With global currency devaluation, I'll wear these back and take my whole family flying!

"what?"

Upon hearing this, Li Jianguo's eyes widened in surprise: "Your boyfriend? That police officer from just now?"

Shen Ci readily agreed with a nod.

"You...you were just together?"

Li Jianguo thought the two had confirmed their relationship in the half hour they had just gone out. Shen Ci laughed and cried when she heard this: "No, Director Li, we've known each other for almost a month, but we haven't been together for long."

“He was just doing his job. If the other person knew he was my boyfriend, he would definitely start pestering me again, so we pretended we didn’t know each other.”

Pili chuckled and said, "The teacher insisted that I go along and take a look, but I figured I wasn't going to be a third wheel."

"I didn't know," Li Jianguo laughed, then nodded at Shen Ci, "The young man looks quite energetic and reliable."

"Then I definitely can't be bad at choosing people."

Shen Ci said half-jokingly, pulling up a chair to sit down in front of Li Jianguo before straightening up: "Director Li, the doctor said that although your disease is rare, it can be cured by lung transplantation, but you need to wait for a suitable lung donor. This process is very long, so you need to use medication to control it. Targeted drugs from abroad are very effective, so I think that as long as you have a professional certificate from a doctor, this disease will not become a weakness or vulnerability for you during the divorce proceedings."

Upon hearing the first part of her statement, Li Jianguo thought Shen Ci was trying to comfort him, but he didn't expect the key point to be in the latter part: she had already begun to think of ways to resolve her divorce proceedings.

Li Jianguo sighed and pondered for a long time before speaking: "I didn't want things to get too ugly, because Yuanyuan is old enough to remember things. No matter what she does wrong, it only hurts me. I don't want her image as a mother in Yuanyuan's heart to be affected."

"But my bottom line has always been my daughter. I can give up everything else, but I can't give up my daughter. If she tries to take my daughter from me, I'll fight her to the bitter end!"

“We had drafted an agreement to divorce by mutual consent, but the court gave us a month to cool off. Now that I have suddenly fallen ill, it has given her the opportunity to back out and take advantage of the situation.”

Pili chimed in, "Teacher, you are a counselor at the University of Science and Technology of China. You have a government-appointed position with stable employment and income. You provide positive guidance for the child's growth, so the court will definitely favor you."

Shen Ci nodded in agreement and added, "But to be absolutely sure, the most fatal blow is to seize on the fact that the other party is at fault in the marriage. As long as there is evidence to support this, we can fight for her to leave with nothing. Isn't the house your premarital property?"

Li Jianguo looked at Shen Ci in surprise: "How do you even know this?"

Shen Ci didn't hide anything and told Li Jianguo everything about what she had overheard about Liu Xiaolin's phone call that day.

Upon hearing this, Li Jianguo chuckled self-deprecatingly: "She's really impatient, isn't she? She'd love for me to get sick and die quickly."

“But I have no evidence.” Li Jianguo looked at Shen Ci and sighed. “I know she has someone else. She’s very good at hiding it, but I still noticed. I just never thought of using this to control her. I always thought we could part amicably.”

Shen Ci understood Director Li's character; more precisely, he didn't want things to get too ugly for his daughter's sake.

"Leave it to me, I'll find the evidence," Shen Ci said casually but with an undeniable air of authority.

Li Jianguo was taken aback: "You, you mustn't do anything reckless, Shen Ci. Even though your boyfriend is a policeman, he can't abuse his power for personal gain at this time. If he's caught, he'll be punished."

"Director Li, don't worry, I won't go after him, I have my own way."

She never thinks of men first when she does things.

"Just focus on getting better first. Leave everything else to me for now. I will definitely help you win custody of Yuanyuan and make the other party leave with nothing!"

It wasn't until noon, when Li Jianguo's mother returned, that Shen Cicai and Pili left the hospital.

The two also sent a message to Gu Lianxing. After learning that she had just woken up and hadn't eaten, they packed some food from a roadside restaurant and took it back to their dormitory to eat.

"So exciting?"

After the two recounted what had happened that day, Gu Lianxing slammed her hand on the table with a regretful expression and exclaimed, "Oh dear, why didn't you call me? If I had been there, I would have given that woman a good dressing down!"

"Was it Captain Tang who responded to the call? Why didn't he give those two a good beating?"

Shen Ci was opening a takeout box when she heard this and burst out laughing: "Do you think he hasn't received enough punishment? He was demoted from a criminal police officer to a grassroots police officer because he hit a suspect while handling a case. If he lays a hand on someone again, he might become an auxiliary police officer."

"So how do you plan to help Teacher Li?" Gu Lianxing straightened her expression and looked at Shen Ci seriously, asking, "Do you need my help? I really want to be involved in this!"

Shen Ci actually nodded, and Gu Lianxing's eyes lit up: "Is there really a share for me? Tell me quickly!"

"Don't you have a lot of connections? Do you know any private investigators?"

The profession of private investigator is real, not fictional as depicted in movies and TV shows. It's just that ordinary people rarely have the opportunity to come into contact with them, but wealthy and powerful families often use them.

Gu Lianxing thought for a moment after hearing this, then pouted and shook her head: "I really don't have any connections in this area, but I have paparazzi and professional photographers in the entertainment industry. As long as the money is right, it should be very easy to take some evidence."

"Is it reliable?" Shen Ci asked hesitantly.

Gu Lianxing patted her chest and assured her, "Absolutely reliable."

If Gu Lianxing knew that her connections had set her up with a "fake shoe" deal, I wonder if she would still be as confident as she is now.

"Oh my god, this eggplant is awful!" Gu Lianxing suddenly exclaimed, "Where did you buy this? It's so bad, we should call the police!"

Seeing her overreacting, Pili picked up a piece and tasted it, saying, "It's just so-so. Your reaction is too exaggerated."

Gu Lianxing, however, disagreed and corrected, "Being unpalatable is a privilege reserved for low-fat, low-calorie foods. Eggplant absorbs oil naturally, so it's unacceptable to make it taste so bad with so much oil and salt. This restaurant is blacklisted!"

Shen Ci and Pili both knew that Lianxing had strict requirements for maintaining her figure and her daily calorie intake, so they could understand why she was so particular about it.

"Never mind this eggplant for now. I'll give you Liu Xiaolin's information later. I'll leave the investigation into her extramarital affair to you," Shen Ciyan said, getting back to the main point.

Gu Lianxing became excited again, feeling like she had entered some kind of intelligence organization: "No problem, I'll definitely investigate her thoroughly!"

Pili looked at Shen Ci and asked, "And what about you?"

Shen Ci smiled and said, "Of course I'm going to hire the best divorce lawyer for Director Li!"