Way back to Our Past

30. Something Urgent

Translator: Snowball

Catching up with Qu Wan, Wang Zicheng asked, “Wanwan, what’s wrong with you?”

“What do you mean?” Qu Wan asked back, playing numb.

“How could you be so rude? I was so embarrassed just now!” Wang Zicheng complained. “You should know what would have happened if Ling Mubai didn’t help you out that night. Anyway, his mother is our elder. You shouldn’t have treated her like that!”

“Our elder? Humph!” At the thought of how she had suffered three years ago, Qu Wan snorted with a trace of resentment crossing her eyes. “I hate those who take advantage of their seniority! Do you think Ling Mubai saved me out of kindness?”

“Ling Mubai also knows you’re Jiang Zhendong’s daughter?” The relationship between Qu Wan and Jiang Zhendong suddenly popped into Wang Zicheng’s mind.

“No, he doesn’t!”

“Then why did he help you?”

Wang Zicheng remembered when he kicked open the door that night, Ling Mubai was holding Qu Wan tight in the box.

“Wanwan, did you know Ling Mubai before?”

“I wish I had never known him!” Qu Wan answered quickly. She then closed her eyes to rest and stopped talking.

What she said reminded Wang Zicheng of something, but he just couldn’t tell what it was.

The dating show finally was on, attracting a large number of audience in its first episode, breaking the rating record of the year.

As the TV station had done a lot of work in publicity and put the program on the air in prime time, it was no wonder that it made a hit so soon!

Feeling so bored, Jiang Xinyue was about to ask Qin Surong to go shopping with her when the latter was watching a rerun of the TV show in the living room downstairs.

“Xinyue, this program is interesting. Come and watch it with me!”

Glancing at the TV, Jiang Xinyue muttered, “Mom, since when have you been interested in such a boring program?”

“I think it’s good. Each of the female guests has her own characteristics and the dating progress is fresh.”

Qin Surong said, pointing at the female guests on the TV show when she suddenly saw a familiar figure. Before she could continue, Jiang Xinyue had cried out, “Qu Wan?!”

The two of them widened their eyes in surprise. When Qin Surong was looking at her daughter in a daze, the frame had already flashed by. “It can’t be her. You must have mistaken someone else for her.”

Jiang Xinyue snatched the remote control from her mother, played back the picture, and froze the frame in which Qu Wan appeared. “It’s her! Mom, look! It’s Qu Wan!”

As the female guest No. 9, Qu Wan was standing farthest from the center of the stage in plain clothes. Nobody had paid any attention to her and even Qin Surong didn’t notice her.

Only then had she discovered that this female guest’s nameplate indeed bore the two words “Qu Wan”!

“How could Qu Wan take part in a TV dating show?”

Qin Surong exchanged glances with her daughter and then shook her head. “It’s impossible! I think she just happens to share the name of Qu Wan.”

“She’s wearing a mask, but she has a similar figure to her.” Jiang Xinyue fixed her gaze on the screen.

“Let’s take a look at the personal information of this female guest.” Jiang Xinyue then froze the show in the frame where the guests were introduced and they saw the following information: Qu Wan, a 28-year-old lady who once had a failed marriage is now raising a boy more than two years old on her own.”

Qin Surong heaved a sigh of relief. “There’s no way Qu Wan has a two-year-old son, so this woman must be only a namesake of her.”

According to her profile, this female guest’s criteria for a mate were quite simple—to be faithful in love and kind to her son. As she had been badly hurt in her previous marriage, she didn’t want to live with her future mother-in-law after getting married.

All Qu Wan’s personal information was true. The unpleasant experience with Sun Lan left a psychological shadow on her, so she didn’t want to live under the same roof with her future mother-in-law.

She meant to find a dad for Tangtang, but she was worried that those men might only care about her physical appearance, so she not only had no makeup on but also wore braces on purpose.

If someone chose her even under this situation, he must be a decent man who really wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.

“Xinyue, judging from her personal information, it can’t be Qu Wan.”

“But she’s too much like her! Look, her figure is almost identical to Qu Wan’s! Maybe Qu Wan adopted a child because she was infertile?” Jiang Xinyue muttered.

“Don’t think about it anymore. Even if that’s the case, it has nothing to do with us. Did you call Mubai?”

“Yes. But he was in a bad mood. Mom, can you call Mubai and ask him to have dinner with us this evening?”

Qin Surong was clear what her daughter was thinking. “He won’t come even if I call him. Wait for a minute. I’m going to let your dad ring him.”

“Okay! Thank you, mom!”

After winning the project of the old town renovation, everyone in the company worked hard to make sure the project went smoothly. On the contrary, as the boss, Wang Zicheng didn’t seem in a good mood.

Ever since he knew Qu Wan’s story, he had been feeling depressed and unable to pull himself together at any rate.

Wang Zicheng’s assistant felt that he was not himself these days—he hadn’t been to night clubs for a few days and hadn’t asked that model out recently.

In the beginning, he thought that Wang Zicheng had grown mature and started to focus on his work, but later, he found him do nothing except for sitting in his office in a daze every day.

His intuition told him that there was something on his boss’s mind.

As Wang Zicheng’s father’s henchman, who was sent to watch on his young master’s work, the assistant didn’t dare to take this lightly, so he euphemistically asked Wang Zicheng what was bothering him.

“Nothing! I’m fine.” Wang Zicheng answered drowsily, still in low spirits.

Though the assistant had reminded him a few times about Assistant Qu’s asking for leave, Wang Zicheng still called Qu Wan’s name whenever he was in need.

As soon as he got off work, Wang Zicheng rushed out of the office and drove to the old town.

When he arrived at the alley that led to Qu Jianguo’s apartment, he dialed Qu Wan’s number, but after waiting for quite a while, nobody answered. Unable to hold back his urge to see her, he went upstairs and knocked on the door.

It was Qu Jianguo who opened the door. “Mr. Wang? What brings you here?”

“Is Qu Wan at home?” Wang Zicheng scanned around the room, but to his disappointment, he didn’t see Qu Wan.

“Why didn’t she answer my call?”

“Er… Wanwan…” Qu Jianguo was caught in a dilemma. Qu Wan didn’t allow him to reveal her whereabouts to other people, but he was worried that Wang Zicheng might have something urgent to discuss with her.

“Mr. Wang, do you have anything urgent to talk to her?”

“Yes! Something very urgent! Please tell me where she is.” Without explaining too much, Wang Zicheng kept on urging.

Qu Jianguo was still hesitating. Qu Wan didn’t want it to be known that she had gone to the TV station for the dating show, so Qu Jianguo had no idea how to explain it to Wang Zicheng.

“I’m serious. Please tell me where she is!” Hearing no response from Qu Jianguo, Wang Zicheng grew tense. “Listen, this is a matter of great importance. If I can’t find her right away, our company will suffer a great loss!”

“Wanwan went to the TV station for a program.” Qu Jianguo had no choice but to tell the truth.

“What kind of program?”

“A dating show.”

“This woman!” Wang Zicheng’s face darkened in an instant.