Su Mian noticed Gu Yuanqiu and Gu Yichen were about to come in.
She immediately walked over to the jewelry counter and asked the sales assistant to take out the biggest gemstone for her to see.
She made a show of examining it for a while.
"Barely passable. The ones I saw at a private auction before were truly stunning. The stuff in this mall is only good for everyday wear, just for fun."
She picked up another piece and examined it.
"Too old-fashioned. All my jewelry used to be custom-ordered directly from Handsome Country. I never had any of these mass-market designs!"
By this point in her performance, she had fully displayed the face of a gold digger.
She stole a glance at Gu Yuanqiu and Gu Yichen out of the corner of her eye.
She suddenly realized Gu Yuanqiu had already come up behind her and was watching her with a broad smile.
Su Mian asked, "What are you smiling at?"
Gu Yuanqiu said, "Miss Su, those lines you memorized happen to be from a short drama I watched yesterday, 'The Gold Digger Met a Miserable End After Breaking Up with Me.' You're clearly putting on a show for us."
What?
The heiress of the Gu Medical Group actually watched short dramas!
A miscalculation!
Gu Yuanqiu seemed full of curiosity about her.
She intended to ask a few more questions, but suddenly received an emergency call from the hospital.
The hospital said a woman in labor was in critical condition and needed Gu Yuanqiu to hurry back and handle it personally.
Gu Yuanqiu and her son agreed and hurried back to the hospital.
Su Mian breathed a sigh of relief and planned to continue shopping for nutritional supplements for her mother.
Suddenly, a long sequence of images flashed through her mind without warning.
The pregnant woman Gu Yuanqiu saved had a husband who kept saying things she didn't want to hear beside her, causing her to lose control of her emotions. Using a trip to the bathroom as an excuse, she went up to the rooftop and jumped.
Afterward, the husband began bringing relatives and friends to the hospital every day to cause trouble.
They threatened to make them either pay compensation and apologize or repay a life with a life.
Gu Yuanqiu paid compensation as required by law, but the pregnant woman's family was dissatisfied. They even blocked Gu Yuanqiu's path and stripped her naked...
From then on, Gu Yuanqiu developed psychological problems, fell into depression, and never dared treat patients again.
An obstetrician of her generation, the heiress of a medical group, fell just like that.
Su Mian couldn't believe it. "System, what's going on? All the information I have about this world comes from that one post. Why am I suddenly seeing images like these?"
[This counts as one of the bugs, too.]
"So what I foresaw is real?"
[That's right.]
Gu Yuanqiu had only left in the elevator a little while ago. Should she go warn her?
If she warned her but accidentally earned affection from Gu Yichen, that would be trouble.
But if she didn't, that would mean two lives lost in one body, plus the loss of a female domineering CEO who was also an elite doctor!
Su Mian made her decision without agonizing over it.
She would rather slow down her mission progress than stand by and watch someone die!
She immediately chased them downstairs and happened to see Gu Yuanqiu and her son about to drive away.
Su Mian hurried over to stop the car and spoke to her through the window. "Miss Gu, you must keep a constant watch on your maternity patient today. Don't leave her side, and stop her husband from talking to her. She could very well be provoked into jumping off the building! And you'll meet a miserable end too!"
Gu Yuanqiu looked thoughtful.
Gu Yichen looked at her dismissively. "All the windows in our hospital's maternity wards only open thirty degrees. We maintain strict safeguards against patients jumping. No one can jump out. Don't spread alarmist nonsense."
Su Mian said, "She has legs. She can go up to the rooftop! Are you stupid?"
Gu Yichen said, "..."
The hospital belonged to the Gu family, and he had great confidence in his family's hospital security.
There was no way they would let a woman in labor wander up to the rooftop.
Besides, what Su Mian said was very vague.
Stop a husband from talking to his wife? Women in labor were emotionally sensitive at a time like this, and husbands were bound to say the wrong thing. They would keep an eye on the husband without being told. Would that end up counting as Su Mian's achievement too?
Gu Yichen suddenly lost his favorable impression of her again.
Perhaps she wasn't that sort of low-level gold digger.
She was a scheming gold digger with sophisticated methods.
Once she learned his mother held the power in the Gu family, she kept racking her brains to farm affection in front of his mother!
Gu Yichen's affection dropped straight to 0.
Su Mian's eyes lit up.
Heh-heh! An unexpected bonus!
Gu Yuanqiu, however, thought the young woman was very sincere and nodded. "I'll remember your warning. By the way, I'm curious. You're clearly not that sort of person, so why insist on putting on an act in a luxury store?"
Su Mian was afraid that continuing the conversation would earn her affection from Gu Yichen again.
So she put on a stern face and said, "I am that sort of person. If today's warning helps you, remember to send me money."
With that, she turned and left.
Su Mian didn't notice that Lu Zhou's car was right behind the Gu family's car.
Lu Zhou had been observing them in secret for a while.
What were they talking about...?
He hadn't caught the earlier part.
He only heard Miss Gu say at the end, "Why are you pretending to be rich in a luxury store?"
Tsk.
A trace of contempt appeared in Lu Zhou's eyes, and he got out of the car and followed her.
Su Mian had just entered the health supplement store.
An unpleasant voice suddenly sounded behind her. "You really came to a luxury store to pretend you're rich? Planning to take photos and post them on your Moments?"
"Su Mian, I see you've only sunk lower and lower since leaving me."
"If you can't afford to shop somewhere like this, go online and get a few people together. Everyone can chip in and pool their money."
"What's it called again... fake socialites or something. You could learn from them."
Su Mian turned around, looked him up and down with an appraising gaze, then gave a soft, disdainful "Tch."
Lu Zhou's pride was about to shatter!
He couldn't wait to reveal his true identity!
He gave a light scoff. "I forgot to tell you something. I'm actually the rich man you've always wanted to find. I'm also the CEO of Starry Entertainment Company, which makes me your boss."
Having said that, he waited with interest for Su Mian to kneel and beg to get back together.
Su Mian was calm. "Really? I don't believe you."
Lu Zhou grew angry, but quickly regained his footing.
He pointed at the luxury handbag store next door. "Which one do you like? I'll give it to you."
Su Mian said, "I like every single one. Can you give me all of them?"
Lu Zhou said, "...Stop being unreasonable!"
Su Mian said, "Why act like hot shit if you don't have money?"
Lu Zhou said, "If you accept my gift, I'll look down on you for the rest of my life."
Su Mian said, "That's okay! My dignity isn't worth a penny."
"..." Lu Zhou was stunned.
His punches had all landed on springs.
They bounced right back effortlessly.
Did she have no shame?!
Why couldn't she act like a girl with dignity and say with some backbone, "I'd rather die than accept anything from you"?!
Lu Zhou gritted his teeth. "Su Mian, you've really disappointed me."
Su Mian said, "That's okay! Your opinion isn't worth a penny."
Lu Zhou took a deep breath.
She must be treating me like this because I haven't shown her I'm rich yet.
That's why she still doesn't believe I'm rich.
So he turned and entered the luxury store next door, pointing at Su Mian. "Pack up all the clothes and bags that suit her!"
Su Mian asked, "Are they for me?"
Lu Zhou said, "Yes."
Su Mian said, "You're so nice!"
Su Mian immediately waited happily.
Lu Zhou sneered.
Did she think buying her gifts meant he was being good to her?
He was actually doing it to make her feel an endless gulf between what she'd had and what she'd lost!
Very soon, she would know.
She would never find another boyfriend as rich as him!
Lu Zhou was already imagining Su Mian kneeling in front of him and begging to get back together!
Over there, the sales assistant praised him to Su Mian as she packed the items. "Your boyfriend is so handsome."
Su Mian said, "Ex-boyfriend."
The sales assistant said, "Wow, he's still buying you things after you broke up? That makes him even more charming!"
Su Mian said, "So what? Don't look at every handsome man through a filter. Think about it. His belly is full of shit. He lives just to keep the shit in his belly warm. Every day, he walks around carrying a bellyful of shit... Do you still think he's handsome now?"
The sales assistant said, "Not anymore."
Lu Zhou said, "...Su Mian, don't go too far! You accepted my gifts, and you still say things like that!"