After not having to hide their whereabouts anymore, Xu Xingze and Wen Yan would occasionally call me, and they tacitly avoided Qi Shu's name, and only talked to me about interesting things that happened recently.
But today I got a different call from my former attending physician.
The doctor hesitated and asked me what was my relationship with that Mr. Qi, saying that he took someone to the hospital today.
I thought that there was nothing to hide, so I told him that the man was the father of the child.
"No wonder." The doctor sighed, "He asked me for your case as soon as he came. I thought it was the patient's privacy, so how could he give it to him casually. But he found the hospital to put pressure on me, and I couldn't resist..."
He sighed again, "You also know the power of the Qi family, we can't afford to offend..."
"It's okay, I understand." My heart was calm, "If he wants it, give it to him."
"What's going on between you guys? I don't think he's in the right mood... Are you and the child okay?" the doctor asked deliberately.
Zhou Chen helped me change the hospital later, so the former doctor didn't know my current situation. Counting the days, if the child is still there, I may be about to die.
"The baby is gone," I said, "and the glands have been removed."
There was a soft "ah" over there, and said: "It's okay... Only by living can there be hope. In such a situation, as doctors, we generally advise patients to put themselves first."
"Thank you." I thanked him sincerely.
After I hung up the phone, I still didn't feel any fluctuations in my heart. Qi Shu would probably find it ridiculous that there was once a person in the world who even gave up his life for love.
I also find it ridiculous.
After returning this time, Zhou Chen's work increased. He often holds video conferences in his study, and occasionally goes home early when he goes out.
I said you don't need to worry about me, if you are busy, go to work, work is important. He said that the significance of technological development is not to let people free up time and spend more time with their families
family…
This word rolled in my heart a few times, making my whole heart hot.
He also said that he was a doctor and it was his job to take care of me.
I teased him, do you remember that you are a doctor? I haven't seen you in a white coat for a long time.
He paused, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said pointedly: "So you like to see me in a white coat?"
For some reason, my face suddenly burned. I can't help but think that when Zhou Chen turned around when we met for the first time, the first thought that popped up in my mind was indeed——
This doctor is so nice.
He even made fun of me: "It's so easy to blush, like a child who has never been in love."
"I'm not, I..."
The retort stuck in my throat, have I ever been in love
Zhou Chen saw through my thoughts and said, "That doesn't count."
All right.
I didn't want him to see my embarrassment anymore, so I ran downstairs, and vaguely heard him say helplessly behind me, "Slow down."
After practicing the piano for two hours downstairs, Zhou Chen didn't come down, and he was probably busy with work again. I made a cup of coffee and served it to remind him to take a break.
Knocking on the door and entering, Zhou Chen sat on a chair a little leisurely, with a laptop in front of him.
He supported the armrest with one arm, and the knuckles of his index finger touched the edge of his upper lip, rubbing unconsciously, as if he was thinking about something.
Hearing the voice, he raised his eyes to look over, his eyes softened a little, and said, "Come on."
I walked over and found that he was in a meeting, and a very professional mature female voice was coming out of the computer, talking about "budget", "equipment", "personnel input" and so on.
Feeling that this is not something I should listen to, I put down my coffee and carefully said in a breathy voice, "I'm going out first."
Zhou Chen sat up straight and grabbed me: "Wait."
I turned around in doubt, he pulled me to his side and said, "Tell Ah Liu that you don't need to prepare dinner, let's go out to eat."
"Oh… "
He smiled slightly, held my hand and put it on his lips for a kiss before letting go: "Go, I'll finish right away."
!
"Oh… "
I ran downstairs as if fleeing, my heart was beating so fast that it was about to pop out of my throat.
Did he take some wrong medicine today...
Before I could calm down, the doorbell rang suddenly, and I went to open the door, and saw an old man with a dignified face sitting in a wheelchair from the surveillance camera, with several bodyguards behind him.
After answering the doorbell, he said, "Open the door, I'll find Zhou Chen."
The visitor was not kind, and I was a little nervous, "Excuse me, are you..."
"I'm his grandfather!"
Mr. Qi? Why did he suddenly come over...
I opened the door, and the bodyguard pushed him in. The old man was in his eighties, with white hair, but his eyes were very sharp, and he looked at me extremely harshly.
"Where's Zhou Chen?" He asked coldly.
I shivered when he saw it, and said cautiously: "Mr. is working upstairs."
He looked me up and down again, "You are Xiao Yu?"
I don't know how he knew my name, so I just said yes.
Mr. Qi snorted, and said disdainfully, "I think I'm some great vixen. Catch him."
As soon as the words fell, the two bodyguards behind me took a step forward to arrest me. They were tall and burly, obviously professional thugs. Before I could even resist, I was restrained by one of them by pressing one arm.
Just as he was about to call for help, a loud voice came from behind: "What are you doing? Let him go!"
I tried my best to turn my head, and saw Zhou Chen walking quickly with a cold face, "Grandpa, what do you mean?"
"What do I mean? I'll clean up the house!" Mr. Qi yelled angrily as he knocked on the floor with his crutches, "You and Qi Shu are not afraid of being laughed at if it spreads for a lowly beta brother! I want to see this scumbag! What kind of skill is it to make you two so confused that you won't even listen to me! Take it away!"
Zhou Chen's voice sounded at the same time: "Who dares!"
"Look if I dare!"
Mr. Qi raised his crutches at me, and the bodyguard behind him kicked my knee with a hard leather shoe, forcing me to kneel down in pain.
It suddenly occurred to me that Xu Xingze said that Qi Shu was also slapped because he rejected the engagement, it must have been very painful.
However, the expected pain did not fall on his body, the crutch pierced the air and was caught midway.
I raised my eyes suddenly, and saw Zhou Chen with a gloomy expression on his face, twisting and twitching the crutches, then turned around and kicked down the bodyguard behind me, and directly stabbed him in the abdomen with the cane, and then knocked down the other bodyguard in the same way. people.
In just a few seconds, the two burly men just now turned into half-dead worms curled up on the ground moaning.
After Zhou Chen finished all this neatly, he threw the crutch aside.
"You..." Mr. Qi was too angry to speak.
Zhou Chen didn't even look at him, squatted down and hugged me, rubbed my knee and asked, "Does it hurt?"
At this time, even if it hurts, you can only say that it doesn't hurt.
"Qi Shu is crazy, are you crazy too!" Mr. Qi lost his crutch and couldn't knock on the ground again, so he could only tremblingly point at Zhou Chen, "It's a broken thing, it's worth you..."
"Grandpa." Zhou Chen interrupted him coldly, "Be careful with your words."
"This is not the Qi family, and I am not Qi Shu. He will let you do whatever he wants, but I won't."
"What do you mean, it's not enough for you to fight against Qi Shu, do you want to fight against the whole Qi family now?" Mr. Qi's anger was mixed with a trace of horror.
Zhou Chen didn't answer, but his expression clearly said "so what".
The atmosphere suddenly became weird, and I didn't quite understand the meaning of Mr. Qi's last sentence.
They confronted each other silently for a long time, and finally Zhou Chen broke the silence and said, "It's been so many years, if you still only have these methods, then it's not surprising that the Qi family has come to this day."
His tone was contemptuous, as if the person facing him was not the all-powerful head of the Qi family in the legend, but some unknown little character.
"I heard that after Qi Shu pushed back the engagement, that omega surnamed Wen was marked by an unknown alpha during the estrus period. What a pity, you have to help him find a new fiancée."
"It was you...you did...?"
"Don't talk nonsense." Zhou Chen resumed his slow look, pushed his glasses and said, "I was in the susceptible period and couldn't take care of myself."
Are they talking about Wen Ziqing? Wen Ziqing was marked? There is so much information that I can't get my head around it.
"Ah Chen..." Mr. Qi wanted to be soft when he saw that he was too tough, "You and Xiaoshu are a family, and everything in the Qi family will belong to you sooner or later. Now you are fighting for an outsider, and you are both hurt. The gain outweighs the loss..."
"Furthermore, as alphas, you will one day combine with a matching omega. This is a natural law. I don't object to your young love to play, but there must be a limit to playing, don't disregard the importance."
"Grandpa, I think you made a mistake." Zhou Chen took my hand, "He is not an outsider to me."
"Nonsense!" Mr. Qi's benevolent brows and eyes could not last for three seconds, and his face became ferocious again.
Zhou Chen snorted softly: "I can resist the temptation of omega pheromones during the susceptible period. Do you think I am fooling around? Besides, with the lessons of the predecessors, do you think I will let myself succumb to the ridiculous laws of nature? ?”
As if some switch had been poked, Mr. Qi suddenly opened his eyes wide and stared at Zhou Chen in disbelief.
Zhou Chen remained indifferent, squatting down and asking the two people on the ground: "Which hand touched his?"
Those two people shook their heads in horror, Zhou Chen thought for a while: "If you can't answer, you've touched them all."
After finishing speaking without giving them a chance to respond, four crisp clicks accompanied by two people's screams of pain echoed throughout the living room.
"The medical expenses will be charged to my account. It will hurt your muscles and bones for a hundred days. This time, I will make it easier for you." Zhou Chen stood up and wiped his hands. It's as simple as breaking an arm and breaking a leg."
After finishing speaking, he looked at Old Master Qi lightly, "Including you."
Old Master Qi was so angry that his whole body was trembling, "Zhou Chen, what are you doing, how dare you..."
"What am I afraid of?" Zhou Chen seemed to have heard some funny joke, "Do you remember what you taught us, the only law in this world is that the strong prey on the weak."
"Although I don't agree with you, I might as well return this sentence to you now." He bent slightly and made a gesture of seeing off the guest, "Grandpa, please."
A group of people came with teeth and claws, and walked away in a state of embarrassment. I stood behind Zhou Chen, forgot to speak and forgot the pain, and turned into a quail staring at the play in a daze.
Mr. Housekeeper knew how to read words and expressions, so he immediately called someone to replace the carpet in the living room without Zhou Chen's order.
"Xiaoyu and I went out to eat, and cleaned up the house before we come back. Don't leave any smell." Zhou Chen wrinkled his nose and sniffed, "It stinks to death."
After cutting out the glands, I am much less sensitive to smells, and I don't know where the stink he said is.
"Okay." Mr. Butler nodded, "I wish you a pleasant night."
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