If you have something to say, just say it directly.

  Perhaps because of her changed identity, when she came to the Xuri Group again, she was no longer rejected like a few months ago. The receptionist must have received instructions and smiled brightly as soon as she saw her, leading her to the VIP elevator entrance, even considerately pressing the elevator button for her and telling her that the CEO's office was on the top floor.

  An Lan went up to the top floor, where Yi Tianze's secretary politely and ceremoniously received her, arranging her in the 'private' meeting room outside Yi Tianze's office, then helped her with a cup of coffee.

  "Our president will finish the meeting in five minutes," said the secretary, placing coffee and snacks in front of her: "Second Young Master's wife, please sit for a while, there are newspapers and magazines here, you can also use them to pass the time."

  An Lan nodded: "Thank you, go ahead and be busy, I'll handle it myself."

  The secretary left, she glanced at the newspapers and magazines on that side, good guy, either financial or automotive, I guess there's nothing to look at, so she didn't even get up.

  In just five minutes, An Lan had not even finished half of her cup of coffee when she heard footsteps coming from outside the door, and there was more than one person. She turned her head towards the door following the sound, and then stood there in stunned silence for a moment.

  She was stunned, not because the person who walked in wasn't Yi Tianze, but because the person who came in, apart from Yi Tianze, also included...Yi Shuihan!

  She hadn't even reacted yet when Yi Shuihan slightly furrowed his brow and asked, "How did you get here? Weren't you told to wait for me at the Gu house?"

  An Lan was immediately speechless, and for a moment she didn't know how to respond. It was Yi Tianze who helped her out of the awkward situation: "Shui Han, that's not right, is it? She's my sister-in-law and also a member of the Yi family, so why can't she come take a look at the company?"

  Yi Shuihan glanced at her and said lightly: "Then you sit here for a while, I'll discuss things with my brother and we'll go back together."

  Yi Shuihan finished speaking and turned around to head towards Yi Tianze's office.

  An Lan didn't dare to disturb the two brothers discussing official business, so she sat back down quietly and continued drinking her unfinished cup of coffee, waiting patiently.

  Fortunately, Yi Shuihan and Yi Tianze didn't take long to discuss things, they came out in less than ten minutes, just as she had finished drinking the cup of coffee in her hand.

  "Let's go, we're heading back," Yishuihan came over and called out to her, "Big Brother is also getting off work."

  "Wait a minute," An Lan didn't obey Yi Shuihan, but instead looked at Yi Tianze who was about to walk into the office and shouted: "President Yi."

  Yi Tianze walked out of the office door, turned his head and looked at Gu Anlan, but didn't make a sound, only looking at her with inquiring eyes.

  "Uh... I have something to ask you."

  Yi Tianze raised an eyebrow and glanced at Yi Shuihan before turning back to An Lan, asking in a calm tone: "What's the matter?"

  An Lan looked at Yi Shuihan and for a moment didn't know whether she should say this thing in front of him or not.

  "If there's anything, just say it," Yi Shuihan's expression was clearly unhappy: "Can't be that you two have some secret between you that I don't know about?"

  Yi Tianze couldn't help but laugh out loud after hearing this, and nodded at An Lan: "Come in, let's talk about the secrets we have to keep from you in my office. You wait outside for me."

  Yi Shui Han turned around and walked towards the sofa, looking at Gu An Lan who was still standing there, couldn't help but irritably shouted: "If you have something to say, hurry up and go in, big brother's time is calculated by seconds."

  "Oh," An Lan finally reacted, hastily grabbed her bag and walked over. At this moment, she couldn't care less about Yi Shuihan's feelings. She had to - convey her father's message to Yi Tianze.

  Although I know the chances of success are slim, shouldn't we still try our best to seize even the smallest opportunity?

  Compared to Yi Shuihan's office, Yi Tianze's office is more spacious and luxurious, but it also gives people a colder and harder feeling. Except for the black, white and gray color scheme, the walls are all pasted with large white marble tiles, emitting a cold light.

  Actually, Yi Tianze has always been a rather aloof and proud person, not easily approachable. Even though An Lan had so many encounters with him, she still felt that he was distant.

  "Go on, what brings you here?" Yi Tianze pointed to the sofa chair across from him, indicating for her to sit down.

  "I... I came to return your money," An Lan took out a stack of cash from her bag and handed it to Yi Tianze: "This is 10,000 yuan, the hospitalization fee you paid for me that day."

  Yi Tianze looked at the stack of thin red banknotes with a frown, then looked at the "woman" opposite him and asked: "Gu Anlan, do we have to be so clear-cut about this between us now?"

  "...". An Lan's words were stuck in her throat. Hadn't she and he already clarified things between them before?

  "Hey, let's settle accounts with our brotherly love," An Lan said with a sheepish grin, "I couldn't always be taking advantage of you, could I?"

  Yi Tianze smiled wryly, silently took the money and looked at her with a profound gaze: "In this regard, you are quite similar to Shui Han, it seems that both of you like this kind of thing."

  "I... I don't have much backbone," An Lan said, looking at Yi Tianze with a stutter: "I came to find you today, besides returning your money, there's also something else..."

  "Is there anything else?" Yi Tianze quickly interrupted her hesitant words.

  An Lan took a deep breath and then plucked up the courage to speak: "My dad said he has a piece of land in the suburbs of H City, which was obtained through an auction last year..."

  "He wants me to buy that land from him?" Yi Tianze interrupted An Lan's words before she could finish, his tone light and casual.

  "My dad said he's not making a profit, just breaking even by selling to you," An Lan said bluntly. "He said as long as you pay him the interest on his loan for this year, that's it."

  Yi Tianze heard this and chuckled softly, looking at the "woman" across from him and asking in a low voice: "Gu Anlan, you don't understand Bo Yao at all, do you?"

  An Lan was slightly stunned, her face slightly red as she nodded and replied truthfully: "Yes, I just returned from abroad in February. At that time, I thought I wouldn't be staying in the country for too long, so I didn't go to work at my father's company. Naturally, I don't know much about Boyao. However, this land is said to have a good geographical location. My father said that if it were developed into a tourist area with houses..."

  "Never mind the location of that land," Yi Tianze said calmly: "I'm just talking about the value of that land. Last year, our company also participated in the bidding for that land in H City. Why did it ultimately fall to your father's company? This is because he blindly followed the price, and finally, the price at which he took down that land exceeded one-third of our budget..."

  An Lan understood as soon as Yi Tianze said that, the land his father bid on was too expensive. Not to mention adding loan interest, even if you don't count the interest, Yi Tianze estimated he wouldn't take it over either.

  As expected, Yi Tianze said: "An Lan, I'm very sorry. Although you are now my sister-in-law and should be considered a member of my family, I am still powerless to help you. Let your father think of another solution."

  An Lan smiled wryly and nodded slightly before standing up and bidding farewell to Yi Tianze: "Thank you, no matter what, thank you!"

  Yi Tianze politely stood up and sent her off: "Go back, Shui Han is waiting for you outside, don't let him misunderstand."

  An Lan nodded and pushed open the door of Yi Tianze's office and walked out. As expected, Yi Shuihan was sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper waiting for her.

  "Is that all?" Yi Shuihan stood up as soon as she came out, looking at Yi Tianze who followed behind An Lan: "Is there anything else to say?"

  Yi Tianze burst out laughing and waved his hand: "That's enough, hurry up and leave, don't perform this 'exciting' play of a couple returning home in front of me, an old bachelor who can't take it."

  "Will you be uncomfortable?" Yi Shuihan raised an eyebrow: "If you're going to be uncomfortable, it'll be settled earlier. By the way, Mom called this noon and said that the little 'daughter' of the Ho family in Hong Kong has returned from the United States..."

  "Stop, stop, what's all this nonsense," Yi Tianze immediately became unhappy and said with a straight face: "I actually regret leaving the matchmaking dinner that day, if I had known Gu Anlan was going to attend..."

  "You've got a lot of things to regret, not just this one." Yi Shuihan cut him off mercilessly, grabbed his bag and walked towards the door: "You can take your time regretting, I don't have time to accompany you in your regrets."

  An Lan carefully followed Yi Shui Han out the door, as for the brothers' cryptic conversation, she pretended not to understand, no, she pretended not to have heard.

  "Don't come looking for me again about your dad's nonsense," Yi Shuihan scolded An Lan as soon as he got in the car, without even starting the engine: "Are you stupid? If Xu Ri Real Estate wanted to lend a helping hand to Bo Yao, would they wait until today?"

  An Lan immediately fell silent. She also knew that finding Yi Tianze was a slim hope, but she was Gu Yunbo's 'daughter', after all. She couldn't just stand by and do nothing when her father was in trouble, could she?

  Yi Shuihan saw An Lan lowering her head and not making a sound, originally she still wanted to say a few more words but swallowed them back. She let out a helpless sigh: "Right, can you take leave from art school?"

  "It's unlikely," An Ran shook her head and said: "I've already taken too many days off, if I take any more, the principal will probably just fire me."

  Yi Shuihan's mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything else. He saw the elevator door open on the other side, and Yi Tianze and Sun Xing walked out of it. In an instant, one foot pressed down on the accelerator, and the car drove away from the underground parking lot of the Xu Ri Group.

  "Are you still thinking about going home?" Yi Shuihan asked An Lan, who was staring out the window in a daze after he drove the car onto the highway.

  An Lanmo, today was originally her day to return home, and according to custom, Yi Shuihan should have accompanied her back for lunch. However, he didn't go with her this morning, and now it's already evening, so going now wouldn't make much sense anyway.

  Yi Shuihan saw that she didn't say a word, and slightly annoyed, said: "I really had something to do this afternoon, and the gifts for your parents are still in the car. How about it? We should still send the gifts over, right?"

  An Lan was speechless again. Since he had already said that he would send the gift over, what else could she say? It's not like she could say no to sending gifts to her parents.

  Back at the Gu's house, it was already evening. However, Gu Yunbo wasn't home and his car was gone too, probably because he had something to attend to. Chen Wanru and her mother weren't there either. Lin Shu said that after they finished lunch, the mother-daughter duo went out and hadn't returned yet.

  At home, there was only Qin Xuan, who usually ate vegetarian food and couldn't eat with the daughter and son-in-law at the same table. In the end, on the large dining table of Yunyuan, only An Lan and Yi Shuihan were eating together.

  This was Yi Shuihan's first time having dinner at the Gu's, and although Qin Yining couldn't dine with them, Lin Shu still prepared a table of dishes in the traditional Southern style to welcome Yi Shuihan.

  Anlan is back and naturally wants to return to the boudoir of Qingyuan for a while, not for anything else, but also to bring her own laptop and some daily clothes over.

  Yi Shuihan was taken aback when he saw the large Buddhist hall on the first floor of Qingyuan. Although he had heard that Qin Xuan often fasted and recited Buddhist scriptures, he hadn't expected the Buddhist hall in the Qin family to be so grand, with incense burning constantly. As they entered Qingyuan, it felt like walking into a temple, filled with the fragrance of incense.

  It was already after 8 pm when I came out of the Gu's house. The Xuan Garden didn't have its lights on at night, and it was a dark and desolate place, lost in the midst of the bustling city. No one would have thought that this was once the most famous ancient courtyard in Bincheng last century.

  Anlan turned back to look at the two complex characters on the gate of the courtyard in Jin Garden, according to her mother, that was still taken by her maternal grandmother's mother, also known as her maternal great-grandmother, and written by her maternal grandfather, with a history of more than 80 years.

  It is said that the Qin family's single inheritance has been passed down for three generations, and in her mother Qin Xinyi's generation, it just so happens to be a 'daughter', so Qin Xinyi regards guarding the Xinyi Garden as a lifelong career.

  Yi Shuihan, who had walked to the side of the car, saw An Lan staring at the big 'gate' of Qin Garden in silence, so he came over again, stretched out his hand and pulled her into his arms, saying in a low voice: "Let's go, I still have to go on a business trip tomorrow."

  An Lan nodded, with a faint sigh in her heart. Her father's incompetence was really beyond help, and as for the Qin Garden that her mother had sworn to protect with her life, could she still guard it?

  Yi Shui Han went out on a business trip, and An Lan's life returned to its calm state before marriage. She no longer had to go to the art training center for classes, and her time suddenly became abundant, especially on Saturdays and Sundays.

  At noon in the cafeteria, Du Xuan invited her: "An Lan, let's go shopping after work. Anyway, we don't have to go to work tomorrow, so we can shop around tonight and sleep in late tomorrow."

  "No way," An Lan refused without hesitation, then glared at her fiercely: "What was with the pajamas you sent me that day? I haven't even settled the score with you yet. How dare you ask me to go shopping with you?"

  An Lan reached out to grab Du Xi while talking, but Du Xi dodged with a bowl and chopsticks, causing An Lan to miss. However, she almost bumped into another teacher nearby, who shouted: "Hey, Gu An Lan, you mustn't come and knock me down, or I'll definitely die a terrible death!"

  One sentence made everyone burst out laughing, and the entire teacher's dining hall was filled with laughter in an instant. An Lan blushed to her neck and walked away awkwardly towards the outside of the cafeteria.

  "Hey, Anlan, wait for me," Du Hai chased after her, holding onto her arm: "I'm serious, let's go shopping together tonight. Didn't you say your husband is away on a business trip? Won't you be bored going back alone?"

  "I want to go home and see my mom tonight," An Lan sighed, "My mom is lonely at home by herself, I shouldn't just think of myself, right?"

  Du Xuan didn't say anything else after hearing her say that. Since An Lan's true identity was exposed online due to the marriage video, everyone also knew that she was the daughter of Qin Xin Yi, a famous socialite from last century.

  Qin Yiyi was also a very famous person in the 1980s, and can be considered one of the talented women of her time. However, after she got married and retreated from public life, she slowly faded out of everyone's sight.

  An Lan planned to go back home after work and even thought about staying at her parents' house for a few days, because Yi Shuihan was on a business trip and didn't know when she would return, and it wasn't fun for An Lan to live alone in the house at Yipin Jiangnan.

  Plans are often not as fast as changes, in the afternoon she finished school things, just walked to the subway station, the phone rang, thinking it was her mother's call, took a look, but it was an unfamiliar landline number.

  She hesitated for a long time before pressing the answer button, and as soon as she said "hello", Zhang Shu's voice came in trembling: "Second young master's wife, you'd better come back quickly, old master has arrived from Hong Kong, heard that you're not at home, he's furious!"