The Glamorous Comeback of the Ousted Heiress novel Chapter 828

Chapter 828: After 321 regret, Miss Bai came_2

"Grandpa, do you like Xiaoqi more?" she suddenly asked.

Ji Heng, holding the watering can, lifted his head and an expression resembling speechlessness appeared on his aged face for the first time.

"Isn’t that so?" Bai Lian crossed her arms over her chest, her tone unhurried, "Then why did you get up so early to stew soup?"

Ji Heng glanced at her and, after watering the flowers, returned to the kitchen to pour the soup on the chopping board down the drain.

"Hey, wait, Grandpa." Bai Lian quickly grabbed the soup bowl, took a couple of sips, and then told him about the situation in Xiangcheng, "Sun Fei has already investigated it clearly; it was Zhou Jian who switched them. If you have any questions, ask Officer Sun."

Zhou Jian, Ren Qian’s secretary.

After Bai Lian went upstairs, Ji Heng stood in the kitchen for quite a while.

He somewhat dreaded to imagine that it had taken him this long to find out that Ji Shaorong’s child had been switched, and if it weren’t for the presence of Bai Lian...

They might have been kept in the dark all their lives.

Ji Shaorong has not returned to this day.

After pouring the soup into a thermos, Ji Heng returned to his own room.

He opened an old wooden box, where that stack of black-and-white photos still lay. The woman in the cheongsam was tenderly smiling at the camera; he slowly ran his hand over these photos before taking out an old mobile phone from the bottom of the box.

He searched the room for a long time for a charger and finally found one to charge the phone.

The phone hadn’t been used in a long time; he didn’t wait for it to start up, but took the thermos with him to the hospital first.

**

Upstairs.

Bai Lian took a shower before heading to the study.

There were two documents on the desk in the study—one was the confidentiality agreement given to her by Dean Huang, which she had signed but had not yet returned to him, and the other was the rare metal trade deal she had signed with Wang Youfeng yesterday.

The phone rang.

It was a call from Dean Huang, inquiring about this matter.

Knowing that Dean Huang was at school, Bai Lian picked up both agreements and first went to Jiang University.

Dean Huang was in his office.

As Bai Lian arrived, the teaching assistant was reporting the content of the emails to Dean Huang, "So far, we have already received ten emails."

As soon as the news broke this year that Dean Huang was taking on graduate students, it was still that same group of people who were the first to know—their recommendation letters had already been sent to Dean Huang’s email box.

He asked Qi Jun.

Qi Jun breezed through the re-examination, but because he was psychologically affected, he barely made it, "Still looking."

He had approached two professors, but both said they had already chosen someone.

He didn’t achieve a good ranking in last summer’s mathematical modeling competition, so Qi Jun’s resume wasn’t impressive and finding a decent supervisor proved challenging.

"What about Dr. Zuo?" Yu Sheng remembered the instructor from last summer, the professor with the highest position that he knew, "Doesn’t Miss Qi know Dr. Zuo?"

Speaking of Qi Shuyun, Qi Jun grew even silent.

Qi Shuyun didn’t pass the re-examination, which was even harder for her than for him.

Last summer, Qi Jun was surrounded by a bunch of people; this year, after the exams, there were only a few left around him, as most had gone to look for jobs.

Seeing Qi Jun’s expression, Yu Sheng knew the situation was not optimistic.

The group headed downstairs. On Sunday morning, there weren’t many people coming in and out of the building.

Suddenly, they heard an excited voice not far away. Someone was softly calling "Dean Huang."

This voice—Qi Jun and Yu Sheng both heard it. They stood at the doorway, shocked, and looked up toward the staircase.