"I don't want to, I want to know what happened between Daddy and Mommy," Xiao Ran resisted, unwilling to leave.
Qianqian and Yuze nodded in agreement, neither of them wanting to leave.
It was impossible to stay. The children could not know what had happened to Di Mingjue.
Ye Chenhan's expression darkened. He looked at the children with feigned seriousness, "Do you not want to see them again?"
No matter how much like a little adult they were usually, when it came to their parents, they were still children. Their big eyes were filled with wronged tears, as if a slightly louder word from Ye Chenhan would make them cry.
"What does your mommy always tell you? When they're not around, you have to listen to us carefully. Why aren't you listening now? Or do you not care about what she says and haven't remembered it at all?" Ye Chenhan scanned the children's eyes authoritatively.
The children who had been clamoring immediately quieted down, lowering their heads and daring not to resist any further.
"Xixi, take them back to their rooms."
"Okay."
Yu Xixi picked up Qianqian, then reached out to pat Xiao Ran and Yuze's heads. "Let's go, we'll go up first. Your little uncle will take you to see Mommy and Daddy after he's sorted everything out."
The children were observant and guessed that Ye Ziyu and Di Mingjue were in trouble and couldn't return with them. So they didn't say anything more and obediently followed Yu Xixi upstairs.
"Speak, what exactly happened to Ziyu and Mingjue? How did Gu Xiuyu of the Gu family get involved with them out of the blue?" Ye Qianzhi pressed.
Ye Chenhan's gaze flickered towards the staircase. After ensuring the children were not coming down, he slowly began, "I'm not entirely clear why Ziyu is connected to Gu Xiuyu. As for Di Mingjue, he's in the hospital, poisoned, and his condition is very serious. Ziyu has been working tirelessly because of him."
Speaking of Di Mingjue, Gu Xiuyu's mind was filled with the image of him lying on the hospital bed. If the poison in his body was not removed, he might truly not survive.
"Poisoned?" Ye Qianzhi exclaimed in disbelief. "How could he be poisoned? Have they found the person who poisoned him?"
Ye Chenhan shook his head.
Judging by the current situation, Di Mingjue's poisoning was very likely connected to Gu Xiuyu. The reason Ye Ziyu was closely linked with him, even having intimate actions filmed by passersby and posted online, was related to the antidote.
However, these were all Ye Chenhan's temporary guesses. He didn't know the specifics of what had happened.
"Tell Ziyu to come back now," Ye Qianzhi ordered. Before his words had even fully fallen, he stopped himself, "Wait, take me to the hospital now."
"Dad, Ziyu didn't tell us because she doesn't want too many people to know about this. You going there won't help her much, and it might distract her by making her worry about your feelings. Why don't you stay home and look after the three children? I'll take care of things at the hospital with Xixi, and I'll call you if anything happens," Ye Chenhan suggested.
Even with just him and Yu Xixi at the hospital, Ye Ziyu had repeatedly asked them to leave. If Ye Qianzhi were to go, the matters concerning Di Mingjue might be known all over the internet as soon as he arrived at the hospital. Then, it would not be so simple to obtain the antidote from the culprit.
Ye Qianzhi seriously considered his suggestion and agreed.
However, he couldn't stand the online comments, which seemed to portray Ye Ziyu as a two-timer. He immediately called Ye Shaoting and had him, in the name of the Ye Corporation, instruct the newspapers to remove the rumors online.