Qi Shifeng nodded.
"As strange as it may sound, I truly am here to be by your side."
"I'm giving you a chance to choose again. If I do nothing, I won't even be an option for you, and then it would all be meaningless."
"So I'm going to fight, to strive, and use every means at my disposal. Please don't hate me for this, okay?"
His voice was muffled, clearly feigning pity again.
Xu Tingyu looked at him. "You're strange. No, to be precise, all of you are strange."
How could there be people in the world who would go to such great lengths for these things?
"It's not strange. It's just that I was too stupid in the past," Qi Shifeng said with a self - deprecating smile.
It was all because of his own stupidity and overconfidence that things had come to this.
So whatever happened now was all his own doing.
He was willing to pay the price.
As long as she didn't really ignore him.
Even if, even if she really regarded him as a home - wrecker, he would accept it.
Thinking this way, his eyes turned red.
Xu Tingyu didn't know that the powerful head of the Qi family had the thought of being a home - wrecker for his ex - wife. She just thought his crying was rather eye - catching.
No, to be precise, it was provocative, making one want to make him cry even more.
So she still asked him coldly, "What if you're never an option for me? What will you do then?"
At this question, Qi Shifeng froze instantly.
He didn't expect Xu Tingyu to be so tough.
Yes, what if after all his efforts to be by her side, she still didn't choose him? What then?
He didn't know what to do.
He just stared blankly at Xu Tingyu, and tears streamed down his face like broken strings.
Xu Tingyu stared at him for a moment and found it rather interesting.
So men could cry like this? It was quite pitiful.
Just as she was thinking about comforting him a bit, the man suddenly picked her up and walked straight towards the bed.
"What are you doing?"
She was startled, but her hands instinctively tightened around his neck.
Qi Shifeng laid her on the bed and quickly leaned over.
"You doubt my loyalty. Then check for yourself and see if I only have feelings and desires for you."
"And the reason you don't choose me now must be that you haven't seen my good enough qualities. You used to like my body very much."
"So try again now. Maybe you'll remember something."
He mumbled a lot of words, but the main idea was that he wanted to please her with himself.
Xu Tingyu didn't know he could be so humble. In shock, she couldn't even say no.
After all, who could resist a good - looking man who was crying, working hard, and exactly her type?
As she sank into pleasure, she thought self - deprecatingly that she was just a vulgar woman after all.
With just a few words of comfort and the temptation of his good looks, she was deceived by him again.
Qi Shifeng constantly reminded himself to take care of her body, especially since she was pregnant.
But they had been separated for so long that he lost control as soon as he got close to her.
This indulgence lasted until midnight. It was not until Xu Tingyu was really exhausted and her forehead was covered in sweat that he finally stopped.
"I'll carry you to take a bath. Go to sleep if you're sleepy," Qi Shifeng said tenderly as he kissed her eyes.
Xu Tingyu was really tired, but she still forced herself to stay awake. "Aren't you going back to accompany Youyou?"
"Zou Yu is with him. It's okay."
Qi Shifeng carried her into the bathtub and let her lean on him to prevent her from slipping.
She stopped talking and just let him wash her. She didn't even bother to ask if his hands were being naughty.
Just now, many fragments flashed through her mind.
Qi Shifeng had said that the child in her belly was his.
And Qi Ye had always been cold towards this child.
She had suspected it before, and now she was a bit more certain that the child was indeed Qi Shifeng's.
There were many memory fragments in her mind about her and Qi Shifeng.
She had no memory of any intimate moments with Qi Ye.
Logically, if there had been any, she would have remembered them just now. And after living with Qi Ye for so long, she should have remembered something.
But she couldn't remember any fragments.
Even when Qi Ye got close to her, she would instinctively reject him.
Maybe this was the reason.
She and Qi Ye had always been innocent.
Then her current identity became even more of a mystery. Why did Qi Ye keep a woman who didn't love him by his side?
But she was too tired to think too much. She fell into a deep sleep soon after taking a bath.
That night, she had many dreams, all about Qi Shifeng.
She dreamed that when she was a teenager, she met Qi Shifeng in the back garden of the Qi family.
The young man's eyes seemed to hide stars as he smiled casually at her.
She also dreamed that it was she who took the initiative the first time they were together, and after that, things got out of control.
During their four - year marriage, they didn't keep a distance like strangers.
On the contrary, as long as Qi Shifeng wasn't on a business trip, they slept in the same bed. At least, they got along very well in bed.
Xu Tingyu didn't know if this was absurd.
But she knew that if all this was true, then everything Qi Ye said was a lie.
The next day, she slept until late in the morning.
Qi Shifeng was no longer in the room.
There was a vase on the table that she didn't remember seeing before. There was a bunch of very fresh daisies in it, still glistening with morning dew.
Xu Tingyu stared at it for a moment and then looked at her phone.
There were messages from both Qi Ye and Qi Shifeng.
Without much hesitation, she first opened Qi Shifeng's message.
"I'm leaving first. Remember to eat. If you have time to play with Youyou, call me."
She didn't reply. Instead, she opened Qi Ye's message.
"Tingyu, I need to go out to sea with the client today. If you're bored, go shopping with Chen Chunyao. Don't feel burdened. Your fiancé is very rich."
There was also a smiling emoji at the end of the message.
But before she could reply, she saw that Zhang Wan had also sent her a message.
"Ms. Xu, the boss's current situation is not optimistic. Please stop causing trouble for him."
"It's okay if you spend money on yourself, but why spend money on Chen Chunyao? You may regard her as a true friend, but she may not think the same of you."
The message was sent half an hour ago, but Xu Tingyu was still sleeping at that time and didn't reply.
Zhang Wan thought she was ignoring her, so she sent another message ten minutes later.
"Even if you're going to complain to the boss, I still have to say this. Stop holding the boss back."
"Also, I saw you having private contact with Qi Shifeng. You're being disloyal!"