After Qin Su insisted, Xin Ying finally agreed to help investigate.
Her family already had business dealings with President Niu, so she quickly obtained the information.
“Tu Qing has been unconscious for three days.”
“President Niu has invited famous doctors from all over the country, and he’s also hired quite a few masters, but nothing has worked.”
Xin Ying took a sip of fruit juice before continuing,
“He’s been spending huge amounts of money on advertisements these past few days.”
“Apparently one master told him to try this method and see whether sincere devotion could accomplish the impossible.”
“He also announced that whoever wakes Tu Qing up will receive five million yuan.”
“He used to be unbelievably stingy.”
“After breaking up with an actress, he even demanded the house he gave her back.”
“I never expected him to find true love this time.”
Because of his bizarre behavior, President Niu had become something of a celebrity within their social circle.
Around other people, Xin Ying had to maintain the image of the eldest daughter of the Xin family.
But with Qin Su, there was no need.
When gossiping, she was no different from any other girl her age.
At that moment, however, Qin Su’s attention had been completely captured by one phrase.
“Five million?”
“Are you sure?”
Xin Ying nodded.
“Are you planning to help?”
Only then did she remember her friend’s other identity.
Qin Su smiled brightly.
“When the time comes, take me to meet President Niu.”
Five million yuan.
Converted into cultivation resources, that would support half a month’s worth of cultivation.
Xin Ying considered it for a moment.
“Sure.”
“We’ll go together this weekend.”
Unable to restrain herself, Qin Su grabbed Xin Ying’s hand.
“Xin Ying, you’re truly my good friend.”
She really was a true friend.
Not only did she keep giving Qin Su money, she was now bringing her business as well.
Xin Ying’s cheeks flushed red.
She quickly withdrew her hand.
“Hmph.”
“I think I’m pretty great too.”
…
On a bright, sunny weekend, Xin Ying came to pick Qin Su up and drive her to the hospital.
Qin Su had already told Tu Qing about the plan beforehand.
This time, Tu Qing sat beside Qin Su.
Xin Ying sat in the front passenger seat.
After thinking for a moment, she said,
“How about I sit beside you instead?”
“It’ll be easier to talk.”
Qin Su reminded her,
“No need.”
“Someone’s already sitting beside me.”
Xin Ying stared at the empty space next to Qin Su.
Every hair on her body instantly stood on end.
Wait.
There was a ghost inside the car?
Qin Su explained,
“It’s Tu Qing.”
Recently, Xin Ying had deliberately read up on metaphysical matters, so she immediately understood.
“A wandering soul separated from its body?”
Qin Su nodded, acknowledging that was indeed the case.
Even someone as wealthy as Xin Ying had to admit that Qin Su made money at an astonishing rate.
Knowing there was now an invisible outsider in the car, the young lady barely spoke for the rest of the trip, carefully maintaining her elegant image.
Their destination was the largest hospital in K City.
According to what they had heard, Tu Qing had been placed in one of the top-floor VIP wards, the kind that cost tens of thousands of yuan a day.
Being rich really was wonderful.
Qin Su could only comfort herself by thinking that the room where she had set up her spirit-gathering formation cost the equivalent of three hundred thousand yuan a day to maintain, making it even more expensive than a presidential suite.
Thinking of it that way improved her mood somewhat.
Although Tu Qing was about to be reunited with her body, she did not look particularly happy.
Her brows were tightly knitted, and a faint melancholy lingered around her.
Qin Su asked,
“Did you remember something?”
Tu Qing shook her head.
“I just feel that being a ghost and staying at your place is actually pretty nice.”
“I don’t really see the point of going back to being human.”
Qin Su: “…”
Ever since returning to this world, she seemed to keep meeting eccentric people.
Forget it.
For the sake of that beautiful face, she would put up with it.
Pretty people really could get away with anything.
Tu Qing still looked unhappy.
“And… I used to be dating a middle-aged man?”
Qin Su comforted her.
“From what I can tell, President Niu is only pursuing you.”
“You two weren’t dating yet.”
How should she put it?
Although this was still Tu Qing, the same Tu Qing who had once been enemies with the transmigrator, perhaps because she had lost her memories, her personality now seemed rather different.
She was more carefree.
More innocent.
Tu Qing visibly relaxed.
Looking at Qin Su with bright eyes, she asked,
“After I wake up, can I still come see you?”
Faced with such an earnest gaze from such a beautiful woman, who could bear to refuse?
Qin Su nodded.
“If you still want to see me by then.”
She suspected that Tu Qing’s memory loss was simply the result of her soul leaving her body.
Once she returned, she would probably recover all her memories.
When that happened, she might even consider this period of getting along so well with Qin Su to be an embarrassing chapter of her life.
Unaware of Qin Su’s thoughts, Tu Qing smiled happily.
Her smile was as fresh and lovely as a blooming lily.
Xin Ying curled her lips at the side.
Although she could neither see Tu Qing nor hear her voice, Qin Su’s replies were enough for her to piece together most of the conversation.
Suddenly, her expression stiffened as though she had spotted someone who should not have appeared there.
At the same time, the car slowly came to a stop outside the hospital.
Qin Su also looked out the window.
Just then, she saw a tall figure stepping out of another car.
The handsome face looked all too familiar.
It was unmistakably Xu Xiao.
She asked Tu Qing,
“Do you see the man in the navy-blue suit?”
Considering Tu Qing’s former feelings for Xu Xiao, perhaps simply seeing him would stimulate her memories to return.
Wasn’t that how it usually happened in novels?
Among the crowd, Xu Xiao stood out effortlessly.
His handsome face and cold, commanding aura ensured that people noticed him at first glance.
Tu Qing looked in the direction Qin Su pointed.
She froze.
Placing a hand over her chest, she murmured,
“Do I know him?”
“When I see him, my heart starts beating really fast.”
Qin Su wanted to complain.
She was a soul right now.
Where was this heartbeat supposed to be coming from?
Still, she had to admit that Xu Xiao’s influence over Tu Qing really was the strongest.
She had reacted the instant she saw him.
When the amnesiac Tu Qing met Qin Su, she had not been affected in the slightest.
Perhaps this really was true love.
The very next second, however, Tu Qing frowned in disgust.
“I must have hated him before.”
“Hatred lasts longer than love.”
“Even if I don’t remember him, I still have such a strong emotional reaction.”
Qin Su stared blankly.
Wait!
That was the exact opposite of what she had expected!
…
Although Qin Su had no desire to deal with Xu Xiao, they were clearly headed to the same destination.
In the end, they inevitably met at the entrance to the hospital.
Xu Xiao looked intently at his ex-girlfriend.
Ever since breaking up with him, Qin Su’s life had not been affected in the slightest.
Her grades had improved.
She even looked more beautiful than before.
Comparing that to the fact that he secretly thought about her every day left Xu Xiao rather irritated.
At the same time, however, he also felt a trace of pride.
The woman he liked truly was different from all his previous girlfriends.
Qianjin reminded her,
“Susu, Xu Xiao’s affection has gone up another five points.”
Qin Su remained expressionless.
She had already given up trying to understand how these men’s minds worked.
No matter what she did, or even if she did nothing at all, they somehow managed to imagine all sorts of things on their own before inexplicably liking her even more.
Hmph.
Useless men.
“Susu, what are you doing here?”
Xu Xiao had been invited by President Niu.
In his desperation to wake Tu Qing, President Niu had gone all out, even inviting the man Tu Qing had once secretly admired.
Before Qin Su could answer, Xin Ying linked arms with her and smiled brightly.
“Of course Susu came with me.”
“President Xu is so busy with work, yet you still made the trip yourself.”
“You really are such a devoted brother.”
There was a faint trace of mockery in her tone.
A couple of days earlier, while investigating Tu Qing’s situation, Xin Ying had learned from her cousin that Xu Xiao had sabotaged the film adaptation rights for Qin Su’s novel.
Her opinion of him had immediately plummeted to rock bottom.
Even when she cut ties with someone, she had never taken back the gifts she had given.
Xu Xiao had run straight into a wall.
He gave the two women a long look before striding inside first.
…
Before Qin Su even entered the hospital room, she heard an angry voice.
“No!”
“What ‘true love’s kiss’? That’s something you’d use to fool little children!”
Qin Su pushed open the door.
Inside stood a man dressed head to toe in designer brands, his face flushed bright red with anger.
He looked ready to explode.
Xu Xiao frowned as he watched the farce unfold.
With a cold sneer, he said,
“I don’t believe a single kiss can wake someone up either.”
He even suspected that this might be another one of Tu Qing’s schemes, deliberately plotting against him.
Xu Xiao had never had the slightest favorable impression of Tu Qing.
In his eyes, she was a malicious woman who had even attempted to drug him once.
Had it not been for the sake of his late aunt, he would never have settled for merely driving her out of K City.
Xin Ying leaned over and whispered,
“That’s President Niu, Niu Guangxiong.”
Qin Su had already figured that out.
An elderly Daoist with the bearing of an immortal stood before the furious gazes of the two CEOs, yet remained completely composed.
“I merely suggested one possible solution.”
“Whether you try it or not is entirely up to you.”
He paused before continuing,
“Do any of you have a better idea?”
“However, let me remind you, if she remains unconscious much longer, she really won’t wake up again.”
That charlatan certainly made it sound convincing.
Since he could not even see Tu Qing’s wandering soul, Qin Su seriously doubted his abilities.
Niu Guangxiong’s face was tense.
After taking a deep breath, he declared,
“Then I’ll do it.”
“The person who loves her most in this world must be me.”
Tu Qing’s face immediately darkened.
She clearly intended to return to her body right away just to avoid that kiss.
Before leaving home, Qin Su and Tu Qing had carefully discussed their plan.
Qin Su would play the role of a mysterious master.
After putting on a convincing performance, Tu Qing would return to her body.
Then Qin Su would receive her five-million-yuan reward.
Who could have predicted that this Daoist would suddenly interfere?
Now her five million yuan was about to fly away.
Before Niu Guangxiong could even get close to Tu Qing, his foot slipped and he fell flat onto the floor.
Qin Su saw it clearly.
Tu Qing had tripped him.
In that instant, Qin Su acted decisively.
She stepped forward, lowered her head, and used a clever angle to make it appear as though she were kissing Tu Qing.
At the very same moment, Tu Qing’s wandering soul returned to her body.
Tu Qing slowly opened her eyes.
Their gazes met.
Xu Xiao’s face darkened instantly.
A chilling aura poured from him without restraint.
Niu Guangxiong stared blankly at the scene.
Hadn’t everyone said Qin Su and Qingqing used to be rivals?
Then why had Qin Su’s kiss awakened Qingqing?
As the third person present who knew the truth, Xin Ying covered her eyes with one hand, unable to bear watching what came next.
At that moment, the happiest person in the room was undoubtedly the Daoist.
His eyes lit up, and he proudly declared,
“See? I told you!”
“Only true love’s kiss could wake her up.”
“You refused to believe me!”
In reality, he had only suspected that she was pretending and wanted to test her with that ridiculous method.
He had never expected it to actually work.
Now he shamelessly claimed all the credit for himself.
The very next second, Tu Qing reached out and grabbed Qin Su’s wrist.
Timidly, she asked,
“True love’s kiss?”
“So… are you my girlfriend?”