Zhao Chuning stared at his eyes at this moment and fell silent.
If he was still as arrogant and hateful as before, she could still quarrel with him, but his expression suddenly softened, and she stopped herself from scolding him.
"Oh! I didn't see anything!" The little girl's clear voice suddenly rang out. The two adults looked over and saw her covering her eyes with her two little hands, then quietly retreated to the bathroom and closed the door.
That look made both adults burst out laughing.
Zhao Chuning's face looked much better after being teased by the child, and so did Tang Yi. He held Zhao Chuning in his arms and put her down on the bed, "I'll call Tian Jie and ask him to temporarily hand over your job to someone else."
Zhao Chuning was naturally unhappy, "Tang Yi, if you do this, I won't even be able to keep my job. Who would be willing to spend money to support an idle person?"
"I." He replied quite straightforwardly.
Zhao Chuning was startled and quietly grasped the quilt with both hands.
Tang Yi looked her up and down, "Move over to my place with Mimi. I can give you as much money as you want."
"..." Zhao Chuning loosened his grip on the quilt, closed his eyes, lay back in the quilt, and ignored him.
Tang Yi did not stay long. He was obviously very busy. His cell phone rang several times. Finally, he said goodbye to the child and left.
Zhao Chuning lay on the bed, looking at the departing figure, his eyes slightly darker.
He had just left when Zhang Rong came over. Zhao Chuning breathed a sigh of relief. If his mother knew that Tang Yi stayed here last night, she would be anxious again.
"How was it? What did you talk about at the end of last night?" Zhang Rong asked impatiently as soon as she sat down.
"We didn't talk much." Zhao Chuning didn't mention the proposal made by Tang Yi. He just leaned against the head of the bed and said, "He just said that he is very busy recently and won't talk about Mimi for the time being. We'll talk about it in a month."
"Does he want Mimi?" Zhang Rong lowered her voice and glanced at Mimi who was sitting beside her and watching TV intently. The little girl seemed not to have heard anything and only focused on the cartoons on TV without looking back.
"Of course he wants it. Now that he knows Mimi is his daughter, there's no way he doesn't want it."
"He already has a child, what does he need our Mimi for? I won't allow Mimi to go to the Tang family and live with a stepmother!" Zhang Rong's face was tense, and every word she said was stiff, leaving no room for negotiation.
Zhao Chuning hesitated for a moment before saying, "That child is not his."
"Um?"
"The child Miss Mo is pregnant with is not Tang Yi's. He said that he and Miss Mo... have not reached that stage."
Zhang Rong frowned, half believing and half doubting, "Do you believe it? Could it be that he made it up just to coax you into giving him your daughter?"
Zhao Chuning shook his head and said objectively: "If he really wanted a daughter, why would he make up a story in front of me? Besides, he is not the kind of person who would bother to tell such a lie."
Zhang Rong stared at her for a long time with a complicated expression, which made Zhao Chuning feel uncomfortable, so she turned her eyes away. Zhang Rong waved her hands and said, "Forget it, you know him better than me. I don't care if he has a child with another woman. Anyway, if he marries another woman, Mimi can't be with him!"
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Tang Yi said he was very busy recently, and he was indeed busy. For several days, he did not come to the hospital to look for her, nor did he take Mimi away without permission.
Mimi would call him occasionally, but he was too busy to talk to her. The child felt very disappointed.
Regarding Tang Yi's completely different attitude from before, Zhao Chuning even doubted whether Tang Yi had changed his mind about the child.
That day, she completed the discharge procedures and prepared to be discharged from the hospital.
Before being discharged from the hospital, I went to Cheng Zheng’s ward to say goodbye to him.
Cheng Zheng was lying on the bed, talking on the phone. She looked like she had encountered something difficult, and her face was quite bad. Zhao Chuning saw this and was about to leave quietly, but Cheng Zheng saw her and stopped her: "Wait for me, I'll hang up after saying a few more words."
Zhao Chuning had no choice but to come back.
Cheng Zheng hung up the phone without saying a few words.
She found a place to sit down, glanced at the pile of documents on the bed, and said casually: "You are not fully recovered yet, so you should try your best at work."
Cheng Zheng glanced at her with deep eyes, wanting to say something, but in the end he just asked, "Are you ready to be discharged from the hospital?"
"Yeah. The injuries are all healed."
"Then I'll ask the driver to take you back."
"No thanks." Zhao Chuning refused, "I won't bother you anymore."
"It's not a problem. The driver is always here. Besides, you have things to move around, so it's not convenient to go back like this."
"Goodbye." Zhao Chuning still shook his head firmly.
Cheng Zheng glanced at her, and as if he suddenly understood something, his expression darkened. "Will Tang Yi come to pick you up?"
Zhao Chuning still shook his head, "It has nothing to do with him. It's just me and my mom who can do it."
Cheng Zheng's eyes darkened. "Are you so afraid of bothering me?"
She didn't say anything else, just said: "Then you have a good rest, I'm going to go out first. I still have to pack some things."
In fact, firstly, she didn't want to trouble Cheng Zheng. Secondly, she wasn't sure if Tang Yi would really come. If he really came, and she followed Cheng Zheng's car back and let him go empty-handed, with his temper, the consequences would be unimaginable. She didn't forget how she and Cheng Zheng got injured.
Zhao Chuning returned to his ward, quietly packed up his things, and prepared to go home. At this moment, his cell phone suddenly vibrated.
She took a look at it, and the screen flashed with another call from the school teacher. Every time the teacher called, it was something that made her worried. Zhao Chuning's heart was lifted up reflexively, and she put the phone to her ear and answered it.
"Mimi's mom, Mimi is missing!"
as expected.
The teacher threw a sentence at him, making Zhao Chuning feel dizzy. It was only 4 o'clock, and it was not time for Mimi to finish school.
"Why did she disappear? Did her father pick her up?"
"It doesn't seem so. We just checked the camera at the school gate and found out that Mimi was taken away by a man in black. That wasn't Mimi's father. But I don't know if he was Mimi's father's driver."
What man in black
Zhao Chuning held her breath. She only said something to the teacher, hung up the phone in a hurry, and called Tang Yi directly.
The phone rang several times, but no one answered.
Zhao Chuning was extremely anxious. He didn't even bother to take anything from the ward. He just turned around and hurried out.
I met Zhang Rong in the hospital corridor. Seeing that she looked hurried, Zhang Rong asked, "Where are you going?"
"Mom, I'm going to pick up Mimi from school. You go back first. I'll contact you later." She didn't stop for a moment while speaking.
Zhang Rong wanted to say something, but she only saw her back running into the elevator. Zhang Rong murmured in confusion: "Mimi still has one class before the end, why are you in such a hurry?"