My Ex-Wife Disappeared for Years and Had My Babies-Chapter 187 - 137: Xue Qi’s Ruthlessness
Chapter 187 -137: Xue Qi’s Ruthlessness
“Thank you, Special Assistant Yang.”
“Mm.” Answering indifferently, without even a glance at Wei Lan, he drove off as soon as the car door closed.
Wei Lan stood in place, pursing her lips without much concern, thinking to herself that he was just such an icy person.
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Utterly oblivious to the fact that it was a man’s sulking jealousy.
Sighing softly, alone in the elevator, she couldn’t stop her mind from wandering.
She once thought marriage symbolized happiness, but now realizes it’s better to be unmarried, with at least fewer worries and considerations.
Pushing open the door, her thoughts elsewhere, she suddenly froze at the sight of that pair of men’s shoes by the door, conspicuously visible.
Before she could look up to search, she heard Jing Zan’s gentle voice, “Where have you been so late?”
Wei Lan hadn’t expected him to be here.
Did he just send that woman home before coming?
Ever since she learned the secret, Wei Lan wasn’t as natural around him, not even daring to meet his gaze, “I just had dinner and went for a walk in the park… Why did you come back so early?”
Jing Zan embraced her from behind, “I missed you a bit.”
Such warm words, yet Wei Lan couldn’t feel moved, awkwardly evading his embrace.
An embrace that had held another woman couldn’t provide the warmth she longed for.
Sensing her unusual demeanor tonight, if it were before, she would have nestled against him, blushing shyly, but today she was avoiding him…
“What’s wrong, Lanlan?”
Wei Lan casually stepped out of his embrace, “Nothing… just sweated a bit from walking too much, not feeling so great.”
Jing Zan smiled gently, stroking her head, “Go take a shower first.”
Wei Lan hurried into the bathroom, hastily turned on the shower, and stood under the ice-cold water curtain fully clothed, chilled to the bone…
Jing Zan was set on staying tonight until his phone buzzed in his pocket.
Glancing at the closed bathroom door, he went out to the balcony to answer, “Wanwan, what’s wrong?”
The voice on the other end wasn’t friendly, sounding like a wife checking in, “Where are you?”
Before Jing Zan could answer, she continued, “I asked Uncle Wang, and you weren’t at the company! You went to find that woman, didn’t you?”
“Wanwan, go to rest early, stop making a fuss.”
“Me, making a fuss? Have you forgotten what you promised me yesterday?”
Jing Zan’s expression grew impatient, sighing softly as he responded dismissively, “I know, go to bed.”
But Zheng Shiwan said, “I can’t sleep without you.”
“I’m busy tonight; I’ll take you to Ziyuan for breakfast in the morning.”
She huffed dissatisfiedly on the other end, “I want you to come back now! I got my period, my stomach hurts.”
Jing Zan hesitated for a few seconds, knowing her frail health, “I’ll come back right away.”
At that moment, the bathroom door also opened, and Jing Zan put away the phone and walked in, standing in front of Wei Lan, “Lanlan, Dad just called me to go back for a bit; you rest first, I’ll be back late.”
Wei Lan was startled, having just met for less than an hour, she thought he would at least stay tonight…
Watching him bending over to put on shoes at the door, Wei Lan snapped back to reality.
Since she had decided to fight for it, she couldn’t be so passive, stepping forward towards him.
Jing Zan, having put on his shoes, looked at her, expecting her to send him off, feeling a bit guilty inside, patted her head with the gesture of an elder brother, “Go to bed early.”
“Do you have to go? Can you stay tonight and keep me company?”
Jing Zan was startled, he could feel her grievances.
He didn’t expect her to ask him to stay, she had never objected to his leaving before, after all.
Thinking back, for Wanwan’s sake, he had left her alone too many times. In this relationship, she was the most innocent and she suffered the most.
He knew she liked him, but had proposed marriage to Wei Lan on a whim after a fallout with Wanwan.
He basically took advantage of her feelings, knowing she would never refuse him.
As she indulged in the happiness of newlyweds, his guilt grew heavier.
Looking into her nearly pleading eyes, he couldn’t bear to refuse, nor did he want to, he was well aware of his own thoughts, he wanted to stay by her side more, to hold her until she fell asleep peacefully, instead of going to Wanwan’s, being pestered and nagged at to divorce.
“Okay, I’ll stay with you.”
Wei Lan finally breathed a sigh of relief, if after she had said so much he was still going to leave, then she felt there was no point in fighting for anything.
“Could you get me a set of clothes? I’ll take a shower in a bit, I have to explain a few things first.”
“Sure.”
Jing Zan called the housekeeper to take care of Wanwan, knowing her temperament, she would definitely be dissatisfied and would call again, so after sending the message, he turned off his phone.
He wanted to spend more time with Wei Lan; that was his innermost desire.
In the last two days of summer vacation, Su Zhen and Haohao were going for a photoshoot.
Hearing they were heading to Nanshan for the shoot, parents felt more at ease accompanying them.
Though Nanshan’s terrain was steep, it had been developed into a tourist area, with safe paths leading up the mountain.
Through the glass walkway, one could witness the magnificent natural scenery, an impressive sight indeed.
But Su Zhen inherited her mom’s fear of heights and adamantly refused to go up on the plank walkway.
Su Nian was also somewhat scared, but she could mentally hypnotize herself and was also relieved that Shen Hanxiu had come along today. Otherwise, Su Zhen wouldn’t have been able to make it up the mountain.
“I don’t want to go up! I’m going to fall, I’ll be smashed to death!”
Shen Hanxiu bent down to pick her up and pressed her little head against his shoulder: “Close your eyes and take a nap, and we’ll be there.”
The railing on the plank walk wasn’t very high, just above waist level. Su Nian thought it was even more dangerous to carry Zhenzhen, but for some reason, Shen Hanxiu always instilled a sense of security in her, making her feel that with him holding Zhenzhen, nothing would go wrong.
And there was Zhenzhen, covering her eyes and lying in his arms, cutely muttering, “I can’t see, I can’t see…”
“Be careful.”
Hearing Su Nian’s gentle admonition, Shen Hanxiu turned back to look at her with a light smile: “Aren’t you scared too?”
Before Su Nian could answer, her hand was gently taken by a warm, large hand.
He was holding Su Zhen in one arm and leading her with the other; the heartwarming scene frightened Su Nian so much that she hurriedly withdrew her hand: “Just hold Zhenzhen well.”
Saying so as if avoiding him, she glanced at Su Bao, who was walking behind with Liang Yizhou.
Right then, Liang Yizhou’s gaze also fell on her, and she seemed to see threads of loneliness in his eyes.
Before she had time to delve deeper, he revealed a smile to her.
She understood his feelings, but she couldn’t reciprocate them.
The last time on the boat, the day they were all dressed in matching family outfits, he didn’t seek her and the child out the entire day, not even Su Bao who always liked him.
She knew he wasn’t jealous and angry; he was afraid that his presence would disrupt their “family” harmony.
Yet even so, he never left her and the child; he loved her child as his own without any complaints.
“Yi Zhou, is there a lot of work to do at your company?” she naturally struck up a conversation with him.
“Mm, that batch of goods might not be finished until the end of the year.”
“That much? Don’t you just do the designs?”
Liang Yizhou smiled helplessly: “This time, the client insisted that I do it personally.”
He probably had already guessed who placed the order.
“It seems that being too famous is not good either—you don’t get to rest.”
“Being busy is also good…” so he wouldn’t miss her too much.
If her choice wouldn’t be him, he would hide his feelings and not make her uncomfortable.
Shen Hanxiu seemed like a good man who could make her happy.
During this photoshoot, Xue Qi brought Haohao along, and it was obvious that Haohao was very happy, holding onto Xue Qi’s hand the whole time.
Intentionally falling behind a bit, Xue Qi asked Haohao, “Do you want to live with Mom?”
Haohao looked up as if incredulous and then, fearful she would take it back, quickly nodded.
Pleased, Xue Qi smiled and then looked at Su Zhen lying on Shen Hanxiu’s shoulder, saying, “Then you need to listen to Mom later.”
“Haohao will be good!”
“Good, after school starts, Mom will find time to take you to Disney.”
As long as he could gain his mom’s affection and be with her, Haohao was very happy.
After about half an hour of walking, Shen Hanxiu had been carrying Su Zhen the whole way, and Su Zhen had already fallen asleep, her little face flushed.
That’s when Su Nian stepped forward to Shen Hanxiu and said, “Let me carry her.”
“Do you think I lack the strength for this?”
It was a perfectly normal sentence, but when her eyes met his, Su Nian couldn’t help blushing, reminded of that “all-nighter.”
Thankfully, they soon arrived at the shooting location, on a wooden bridge that stretched from one side of the cliff to the other, with an abyss beneath it. The view was magnificent, yet somewhat terrifying, and Su Nian dared not peek over the edge.
After waking Su Zhen up, she was a bit unhappy at first, pouting with half her face red, sitting in Shen Hanxiu’s arms without speaking.
The person in charge from JM just bought a few ice creams, which soon cheered Su Zhen right up.
Only after she was in a good mood did they let the makeup artist change her clothes.
“Haozi brother! Hurry up, it’s your turn!”
Hearing Su Zhen’s call, Haohao immediately went over, but Xue Qi held him back as if to tell him something, causing Haohao to reluctantly nod.
“Remember, once things get sorted out, Mom will let you move in to live with us.”
Watching her son run off, Xue Qi’s face broke into a smile.
Su Nian, you made things hard for me, don’t think you can be happy!
The fact that she was fired had an eight or nine out of ten chance of being related to Su Nian.
With a black mark in accounting, no company would hire her, leaving her unable to find a decent job.
The photoshoot required the two children to be suspended outside, with the backdrop being the abyss beneath the bridge.
Although they had safety ropes, Su Nian was still worried; if an accident happened, they might not fall, but they could still get injured on the steel frame beneath the bridge.
Su Zhen, being mischievous, was warned by Su Nian time and again, “Listen to Uncle Liang, don’t move around.”
Su Zhen licked her ice cream and nodded continuously, unaware of the poses she would need to do later.
The person in charge explained to her and Haohao, but she absentmindedly licked her ice cream, probably not understanding a word.
