’re a team.”
“Just call me Huo, Director Sun.”
Huo Jinyao gave a wide grin, exposing his white, shiny teeth. He looked so handsome, sunny, and warm.
He managed to leave Sun Huiya with a very good impression. After Director Sun, he greeted Shen Lingyun and Yang Lu, the two vice-directors.
Huo Jinyao greeted everyone on the scene, asking people to look after Su Qingsang, who was new to the team.
He seemed not to notice Zheng Chenyu until the very end. Standing before the man, he looked at his white coat.
“Hi, Doctor. Which department you’re from?”
“I’m from the gynecology and obstetrics department as well,” Zheng Chenyu said, reaching out a hand with a smile. “Nice to meet you.”
“Nice to meet you too.” Huo Jinyao shook his hand, looked at him from head to toe, then asked, “Doctor Zheng, you look so young. You don’t have a girlfriend yet, do you?” That sounded like a casual question.
“No, my job has been keeping me busy.”
Zheng Chenyu’s smile showed that he was a little embarrassed. Being busy was one of the reasons why he was still single. More importantly, people always found it weird that he was a male doctor in the gynecology and obstetrics department.
That was the main reason why he was still unmarried. Many girls even believed that he was mentally ill because he had majored in gynecology and obstetrics.
Zheng Chenyu felt helpless about that. He was not mentally sick.
“This job does seem hard,” said Huo Jinyao. After hearing his words, Zheng Chenyu shook his hand again.
Maybe it was his illusion, but Zheng Chenyu somehow felt that the smile on Huo Jinyao’s face had suddenly become fake after he confirmed that he did not have a girlfriend indeed.
Also, Huo Jinyao shook his hand very aggressively. That hurt.
Illusion. That must be his illusion.
Huo Jinyao didn’t make Zheng Chenyu suffer a long-lasting pain, but soon let go of him.
After greeting everyone in the office, he went back to Su Qingsang and asked her, “darling, you haven’t had lunch yet, have you?”
He was wearing a wide grin. Su Qingsang felt that he had emphasized the word ‘darling,’ to sound extra affectionate.
Su Qingsang looked at him helplessly.
“No, I’m about to have some with the rest of my colleagues.”
“I see.” Huo Jinyao put on a disappointed face and said, “alright. I thought we could have lunch together.”
“Of course you can.” Sun Huiya’s past experiences allowed her to read the look on Huo Jinyao’s face. She said, “Su, just go with Huo. We’re colleagues now. We’ll have plenty of other chances to eat together.”
Alright, she was calling him Huo already. She really did like him, didn’t she?
Su Qingsang gave Huo Jinyao a glance. After apologizing to Director Sun and her other colleagues, she left together with Huo Jinyao.
She pulled a long face once she walked out of the hospital.
Huo Jinyao put an arm around her shoulder and asked, “darling, what do you want for lunch?”
Su Qingsang stayed silent. She really couldn’t accept that Huo Jinyao had come to the hospital without warning her in advance.
“Darling, what’s wrong?”
Su Qingsang didn’t say anything but kept walking forward. Huo Jinyao followed her in front and looked at her face. “Darling, are you feeling unwell? Darling……”
They were about to arrive at the place where Su Qingsang had parked her car, but still, she stayed quiet. Huo Jinyao walked side by side with her. He spoke to Su Qingsang in a voice that was softer than before. “Darling, are you mad?”
Mad?
“How can I be mad at you? You just visited my colleagues and kindly brought them desserts from Xiangshan. I couldn’t thank you enough.”
She was obviously mad. Huo Jinyao held her hand and said, “darling, I was just worried about you.”
Su Qingsang refused to work in the private hospital which was run by Cheng Xianyun. However, in a public hospital, there were other problems. There would be more patients and much more work to do. Also, the relationship between her and her colleagues could become complicated.
Was he worried about her? Su Qingsang abruptly looked at Huo Jinyao. “Huo Jinyao, Mr. Huo, do you have any idea that this is my first day?”
“I do.”
“How are my colleagues going to look at me from now on, since you have done this on my first day?”
“What did I do?” Huo Jinyao blinked his eyes. It was funny that a tall man like him actually wore a facial expression like that.
The corner of Su Qingsang’s mouth twitched slightly. “You came here and asked everyone to look after me. Why do I need anyone to look after me? I’m here to work, not to be looked after.”
Su Qingsang was now the daughter of a wealthy family, but she still hadn’t changed some of her old habits.
She liked to keep a low profile, to work in a simple environment. She tried not to let people know about her family background.
Was that still possible after that after what Huo Jinyao had done today?
Huo Jinyao still had no idea what he had done. He believed he did the right thing. Su Qingsang felt like cutting open his head to figure out what he was thinking about.
Huo Jinyao stood there and stayed silent with a very sad face. Su Qingsang was going to open the car door, but noticing him being like that, she paused.
“What are you doing?”
“Darling.” It was noontime. Not many people were in the parking lot, so Huo Jinyao wasn’t worried that someone might see him like that. “I’m so sad.”
Su Qingsang stared straight at his face to find out if he was pretending. The grievance in his eyes didn’t seem fake.
“I was really worried about you. I know this is your first day, so I came here to check on you.”
Huo Jinyao’s gentle voice sounded so sad, almost tearful.
Su Qingsang opened her mouth, but in the end, she didn’t have the heart to blame him again.
She took a step forward and walked up to him. She said, “alright, I’m not mad.”
“You are. You are mad.”
“I really am not,” said Su Qingsang, with her voice, raised slightly. Realizing that her attitude wasn’t appropriate, she lowered her voice again and continued with, “I’m just not used to that yet.”
She had started her first day at the hospital alone when she was in Lin City. She had been alone all these years.
Besides, she was working, not fighting a war. What Huo Jinyao did at the hospital really made her feel awkward.
“Alright. I’m really not mad. But next time, can you call me in advance before you plan on doing something like that? So that I can be prepared.”
Huo Jinyao was still wearing a pitiful, sad face. Su Qingsang gave a sigh and said, “alright, do whatever you want. You can come to visit me at work anytime you want, okay?”
Finally, the ‘sadness’ on Huo Jinyao’s face faded a little. He looked at Su Qingsang and asked her carefully, “darling, are you really not mad?”
“I’ve told you that I’m not mad.” Su Qingsang felt like screaming.
“Then can we go for lunch now?”
“Yes.” Su Qingsang didn’t know what else to say at that moment. Forget it. Huo Jinyao had visited her out of goodwill. What could she say about that?
She turned to open the car door, feeling a little guilty. He had kindly come to visit her on her first day at work, but she lost her temper at him. That was not good.
Maybe she could make it up to Huo Jinyao at night.
Su Qingsang was having some thoughts in her mind, so she didn’t notice how the sad look on Huo Jinyao’s face disappeared without a trace once she turned around.
He had come to visit her on purpose. He was working, but suddenly, it crossed his mind that Su Qingsang was having her first day at work. He knew that she was pretty and she looked young.
She was a doctor, so she couldn’t wear her wedding ring at work. Most of the doctors in the gynecology and obstetrics department were females, but that department was not the only department in the hospital.
Besides, the hospital was larger than the one in Lin City. It must surely have more doctors than that one too.
Someone like Zuo Hongchen could exist among those doctors. He had to let those people know that Su Qingsang was a married woman.
Thankfully, he did that. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have known that there was actually a male doctor in the gynecology and obstetrics department.
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