Qi Shifeng was very close to her, almost instinctively clinging to her.
A frost seemed to sweep across his slightly reddened eyes.
"Xu Tingyu, what are you going to do? Ruin my innocence and make it known to the world? Then just openly abandon me?"
There was a hint of grievance in his words, but his hand still rested on her chin. He almost wished he could move it to her neck the next second and strangle her to death.
Xu Tingyu suspected that she might have given him too much medicine, which had addled his brain.
What did he mean by ruining his innocence?
Where on earth did he get his so - called innocence?
And abandon him?
He was really good at distorting the truth and shifting the blame.
She angrily pushed him away. He was so hot that she could hardly think.
"The innocent will remain innocent. You should know in your heart whether you're innocent or not."
She inexplicably felt that he was dangerous and just wanted to stay away from him.
The more she tried to get away, the angrier he became. He even sneered out of rage.
Fury burned in his heart. He was like a boiling kettle, so hot that Xu Tingyu's face also turned red.
He pinned her hands behind her back, pressed her down, lifted her skirt, and gave her a hard slap on the buttocks to teach her a lesson.
Xu Tingyu knew she couldn't escape.
She had never been able to escape from him. So she simply gave up struggling.
"Come on then. I was the one who gave you the medicine. I didn't expect it would end up affecting me. At least the money on the medicine wasn't wasted."
"Come to think of it, you should thank me. I gave you the medicine because I didn't want you to make a fool of yourself in front of your sweetheart."
"You should at least give the impression that you're good at it on your first time. Otherwise, there won't be a next time. Am I right?"
She was practically looking for death.
But it didn't matter. Since men cared so much about their dignity in this regard, she just wanted to make him uncomfortable.
Sure enough, Qi Shifeng paused in the middle of his kiss. His whole body was on fire, but his voice was chillingly cold. "Are you saying I'm no good?"
"I can understand. After all, the older a man gets, the more exhausted he becomes. It's normal for President Qi, who is so busy with work, to be worn out."
She was practically dancing on Qi Shifeng's last nerve.
But she did it on purpose.
Qi Shifeng finally lost all his patience. He gritted his teeth and called out her name. "Xu Tingyu!"
His words made her heart tremble.
However, the consequence of her momentary outburst was that she didn't get a wink of sleep all night.
This man was seething with anger and tortured her so much that she cursed him a thousand times over.
By the last time, she didn't even have the strength to curse. She could only submit to his demands.
When dawn broke, Qi Shifeng leaned over her and planted a hot kiss on her lips. "You're a pretty good antidote."
His voice was low and soft, like the summer evening breeze, rippling her heart and flushing her face.
She was so angry that her vision blurred. She bit his neck hard until she tasted the metallic taste of blood before she let go.
But this little act of resistance brought even more intense retaliation.
In the end, she fell into a drowsy sleep, unable to utter a single word.
Qi Shifeng carried her to take a bath. After changing her into pajamas, he held her and slept for a while before leaving for the company.
When Xu Tingyu woke up in the afternoon, her whole body ached. It felt as if she had climbed a mountain all night. Her legs didn't even seem to belong to her anymore.
When she opened her mouth, her voice was so hoarse that it sounded like it had been run over by something.
She cursed Qi Shifeng in her heart again. Then she received a call from Qi Ye.
"Tingyu, your mother ran out of the nursing home and got injured. Come here quickly."
Qi Ye's voice sounded a bit anxious.
It seemed that the injury wasn't minor.
Xu Tingyu quickly changed her clothes and rushed to the hospital.
On the way, she kept thinking that if something else happened to Zhang Qiu, she really didn't know if she could hold on.
Thankfully, when she arrived at the hospital, she was told that Zhang Qiu only had a scratch on her leg and there were no other problems.
But her emotions were very unstable. She was attacking everyone around her indiscriminately. Even the nurses didn't dare to go in to give her medicine.
For over a year, Zhang Qiu had been living in the nursing home arranged by Qi Shifeng.
Xu Tingyu had tried to contact her and wanted to see her, but Zhang Qiu had always refused.
Once, on the phone, Zhang Qiu even asked her why it wasn't her who died, but Xu Jia.
So this was the first time they had met in over a year.
The atmosphere was still as tense as ever.
Zhang Qiu threw a pillow at her, which hit her right in the face.
The pillow was soft and didn't have much force, but she just felt a bit stuffy in her heart. She silently picked up the pillow and walked over with the medicine in her hand.
"Stay away from me, you jinx. It's all your fault. Give me back my husband and son."
"Why aren't you dead yet? How dare you show up in front of me? You're a murderer. You don't deserve to live in this world."
Zhang Qiu's hatred for her grew stronger.
She used the most vicious words to attack her.
It was as if the person in front of her wasn't her daughter, but an enemy.
Xu Tingyu ignored her. She just sat beside her and handed over the medicine. "Take your medicine."
"Now you're going to harm me again, aren't you? You want to poison me so that no one will know what this ungrateful daughter has done to her own family, right?"
Zhang Qiu glared at her fiercely.
The next second, she knocked the pills to the ground.
Just then, Qi Ye walked in. Seeing the mess on the ground, he waved his hand, asking someone to come in and clean it up and bring another dose of medicine.
When Zhang Qiu saw Qi Ye, she seemed a bit dazed. She seemed to mistake him for Qi Shifeng. "Son - in - law, you're here. Take her away for me. I don't want to see her."
How ridiculous. She disliked her own daughter but liked Qi Shifeng.
She also clearly knew that the current state of the Xu family was inseparable from Qi Shifeng.
Qi Ye didn't explain. He just stepped forward gently and held Zhang Qiu's hand. "Auntie, you're injured now. Take your medicine first. We can talk about other things later, okay?"
Zhang Qiu, who had been hysterical just now, suddenly became docile.
She even took the medicine under Qi Ye's care.
Suddenly, she looked at Xu Tingyu's stomach again. Her eyes turned fierce. "Have you given birth to a child?"
Logically speaking, they hadn't seen each other for over a year, and no one would have told her about Xu Tingyu having a child.
But as a mother, she could notice the slightest change in Xu Tingyu.
Xu Tingyu didn't intend to hide it. She nodded. "Yes, I had a child. He'll be a hundred days old soon. He's very cute. His name is Youyou."
"How dare you have a child? You killed your younger brother. Your brother didn't leave anything behind, and yet you still had the heart to have a child?"
Zhang Qiu couldn't accept it at all.
Xu Jia had died before reaching adulthood, leaving her with no memories.
And her daughter had given birth to a son a year after her younger brother's death.
And she even dared to show off in front of her!
Zhang Qiu went crazy with anger and started shouting again. "You just wanted to keep your position because of this child, so you didn't care about the Xu family at all, right?"
"A vicious person like you doesn't deserve to have a son. You deserve to die, and your son deserves to die too. You all deserve to die."