She dreamt again of the hotel room, of the young body whose face she couldn't see, their entwined passion like being in the clouds, only to instantly plummet into an abyss, falling into an even deeper slumber.
She didn't know how long she had slept. When Gu Susu woke, she found Qin Tianyi already sitting up, holding her phone and looking at something.
She hurriedly sat up too, snatching her phone from him, and asked with a flustered heart, "What are you doing with my phone?"
"Afraid I'll see something? So nervous," Qin Tianyi said dismissively.
"Nothing," Gu Susu checked her phone. Besides two missed calls, there were no other messages. Qin Tianyi hadn't unlocked her phone's password, and she felt a sense of relief.
Qin Tianyi looked at her, spread his hands, and said, "Ai Yiwei's calls woke me up. I just wanted to silence your phone so she wouldn't keep calling and wake you up."
Gu Susu said "Oh" and met his gaze, "Thank you for your concern."
Qin Tianyi turned his face away, looking elsewhere, his voice turning cold, "Where are the few strands of hair you got from Qin Tianlang? Call Ai Yiwei back and give her those hairs."
"Ah." Gu Susu thought she had misheard.
"Don't you understand what I'm saying?"
"No, those hairs are in the bathroom." Although Gu Susu hated Ai Yiwei for constantly framing her, she still didn't want to give up the slightest hope. Her child was being held by the Ai family, and only Ai Yiwei could help her now.
Qin Tianyi said, "Just pretend nothing unexpected happened. Do as you promised Ai Yiwei and let her marry into the Qin family."
"You... is that really what you think, or do you have some other plan?" Gu Susu always felt this wasn't like Qin Tianyi.
Qin Tianyi gave a cold laugh, "I said long ago they are a good match. But from now on, before you do anything for Ai Yiwei, you must tell me first. I won't allow anything like what happened today to happen again, understand?"
"Oh, I understand."
Qin Tianyi stood up and went to the bathroom.
Gu Susu called Ai Yiwei back as he instructed.
"Why haven't you been answering my calls?" Ai Yiwei asked aggressively as soon as the call connected.
Gu Susu suppressed her anger and said calmly, "I was busy just now and didn't have my phone with me. I've got the hair you wanted."
Ai Yiwei was silent for a few seconds on the other end of the phone and asked, "You got the hair? Then... did you see Qin Tianlang at the Qin family today? Did you talk to him? Where did you find his hair, was it in his room? Did anything happen between you two in the room..."
"Do you want something to happen between us?" Gu Susu heard her deliberately asking all sorts of questions, actually wanting to know if Qin Tianlang had succeeded.
Ai Yiwei indeed knew what would happen. It was Ai Yiwei who told Qin Tianlang that Gu Susu would go to his room.
Hearing Gu Susu's tone, Ai Yiwei knew she was angry, and said equally angrily, "Do you think I want this! If you hadn't been flirting with Tianlang at the Qin family normally, would he have wanted to do that with her? When will you change your slutty ways?"
"I didn't! Don't talk nonsense! Since you're marrying him, how could you agree to such a request from him! It's too disgusting!" Gu Susu retorted impolitely.
Ai Yiwei laughed, "What are you being so virtuous about? I don't find this disgusting at all. Since I'm going to be his wife, I naturally have to learn to tolerate him having other women. I realized this long ago."
Gu Susu gasped, "Then this is what you call love? If you love someone, you can't allow them to have other women. You only love the identity, status, power, and money of being the young madam of the Qin family."
"So what? With these, you have everything. Why bother with superficial things?" Ai Yiwei said righteously.
"Despicable, shameless." Gu Susu had completely seen through her; she was someone who would stop at nothing to achieve her selfish desires.
Ai Yiwei said, "It seems Tianlang didn't succeed, and you got his hair. I really underestimated you. No more nonsense, send me the hair you got as soon as possible."
"I'll send it over later."
"Besides me, no one else has returned this afternoon. Come quickly, you can even see the child," Ai Yiwei deliberately emphasized the word "child," thinking that with her weakness in hand, she wouldn't dare to turn against her.
Gu Susu heard the bathroom door open from the inside and immediately hung up the phone.
Qin Tianyi came out of the bathroom and saw her holding her phone, asking, "Have you contacted Ai Yiwei already?"
Gu Susu nodded, glanced at the time on her phone, it was two in the afternoon. She had to go to the Ai family quickly. She said, "She asked me to send it over now. I want to go back right away."
"Alright, I'll have the driver take you."
Gu Susu replied, changed into a set of clothes, and asked, "What should we do after she gets the DNA test results?"
Qin Tianyi heard her use the word "we" and smiled, "It's *you*, not us. I'm not on your side. As for letting Ai Yiwei marry Qin Tianlang, I'm merely not objecting."
"Oh." Gu Susu felt awkward, having been wishful again.
She pushed open the room door and saw a movable dining cart placed by the side of the door. On it were hot soup and some dishes. She quickly called out to Qin Tianyi, "Look, Rong Ma must have sent this!"
Qin Tianyi also walked to the door and glanced at it, saying, "Perhaps afraid of waking us, they brought the dining cart up."
Gu Susu made a move to push the cart into the room, saying, "Then you eat well. I won't eat."
Qin Tianyi stopped the cart and ordered, "Drink the soup before you go."
Gu Susu looked at the large bowl of soup, which was quite a lot, and said with difficulty, "You want me to drink it all? Then you..."
"Yes, I don't like drinking soup." Qin Tianyi put on a posture of watching her finish it.
With no other choice, she picked up the bowl of soup. It had a faint medicinal scent, and she strongly suspected Qin Tianyi knew the soup's effects, just like the old lady and Rong Ma, and they always wanted her to drink soup.
As if drinking medicine, she gulped it all down in one go. She placed the empty bowl down and said, "I'm done. I should go."
Qin Tianyi nodded with satisfaction and smiled, letting her go.
Watching her back as she went downstairs and out the door, he thought that if this woman had his child, and gave birth to a child for him, perhaps her heart wouldn't wander. Her entire being would belong to him, and there would be no one else.
Gu Susu, with a stomach full of soup, almost threw up in the car on the way.
If things continued like this, many things would be exposed sooner or later. When she met Ai Yiwei later, she would have to make Ai Yiwei come up with a concrete plan to help her leave.