She could no longer explain herself to Guo Mei, no matter how hard she tried. Guo Mei wouldn't believe her anyway.
It was better to get in the car and find an opportunity to persuade Qin Tianyi not to press charges against Zhang Gaoyuan, but to accept the goods. This would help the couple through their difficulties and save a precarious family.
She had just heard Guo Mei mention they had children, so she had to persuade Qin Tianyi not to be too ruthless.
She quickly walked in front of Xiao Anjing, opened the car door herself, and got in.
As soon as she sat down, she felt a chilling cold. Was the air conditioning in the car set too low?
"Young Master, where are we going now?" Xiao Anjing asked as he started the car.
Qin Tianyi opened his laptop, which he carried with him, and said as if handling some official business, "To the private club's restaurant. Use your VIP membership card."
Xiao Anjing acknowledged with a hum and drove the car towards the private club Qin Tianyi had indicated.
Gu Susu couldn't help but touch the laptop in her bag, wanting to check if anyone had contacted her about small design projects for her online shop.
But she knew she couldn't use her laptop in front of Qin Tianyi. She had to wait until she was alone and no one was around to check her online shop.
She wanted to talk to Qin Tianyi about Zhang Gaoyuan, but seeing his indifferent attitude and grim expression, he hadn't even glanced at her. She felt it wasn't the right time and decided to find another opportunity later.
However, she was now a bit worried about Zhang Gaoyuan's wife, Guo Mei. If Guo Mei were really taken away by the police, would she be alright? If both husband and wife were locked up, what would happen to their children at home?
The car didn't drive for long before stopping under the night sky. Xiao Anjing opened the car door for them. Gu Susu got out of the car and saw a pyramid-like building in front of her. Sphinxes that shone all over stood on both sides, and some ancient Egyptian characters were used as decoration around them.
She had never known that there was such a seemingly mysterious high-class club in Lancheng City. Around it, apart from a main road for vehicles to enter and exit, no other buildings could be seen.
"Young Master, dinner has been ordered. You go to the private room to dine, and I'll be waiting in another private room," Xiao Anjing said.
Qin Tianyi strode forward, and Gu Susu deliberately slowed her pace, walking alongside Xiao Anjing. She whispered, "Can you contact Fan Zhihua for me? Ask him to go to the police station and explain to Guo Mei that it was a misunderstanding, and to release her quickly. She has children at home to take care of."
"Who is Guo Mei?" Xiao Anjing asked.
"The woman who was talking to me outside Mi Shang Company just now..."
"Aren't you coming? What are you whispering to An Jing about again?" Qin Tianyi suddenly stopped and looked back at them unexpectedly.
Xiao Anjing reacted extremely quickly and said with a smile, "The young madam doesn't know what this place is and is asking me about it."
Qin Tianyi pulled Gu Susu to his side and said, "Ask me directly if you have anything."
Gu Susu hummed and was pulled by him into the elevator, all the way to the top-floor restaurant private room.
Xiao Anjing watched them leave in the elevator and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He hadn't expected Qin Tianyi to be so possessive once he was interested in a woman, to the point where even he couldn't casually exchange a few words with Gu Susu.
He shook his head and sighed softly. It was true that even heroes couldn't escape the charms of beautiful women; no one throughout history had been able to avoid it.
He casually found a smaller private room and sat inside, torn. Should he listen to Gu Susu and have that Guo Mei released?
Who should he listen to? He thought of what Gu Susu had said at the end about the woman having children at home, and dialed Fan Zhihua's number.
He decided not to worry about it. Husband and wife were one, and Gu Susu's wishes could probably represent Qin Tianyi's. He would let that woman go home first. If Qin Tianyi really held him accountable, he would just use Gu Susu as a shield.
Upon arriving at the top-floor restaurant private room, Gu Susu saw candles, red wine, and steak already laid out on the dining table. She found it hard to believe that Qin Tianyi could be such a romantic person. Why was he suddenly having a candlelit dinner with her?
Qin Tianyi also noticed that the private room had been decorated like this by Xiao Anjing. He unhesitatingly stepped forward, blew out the candles on the candelabra, and turned on the main lights in the room, saying, "This Xiao Anjing is being meddlesome again. Who told him to set it up like this!"
It seemed her guess was right. This wasn't Qin Tianyi's idea. Seeing his consistently solemn expression, bringing her here couldn't be a good thing.
She stood still, only speaking after Qin Tianyi said coldly, "Sit down and eat dinner first."
"Okay." She sat down, but despite the delicious food, she felt like she was having her last meal before execution.
Qin Tianyi sat opposite her, picked up his wine glass, swirled the red wine in it, and took a sip, saying, "This wine has aerated perfectly. You can drink it now."
"Oh." Gu Susu imitated his action of swirling the wine glass, but only took a small sip.
Qin Tianyi saw her action of swirling the glass and knew she rarely drank red wine. He chuckled and said, "You've been abroad for so long, have you never drunk red wine?"
"I don't like drinking alcohol. I've never touched it."
Qin Tianyi didn't ask her anything else. He picked up his knife and fork and began to cut the steak in front of him.
Gu Susu picked up the bread on her plate and ate a couple of bites first. To be honest, she didn't really like Western food. She felt that this small amount of meat was not enough to eat and that Chinese dishes were more substantial.
Qin Tianyi elegantly put a small, cut piece of steak into his mouth, chewed slowly, and didn't forget to drink some red wine. Gu Susu looked at him eating across the candlelit table and remembered how the Ai family members ate Western food with such elegant and noble postures. Only she didn't understand anything and couldn't even use her knife and fork properly when eating Western food with them, which made her a laughingstock.
The thought of this instantly killed her appetite. She picked up the knife and fork in front of her and randomly cut the steak. She wasn't of the same kind as them, including Qin Tianyi.
Nobility or baseness; people of Qin Tianyi's class paid attention to these elegant details, which were the result of education received since childhood and had permeated into their bones.
Unfortunately, her habits, formed since childhood, were different from theirs. Even if she pretended, it would be a clumsy imitation. It was better to be herself and feel at ease.
"So you didn't eat Western food abroad either? You don't even know how to use a knife and fork?" Qin Tianyi looked at her with sharp eyes and asked.
She really wanted to throw down her knife and fork and question him, asking if eating a meal required so much fuss. How one ate was still to fill one's stomach!
But she only dared to think about it and didn't dare to say such a thing. She replied perfunctorily, "Yes, I usually cook Chinese food for myself."
Qin Tianyi looked at her coldly, "Your diploma is fake. You never stayed abroad. You insist on saying you are Ai Shunan's biological daughter, but the Ai family didn't send you abroad. Why did you and Ai Shunan fabricate these lies? What kind of person did Ai Shunan find to fool me, this fool?"
Gu Susu stared at him blankly, not knowing what he had found out, and why he was so sure she hadn't stayed abroad.
This could only mean that he had been investigating her all along, looking into all her affairs. She couldn't help but feel scared. She was afraid that she wouldn't last long before he found out everything about her.