At that time, Shi Nuan’s life had almost sunk into despair and helplessness.

Especially after the car accident, she became extremely sensitive, and her entire mental state was very bad.

At that time, she desperately needed someone’s company, desperately needed someone to support her and help her stand up bravely.

And this person had to be someone she trusted, depended on, someone who could make her let down her guard!

Eighteen-year-old Shi Nuan, having just gone through a brush with death, wasn’t going to easily accept a completely unfamiliar man entering her world to save her!

With the slightest misstep, that so-called salvation could very likely turn into destruction!

So Song Yichuan was indeed the most suitable choice—at the very least, more suitable than him!

And facts proved that after Song Yichuan and Shi Nuan got together, Shi Nuan’s condition did improve a lot.

Not just Shi Nuan—Song Yichuan’s own illness also improved a lot.

The doctor had originally said he could last at most two years, but he held on for three. That was almost a miracle.

So, at the moment he gave Shi Nuan up, did Song Yansheng ever think about what he might face in the future?

Of course he had. He had thought about what would happen if Song Yichuan unfortunately died and could no longer stay by Shi Nuan’s side!

This time, no matter what, he was absolutely determined he would never give up Shi Nuan again.

That meant he would be facing the situation of snatching his nephew’s fiancée after his nephew’s death!

And it would also mean putting Shi Nuan in the position of having her fiancé just pass away, only for her to immediately throw herself into her fiancé’s uncle’s arms!

A reputation like that would naturally sound terrible and would damage the Song Family’s reputation.

But even so, he didn’t care. He believed that as long as he was strong enough, he had no need to fear the terror of rumor.

In the future, even if things were exposed, whoever dared say a single word of dissent and make his Nuannuan unhappy would no longer have any place in T City!

At present, he believed he was strong enough, but there were still many things he had to do—like dealing with Song Zhongming, and the Song Family.

And since he had married Shi Nuan, Shi Nuan’s affairs had also become his affairs.

If the Shi Family had no Yu Dou, taking care of them would be effortless, hardly requiring any real effort to crush them. But now that there was Yu Dou, that had become a problem too.

In addition, Shi Nuan’s mother’s death was riddled with suspicions, and so many years had passed that many clues had already disappeared; it was no longer easy to investigate.

Lastly, Shi Nuan’s grandmother and Younger Aunt were still missing to this day; he didn’t know where they were, and he needed to help Shi Nuan find them.

They were Shi Nuan’s blood relatives, so they were his relatives as well!

However, he wasn’t going to take too long with all of this; he would resolve everything in the shortest possible time.

And then he would announce his claim over Shi Nuan to the entire world, tell them that this girl was his—she belonged to him, to Song Yansheng!

...

After Song Yansheng and the others left, Song Zhongming called Yu Dou upstairs to the study for a talk.

But it didn’t last long, only about ten minutes.

Ten minutes later, the two of them came down together. At that moment, Song Qingyang was in the living room chatting with her mother.

In fact, if she could, she would have preferred to go straight back to her room, but before going upstairs, Father had instructed her to wait for him in the living room.

Since the show had already been put on, there was no need to ruin things right at the last step and bring trouble down on herself—that would be a loss outweighing the gain.

So she forced herself to wait downstairs, without knowing what Father wanted her to wait here for.

Seeing Father and Yu Dou come down the stairs, her mother Liang Yue’e stood up. Seeing this, Song Qingyang had no choice but to stand up as well.

Once the two men had come down, Song Zhongming turned to Yu Dou and said, "It’s getting late, and you still have work tomorrow. I won’t keep you any longer..."