Just as Xu Tingyu was about to enter her room, she noticed that Qi Ye had been following her.
She was slightly taken aback and asked, "Do you have something to say?"
It was already late, and she was quite tired today. She wanted to go to bed early.
Qi Ye fixed his deep, serious gaze on her face for a long time. Seeing nothing unusual except exhaustion on her face, he finally felt relieved. He smiled and said, "No, I'm just a bit worried about you. I'm afraid you might not be happy to see Qi Shifeng. After all, your relationship has always been tense."
Xu Tingyu looked confused. "Really? Did we have a bad relationship before?"
Qi Ye was caught off guard by her question.
Right, she had forgotten. There was no need to keep probing.
She was so smart. If he probed too much, she might sense something was wrong.
Thinking of this, Qi Ye smiled faintly. "We just didn't see eye to eye. But it's okay. It's all in the past. Go in and rest."
Xu Tingyu pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "Okay. You should also go to bed early."
After closing the door, Xu Tingyu let out a soft sigh of relief.
Without hesitation, she went straight to the bathroom and took a hot shower.
When it was time to get dressed, she realized she had forgotten to bring her nightgown. So she wrapped herself in a bath towel and walked out.
Since she was the only one staying in the room, she could just walk out like this.
But for some reason, she had a vague premonition that someone was coming to see her.
Sure enough, as soon as she came out, she saw Qi Shifeng sitting on the sofa.
Hearing the sound, Qi Shifeng also looked up at her.
Probably because she had just taken a shower, her face was tinged with a faint blush from the steam, making her look as if she had come back to life.
Her long, straight legs were as white as fine mutton-fat jade under the light.
Seeing him, she didn't seem surprised at all. She just looked at him calmly, meeting his dark eyes.
"You seem to have expected my coming," Qi Shifeng said. He didn't move, still sitting slumped on the soft sofa. His voice was as unfathomable as his expression.
"I wasn't entirely sure, but I knew you had something left unsaid. Now, I need a little time," she said quickly, showing no sign of embarrassment. She folded her arms across her chest, then went to get her pajamas and returned to the bathroom.
She moved quickly. When she came out again, she had changed into her pajamas and put on a bathrobe over them. She was completely covered up.
Was she being so guarded against him?
"If it were Qi Ye sitting here, would you be so on guard too?" he couldn't help feeling jealous.
How could she treat him like this?
Xu Tingyu ignored his aggrieved complaint. She even tightened her bathrobe and retorted, "Qi Shifeng, what are you to me now? How can you compare yourself to him?"
She just sat there, frowning at him.
His face instantly darkened, and his eyes were as deep as an unfathomable sea.
"Qi Shifeng, I don't know what your purpose is. But no matter what you want from me, you have to show me your sincerity first," she stared into his eyes and said slowly.
She thought she had been too indifferent for too long, which made everyone think they could play with her like a fool.
Surprise flashed in Qi Shifeng's eyes.
For a moment, he felt that the woman in front of him was the Xu Tingyu who had achieved success in her career and made a comeback.
But the alienation and coldness in her eyes were real.
Even when she hated him the most, she had never been so cold to him.
Qi Shifeng took a deep breath, suppressing the coppery taste rising in his throat. After a long while, he asked, "What do you want?"
"I want to see Youyou. I also want to know how Youyou came to be. Was she framed by someone?"
She sat upright on the soft sofa, her back as straight as a ruler. Nobility and coldness emanated from her haughty eyes, making it hard for others to look directly at her.
Qi Shifeng hesitated. He remembered his "agreement" with Qi Ye.
Qi Ye had said that, given what he had done to Xu Tingyu in the past, if it weren't for Youyou, she wouldn't have had anything to do with him at all.
This time, giving Xu Tingyu a chance to choose again, he asked Qi Shifeng not to use Youyou as an excuse to get close to her.
A child should not be a rope to tie down a mother.
Seeing that he didn't say a word, Xu Tingyu got a little anxious.
Before doing this, she had thought of many possibilities and had anticipated that this man might not cooperate, but she had never thought he would just stay silent like this.
What kind of secret was there about Youyou?
"Is it so hard to answer? Or are you afraid that if you tell me, I'll interfere in your current life?"
"Don't worry. I won't. I can write you a guarantee. I..."
She was eager to show her attitude, but before she could finish, the man across from her suddenly stood up and walked towards her step by step.
He pressed her down on the sofa.
She only wanted to know about Youyou and had no interest in him at all.
Just as Qi Ye had said, if it weren't for Youyou, she would never have come back to him.
She didn't love him.
These four words almost suffocated him.
She couldn't be like this.
The more he thought about it, the deeper his eyes sank into the cold abyss, exuding a chilling aura.
"You once wrote me a guarantee, promising to give me a good - morning kiss and a good - night kiss every day, but you always made me remind you," he said harshly, but the corners of his eyes were red, as if he had suffered great grievances.
Xu Tingyu had confirmed his relationship with Du Jiran, so she naturally wouldn't allow him to touch her.
She pushed his chest with both hands to keep a distance from him. She didn't look into his eyes anymore but coldly retorted, "Impossible."
"You can't lie to me just because I've lost my memory, Qi Shifeng. I'm not a fool."
Such an absurd guarantee?
If their relationship had been good, there would have been no need for a guarantee.
If their relationship had been bad, there would have been no way they could have such a guarantee.
This man must have made it up to deceive her.
"I'm lying?" Qi Shifeng pinched her chin, forcing her to look into his eyes. "You can't deny all our past just because you've lost your memory."
"You can choose not to believe me, but haven't you ever wondered if, given our personalities, we would have had a child because of a frame - up?"
It had to be said that Qi Shifeng really knew how to get to the point.
This was also something that Xu Tingyu couldn't figure out.
When they told her that what was said on the Internet was true, that Youyou was the child born after she and Qi Shifeng had been framed.
At that time, someone had wanted to drug Qi Shifeng and had even arranged for paparazzi to wait, planning to extort a large sum of money from him.
After all, it hadn't been long since the Xu family's accident, and the outside world had been speculating that Qi Shifeng and Xu Tingyu were about to get divorced.
The stock price of the Qi Group had also been affected.
If they had been caught with substantial evidence of "cheating" at that time, the stock price would have been even worse.
But no one had expected that after Qi Shifeng drank that glass of wine, Xu Tingyu had also been drunk.
Then, seeing that she was drunk, the two of them had gone home early.
As a result, because they were both not sober, something they shouldn't have happened, and Youyou was conceived.