Song Yu Qiao blinked, looking at Pei Si Cheng's eyes reflecting her image. She stretched out her right hand and shook it, smiling and asked: "If I hadn't fallen in love with you, would I have accepted your engagement ring?"

  Pei Su Cheng gazed at the ring on Song Yu Qiao's right hand, shining brightly. He took her hand and kissed the ring finger, "Mmm, say you love me."

  Not everyone can remain calm and composed when speaking sweet nothings, Song Yuqiao was not one of them, especially when faced with Pei Si Cheng's extremely intimate actions, and the playful glint in his eyes.

  She turned her face away and looked out the window at the crowded streets, pushed Paisley's chest slightly, and lowered her head slightly, "Let's get going first."

  "No." Pei Si wrapped his arms around Song Yuqiao's waist, not allowing her to retreat. His gaze slightly lowered, falling on her long eyelashes that were trembling like cicada wings. His lips moved from her cheek to her ear, "You don't say it, I'll say it."

  Song Yuqiao's heart was racing violently in her chest, and apart from the sound of breathing, it seemed that Pei Shichen could also hear the sound of her heartbeat.

  Pais's voice was low and elegant, like a cool summer breeze on a quiet night.

  "I love you," Pei Shuai said as he planted a kiss on Song Yuqiao's forehead, "I really love you."

  Song Yuqiao originally had her hands on Pei Cheng's chest, but suddenly grasped the thin fabric of his shirt and wrapped her arms around his waist before he could retreat. Then she took the initiative to send her lips to him, imprinting a kiss.

  Actually, all women yearn for someone to say "I love you" to them in person.

  Although saying "I love you" verbally is important, it will never be as good as showing it through actions.

  Paisen was also stunned for a moment, because Song Yuqiao had never been so proactive in kissing or making love before. However, he only hesitated for a moment before regaining control.

  A lingering deep kiss, until they were both panting and almost unable to hold on.

  Pei Si gently pushed open her lips. Looking at Song Yuqiao's current flushed cheeks, she smiled and helped her adjust the collar of her professional attire, "If a sentence 'I love you' could make you take the initiative, I'll say it to you a hundred times every night before sleep."

  ………………

  In the afternoon, Qiao Mo had a prenatal checkup as usual.

  She knew it was Qi Kun's way of ensuring her unborn baby's health, which is why he would schedule appointments for her to see specialists at regular intervals.

  This time's examination result, the fetus in the abdomen is growing well, and there are no signs of threatened abortion such as fetal movement.

  But this good omen of a fetus in the abdomen lasted less than three hours.

  After the physical examination, Assistant Li took photos of all the prenatal examination reports and sent them to Qi Kun, then drove Qiao Mo back to the company. In front of the Su Zhou Group building, as soon as she got out of the car, she saw Qi Ke.

  Qī Kě couldn't help but notice Qiāo Mò, and as he walked by her side, he directly bumped into her, then let out a cold laugh.

  Qiao Mo supported herself on her shoulder, she knew that at this time, if she didn't become stronger, then in the future she would only be bullied, so she coldly said: "Apologize to me."

  Qī Kě seemed to have heard some joke, pointing at his own nose, "Me, apologize to you? Are you taking yourself too seriously?! Aren't you just the mistress who got pregnant with my dad's child?! How dare you be so arrogant and call yourself a private daughter, disgusting or not."

  Qī was a hot-tempered person, and he directly pushed Qiāo Mò with a push. Qiāo Mò had a step behind her, and she completely lost her balance, falling straight to the ground without standing firm.

  Li's assistant was also startled, and now he was worried that if Qiao Mo got hurt within his scope of work, Qi Kun would ultimately hold him responsible.

  "Is everything okay?"

  Qiao Mo bit her lip, one hand supporting her abdomen, feeling a little uncomfortable, and glared at Qi Ke: "You're simply ruthless."

  Qī Kě turned around and left: "It's just a push that made you fall, I wanted to directly push you down the stairs."

  Qiao Mo didn't feel anything at the time, but after sitting in the company for a while and going to the bathroom, she was shocked to find that there was blood flowing from her lower body.

  She let out a scream at once.

  Li's assistant immediately drove with Qiao Mo to the hospital. After examination, the doctor asked her to stay in the hospital for two days and hung two bottles of intravenous drip. Meanwhile, Li's assistant made a phone call to Qi Kun outside.

  "Miss Qiao just fell at the company entrance and moved her fetus."

  Assistant Li was quite wise and didn't mention that it was Second Miss Qi Ke. Let's wait and see what Qiao Mo says for herself at the time.

  Qiu Kun's tone didn't sound too good, it was unclear whether he had already asked the wise monk or was still on his way, he just said: "You arrange first, I'll be right back."

  When Qi Kun arrived, it was already evening.

  Qiao Mo was still receiving an IV drip, lying in bed with his eyes half-closed.

  Qiu Kun walked in and stood in front of the bed.

  Qiao Mo opened her eyes: "I'm fine, I just fell."

  Qi Kun didn't sit down and remained standing, staring at Qiao Mo for a long time before asking out of the blue: "Whose child is in your belly?"

  Qiao Mo was taken aback by Qi Kun's question, she completely didn't understand why Qi Kun would ask this. At that time, everything had been very timely, and during that period, she had only gone to bed with him alone, not even Ye Zenan had touched her since three months ago.

  "It's your child, I've said that before."

  Qi Kun was naturally suspicious, and he knew that Qiao Mo had also worked in such an open place at night, so he didn't dare to confirm completely.

  Qiu Kun stared at Qiao Mo for a few seconds before saying, "Take good care of yourself."

  He turned around and left.

  However, after Qi Kun went out, the first thing he did was to find a doctor and ask if it is possible to do a paternity test on the fetus in her belly.

  The doctor said: "Prenatal DNA testing requires 16 weeks of pregnancy, and amniotic fluid needs to be collected from the uterus. It's only six weeks now, so it's not possible yet."

  "What about the sex of the fetus in her belly?"

  "It can be detected after three months."

  Qiu Kun now really has no other way, can only wait, whether it is the sex of Qiao Mo's fetus or to confirm whether the child in her belly is his own.

  He is so anxious because he really wants a son, having spent the first half of his life being promiscuous in various situations, and now he has no children to inherit.

  Qī Kūn rubbed his brow and felt that this decision was also a gamble.

  He had been to nightclubs with others many times before, but he never thought of having a child. This time, when Qiaomu suddenly told him she was pregnant, he was shocked, but then he thought that he didn't need his two daughters to find husbands to marry into the family; he could have a son of his own instead.

  It seems that this mother who gave birth to her own son has found the wrong person.

  Qiu Kun originally didn't think so much about it, but he could have found a woman from a decent family background, even if she was from a small place or a surrogate.

  This time, Qi Kun went to find the Taoist priest, but he didn't see anyone. However, one of the Taoist priest's disciples told Qi Kun two things: First, Qiao Meng is pregnant with a boy. Second, Qi Kun has no children in his fate.

  It's really a thought-provoking two sentences, so Qiu Kun immediately thought of it. If Qiao Mo is pregnant with a boy, but she herself is destined to have no children, then in Qiu Kun's view, Qiao Mo's words are suspicious, unless the child she is carrying is not her own. However, there is another possibility that the child may not be born.

  At that time, Qi Kun wanted to find someone to demolish the temple. The words "having no children in one's destiny" are one thing when thought about personally, but another thing altogether when spoken by others.

  Let's focus on Qiao Mo for now, but this woman is really too cunning.

  When Qi Kun came out of the hospital, he happened to see his second daughter Qi Ke walking towards him after getting off the car.

  Qī Kě could take off her sunglasses on the bridge of her nose. She wasn't afraid to run into her father here at all; she had deliberately chosen this time to come.

  "Dad, I'll go take a look at Qiaomu's sister."

  Qiu Kun felt a slight discomfort in his heart when he heard this title.

  Qī Kě said: "Previously at the company, I accidentally bumped into her, who knew she would fall, who knew she was actually pregnant, hearing Li Assistant say it really scared me to death."

  Qī Kūn glanced at Qī Kě and said, "Go take a look, hurry up and come back quickly, I'll wait for you in the car."

  It can be seen from Qi Kun's words that Qi Kun attaches great importance to Qiao Mo, so after confirming Qi Kun's attitude, it was a bit easier to take action.

  Unlike her sister Qi Lian, Qi Ke was the type who would use force to solve problems whenever possible, so as soon as she entered the hospital room, she directly slapped Ge Mo, who was lying in bed, and pulled her up by her hair.

  "Seduce my dad, and now you're pretending to be his illegitimate daughter, how disgusting! Today, pushing you at the company entrance is already being nice to you, it's your good fortune that I didn't have a miscarriage. If you know what's good for you, get out of my sight right now, or else every time I see you, I'll beat you up!"

  Qiao Mo has been punched silly.

  Because she still had an IV drip in her hand, her body was weak and limp, and she hadn't expected someone to come over and slap her. The needle on the back of her hand had punctured a blood vessel, and now the blood was rapidly flowing backwards, instantly filling the transparent plastic tube with bright red liquid that looked somewhat frightening.

  Qī Kě also didn't want to make a big deal out of it now, just a small warning, so he used force to pull on Qiāo Mò's hair, pressing her against the pillow.

  "Next time won't be so easy on you!"

  Qī Kě Tiāo's timing was perfect, it was when Qiǎo Mò couldn't resist.

  She gave a complacent smile, "No matter whose wild species is in your belly, it's best to rot in your belly. Otherwise, if something goes wrong on the operating table, it's not good for you and the child in your belly."

  The commotion in the ward had already alarmed one of the doctors on duty, who rushed over and hastily readjusted the needle in Qiao's hand and adjusted the flow rate.

  "Rest assured, if anything happens, press the emergency bell on your bedside."

  Qiao Mo's identity was special after all, and the doctor didn't want her to get hurt in the hospital ward either, to avoid being implicated.

  Qī Kě looked at Qiào Mèi's pitiful appearance on the bed, coldly laughing: "What are you pretending to be pitiful for? Who do you want to sympathize with you?"

  Qiao Mo didn't say a word from start to finish, her face was somewhat pale. After Qi Ke left, she buried her face in the pillow, clenched her teeth, then took out the phone under the pillow and called Ye Zenan.

  However, Ye Zenan did not answer.

  She dialed and redialed several times, but finally couldn't get through anymore.

  Qiao Mo stared at the ceiling for a long time, suddenly pulled out the infusion needle on the back of her hand, changed her clothes and walked out of the hospital room, took a taxi to Shengting.

  ………………

  That night, Yu Na asked a doctor for a certain dose of tranquilizers and put them in her backpack after packaging.

  Then she went home and packed her things.

  "Are you going on a business trip?"

  Yu Na nodded: "The boss asked me to go on a business trip for over a month in Guangdong."

  "So far away, for a whole month."

  "The boss pays a high salary, and previously I didn't often go on business trips, only occasionally once in a while."

  Bae Se-chang never let Yuna follow him on business trips, running around all over the place. Although there was no distinction between men and women in the workplace, Bae Se-chang still intentionally left Yuna behind to take charge of the headquarters, sparing her from the hardships of traveling.

  Her parents repeatedly reminded her to be careful on the road, Yu Na responded one by one, and then went downstairs with her backpack.

  Downstairs, Ye Zenan's car was still parked in the yard.

  Ye Zenan's hand was fine now, he sat in the driver's seat, having just hung up all the calls from Qiaomu, and then Yu Na got into the passenger seat, throwing her backpack onto the back seat, saying "Let's go."

  "Have you talked it over with your parents?"

  Yu Na nodded: "Alright, I'll be away on a business trip for over a month. My parents are honest people and will never suspect anything about me."

  Ye Zenan's eyes gazed forward, "I want to go back to Shengting."

  "Maybe," Yu Na said, "Qiao Mo is still there and we can have a reunion of old loves."

  Ye Zenan knew that Yu Na was joking, just like the few sentences he had arranged for his mother after the board meeting in the morning, but he also followed suit and joked: "And you, are you a new lover?"

  Yu Na shrugged, "Well, that's convenient for you, new and old loves all on stage at once."

  Ye Zenan didn't continue, and just drove steadily all the way.

  It's been sweltering for a while, and it often rains heavily. As the car entered Shengting, big raindrops started pouring down, pattering against the windshield. Ye Zhenan turned on the wipers to clear away the water flowing down the glass.

  As the rain grew heavier and it was already late at night with gloomy weather, Ye Zenan went upstairs to take a look, but Qiao Mo wasn't there. He then asked Yu Na to come up as well, to spend the night in the room, and they would head to the suburban villa area the next day.

  Yu Na did not refuse, in the car it was neither safe nor good to sleep.

  However, neither of them expected that Qiao Mo would suddenly return at this time when it was raining heavily.

  Yu Na opened the door to see Qiao Mo standing outside, and the smile on her face immediately disappeared. These days of getting along with Qiao Mo made Yu Na truly realize that this woman was not only cunning but also bullied the weak. If you were stronger than her, she would show respect, but if you were weaker, she would dare to splash water from the table onto your face.

  At this moment, Qiao Mo was completely drenched from head to toe, with no dry spot anywhere on her body. Her hair was wet and stuck to her face, making her look particularly disheveled.

  Her voice was slightly hoarse as she said, "I'm looking for Ye Zenan."

  Yu Na raised an eyebrow but didn't refuse, instead she supported herself against the door with one hand and shouted inside: "Someone's here!"

  Ye Zenan walked out wiping his hair and saw Qiao Mo for a moment, his hand paused, threw the towel aside, and his face was cold and stern.

  Qiao Mo walked past Yu Na and looked at Ye Ze Nan, with her hand on her belly, "Ze Nan, I want to make things clear with you..."

  "There's nothing good to say," Ye Zenan interrupted Qiao Mo directly. "What are you doing here now? Do you still want me to take it back?"

  Qiao Mo took a step forward, wanting to grab Ye Zenan's clothes, but was directly blocked by Yu Na in front of her, pointing to the floor: "Hey, miss, the floor has just been wiped clean, please back up."

  Qiao Mo stared at Ye Zenan's face, her eyes brimming with tears, her cheeks wet all over, unable to tell whether it was tears or rainwater. "Can you forgive me? I didn't want you to leave me, I did something wrong, can I change? I love you, I only did those stupid things because I loved you and my head wasn't clear for a moment..."

  "Is it in the name of love?" Yu Na sneered, "You can really say that out loud, aren't you ashamed of yourself? If love can make people willingly take drugs and become dependent on someone because of addiction, what kind of crappy love is that? Miss Qiao, you're really good at making excuses for yourself..."

  Qiao Meng's face turned pale, she didn't respond to Yu Na beside her, but Yu Na's words were piercing, she stared at Ye Ze Nan from start to finish, and Ye Ze Nan's cold expression made her panic, she covered her abdomen, "I'm pregnant with your child, why are you being so ruthless?"

  Because she got rained on and had been pushed by Qi Ke earlier, the fetus was unstable, now her lower abdomen started to cramp, her palms pressed tightly against her lower abdomen, pursing her lips.

  "Ah, it seems someone is going to be a father," Yu Na sneered, "You've really made your child's father wear many green hats, didn't you say the same thing to Qi Kun?"

  Qiao Mo's lips began to tremble.

  Ye Zenan looked at Qiao Mo's current state, but he didn't have a bit of sympathy or pity in his heart. He said: "Leave now, Qiao Mo. The thing I regret the most about you is saving you from the Nightshade. That was the biggest mistake."

  Qiao Mo's whole body trembled slightly.

  The biggest blow to Qiao Mo was not Qi Ke slapping her, nor Qi Kun doubting her, nor Yu Na mocking her, but Ye Zenan, who had always been especially good to her, discarded her like a broken sack and said the most hurtful words.

  When Qiao Mo turned around, Yu Na found that the back of her pants had already been stained with blood.

  She narrowed her eyes, originally wanting to call the 120 emergency hotline, but if Qiao Mo's child in her belly was born, it would only drag down the child as well, so she might as well just let it go and didn't bother.

  Ye Zenan was sitting on the sofa, slightly closing his eyes.

  Yu Na walked over, "Feeling unwell again?"

  Ye Zenan shook his head: "I never thought that when I first saw her, she looked especially pitiful. According to Ah Lu, she was sold by her biological father to that place and later beaten with a belt. I felt sorry for her... but didn't expect it would turn out like this now..."

  "The more you yearn for something, the more greedy you become, wanting to possess everything. Greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant," Yuna said. "Qiaomu is a typical example of this kind of person. In fact, her mind has already gone wrong. If she had seen a psychologist earlier, there might have been hope for recovery. Now, don't think too much about it, first get rid of your own addiction."

  Ye Zenan suddenly covered his face with both elbows resting on his knees.

  "It seems like I've never done anything right..."

  "It won't last, you're just temporarily blinded, there will be a day when the dark clouds disperse and the sun comes out."

  Yu Na stretched out her hand, wanting to comfortingly pat Ye Ze Nan's shoulder. Her hand paused in mid-air before covering his shoulder again. "You have to believe me, first get rid of your addiction."

  After Ye Zenan fell asleep, Yu Na thought for a moment and still dialed the 120 emergency hotline to ask the ambulance to pay attention to Qiao Mo when driving along this road.

  On the road, the storm continued, Qiao Mo seemed to be a lonely soul wandering on the street, the pain in her body had completely pulled her into the abyss, as if something inside was slowly flowing away.

  Her child...

  Although the child in her belly had only existed for a little over a month, Qiao Mo had been using him to get everything she wanted. But when the small life inside her slowly slipped away, she couldn't help but let out a loud cry towards the pouring rain in the sky.

  Why is heaven treating her like this?! Is it retribution for past deeds? She doesn't believe it!

  Then she suddenly fainted and fell directly onto the road, completely losing all signs of life. The pants under her had already been stained red with fresh blood, washed away by the rainwater.

  On the road, people in cars noticed Qiaomu. Some stopped and rolled down their windows to take a look, while others just slowed down, seeing the woman lying in the puddle outside, but none of them dared to get out and pull Qiaomu up, fearing that something might happen and they would be blamed.

  However, someone who saw the blood under her called 110 and 120.

  Ten minutes later, a series of sirens from an ambulance pierced through the rumble of the heavy rain, and Qiao Mo was lifted into the ambulance, which sped away.

  Such streets, still only washed by heavy rain, even the bloodstains that had just flowed onto the ground were flushed into the sewers by the heavy rain and disappeared without a trace.

  The lightning flashes and the thunder rumbles as before, the vehicles come and go as before.

  ………………

  China Garden

  Outside, thunder rumbled, Pei Hangyu had already fallen asleep in Song Yuqiao's gentle voice.

  Bai Haoyu has always been very bold, he is not afraid of thunder and lightning, unlike Mu Xiaodong, who would directly hide under the table as soon as there was a thunder.

  Song Yuqiao lightly kissed Pei Hangyu's forehead, "Goodnight, baby."

  Got up, turned off the wall lamp on the wall, and walked out of Pei Huan's small room.

  Inside the master bedroom, Pei Si Cheng was lying on his side, seemingly asleep. Song Yu Qiao lightened her footsteps and walked to the bedside, trying not to disturb Pei Si Cheng who had already fallen asleep.

  Because she had to coax Pei Huan Yu to sleep earlier, after taking a bath, she put on a thin nightgown and wore a camisole underneath. Sitting on the edge of the bed, Song Yu Qiao unfastened the straps of her camisole, then pulled it down from her shoulders and took it off from the neckline. Just as she turned around to put her legs on the bed, Pei Si Cheng suddenly wrapped his arms around her from the side, completely startling Song Yu Qiao.

  "Can you make some noise if you're not asleep?"

  Song Yuqiao's mind was a complete blank, and Pei Cheng's action had truly frightened her so much that she shivered with fear.

  Pei Si's mouth curled up slightly as he leaned in and planted a kiss on Song Yuqiao's neck, leaving a faint mark. "Does this count?"

  Song Yu's face turned red, and he raised his hand to turn off the bedside lamp. "Go to sleep quickly, we have to get up early for work tomorrow."

  Pei Si Cheng gently held Song Yu Qiao's hand, "Do you still remember that one thing you promised me?"

  "What's wrong?"

  Song Yuqiao lay on the bed, her thin nightgown clinging to her very beautiful bust, and Pei Cheng placed his chin gently at the base of her throat.

  "You said you would learn how to cook for me."

  Song Yuqiao's face turned red, she certainly remembered the last time in the kitchen, Pei Shichen wanted her to make what she liked to eat, but these days Pei Shichen didn't mention it again, so she also put the heart that was about to be mentioned into her belly.

  Pei Si Cheng had already pulled Song Yu Qiao's hand, moving downstream, and directly covered his crotch, "Take the initiative..."

  This initiative is actually not what Song Yuqiao wants.

  She in the matter of bed, Pei Si Cheng is forever her enlightening teacher, in her memory, twenty-four years without tasting the wonder of sex, while Pei Si Cheng hand in hand teaches her.

  However, she still remained reserved, not saying coldly, but under Pei's enthusiasm, no matter how proactive she was, it all became passive.

  When the two were being honest with each other, Song Yuqiao was stared at by Pei Si Cheng's gaze and felt a bit embarrassed, wanting to raise his hand to turn off the wall lamp. Pei Si Cheng directly pushed in hard, that kind of gentle and tight wrapping feeling made him almost want to crush the person under him.

  He whispered in her ear: "I want to see you, don't turn off the lights."

  Under the lamplight, Song Yuqiao's skin was as delicate as white porcelain, with a flush like peaches, and Pei Sichen couldn't help but squeeze harder, eliciting fragmented moans from Song Yuqiao's mouth.

  Finally, Pei Shichen buried himself in Song Yuqiao's body for a long time before picking her up and taking her to the bathroom to clean up.

  It was another passionate night, with a storm raging outside and soft wall lamp light shining gently inside, forming a sharp contrast.

  The next morning, Song Yuqiao woke up with a sore back and waist, and coincidentally, her mother came back that morning.

  So while serving breakfast, Xi Mei Yu looked at her daughter's somewhat difficult walking posture and adjusted the glasses on the bridge of her nose: "Overexertion from exercise?"

  Song Yuqiao: "......"

  Pei Si Cheng didn't say a word, but his smiling eyes glanced at Song Yu Qiao.

  On the other side, Bae Ho-young was also excited, "What exercise? I want to exercise too!"

  Song Yuqiao hesitated for a moment and casually replied to the little kid: "...... did two sit-ups."

  Then, Pei Hangyu became interested in sit-ups and put the spoon in his hand into the bowl with a clinking sound. He jumped down from the chair and went to pull Song Yuqiao's hand: "I also want to do sit-ups!"

  The little guy also wants to come out and say that it's windy and rainy, suddenly feeling excited and wanting to do sit-ups.

  But what made the little guy particularly depressed was that sit-ups were so hard! He couldn't even do one sit-up! His round belly blocked everything! Even when he tried to get up, a button on his shirt popped off.

  Recently, Bae Hwan-young seems to have gained weight again. The small suit he usually wears can't be buttoned up in the front, and when it is buttoned up, it bulges out on his round belly.

  Standing in front of the mirror, Pei Hangyu felt for the first time that he was like a ball, round and plump from head to toe.

  Then, Bae Hwan-young made up his mind to lose weight for the first time.

  Pei Si Cheng listened and continued eating slowly, "It's about time I lost some weight."

  Bae Ho-young: “......”

  In fact, Bae Hwan-young's weight loss was simply that apart from the three meals a day he had to have every day, he stopped having extra meals and stopped eating whenever he felt like it. He gave all his snacks to Song Yu-jo and asked her to lock them up for him.

  Bai Hangyu was handing over a big bag of snacks with the demeanor of a heroic warrior, his eyes gleaming as he stared at the snacks in his hand, wanting to hand them over to Qiaoqiao while also hesitating and pulling his hand back.

  Song Yuqiao had pinched one corner of the bag, and looked at Pei Hangyu whose face was written all over with struggle, saying: "If Little Fire keeps eating this kind of thing that's easy to get fat from but has no nutrition, he'll really grow into a ball, then Yan will not like you anymore."

  This sentence is absolutely more effective than telling Song Yuqiao a hundred times, Pei Hangyu stuffed the bag into Song Yuqiao's arms, "Take it!"

  Xī Měi Yù finished eating, pulled out a tissue to wipe her mouth and said to Sòng Yǔ Qiáo: "Dr. Orlitz called yesterday, there are only ten days of work left before he flies to China."

  Song Yuqiao was helping Bae Hwan-young re-button his small shirt, and responded absent-mindedly with a "Mm-hmm."

  Pei Si Cheng happened to have a phone call coming in and walked out onto the balcony to answer it.

  It was Yuna who called.

  Yu Na informed Pei Si Cheng of Ye Ze Nan's basic situation, then said: "Qiao Mo came to find Ye Ze Nan during the heavy rain yesterday and seems to have had a miscarriage. She was sent to the hospital."

  Pei Si furrowed his brow: "Mm, I know. You take good care of Ye Zenan."

  "Yes."

  ………………

  Yu Na is right, Qiao Mo had a miscarriage.

  When calling Qi Kun at the hospital, Qi Kun immediately smashed the ashtray that had been there all along. With a loud crash, the crystal ashtray shattered into pieces on the floor, and the transparent crystal beads scattered all over the place with a rattling sound.

  The eldest daughter Qi Lian was startled, but she calmed down after a moment.

  "Wasn't everything fine just yesterday? How could it suddenly turn into a miscarriage after just one night?"

  She must have her own people in the company and heard about Qi Ke going to the hospital to see Qiao Mo last night.

  "When I came back yesterday, Xiaoke also mentioned that Jiaomu didn't seem very well, but I don't know what the reason is."

  Qī Lián is also a hypocrite, but compared to Qī Kě, she's more skilled at using her mind instead of resorting to violence whenever something happens.

  However, under current circumstances, the simplest and most brutal way to deal with Qiao Mo is undoubtedly the best.

  "Qin Kun gritted his teeth: 'She went out in the heavy rain yesterday! In the end, she was carried back by an ambulance! She went straight into the operating room.'"

  "Ah." Qi Lian covered her mouth, "How could this be?"

  Qiu Kun now recalls the words of the master from yesterday and feels dizzy.

  Is it really destined that I will never have children?!

  Qī Lián said: "Dad, didn't you have something this afternoon? Then I'll go to the hospital to see Qiao Mò for you."

  "Go ahead."

  "If the doctor says it's okay to be discharged, are we going to take her back to our home?"

  Qi Kun sneered: "A prostitute, living in a slum is already good enough, and you still want to move into the Qi's house? Delusional!"

  Qī Lián suddenly understood.

  In fact, Father Qi Kun just wanted a son and was really crazy about having one.

  Qī Lián sneered inwardly, but fate had it that she was childless, otherwise how would it have fallen to her and Qī Kě.

  ………………

  Inside the hospital.

  Qī Lián pushed open the door of the ward, and on the bed lay Qiāo Mò, whose face was completely pale, his whole body sinking into the soft hospital bed, with an IV drip beside him.

  Qī Lián walked over and looked down at Qiāo Mò from a high position.

  Qiao Mo opened her eyes, and a look of terror had already appeared in them.

  "Don't worry, I won't use violence like my sister Keke," Ke Li said with a smile, lowering her voice. "My sister just has a heavy hand, you can see your face is still swollen now. But really, I didn't expect that just one Keke could make you look like this, and even lose the child... Tsk tsk, I haven't even made a move yet, and you're already so weak."

  Qī Lián took a step back and suddenly changed his tone.

  "But who would have thought that you, at the young age of twenty, got pregnant with a child from a man over fifty? And to make matters worse, you even acknowledged my dad as your godfather! Now I feel disgusted and want to vomit whenever I see you! You're just trying to covet my dad's wealth, how despicable!"

  Qiao Mo was taken aback for a moment, unsure why Qi Lian suddenly changed the subject so quickly, and what the reason was.

  "Get out! What's the relationship between you and me? I'm willing to have an old man's child, I'm looking at your dad's property, what can you do about it? Can you kill me? I'm cheap, I want money, I'm insatiable!"

  Qī Lián coldly laughed and said: "This is the hospital room my dad arranged for you, I think since you're here then just stay here, what qualifications do you have to come and make demands of me?! Whore! You really are a whore who wants to be a lady, let me ask you, those white powders that were taken from my dad's channels, did you take them? That expensive stuff, how much money did you spend on it?"

  Just as Qiao Mo frowned and wanted to refute, a figure suddenly rushed in from outside the door.

  It's Zheng Xiaoxia.

  Qiao Meng's eyes widened in shock, how could this be...

  Zheng Xiaoxia still held a basket of eggs in her hand, staring at Qiao Mo in disbelief.

  "Wow, you've really thought of everything, even using your friend as a pawn. I never would have guessed that someone who was sold into prostitution after high school could be so ruthless and cunning. You're pregnant and trying to use the child to marry into a wealthy family, all while claiming to like Ye Zenan and feeding him drugs. He considered you a friend, but you've been using him all along to try and bring down Ye Zenan's old flame. Tsk tsk, how despicable."

  Every time Qi Lian spoke, Qiao Mo's face turned a shade whiter, until it finally became as pale as the grey wall behind her, and even her eyes had become dull.

  It was only then that Qiao Mo realized that Zheng Xiaoxia had been summoned by Qi Lian beforehand, and this Qi Lian must have already investigated her.

  It was indeed so. Zheng Xiaoxia originally didn't believe it when she heard about Qiao Mo, but now that she had heard him admit it himself, she was completely stunned.

  Zheng Xiaoxia had also been puzzled before, why Qiao Mo suddenly became rich, and why Qiao Mo came to find her repeatedly after meeting her for the first time at the SPA, just for Xu Wenyi, and Qiao Mo's kindness to Xu Wenyi was intentional.

  Now, I completely understand, it was all planned beforehand.

  Zheng Xiaoxia smashed all the eggs in her basket to the ground, "Qiao Mo, I still considered you a friend, but what about you? Were you always using me? Where is your conscience?"

  Qiao Mo actually also regarded Zheng Xiaoxia as a friend, because when she came to the city, there was no one who could talk to her, and Zheng Xiaoxia was the only person she had never been on guard against.

  "Xiao Xia, listen to me..."

  Zheng Xiaoxia's mind was now filled with buzzing sounds, thinking that there was such a venomous woman hidden beside her all along, she felt the hairs on the back of her neck standing up.

  "I won't listen! I don't believe a word you're saying now! I really misjudged you!"

  Zheng Xiaoxia turned around and ran out of the ward, ignoring Qiao Mo's shouting behind her.

  Qiao Mo's eyes were slightly red, she looked at Qi Lian who was standing aside with a cold smile, "What have I done to offend you?! Why treat me like this?!"

  Qiao Mo knew that there were many people she owed apologies to, but as for Qi Kun and his two daughters, she had never had any dealings with them, so how could she owe them an apology?

  A cold, cruel smile spread across her face: "Yes, you haven't done anything wrong to me, but the biggest mistake you've made is getting pregnant with my father's child and wanting to take over the Qi family estate. Don't even think about it! My father was destined not to have a son, so go ahead and use your child to marry into another family and dream of greatness!"

  Qiao Mo was as pale as a dead person, his face deathly white, and he heavily fell onto the hospital bed.

  That afternoon, Qiao Mo had to leave the hospital because she couldn't afford the medical expenses and didn't have any extra money, dragging her weak body that had just miscarried.

  After the storm, it was scorching hot, and Qiao Mo felt a bit dizzy from being exposed to the sun.

  Her face was deathly pale, now the person she loved most said that the worst thing he had ever done was saving her, her only friend abandoned her, and she lost the baby in her womb.

  In such a big city, doesn't she have a place to settle down?

  Qiao Mo suddenly thought of Pei Yuling, Ye Zhenan's mother.

  Maybe she still has a glimmer of hope, she can go find Pei Yuling!

  Right! She should go find Ye Zenan's mother.

  ………………

  It's already the hottest time in July, but fortunately, there is central air conditioning in the Pei Corporation. Song Yuqiao sat at her desk wearing all the winter coats she had taken out and put on outside. Yuxin, who was sitting across from her, looked surprised: "Yuqiao sister, aren't you cold?"

  Song Yuqiao smiled and said, "It's okay, I've been sitting for a long time and felt cold."

  It's okay after moving around a bit. Pei Cheng let Song Yuqiao follow him to the next project team's bidding.

  The bidding of the project team was held in the conference room.

  Before that, Pei had already shown the bidding materials to Song Yuqiao, who organized a simplified version of only one A4 paper and handed it over to Pei for review.

  Pei Si nodded and asked Li Bei: "Is everyone here?"

  Li Bei just came out of the conference room and said, "Everyone is already here."

  This time, because it was Peas' turn to host the town, each bidding company sent out its strongest elite team from headquarters. Whether in terms of the proposal itself, PPT production, or the person in charge and the explainer, they were all extremely excellent.

  Song Yuqiao sat at the bottom and listened, with a laptop open on the table in front of her, her fingers tapping away on the keyboard. Occasionally, Pei Shichen leaned over to Song Yuqiao's ear and said a sentence or two that needed to be recorded.

  Pais held a black leather notebook under his wrist and a black signature pen at the tip of his fingers, occasionally interrupting to ask one or two questions.

  After being interrupted, the person on stage, no matter how experienced, would feel tense about Paisley's sharp questions and start to stutter when explaining again, but it was just a need to get used to Paisley's sharpness.

  Song Yuqiao looked at the interpreter on stage and suddenly remembered her first time going to Jia Ge with Zheng Qing, it was also her first time interpreting on stage, she was so afraid that Pei Si would ask her questions, but in the end not a single question was asked, letting her breathe a sigh of relief as if she had won a 5 million dollar lottery.

  Paisong's water cup was empty, so she got up and went outside to help Paisong refill it, coincidentally hearing her own phone ringing.

  It's Fang Zhao.

  Song Yuqiao listened and Fang Zhao said on the other end of the phone: "It's really thanks to you for Ze Nan's matter, Yuqiao. Now if he can truly pull himself back from the edge of addiction, that would be the best."

  "It's not all me, it should be the people who accompanied him to quit drugs in a small black room who received thanks."

  Fang Zhao said: "Let's have lunch together at noon."

  "It's nothing, it's what I should do, never mind..."

  But Fang Zhao insisted, saying: "Actually, I just wanted to invite you out for a meal because I have something I want to talk to you about clearly. Before, Ze Nan might not have been able to save face, but this matter concerns you, and you should be informed."

  "What's wrong?" Song Yuqiao slightly frowned, "Can't it be said over the phone?"

  "Let's have a talk," said Fang Zhao, "I've booked a private room at a restaurant and I'll send you the address."

  Although Song Yuqiao was suspicious in her heart, after accompanying Pei Sucheng to the end of the meeting, and waiting for Pei Sucheng and the project manager to discuss and finalize the three companies, Pei Sucheng asked Li Bei to order food, and Song Yuqiao stopped Li Bei.

  "Don't bother booking for me."

  Pei Si Cheng raised an eyebrow and looked at Song Yu Qiao: "Want to go out and eat? It's too hot outside now, easy to get heatstroke."

  Song Yuqiao shook his head: "Fang Zhao called me, still because of Ye Zenan's affairs. Previously, he told me the truth and asked me to persuade Ye Zenan. Now he wants to thank me and invite me to lunch."

  "If you're treating me, then he should thank me even more," Pei Si said with a smile, "I've already given him my capable assistant, Ye Zenan."

  Li Bei hung his head, staring at his leather shoes, trying to focus on the faint dust that was invisible to the naked eye on the shiny surface, thinking: The president of the Pei family is still entangled in wanting others to invite him to dinner? Has something gone wrong?!

  Finally, Pei Si agreed to let Song Yu Qiao go out for dinner, but with a condition: she had to say "I love you" to him once before going to sleep tonight.

  Song Yuqiao really can't understand it, women like to hear "I love you" and men also like to hear this sentence, moreover, the easiest way to deceive people is precisely this sentence "I love you".

  ………………

  Pei Si Cheng drove north on Bei Road to send Song Yu Qiao to the address given by Fang Zhao.

  Song Yuqiao didn't expect Fang Zhao would invite her out for hot pot.

  Now Song Yuqiao feels hot even thinking about hot pot, but fortunately there is air conditioning in the private room of the hot pot restaurant, so although the steaming hot pot is in front of her, she doesn't feel hot.

  "I remember we had hot pot together before."

  Song Yuqiao happened to have a piece of mutton in the hot pot, and after thinking for a moment, "it seemed like there was such a time."

  "On Ze Nan's birthday."

  Ye Zenan's birthday... eating hot pot...

  She remembered that it was during her high school days, probably when Song Yuqiao was in her third year of high school, while Ye Zenan had already graduated and was in his third year of university. Ye Zenan invited his friends, including Hua Xiangruo and Zheng Rong, to have hot pot together.

  At that time, on the dinner table, they blew out candles together and cut open the cake in front of them. Song Yuqiao even put a paper crown on Ye Zenan's head as a joke. Then Ye Zenan's friends teased him to give her a kiss. Song Yuqiao remembered that she was shy and didn't dare to kiss Ye Zenan, but while lowering her head to eat the cake, Ye Zenan snuck in a quick peck on her cheek, leaving cream from the cake on her nose.

  At this moment, someone really took a snapshot.

  Song Yuqiao is now recalling the things that happened back then, his heart has no more ups and downs, but he still feels a little melancholy, perhaps it's all because of the awkward feeling from when he was young.

  Fang Zhao looked at Song Yuqiao's downcast expression and couldn't help but sigh, "Yuqiao, to be honest, I don't know why you and Zhen Nan ended up like this, but that thing back then had nothing to do with him. He was drugged by Lu Lu, which is why he did what he did..."

  Song Yuqiao's chopsticks suddenly fell onto the table and he asked in surprise: "What?"

  Fang Zhao didn't know that Song Yuqiao had already forgotten about this matter, and thought she was just shocked by the news of Lu Lian's affair. He continued to say: "I don't know what Lu Lian was thinking, but what Ze Nan told me later was that you stumbled upon him and Lu Lian in bed, and then suffered a shock and suddenly disappeared. Afterwards, Ze Nan always felt guilty towards you, and almost turned C City and S City upside down looking for you, but couldn't find you. He started drinking and smoking heavily, and nearly got stomach perforation... Later, Ze Nan's mother didn't want her son to become so decadent, so she hypnotized him and erased that memory..."

  What Fang Zhao said, this long passage, was dissected and reorganized in Song Yuqiao's mind for a very long time, buzzing with noise, the temples flashing with tearing pain, and his vision blurred for an instant, including Fang Zhao in front of him.

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