Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride’s Gambit

Chapter 51: Chapter 51 Qi Yunfan’s Last Hope Chapter 51: Chapter 51 Qi Yunfan’s Last Hope Qi Hospital.

Qi Yunfan had made calls all afternoon and searched for connections all night, all to no avail.

As soon as others heard it was about Qi Hospital, they rejected cooperation as if facing some ferocious beast, not even contemplating a discussion, denying him the chance to plead.

Qi Yunfan had never felt so stifled in his life.

He couldn’t fathom why Cong Ningyuan, the president of such a large pharmaceutical company, would go to such lengths for Lin Chuyi. He had told him that Lin Chuyi had already climbed into Sheng Tingyuan’s bed—why would he continue to act like a love-struck fool? Did he like Lin Chuyi that much?

“Brother Yunfan, is it still not working?”

Wen Nianyou asked softly beside him, “Still couldn’t get the medicine?”

“No.”

Qi Yunfan was incredibly agitated, “Cong Ningyuan is crazy. For Lin Chuyi, he wants to sanction our hospital! It’s despicable!”

Wen Nianyou sighed, “Chuyi really has some skill. She must have been with Cong Ningyuan for a long time, right? Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so devoted to her.”

Qi Yunfan grew even more irritated.

He thought he had dumped Lin Chuyi, but it turned out Lin Chuyi had dumped him! She had already hooked up with someone influential! No wonder she could come and go from Jungle Pharmaceutical as she pleased. If he had known, he wouldn’t have let their relationship become so strained.

He looked at Wen Nianyou with dissatisfaction, “You were the one who said she was working as a janitor at Jungle, and I believed that. Now it looks like she’s climbed much higher than a janitor! Your information is totally unreliable!”

“How can that be my fault? She hid the truth herself, she said she was a janitor.”

Qi Yunfan, in a foul mood, turned and walked out.

Wen Nianyou immediately followed him, “Brother Yunfan, where are you going?”

“To a bar, to find someone.”

“Then I’ll go with you.”

After arriving at the bar, Qi Yunfan looked around and finally found the person he was looking for in a corner—Xiao Yue.

Xiao Yue ran a pharmaceutical company that didn’t produce anything. Instead, it primarily acted as an intermediary, buying medical equipment and drugs at low prices from abroad and selling them at high prices to small hospitals and clinics.

Xiao Yue was someone Qi Yunfan had met at a pharmaceutical conference and was his last hope.

But, after a brief conversation, Xiao Yue refused him, “Our company’s drugs are all pre-ordered. The medicines you want are also restricted purchases at major pharmaceutical firms; I have none spare to sell to you. I can’t make this deal.”

Qi Yunfan was deeply disappointed, yet he wasn’t willing to give up this last hope, so he sat down with Wen Nianyou at a booth nearby, planning to probe Xiao Yue again after he had drunk more.

Some time later, a girl with the appearance of a student and an air of innocence entered the bar. She had a backpack on and approached Xiao Yue.

Seeing the two heavily made-up, scantily clad women sitting next to Xiao Yue, the girl asked with teary eyes, “Is this what you like?”

Xiao Yue glanced at her, wrapping his arm around one of the women, “Yes, I like this kind.”

Tears spilled from the girl’s eyes. She took off her backpack and then started to take off her clothes, “I’m not smaller than them!”

Xiao Yue’s expression changed, and he immediately stood up, covering her with his suit jacket, as she removed her first garment, “Stop messing around!”

The girl looked up at him, tears streaming down, “You promised me. When I grew up, you said you would be with me. You lied to me!”

Xiao Yue said coldly, “Who let you come to a place like this? Go home!”

“If you can come here, why can’t I? Don’t you like the women here? Then I’ll come here every day!”

Continuing to speak, the girl pushed him away, discarded his suit jacket, and continued to undress, leaving only a small camisole before she started on her trousers.

Her young and undeveloped body, with the unique glow of a young girl, emitted an enticing aura under the neon lights.

The bar was filled with veterans who could tell at a glance that this girl was pure and clean, unlike the women who regularly frequented the place.

Their eyes gleamed with greed as they looked at her.

A man approached Xiao Yue, “Buddy, since you don’t like this kind, how about letting me have a go with this chick? I dig them young.”

The response he received was a fierce punch from Xiao Yue.

The man howled in pain as he collapsed, and Xiao Yue’s expression was ice-cold, “Get lost!”

He picked up the suit jacket again, draping it over the girl, covering her exposed skin, “Yunzhu, stop it.”