The next morning, at the dinner table, grandma asked to go back to Liyang.
"Why do you have to go back all of a sudden? Grandma, isn't it good to live here?" Bai Xiao suddenly lost the mood to have breakfast.
"No matter how good it is, I can't live here forever," the old man smiled at her, "Now that your life with Shao Ting has been decided, you have to be very busy these days. I'm getting older, and staying here will only delay my life."
Just wait for your wedding day and pick me up."
Bai Xiao was reluctant to let go. Her grandmother was her closest relative, and she had always been worried about letting an elderly person with a heart disease live alone in Liyang.
Seeing the reluctance in her eyes, grandma said: "Besides, I am used to the life in Liyang, and I always have some constraints here."
The little guy was coming back from his morning run, wearing sportswear and panting with his small chest. Behind him, standing in the same casual attire, was Yu Shaoting.
Yu Jingxi ran to the old man's legs and lay down, "Grandma, it's been raining these days. Please wait until the weather clears before leaving."
Regarding the issue of seniority, no one ever corrected Yu Jingxi, perhaps because they did not want to make the sensitive little guy feel uneasy anymore.
"Silly boy," grandma said, stroking the little guy's shaking little head and feeling very fond of this great-grandson: "Grandma has already bought the ticket."
Bai Xiao was surprised and didn't know anything about it: "When did you buy it?"
Grandma glared at her: "What's all the fuss about? I asked Xiao Zhang from next door to buy the train ticket for this afternoon."
"Then let's refund the tickets." Yu Jingxi suggested tactfully.
Two pairs of eyes, one big and one small, looked at the old man eagerly. Grandma looked up at the man who had not spoken. Bai Xiao also turned his head. Yu Shaoting stood there with his hands in his bags, his expression was very calm, and his thin lips parted, and he said: "
In just two days, I’m going to City C, so I’ll take you there along the way.”
Because of Yu Shaoting's words, grandma did not leave on the same day, but waited for Yu Shaoting to return to Liyang two days later when he was on a business trip.
Before going to school, Yu Jingxi carried a big schoolbag and held her grandmother's hand and said specifically: "Grandma, I want to eat the scrambled eggs with spring bamboo shoots you made tonight."
The old man nodded with a smile and watched the family of three go out.
Aunt Li said enviously: "The young master really likes Teacher Bai. I think my own mother is just like this."
Grandma looked at the child who climbed into the car with Bai Xiao, and sighed quietly, blood ties are unbreakable, even after so many years.
Turning around to enter the villa, I accidentally caught a glimpse of a figure outside the fence. Grandma paused and looked at him.
After Su Manrong heard what Yu Yiwei told about the relationship between Bai Xiao and Pei Qiyou, she couldn't sleep all night. All the things were complicated beyond her imagination. She didn't understand why her daughter in the country became the daughter-in-law of the Pei family. As soon as dawn came, she came
, but stood timidly at the door.
Some people she had avoided for more than twenty years would eventually have to face them, with shame and apology.
Su Manrong raised her head and looked at the old man, her lips murmuring: "...Mom."
Aunt Li has already gone in to wash the dishes.
Grandma was very calm, as if she had expected that Su Manrong would come to her, "If you want to ask anything, just ask it today."
"..." Su Manrong's eyes were red, but she didn't know how to speak.
The old man sighed, entered the villa, and came out soon: "Let's go, find a place, and say everything that needs to be said."
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Bai Xiao saw Yu Jingxi off the bus and stood at the school gate to watch the little guy carrying his schoolbag and walking to the classroom like other children.
The little guy walked for a while and suddenly turned back, saw that she was still standing there, and waved his little hand to her from a distance.
Bai Xiao smiled and raised his hand in response. Yu Jingxi then turned around and left.
Yu Shaoting didn't get out of the car. Bai Xiao turned around and couldn't see clearly the face of the man in the car, but every time she took a step closer, she felt an indescribable sense of tranquility.
Get in the car, fasten your seat belt, and hear him ask: "Are you ready?"
Bai Xiao remembered what he said in the morning and turned to look at him: "Do you really want to go on a business trip to City C?"
Yu Shaoting hummed and started the car. Bai Xiao saw that he spoke so little. She noticed something strange when she woke up in the middle of the night. People can't do bad things, even if it's a white lie. She glanced at the man driving silently next to her.
He raised his left hand and gently placed it on his right arm.
In silence all the way, we arrived at the Hongyuan office building and the car drove into the underground parking lot.
Bai Xiao got out of the car and stood beside the car. Without leaving in a hurry, she leaned over and said to the man in the driver's seat: "Drive carefully."
"Go up." Yu Shaoting seemed to be waiting for her to leave, then drove away.
After closing the car door, Bai Xiao walked to the elevator entrance. The parking lot was quiet, and the sound of high heels became clearer. After walking a few steps, Bai Xiao turned her head, and the Bentley Continental was still parked in the parking space. Without going any further, she turned back.
, and then knocked on the driver's seat window.
The car window slowly lowered, revealing the man's resolute profile, Bai Xiao said: "I forgot to mention, let's have dinner together at noon."
"I have a meeting later."
"...Then I'll wait for you. Call me as soon as you finish the meeting."
"It's a meeting with a few shareholders, and we may go out for dinner together after the meeting."
Bai Xiao did not give up, but said: "Then when you have decided, you can tell me, and if we don't want to socialize, we can have dinner together."
Yu Shaoting turned his head and wanted to say something, but Bai Xiao suddenly leaned forward and kissed his cheek through the car door.
His hands were still on the steering wheel, and he didn't avoid it, but he didn't respond much.
After a brief pause, Bai Xiao let go of him and took two steps back: "Bye." After saying that, he put the bag on his shoulder and turned around with a happy mood.
Yu Shaoting sat in the car, watching her back as she walked further and further away, then lowered his eyes and stared at the steering wheel in front of him.
He heard Bai Xiao's murmurs in her sleep last night, very softly and vaguely. He was woken up by her, and only when he got close to her did he hear clearly that what she called was "Mr. Pei".
He looked at her sleeping face and wondered what she was dreaming about, but there was definitely not him in this dream, but another man.
He leaned against his head and lit a cigarette. Not long after, Bai Xiao woke up. When he asked, her eyes dodged, which made him feel uncomfortable.
The cell phone rang suddenly, bringing his mind back to reality.
When Yu Shaoting saw the number displayed on the screen, he didn't answer it, but cut it off, and then threw the phone into the storage compartment.
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Not long after she got to work, Mrs. Yu received a call, asking Bai Xiao and Yu Shaoting to go to her home in the evening to choose the type of wedding invitations.
Bai Xiao actually didn't want to organize a grand wedding. Yu Shaoting and she were both married for the second time. Although she had also longed to wear a wedding dress and exchange rings with her husband with the blessings of all her relatives and friends, it was just a beautiful imagination after all. Now it really needs to be grand.
Before the wedding, she felt timid because of the secrets in her heart.
She called Yu Shaoting and was answered by Secretary Jing. Yu Shaoting didn't lie to her. He was really in a meeting.
After hanging up the phone, Bai Xiao was about to turn around and return to his seat when another call came in. It was Su Manrong's number.
Bai Xiao didn't answer and pressed the button directly. Not long after, a text message came in, "Xiao Xiao, would you please answer mom's call?"
Staring at the word "Mom", Bai Xiao still felt uncomfortable in her chest. She had just deleted the text message and a new one came in.
"I know that I am not a qualified mother and I don't deserve you to call me mom. Xiaoxiao, can you answer the phone? I have something to tell you."
When another call came in, Bai Xiao turned off the phone directly. She had nothing to say to Su Manrong, and she didn't want to listen to Su Manrong's dissuasion.
Back in the office area, as soon as she sat down, a call came from the front desk, saying that someone was looking for Bai Xiao.
When the elevator reached the first floor, Bai Xiao came out, saw Su Manrong standing there, and turned around to go back upstairs.
"Xiao Xiao!" Su Manrong saw her and shouted out in a hurry.
Before she became the center of attention, Bai Xiao walked over. Su Manrong's eyes were wet and red, and she looked like she had just cried. Bai Xiao said, "If you have anything to do, tell me."
Su Manrong looked at her graceful daughter in front of her. Her mother's words were still lingering in her ears. Thinking of everything her daughter had experienced over the years, tears fell out again, but she was speechless. There were people around who looked over curiously. Bai Xiao didn't want to be gossiped about.
I had no choice but to take Su Manrong outside.
"What do you want to see me for?" Bai Xiao walked to a remote corner, then turned around and asked Su Manrong.
"Xiao Xiao..." Su Manrong called her, her voice hoarse, and she couldn't say anything else.
——She was taken away by the Pei family when she was four years old, married to Pei Qiyou when she was eighteen, and later worked as a surrogate mother for the Pei family...
Su Manrong covered her mouth and just kept crying. Bai Xiao didn't understand what was wrong with her, but he asked her to comfort Su Manrong like a caring little cotton-padded jacket. Bai Xiao knew that she couldn't do it. Listening to the crying, she couldn't help but feel a little irritated.
Eyebrow: "If nothing happens, I'll go up first."
However, before she took two steps, Su Manrong grabbed her: "Xiao Xiao——"
"I still have work to do. Being out for a long time like this won't have a good impact." Bai Xiao's voice was flat.
Su Manrong looked at her with tears in her eyes: "I'm sorry, it's mom's fault. Mom shouldn't have left you alone and made you suffer so much."
"..." Bai Xiao sensed something strange in Su Manrong's words: "Have you gone to see grandma?"
"I didn't know you had encountered so many things, or that you had such a relationship with Qi You..."
"So what if you know? If you know, can you tell your little daughter not to steal my husband?"
Thinking of Yu Yiwei's repeated provocations, Bai Xiao chuckled, but the smile disappeared fleetingly: "When she was with Pei Qiyou, we were not divorced yet. If you can, please go back and tell her that the third person who ruined other people's marriages is
She is the one responsible, so stop blaming others hysterically like that."
Su Manrong's face turned pale, and she obviously didn't know the specific situation.
"I don't hate you, because I can actually understand your feelings. If you could start your life over again, you probably wouldn't want to give birth to me." Bai Xiao had vaguely guessed something from her grandmother and Su Manrong. She was not
The child that Su Manrong gave birth to with her beloved man.
Even though this truth made her heartache, she still had to admit it.
Bai Xiao went to break off Su Manrong's hand, and Su Manrong burst into tears: "No, it's not what you think. I have never regretted giving birth to you. When I was first pregnant with you, I was scared, happy, and nervous. I was just like
Just like her mother, she longs for your birth and wants to take good care of you until you grow up."
"Really?" Bai Xiao twitched her lips: "For me, these are no longer important."
When Bai Xiao looked up, he saw someone who shouldn't be here. Su Manrong followed her back and her expression changed: "Weiwei?"
Yu Yiwei secretly followed Su Manrong out, from where she met Bai Xiao's grandmother to downstairs in Hongyuan.
Her eyes fell on Su Manrong's hand holding Bai Xiao, her eyes filled with tears, thinking of what Su Manrong said: "You clearly said you love daddy!"
"Weiwei, listen to me..." Su Manrong wanted to explain, but Yu Yiwei had already turned around and ran away.
Su Manrong burst into tears, Bai Xiao said goodbye and said calmly: "Go after her, I don't know what she will do."
The next moment, the hand that was holding her sleeve loosened, and Bai Xiao heard Su Manrong say "I'm sorry, Xiaoxiao" and then left.
Bai Xiao stood there, looking at the cars going by in front of him, feeling confused and sour. Inexplicably, there was a warm pain in the circles around his eyes.
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Yu Yiwei didn't know where she could go. Su Manrong's words made her heart twist. Her mother was not forced to give birth to Bai Xiao.
What about her? What about her father? Who are they father and daughter?
Bai Xiao's words seemed to still ring in her ears: "When she was with Pei Qiyou, we were not divorced yet..."
Bai Xiao said that she was the third party and it was she who ruined their marriage.
Yu Yiwei bit her lower lip, trying not to cry. Everything she had with Pei Qiyou came to mind. He went to the airport to pick her up after she had just returned to China. At the hotel, he touched her face and was in a trance. She was kidnapped and he took her with him.
Bai Xiao came to replace someone, and when she had an asthma attack, he took her to the hospital...
The taxi drove to Pei's downstairs and Yu Yiwei got out of the car. Almost subconsciously, she chose to come to him.
Almost all Pei's employees already knew her. She pushed the revolving door in and everyone greeted her politely and called her "Miss Yu."
Yu Yiwei went to the bathroom to wash her face and clean up the mess on her face before going upstairs to find Pei Qiyou.
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Pei Qiyou was returning to the office after the meeting and put the documents on the table. When the office door opened, he turned around and saw Yu Yiwei.
For a moment, he thought he saw Bai Xiao, and his memory went back to a certain night——
He was sitting in the car, smoking a cigarette, and Bai Xiao came out of the hotel in a mess, with red eyes, almost overlapping with Yu Yiwei at this moment.
Pei Qiyou was absent-minded for a moment, but Yu Yiwei had already arrived in front of him and hugged him tightly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it last night. I was so angry. Qi You, can you forgive me?" Yu Yiwei said with a tearful voice.
With gauze still attached to his forehead, Pei Qiyou grabbed her hand and circled it around him: "Why did you come to the company so suddenly?"
"Pei Qiyou, can you take me away? I don't want to stay here anymore. My mother said that she gave birth to Bai Xiao willingly. Besides my father, she also loved another man. I couldn't stand it. My brother-in-law also helped
With Bai Xiao, no one in my family is really nice to me."
Yu Yiwei hugged Pei Qiyou tightly, like a person falling into the sea grabbing a driftwood: "I don't care what happened to you and Bai Xiao in the past, Pei Qiyou, I love you, I want to be with you forever, let's find someone
Is it okay to start life again in a place where no one knows you?"
Pei Qiyou said nothing and let her hold him without any response. The long silence made Yu Yiwei feel uneasy. Then, she heard him say sorry.
Yu Yiwei let go of his neck and grabbed his sleeves with both hands, "Why are you saying sorry to me?"
"Are you still angry because I hurt you yesterday? I apologized to you, didn't I?"
"I'm sorry." Pei Qiyou's throat moved and he repeated those three words in a calm tone: "I can't marry you."
Yu Yiwei looked at him suddenly, in disbelief and stunned.
Pei Qiyou looked at that extremely similar face, with tears in his eyes, so touching, but after all, he was not that person, the person in his heart.
"Why... why..." The last trace of blood faded from Yu Yiwei's face, and her whole body was trembling slightly.
Doesn’t the only man who treats her well now not want her?
Yu Yiwei suddenly stepped forward, hugged Pei Qiyou tightly, and put her head against his heart: "I was too willful before, please forgive me, Pei Qiyou, I shouldn't have cut off your sister's fingers, and I shouldn't have been angry with you all the time.
Temper, you shouldn't be jealous of Bai Xiao like that..."
As she spoke, she raised her head and kissed Pei Qiyou regardless, but she only received his indifference and long silence.
