Chapter 146: Running Into Someone Right as I Step Out

“Do you like Qin Xiaotian?”

Ling Hanyu firmly believed that there was more to this than met the eye.

Perhaps all of this was just a smokescreen for the woman’s change of heart.

Song Qingtian shot Ling Hanyu a cold look. “What’s so great about someone as fickle as him? We’re not even close—what a tragic fate it is for a woman to stake her entire life on a man she knows nothing about. I’m no fool; I’m not going down that road again…”

Before she could even finish the words “old path,” Ling Hanyu’s piercing gaze, sharp as a blade, forced her to back down.

“Regretting liking me?”

“…Well, not exactly regretting!”

Song Qingtian hesitated, unsure how to put it.

She looked into Ling Hanyu’s icy, frost-covered eyes.

If she said it wasn’t right, would he lock her in a pigpen?

“So what is it then?”

“I think when you’re young and naive, you mistake infatuation for love—but maybe it’s just stubbornness. I thought I liked you, but really it was because you wouldn’t let up and kept pushing me.”

Ling Hanyu’s face darkened with anger; he wanted to strangle Song Qingtian.

“You might as well just say you’re sorry!”

Ling Hanyu got up to go find Song Qingtian, but she wasn’t afraid of him either. With her body still recovering, if she stirred up trouble now, it would only bring misfortune upon herself.

Ling Hanyu walked over to Song Qingtian and pressed his hands on either side of her body.

His gaze was deep and chilling: “Song Qingtian, stop playing games with me. If you dare do anything to hurt me, I won’t let you off the hook! The only reason I’ve accepted you is because of Nuonuo—wearing the title of my wife, Ling Hanyu, and still wanting to run around causing trouble outside? You’ve clearly had enough of living!”

Song Qingtian frowned, her lips pressed tightly together.

What a violent man!

Ling Hanyu left Song Qingtian and loosened his collar before sitting down on a chair.

Song Qingtian went over to sit down, sipping water as she did so.

After that, she didn’t say another word.

Ling Hanyu worked busily for a while, and then it started to rain outside.

Song Qingtian went out to watch the rain, thinking about how to handle that piece of land.

Ling Hanyu lost all interest in work; he just sat there staring at Song Qingtian.

Song Qingtian wanted to visit those two welfare institutions in person—if she couldn’t inspect them firsthand, she wouldn’t be sure whether her help would be the right kind.

When the rain stopped, Song Qingtian wanted to talk to Ling Hanyu about making a field visit, but Ling Hanyu received a call from the finance department. There were some issues with the finances that needed his review.

Song Qingtian had worked under that elderly gentleman before, so she knew the company’s procedures well.

When there’s a problem with the finance department, the president has to step in personally—but according to procedure, the finance department must first complete its review and confirmation before the matter can be reported to him.

However, since they’d bypassed the usual channels to report directly to him, it meant Shen Congyue must be behind it all.

The target, of course, was Ling Hanyu.

“I don’t like Shen Congyue—go ahead and handle it yourself.”

Ling Hanyu grabbed his coat: “It’s none of my business!”

“Aren’t you both alumni from the same school?” Song Qingtian wasn’t one to back down, either. Since Ling Hanyu claimed it wasn’t his business, and she happened to know their relationship, why shouldn’t she speak up?

Just because they say it’s none of their business, does that make it so?

Ling Hanyu had already put on half his coat when he glanced at Song Qingtian, his eyes sharp as daggers: “What did you say?”

Song Qingtian wasn’t scared in the least: “I said you’re from the same school.”

“Go on, say the rest.”

Ling Hanyu wouldn’t tolerate any rebuttal.

“Senior and junior classmates!”

Ling Hanyu stepped closer to Song Qingtian: “How did you find that out? Did you spy on me?”

“Know your enemy and know yourself, and you’ll win every battle. If I’m pursuing someone by any means necessary, isn’t it only natural that I’d want to know everything?”

“It’s true we’re from the same school, and it’s true we know each other—but calling us ‘senior and junior classmates’ is way too vague. Next time, pick something more specific, so you don’t end up slinging mud at me.”

Ling Hanyu turned and walked away, and Song Qingtian watched him leave before heading out herself.

Leaving the company, Song Qingtian went to check out the two welfare institutions on that piece of land.

When she arrived, she took a quick look: one was an old-age home, the other an orphanage.

Song Qingtian didn’t reveal her identity when she got there, and the reception staff were very welcoming. The people at the orphanage assumed she was there to adopt one of their children, so they gave her a detailed introduction—and mentioned that recently someone had bought the place, which made them desperate for the kids to be adopted quickly, with simplified procedures.

Meanwhile, the old-age home had stopped accepting any new residents.

As welfare institutions, they could only help elderly people who were truly lonely and destitute, but they also relied on government subsidies and some personal savings from the seniors themselves.

Right now, though, the elderly were full of complaints, cursing the developers behind the scenes because it was the developers who’d taken away their homes.

From what the elderly said, Song Qingtian clearly wasn’t in a good mood.

She’d actually played a part in stirring up the situation.

No sooner had she stepped out than she saw Qin Xiaotian’s car parked not far away. As soon as he spotted her, he rolled down the window.

And A Xiu was there too today, dressed provocatively with glamorous makeup—especially her fiery red lips.

Even Song Qingtian was captivated by her, let alone any man.

Qin Xiaotian must have plenty of women like A Xiu around him, after all, he’s a mysterious big shot.

A Xiu got into another car and drove off, looking rather disgruntled.

Once A Xiu’s car had driven off, Qin Xiaotian’s driver got out and personally invited Song Qingtian over.

Song Qingtian felt quite dejected—what bad luck, running into him the moment she stepped out!

End of Chapter 146: Running Into Someone Right as I Step Out