Chen Yan knew about the deaths of Xu Jianmin and Xu Jia.
He also knew this was the reason why Xu Tingyu was now staying in the sanitarium to have her baby.
However, he didn't know the specific details of what had happened. Since he entered the room, he hadn't dared to mention a single word about Xu Jia.
When they used to play together, Xu Jia was still very young.
So he wasn't very familiar with Xu Jia.
At this moment, he just stared at the woman in front of him for a long time before gently shaking his head.
"Xu Tingyu, you're really stubborn. We've been friends for so many years. You can ask me for help with anything."
He didn't know exactly what had happened to her, but he knew that she mustn't be happy now.
He had seen her beaming with confidence and knew what she was like when she was happy.
Not like now. No matter how well she pretended, it was still just an act.
Xu Tingyu suddenly looked up and stared blankly at him for a long time.
She suddenly realized that, in fact, it seemed that she wasn't really at the end of her rope.
She also had many friends.
Her father had his own connections in Kyoto.
It was just that with the decline of the Xu family, these connections had been severed.
However, as long as she asked one by one, these people would probably give her some face.
Thinking of this, she asked Chen Yan, "Are you really willing to help me?"
She was cautious, and her eyes were full of uneasiness.
She was nothing like the girl she used to be.
"Of course, Tingyu. We're good friends. I'll definitely help you."
Chen Yan heard his own voice.
Since there were many people in the sanitarium and it was easy to be gossiped about, Chen Yan didn't stay long.
Just like when he came, he was like a colorful butterfly. When passing by the nurse station, he even flirted with the nurse.
Xu Tingyu stood at the door of the ward to see him off.
Different from her forced smile before, as she watched her unrestrained childhood playmate, the smile on the corner of her mouth was genuine.
Not long after Chen Yan left, Qi Shifeng came back.
But Xu Tingyu had already started taking an afternoon nap, so the two didn't meet immediately.
Qi Shifeng saw the unfinished cake on the table and the many snacks on the cabinet.
He backed out of the room and asked the bodyguard who had been guarding there all the time, "Who did Madam see today?"
The bodyguard answered respectfully, "Two people came to see Madam this morning. One was the young master of the Chen family, and the other was Madam's college classmate."
Qi Shifeng frowned.
The young master of the Chen family?
They had just met last night, and now he came to see his wife.
What did they talk about?
Did he come to cause trouble for Xu Tingyu because he had gone to see Xie Yu?
With a cold face, he asked, "What did they talk about?"
"I'm not sure, Mr. Qi. Madam closed the door and didn't let us guard there. But when the young master of the Chen family left, Madam saw him off, and the two didn't quarrel."
The bodyguard told him what he had seen.
Qi Shifeng was still a little worried.
He went back into the ward and took another look at the cake on the table.
Half of it was eaten, which meant her appetite and mood were not bad.
That was a good thing.
He picked up her phone, turned it on, and took a look at the browsing history. He found that there were only a few parenting-related contents.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that last night's incident hadn't been discovered by her.
He didn't know there were paparazzi there.
He didn't even know that the photo of him taking Xie Yu away would be taken and make the news with Chen Yan.
Although the public relations department had contacted the relevant people to delete it as soon as they found out, since it involved Chen Yan, it couldn't be done so quickly.
On his way back, he had been worried that Xu Tingyu had already seen the news.
But fortunately, it seemed that she had been busy meeting friends and didn't have time to look at her phone.
As for what Chen Yan had said, he would ask her himself after Xu Tingyu woke up.
He had been in the hospital for a long time and had also gone to the company for a meeting in the morning. Now he was extremely sleepy, so he went to wash up briefly.
Then, in order not to wake Xu Tingyu up, he didn't go to bed but slept on the sofa fully dressed.
When Xu Tingyu woke up, she saw Qi Shifeng on the sofa at a glance.
Heh, after seeing his first love, he knew to keep his distance. He didn't even climb into bed anymore.
For her, it was really good news.
She stared at him for a while, then got out of bed expressionlessly, put on a coat, took an apple for herself, and slowly started to peel it.
When she was almost halfway through peeling, Qi Shifeng suddenly woke up.
The first thing he did was to look at the bed. When he found no one there, he immediately sat up in shock.
But then, he saw her sitting on a small stool beside the trash can, peeling the apple.
Before he was even fully awake, he reached out to take the fruit knife from her, "Let me do it."
But Xu Tingyu avoided his hand and said lightly, "It's okay. I'm almost done."
She insisted on peeling it herself. Qi Shifeng just stared at her with his head down, as if he was afraid she would hurt herself.
In fact, Xu Tingyu wasn't that delicate.
When they first got married, she couldn't do anything except dance.
It had to be said that Liu Ning was really good at teaching people.
Under the pretext of teaching her, she ordered her to go back to the old house every week.
There, she learned how to cook, do housework...
Even Qi Shifeng probably didn't know that she could even change light bulbs.
On the days when he wasn't at home, when a light bulb in the house was broken, she would change it herself.
After all, because Qi Shifeng liked quietness, there weren't many servants in the house, and except for Aunt Zhang, none of them lived in.
It wasn't really necessary to call a worker just for a light bulb.
In these three years, she had really learned a lot of skills.
Peeling an apple was even simpler than simple.
She could even peel it continuously without breaking the skin and make the skin extremely thin.
Qi Shifeng, of course, didn't know this because all he had seen were the fruit platters that Xu Tingyu had peeled and cut for him.
After she finished peeling the apple, she was too lazy to cut it into pieces and just took a bite.
Well, if it weren't for taking care of him and pleasing him.
She never had to go through so much trouble when eating fruit.
The apple juice burst in her mouth, and the fragrance of the apple filled the air.
Seeing her put down the knife, Qi Shifeng breathed a slight sigh of relief and asked her, "Who came to see you today?"
Xu Tingyu cursed in her heart for him asking a question he already knew the answer to, but still quickly replied, "Two friends. You probably don't know them."
She knew they had met last night, but she pretended not to know.
If Qi Shifeng didn't want her to know what had happened last night, he should stop asking.
But unexpectedly, he asked further, "What kind of friends? Why don't I know them?"
Why?
There wasn't so many whys.
Xu Tingyu raised her eyes and glanced at him, her tone indifferent.
"Because you've never met my friends. They're not in your circle. How could you know them?"
As soon as she said this, Qi Shifeng looked a bit stiff.
Obviously, he also remembered that he had never officially interacted with her friends.
Not even once.