Qi Xuan: ...
Was she a hamster? Why did she hoard so many snacks?!
"You bought so many snacks, can you finish them all?" Qi Xuan couldn't help but ask.
"I can't finish them," Ye Zhi said nonchalantly, "but it's okay. When I get tired of them, I'll bring them to the company for other employees to eat. They are all quite happy. Would you like something to drink?"
"Do you have any alcohol?" Qi Xuan's heart stirred slightly.
"No," Ye Zhi shook her head, "Ever since Ruo Qing got drunk at my place last time, I haven't stocked any more alcohol."
Qi Xuan: ...
Even though he was just asking, why did he still feel a little disappointed?
In the end, Ye Zhi brought out a few bottles of sparkling water.
At Ye Zhi's strong recommendation, Qi Xuan tried a few of the snacks she suggested. Except for some that were too spicy, he found the others to be quite good.
The two chatted while eating, and time passed relatively quickly.
Seeing that it was already past eleven o'clock, Ye Zhi sighed helplessly, "Let's not wait any longer. Ou Tiantian might not wake up until tomorrow. We should go to sleep first."
"Can you sleep?" Qi Xuan asked calmly.
Ye Zhi was momentarily speechless. She said with some helplessness, "I can't sleep, but aren't I worried about bothering you too much? It's already late at night, and you're still accompanying me to wait."
"It's fine," Qi Xuan said calmly. "Tomorrow is Sunday, and I don't have anything planned. We can wait until midnight, and if there's still no news, we'll talk about it tomorrow."
Ye Zhi nodded in agreement, her brows furrowed slightly.
"Something on your mind?" Qi Xuan asked softly.
"I just feel..." Ye Zhi paused slightly, then said with some doubt, "Ou Tiantian is a bit strange."
"Tell me about it."
Ye Zhi shook her head, "Perhaps it's just a sixth sense. I don't know her well, so I can't really say. I just feel that she shouldn't be the kind of person who faints so easily just from being startled.
If she hadn't fainted, Ou Minghan would have taken her and Ye Qin Ya for surgery directly. With Ou Minghan's wariness, we likely wouldn't have had another chance to save anyone by the time the surgery was over."
"Are you saying," Qi Xuan said in surprise, "that she intentionally fainted to stall for time and create an opportunity for someone to rescue Ye Qin Ya?"
"I can't confirm that," Ye Zhi frowned slightly, "If it was just fainting, it might have been a coincidence.
But Ou Tiantian should be extremely attached to Ou Minghan, perhaps even to a pathological degree. For the doctor we arranged to gain Ou Tiantian's trust is not strange. However, for this trust to surpass Ou Minghan's is unlikely."
In the first half of the plot that Ye Zhi knew, Ou Tiantian was practically the number one female villain.
She was Ou Minghan's sister, and under Ou Minghan's subtle influence, she was actually unscrupulous in her actions, driven solely by personal preference, with no strong sense of right and wrong.
However, Ou Tiantian was by no means stupid.
It was true that she liked to create misunderstandings between Ou Minghan and Ye Qin Ya, and each time she could accurately grasp the timing and perfectly scheme against Ye Qin Ya, leaving her unable to defend herself.
While this was also due to Ou Minghan believing whatever she said, Ou Tiantian was by no means a naive and innocent fool.
She was sensitive and suspicious, finding it difficult to trust strangers, and even less likely to obey a doctor just because they were game friends.
If Ye Zhi believed it, then Ye Zhi would doubt if she herself was a naive fool.
"Do these actions of Ou Tiantian affect your plan?"
"No," Ye Zhi's brow furrowed even tighter, "This is actually what I find strangest. Not only did she not disrupt my plan, but in a way, she even cooperated with us."
"Then let's observe for now and be extra vigilant," Qi Xuan said calmly. "At a time like this, it's not advisable to create unnecessary complications."
Ye Zhi nodded; that was her plan anyway.
Until the reason for Ou Tiantian's strange behavior was understood, approaching or trusting Ou Tiantian rashly would be an unwise move.
Suddenly, Qi Xuan's phone rang, and he immediately got up to answer it.
Ye Zhi's spirits lifted. Was it happening?
Not long after, Qi Xuan hung up the phone, his brows tightly furrowed. He asked with some confusion, "In Country K, does Ou Minghan have other enemies, or does Ye Qin Ya know anyone else?"
Ye Zhi's eyes widened in confusion. How would she know that?
"You ask that," Ye Zhi's expression turned serious, "has something else happened?"
Qi Xuan nodded.
Ou Tiantian had woken up, and Qi Xuan's friend had found an opportunity to rescue her. He had someone impersonate a doctor and take Ye Qin Ya away.
However, during the evacuation, they were discovered by Ou Minghan's men, and a conflict ensued. It was at this moment that a third group suddenly appeared and abducted Ye Qin Ya, who had already left the hospital, along with the injured and unconscious Gu Sheng!
Ye Zhi's expression was extremely grave as she began to sort through all the information she knew.
In the original plot, the heart transplant surgery was a key turning point.
When she saw that Ye Qin Ya still refused to wake up on the operating table, she was so angry that she skipped ahead again. But based on the later plot, she could infer the general development.
The surgery should have been completed, but after Ye Qin Ya narrowly escaped death and gave birth, she seemed to have been rescued.
Ye Qin Ya thought the child had died, but the child was taken away by Ou Minghan and fostered under Ou Tiantian's name. Everyone mistakenly believed it was Ou Tiantian and Ou Minghan's illegitimate child.
It wasn't until the child was four years old that Ye Qin Ya returned, as this was a common trope in melodramatic novels, the "chasing the wife to the crematorium" plot.
Ye Zhi had also wanted to see how Ou Minghan was tormented in the "crematorium" part at the time. Who knew that after skipping several plot points, Ye Qin Ya kept saying she wanted revenge on Ou Minghan, but instead, she threw herself into his arms and engaged in various forms of flirtation with him.
Ye Zhi was utterly disgusted and skipped to the ending.
After reviewing the known information, Ye Zhi began to analyze the current situation.
She knew that someone would rescue Ye Qin Ya after the surgery, but she had always thought it was Gu Sheng. This was because Gu Sheng was with her when she returned to the country.
Now it seemed that another figure, acting as a late-stage boss, had appeared. Ye Zhi's mind began to wander. The person who rescued Ye Qin Ya and Gu Sheng and opposed Ou Minghan, based on the melodramatic tropes she was familiar with, could be one of several possibilities.
First, an antagonist, an enemy of Ou Minghan, who abducted Ye Qin Ya to threaten Ou Minghan, but would inevitably fall under Ye Qin Ya's charm and become infatuated with her. This possibility exists and is not low.
Second, Ye Qin Ya's suitor in Country K. Although Ye Qin Ya's time in Country K was short, the protagonist's halo is very unpredictable.
Third, Gu Sheng's suitor. This is extremely unlikely, but not impossible. After all, in this operation, they not only rescued Ye Qin Ya but also took Gu Sheng with them.