Accidentally Marked My Ex’s Crush, the Ice-Cold Goddess O - Chapter 8: Back to the Hospital to Find Her

Chapter 8: Back to the Hospital to Find Her

Jiang Ci came out of the office, closing the door, her mind busy thinking about Dr. Gu, forgetting to watch her path.

When she looked up, she bumped into someone coming her way with a thud.

Jiang Ci stepped back to steady herself, “Sorry.”

“Hmm, isn’t this the useless alpha I publicly dumped? What, did your brain get smashed like that on the day I broke off our engagement?”

A mocking voice came from ahead.

Jiang Ci didn’t need to see the person; she knew from the voice it was Qiao Yunchi, the second daughter of the Qiao family.

After being publicly dumped by her that day, the entire media in Linjiang City reported the incident.

At the company entrance, her home entrance, even now, media were still camping out, and her fans online were cursing her relentlessly.

This person, she didn’t want to see even for a moment.

Jiang Ci didn’t want to talk much with her, sidestepped to leave, but Qiao Yunchi grabbed her arm.

“Leaving already?”

Qiao Yunchi tilted her head, sunglasses on her nose hiding her cold, arrogant expression.

Jiang Ci: “If I don’t leave, should I stay here to be insulted by you?”

Qiao Yunchi held on tighter, even pulling harder, “How can you say that? A top omega like me with a useless alpha like you for a lifetime, how could that ever be happy? You wouldn’t want us to fight over this after marriage, would you?”

Jiang Ci lifted her arm to break free from her grip, saying, “So, congratulations on getting your wish to break off our engagement.”

After speaking, she left without a glance.

As Jiang Ci walked away, the office door behind suddenly opened, and Gu Feiran came out wearing a mask.

Qiao Yunchi heard the sound, turned, and saw Gu Feiran, her face instantly lighting up with a smile, “Hello, Dr. Gu, do you still remember me?”

Gu Feiran closed the door, standing straight, “Do you have business with me?”

Qiao Yunchi didn’t mind her coldness, lifted her hand to take off her sunglasses, and introduced herself, “If Dr. Gu doesn’t remember me, we can get to know each other again. I’m Qiao Yunchi. My arm was injured before, and you bandaged it for me.”

Gu Feiran glanced at the scabbed scar on her forearm and said, “I don’t remember. Is there anything else?”

“No, nothing.” Qiao Yunchi said.

Gu Feiran hummed, didn’t say more, turned, and went to check on patients in the ward.

Qiao Yunchi stood there, stunned.

She hadn’t seen her a few days ago and planned to meet her by chance today, but didn’t expect Dr. Gu to be so cold.

After leaving the hospital, Jiang Ci went back to the company to prepare to discuss cooperation with Fu Ruanyi from Shengding Group.

She first had her assistant contact Fu Ruanyi’s secretary, but upon hearing it was Jiang’s Group, they made an excuse and hung up.

Jiang Ci told her assistant to keep calling until they were blocked.

By the fourth call, they were blocked.

Since she was asking for a favor, she needed to act like it. If they wouldn’t take her calls, she’d go to Shengding Group to find them.

Jiang Ci had someone check where Fu Ruanyi was.

Half an hour later, they messaged that Fu Ruanyi was in a meeting at the company, ending in about twenty minutes.

Jiang Ci replied with an okay, immediately grabbed the contract, and went with the legal team to Shengding Group’s building.

But they were stopped in the lobby.

Unable to go up, they could only wait downstairs, hoping to catch her.

After waiting nearly three hours in the lobby, Jiang Ci suddenly got another message from that person, saying Fu Ruanyi left the company ten minutes ago for her private horse ranch.

Private horse ranch?

They said Fu Ruanyi loved riding horses, going almost five or six times a week.

Jiang Ci got the message, left Shengding Group with her team, and drove to the private horse ranch.

But when they arrived, the ranch staff said it was a private ranch, requiring prior appointments, and entry wasn’t allowed without one.

Jiang Ci, unable to get in, said, “We’re here to discuss cooperation with President Fu. Please notify her.”

The staff saw they were dressed formally, softened, and said, “Alright, please wait.”

Jiang Ci: “Thank you.”

The two returned to the car to wait.

After nearly an hour, the ranch staff came out. Jiang Ci got out of the car to meet them, asking, “What did President Fu say? Will she meet us?”

The staff said, “Sorry, President Fu said she’s not seeing anyone today. Sorry.”

“Okay… I understand.” Jiang Ci didn’t mind.

Then the ranch staff drove back, and the ranch gate closed again.

Jiang Ci returned to the car.

The legal team member sitting beside her asked, “President Jiang, what do we do if President Fu keeps refusing to meet us?”

Jiang Ci picked up her phone to call the company. When they answered, she said, “Have the company send another car and a legal team member.”

“Alright, President Jiang.” They got the message and prepared immediately.

After hanging up, Jiang Ci told him, “If we can’t meet her, we’ll make her meet us. Later, the company will send another legal team member. You two go to the ranch parking lot and block her.”

Block her.

Blocking wasn’t a problem, but…

The legal team member cautiously said, “President Jiang, although this ranch is President Fu’s private one, many people come and go. How do we know… which car is hers?”

Jiang Ci told him, “Fu Ruanyi is proud. She always enters and exits the ranch through the main gate, not the parking lot. You two just set up there.”

The legal team member nodded, “Got it.”

The two and the driver waited at the ranch gate for about an hour and a half. The driver arrived with another legal team member.

The legal team member in the car got out to join them, and the two drove to the parking lot to block her.

Jiang Ci and the driver stayed to block her here.

Inside the ranch.

Fu Ruanyi rode a few laps around the track, stopping when she felt satisfied. She dismounted, and the ranch staff immediately took the reins.

Secretary Li Shuwen, holding a water bottle, walked up to her.

Fu Ruanyi, removing her helmet, asked, “Has Jiang Ci from Jiang’s Group left?”

Li Shuwen shook her head, “No, not only has she not left, she called another car to block the ranch parking lot too.”

“Oh.”

Fu Ruanyi said lightly, took off her helmet, handed it to Li Shuwen, pulled out the hair tie from her low ponytail, and ran her hands through her smooth long hair.

As she lowered her hands, she took the water bottle, sipped through the straw twice, “Blocking the parking lot too, that’s some determination.”

Li Shuwen said, “Should we drive those people away?”

Fu Ruanyi finished drinking, handed the water back to Li Shuwen, “No need. If she wants to wait, let her wait.”

Li Shuwen: “Understood, President Fu.”

Fu Ruanyi walked toward the rest area, asking, “By the way, have you contacted Xiao Ran?”

Li Shuwen replied, “I did, but Miss Gu said the day after tomorrow is surgery day, and she has no time for the family gathering.”

Fu Ruanyi shook her head lightly, her expression indulgent, “That girl always finds reasons not to come. If she won’t come, fine, I’ll go to the hospital to find her the day after tomorrow.”

“Okay.” Li Shuwen agreed.

The blazing sun had set at some point, replaced by a half-crescent moon with a star beside it.

Jiang Ci sat in the car, staring at the ranch gate.

From the afternoon until now, seven or eight cars had come out, but judging by the license plates and models, none were cars Fu Ruanyi would ride in.

The Fu family was always proud and noble; others avoided them, never the other way around.

So Fu Ruanyi would definitely leave in her own car.

That car’s license plate was Lin A·88888.

“President Jiang, the ranch gate is opening.” The driver said.

Jiang Ci saw it too. She grabbed the documents, opened the car door, and walked down, planning to block Fu Ruanyi’s car with her body.

But…

The first car out of the ranch wasn’t the Rolls-Royce Fu Ruanyi rode in but an ordinary car.

After coming out, it didn’t leave; it pulled over to the side.

Then the second, third, fourth, and fifth cars came out.

Until the last car came out.

It was the Rolls-Royce Fu Ruanyi rode in.

All the cars had their low beams on, lined up head to tail. Every step Jiang Ci took, the cars moved forward or backward to block her.

Jiang Ci had no way to get close to Fu Ruanyi.

Fu Ruanyi’s car drove out from the back, openly passing in front of her, and the other side didn’t even roll down the window, leaving cleanly.

Clearly, her rank wasn’t high enough.

After Fu Ruanyi left, the blocking cars drove away too, and soon the entrance was empty.

Jiang Ci sighed, holding the documents, walked to the curb, sat cross-legged, and flipped through the papers page by page. When she didn’t want to flip anymore, she looked up at the sky.

No matter how well the plan and contract were made, if the other side wouldn’t even look, it was just a pile of waste paper.

“Sister, where are you? I miss you so much.”

Jiang Ci murmured softly at the sky, a hot tear sliding uncontrollably from the corner of her eye.

“Xiao Ci did great.”

“Our Xiao Ci is so good.”

“Xiao Ci has grown so tall already.”

“Sister has to work. Xiao Ci, be good, go play by yourself.”

…

An hour later, at the city hospital.

Gu Feiran had just finished an emergency stomach perforation surgery. After it ended, she changed clothes and headed back to her office.

Before getting close, she saw someone squatting at her office door.

At first, she thought it was a patient’s family member who fell asleep there by mistake, but as she got closer, she realized it was Jiang Ci.

What was she doing here so late?

Jiang Ci, head down, was sleeping against the wall, holding a laptop bag, looking like she came straight from work.

Gu Feiran lightly kicked Jiang Ci’s knee.

Jiang Ci, sleeping lightly, woke up from the kick.

Gu Feiran looked down at her, “Why aren’t you home at this hour? What are you doing at my office door?”

Jiang Ci rubbed her eyes, stood up from the ground, her body leaning weakly against the wall like she had no bones. Looking at Gu Feiran, she said weakly, “Dr. Gu, can you kindly take me in for one night?”

“No.” Gu Feiran refused directly.

Jiang Ci didn’t expect to be rejected so bluntly. A wave of sadness and disappointment surged in her heart again.

Her eyes instantly turned red, looking pitiful.

Today, all she got was rejection, rejection, and more rejection.

This world didn’t love her at all.

Gu Feiran saw the blurry tears at the corners of her eyes: “…”