Three days had passed, and he had not found himself.
Yet now he suddenly showed up at her doorstep, which inevitably raised her suspicions.
Her mind raced before her gaze settled on her phone!
"You installed a tracking device on my phone?" Ji Shunuan didn't question but stated affirmatively.
The thought made her feel nauseous! She despised him more than ever.
Faced with her accusation, Gu Zhiyuan guiltily turned his head away, his eyes darting around, unable to meet her gaze.
Then, he brazenly declared, "Ji Shunuan, I'll give you one more chance, you should..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Ji Shunuan snatched up her phone and hurled it forcefully at his face, yelling, "Get out!"
"Ah." Gu Zhiyuan's forehead wound hadn't healed, and being struck by the phone, he let out a pained grunt. He staggered backward, bumping into a table nearby.
As he painfully looked up, he saw Bo Jingcheng slowly rising to his feet.
The tall figure of the man loomed over him, oppressive and suffocating. Gu Zhiyuan gaped at Bo Jingcheng in shock and then turned his gaze towards Ji Shunuan.
"Damn it, you've been sneaking around behind my back with another man? Ji Shunuan, are you staying in the hospital to have an abortion?" Gu Zhiyuan was furious.
He took large strides towards her.
Before he could reach Ji Shunuan, his neck was seized, his feet lifted off the ground, and a sensation of choking overwhelmed him.
His eyes bulged as he stared at the man before him, whose expression was cold and deep, dark eyes as foreboding as an abyss, panicking him into struggling desperately while the other man only tightened his grip.
"Director Gu, I'd advise you to watch your words! How can you so rashly slander a woman without knowing the facts? Where is your upbringing?"
"Or is it that the Gu Family's way is to never acknowledge its faults, habitually shifting the blame, expecting women to bear the blame for your mistakes?"
Bo Jingcheng's voice was low and forceful, each word stabbing into Gu Zhiyuan's heart.
He panicked.
A feeling of helplessness made him unsure of what to do; over the years, he had grown accustomed to Ji Shunuan handling everything for him.
In his eyes, she was someone who could never leave.
But unexpectedly, she had been planning her escape all along! She left the mess at Gu Corporation, which he simply couldn't handle.
Now, she had someone at her side that even he didn't recognize! He was sure he controlled her circle, yet he was unaware of anyone else in her life.
A foreboding feeling crept over him.
He wanted to grasp but found her gaze cold, utterly indifferent.
"Let, let go of me," Gu Zhiyuan struggled awkwardly.
The next second, just as he was about to suffocate, Bo Jingcheng released him with a "bang," throwing him to the ground.
Gu Zhiyuan landed on the floor, clutching his throat and gasping for air, his eyes brimming with barely concealed terror.
"Mr. Bo, I don't want to see him," Ji Shunuan said softly.
Hearing her, Bo Jingcheng bent down to pick up her phone, took large strides to the bedside, handed her the phone, and said gravely, "Your phone has been infected with a tracking program."
"Once you power it on, it can not only pinpoint your location but also spy on any content on your phone, including your phone calls," Bo Jingcheng explained.
With those words, he placed Gu Zhiyuan on an even higher moral pedestal.
He suddenly looked up, his eyes wide with fright! He thought he had been discreet, yet this man had figured everything out with just a glance at the phone.
Who on earth was this person, and how could he be so formidable?
"Give me the phone," Ji Shunuan said.
The man passed her the phone, Ji Shunuan took it, and the next second, she called the police directly.
Hearing her calling the police, Gu Zhiyuan scrambled to his feet and lunged to snatch her phone, but his arm was quickly seized by the man, who grabbed and restrained him.
"Ji Shunuan, you actually dare to call the police? What are you calling the police for? We're fiancés; isn't it right for me to be concerned about you? What's wrong with me surveilling you?" Gu Zhiyuan panicked.
His cheating and calling off the engagement could destabilize the Gu Corporation.
If it were known that he had surveilled Ji Shunuan's phone, his reputation would probably never recover.
This was not just a matter of character, but also of ethics.
Such lowly tactics, for people of their circle, were simply beneath them.
"I'm in charge of the Gu Corporation's projects. My phone contains lots of confidential files. Director Gu, are you monitoring my phone for personal gain, to sell secrets? No wonder some projects I negotiated previously all fell through. It seems it was you, Director Gu, who did it," Ji Shunuan deliberately distorted the truth.
The Gu Corporation was his; he certainly wouldn't destroy his own projects.
But since he had tampered with her phone, there was no way she would let him off easily.
"You! Ji Shunuan, are you sick in the head? The Gu Corporation is my family's; why would I sell off any projects? Damn it, you this vile woman, you're driving me mad," Gu Zhiyuan was losing his mind.
At that moment, he felt the indescribable frustration of a mute person who had eaten bitter herbs but could not express his bitterness.
He was feeling extremely wronged.
He hadn't done it, yet she twisted the facts, insisting that he did.
Now even if he leaped into the Yellow River, he couldn't cleanse himself of the accusation.
"Whether you did it or not, we can talk about it when the police arrive," Ji Shunuan said, leaning coolly against the hospital bed.
Looking at Bo Jingcheng's tall figure standing beside her, the unnamed sense of security surprised her.
"It must be this man who did it! Isn't he by your side? If he could touch your phone, it's definitely him framing me," Gu Zhiyuan shifted the blame immediately.
As long as the mud didn't splash on him, anything was fine.
Ji Shunuan comfortably leaned back.
For the first time, she felt that a car accident wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
Had it not been for this accident, she wouldn't have had the chance to rest properly in bed! Nor would she have discovered that Gu Zhiyuan was actually monitoring her phone.
"Cheng Qing," Bo Jingcheng called out in a deep voice.
Outside the door, a figure flashed in. Cheng Qing's tall stature moved to stand by the door, stopping Gu Zhiyuan who was preparing to rush out, leaving him to stop his steps in despair.
Not to mention two, he seemed unable to beat even one of them.
"Mr. Bo," Cheng Qing stood respectfully waiting for his instructions.
Bo Jingcheng reached out, took the lemon water Ji Shunuan hadn't finished, and handed it to her, then he neatly massaged his wrist and glanced indifferently at Gu Zhiyuan.
"Secure the door. No one is allowed to leave before the police arrive," Bo Jingcheng instructed in a hoarse voice.
Gu Zhiyuan stood there in shock, his body tensed.
"Mr. Bo?" Gu Zhiyuan's eyelid twitched.
The name Bo was too sensitive; it was highly unlikely for ordinary people to carry that surname, and those who did were far from ordinary.
Gu Zhiyuan drew a cold breath, standing there, staring at Bo Jingcheng thoughtfully and swallowing hard, feeling very uneasy.
Sweat leaked continuously from the palms of his hands, and the sounds around him seemed to fade away, his entire person becoming dazed.
"It can't be, it's impossible. It's just a coincidence that he has the surname Bo; he shouldn't be Bo Jingcheng," Gu Zhiyuan murmured to himself, trying to convince his own mind.
Although there were not many people surnamed Bo, it couldn't be such a coincidence.
Ever since the live broadcast of his cheating and calling off the engagement caused turmoil within the Gu Corporation, he had been looking for connections, trying to attach himself to a powerful figure in the Beijing circle.
And the president of the Bo clan, Bo Jingcheng, had recently come to Jincheng, but his whereabouts were uncertain!
He had spent a lot of money and pulled strings, yet he couldn't find Bo Jingcheng's location.
Moreover, how could Ji Shunuan possibly know someone from the Beijing circle!