Chapter 27: Rose in the Water
At the chaotic dockside.
The flashbulbs of reporters thundered.
Anshi appeared, rather inopportunely, taking a white envelope from his pocket and standing humbly yet reasonably before the damp Xu Zhiqiang. He spoke softly, "The Young Miss has considered that you all went through an ordeal at the Xu Family, and now that you’re safe, you surely wouldn’t dare return to stay there. Here are three plane tickets to America and three boat tickets as a token of the Young Miss’s kindness and concern. Please accept them."
An overt expulsion.
Xu Zhiqiang’s face darkened; he didn’t reach out but instead huffed heavily.
Xu Zhi’an sighed, extending his hand. His sleeve was heavy and damp, reeking of foul water. "Understood, I’ll go back."
"Then, on behalf of the Young Miss, I wish your family a safe journey."
Having delivered the tickets, Anshi drove off in the black car, disappearing into the night without looking back.
Xu Si sat in the back of the car, feeling the moist sea breeze on her face. Her pale fingers propped up her chin, and her eyes were closed. She had settled the bankruptcy, and with it, the humiliation of five hundred thousand. The vexation in her heart had also dissipated by half.
During the ride, while they waited for pedestrians to pass, someone turned on the car radio.
After a burst of trendsetting music from the eighties filled the air, it was abruptly interrupted by a news broadcast.