Her body tensed slightly, and she intertwined her hands with his large hands hanging at her side. "It should be... Madam."
Bai Yeqing's expression also turned a little more serious. Looking at her slightly trembling eyelashes, he said, "If you don't want to see me, I'll ask Leng Fei to close the door."
"No." Xia Xingchen shook her head and raised her head to meet his gaze. "Please ask her to come in. She has been hiding for three days. It's time to figure things out."
He frowned and looked at the time again. Xia Xingchen knew he was very busy, "Just go ahead and do your thing. I won't be swayed by her."
Bai Yeqing stretched out his long arms and held her to his chest. He was very tall, so she looked even smaller. She was wearing slippers and only touched his shoulders. Her soft body leaned against his chest. His slender fingers inserted into her hair and lifted her fair face. "It's too late for you to waver now. Don't forget, you are a married woman now!"
Xia Xingchen smiled and said, "I remember it."
… … … … …
She changed clothes in the room, and Bai Yeqing went out first.
When they walked into the hall, Madam Lanting had already been invited in. When she saw him, she immediately stood up excitedly, "Ye Qing..."
"Madam." Bai Yeqing nodded, still as respectful and polite as before.
"Xingchen..." Lan Ting's eyes flushed red when he mentioned his daughter. His hands hanging by his side trembled a little, and he suppressed his emotions, "You know best. I left her behind because I had no choice..."
"You can explain it to her in person later." Bai Yeqing said, "She will be out soon."
Lan Ting's dull eyes brightened up a little, "Is she willing to see me?"
He nodded slightly and checked the time. "Please sit down for a while. I have something else to do. I'll excuse myself now."
Lan Ting wanted to talk to him about what happened between him and Xingchen, but he didn't speak immediately. Instead, he nodded and sat down silently. Soon, Xia Xingchen opened the door and came out of the room.
Madam Lanting was sitting on the sofa in the hall, with her back facing her. Xia Xingchen looked at her in a daze, with complicated thoughts and various emotions surging. She used to get along so well with Madam, and liked her inexplicably, but now, it has become a different feeling.
Take a deep breath, suppress the emotions in your heart, and walk over slowly.
Hearing the noise, Lan Ting turned around. When their eyes met, Lan Ting's eyes were suddenly covered with a thin layer of mist. She suppressed her anger, and a faint smile appeared on the corners of her lips, "Xingchen..."
Xia Xingchen sat down opposite her and wanted to call her "Madam", but after moving her lips, she couldn't call out as calmly as before. She just pulled the corners of her lips and said reluctantly: "Long time no see."
"Yes... It's been a long time..."
Lan Ting's eyes were full of love as he looked at her, excited and relieved. He nodded repeatedly, as if talking to her or talking to himself, "When I knew it was you, I couldn't believe it... God has never wronged me..."
Xia Xingchen didn't know how to respond. In her mind, her mother had always been Shen Min and her father was Xia Guopeng. Even though she had lacked both paternal and maternal love for so many years, she still subconsciously identified them as the ones she loved.
Although he had gotten along well with Madam Lanting before, now that he knew that we were in this kind of relationship, he inexplicably felt a layer of strangeness, as if there was suddenly an insurmountable obstacle.
"You came to me to tell me about Ye Qing and I?" Xia Xingchen went straight to the point.
Lan Ting felt much softer in his heart when he saw his daughter. He was reluctant to talk to her about breaking up a couple, but now that he had come to this point...
"I have been at the Bai family for the past two days. Ye Qing's parents do not agree with this matter; Mr. Bai was also furious when you suddenly disappeared. Of course, your father..." At this point, Madam Lanting paused, glanced at Xingchen's face inquiringly, and changed her words: "Ye Qing's uncle also does not agree with you two being together. You can't blame them for this. After all, cousins..."
Lanting didn't say anything else.
Xia Xingchen's fingers pressed on her knees tightened a little.
"I know you don't agree, but you have your reasons for disagreeing, and he and I also have our reasons for having to be together." She spoke with a firm tone.
Lan Ting leaned forward a little, "Xingchen, don't be so silly. Besides Ye Qing, you have many choices. There are people who are as good as him."
"You mean Zenan? He said that your daughter had already been promised to him before she was found."
"..." Lan Ting's lips moved, wanting to say something, but Xia Xingchen spoke again, his tone colder, "I'm sorry, no matter how outstanding he is, I'm not interested in a political marriage. Besides, in my eyes, there will never be anyone better than Ye Qing."
Her attitude was obviously much colder than before. Even a slightly cool look from her made Lan Ting feel pain in his heart.
"Okay, okay, you have your own ideas, so let's not talk about this for now." Mrs. Lanting's tone was quite cautious. She finally saw her daughter, and she didn't want to make her angry. She suppressed her sadness and said, "You have been missing for a few days. Your father... He really wants to see you."
Xia Xingchen bit her lip and didn't respond.
"Xingchen, I understand that you are angry with me for abandoning you. But your father... He was completely unaware of what happened for so many years. You may blame me, but you can't blame him." Madam Lanting defended Bai Qingrang in every word. Finally, she looked at Xia Xingchen pleadingly, "Come back to the Bai family with me and meet your father formally, okay?"
Xia Xingchen knew that what the lady said was not without reason. It was just...
As she was considering this, the phone in her pocket suddenly rang. She took it out, looked at the screen, and said, "Sorry, I have to answer a call."
Mrs. Lanting nodded. She answered the phone and stood up, "Hello, Teacher Yang, hello."
It was Dabai's teacher who called. Upon hearing Xia Xingchen's voice, Teacher Yang immediately said, "Dabai's mother, please come to the hospital as soon as possible!"
"What happened?" Xia Xingchen felt a knot in his heart when he heard the word "hospital".
"Dabai vomited while eating lunch today. We just thought he had a stomach problem, so we gave him some medicine and saw that he was fine, so we didn't take it seriously. But, unexpectedly... unexpectedly, he fainted just before get out of class ended."
"Fainted?" Xia Xingchen suddenly felt weak all over and almost dropped the phone in his hand.
Mrs. Lanting also stood up suddenly. Xia Xingchen held the phone and asked tremblingly: "Which hospital? Have you arrived at the hospital now?"