The mother and daughter parted on bad terms.
After hanging up the phone, Qi Ruixi was also in a very bad mood.
Feeling irritated, she walked into the kitchen. Seeing Zou Yu stir - frying the toppings, her annoyance subsided a bit.
She walked over and hugged him from behind.
"Are you hungry? It'll be ready soon. Go sit outside first. It's smoky here."
Zou Yu kept busy with his hands, but his body stayed still, as if afraid of bumping into her.
"Zou Yu, are you scared?"
She pressed her face against his back, her voice muffled.
At first, Zou Yu didn't understand what she meant. He even smiled and said, "Not scared. There's nothing to be scared of when cooking."
"I mean, are you scared to be with me?"
Qi Ruixi snorted, but tightened her arms around him.
Only then did Zou Yu notice something was wrong with her. He immediately turned off the stove, turned around to hug her, and looked down at her intently. "What's wrong?"
She refused to say anything and just stubbornly asked the same question again.
He patiently and firmly replied to her, "Not scared."
"But you've seen it. My family situation is so complicated. There's not a single normal person. What if we end up like that in the future?"
As she spoke, her eyes began to redden.
Just now, she could question Liu Ning, but after hanging up the phone, she realized that she wasn't as calm as she thought.
"No, Xixi. We won't be like that. If you're scared, I can confess everything to your family right away and take the blame."
Zou Yu knew that she had been deeply affected by her original family and had never truly felt at ease.
The pregnancy was like a sword hanging over their heads, making her increasingly anxious.
But he could do nothing but feel anxious himself.
Hearing him say this again, Qi Ruixi stopped crying. Instead, she rolled her eyes at him. "What are you talking about? Is being with me a crime?"
"No, I don't mean that. I'm just afraid that you're under too much pressure."
Zou Yu was clumsy with words and couldn't argue with her. He could only clumsily hug her.
"I know you don't mean that. Otherwise, I'd bite you to death right now."
Qi Ruixi rolled her eyes at him again and continued.
"But you're right. We won't be like that. We're different from them. We don't do that kind of tragic love stuff. We'll just quietly make a fortune."
"I'm hungry. You'll feed me later."
Her emotions came and went quickly. In the blink of an eye, she was no longer sad and started asking for food.
Zou Yu carefully observed her for a while. After making sure that she was really not sad, he turned around to prepare the food.
"I'll serve yours first and let it cool. Wait for me a while."
He was very quick. As he spoke, he had already served two bowls of noodles and poured the toppings on them respectively.
Qi Ruixi's was shredded pork with green peppers, while Qi Shifeng's was indeed tomato and egg, not shredded pork with green peppers.
At first, Qi Ruixi was a bit unhappy that he was going to deliver food to Qi Shifeng first and leave her alone.
But when she saw that he really didn't make shredded pork with green peppers for Qi Shifeng, she was happy again.
Sure enough, the noodles with shredded pork and green peppers were her exclusive dish.
Even Qi Shifeng, whom he admired the most, couldn't have it!
"Then you go first. I'll wait for you in the dining room."
She proudly picked up her bowl and went straight to the dining room.
Zou Yu looked at her back and smiled indulgently.
In fact, this little girl was sometimes like a child. She was very easy - going as long as you coaxed her a bit.
When he took the noodles upstairs, Qi Shifeng was on the phone.
Seeing him come in, Qi Shifeng suddenly asked him, "Do you also think Tingyu betrayed me?"
Zou Yu came after Xu Tingyu got pregnant. At that time, he had been following her all day and should have known her well.
Most importantly, he was a man with a firm will and was not easily influenced by emotions when looking at problems.
Zou Yu put down the noodles. He neither nodded nor shook his head. "I think there must be something wrong here. Miss Xu wouldn't seriously injure you even if she wanted to fight for custody."
He didn't dare to say that Xu Tingyu had no intention of fighting for custody at all.
After all, she was forced to go abroad and separated from her flesh and blood. It was normal for her to come back and fight for it now that she had the ability.
But after experiencing the death of her family members, she couldn't possibly seriously harm the father of her child.
There was no extra expression on Qi Shifeng's face. He just looked deeply at Zou Yu and then said, "Then do you think it was Qi Ye who seriously injured me?"
This question stumped Zou Yu.
It was an undeniable fact that Qi Shifeng was seriously injured. Moreover, those people seemed to be aiming to kill him.
The two people most closely related to this incident were Xu Tingyu and Qi Ye.
If it wasn't Xu Tingyu, then wasn't it Qi Ye?
Did Qi Shifeng also not believe that it was Qi Ye who did it?
Then who else could it be?
Zou Yu didn't say a word, and Qi Shifeng didn't press him either.
He turned his head to the side and looked out of the window at the sky. "I wonder if Youyou has eaten yet."
The grudges between adults were one thing, but a four - year - old child had done nothing wrong and shouldn't be used as a bargaining chip.
"He'll be okay."
Zou Yu didn't know how to comfort a sad father. Words seemed so pale and powerless at this moment.
But Qi Shifeng fell silent again. He just waved his hand, signaling Zou Yu to go out first.
There was something he hadn't told anyone.
The call he just received was from Chen Yan.
This man scolded their Qi family from top to bottom on the phone.
Finally, he asked him why, as brothers fighting for power and interests, they had to put Xu Tingyu on the spot.
"Do you know that she was imprisoned by that crazy Qi Ye and threatened with Youyou?"
"You guys even believe that she colluded with Qi Ye. I beg you to use that thing on your neck and think carefully. Would she?"
"Even if you don't love her, you should know her. Is she such a despicable person? If she really wanted to fight for custody, she would do it openly. How could she do it like this?"
"She's in so much pain, worried about you and Youyou. But you're fine. You didn't die, but you let the news spread and let others slander her."
"Are you still a human? The biggest mistake of her life was marrying and having a child with a person like you. I'm really mad."
Chen Yan vented his emotions in one go.
Qi Shifeng didn't say a word and just listened to him scold in silence.
People always reveal a lot when they're angry.
Although Chen Yan's scolding was harsh, it at least proved that he was okay.
"I'm telling you, if I wasn't being watched by my family now, I definitely wouldn't call you."
"Your two brothers forced her to steal someone else's phone to contact me. The first thing she asked me to do wasn't to save her, but to confirm your safety."
"Qi Shifeng, although you deserve to die, she doesn't want you to die. So you'd better live well. Do you hear me?"
"I've already contacted people to go to the UK. You'd better provide some useful information to cooperate with me. I'm really going to be mad at you guys."
"Also, Youyou is very likely to be imprisoned in the northern part of Myanmar. You should send someone to investigate quietly. But first, you have to make sure that the people around you are trustworthy."