Chapter 856 — Kang Jingming's Visit
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"That must be him—or at the very least, her father's driver!" Wang Shubin nodded. "Young Master Kang, it just struck me: if you were to pay a visit to Guan Xin's father, Guan Xiaopeng, it would likely be far more effective than visiting Guan Xuedmin!"
"Oh? How so?" Kang Jingming asked at once.
"Young Master Kang, doesn't your family's Divine Physician Kang Pharmaceutical Company have partnerships with plenty of hospitals? The First People's Hospital and the Second People's Hospital are both among them—and aren't those both under Guan Xin's old man's company?" Zhu Xiaozhang cut in. "That being the case, Guan Xiaopeng, given his company's partnership with the Kang family, surely won't openly offend you. All he has to do is agree to let you have contact with Guan Xin, and your goal is achieved." "Hmm, that makes sense. Come on—get in the car. We'll follow them and see where they're headed!" Kang Jingming nodded.
Guan Xiaopeng had never studied surveillance or counter-surveillance, so he never noticed that a Porsche Cayenne had slowly fallen in behind him. He went on chatting with Guan Xin as though nothing were amiss. "Xinxin, is work busy? Are you worn out?"
"It's fine, really. It gets a little tiring sometimes, but I like the job," Guan Xin said with a nod.
"If it ever wears you down, why not come work at Dad's company? You can't be a nurse your whole life, can you?" Guan Xiaopeng said with a smile. He had always wanted Guan Xin to join his company, but she had never agreed.
"No. I want to stay here with Grandfather," Guan Xin said, shaking her head.
Guan Xiaopeng sighed and let the subject drop. Then he asked, "*** is in good health, I hope?"
"Pretty good. Lately Grandfather's been in high spirits because of the company," Guan Xin said.
"The company? You'll have to keep an eye on your grandfather for me. He's never run a business in his life—I don't want him getting cheated and losing his good name over it!" Guan Xiaopeng was a little displeased to hear about his father starting a company. Back when he had gone into business for himself, he too had meant to use his father's name as a springboard to make something of himself. "Especially that Wei Zhao fellow—so young, and who knows what talent he has, yet your grandfather holds him in such esteem!"
But when he had voiced that idea, his father had rebuked him in the harshest terms, saying he was afraid of being cheated by friends and of dragging his own reputation down with him. In the end, it was only thanks to a benefactor's help that he had managed to build his business into what it was; otherwise he might never even have married his girlfriend—Guan Xin's mother!
Back then, Guan Xin's mother's family had opposed the match with all their might! So whenever this matter came to mind, Guan Xiaopeng felt a splinter lodged in his heart. Though so much time had passed, a certain distance still lingered between father and son. They cared for each other, yet they were not truly close.
"He won't. Wei Zhao is a good man—he would never cheat Grandfather," Guan Xin said, instinctively rising to Wei Zhao's defense. But the moment the words left her mouth, she felt she had spoken a little too hastily, and her face flushed at once.
Seeing his daughter's expression, Guan Xiaopeng frowned. Could it be that his daughter had fallen for Wei Zhao?
Guan Xiaopeng did not pursue the subject further. The car slowly pulled into Songshan Medical and Pharmaceutical University, and he parked at the gate of his father's villa. Though relations between father and son seemed less than harmonious, Guan Xiaopeng always came home to see Guan Xuedmin whenever he was back in town on business.
Guan Xuedmin's relationship with his son had been much the same over the years, and by now he was used to it. Seeing his son return, he gave a nod, said little, and went back to the study to busy himself with his own affairs.