Chapter 567 Meeting Qiao Shuyun

Chapter 567 Meeting Qiao Shuyun

The restaurant entrance.

Jiang Ruan and Qiao Shuyun faced each other head-on.

Seeing this former elder, Jiang Ruan felt no emotional fluctuation whatsoever, and brushed past her as if she were a stranger.

"Wait," Qiao Shuyun called out to her, "I have something to tell you."

"I have nothing to say to you." Jiang Ruan indeed didn't like this person very much.

Although she hadn't had much contact with Huo Zhizhou's parents during their five years of marriage, she remembered everything that happened afterward.

Huo Cheng almost drowned her.

Qiao Shuyun remained unmoved.

They did this simply to snatch children.

“I didn’t come here today to argue with you.” Qiao Shuyun took a deep breath, suppressing those strange emotions. “I came to talk to you about Zhizhou. Do you know that he has cut ties with us?”

“This is your family’s business, it has nothing to do with me,” Jiang Ruan said.

“How can it not have anything to do with you?” Qiao Shuyun believed that Jiang Ruan was the culprit behind everything. “If it weren’t for you, he wouldn’t have done this. You made him like this.”

Jiang Ruan looked at her.

After several months apart, the once spirited person now looks rather haggard.

It's clear that she's not doing very well.

But what does that have to do with her?

She owes them nothing.

"He's not answering his phone or replying to messages." Qiao Shuyun harbored resentment towards Jiang Ruan, but she had to suppress her emotions because she needed her help. "We can't get in touch with him at all."

"Instead of saying these things to me, you should reflect on yourselves." Jiang Ruan had heard Gu Shixi say this before, and naturally felt that there was a problem with their parenting. "Have you fulfilled your responsibilities as parents from childhood to adulthood?"

Qiao Shuyun immediately became angry.

“The reason he has become like this has a lot to do with you,” Jiang Ruan said.

She knew that Madam Qiao was unaware of Huo Zhizhou's matter, so she didn't mention it.

But based on what Gu Shixi said, the two of them really don't deserve to be parents.

He's not even as good as Jiang Chenren.

Jiang Chenren is at least willing to continue acting for the sake of profit.

As Huo Zhizhou's biological parents, they became even more ruthless.

"It's none of your business how we are," Qiao Shuyun immediately revealed her true colors.

She came to find Jiang Ruan.

However, she knew that only she could contact Zhizhou.

I don't want her lecturing me!

"Mm." Jiang Ruan remained calm and wasn't angry at all. "So don't ask me about it."

After saying that, she walked outside.

Qiao Shuyun's men tried to stop her, but Mo Mo and Tang Bai cleared a path for Jiang Ruan in time.

Jiang Ruan left right before her eyes.

Qiao Shuyun watched Jiang Ruan's back as she walked away, and at that moment she suddenly realized that Jiang Ruan was really different from before.

The Jiang Ruan of the past was a woman pampered by Huo Zhizhou, and was just a housewife.

Now this—

He exuded a powerful aura, but his gaze was distant and indifferent.

He does look a bit like Zhizhou at the company.

She tried to stop her again, but Jiang Ruan had already gotten into the car and left. Knowing she couldn't stop her, she had no choice but to call Huo Sinian.

"What is it?" Huo Sinian's voice was as gentle and refined as ever.

“I wanted to have a good talk with Jiang Ruan, but she ignored me and left.” Qiao Shuyun felt that her eldest son could be relied on occasionally. “Could you stop her?”

He had told her that Jiang Ruan was here.

I will obviously help with this.

No matter what, she is his mother.

“We can’t stop him,” Huo Sinian said calmly.

Qiao Shuyun frowned, about to lash out, when Huo Sinian continued.

“She is now Director Jiang of the Qin Group, and the granddaughter of the Qin family patriarch,” Huo Sinian said calmly, his voice gentle. “I will not clash with her unless absolutely necessary.”

"How did she become Director Jiang?" Qiao Shuyun asked, puzzled.

“She has a very capable mother.” Huo Sinian said this with admiration for Jiang An and Jiang Ruan. “She herself is also hardworking and dedicated, so she naturally became Director Jiang.”

Qiao Shuyun frowned, and the image of Jiang An appeared in her mind.

What's so great about a woman like that?

“I’ve given you the chance. If you can’t keep her, there’s nothing I can do,” Huo Sinian said softly.

Qiao Shuyun: "Do you know the boat—"

Huo Sinian did not speak.

He knew she missed Huo Zhizhou.

But having learned the whole story, he could no longer come back, much less acknowledge the Huo family.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have given him all the shares and management rights.

"And you?" Qiao Shuyun asked.

"What?" Huo Sinian said.

“You must know where Zhizhou is, you must be able to contact him.” Qiao Shuyun hadn’t seen him for a while and was really worried. “Could you tell him that I miss him and I’m worried about him?”

"No." Huo Sinian refused decisively.

"Why?" Qiao Shuyun didn't understand.

“It’s pointless,” Huo Sinian said.

Qiao Shuyun wanted to say something more.

Huo Sinian reminded him, "No matter who you look for, Zhizhou will never come back. He hates this place."

He would think about it occasionally.

If he had told him about that incident from the beginning, would he have not wanted the Huo Group, and would he not have had to fight with him for so long?

But there are no "what ifs".

Even if he had to do it all over again, he still wouldn't tell him what happened back then.

Huo Zhizhou is already struggling to cope now; if it were him back then, he would probably be even worse off. He might have been traumatized by that matter since childhood and would hate touching it for the rest of his life.

That wasn't the outcome he wanted.

"Why?" Qiao Shuyun asked, puzzled. "Just because of the Shan family?"

“You can ask him,” Huo Sinian said without actually saying anything.

Qiao Shuyun was about to say, "Where can I ask him?"

Huo Sinian then said the closing remark: "I have something to do here, so I'll hang up now."

The call ended.

Qiao Shuyun stood there, completely still.

She didn't understand why things had turned out this way; everything had been fine before.

Both are ginger-flavored.

It's all because of her.

Otherwise, how could Zhizhou have turned out like this!

With that in mind, she called Jiang Ruan.

Upon seeing that it was her call, Jiang Ruan hung up and blocked the number without hesitation, ignoring it.

They have no connection now.

There's no need to contact them again.

"Back to Haicheng?" Tang Bai asked.

Jiang Ruan hummed in agreement.

Just then.

Her phone rang.

Seeing that it was Su Zhu calling, she answered: "Hello."

"You've come to Jingzhou?" Su Zhu asked.

Jiang Ruan: "How did you know?"

"I knew that figure from behind looked like you!! I didn't expect it to be true." Su Zhu was still eating at the restaurant Jiang Ruan had just been at. "Are you busy later? How about we get together?"

"Weren't you away on a business trip?" Jiang Ruan asked in confusion.

I chatted with her a few days ago and knew she was busy with work and traveling around, which is why I left without asking her anything.

"I just got back," Su Zhu asked. "Where did you go?"

"Hold on."

"Tsk tsk tsk, just a moment, our Director Jiang really speaks differently."

Jiang Ruan: "..."

Jiang Ruan rubbed her forehead.

I'm so used to speaking concisely that sometimes it just slips out.

"Ye Yanzhi and I are at the place where you just ate, in the Qingxuan Pavilion private room on the third floor." Su Zhu always spoke to her like this. "Come over quickly."

"Okay." After saying that, Jiang Ruan told Tang Bai to turn around and go back.