When Zhang Qin heard the shout, she opened her eyes slightly, her daughter’s outline gradually became clearer, and smelled the medicine again, knowing that she had to drink medicine again. She now had to drink Chinese medicine every day and take Western medicine, and every time she did, she was drowsy.
Yang Shuting carefully helped her to sit up, then took a pillow and placed it on the head of the bed for her to lean on.
She took the medicine, scooped it up more gently with a spoon, put it to her mouth and blew on it gently, then put it to her mother’s dry, cracked, bloodless mouth.
Zhang Qin opened her mouth and drank it, it was very bitter and she couldn’t help but frown, suddenly asking Shu Ting, “Did you and Yuhang have a fight?” As she slept, she faintly heard the sound of their quarrel coming from outside the door.
Yang Shuting paused for a moment, smiled and said, “No, we didn’t quarrel.” She scooped up a spoonful again, blew on it and put it to her mouth.
Seeing that her daughter would not say anything, Zhang Qin did not continue to ask, sipping the bitter, unpalatable Chinese medicine.
For several days in a row, Ling Weihao had not come to her, not even made a single phone call. She learned about their company, all from Huang Xin’s mouth, because of the unprecedented crisis in Ling Yun Group, the stock kept falling, there were many big back orders, and the loss was not just a matter of 100 million, but the whole group.
Now everyone was fighting night and day, and he had not slept for several days and nights, even Huang Xin kept working overtime, almost off work at eleven or twelve o’clock.
Yang Shuting was very worried about him and wanted to visit him at their office, but she was afraid that her presence would bring him trouble, so she dismissed the idea.
It was only one night, while she was sleeping, that she received a call from him and her heart ached when she heard his tired voice.
He said he was now downstairs at her house and wanted her to come out and meet him; he hadn’t seen her for days and missed her very, very much.
“Okay, I’ll be right down.” Yang Shuting hung up the phone, hastily grabbed a jacket and draped it behind her, and went straight out the door, going downstairs to see the car parked downstairs.
It was now after two o’clock at night, and it was cold and clear outside, with the streetlights emitting a faint yellow light, and her figure looked lonely.
Yang Shuting stepped out of the entrance to the building, and the cold wind greeted her face, making her face a little raw and her mouth exhale clouds of white air. She jogged up to him and looked at him with a little gasp. She hadn’t seen him for a few days and his whole body looked much thinner, his hair was dishevelled, his eyes were full of fatigue and covered with blood, and his face was sprouting with fine, dense scruff. He seemed to have not bathed for a long time, remembering that the last time he had left the restaurant, he still wore is suit.
Ling Weihao looked at her, hugged tightly, these days, as if half a century had passed, so long and painful, he was even afraid, fear, afraid that the group left to him by his grandfather, so destroyed in his hands … never had fear, those days, he did not dare to close his eyes, afraid that once he closed his eyes, the next moment I was afraid that if I closed my eyes, the next moment I would hear the bad news …
He was even afraid of losing her, he had already lost her once, he didn’t want to lose her again …
He was afraid, he had never been so afraid before, it was like a flood that swept over him.
But when he saw her, held her, felt her warmth, her breath, her heartbeat, he gradually calmed down.
“Weihao …” Yang Shuting called his name softly, knowing that he had worked hard these days and she wanted to do her part for him, but her heart was not enough.
“Don’t say anything, let me hold you well, okay?!” He just wanted to hold her like this, wishing that time could stay for a moment.
Hearing his plea, Yang Shuting said nothing more, she put her arms back around his waist, closed her eyes and hugged him tightly, at this time, what he needed most was a hug, what he needed most was for her to be by his side.
She woke up early and looked at Ling Weihao, who was lying next to him in a deep sleep, at his slightly upturned eyelashes, his beautiful, high nose and good-looking lips. She turned on her side, propped her head up with one hand, and couldn’t help but reach out with the other to gently stroke his eyelashes, his nose and his lips …
When he left her embrace last night, he said to her, “Will you stay with me tonight?”
“Yes!” She nodded, not refusing him, even though it was late at night.
With a big smile on his face, he opened the car door and she glanced at him, regardless of the pyjamas she was wearing, and she got in.
He drove back to the West Hill villa and as soon as he got out of the car, he pressed her hard against it and kissed her so hard she was breathless …
He didn’t want her though, perhaps he was too tired. He took a hot shower, walked out, kissed her lying on the bed, then lay back, his hands behind his head.
And she leaned back in his arms, listening to the regular sound of his heartbeat, and fluttered … to sleep.
Ling Weihao’s eyelashes trembled slightly and slowly opened his eyes, turning his face sideways to see Yang Shuting. She already awake, her eyes shining brightly at him, the smile on his lips like a wisp of spring breeze, giving a refreshing and comfortable feeling.
“What’s wrong?” He rolled over and faced her, his whole being looking much brighter after a night’s sleep.
“Nothing much.” Yang Shuting shook her head as she lay back down and said.
Ling Weihao moved closer to her, reaching around her waist and hooking his legs around her body, it had been a long time since he had wrapped his arms around her like this, it had been a long time since he had been intimate with her.
When the company was out of crisis and back to normal operation, his whole body collapsed limply into a chair and closed his eyes, but her image came to his mind, no matter how many o’clock it was, and he immediately left the company and drove to New Town. He knew that when she slept, she had a habit of turning off her phone, so he ran with a hopeful heart, and when he dialed her mobile phone, he was elated, and when he heard her voice, he was joyful …
Ling Weihao lowered his head and kissed her bare forehead, then suddenly rolled over and quickly pressed himself against her body, his dark eyes as gentle as water, looking straight at her.
She was embarrassed by his gaze and lowered her eyes in shame, her face flushed red like boiling water, her heart pounding.
He lowered his head and kissed her soft lips …
The winter sun, softly shining down, the bed was so beautiful with two naked bodies tenderly intertwined.
Afterwards, Yang Shuting lay on the bed, Ling Weihao holding her close, his hands ruffling her soft hair, smelling the refreshing aroma of shampoo coming out of her hair.
“You know what? That day you left, I met your ex-wife.” Yang Shuting said calmly without any ripples in her eyes.
When he heard her say this all of a sudden, the movement of ruffling her hair could not help but pause for a moment, his eyebrows furrowed, his eyes surprised and puzzled as he looked at her and asked, “Did she do anything to you?”
That ruthless woman, although she had moved away from the villa, she was still in the city of A and had not left at all.
Yang Shuting shook her head, looked at the tense look in his eyes and said, “She didn’t do anything to me, she just said that the child in her belly was yours.”
He saw the glint of doubt in her eyes and knew that the woman had disturbed her again, her heart so fragile while that woman was so devious and cunning. He asked, “You believe what she says?”
She shook her head again and averted her eyes, her eyes bleak. She had not believed what Kim Pu Aihad said, but she had touched her belly and said “What if this baby is really his” with an air of conviction, and even though she was convinced that he was not, she was slightly shaken by such words.
He took her face in his hands and made her eyes look at him, “Shu Ting, you have to believe me, that woman’s words, not to be trusted. The child in that belly is not mine, but … Ling Wei’s.”
He guessed, because the two of them had gotten very close. His father, Ling Wei, was intentionally close to Kim Pu Ai because he wanted to get some information through her and thus, thinking that their relationship was purely based on money and benefits, but never thought that they would do all they could to make such a hook-up.
The woman he used, his father actually dared to use, if word got out, wouldn’t people laugh at him.
He knew all these things was because his stepmother, Luo Yixin, had told him. That night, he was entertaining a customer and accompanying him for a drink, but when he was sending him away, he saw Luo Yixin who was being molested by two men.
He wanted to ignore her because he had never acknowledged her as a member of the Ling family from the bottom of his heart. But when he thought of his virtuous stepmother, how could she be alone in the bar? He didn’t think much of it, so he walked over and asked the two men what they wanted. Seeing that the situation was not good and not wanting to cause trouble, the two men had to leave in a huff.
Luo Yixin, who was already slightly drunk, saw his stepson, Ling Weihao, suddenly appear in front of her, picked up a glass of wine and drank it down, falling in his arms with tears in her eyes, telling him everything. If it wasn’t for Ling Xue, she would have divorced him long ago.
He stayed by her side as she kept drinking and he didn’t stop her, she got so drunk that he drove her home.
Ling Wei saw him return with Luo Yixin in his arms and walked straight upstairs to put her in bed, and she was so drunk that her mouth smelled of alcohol. Ling Xue also ran out of the room and stood in the doorway looking at Mummy in this state and then at her brother.
Ling Weihao asked how the hell did this come back?
Without answering him, Ling Wei Hao swung a punch at his face and he was knocked to the floor. Ling Wei Hao walked up and yanked him up by the collar, gritting his teeth and cursing him for the beast he was, and tried to hit him when Ling Xue grabbed his hand and begged him not to. For his sister’s sake, he let go of his hand, then looked at Ling Xue and told her to take good care of her mummy, then turned around and left.
Yang Shu Ting is surprised that the baby in Kim Pu Ai’s belly is Ling Wei’s, she stares at him with eyes that can’t imagine, although she has seen them making out twice, she didn’t think it would go to that extent between them, it’s unbelievable.