Gu Susu felt something was amiss, ordering Mark, "Let him go! He's my brother, let him speak, I need to figure out what happened."
Mark still refused to let go, saying, "Miss Gu, this is not your concern. You go inside, let me drive him away."
"I told you to let him go!" Gu Susu said angrily, "What do you mean it's not my concern? This is my family matter, and I can't manage it?"
"But Mr. Yang he..."
"I will speak to him myself. If you don't let go, I can have Yang Sijie fire you anytime," Gu Susu glared at him.
He had no choice but to release Ai Yifeng. He knew very well how much Gu Susu meant to Yang Sijie, and if he had to obey Yang Sijie, he couldn't disobey Gu Susu.
Ai Yifeng shook his arm, looked at Gu Susu, and seemed to believe her a little. He asked, "Do you really not know what you've done? Without your signature, the Ai Group wouldn't have changed hands."
Gu Susu told him again with certainty, "I really haven't signed any formal documents recently."
Ai Yifeng immediately asked, "Then what have you signed during this time, or what required your signature?"
Gu Susu tried hard to recall, then suddenly said, "I only signed the visa application materials. A huge stack of materials, all in English."
"Are you planning to go abroad? Do you need so many materials for an overseas visa? Have you carefully reviewed every single page you signed?"
Gu Susu was stunned by his question and explained, "Yang Sijie said I didn't need to attend a face-to-face interview, just mail the materials. So, the materials prepared were much more than for a face-to-face interview. I didn't think much of it, I..."
As she spoke, she realized that those English materials likely contained more than just visa information. Could they also include the transfer documents for the Ai Group?
"You didn't look carefully, did you? You just signed them, and everything is over, completely over!" Ai Yifeng became agitated again.
Gu Susu replied blankly, "No, I didn't expect..."
When Yang Sijie was processing her visa, she had been unwilling in the first place.
At that time, he said they were materials for the visa and asked her to sign them. Since they were all in English, she signed them without bothering to read them.
She recalled what Qin Tianyi had said to her when he found her at the dessert shop and took Xiao Xingxing away. It was probably about this matter too, and he thought she and Yang Sijie were colluding.
To this day, she couldn't understand why Yang Sijie would do this.
Gu Susu looked at Mark and asked, "Where is Yang Sijie? I need to find him."
"I don't know. Mr. Yang didn't tell me. Really, he only told me to pick you up and didn't say anything else..."
Before Mark could finish speaking, Ai Yifeng's phone rang. He took it out and answered it, not knowing what the other person said.
His expression became unusually sorrowful. He looked at Gu Susu and said, "The call is from the hospital. They said Mom... Mom is dying..."
"Let's go to the hospital together." Gu Susu got into the car he had parked nearby without a word.
Mark couldn't stop them and could only follow behind them in his car.
When the two of them arrived at the ward, the doctor shook his head at them and said, "She still has some consciousness. If she has any last words, say them quickly."
Ai Yifeng knelt by Yuan Shuna's hospital bed, tightly holding her hand, afraid she would slip away if he let go.
Yuan Shuna's breath was faint, but when she saw Gu Susu, her eyes regained some light.
Gu Susu was afraid to face her and turned to stop the doctor who had already walked out of the ward, saying, "How could this happen? Her cancer wasn't serious, was it? She should be curable. Why aren't you saving her? Hurry and save her!"
The doctor patiently explained to her, "Calm down. Who said her cancer wasn't serious?"
"I've visited her twice, and they all said that," Gu Susu replied somewhat confusedly.
The doctor said sternly, "It was already advanced when it was discovered. The cancer cells had spread throughout her body, and there was no point in further treatment. We are only prolonging her life at the request of her family. We have done our best."
"Advanced? How could that be?"
"You have the best relationship with the patient, right? It seems your family has been hiding it from you," the doctor said, patting her shoulder and comforting her, "The patient's husband signed a do-not-resuscitate agreement a long time ago. You should go and spend time with her. If you have any regrets, this is your last chance. My condolences."
After speaking, the doctor walked past her and left.
Gu Susu hadn't expected the day's unexpected shocks to come one after another, completely overwhelming her.
She remembered that the first time she visited Yuan Shuna in the hospital, they all said it wasn't serious. Why did they lie to her?
She frantically scanned the area outside the ward and then looked inside the ward, but she didn't see Ai Shunan. Yuan Shuna was dying, hadn't he received the news?
"Gu Susu! Come in here, Mom wants to talk to you!" Ai Yifeng roared, tears streaming down his face.
Gu Susu felt her heartbeat stop for a second. She walked back into the ward, never imagining she would face the death of this so-called mother.
At this moment, shouldn't Yuan Shuna be holding Ai Yifeng and discussing the will? Why did she want to talk to her? What could she possibly have to say to her?
She stood by the bedside blankly, not knowing what to say to someone who was dying.
Yuan Shuna's face was ashen. She withdrew her hand from Ai Yifeng's palm, "Yifeng, go wait outside. I have a few words to say to Susu."
Ai Yifeng, with grief mixed with surprise, still obeyed and stood up. He glanced at Gu Susu, walked out of the ward, and closed the door.
Gu Susu felt a little sad but was still restrained and unsure of what to do or say.
"If there's anything you can't say directly to Ai Yifeng, don't worry, tell me, and I'll pass it on to him."
Yuan Shuna slowly shook her head and said softly with a smile, "Susu, I want to see you again. Come closer."
To be honest, her relationship with Yuan Shuna was too shallow. She couldn't kneel by her bedside like Ai Yifeng. She could only sit carefully on the edge of the bed.
Yuan Shuna tried to hold one of her hands and said in a very soft voice, "I'm sorry, I wasn't a good mother. It's understandable if you hate me. But there's something I have to tell you, actually... actually, Ai Shunan is not... not your biological father, he's not..."
"How can that be? I've done DNA tests with you several times, and the results were all the same." Gu Susu thought she was delirious from her illness, surely she was delirious!
Yuan Shuna struggled to breathe, opening her mouth wide and gasping a few times, saying, "That's because every time... every time it was my blood that was drawn, not his."
"You mean, you are my biological mother, but he is not my biological father?"
Yuan Shuna nodded with difficulty, "Yes."
"This... how is this possible?" Gu Susu stared at her disbelievingly, "What exactly is going on?"