Su Fu arrived at Ji Yansi's villa and was quite surprised, because this was the direction the car had taken.
Someone greeted her at the door. "Miss Su. Mr. President has been waiting for you for a long time."
Then she saw him, and she did not hesitate to think that he was very handsome.
"Please sit down," he said.
When she had sat down she told him that she was very sorry, and asked him what was wrong with his car, because she would definitely compensate him according to the price; and if it was not enough, then she would wait until they allowed her to pay in instalments, because they were not going to avoid their responsibilities.
Ji Yansi looked entirely calm. He was concentrating on pouring a glass of wine.
"Have a drink first," he told her.
All sorts of incorrect imaginations went through Su Fu's head, and she wondered why she needed a drink if she was only here for this. She told him that she was sorry, but she was not good with alcohol. It was all Su An's fault for betraying her and handing out her phone number; otherwise she would not be going through any of this.
"Are you afraid I'll put drugs in your drink?" Ji Yansi asked, and took the first drink himself.
Su Fu told him that it wasn't that. It was only that she had come tonight to talk about the compensation, and if it didn't seem like the right time they could talk another day.
Then she began to feel a little strange, and wondered what was going on, because if it wasn't the wine, then it was —
Her little doctor. That little rat. How dare he use his medical skills on his own mother. She would take care of him when she got home.
"Were you drugged?" Ji Yansi asked.
"Let go of me," she said.
He was close now, close enough to see her clearly, and Su Fu was furious, and he said that the woman who had been abroad six years ago was her.
He watched her while she went on with her tantrum. She swung at him and told him he was an idiot, but he caught her arm, and everything about the way he held it turned the moment into something else.
"Where do you think you're going, my beloved wife?"
"What wife?" Su Fu said. "What are you babbling about?"
"Do you remember the man you spent a very good night with six years ago?"
She blushed and asked what that had to do with anything.
"Then do you want to know who you married six years ago?"
Six years ago, when she had been thrown out of that house, she had had no choice but to enter into a contract marriage with someone. All the procedures had been handled by subordinates, and her marriage certificate had been taken away from her afterwards, and she did not know to this day who her contractual husband was.
Ji Yansi held out a marriage certificate.
"Whether it's the good night or the husband by contract," he said, "both of those men are me. There's the proof."
Su Fu pointed at him and said that it was him, then.
And then she fainted.
He caught her, called her his wife, lifted her up in his arms and asked her to stay with him tonight.
Back at the rented house, Gan Luo was setting out dinner and wondering why Su Fu hadn't come back yet, and whether something had happened to her.
The little detective told him not to worry about his mother, because she definitely would not be coming back tonight.
"If she isn't coming back," Uncle Gan Luo said, "where else can she go?"
Somebody knocked at the door.
Gan Luo's face lit up and he said it was Su Fu. He pulled the door open and told her she was finally back — and then saw a man standing there instead, and asked whether he wasn't the driver from the other day.
The driver greeted him.
A moment later the little detective came out and said that this man was here to take them to their dad, and that Su An had already arranged everything.
The driver said yes, he had received a message from Mr. President telling him to bring them, but he didn't know anything beyond that, and wondered whether it was actually true that the president had children abroad. Then he was startled to see that there were six of them.
Gan Luo asked the little detective whether Ji Yansi was his dad.
He had thought it would be impossible in this life to find the man from six years ago. He had even decided to grow up alongside those six little ones himself, to make up for their lack of a father's love, because he and Su Fu were both children from the orphanage and knew exactly what it felt like to have no family affection, and because he really did like the six babies. He was very touched now that the children had a father.
Then his face went serious again and he told the driver that Miss Su had asked him to look after the babies, so he would wait to talk to her before going anywhere. If their father really was a business tycoon like Ji Yansi, that would be wonderful. But what if Ji Yansi and his family got angry, and arrested Su Fu, and wanted to take her children away and use them to threaten her?
The driver told him that if he was worried he was welcome to come with them.
Gan Luo thanked him, and they all left for the villa.
Little Lulu walked out ahead of them, and a stranger stood watching her go. The little painter noticed him, and thought that he was a pretty strange man.