They drove ahead for quite a distance, and the light shone upon them with different depths. The man’s side profile seemed even more extraordinarily handsome when she looked at him and did not bother him. She just carefully increased the temperature in the car.
She was about to pull her hand back when the man’s slender and slightly cool fingers suddenly reached over to play some music. Then, he held her hand gently as their fingers interlocked. She could feel a slight warmth coming from his palm.
She shuddered slightly. Her clear eyes remained focused on the road ahead, but her tone was surprisingly gentle as she said, “I’m driving!”
When he heard that, he held her hand even tighter, then let go and pulled back…
…
Qi Lei had rarely experienced such a tormenting situation, and now he finally truly felt it.
After another round of resuscitation in the middle of the night, Qi Qiming’s situation finally stabilized, and the tough 48 hours passed.
At the city centre hospital, inside Qi Qiming’s Intensive Care Unit ward, the chief doctor gave Qi Qiming a thorough check-up once again. When she looked at the data recorded on the medical records, her tensed expression eased a little.
“How’s my father?” Qi Feng, who had been staying by the bed, asked.
“The critical period has passed, but his head has suffered severe injuries and a concussion, so for now, I can’t be sure when he’ll regain consciousness. Perhaps it might be a few days or even longer. We’ve warned you about this before, so you’ll have to be prepared,” Liang Jing said calmly. She looked away from the medical records in her hand and watched Qi Lei, who had kept standing quietly by the door. She wanted to say something more, but Qi Lei abruptly turned around and left.
His figure seemed more relieved than before. She kept the medical records away and said a few more things to Qi Feng and the two nurses before she left the room.
Liang Jing walked out of the room and looked around at the turn of the corner. Indeed, she saw Qi Lei smoking while sitting on the bench.
“How are you? Feeling relieved?”
Upon seeing her walk over, Qi Lei put out the cigarette and thanked her humbly, “Thank you, Dr. Liang.”
“I’m just carrying out my duties. Don’t worry too much. just put in more effort to take care of him after this. We’ll also do our best.”
Qi Lei nodded as a rare tenderness flashed across his worn-out expression.
“Right now, you really need rest. Now that his condition is more stable, you can rest too. If anything happens, I’ll inform you right away.”
Qi Lei thought about it, then nodded in the end. “Alright…”
…
“Master Qi, bad news!”
Qi Lei had just left the hospital and gotten into his car when Yang Sheng, who sat at the front passenger seat, turned around with a solemn expression.
Qi Lei looked quite indifferent as he lifted a hand to massage the fatigue space between his brows. “What bad news?”
Yang Sheng breathed in, lowered his voice, and then said softly, “First Master has begun to sway a few shareholders. The shareholders have agreed to have the shareholders’ meeting next Wednesday. First Master will definitely bring up his taking over CEO Qi’s position. Master Qi, what should we do?”
Shareholders’ meeting?
Take over the old man’s position?
That would fulfill Qi Feng’s biggest wish, would it not?
Qi Feng sneered in a way that did not reach his eyes. He turned to watch as the streets passed him by outside the car window, but he did not say anything.
Instead, it was Yang Sheng who began to feel anxious upon seeing this because he thought that Qi Lei had was acting like this out of helplessness and speechlessness. He thought about it, then said, “If First Master takes the position, he definitely won’t be making things easy for us. All of the recent projects have just only started to look up. If they are disrupted…that would be…Everyone’s put in quite a lot of effort…”
Qi Lei understood Yang Sheng’s concern. It had not been easy for Tai Yu Corporation to get to where they were. Things were finally looking up. If Qi Lei ruined things, then all of the hard work from before would be wasted. Back then, when Qi Qiming handed the project to him, Qi Feng had already been unhappy about it. Otherwise, Gu Lingsha and a few shareholders would not have tried to stop it by making insinuations at the meetings. Thankfully, with Mu Yuchen’s help back then, he had managed to pull through.
At Qi Kai, after Wang Qin left, he barely had anyone to count on. Naturally, he could not compare to Qi Feng’s strength.
When he thought about this, Qi Lei could not help smile bitterly. He knew who had caused all of this, yet when he saw Qi Qiming fall, his heart was…
“Don’t worry. Everyone’s efforts won’t go to waste. Everyone left Qi Kai to build Tai Yu Corporation without a second thought. I won’t let everyone lose this bet. There will be a day when they have even more glorious days than when they were at Qi Kai.”
When Qi Lei said this, his tone was exceptionally certain.
“Master Qi…”
Yang Sheng was stunned, he could not help but turn and look right at Qi Lei whose close to indifferent side profile greeted his sight. The dim yellow twilight rays shone in and fell on his silent face, making the narrow space suddenly seem that much more bleak and lonely.
Yang Sheng wanted to say some consoling words, but after seeing Qi Lei like this, he did not know how to console him. He thought about it for a moment, then said, “When it comes to many things, as long as we do our best, even if we really lose, we aren’t afraid, Master Qi. We can start over if anything…”
“You’ve all been doing very well already, especially those managers and VPs who were with my mother for so many years. It’s naturally not just based on my merit that Tai Yu Corporation can be where we are today. It’s all of your hard work. I’m betting on the fact that it will continue to stand tall, and even be more glorious than Qi Kai at its peak.”
“Master Qi, we’re assured by these words of yours. No matter what, we’ll all carry it with you! Even if First Master becomes CEO of Qi Kai, we won’t…”
“CEO of Qi Kai?” Qi Lei chuckled, and you could hear a hint of mockery in that laughter of his. “Even if he wants to snag the spot, he’ll have to see if everyone agrees to it,” he calmly said, then averted his gaze from the window before quietly closing his eyes.
Yang Sheng was puzzled by Qi Lei’s words. He felt like Master Qi had something up his sleeve. However, he thought about it from Qi Lei’s perspective for a long time and could not think of any good plan unless CEO Qi regained consciousness right away and overruled Qi Feng personally.
But was that possible?
The answer was, of course, negative!
