Cheng Yao originally thought that Chen Linli's case would not be answered so quickly, but to her surprise, Qian Heng managed to settle Huang Ran's case in threes and fives, and persuaded her to meet Chen Linli, and this meeting was also rejected. Qian Heng resolutely arranged for that night.
When they received Qian Heng's call, the dishes Cheng Yao and Gu Beiqing ordered had just arrived.
"Can I make an appointment tomorrow?" Cheng Yao was a little embarrassed, "I haven't started dinner yet, and what's more, Chen Linli is still in the hospital. I'm afraid I won't be able to leave the hospital to see Huang Ran tonight."
Qian Heng's voice was serious: "Huang Ran only has time tonight."
Cheng Yao was a little anxious: "But Chen Linli's physical condition..."
"It's okay, I will take Huang Ran to the hospital to see her." Qian Heng said calmly, "This kind of thing should be done while the iron is hot. I'm afraid Huang Ran will change his mind tomorrow after sleeping, and he doesn't even want to see Chen Linli."
Qian Heng's words were well-founded and serious. Cheng Yao only pondered for a moment before agreeing with his point of view: "You are right, then, let me communicate with Chen Linli, and we will see you at the hospital."
After obtaining Chen Linli's consent, Cheng Yao immediately reported the hospital name and ward number to Qian Heng. After that, without saying a word, she picked up her bag and prepared to leave.
Gu Beiqing looked helpless, he glanced at his watch: "What's the matter with Qian Heng, Chen Linli's case is still some time away from the second trial, why didn't I see him so efficient in handling cases before, pick this point to call..."
"It's because his client is inconvenient the rest of the time." Cheng Yao smiled, "Besides, when it comes to eating, lawyers should put clients and work first, and make sacrifices for the case."
Gu Beiqing frowned: "It seems that I have too much prejudice against him. In my first reaction, I always felt that he deliberately refused to let you eat this meal."
Cheng Yao said apologetically to Gu Beiqing: "If you are free tonight, let's have supper after I finish this meeting."
"No problem." Gu Beiqing smiled gently, "Go to the snack alley, it's lively there."
—
Cheng Yao rushed to the hospital almost non-stop. Chen Linli was the most excited to meet with Huang Ran and have a good talk about it.
Almost as soon as she heard the news, she struggled to get up from the bed: "Lawyer Cheng, please take me to see my mother-in-law."
"No, she and her lawyer will come straight to meet with you."
Chen Linli's face was pale, but she pulled herself together, with tears in her eyes: "Actually, after the accident, I wanted to meet my mother-in-law, but Akai and Ranran disappeared, and she pulled all my contact information. It was dark, and I even thought that I killed Akai and Ranran for the sake of property design. Akai was her only son. When Akai left, the nephews and nieces around her were moved, thinking about her share of money, It is even more of a hindrance, making me look like a scourge, making my mother-in-law even more suspicious of me, and accepting many interviews under their arrangement, and the distance from reconciliation is getting farther and farther... "
"Anyway, thank you, Lawyer Cheng!"
"Don't thank me in a hurry. What happens to this case depends on how well you and your mother-in-law meet and talk. Even if there is a settlement, negotiations on the division of the estate will continue."
Cheng Yao was still a little worried, although she had entrusted Qian Heng with the video of the accident, the testimony of the company employees about the relationship between Chen Linli and her husband, the chat records between Chen Linli and Zhang Kai, etc. Referred, but a person's prejudice, is not so easy to remove.
And as if to verify Cheng Yao's guess, when Qian Heng showed up with Huang Ran, Huang Ran was obviously still very hostile.
Qian Heng glanced at Cheng Yao, and the two left the ward tacitly, leaving a private space for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
—
"What to eat?"
Cheng Yao followed Qian Heng in the corridor of the hospital, she was stunned and raised her head.
Qian Heng looked a little uncomfortable: "Didn't you say that I interrupted dinner? I haven't eaten yet. As compensation, I just invite you to eat."
Cheng Yao subconsciously glanced back at the ward.
Qian Heng pursed his lips: "Will they finish chatting in a while. There is no decent restaurant near the hospital, just have a light meal, it won't be too long."
Since breaking up with Qian Heng, Cheng Yao has felt sad. The former two people suddenly changed back to one person, just like an addict suddenly wants to quit drugs. In the initial withdrawal reaction, Cheng Yao cried and suffered from insomnia. Hearing Qian Heng's voice several times, he was so irrational that he would return to this man regardless of whether he got married or not.
But fortunately, since entering BRICS, Cheng Yao's busy work has completely distracted Cheng Yao's attention. She almost deliberately put all her energy into her work and didn't think about this man. But now face to face with Qian Heng again, Cheng Yao's heart was filled with throbbing, apprehension, uneasiness and timidity.
She wanted to see him, but she was a little afraid to see him. She wanted to talk to him, but she didn't dare to talk to him. Because she was afraid that if she met too many times, she would soften her heart, she would not be able to persist, and she would want to abandon her principles and return to him.
"I want to eat Sichuan food."
Qian Heng can't eat spicy food at all, and he can't accept the modified slightly spicy food. Occasionally, he can drink three glasses of ice water after a bite of spicy food. Cheng Yao thought that eating Sichuan food by herself would make him retreat in spite of the difficulties. Because there is no way to contact the ex-boyfriend at work, it is better to avoid too much contact for a private meal. Facing Qian Heng, Cheng Yao didn't have much confidence in herself.
In the end, she didn't expect that Qian Heng didn't respond at all: "Oh, okay, let's go."
Cheng Yao was stunned: "I'm going to eat Sichuan cuisine. Sichuan cuisine!"
"Well, I know."
"..."
—
It wasn't until Cheng Yao was sitting in the Sichuan restaurant, staring at the man opposite who was ordering food calmly, still in a daze.
Qian Heng came to eat Sichuan cuisine with him
"You..." Cheng Yao said carefully, "I ate at this Sichuan restaurant a few days ago, and it was really spicy..."
Qian Heng raised his eyelids: "Can Gu Beiqing eat Sichuan food?"
Cheng Yao didn't know why, so she just replied subconsciously: "He likes everything spicy."
"it is good."
After Qian Heng listened, he answered his own words without beginning or end.
Now that business affairs are aside, the two of them are sitting face to face like this, Cheng Yao subconsciously wants to change the subject: "The case of Chen Linli..."
However, as soon as she opened her mouth, Qian Heng interrupted her: "Cheng Yao." He looked a little unnatural, "I'm looking for you today, I don't want to talk about business."
For some reason, Cheng Yao felt that Qian Heng had an expression on his face that he was about to die.
After a moment of silence, Cheng Yao finally heard Qian Heng's heroic voice—
"Cheng Yao, I am willing to marry."
Cheng Yao was stunned for a moment before turning cold: "It doesn't matter to me whether you want to have a ligation or not."
Qian Heng pursed his lips: "I have already decided not to have a ligation."
"what?"
"Because I want to have a baby with you." Qian Heng paused, "What I said is that I am willing to get married."
Cheng Yao:? ?
wait wait wait
Cheng Yao had some indigestion for a while, so she just stared at Qian Heng with wide eyes: "Aren't you unmarried DINK?"
The instigator didn't blush and said, "Oh, I've changed my mind."
"Didn't you say that is your bottom line principle that you must never back down?"
"In this world, you always have to break through yourself and try something unknown, just like challenging Sichuan cuisine." Qian Heng pursed his lips, "I thought about it, you are right, excellent genes and chromosomes must continue, especially I am like this, if I am not married or have children, it will be a loss to the country. Individuals should also have some sense of responsibility to the society, and should do something about the negative growth rate of the population. One should not be too selfish."
Dink, who claims to be unmarried for a hundred years, will not waver, and at the same time wants to save face like Qian Heng. Now he has to slap himself 200 times in the face, I'm afraid it's really embarrassing for him.
It's just that Cheng Yao heard the high-sounding words and still felt very good about herself, so she couldn't get angry: "You don't have to force yourself for the sake of the country. The most important thing in life is to be willful and to live out yourself. What's more, even if you Having a child, just one or two, is not enough to change the world order, so don't worry about it so much. Qian Heng, you should go for a vasectomy."
"..." Qian Heng was choked, and after a moment of silence, he looked at Cheng Yao and said, "If I have a ligation, what will you do?"
Cheng Yao smiled: "Me? I'm looking for someone else to have a baby."
"Cheng, Yao."
Qian Heng's voice was almost gnashing his teeth, and he glared at Cheng Yao viciously: "You really want to piss me off."
"Why am I mad at you?" Cheng Yao also stared back, "Your genes are indeed excellent, but mine are just mediocre. Liang Yiran and others are all better than me. Baby, to continue the highest quality genes, you should go to Liang Yiran."
"I know what Liang Yiran did to you, and I've already dealt with it."
Speaking of Liang Yiran, Cheng Yao got angry: "I don't care whether you deal with Liang Yiran's matter or not. Because every case I handle now is to prove my ability and innocence for me. Some things, Time will restore the truth, I am still young, I am not afraid to wait."
Qian Heng's voice sounded as if he was the victim, the straight man condemned without any desire to survive: "But you didn't tell me anything, how did I find out that Liang Yiran did those things to you? You have too little trust in me."
"How can I tell you? In what capacity? A small employee sues a partner? How do you choose? Who do you trust?"
"I will always trust you unconditionally."
With such a simple sentence, Cheng Yao was a little hard to calm down, and her heart jumped up again. She subconsciously avoided Qian Heng's sight, and covered it up: "You don't want to say something nice to coax people, let alone the villain complains first, Liang Yiran's matter, it was you who acted dishonestly from the beginning." The two broke up now Now, Cheng Yao didn't hide it anymore, "I understand that Junheng needs to introduce new partners for its development, but you still joined the firm when you recruited him. As a boyfriend, you can at least inform me and tell me, right?"
In the end, Qian Heng really didn't want to survive at all, and he said with a straight face: "Why did Zhao Liang still come in and tell you?"
"..."
"Although you are my girlfriend, you are not a partner of a law firm. It is impossible for me to explain every detail to you every time I recruit employees or colleagues. People like Wang Lu and Bao Rui come in, and they want to tell you?"
"Wang Lu, Bao Rui and Liang are still not the same!"
"Aren't they all ordinary colleagues?" Qian Heng took it for granted, "Although Liang Yiran is a partner, to me, he is the same as Wang Lu and Bao Rui. Why? It's her turn to tell you specifically?"
"What's the same? Have Wang Lu and Bao Rui confessed to you?"
Cheng Yao gritted her teeth angrily, just thinking about having a baby with herself? You can dream!
"You arranged your girlfriend to work under the woman who had a crush on you and confessed to you, and didn't you just keep an eye on her for any tricks? You still need me to complain?"
Facing Cheng Yao's accusation, Qian Heng was still at a loss: "Who? Who has a crush on me? What confession?"
"Liang Yiran! Didn't she chase you in college and confess her love to you?"
As a result, Qian Heng's face was filled with unbelievable shock: "Is there such a thing?" He suddenly realized, "No wonder I said that she targeted you so inexplicably. It's like being humiliated. It turns out that she confessed to me ?”
"..."
My friend, it's not good for you to be so careless. You have been single for twenty-eight years, and you really can't rely on the society.
Qian Heng didn't think there was anything wrong with him at all. On the contrary, he was very confident: "There were too many people who confessed to me when I was in college. Besides women, there were also men. It is impossible to remember, and I will not waste I have time to remember these things. It turns out that Liang still confessed his love to me?"
"..."
"I'm sorry, if I remember that Liang still confessed to me, I will tell you before she enters Junheng, and I will definitely not let you be transferred to her team."
"..."
Cheng Yao was in a complicated mood. She didn't know if Liang would vomit blood and die if she still heard Qian Heng's words.
After a long silence, Qian Heng finally spoke again, his voice a little embarrassed: "I didn't really marry for the country either."
Cheng Yao didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.
Qian Heng's face was full of colors. He struggled for a few seconds like a prey locked by a lion, and then finally gave up struggling as if resigned to his fate: "I don't care about the country or the world. I only care about you."
Qian Heng pursed his lips, he obviously still wanted to show off the little face he had left: "Cheng Yao, after making difficult choices and long-term thinking, I decided not to insist on not marrying and DINK." Qian Heng's voice was calm Slightly trembling, as if nervous, but his face still showed the kind of calmness before his eyes, "Marriage may not be as bad as imagined. In addition to quarrels and confrontations, there are also romance and love in marriage. Just like Chen Linli and Zhang Kai. Although I still feel that marriage and having children are very risky decisions, and I still have no idea, but for you, I am willing to try and take this risk. I am willing to get married, I am also willing to have children. I agree to all your requests."
"I found that I can't watch you being with others, marrying others, and having children with others. If getting married and having children is a necessary plan in your life, then I hope that the person who will marry and have children with you is Me." Qian Heng stared at Cheng Yao: "So Cheng Yao, let's get together again."
It's not hard to imagine, Qian Heng made this decision, made this change, what kind of entanglements and compromises he went through in his heart, he was able to do this for himself, Cheng Yao said that he was not moved, it was a lie, it was just...
It's just that the certainty and faint sense of superiority in Qian Heng's words made Cheng Yao feel uncomfortable.
She really wants to get married and have children, but Cheng Yao hopes that whether it is getting married or having children, it will be a matter of course. An anxious decision, let alone a compromise made reluctantly to accommodate myself.
The breakup was indeed due to disagreements over marriage and childbirth, but after the breakup, Cheng Yao also calmly thought about the relationship between her and Qian Heng.
In the beginning, the relationship started from a superior-subordinate relationship. Although the process was beautiful, I calmly thought that the relationship between the two people was not equal. It was only because the relationship did not last long that this level of inequality was not fully exposed.
Qian Heng really loves himself, but this kind of love is mixed with some condescending machismo. Facing himself, he was too confident and determined, as if everything about him was always under his control.
"Sorry, I don't want to get back together with you right now."
Qian Heng was stunned for a moment, he thought he heard it wrong: "What?"
"Do you think that as long as you agree to get married and have children, I will come back to you at any time?" Cheng Yao slightly raised her eyebrows, and gave Qian Heng a beautiful and proud smile, "I'm really sorry, You guessed wrong this time." Cheng Yao paused, "Qian Heng, why haven't you thought about it, even if you want to get married and have children, I might not agree now? Who gave you the illusion? You Is it because you read too many romance novels? As long as you look back, there will always be a silly heroine waiting for you? Waiting for a few years or more?"
Qian Heng frowned, pursed his lips tightly, and his face was very ugly.
However, his face became darker, but Cheng Yao only felt that her mood became more comfortable: "Qian Heng, wake up."
"..."
"As a man, you have to remember what you said. Isn't marriage the tomb of love for you? Having children is even more difficult for you to seek death?"
Qian Heng said with difficulty: "My original idea was not mature enough."
"Oh, that's it, but even if you want to get married and have children, no one would dare." Cheng Yao blinked her eyes, "After all, who are you? , worked so hard to conceive, give birth and take care of the children, and in the end the divorce and custody rights can't be taken away from you, it's like a free surrogacy, who wouldn't want to marry you?"
Qian Heng endured it, and said in a low voice, "Cheng Yao, I am willing to sign a prenuptial agreement. You decide the terms of the agreement. As long as you get divorced, all the joint property and children will belong to you. What kind of terms do you want to write? I agree. As long as you are willing to marry me, I can accept it... "
After Qian Heng finished speaking, he pursed his lips and looked at Cheng Yao. His appearance was a little pitiful, like a colonized colony who was unable to resist the aggression of the great powers and could only cede land and pay compensation...
This expression did not arouse Cheng Yao's sympathy at all. On the contrary, the evil factor in her heart rose instead: "Well, I always feel that it is a pity that I have only been in love with you. There are so many men, except you. , I should also try other styles, so that I can be considered worthy of this life. If you want to get married, you can do it. I ask for an open relationship, or a unilateral one. After marriage, you can’t control me. I want to meet someone I like , and will also fall in love with others, body and mind, there must always be one on the way of cheating."
Qian Heng's face turned livid: "Are you serious?"
Cheng Yao nodded: "Yes."
"As long as you agree to this, you will marry me?"
"That's right."
Qian Heng is a very face-saving person, Cheng Yao also knew that he was determined not to accept such humiliating terms, but she did not expect that, after a moment of silence, Qian Heng nodded with humiliation on his face.
"I accept."
wait wait wait…
Qian Heng's face was livid with a trace of despair: "It's okay, I accept it, I will strictly demand myself after marriage, my figure will not be out of shape, my hairline will not move back, so that you only like me, that's fine."
"..."
Although Qian Heng could even accept such terms of humiliating power and humiliating the country, Cheng Yao should be very moved, but she still ruthlessly broke his illusion.
"I'm sorry, I didn't really want to open the relationship. Since I'm married, I should be responsible for the marriage."
As a result, before Qian Heng had time to be happy, he heard Cheng Yao continue to say—
"I was joking just now. I am very satisfied with my current state. Being in love, getting married and having children is not a necessity in life. It is just a natural scenery on the road of life. Being in love is very good, but if you are not in love, you have more time to spend on work and develop your career. " She glanced at Qian Heng, "You used to teach me not to be in a hurry to fall in love in the first two years of work. Now that I think about it, what I said is very reasonable! These two years determine the future of my career, and I can fall in love at any time Talk, talk to anyone anyway. But the opportunities in the workplace for the past two years have been wasted and there is no turning back."
"..."
"So although I will definitely get married and have children when I meet the right person in the future, I haven't considered this at the moment. I think it's good to be single, and being obsessed with work makes me feel fulfilled!"
Qian Heng's face flashed a blankness after being overwhelmed. After a long time, he seemed to calm down, and stared at Cheng Yao: "Is it Gu Beiqing?"
"what?"
Qian Heng showed a murderous expression on his face: "Is he chasing you recently? Are you attracted to him? What's so good about him?!" Qian Heng said angrily, "He is not suitable for you!"
Although he didn't say it clearly, but at this moment, he almost had a barrage of "I'm the only one who suits you" on his face.
However, Qian Heng didn't know that his sense of superiority only made Cheng Yao want to give the socialist a severe beating after seeing it.
"My seniors are pretty good everywhere." Cheng Yao nonsense nonsense, "If you want to be beautiful, you want to have money, you are gentle and elegant, and you have a lot of common topics when you graduate from the same school as me, and you can also teach me professionally. I help and teach a lot; I never say anything, don’t be awkward, go straight, I don’t need to guess; I’m submissive to me, I never feel good about myself, and I don’t have too straight thoughts; the most important thing is to get straight In my own position, I know that chasing people should lower my posture." Cheng Yao thought for a while, and added, "Oh, he can still eat spicy food with me."
"..."
Qian Heng paused for a long time before he said with difficulty: "What's so good about eating spicy food?"
"Yeah, it's not considered an advantage, but sometimes it won't last long if you find a boyfriend who can't eat a piece. This is a big difference in living habits."
Qian Heng almost gritted his teeth: "Spicy food, I can eat it too. Sichuan food, it doesn't bother me at all."
At this moment, the waiter finally brought food to Cheng Yao's table - a beef noodle dish mixed with raw peppers.
Dried peppers mixed with beef noodles are called noodles, but there is no soup. It is completely chopped millet peppers mixed with noodles and beef stew. If you want to eat delicious beef, you have to endure the spicy millet pepper that explodes in your mouth, and the spicyness of millet pepper, even Cheng Yao, who loves spicy food, classifies it as "abnormally spicy".
…
Cheng Yao looked at Qian Heng sympathetically: "Spicy food, are you sure?"
Qian Heng obviously didn't know the mystery of this dish at all, so he sneered and said to himself: "I said before, in life, you always have to try something new. I suddenly think that Sichuan food is pretty good, just spicy food. Haha. "
After saying this, Qian Heng picked up the noodles recklessly, and took a big mouthful viciously.
…
He obviously still had a lot to say to Cheng Yao, but Qian Heng couldn't say a single word after this mouthful of noodles.
hot! Really spicy! Spicy to heaven! Spicy to death! It's so spicy that I can't take care of myself!
Qian Heng, who had never cried before as an adult, shed tears of regret for the first time without any resistance.
Wouldn't it be good to live well? Why do you want to eat spicy food? Why offend Cheng Yao
Now that I have red eyes, red nose and teary eyes, what image can I have in front of Cheng Yao? ? ? Qian Heng thought angrily in his heart, he didn't expect Gu Beiqing to have two skills and to be a formidable enemy.
Cheng Yao naturally didn't know about Qian Heng's mental activities. She only watched in shock that after Qian Heng took a bite of the abnormal spicy food, he tried to hold back the tears from the spicy food with red eyes, and drank a glass of ice water wildly. Then he bite the bullet and took another mouthful, with ice water, and another mouthful, until he finished eating the whole bowl of noodles, he almost drank three big bottles of ice water...
Cheng Yao persuaded him to stop several times, but Qian Heng stared back at him.
"You... are you okay?" Looking at Qian Heng in front of her, Cheng Yao couldn't bear it, and she subconsciously said, "If you don't eat spicy food, don't eat it. I think it's better to eat light food. Spicy is still too spicy." Exciting... ”
However, Qian Heng, whose fighting spirit was aroused, had a fierce face. He said proudly: "In Qian Heng's dictionary, there is no loser! Spicy food, I am definitely better than Gu Beiqing! I will eat as much as you order today!"
As a result, as soon as his words fell, the waiter brought up new dishes one after another——fish head with chopped pepper, spicy chicken, slobbering bullfrog...
These dishes, without exception, are covered with all kinds of hot peppers that make you cry...
Looking at these dishes, Qian Heng fell silent for the first time. It was not until a long time later that he finally raised his head and looked at Cheng Yao with difficulty, his voice gritted his teeth: "It's just a meal for two, why do you order so many dishes?"
"..."