She ate too much and felt uncomfortable. She sat there blankly.
From Qi Cheng’s place to Ji Yunhuan’s, it took over an hour.
He dropped her off at ho, followed her upstairs, and told the driver, "You guys can go back first."
"You’re not going back tonight either?"
"You once said that as long as I let you see the child, you’d stay by my side." He looked at her, holding her hand gently.
"That was before." At that ti, he had clearly rejected her.
Later, she also changed her mind.
"Now that you’ve seen the child, you’re going back on your word? So you’re the type of woman who turns her back on people?" He gazed into her eyes and asked.
Ji Yunhuan glanced at him, unsure of what to say.
She sighed helplessly, letting him have his way.
The two entered the courtyard and rang the doorbell. Aunt Liu ca to open the door.
Ji Yunhuan stood at the door, took off her shoes, changed into slippers, and threw another pair of slippers in front of him.
"Since when did you welco to your house like this?" she said. Before, he’d be pushed out the door, yet now it seed like she was welcoming him.
"..."
Ji Yunhuan thought he was being unreasonable. When she wasn’t nice to him, he had sothing to say. When she was nice to him, he still had sothing to say. "If you don’t want to co in, forget it."
She walked inside coldly.
Qi Cheng changed his shoes and ca in.
She had already washed her hands, made two cups of coffee, handed one to him, and sat down to drink the other.
-
When Qi Cheng ca out after taking a shower that night, he found Ji Yunhuan sitting on the bed, staring blankly at a spot, deep in thought.
She seed genuinely hurt and upset about the child.
He walked over, leaned down, and gently kissed her lips.
Ji Yunhuan snapped out of it and looked at Qi Cheng in front of her, without pushing him away.
He had just showered, his hair was still wet, and he slled like body wash.
He held her, his hand slipping inside her clothes...
The next day, Ji Yunhuan still didn’t go to work.
Thinking of the child, she completely lost her drive to strive, being deeply imrsed in sorrow.
Contrarily, Qi Cheng got up early, busy with who knew what.
She lay in bed, turned over, and he pushed the door open and walked in.
"It’s already ten o’clock. Aren’t you getting up?" he asked patiently, sitting at the bedside.
Ji Yunhuan shook her head from under the covers.
"Not going to work?" he reminded.
Normally, he would have gotten up long ago by then to work, seemingly with endless things to do, where would he find ti to stay in bed?
Ji Yunhuan continued shaking her head.
Qi Cheng reached out and embraced her, "Get up. I’ll take you sowhere."
"Where to?"
"You’ll know once you get up."
Qi Cheng went into the bathroom and prepared her towel and toothbrush. When he ca out, he found Ji Yunhuan still lying in bed.
He didn’t rush her.
He just stood aside, watching her being lazy.
About an hour later, Ji Yunhuan got up.
This was the latest she had gotten up in many days.
The sunshine outside was bright, but she was hiding in the room, growing moldy.
She went into the bathroom, chanically washing her face, brushing her teeth...
Unable to distinguish what she was doing.
After breakfast, Qi Cheng’s driver arrived to pick them up at the door—
...
Two days later.
At the restaurant, Wen Nuan looked around but didn’t see Ji Yunhuan. "Yunhuan didn’t co today either?"
"No."
"Did she take leave?"
"No."
"Is she sick?" Wen Nuan was a bit worried. Ji Yunhuan’s behavior was too abnormal.
She hadn’t co for several days and didn’t say why.
Wen Nuan feared she was sick.
Upon leaving the restaurant, Wen Nuan went straight to the Ji Family.
She got out of the car and knocked on the door. Aunt Liu opened it.
Wen Nuan asked, "Where’s Yunhuan?"
"Ms. Ji isn’t ho."
"Not ho?"
"She left two days ago." She was taken away by Qi Cheng and hadn’t returned.
"Didn’t she say where she was going?"
Aunt Liu shook her head, "No, she probably won’t be back for the next few days."
"Could sothing have happened to her?" Wen Nuan was already worried.
"No need to worry, Ms. Wen."
"How can you be so sure?" Wen Nuan was far from reassured.
Ji Yunhuan had disappeared so suddenly, and her phone couldn’t be reached.
"She left with Mr. Qi."
"..." Hearing Aunt Liu’s words, Wen Nuan’s face went stiff.
Since that night Qi Cheng was driven away, Ji Yunhuan hadn’t been to the restaurant.
So she had been with Qi Cheng these days?
An indescribable feeling made a chill run down Wen Nuan’s heart.
She believed that with Ji Yunhuan’s personality, she wouldn’t easily reconcile with Qi Cheng. But now, how to explain this?
-
That evening, the second sister-in-law was helping Baby Jingyang with his bath. Watching Baby Jingyang sitting in the tub, second sister-in-law curiously asked, "You an, that day, you and Uncle went to see a woman?"
"Mm." This was the first ti Baby Jingyang ntioned Ji Yunhuan these days, "She kept staring at . But I don’t like her."
"Uncle took you there just to see her, right?" Second sister-in-law was uncertain.
She wasn’t asking the baby.
The baby was too small to understand. She was just talking to herself, but guessed that was the case.
Qi Cheng rarely took the child out alone.
There were specific two days each month when he would co to see the child. He wouldn’t co at other tis.
Since breaking up with Ji Yunhuan, he was afraid of seeing the child.
That day, second sister-in-law thought he acted a bit unusually.
She thought he suddenly rembered the child and didn’t ask much.
Thinking back on these past weeks, Qi Cheng was always busy with sothing...
Second sister-in-law looked at the baby, "What did Uncle call that woman?"
"Called her Yun... Yun what was it?" Baby Jingyang was straining to recall the na.
Seeing him struggle to rember, the second sister-in-law probed, "Yunhuan?"
"Yes." Baby Jingyang nodded.
That was the na. He struggled hard to rember it.
While bathing him, the smile in the second sister-in-law’s eyes gradually faded.
From the mont Ji Yunhuan left, the second sister-in-law felt she would return one day. As expected.
But looking at the child in front of her and thinking of Ji Yunhuan, the second sister-in-law felt a sudden sense of crisis.
For two years, this child had been her everything. The feelings of these two years couldn’t be easily discarded. She had dedicated all her energy to the child. What would happen if Ji Yunhuan ca back?
"Mommy, what are you thinking?" Baby Jingyang looked at the second sister-in-law, confused by her silence.
Second sister-in-law ca back to her senses and smiled at him, "It’s nothing. I was just thinking about sothing."
She took a dry towel and lifted Baby Jingyang out of the tub.
-
The sun was warm, and the sound of waves ca from afar. Ji Yunhuan lay on a beach chair, watching a family of three not far away...
The boy was around four years old, a bit older than Baby Jingyang, running around the beach. His parents were beside him, accompanying him.
Ji Yunhuan wore sunglasses, looking at their happy smiles. Comparing herself and her child, she felt an intense bitterness.
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