On the morning after a night of indulgence, there was no tenderness, no sweet nothings.
Qi Shifeng had reverted to his cold and noble self. He even had someone bring the contraceptive pills to her.
Moreover, the person who brought the pills waited until Xu Tingyu had taken them before leaving.
Undoubtedly, this was yet another form of humiliation from him.
Unexpectedly, Xu Tingyu endured it.
Later, she timidly asked him, "Can I not take the pills?"
Thinking she wanted to have his child, he sneered at her, "Xu Tingyu, you're not worthy of bearing my child."
She was stunned, then turned deathly pale and cried in front of him for the first time.
"I didn't, I'm not. It's just that this kind of pill is very harmful to my body."
Her tone was full of grievance, and it didn't seem fake.
But Qi Shifeng thought she was just making excuses for herself. He watched her cry silently for a while, then left irritably.
However, after that, he did stop making her take the pills. Most of the time, he took the precautions himself.
Everything went smoothly after that.
Until this child came along.
During that period, they had been arguing a lot, and there were a few times when they lost control.
Now, Qi Shifeng was actually glad about the arrival of this child.
It seemed that there was finally a different bond between them.
His mood was rather delicate, with many complex emotions swirling in his heart.
He couldn't wait to see her.
So he pushed aside the divorce agreement his grandfather had given him.
Standing up, he told his grandfather, "She's carrying my child. I have to be responsible for them."
Calm and composed, he was still the familiar President Qi.
But his grandfather's expression changed.
"Are you just doing this to oppose me because I want you to divorce?"
"This child can be born. The Qi family will raise it. But you must divorce her."
Qi Shifeng ignored him and walked straight out. Suddenly, he heard his grandfather let out a cold laugh. "Of course, I don't think she'll want this child."
On normal days, Qi Shifeng wouldn't have even given the other person a reaction and would have just left.
But this time, a huge sense of unease welled up in his heart.
"Shifeng, you didn't handle things cleanly enough. I also have a copy of that surveillance video."
"If I show the surveillance video to her and let her know that the last person her father saw before jumping off the building was you, do you think she'll hate you to death?"
His grandfather sat back down on the sofa. His face, which had been flushed with anger just now, had returned to calm.
Qi Shifeng frowned. "Grandpa, what do you mean?"
"Don't worry. You're Grandpa's most promising grandson. I won't betray you. So be a good boy and solve this trouble quickly."
"I can also take a step back. You can choose your own wife in the future."
His grandfather knew he was old and couldn't force him like he did three years ago.
So after giving him a beating, he also had to give him a carrot.
In the end, when Qi Shifeng left the old mansion, his grandfather was smiling.
He rushed to the hospital but didn't know how to approach Xu Tingyu for a while.
There was too much between them, and his feelings for her were indeed complicated.
At least before she first proposed divorce, he hadn't even realized that, at some point, his feelings for her had changed.
Now that Xu Tingyu didn't want to see him, he gave her time to calm down.
There was a major problem with a project at Qi Corporation recently, and he had to deal with the aftermath. He was extremely busy.
So he let Xu Tingyu and Zhang Qiu continue to stay in the hospital and sent a special person to take care of them.
Xu Tingyu muddled through many days. Every time she closed her eyes, she would see the scene of the surgery that day.
She didn't eat much, and when she was awake, she just stared blankly.
Xu Jia was gone, and her last spiritual support was gone. She didn't know how to go on living.
Finally, the doctor couldn't bear it anymore and told her that there was a child in her belly. If she continued like this, the child would have problems.
When she heard the word "child", she finally showed some reaction to the outside world.
Yes, there was a baby in her belly.
Chen Chunyao came to comfort her, saying that maybe Xu Jia couldn't bear to leave her alone in the future, so he came back as a baby.
She couldn't accept this statement.
She would rather not have the baby and just have Xu Jia alive.
But after the doctor talked to her, she did get out of bed and walk around a bit, and also forced herself to eat something.
One day more than a month later, she couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so she got up and wandered around.
It was too late, and even the guard at the door was dozing off.
She slipped out silently and walked slowly towards the stairwell.
As she passed by the nurses' lounge, she suddenly heard the on - duty nurses talking.
They didn't notice that the door wasn't closed properly and that their voices could be heard outside.
"Hey, to be honest, I've been scared to death during my night shifts recently. I'm so afraid that the child will come back to find us."
"We're medical students. We're materialists. Don't be so superstitious."
"It's not that I'm superstitious. I'm really scared. The other day, I heard from the people in the morgue that when they collected the body, the child's eyes wouldn't close."
"And it's so tragic. It was supposed to be a craniotomy but ended up as a heart - removal. This child is really too tragic. Not even a whole body left."
"If it were me, I wouldn't be able to close my eyes either. It was clearly a craniotomy, and there was a chance to cure it. But in the end, it became an organ donation. Sigh."
"Wasn't Xiao Jia in the operating room that day too? I heard that the child cried during the heart - removal surgery later."
"Ah? Weren't they saying that he never woke up? How could he cry?"
"I don't know either. It seems that although he couldn't wake up, he still had some perception. I'm not sure. Anyway, this matter is very complicated. What if there was actually no tumor in his brain?"
"Really? That's so scary."
"I'm just guessing. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence? The child fell and a brain tumor was discovered. They invited such a big shot to perform the surgery, but in the end, it was all a scam."
"It means that someone had their eye on this child's heart from the beginning. It was all a setup."
"Surely not. Isn't this child that person's younger brother - in - law? Who would dare?"
"You're so naive. If it weren't his doing, could everything be so seamless? Everyone who participated in this surgery was transferred out of our hospital."
"And that Professor Lin Shen has gone abroad again. I heard that he retired early."
"And that child wasn't even allowed to see his sister and mother for the last time before being cremated directly."
"Sigh. All I can say is that you can know a person's face but not their heart. There are only two women left, and their mental states are not good. They've been left here unattended. I don't know how long they can last."
"Shouldn't be like that. Isn't she pregnant?"
"Come on. There are plenty of women who want to get pregnant for that person. What's one child? I guess she probably won't keep it. The mother hasn't eaten properly for so long, and that person doesn't even come."
"You're right. We're just saying that it's not easy to marry into a wealthy family."
"Don't spread these words around. We don't have any evidence. If the boss finds out, we're all done for."