Fu Shinian smiled faintly:
"I’m not Ji Nanfeng, so I don’t know exactly why he did what he did."
Su Mu also realized that she was getting a bit emotional, so she took a sip of water to calm herself down:
"I’m just worried about Jiang Bei. With Ji Nanfeng bullying her like this, I’m afraid she might not want the child..."
"He probably won’t. She’s a doctor who has the utmost reverence for life, not to ntion it’s her own child. How could she just abandon it? Even if she and Ji Nanfeng were to separate, the child is innocent. Jiang Bei is so clear-minded, how could she not understand this principle?"
Su Mu looked at Fu Shinian but didn’t say anything more. However, Fu Shinian had sothing to say:
"But since their relationship has already been brought to light, shouldn’t you also start making other plans?"
Su Mu was slightly puzzled:
"What do you an?"
"Jiang Bei is now living in a hotel, and even though she says it’s to keep Ji Nanfeng from finding her, you’re partly the reason too. Although you don’t often stay at her apartnt, you are planning to
stay in Shen City now, right? Shouldn’t you have a place of your own?"
Su Mu had thought about this even without Fu Shinian ntioning it. No matter how good her relationship with Jiang Bei was, she couldn’t consider Jiang Bei’s apartnt her own ho. She understood this, especially after what happened to Jiang Bei, she needed to speed up her search.
"I know, I have been looking for a place these last few days."
"Why go through all that trouble?" Fu Shinian looked at her: "Why not just move in with ?"
Su Mu looked at him as if he were a monster:
"Are you out of your mind? Why would I move to your place? I am Wen Han’s girlfriend now. If I move in with you, are you insulting or Wen Han?"
"Indeed, you are now, but that won’t be the case for long. You’ll have to move again anyway, which is quite troubleso. Better to just move straight to my place."
Su Mu snorted coldly:
"Dream on."
"Can’t I live separately from you?"
"I wouldn’t move to the Wen Family’s house, let alone your place. Better give up on that idea."
Fu Shinian looked at Su Mu but didn’t speak again.
When Qiao Yu ca back, there were obvious bruises on his face. Su Mu and Fu Shinian exchanged a glance without a word. Su Mu tactfully left the office, and Fu Shinian then pulled over a chair and sat down opposite Qiao Yu:
"We always tell you to practice boxing with us more, but you never listen. Did you regret it when you were getting hit just now?"
Qiao Yu glanced sideways at Fu Shinian and was about to say sothing when he realized that the corner of his mouth was painfully sore. He got up, took so ice from the fridge, wrapped it in a towel, and applied the ice pack to the sore spot:
"Is it too late to start training now?"
Fu Shinian laughed upon hearing this:
"What? Haven’t had enough?"
"I want to cut ties with Ji Nanfeng." This was the first ti Qiao Yu had spoken such childish and serious words. Fu Shinian just smiled: "Is it worth it, over a Jiang Bei? I asked you this when you first fell for Jiang Bei, rember how you answered? You said you would handle it well, and you did a good job these past years. From an outsider’s perspective, you treated Jiang Bei like an acquainted stranger. Isn’t that good enough? Why the sudden inability to restrain yourself?"
"You’re asking ?" Qiao Yu snorted: "You saw for yourself today what Ji Nanfeng is like, didn’t you? Who could tolerate that? I don’t even know how I was blind enough to beco friends with soone like that before. Although you’re not much better, at least you have a faithful attitude toward marriage."
Fu Shinian made a ’tsk’ sound:
"Why are you venting your anger on ? Did I provoke you?"
Qiao Yu knew he was in the wrong and without much confidence glanced at Fu Shinian, sitting down in his seat without saying more.
Fu Shinian sighed lightly:
"Have you heard the idiom about Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror? I find it quite fitting for you."
"What do you an?"
"Don’t you get it?" Fu Shinian chuckled: "If I were you, I wouldn’t have stayed to reason with Ji Nanfeng today, let alone stand up for Jiang Bei."
"I..."
"You were blinded by anger. I didn’t stop you because at that mont you wouldn’t have listened to anything I said. But Jiang Bei is right, you don’t have the right. It was your choice to step back; Ji Nanfeng didn’t force you, and Jiang Bei did give you a chance, which you gave up on your own. Since you’ve given up, you should learn your place. Even if their relationship is bad, they are husband and wife. And you are Jiang Bei’s colleague, Ji Nanfeng’s friend. It just doesn’t seem appropriate for you to intervene in this matter."
Qiao Yu was silent for a few seconds, and from his expression, it was evident that he wasn’t entirely convinced by Fu Shinian’s words. He struggled to restrain himself, but eventually, he couldn’t hold back and said:
"I didn’t fight back then not because I couldn’t, but because I didn’t want to ruin our brotherhood. But how did Ji Nanfeng act? I let him have Jiang Bei and exited that romance. If he doesn’t cherish her, does he deserve to tarnish such a good girl in such a way? Is he even a man?"
"Let?" Fu Shinian chuckled: "Do you think that word is appropriate? What does ’let’ an? If it was sothing that originally belonged to you and you chose to give it up, then it can be called ’letting’. Have you ever owned Jiang Bei? No, from beginning to end, she had nothing to do with you. Where do you get the idea of ’letting’? Of course, you may think that what you did was letting go, but Qiao Yu, are you sure you really liked Jiang Bei?"
"How could I not be sure?"
"I don’t think so. If you truly loved soone, you wouldn’t be able to watch her belong to soone else. Like with Su Mu, it doesn’t matter whether she has feelings for Wen Han or not, I would take her back. Whether she hates or is annoyed by , I want her by my side. But what about you? You could watch Jiang Bei marry Ji Nanfeng, watch her walk past you in a wedding dress, and see her carry soone else’s child. Is your love too noble, or did you, in fact, not like her as much as you thought?"
Qiao Yu looked at Fu Shinian, speechless.
Fu Shinian smiled:
"I know you felt bad after giving up on Jiang Bei, and you think her current unhappiness is related to your prior rejection. But Qiao Yu, do you really believe that if you married Jiang Bei, it would surely be happy? No one can guarantee that."
"At least I wouldn’t cheat. I wouldn’t let Jiang Bei live in a hotel with a big belly while I’m cozying up with another woman."
Fu Shinian sighed:
"Yes, I also think Ji Nanfeng is a bastard and doesn’t deserve to be a man. But if you think about it, is the Ji Nanfeng we grew up with really the sa scumbag we see now?"
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