He unbuttoned his shirt, draping his suit jacket over a chair. The neon lights outside the window shone brightly.
The boy's eyelids drooped casually as he leaned against the chair, answering the phone.
"Jiang Sui, when did you become so rude?"
Jiang Chenghua's angry questioning was due to his son's embarrassing left from the party midway through.
"When did you need to sell your son to make a living?"
"If that's the case, hurry up and find your wife and have a child."
Be it the so-called equal status or just some business sleight of hand, Jiang Sui raised his eyelids, choking Jiang Chenghua and making his head spin.
"Jiang Sui!"
A veteran businessman, a vein bulged on his forehead.
"Oh, I forgot. It's not that you both didn't have a child, it's that didn't give birth."
The young man's voice, deep and cold, carried an electric current through Jiang Chenghua's phone, leaving only a crackling sound.
"Okay, this family. If you want to come back, come back. If you don't, forget it. I'll see when you'll come back and beg me."
After his fury, he sobered up and hung up the phone.
A hint of sarcasm played at the corner of Jiang Sui's mouth, his eyes filled with indifference. He held the phone and made another call.
After a long pause, the other side of call finally picked up the call.
"How's the investigation going on with that matter?"
All he heard was the sound of soft, whimpering sobs...
Jiang Sui's eyes paused for a moment. He glanced at the number on his phone and saw it was correct. His Adam's apple rolled.
"What the hell are you doing, Ah Zhao!"
All he could hear was a flustered, unnaturally low and hoarse voice.
"...I'm a f**king adult! What can I do?"
He wasn't embarrassed at all, and even teased Jiang Sui a few times.
"I'm not like you. I have my sister to accompany me. You don't have anything."
Jiang Sui narrowed his eyes, a hint of danger in his voice. "Ah Zhao, your good sister is very interested in your affairs. How about I give her a call and have a chat?"
"No, no, no, let's get down to business, business." Qin Zhao panicked, lowering his voice, but his demeanor straightened considerably as he spoke slowly.
"I haven't found any clues about the matter you asked me to investigate. Almost no one knows anything about it. The school files and records have been completely deleted. But I heard you went to the police station once, didn't you? Why are you still asking me to investigate?"
Unable to find anything, Jiang Sui's brows darkened, his fingers tightening around the outer shell of the device.
"I did go there, but it was accidental, a coincidence."
It had only been a year, and the incident had vanished without a trace. That should have been unusual, but the school had suppressed it so well that there hadn't been a stir.
This only deepened Jiang Sui's doubts.
Qin Zhao, however, was quite surprised.
"I heard you were beaten yesterday?"
"It was Li Xu again. I heard Young Master Li will be locked up for at least two weeks this time?"
No one at Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School had ever messed with Li Xu, not to mention the trouble he had caused. He was incredibly vicious, like a venomous snake at such a young age. It wasn't that he couldn't be provoked, but those who could afford to provoke him were unlikely to cause any trouble. Those who couldn't were simply avoided.
But they and Li Xu had nothing in common. Jiang Sui's request to investigate Li Xu was strange. And now he was beaten by Li Xu again?
"Lock up very less already."
The time was too short. He'd only provoked Li Xu slightly, and he'd already lost his temper. The hotel was his, and he had his own surveillance cameras.
Intentional injury. Even if Jiang Chenghua was a jerk, he couldn't let his son be bullied.
"Alright, as long as you're okay, I'm hanging up. I have business to attend to, unlike you, a young man!"
Pa...
Thinking of Qin Zhao's words about business, Jiang Sui's head suddenly felt a buzzing pain.
What the hell...