Su Fu thanked Gan Luo for coming to pick them up.
He laughed and said it was nothing, that they helped each other because they were from the same orphanage. A memory brushed past her — a thin boy looking after a smaller girl — and she laughed too and told him that he had taken care of her back in that place, and thanked him again.
Then she turned round to the back seat and asked her son Su An whether he had given his mobile number to that man.
"No," Su An said. "I didn't. Your number isn't for just anybody to call. So I left my mom's number instead."
His little sister, the genius, said that that was just as bad.
The little doctor spoke up next. According to his observation, he said, that man's physical condition was very good, and all his organs were very healthy.
The little painter said that his positions were very good too, and that he would be very suitable as a model, because he would look good in a painting.
Meanwhile the computer expert had already opened his laptop and looked the man up. "Ji Yansi," Su Gu read out. "President of the Jiangnan Group. Worth a hundred billion. No scandals." He looked up at his mother and asked her why she didn't think about it.
"That's enough out of all of you," Su Fu told the children.
Nevertheless — Su An did look a little like him.
She turned the thought over and told herself he couldn't possibly be the man she had spent that one night with abroad six years ago. The Jiangnan Group was the largest group in the city, with businesses in dozens of countries overseas. Whether he was the man from six years ago or not, he was not a man anybody could easily mess with, so she had better be careful.
The little detective asked his mom what she was thinking about, and little Lulu declared that mommy must have been fascinated by that guy.
Su Fu threw a small, girlish tantrum in the front seat and said something about those brats.
Gan Luo asked her, more seriously, whether she really planned to go back into show business with her family of six, because that path might not be so easy. Su Li had entered the entertainment world through the Su family, he said, and she had been given a great deal of resources in recent years, even if her acting had been criticised. And she was the one who had been ruined by the Su family. Back then he had been able to see for himself that their means were decisive and that they were not easy to deal with. It was too dangerous for her to go back into that.
Su Fu told him that she was not going to give up her dreams or her goals just because of the Su family. It had been six years, she said. She was not the same Su Fu. She would not fall from grace simply because Su Li said she should. She was coming back. She was going to step onto that field of destruction and show the people who had trampled her that they could not mess with her.
Gan Luo said she should think about it. Then he told her that, by the way, the director had said there was an answer about her origin, so they should go over there.
She looked a little happy at that. She had lost hope for such a long time, and now, suddenly, there was a clue.
She asked Gan Luo to organise a visit to the orphanage whenever she had free time. She remembered very little of her childhood, but she believed she had been kidnapped and then abandoned at that orphanage, and if she could discover her true origin she could say that at least one of her biggest concerns had been put to rest.
Her phone rang in her hand. It was a message from her former assistant, Manman, saying that she was already there, at the first table in front of the entrance.
Su Fu had heard that after she herself retired from acting, her assistant had been driven out of the industry and had quit the business.
"Gan Luo, take my babies to the rented house first," she said. "I'm going to meet my old assistant."
"Okay," he said.
Later, in a small restaurant, a door opened, and inside a girl stood up to greet her.
"Sister Fu."
Su Fu looked a little surprised. "What happened to you?"
The girl looked embarrassed. Then she went down on her knees and asked Sister Fu please not to ask her, and please not to come back to the entertainment world.
Su Fu was stunned. She could not begin to imagine what this girl had suffered in all those years on her account — because after all, for her, she had to see justice done for her assistant. She knelt down as well and asked her to get up first.
"What happened? If you don't tell me, the people who bullied you will only get more presumptuous."
Later they were sitting with coffee in front of them. Manman told Sister Fu that Su Li was dominant at Star Entertainment now. Everybody there depended on her expression; she decided whether or not a film happened. And the Su family was the main shareholder of Star Entertainment. Sister Fu was on Star Entertainment's blacklist, and she would not be able to sign a contract even if she went to that place. She asked her to forget about it.
Su Fu told her that she knew the Su family had a lot of power inside Star Entertainment, and that was exactly why she didn't think she would ever win if she gave up before she had even started. They would simply have to be smart about it.
Then she asked Manman what had happened to her injury.
Manman looked worried and said it was nothing, and that she would be fine in a few days.
Apparently, Su Fu thought, Manman did not want her to blame herself. But that injury was definitely not a simple thing, and she needed to find out where it came from. She had to find out. Nobody touched her people; and if they did, they paid for it.
Just then Manman's phone rang. She looked at it and her face filled with worry. She told Miss Fu that she had something to deal with at home and that she was going to go back first.
She left.
Su Fu sat there wondering what had just happened, and decided that she had better go and see for herself.