A woman of twenty-seven or eighteen, approaching thirty, with dry skin like tree bark, hands covered with calluses of age, what is there to look pretty about.” Yang Shuting raised her eyes and looked at herself in the rear-view mirror. Although she had slightly made up her make-up, it looked like the traces of age were still present on her face.
Ling Weihao smiled and said, “You’ll always be the prettiest in my mind.”
“Is that so?” Yang Shuting felt sweetness in her heart, words that any woman would love to hear, let alone from the mouth of the man she liked, but she did not show this sweetness on her face, instead she tightened her face and glanced at him.
Words like these had been said to her by her daughter, and in her heart, her mummy was the prettiest, and all the others, not as pretty as her.
She loved hearing Xin Yan say this to her the most, because it was the most genuine, without any deceitful falsehoods mixed in.
Yet with a man as handsome and wealthy as Ling Wei Hao, there was no way that he hadn’t said such things to other women as the women who pursued him were like a tornado, and besides, he had just admitted it.
They went to eat at a Western restaurant with a Southeast Asian and ordered cold Spanish tomato soup with black olives and smoked anchovies with steamed hairy crabs.
“Since I’ve been with you, I’ve noticed that I’ve gradually gained a lot of weight.” In the past, when they were in Las Vegas, they were not so rich at all. Although they had the support of Wen Yuhang at that time, they actually had a hard life, with coarse food, not at all like what they had now, but it was good enough for them. However, now he would almost always bring her something good to eat or take her elsewhere to eat something good, and this morning she got up and found a double chin.
“That’s good! ” Ling Wei Hao smiled, showing his signature smile, revealing rows of white, neat teeth t.
She thought to herself, how come she hadn’t noticed him looking so charmingly good-looking before? He used to have a poker face, his eyes were cold, his tone of voice was unusually icy, and even when he smiled, he only raised the corners of his mouth, and that smile was so faint that she was quite frightened of him at the time.
Looking at him smugly face, she didn’t say anything, just smiled and lowered her head to eat.
Her appetite had increased recently. At eleven o’clock at night, her stomach would always rumble on time, and she would get up, go into the kitchen, turn on the rice cooker, see if there was any leftover rice in it, and if there was, she would take it out and fry it, then put two eggs in it and scramble it to make it smell good. Sometimes, when Huang Xin heard a noise or smelled something, she would get up and eat it too.
It was probably because of the frequent snacking, and now he had a belly.
“If you marry me, I’ll definitely raise you to be fat .” Ling Weihao said again with a smile, he liked the way she was slightly chubby now, her face was fat and cute. He did not like the way she used to be skinny and bony, her body as thin as a thin sheet of paper, as if a gust of wind could blow her away.
However, back then, she was not with him. Back then, she had to work overtime every day, pick up and send the children, take care of the family , even though she was married to Wen Yuhang. Hearing what Xin Yan said, her grandmother had never liked them and was very displeased with them, and would often speak coldly to them, and would even strike out at them.
Hearing him say that, Yang Shuting lifted her eyes to look at him, and her face, which was originally flushed by the cold wind, emerged a blush, as if she was drunk.
“I’m not planning to marry you yet!” She said, she had given him the opportunity, but hadn’t let him get away with it so quickly, testing him, which only seemed valuable, to see if he was a man worthy of her life, even though he was Xinyan’s real daddy.
“Why? Or am I not doing enough?” Ling Wei Hao asked as he frowned slightly at her with handsome brows and uncomprehending eyes. He remembered her saying that it depended on how he made up for it? Perhaps it was because he hadn’t done enough that she had no intention of marrying him mentally. But he was curious to know what he hadn’t done well enough.
“There is no reason why, in fact you are very good, just …” Yang Shuting did not know how to say the hurdle that she could not cross in her heart, every time he was good to her, her brain could not help but remember what happened seven years ago, the things he had done to her, taking his The past, compared with his present, which made her heart begin to hesitate.
“Only …” Before Ling Weihao could finish his question, the mobile phone he had placed on the table suddenly rang, interrupting the conversation between them, and he couldn’t help but frown again, his expression a little impatient. But he gave her an apologetic look, picked up the phone and picked it up.
Yang Shuting looked at him, then picked up her chopsticks and continued to eat, but the movements were all about chewing and biting slowly.
“Okay, I’ll be right back to the office.” Ling Weihao said and hung up his phone.
When she saw his sad face and anxious look, she asked him what was wrong. Has something happened? Hearing his tone just now, it should be something happened to the company!
He didn’t answer her, but said, “Something did happen at the company, and I have to go back soon, so …” He looked at the meal that hadn’t been touched much, and lifted his eyes to look at her again.
“If you really have an emergency, then go back to the office first, you don’t have to worry about me, I can go back by myself.” She said with a smile, just not wanting to make it so difficult for him.
Ling Weihao pursed his lips and thought for a moment, but still asked her with some unease, “Are you sure you can go back alone?”
“I’m not a three-year-old child, I naturally know the way home!” Looking at him, I felt only a little amused, but I was quite touched in my heart.
“Be careful, then! Remember to give me a call when you get home.” It would take half an hour to get a taxi from the new town, and he was just a bit worried about her, but he was also sorry that he had to go back to the office after having invited her out for dinner for less than ten minutes.
“Mmm!” Yang Shuting nodded, her eyes shining brightly as she watched him take his jacket and hurry out of the restaurant, seeing him through the floor-to-ceiling window as he walked to his car, opened the door, got in and drove away.
As she watched his car disappear from her sight, she felt a sense of emptiness in her heart. Looking at the table full of food, she suddenly lost her appetite and didn’t want to waste it, so she reluctantly ate a few bites and then called the waiter to help her pack.
Just as she was about to take out her wallet to pay the bill, the waiter told her that the gentleman had signed the bill, so she didn’t need to pay it. She nodded, often, like these bigwigs, they basically didn’t have to pay for meals.
Just as she was about to leave, she happened to meet Kim pu ai, who was wearing gorgeous and noble furs, a pair of sunglasses and fishy red lipstick, causing people eating in the restaurant to cast awe-inspiring glances.
She had seen Yang Shuting and Ling Weihao long ago, she was merely sitting in a corner at the bottom, with a green potted plant just out of her way, and no one noticed her presence.
She had never expected to meet them here, but what a narrow path!
She twisted her waist , holding a rose-coloured lv bag in her hand, but her slightly bulging belly was visible. She walked up to Yang Shuting, then took a seat in front of her, took off her glasses, smiled foxily at Yang Shuting and said, “I haven’t seen you for a while, you’ve changed so much, you’ve become beautiful, and you’re getting more and more aristocratic.”
Was her remark a compliment, or was it sarcastic? But it sounded very harsh to Yang Shuting’s ears. But she smiled faintly, looked at the sultry woman in front of her and said indifferently, “Long time no see!”
“What’s wrong, Ling Wei hao is leaving so soon?” Kim Pu Aiwas surprised at howLing Weihao left so quickly, leaving her in the restaurant.
“He had an urgent matter.” Yang Shuting still answered her indifferently.
“But when I saw you two eating just now, he even peeled the crab for you himself and taught you how to eat it, and there was laughter between the two …” Kim PPu ai leaned back in her chair, her red lips raised to one side, disdain and contempt, and jealousy all hanging on her lips as she continued with a sneer, “It reminds me of the past, when he didn’t even bother to peel a crab for me, didn’t even bother to talk to me, let alone smile at me, always wore a a cold look …”
Yang Shuting kept her smile and listened to her quietly, suddenly feeling like she was a resentful woman, telling the woman he loved about the pain she had felt all these years.
“I really don’t understand what’s so good about you that he would love you to death. For seven years, I slept next to him while your name was on his lips, and at that time, I felt like I was in utter pain, yet I had to pretend not to know and pretend to smile.” Kim Pu Ai looked at Yang Shuting in front of her with indignation in her eyes and said through gritted teeth, “Why did you come back, you say? Why did you come back when you were staying well abroad? Your return has disrupted our lives all of a sudden … don’t you think it’s selfish of you to do so?”
“Because he doesn’t love you at all, you will feel that I am a great threat to you by coming back, so you will feel that I am selfish and that I have ruined you. Even if I don’t come back and he doesn’t love you, he will still divorce you in the end.” Yang Shuting said calmly.
“You …” As if she had poked that hard wound in her heart, Kim Pu Ai was so angry that she gritted her teeth and was speechless. She wanted to grab the teacup and throw water on her, but it was empty, so she was so angry that she had to put it down heavily and say, “Yang Shuting, don’t go too far.”
“I am telling the truth.” Yang Shuting said calmly, and seeing her angry look, her gaze moved to look below her and kindly reminded, “Be careful of moving the baby.”
After she reminded her of this, Kim Pu Ai suddenly realized that her anger had disappeared from her face and replaced it with a loving look, placing her hand on her stomach and gently stroking it, her eyes showing maternal doting, saying, “You should know very well what kind of person Ling Wei-hao is, right? Impossible, do you think he shouted your name almost every night in bed, it was because he loved you and missed you, it was because you were lower than any other woman. It’s like what I am now, I’ve been married to him for seven years and now I’m pregnant with his child, because of you he kicked me away without thinking about the baby in my belly.”