CHAPTER 20
The hand was bold and overbearing, as if all the gentlemanly courtesy and demeanor she had seen in him only moments before had been a false pretense.
And now, he was recklessly exposing the nature that belonged to him.
Warm palms were annoyingly close to her waist.
Wenning pushed away the large hand that didn’t know how to behave, “You’re the one who said ‘unrequited’.”
She admired the man’s performance, showing “saying one thing and doing another” to the fullest, yet quite at ease.
But it seemed that the one who gave him a chance was no other than herself.
Wen Ning hindsight to feel how wrong he said the word “hospital”, “hospital” this term placed in their other connotations.
Even a woman of this age who doesn’t know much about male-female relationships knows some of the pieces by heart.
There are certain moments that are more subtle and exciting because of their location.
Once emphasize the place where they are set up, this modern hospital seems to become a theater, but it is the location of their play, her face red, and he pretends to be half-knowledgeable and asked her: “So, the hospital and what is the special place?”
Unknown face must raise an evil smile.
“Zhou Yinchu.”
“It’s rare that you’re willing to call out my name when you’re not on a roll.”
He reminded her coldly of the last time she’d called him by his name, in the Ritz-Carlton suite’s study, on the wide, khaki-colored bench.
She’d resolved not to look at him again, but he hadn’t recognized the error of his ways, and it was the long wait that had made every second of the encounter a release of restrained and repressed desire.
He thought he was qualified to play the role of accompanying the doctor, but he had overestimated himself.
Pacing for a long time, her child finally walked out of the door of the doctor’s office.
Wen Ning’s heart beat a beat, she panicked that she and Zhou Yinchu may be too close, this is Zhou Yinchu’s fault alone, no matter which direction she went, he will always find a reasonable opportunity to follow from a calm and uncomplicated.
Like the shadow of the old days, it always lingers on.
However, Chuchu didn’t seem to see this scene, his eyes were still clear, striding towards his mother.
“I’ve done a lot of questionnaires, and Dr. Qiu says I’m fine so far.”
“Che Che is great,” Wen Ning rubbed his head, affectionate and gentle, “My baby is the best baby in the world.”
She was a woman who wasn’t good with words, and left the words of encouragement to her child; Zhou Yinchu hadn’t received these positive feedbacks in the past, perhaps because he thought Wenning didn’t know how to speak, and was too shy to express herself, but now he realized that her unique favoritism had never been given to him.
He realized that her unique preference was never for him. Even fifteen years ago, he had never experienced that kind of “sweetheart” feeling on her youthful face.
It didn’t really matter if he said it only to this young and ignorant child.
He couldn’t help but wonder if she had said it to another man over the years.
The thought was torture to him.
The man with the cold, hard facial lines hardly let anyone see the true distortion underneath the face as he walked into Qiu Chen’s office and asked about Li Che’s situation in an indifferent tone.
“The results of the tests at this stage are not ideal, it’s a good thing you sent them in time, perhaps we can make a concerted effort to intervene.”
“At the very least, make sure that this child is going to be spared from being dependent on drugs in adulthood.”
Zhou Yinchu let out an “oh”.
Qiu Chen wondered, “It’s not that you’re so attached to the idea of sending someone else’s child over from a long distance, how come you don’t care less about someone else’s situation now?”
Zhou Yinchu lost his initial nosy patience, “It’s not like it’s my child.”
He never minded displaying his true-to-life humanity.
Qiu Chen, however, saw right through him, “Don’t tell me you’re jealous of a child.”
“What am I jealous of him for?”
“Then you’re jealous of Li Che’s father,” Qiu Chen’s judgment was always so precise and sharp, “But when I say this, I’m not joking with you, what I mean is that even if you like someone else, you should always consider the feelings of someone else’s child, otherwise, I don’t really think that this relationship of yours will have a good result.”
Faced with the cruel fact that there is no result, Zhou Yinchu’s tone is hard: “There is no need for you to remind me.”
“Saying a few words makes you anxious,” Qiu Chen realized that his good intentions were all treated as a donkey’s liver and lungs by some people, “Zhou Yinchu, it’s not that I’m going to say anything about you, but the way you look right now is no different from those jealous and twisted big boys out there, and it’s hard to imagine that you’re in control of such a big company. ”
Qiu Chen joked, “If the financial situation goes wrong one day, I can offer you free psychological counseling.”
“You think too much.”
Qiu Chen then lamented, his tone envious, “Also, the assets your parents left you are enough for you to squander for the rest of your life.”
Zhou Yinchu: “Don’t worry, I can support myself, as well as my woman.”
Qiu Chen didn’t know exactly what to say anymore, if he chatted further, he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to resist prescribing some Dailiesin for himself as well. ①
Thinking about how much money people actually had in their hands, and then looking at how his entire section had been struggling to make ends meet for a year, he thought that he was simply worrying over nothing.
Zhou Yinchu’s talent in other areas may be questionable, but making money is easy for him.
Along the way, a few people each harbor their own thoughts, not as lively as going to the hospital that will, Zhou Yinchu see women treat themselves and others inherently different.
Wen Ning’s thoughts were all poured into Li Che alone, and it was clear that she sensed from the atmosphere of Dr. Qiu’s chat that the existing problems in Li Che were far less simple than she had imagined.
Li Che went upstairs to do his homework as usual.
His car idled on the main road of Jiangcheng’s old city center, and outside the car window, there were the fallen, endless sycamore leaves that belonged to this season.
Only when the car had circled most of the way around, did Wen Ning then ask Zhou Yinchu about the real situation regarding Li Che without any hesitation.
“He’s rather defensive, so the results of the test can only be watched and seen for now,” Zhou Yinchu didn’t explore this specific condition too much, “After that, I’ll make a fixed appointment with Qiu Chen.”
Wen Ning immediately said, “I can send him there myself.”
“What, after utilizing me, you’re immediately going to throw me away?”
The corners of his mouth showed a slight hint of mockery.
“I didn’t mean that.” At first, she was willing to explain calmly, “I simply didn’t want to bother you.”
“But if I told you, I would willingly be bothered by you.”
The car was moving steadily but directionlessly, and from the passenger seat she saw the face that was at once familiar and unfamiliar, a face that she had actually never felt so put together in her life when she had stepped out of the elevator today to face it and his impactful question.
The unbelievable was still to come.
Zhou Yinchu, who has a busy schedule, even took out most of the day to accompany her to give her child counseling on an unimportant psychological issue.
According to her understanding of Zhou Yinchu’s stereotype, this is not his child, has nothing to do with him, he will not waste half a bit of effort for anything that has nothing to do with him.
He’s never been about himself, to be more precise, he’s an extremely SELF-CENTERED person.
The unorthodox perversity made Wenning wary.
“Then I don’t want it either, I don’t think it’s right for us to stay together like this for a long time …… “Learning about Che Che’s psychological condition, Wen Ning’s first reaction was of course to protect her child without letting any uncertainties affect the child’s psychological condition again .
Compared to the relatively soft way of pushing away in the past, this was said with a resolute attitude.
“Wen Ning, what exactly are you avoiding?”
Wen Ning had wanted to say something about Li Che’s psychological situation, their relationship generically would cause no small impact.
For example, “Since you know about Che Che’s psychological situation, then you should also understand my psychology as a mother, I don’t want to subject my child to arguments and vilification that he shouldn’t have to endure at this age.”
But the words that came out of her mouth were far more unforgiving than that.
She re-answered the question he had posed earlier, “Since Che Che has already enrolled in the school of his choice, what about the tuition fees, I have no more worries …… Now that you’ve taken the initiative to contact Dr. Qiu, I don’t think I’m going to get anything else I want from you. ”
“Zhou Yinchu, I’m content.”
She picked her words apart, speaking in a way that was filled with mercenary, simply admitting that she had gotten the value she wanted, and after utilizing it, she unceremoniously pushed the man in front of her away.
She thought that Zhou Yinchu would not take her words whenever she uttered half of such words, after all, she had appreciated the man’s condescension.
His pride never accepted any provocation.
When they broke up, that kind of “parting on parting” that came out of his mouth without any thought, told her that from the moment she opened her mouth to talk about “parting”, he was destined to no longer stay for her.
But this time, he didn’t immediately turn around and leave, as if he was doing something unthinkable himself.
That was something Zhou Yinchu would never have said many years ago.
“Wen Ning, perhaps I can give you more than you can imagine.”
As the words left his mouth, the bottom of his eyes filled with a heat of light that had never before had to be seized from the outside, so much so that the temperature was so excessive that it could easily scorch a person.
The contours, the lines of the exterior became clearer and clearer.
The sun was setting, the last of the evening sunlight reflecting appropriately on the other half of the man’s face, while the other half fell into the dim darkness due to the light.
He thought to himself that he had lost his original composure and was frantically desperate for a response from her.
He could live his life as he pleased, but life never granted young women the same right. Even without Li Che’s psychological problems that required her to think things through, intuiting the gap between her and Zhou Yinchu under the heavens and under the earth, it wasn’t something that could be easily crossed just by saying so.
She would rather be a snail from start to finish.
“I don’t think that I’m capable of bearing the price of ‘insatiable greed’.”
Wen Ning said this extremely quickly, afraid that she would betray herself with her hesitation, hesitation, and the expression she wore afterward.
She insisted, “I want to get off.”
He didn’t say anything and wordlessly opened the Bugatti’s door while the car was parked on the side of the building. She watched the sudden glow from the headlights in front of his car, blinding, dangerous and mesmerizing. The direct touch of the man who toyed with her was not nearly as unpleasant as the occasional glimmer of truth that flowed from her eyes; at least, she could see the former as an equal exchange of benefits, and when the nature of the exchange was altered, she was more afraid than ever.
She feared that she was equally shallow-eyed and unable to withstand temptation.
Who does not want to get rid of the burden of life, there are times when Wenning is reading stories of women who abandoned their first love and went back to them, she instinctively substitutes for them, knowing that those men are just holding back because they are young and unavailable, and that it will not be long before they abandon the women, and it will be hard for her too.
If one continued to listen to his speeches–
He would soon realize that she was not so different from the women who were upstaging her.
He would loathe her.
She, on the other hand, had never had the capital to match him.
She raised her eyes, preferring to be a downright bad woman who didn’t go through the motions, but never allowing herself to be a fool in an unknown love affair, she looked up, the electronic screen of the tallest building in the center of Jiangcheng City was scrolling with a new round of advertisements placed, and the heroine of the advertisements was no one else but Ying Ying–
Zhou Yinchu’s rumored girlfriend.
Luxurious jewelry matched with an indifferent smile, its commercial value was highlighted precisely from her cold expression, she thought, they are the ones standing in the same world.