"You want to give me your mother's belongings?" Susu asked, her voice laced with disbelief as she gently touched the diary's ornate cover.
"Yes, since I've decided to make you my heir, everything in the Shu family will be yours in the future," Shu Zhongze gestured for her to take the diary.
Susu didn't take it, stating her position, "Mr. Shu, I will not be the heir to the Shu family. If you're feeling better, you should pull yourself together and quickly resolve the current crisis at Shu Corp. Shu Corp wasn't built by you alone, but by the efforts of several generations of the Shu family. It shouldn't be ruined in your hands."
"Susu..."
"Mr. Shu, I've said all I need to say. I'm leaving." She stood up.
Shu Zhongze wanted to stop her. "Susu, wait. Let me finish what I have to say."
Susu turned her back to him and said coldly, "Please, don't say anymore. I don't want to hear it... I don't want to be dragged into these schemes just because I have Shu family blood!"
"My initial intention wasn't for you to take over the current Shu Corp. I made that decision when I confirmed you were my biological daughter. At that time, Shu Corp wasn't facing a crisis..."
"Enough! I said I don't want to hear it. Don't you understand?" Susu said, reaching for the door to leave.
Shu Zhongze rushed out of bed, not wanting her to leave like this. Forgetting he was still on an IV drip, he yanked the pole, knocking it over. It smashed on the floor, and the medication splashed everywhere.
Hearing the commotion behind her, Susu immediately turned around and saw Shu Zhongze had pulled out the needle, his hand bleeding. She quickly held him, "What are you doing! Don't force me, okay? I don't have the ability, and I don't want to inherit Shu Corp!"
Shu Zhongze grabbed her arm firmly. "If my initial decision to make you heir was based on intuition, then only you can inherit Shu Corp now to save the entire company!"
Susu said, caught in a dilemma, "I'm not a savior..."
At that moment, Secretary Zhan, who had heard the commotion from outside, pushed the door open, interrupting them. "Mr. Shu, are you alright?"
She saw the broken IV drip, the needle on the bed, and Mr. Shu's bleeding hand. She quickly added, "I'll go call the doctor and nurses right away."
Before Shu Zhongze could object, she had already run out to get help.
Seeing that he couldn't talk to Susu any further, Shu Zhongze let go of her, took the diary from the drawer, and forced it into her hands. "Take this back with you. Promise me you'll think about it carefully."
Susu had no choice but to accept the diary. She nodded and quickly left the VIP ward.
She stuffed the diary into her bag. After leaving the hospital, she found that her previously calm state of mind had become chaotic again. What should she do?
By the time she returned to the villa, dusk was approaching. Getting out of the car, she glanced at the sunset and took a deep breath, trying to relax before going inside.
Aunt Chen, busy in the living room, saw her and immediately went to greet her. "Young Madam, the Young Master is back quite early today. Go upstairs, change your clothes, and call the Young Master down for dinner."
"Tianyi is back already?" Susu put down her bag, changing her shoes, thinking this was the earliest Tianyi had ever returned these past few days.
Aunt Chen nodded, reaching out to hang up her bag. "Young Madam, your bag is so heavy. What's inside?"
Susu changed into her slippers and quickly took her bag back. "No need to hang it, I'll take it to my room myself," she said with a smile.
With that, she went upstairs to the bedroom. The sky outside was growing dark, but Tianyi hadn't turned on the lights in the bedroom.
Susu flipped the wall switch. "Honey, why aren't the lights on?"
"You're back. Where did you go?" Tianyi asked, frowning as he sat on the double sofa in the bedroom.
Susu paused for a second, put down her bag, and immediately replied, "I went to the hospital to see Shu Zhongze. He called me himself, saying he wanted to see me..."
"You helped him a great deal, of course he'd want to see you," Tianyi said, looking at her with a pained expression.
Susu continued to play dumb, walking up to him and smiling, "What help could I, a pregnant woman staying at home, give him?"
Tianyi pulled her down to sit beside him, laughing. "Gu Susu, your acting skills are still as good as ever. Your visit to see Huo Zheng last time wasn't just about delivering an invitation, was it?"
"You know everything." Susu's voice became very small. She dared not look at him, nervously rubbing her hands.
Tianyi laughed in annoyance. "Today, Huo Liangcheng specifically inquired about you, hoping that in the future, if something like this happens, you'll communicate directly with him. After all, he knows what it means to distinguish between favors and grudges. Read books."
Susu looked at her fingers, afraid he would get angry, and said with little confidence, "I don't want to drag you into the mess Shu Corp is in now, and I only planned to help him this much and then stop." kanδん
"Have you considered that once you get involved, those who want to bring down Shu Corp will target you because you've disrupted their grand plan..."
Susu interrupted him helplessly, "Actually, whether I get involved or not, I've already been targeted by them."
Tianyi reached out and pinched her chin, turning her face towards him so she had no choice but to face him. "Gu Susu, tell me the truth. Don't hide anything from me anymore. If you continue like this, I won't let you step out of this room, and I'll even join forces with Huo Liangcheng against Shu Corp. I'm not joking!"
Susu pushed his hand away and looked at him proactively. "Tianyi, what I said just now is true. I didn't intend to help him much at first. But today, after he told me some things at the hospital, I realized we share a common enemy, and it might be difficult to stay out of it."
Tianyi stared into her eyes, his expression very cold. "Then tell me, what did Shu Zhongze tell you?"
Susu told Tianyi all the shocking things Shu Zhongze had said, including Shu Zhongze's will and his insistence on making her his heir.
"Are you finished?" Tianyi looked at her, his eyes deepening.
"Yes, I've told you everything. At first, I thought Shu Zhongze wanted to use our blood relationship to drag us down when Shu Corp was on the verge of bankruptcy. Now, it seems that's not entirely the case."
Tianyi's anger subsided. He calmly embraced her. "Then Shu Yan isn't considered a member of the Shu family. As long as Shu Zhongze publicly releases the paternity test with Shu Yan, and diverts the Huo family's hatred towards Shu Yan onto Jia Nanfang and the others, the crisis with the Huo family will be resolved."
Susu's eyes lit up. Tianyi's mind worked so fast. But had Shu Zhongze thought of the solution he had come up with?
Tianyi saw what she was thinking. "Don't worry, Shu Zhongze has surely thought of what I've thought of. The first thing he'll do after being discharged is to release the paternity test, thereby escalating the divorce with Jia Nanfang. He needs us to mediate the relationship with the Huo family, to lead the Huo family to resent Jia Nanfang and the others."
Susu looked at him in surprise, feeling that he was a master strategist. After hearing all the messy things she had told him, he had already figured out the next ten moves.