Gu Qimiao gave her a playful pout: "Jiajia!"
Chen Jiatong covered her mouth and giggled: "Look at your little red face, I was just asking casually, why so serious!"
Gu Qimiao rolled her eyes at her and was about to ask about her child, but Jiajia quickly asked: "Where did you guys do it? Does President Shen have any special preferences? Like whips or sothing?"
"If you keep this up, I won’t accompany you for als anymore!"
"Alright, alright, I won’t tease you anymore. You’re too shy, and there’s no one else around to hear it, what’s there to be embarrassed about?"
"Have you been feeling better lately? Don’t you have a checkup coming up in a few days?"
Jiajia smiled, touching her belly, and nodded: "Yes, this weekend. I’m not nauseous anymore, everything tastes good."
Gu Qimiao reached out to pinch her cheeks and laughed: "I can tell, your face is all chubby now."
Talking about her weight reminded Jiajia of sothing. She spoke to Gu Qimiao mysteriously: "Miaomiao, do you think I should find a dad for the child, or raise the child alone?"
Gu Qimiao hesitated: "If there’s a suitable person, it’s better to have a dad."
"But what if the stepdad treats the child poorly?"
"That’s why you have to choose carefully." Then she asked mischievously: "What’s up, Jiajia? Got soone you like?"
"No way! I’m scared, alright?" She said, frowning with a conflicted expression, "But it seems like soone in the office likes ."
"Who?"
Jiajia was also puzzled: "I don’t know, every morning soone sends breakfast through the departnt head. When I ask her who it is, she won’t tell . Is this so secret admirer?"
"Every day? How long has this been going on?"
"Quite a while, a month or two. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have gained weight."
Gu Qimiao was slightly surprised: "Who is it? They really have patience to keep doing it for that long!" Gu Qimiao paused after saying this, considering her own decade-long crush, she didn’t find it that surprising.
"I want to know too, but the departnt head is tight-lipped. No matter how I ask, she won’t tell."
"Could it be your departnt head?"
"Co on, our departnt head is a woman!"
Gu Qimiao smiled awkwardly, "So you want to find a dad for the baby because of this person?"
"Sigh." Jiajia sighed, "I also hope to et a good man, soone who doesn’t mind or the child. He doesn’t have to love deeply, just be good to the child. After all, it’s better for the child to grow up in a complete family."
"But that person sending breakfast probably doesn’t know I’m pregnant. Once it shows, he might regret it."
"I think you still need to find out who it is. He’s being so good to you, which ans he has feelings for you. When he sees your big belly, he might think you’re married and give up."
"Sigh, whatever, I’ll let it be. I just want to live a steady life now."
At this mont, an excited male voice ca from ahead: "Hey? Sister-in-law! You’re here too?"
Gu Qimiao looked over and saw He Ye walking over with Shen Yanchen beside him.
Jiajia also turned her head, and He Ye’s smile imdiately froze, not recognizing the woman from her back just now.
Shen Yanchen, expressionless, walked to their table, glanced at Gu Qimiao and said: "Can we share the table?"
Gu Qimiao reluctantly moved over, knowing he must’ve followed on purpose, since he never eats Korean food!
He Ye chuckled awkwardly, while the only empty seat was next to Chen Jiatong.
Jiajia politely moved over and smiled: "Vice President He, please sit."
He Ye uncharacteristically sat down with a serious face in the seat she vacated.
The originally warm-hearted conversation between girls now turned awkward. Gu Qimiao asked Shen Yanchen beside her in a dissatisfied tone: "What do you want to eat?"
Shen Yanchen sat upright, looking every bit the noble gentleman, "Up to you."
"...don’t you dislike this food?"
"Trying sothing different."
Gu Qimiao said no more. When the waiter passed by, she asked for two extra sets of utensils and randomly ordered a couple of dishes.
With two company higher-ups present, Jiajia wasn’t as talkative as before and was much more reserved.
For a while, the four of them didn’t speak. Gu Qimiao took out her phone under the table, trying to send a ssage to Xiaoxiao to ask about Gu Moming, but Shen Yanchen grabbed her phone, placed it on the table, and pointed to the wallpaper behind it, asking her: "Who’s this?"
Gu Qimiao quickly reached for it, knowing he was asking despite knowing the answer.
"Taken when we went to the ancient city last ti. Who knew you’d be in the background."
"Really? I thought you did it on purpose."
"What’s that, Chen-ge?" He Ye leaned over to take a look.
Shen Yanchen gave him a glare, making He Ye imdiately shut up.
Fortunately, the dishes arrived soon, and the conversation shifted to the food.
He Ye noticed Chen Jiatong only eating the spicy cabbage and lightly frowned, asking casually: "Dieting?"
Jiajia smiled, hesitant to say it’s a pregnancy craving.
Gu Qimiao answered for her: "Brother He, it’s appetizing. You should try so too."
"No matter how appetizing it is, it can’t beat at." He said, placing a piece of braised at in Chen Jiatong’s bowl, "Girls look better with so weight."
The word "weight" made Gu Qimiao think of plumpness, and as expected, Shen Yanchen’s gaze drifted to her chest. Mimicking He Ye, he placed a piece of fatty at in her bowl and said: "Plump, looks better."
Then he leaned in close to her ear and whispered: "Not just looks better, feels better too."
Gu Qimiao blushed, elbowing him, and ate the at he placed in her bowl.
Chen Jiatong didn’t think much of it. She had heard about He Ye being a flirt at the company, and just considered it his casual nature. Normally, she might joke back, but now she didn’t want or dare to get involved with soone who treats feelings as a ga.
After the al, Shen Yanchen paid the bill and left with Gu Qimiao first. Being not familiar with He Ye, Jiajia made an excuse: "Vice President He, I should return to the office too."
He Ye followed her: "Together."
Walking side by side, Jiajia stayed silent, keeping her gaze ahead, while He Ye kept glancing at her from a slight angle behind.
Compared to so ti ago, she looked much healthier and seed in good spirits. The baby in her belly must be developing well.
As the father, what should he do?
Leaving this woman to handle it all alone felt intentionally neglectful, but getting married scared him, fearing it would bring more harm to her in the future.
Maybe she and the child would be better off alone?
But then, people would gossip about her and the child, an unmarried woman having a child with an unknown father...
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