Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 346 - 312: Something’s Wrong 2

It’s just that taking care of it might be a bit tough for Chen Lan.

Of course, Chen Lan doesn’t have much to think about, and he can’t understand Yin Shixiu’s actions.

The fortunate thing is, compared to Yin Shixiu, Xiao Meng is also busy to the point of being dizzy.

She really can’t take care of Yin Shixiu much.

The two of them contact each other about once or twice a day, then go about their own business without interfering.

Plus, Su Xiaomeng is a bit slow to react...

By the time she noticed something was off, it was already a week later, and it wasn’t from her own realization from Yin Shixiu.

It was from a phone call from her father-in-law asking, "Has the fourth one been sick recently?"

Su Xiaomeng was quite confused by the question from her father-in-law, "What’s wrong with him?"

"I heard his voice, very hoarse, and I’m not sure if he’s sick. The fourth one doesn’t like to make others worry; I’m afraid he might be sick but won’t say it."

"I...I didn’t hear him mention anything."

"Oh, maybe I’m overthinking it. You know your mom is very concerned about the fourth one. When we heard his voice sounding off and asked him, he said it was nothing... The climate in London is slightly warmer than Beijing but it’s winter too, easy to get sick."

"Just afraid he might be sick over there and not take care of himself properly."

Only then did Su Xiaomeng suddenly realize that this past week, her communication with Yin Shixiu mostly revolved around texts.

She occasionally sent some videos and voice messages over, but the replies were...only texts.

Could it be...really sick?

"Dad, I got it. I’ll ask him again. Rest assured, he’s a grown man and will take good care of himself."

"Yeah, that’s right. Us old folks just worry blindly. Don’t find us annoying, us two old guys."

"Dad, what are you saying!"

After hanging up the call with Yin Shaohui, Su Xiaomeng glanced at the time. It should be afternoon in London at this point.

Su Xiaomeng dialed Yin Shixiu’s number, making this international call...

The phone was answered after a long while, but the person who picked up wasn’t Yin Shixiu, it was...

"Assistant Chen?"

"Madam, it’s me. Is there anything you need from the boss? The boss is currently in a meeting."

Su Xiaomeng’s eyebrow furrowed slightly, glanced at the time again, and then said, "It should be noon there, right? Still in a meeting? Isn’t he going to have lunch?"

"Um...well, today’s meeting is a bit long, probably discussing something important, that’s why it’s a bit late."

"...Oh, then let Shixiu give me a call back after the meeting."

"Okay, Madam."

Chen Lan hung up, looking at Yin Shixiu leaning against the headboard, eyes still bandaged, holding a cup of tea.

"Madam wants you to call her back. If your voice hasn’t recovered, will she notice anything if you call her back?"

Yin Shixiu pressed his lips, "It’s fine, that girl is slow."

He said Su Xiaomeng is slow, not realizing that when facing him, that girl is actually sharper than ever.

Su Xiaomeng stared at the hung-up phone call, her heart pounding with suspense.

This private phone of Yin Shixiu has never been handed to anyone else.

Let alone letting someone answer for him.

She took a shallow breath, sat on the sofa, waiting for Yin Shixiu to call back.

Shuangshuang and Huang Huang were playing with toys at her feet...

The clock on the wall ticked away...

Before long, Su Xiaomeng’s phone rang again, she glanced at it before picking up, "Hello..."

"What’s going on? Is there something you need?"

"Can’t I call you if there’s nothing wrong?"

With just one sentence, Su Xiaomeng picked up on his voice’s distress, Yin Shaohui was right, he must be sick.

"Why are you so irritable?"

"Are you sick? Your voice sounds so raspy?"

"Did you really pick up on that? Just a bit...cough cough..."

Yin Shixiu feigned a couple of coughs.

Su Xiaomeng felt something was still off, just felt it wasn’t right...

"Where are you now?"

"...In the office."

"Not busy with work?"

"Mhm. What’s up with you?"

"We haven’t video chatted in a while, don’t you want to see me?"

"Hang up, let’s do video chat, Shuangshuang and Huang Huang want to see you."

"I miss you too, Shixiu."

Su Xiaomeng said, then hung up, Yin Shixiu hadn’t even thought of words yet when the video chat request from the other side already arrived...

"Boss, what to do? Do we accept or not accept this video request?"

Yin Shixiu waved his hand.

Chen Lan obliged, then hung up the video request.

Yin Shixiu took a shallow breath, called Su Xiaomeng back, yet Su Xiaomeng didn’t pick up...

He dialed twice more, no one answered.

Chen Lan saw this situation and said, "Madam might be angry, right? Better to be honest with her, I heard women are very sensitive. You’ve not met her in a while, she must have suspicions in her mind..."

Yin Shixiu raised his hand to signal him to stop, "You tell her, I’ll do a video chat after going home later, it’s not convenient now."

"...Oh."

Chen Lan could only sigh and send a text to Su Xiaomeng.

Su Xiaomeng, after seeing the message, was very calm, thinking about under what circumstances he could send text, make calls, but can’t do video.

It’s been a week...

Su Xiaomeng thought for a moment and then opened the search engine. This was the first time she used a search engine to look up Yin Shixiu’s name.

The internet didn’t have much real information about Yin Shixiu.

The simplest line of text – President of the Yin Group, not even a photo.

Su Xiaomeng searched "Yin Group President" again.

Clearly, this keyword revealed much more information than "Yin Shixiu."

But most of it was related to the Yin Group. Su Xiaomeng flipped through several pages before seeing a small headline from a forum—

The President of Yin Group had a car accident, sell your Yin stocks if you can!

Su Xiaomeng’s heart skipped, she clicked in and saw the poster claimed to have witnessed a five-car collision in London and even posted photos.

This post didn’t have many replies.

Most said the poster was just trying to grab attention, publishing false reports.

Yin Group is the leading internet enterprise in the country. Yin Shixiu’s status in the domestic economic sphere is imaginable. If something unfortunate truly happened, it would have been reported.

But Xiao Meng almost instantly knew... the car accident was real.

Although Chen Lan’s face wasn’t clear, she could still barely distinguish it.

Her heart... sank to the bottom.

Suddenly, her eyes burned red.

She leaned on the sofa, unsure how to react at the moment.

If he really had an accident, why... didn’t he tell her?

The car in the photo was completely deformed, hah...

Su Xiaomeng’s heart was a tangled mess, she had no strength in her hands. She knew, just in that instant, fear had already crawled into every cell of her body.

After a long time, she dialed Chen Lan’s number.

Her hands tightened around her clothes, nobody could feel her panic at that moment.

Seeing Su Xiaomeng’s call, Chen Lan was a bit confused for a moment but seemed to understand...

He glanced at the just asleep Yin Shixiu and left the ward.

"Hello, Madam?"

"Where is Yin Shixiu?"

Su Xiaomeng’s eyes were filled with tears, she breathed deeply but couldn’t calm her violently beating heart.

"Uh... the boss is currently taking a nap—"

"Nap your ass! Which hospital! Which hospital is he in? How serious are his injuries?! What’s the situation now?! Wuwu..."

Su Xiaomeng couldn’t help but shout. As she asked, the worry and panic in her heart couldn’t be suppressed, and tears instantly flowed out.

This time, Chen Lan was truly confused...

How did madam... find out?

"Speak up! How is he?!"

Seeing that Chen Lan still wasn’t speaking, Su Xiaomeng’s emotions completely collapsed.

"Madam, please don’t worry. The, the boss is fine, he just—"

"I saw it all online! Saw the photos of your car accident! I saw it all, you all still want to hide it from me... he still wants to hide it from me... wuwu..."

"What?! Madam, you saw the photos online? How is that possible? Which site? I clearly already—"

"Chen! Lan!"

Su Xiaomeng’s shout halted Chen Lan on the other end, and also stopped the two kids playing with toys at her feet.

Shuangshuang and Huang Huang stared blankly at the moment their mom’s tears were pouring.

The little guys’ faces changed a bit...

Seemingly scared.

Seeing them, Su Xiaomeng immediately opened her eyes wide, hurriedly wiped away her tears, and forced a smile that’s even harder than crying at Shuangshuang and Huang Huang.

She reached out and touched Shuangshuang’s head, "It’s okay, you guys continue playing, we’ll have dinner soon, okay?"

Shuangshuang and Huang Huang still stared at her. Although young, children have a strong connection with their mother.

Su Xiaomeng could only bite her lip tightly, trying to calmly continue to ask, "Chen Lan, I’m begging you, tell me honestly he’s my husband..."

Chen Lan could hear Su Xiaomeng’s urgency at the moment, the panic and struggle in her voice stirred Chen Lan’s heart.

"Madam, please don’t worry. The boss really is fine now, just suffered a few scratches."

"Where is he injured?"

"He... um... a bit of superficial wound, a few cuts from the glass on his body..."

"And?"

"Um... and, and his neck also has a cut, but don’t worry, it didn’t hit the artery, missed by a centimeter!"

Chen Lan was also anxious, wanting to quickly comfort Su Xiaomeng but realized the latter part shouldn’t have been added after he spoke.

Su Xiaomeng couldn’t describe how she felt hearing that.

Just felt intense heartache.

"What else..."

She turned her face away, not wanting the children to see her in a vulnerable state.

"The, the eyes..."

Su Xiaomeng was momentarily stunned.

Chen Lan quickly said, "Madam, no, he didn’t go blind! Just injured his eyelid, temporary blindness, it will heal."

"Is there anything else..."

"No, no more."

Su Xiaomeng took a deep breath.

"Madam, the boss didn’t intend to hide it from you. He was afraid you’d worry, isn’t there an exam coming up for you, he—"