Xu Tingyu was quite certain that he truly liked this child.
Because Qi Shifeng had never said such words before.
Since that was the case, she could feel a bit more at ease.
So she tilted her head up and said, "That's good."
This was probably not the response Qi Shifeng had expected. A flash of disappointment crossed his eyes.
But he covered it up well and soon smiled at her. "Stop overthinking. Just focus on having a smooth pregnancy."
He planted a kiss on her forehead.
The two of them snuggled up on the sofa in front of the floor - to - ceiling window, looking exactly like a loving couple.
However, Xu Tingyu was well aware that his feelings for her were all about schemes, not love.
And her whole - hearted love had already burned herself out. Now there were only some ashes left, waiting for her to clean up carefully in the future.
The next day, as expected, Qi Shifeng had someone send her a mobile phone.
It wasn't her original one, but the SIM card was the same.
She logged into her account and there were no unread messages.
She remembered that Qi Shifeng had said he'd replied to her messages.
After a moment's hesitation, she called Chen Chunyao.
The other side picked up quickly and asked tentatively, "Tingyu?"
"It's me."
Hearing her friend's voice, she wanted to smile but couldn't help her nose getting sore.
It had only been half a year, but it felt like a lifetime had passed.
After Chen Chunyao was sure it was her, her voice immediately got louder. "You finally showed up! Do you know how scared you've made me? I went to look for you, but I couldn't get in at all. I... I..."
She started to cry loudly, a mixture of shock and fear.
It turned out that when Xu Tingyu called her from the mall restroom, Chen Chunyao was filming. Her phone was on silent in her bag and she didn't answer.
When she finished and saw the message on her phone, she immediately called back.
But it was a stranger who answered.
The person said they had just lent their phone to a beautiful lady in the mall restroom.
They didn't know her.
It had been seven or eight hours since the message was sent, but Chen Chunyao still rushed to the mall.
Of course, she couldn't find Xu Tingyu.
She found a familiar shop assistant and asked if they had seen Xu Tingyu.
The assistant immediately told her they had, and that she seemed to have a good relationship with Qi Shifeng now, not like the rumors that they were about to divorce.
After all, this mall was under the name of the Qi Corporation. Xu Tingyu and Chen Chunyao had come shopping here many times.
Qi Shifeng had also come for inspections many times.
But they had never been seen together before.
This time, they went to the baby store and bought a whole bunch of things.
"I didn't expect Miss Xu to be pregnant. Those gossip media really talk nonsense all day long. I think their relationship is great."
"By the way, aren't you good friends with her? Why are you asking me? Did you two quarrel?"
The person asked Chen Chunyao curiously.
Chen Chunyao didn't want to explain too much, so she simply admitted it.
She said they had quarreled over a small matter and were in a cold - war.
The person was a bit surprised and tried to persuade her.
Chen Chunyao was absent - minded. Later, she bought a new phone in the mall and found the sanitarium according to the address in the text message.
But she didn't expect it to be much harder to get in than she thought.
The first time she came, because she didn't make an appointment and couldn't say who she was looking for, she was directly refused entry.
The second time, she was smarter. She specially invited a friend's father to come with her, saying they wanted to arrange for the father to retire there and take a look at the environment in advance.
This time she got in, but they were shown around the ordinary area.
Of course, even the ordinary area cost seventy or eighty thousand yuan a month.
On the way, she tried to sneak into the VIP area when the guide wasn't looking. But when she got there, she found it was heavily guarded.
Without the proper information, she couldn't get in at all.
And she was quickly noticed missing. The staff of the sanitarium came to look for her, with suspicion in their eyes.
She had to say she got lost on the way to the restroom and pretended to be curious and asked where this place was and if she could visit.
The other person just apologized, "This area is not open to the public. Sorry."
It was not open to the public. Even having money didn't necessarily mean you could stay here.
This time she failed again. Later, Chen Chunyao tried a few more times, even coming in the middle of the night.
But every time, she failed.
She finally aroused the suspicion of the sanitarium and was put on the blacklist.
Soon, Qi Shifeng also had someone look for her.
"Miss Xu is fine in the hospital, but she is not suitable to be disturbed now. When she gets better, we will arrange for you to meet."
She really wanted to ask how Xu Tingyu could be fine when Xu Jia had passed away.
But she didn't dare.
Xu Tingyu was pregnant. She couldn't be stimulated or get too emotional.
She didn't know what to do, so she had to wait for news again.
Now she finally received Xu Tingyu's call.
After learning the whole story, Xu Tingyu didn't say much. She just smiled and said, "It seems that it's not that I'm too weak. He's really too powerful."
She had once doubted herself. Why did she have no ability to resist in his hands and in front of the Qi family?
Was she just too useless?
Now it seemed that maybe it wasn't that she was useless. The enemy was just too powerful.
In front of absolute power and meticulous planning, what she had really didn't count for much.
Chen Chunyao didn't catch the meaning behind her words. She just asked anxiously, "How are you now? Is the baby okay? Has he made things difficult for you?"
Xu Tingyu of course couldn't tell her about being forced to have an abortion by the old master.
Chen Chunyao couldn't help her, and it would just make one more person sad.
So she pretended to be relaxed. "It's okay. Everything's fine. I'm over eight months pregnant and the baby is very healthy."
"That's good. When can I go and see you? I'll buy your favorite food."
Chen Chunyao also let out a sigh of relief.
The two chatted for a while. Xu Tingyu wasn't sure if there was any software installed in this phone, so she didn't dare to say anything else. She just made an appointment for Chen Chunyao to come and see her.
Qi Shifeng had also agreed that they could come to visit her.
After hanging up the phone, she thought for a while and called a few other familiar friends.
Without exception, they all talked about nonsense.
But in each call, she left a little hook.
For example, in the call with Chen Chunyao, she mentioned that she wanted to eat the soup dumplings from the shop in the north of the city.
In the call with another friend, she mentioned that the latest movie seemed very popular and a lot of people were watching it.
...
In the evening, when Qi Shifeng came to see her, he really brought her the soup dumplings from the shop in the north of the city.
It was the exact shop she had named.
He also brought a computer and said there was a very popular movie in it. It was an internal screening copy and he brought it for her to watch.
After she gave birth, they could go to the cinema and arrange a special screening.
...
Listening to Qi Shifeng's calm voice, a thin layer of sweat broke out on her back.
The phone definitely had a problem.
She was also lucky that she hadn't mentioned anything else.