Chapter 53: Secret

Qin Ruyan nodded, “Official business is important, but seeing you is more important. After all, you’re more handsome.”

She was telling the truth, although there was a bit of coaxing in her words.

Lu Jingchen smiled and let go of her, “Alright, I’ll go to the company. I have to work hard to earn money to support my wife.”

Qin Ruyan chuckled, “Am I hard to support?”

She said this without a hint of nervousness. Lu Jingchen thought about the anonymous unlimited card in her hand and the funds he had transferred to her name before he spoke calmly.

“My wife isn’t hard to support, but my wife remembers to give me allowance. I have no assets left in my personal name now.”

After they got their marriage certificate, he transferred one hundred million to her account and transferred all his movable and immovable property to her name. Including the shares of Lu’s.

Now, one could say she was the biggest decision-maker of Lu’s, and he was just working for her.

Qin Ruyan was stunned for a while upon hearing this. She was so surprised she couldn’t speak.

“So, my wife can’t abandon me, you know?” He had a smile on his lips, his eyes burning as he looked at her.

She nodded and didn’t say anything more.

They both went out together. Qin Ruyan had an appointment with someone at a coffee shop today.

She was still wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and jeans, with a baseball cap on and her long hair casually draped over her shoulders, giving her a slightly rebellious look.

After sending her off, Lu Jingchen gave her a few more instructions before driving away.

After his car was out of sight, Qin Ruyan hailed a taxi.

She got in the back seat, pulled her cap down, and gave a new address.

The driver glanced at her from the rearview mirror, only able to see her white chin. He suddenly felt a bit cold, was the air conditioning too strong? He reached out and turned the temperature up by two degrees.

Fifteen minutes later, the car stopped on a quiet and secluded street.

Qin Ruyan got out of the car, and the driver stepped on the gas and drove away. This place seemed eerily quiet.

Qin Ruyan walked slowly towards the inside, coming to a room less than 10 square meters in size.

She had mailed some things here before returning to China.

She reached out and knocked on the door, three soft knocks. After about ten seconds, the door opened.

A young man came out, looking a couple of years older than Qin Ruyan, with long hair and wearing black-rimmed glasses. He didn’t look very well.

When he saw Qin Ruyan, his eyes lit up, but he didn’t believe it and rubbed his eyes.

“Xiao… Xiaoyan?”

Qin Ruyan smiled. She leaned against the door and didn’t go in, her voice a little soft.

“Surprised to see me?”

Cheng Yubai smiled, “You told me you might not come back. I’m quite surprised to see you suddenly.”

Cheng Yubai was a doctor with Doctors Without Borders.

The two met three years ago during a rescue operation.

Cheng Yubai came from a medical family. He had been exposed to medicine since he was a child, and he received the highest level of education in China. He skipped two grades in China and then went abroad to study for his master’s degree, leaving his peers behind. After studying abroad for two years, he graduated, and the International Medical School asked him to stay, but he didn’t.

He didn’t return to Beijing either. Wherever there was war, wherever doctors were needed, he went.

Three years ago, the Ebola virus raged in a foreign country, and he resolutely went to the epidemic area. There, he met Qin Ruyan.

They were both Chinese, and they were only a few years apart in age. They became confidantes as they got along. They stayed in the epidemic area for almost half a year and left together when the virus’s contagiousness decreased.

Cheng Yubai asked many times, he was curious. Qin Ruyan was only 21 years old at that time, and she was too calm in the face of the virus that everyone was afraid of.

What kind of experience made her develop such a character? Her medical skills were on par with his, and her talent even surpassed his.

Qin Ruyan smiled. “I got bored, so I came back. Didn’t you also come back?”

He retracted his expression and looked at her.

“I’ve been studying your blood report for almost a year, and I haven’t found anything. I just wanted to come back to Beijing to take a look.”

Qin Ruyan didn’t seem to care, she just made an “oh” sound.

“You’re pretty calm about this? Aren’t you worried?”

A year and a half ago, after Qin Ruyan and he went to the front line again, they came back not long after, and she started having frequent fevers and occasional fainting spells. They went to the hospital but couldn’t find any reason.

But they both understood medical knowledge, and they understood more than just a little bit. They knew that this wouldn’t happen for no reason.

She had another blood test, and Cheng Yubai also kept her blood sample for research. But, while it looked a bit abnormal, there was nothing conclusive.

Qin Ruyan snorted.

“What’s the rush, I’m not going to die.”

Cheng Yubai couldn’t stand her attitude, he furrowed his brows and asked again, “Are you sure your family doesn’t have any genetic diseases?”

She lowered her head and dropped her eyelids. After thinking for a long time, she slowly raised her head, her voice clear and cold.

“No.”

She walked into the house and took a small bottle, which she had sent over earlier.

She unscrewed the lid, poured out a pill, and swallowed it.

“Should I leave you another blood sample? I’ll be very busy later, I won’t have much time to continue researching.” She extended her arm, her skin was fair, and her wrist was slender.

Cheng Yubai looked at it for a while, took the blood collection tube, and said half-jokingly.

“So, you’re busy with other things, and your health doesn’t matter?”

She smiled, but the smile didn’t reach her eyes.

“It all matters.”

They chatted for a while longer before she left.

Behind her, Cheng Yubai watched her back and shook his head. He put away his things and left too. He walked towards the Beijing University Medical Department.

After Qin Ruyan walked out, she put on her duckbill cap.

It wasn’t easy to get a taxi here, she could tell from the driver’s reaction earlier.

She wasn’t in a hurry, she walked slowly towards the outside, and looked at the needle mark on her arm from the blood draw. She frowned, Lu Jingchen was so perceptive, would he find out? What would she say then?

Lu’s Group, 38th floor, top floor.

After Lu Jingchen walked into the office, Lu Huaijin was still sitting in his seat.

He was stunned, he was only on honeymoon and vacation for a few days?

“Dad, my wife said she’s going to be busy with her studio recently, so my honeymoon is postponed.” He took off his coat and pulled at his tie.

Lu Huaijin nodded, but he felt something was wrong. “Then what about these few days you’re on vacation, I’m filling in for you? You’ll have to deduct these days from your honeymoon vacation later?”

Lu Jingchen had just picked up his coffee when he almost choked on his father’s words.

“What are you talking about?”

He only took a two or three day break, his father was going to be so meticulous with him?