He Xiaoning lay in the hospital bed for a whole day. No one came to see her except Lin Pei, and Qiao Yan didn't even call her. Her heart was filled with deep disappointment. Lin Pei looked at her melancholy look and felt cold in his heart. "Why don't you call him?" His voice was full of helplessness.
He Xiaoning looked up in surprise, a little bit unbelievable, "What's wrong with you? Aren't you angry at all?"
Lin Pei laughed at himself, "He Xiaoning, we have been sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams for three years. I was angry, jealous, resentful, and I did all kinds of bad things, but the final outcome was still like this. How could you make me so anxious? I can't bear to pester you anymore. In fact, all the scandals I had in the past were false. I didn't do anything to let you down. I just wanted to make you angry and ask me why. At least let me know that you still care about me a little bit..."
"Lin Pei, please stop talking." He Xiaoning lowered her head, tears streaming down her cheeks. "It's my fault. I shouldn't have dragged you down with me. I mistook being touched for love."
Lin Pei took a deep breath, which undoubtedly told him that she had never loved him at all. What a cruel fact it was. In fact, he had been prepared for it, but when these words came out of her mouth, he still couldn't help but feel sad.
Love can't be forced. After going around in circles for so long, he suddenly understood. Although he is over 30 years old and should not be able to use the word "grown up" anymore, it seems that whether you can see things clearly or not does not depend on your age.
"Call him and stop torturing yourself." Qiao Yan handed her the phone on the bedside.
He Xiaoning looked at the phone, her hands shaking badly. She looked at Lin Pei, "Is he with Ye Mi now? Will he look down on me and not want to see me again?"
Lin Pei felt a little resentful of her anxious look. It was her indecisive look that gave him hope back then. Now she looked so pitiful. Sometimes he would wonder if she did it unintentionally or was just trying to seduce men.
"Qiao Yan is not that kind of person. If he doesn't want to see you anymore, the only reason is that he no longer loves you, and it's definitely not because he looks down on you." As brothers, he would of course understand. It's just that he didn't say this three years ago, and he didn't see through it. He thought he could make her fall in love with him, but man proposes, God disposes, and no one can be sure of the future.
When Ye Mi opened her eyes, she found herself lying in the hospital. She looked around and found that all her family members were there. She was a little frightened, "What's wrong?" she asked timidly.
Jiang Mingming held her hand and said, "You are such a silly child. You are pregnant and it has been five weeks. Look at your face. Fortunately, it was discovered early. The doctor said that your hormone level is insufficient and you have to protect the fetus."
Ye Mi stood there in a daze, unable to say a word. This was not a surprise, but a shock.
"Qingwen called Qiao Yan just now, but no one answered. How can this man be someone else's husband? I must have a good talk with him." Jiang Mingming was a little dissatisfied.
Ye Mi held her hand, "Mom, please, don't tell Qiao Yan, don't tell him."
"What's wrong?" Everyone in the room was stunned, staring at the child on the bed and waiting for her to reveal the answer.
Ye Mi was speechless. After a long time, she slowly spoke, "I can't stand it anymore. I've been loving so hard. I've been compromising for so long but still can't replace the other woman's position in his heart. Just one sentence can break all the appearances of love between us. Last night, I was suddenly exhausted and couldn't hold on any longer."
Everyone in the room was stunned. "How can this be done? The daughter of our He family is not someone who can be bullied. Call Qiao Yan over, I want to see what he wants to do." He Jianming was furious. This was related to the reputation of the He family. How could they allow a single mother to appear
"Grandpa, please don't tell him, or I will be too ashamed to see you. Just let me embarrass myself." She pulled up the quilt to cover her head. She felt ashamed of herself for having to stick to him to this extent.
No one knew what had happened, only Jiang Mingming had guessed something. She slowly pulled back the quilt and said, "Don't do this, it's not good for your health. You are not alone now. If you still want a child, you can't be so sad." She looked at the people in the room and said, "Dad, Peining, you guys go back first. The company is very busy recently. I'll just stay with Ye Zi." It is better to tell your mother about a girl's affairs. He Qingwen didn't want to leave, but was still dragged out by her father.
Ye Mi couldn't help crying while hugging her mother, "He knew about that. He asked me why I didn't tell him and pushed him into such a helpless situation. He also said that I was heartless, cruel, and that I schemed against him. Mom, I fell in love with a man who was irresponsible and irresponsible in his relationship."
"Is it that He Xiaoning?" Jiang Mingming hugged her and stroked her head gently, "Do you want your father to take her away?" It is not a good choice for an employee to try to steal the boss's son-in-law.
Ye Mi shook her head. "I don't want him to think I'm childish. I've come to terms with it. What's the point of being together if we can't get love? I don't want to put myself in a difficult position anymore. A short pain is worse than a long one. In my heart, I will always think he loves another woman. I can't stand sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams."
Jiang Mingming was a little surprised, "Are you going to help them?"
"I'm not that great. I won't bless them. I just don't want to embarrass myself anymore. My heart is broken." She leaned into her mother's arms. "Mom, thank you for giving me a home. I'm not afraid anymore. I can live well with my child by myself."
Jiang Mingming understood her situation very well. She had thought the same thing back then. She hugged her, hoping to use motherly love to melt her sadness. "Ye Zi, you are just saying that out of anger. You have loved each other so deeply for so long. How can you let yourself suffer so much? You can't bear it. It really hurts. When you really have to go through the divorce procedures, you will know. It hurts so much."
Ye Mi closed his eyes. There was no need to wait until the formalities were completed. It was already painful now.
It was already dark when Qiao Yan woke up. He felt a little dizzy. He looked at his mother sitting beside the bed with a bowl of porridge in her hand. "Look at you, kid. How did you get yourself into this state? Your wife didn't even come to see you."
This sentence hit Qiao Yan right in the heart. He glanced at his mother and asked, "Where's my phone?"
Mother Qiao glared at him and handed him the phone. "Don't let me talk to Ye Mi. You're so sick and you don't even have a phone call. How can I be a wife? You've spoiled me. Your father and brother are both grown men. I don't know how they gave birth to a wife slave like you."
Qiao Yan looked through the call log and found that no one had called except He Qingwen. He was a little disappointed and flustered. It was not that they had never quarreled before. When she was in school, they would have a falling out while chatting, but every time she would rush to admit her mistakes by phone and text message. Now her quietness and silence made him feel uneasy.
Mother Qiao pondered for a while and then cautiously asked, "Xiaoyan, how is the international pyrite market recently? Will it go up again?"
Qiao Yan didn't care about that at all. He was a little impatient. "Mom, you can't do speculative business. It was artificially hyped a while ago. Now the market has stabilized and returned to normal prices. It can only fall and not rise in the future. At least there will be no big fluctuations this year. Just play with the money I gave you. Go out and play cards when you have nothing to do. Don't worry about it."
Mother Qiao looked a little unnatural. She just said "oh" softly, but her palms were sweating from nervousness.
When Qiao Yan came downstairs during dinner, he saw his father sitting on the sofa. He felt a little guilty and didn't know what to do. He was very embarrassed. Qiao Zhenting naturally understood his son. He said with a fierce face, "How do you behave, Qiao Yan? You said you wanted to run away from home, so you ran away. You wanted to come back, so you said sorry and came back by yourself. Are you sure I want to let you enter the house again? You are so old, you are smart, capable, and you have been spoiled since you were a child. Everything has been smooth sailing. When you encounter something, you mess it up. You have always only considered yourself, and you do whatever you want because others love you and you can't do anything to you. I tell you responsibly that if you don't change this bad habit of yours, you will suffer a great loss sooner or later."
Qiao Yan was speechless. His father was right. Why did he leave this family and come back as he pleased? He was just relying on the fact that he was the precious son of this family. But why did he yell at Ye Zi? He was just relying on the fact that she loved him so much and couldn't bear to leave. He felt a little ashamed. Indeed, he would act capriciously and messily when something happened.
After dinner, Qiao Yan thought about it again and again and decided to go to the hospital to see He Xiaoning. Hiding is not a solution. He caused the trouble and he must face it and solve it. Because of his poor health, he asked the driver at home to take him there. The car entered the gate of the hospital. From a distance, he saw Ye Mi get into a car. He Qingwen closed the door for her and then sat in the passenger seat. He was curious. While he was still in a daze, the two cars passed by each other. Qiao Yan couldn't see the people inside, but he suddenly felt like he had missed someone.
When Qiao Yan entered, He Xiaoning was lying there alone, looking quite miserable. When she saw him, her eyes suddenly lit up.
"Have you eaten yet?" He put the dinner he brought from home on the table. "I wonder if it suits your taste."
He Xiaoning's face kept twitching. She wanted to laugh but couldn't help crying. She looked a little ugly, but in Qiao Yan's eyes, it only made him feel more guilty. "I'm sorry, I don't know what went wrong. I left you a text message and called you... Anyway, it's all my fault. You can hate me because I can't make up for my mistake."
He Xiaoning's face turned pale all of a sudden. She bit her lip and kept shaking her head, "Yan, you can do it. We can start over."
"But I'm already married." Qiao Yan turned his face away and didn't dare to look at He Xiaoning's expression. Now he couldn't have the best of both worlds. "I'm actually a selfish person. I'm in love with someone else now. I can't let her down again. I can't leave her either. I'm sorry."
"Qiao Yan, do you know how Ye Mi treats you? When you were flying to Denmark, I saw her and He Qingwen hugging each other in this hospital."
"Xiaoning, it's not what you think. There's nothing between her and Qingwen. You'll understand later. I'm the one who's sorry to you. It has nothing to do with Ye Zi. Don't blame her. She just loves me."
He Xiaoning's face turned red. "Qiao Yan, are you showing off to me? Is Ye Mi the only one who is innocent? You are the most selfish and ruthless of all people. Get out of here, get out right now. I don't want to see you again." She was almost out of control and swept all the things he brought to the ground.
Qiao Yan was speechless, nodded silently and left the ward, but he didn't feel relieved. He would bear the guilt for her from now on, but he could no longer give her love. After leaving the hospital building, the family driver was waiting there. The car drove out of the hospital and was about to turn. Qiao Yan opened his mouth, "Take me back to Zijin Xianghui Garden."
"Second Young Master, Mr. Qiao just called and asked me to take you home. He said he was waiting for you at home and had something important to discuss." The driver slowed down the car.
Qiao Yan was a little tired and sighed helplessly, "Take me there first, I have something to get, it won't take much time." He just wanted to go back to see Ye Zi. Although he didn't know what to say when they met, he just wanted to see her. This is called missing, or dependence, dependence on love and home in difficult situations.
The light in the room was very dim, and Qiao Yan's heart sank. "Ye Zi? Ye Zi, are you home?" He hurried upstairs and rushed directly into the bedroom. He opened the closet and found that everything was there. He breathed a sigh of relief. The silence at that moment made his heart rise to his throat.
He took out his cell phone and walked into his study. He had to take his laptop with him, but as soon as he entered the room, he saw the T400 on the table with the door key on it, and his nerves instantly snapped.
"I also peeked at your computer, but I didn't say anything..."
Qiao Yan stared in panic. He leaned against the door, holding his forehead with his hand, not knowing what to do. "Ye Zi, Ye Zi, it's not what you think..."
He turned and ran out of the house, dialing Ye Mi's number as he went downstairs, but no one answered the call. He got into the car and said, "Take me to Wanshan Villa District immediately." He called He Qingwen again. He had not figured out what she meant before, but now he finally realized the seriousness of the matter.
He Qingwen held the phone and looked at Ye Mi, "Sister?"
Ye Mi was conflicted. It was nonsense to say that she had really let it go. Otherwise, she would not have left the computer on the table before leaving. But she could not forgive him. She did not know what to do, so she turned around and went upstairs to her room. He Qingwen looked at the phone that kept coming over and over again, and finally he could not hold back his temper. He picked up the phone and said as if nothing had happened, "Hello!"
"Where's Ye Zi? Let me talk to her."
"My sister is not feeling well and is resting now. Is there anything wrong?"
"I know she was right next to you and didn't rest at all. You asked me to tell her that I was wrong and asked her to listen to my explanation. It's not what she thought."
Although He Qingwen didn't know what happened, he was sure that it was Qiao Yan who offended his sister. He looked up and saw Ye Mi standing on the stairs on the second floor, looking at him with a look that clearly showed reluctance. "Qiao Yan, don't bother my sister until you have explained your relationship to He Xiaoning. She said she is exhausted now."
"Qingwen, let your sister answer the phone. He Xiaoning and I are over it. No matter what happens, I will not abandon her." He was a little excited, and his voice couldn't help but tremble. He Qingwen took away the phone, held the receiver and whispered to Ye Mi upstairs, "What should I do?"
Ye Mi bit her lip and looked at He Qingwen for a moment, "If he chooses me, ask him to show up here within half an hour." After that, she turned and went into her room.
He Qingwen hung up the phone without waiting for Qiao Yan to say anything after delivering the message. He turned to look at his grandfather and said, "Don't you think my sister is really stylish?"
He Jianming drank his tea without any reaction. After a while, he looked at He Qingwen and said, "You grew up by my side, but why don't you have the temperament to be wild outside? I think the He family has completely failed in educating you."
He Qingwen stared, too embarrassed to speak for a moment.
As soon as Qiao Yan put down the phone, the driver handed him his phone and turned the car around. Qiao Yan was a little anxious, "What are you doing?"
"Mr. Qiao has something urgent for you to answer the phone."
Qiao Yan had no choice but to pick up the phone. The news on the phone was a bit overwhelming, so he quickly called Yin Yining and said, "Something happened at home. Please fly over here immediately to help me." He now needed a lawyer, but also a strong business partner.
He closed his eyes, and everything seemed to come together at once; it was all an unprovoked disaster.
When Qiao Yan returned home, he saw his father sitting on the sofa with a scowl on his face, his mother standing in the middle of the living room, and his elder brother and sister-in-law not daring to breathe, with their heads bowed deeply. Qiao Yan walked forward and called out softly, "Dad!"
Father Qiao threw a cup of tea at him, "You didn't even know your own shares were sold, you loser. And you, whether you are needed for clothes or for things, you dared to secretly mortgage your two sons' shares to the bank, and even went to the black market to borrow usury."
"It was Enping who said that we definitely can't lose money and we will definitely make money."
“You just heard from others that you invested 4 billion, but others only invested 500 million. Why did they exit at a high price and you were trapped? You didn’t discuss it with your family and believed others. This is not the first time you have brought disaster to this family…” Qiao Zhenting’s face flushed red and he began to twitch before he could catch his breath.
"Dad! Dad!" The whole family gathered around, and Qiao Yan's phone suddenly rang. He took a look and saw that it was He Qingwen, but he couldn't care about it at this time. He hung up the phone and immediately called the emergency. He wondered if he was a very unlucky person. He just returned home and something happened at home.
He Qingwen looked up at Ye Mi, "He won't answer!"
Ye Mi frowned, took a deep breath to hold back the tears in her eyes, and said sadly, "We are over!"