Because of you, our family is now in a state of disarray.
Grandma's calf was broken. After Bai Xiao learned the news, she tossed and turned all night, feeling groggy and unable to sleep.
She knew that Yu Shaoting had gotten up in the middle of the night, and that he had answered the phone and went outside with his cell phone, so she didn't know who called.
When Bai Xiao woke up in the morning, her head felt dizzy and she felt a little uncomfortable. Next to her, Yu Shaoting had already gotten up.
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She found Yu Shaoting by the swimming pool outside the villa.
He was talking on the phone with his back to her, his back was slender and straight, with one hand in his trouser pocket, and the blue pool water reflected on his trouser legs, sparkling.
Yu Shaoting suddenly turned his head and saw Bai Xiao standing not far away. He said to the other end of the phone, "For now, hang up." After answering the phone, he walked up to Bai Xiao and saw the thick dark circles under her eyes.
: "Didn't you sleep well last night? It's still early, so I need to catch up on some sleep."
"Can't sleep." Bai Xiao shook his head and looked down at the mobile phone in his hand: "Who were you calling just now?"
Yu Shaoting took her hand: "The company in Fengcheng encountered something. Is Anna up? Ask her to make you some appetizing breakfast."
The two of them walked back to the villa, but Bai Xiao suddenly let out a low voice, her eyebrows furrowed, and Yu Shaoting turned to ask her, "What's wrong?"
"...It seems like I stepped on something on the sole of my foot." Bai Xiao gathered up the long hair that was scattered on the side of her face. She felt a stinging pain in the sole of her foot. She had just come out and put on slippers, and she didn't pay attention when walking. She lowered her head to look.
Come, there are some small pieces of glass next to it.
Yu Shaoting immediately squatted down, asked her to take off her slippers, and lifted her feet. A small piece of glass dug into the sole of her foot, causing it to bleed. He frowned, picked her up and quickly walked into the villa, walking to the bathroom.
I called 'Anna''s name and asked her to bring the first aid kit.
Bai Xiao sat on the toilet seat and looked at the man squatting to wash her feet. He washed her feet where she was stabbed, raised his head and asked her: "Does it hurt?"
She felt his cautious strength: "It doesn't hurt much anymore."
Yu Shaoting threw the towel back into the sink, took her to the living room, and took the red potion from the first aid kit to wipe her.
When the medicine first touched the wound, Bai Xiao subconsciously shrank her toes, and he fixed her feet on his legs: "Be patient, and apply the medicine first."
"Yeah." The pain gradually disappeared, Bai Xiao held the sofa with his hands behind his back, his eyes fell on him, and his frown showed worry.
Yu Shaoting stood up and packed away the potions and cotton swabs. Bai Xiao looked up at him and suddenly said: "In the afternoon, I will go back to China with you."
"Your foot is injured, how can you walk?" Yu Shaoting looked at her foot, then took a band-aid and put it on her: "Stay here well."
"Grandma's leg is broken, I'm worried."
"Lin Qian has already gone to Liyang. When I return to China, I will rush over to see the old man immediately."
Bai Xiao frowned: "That's different. You go and follow me... I'm her granddaughter."
Yu Shaoting let go of her foot: "Then what do you want?"
"..." Doesn't he know what she wants?
Yu Shaoting pushed a few strands of hair on her temples behind her ears, and her deep voice tended to be gentle: "How can a pregnant woman fly around in the sky every two days? You live here first, and Jing Xi is always with you, Li Yang
Over there, if anything happens, I'll call you."
Bai Xiao opened his mouth to say something, but his cell phone rang again. Yu Shaoting took the phone and stood up, walked aside to answer the call: "Hello..."
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Bai Xiao calculated the time difference and made sure it was not too late in Liyang, so he made a call to Sister-in-law Wu who was taking care of her grandmother.
"Old lady, you are in good spirits. You just fell asleep." At this time, it was about nine o'clock in the evening over there in Liyang.
Bai Xiao asked a few more questions, and Sister-in-law Wu told her all about the old man's situation: "It's just that he's old, so his recovery is a bit slow, but the rest is fine."
"By the way, my wife just went home."
Bai Xiao didn't understand: "Which lady?"
"..." Mrs. Wu didn't expect Bai Xiao to ask this, so she said, "Isn't she your mother? As soon as something happened to the old lady, she rushed over from Fengcheng."
Bai Xiao hung up the phone, turned around, and saw Yu Jingxi walking out of the bathroom with a small towel on his shoulders and yawning delicately: "Are you up?"
"Who should I call?" The little guy came over with messy hair.
Bai Xiao did not hide the fact that grandma fell. After hearing this, Yu Jingxi frowned worriedly: "What should we do? How about we go back and see grandma."
"You and Xiaobai stay here." Yu Shaoting didn't know when he went upstairs. His calm words directly killed her attempt to persuade Yu Jingxi as an ally. He turned to look at the lame
Bai Xiao, "The driver will take me to the airport in the afternoon. You can have a good rest at home."
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Yu Shaoting returned home without any luggage. Bai Xiao stood at the door and tugged at the cuffs of his crisp shirt: "Let's go back together."
"You are like this now, do you think I should take care of you first or the children?"
Yu Shaoting glanced at her feet, his eyebrows were soft, and he turned sideways to face her, putting his hands on her shoulders: "Be obedient, call me if you need anything."
Yu Jingxi drank orange juice and interjected from the side: "Don't worry, Dad, I will take good care of Xiaobai."
Rarely, Yu Shaoting showed a kind look to his son, touched his head, pulled Bai Xiao close to him and kissed her forehead before getting in the car and leaving.
Yu Jingxi walked up to Bai Xiao, pinched the back of her hand with his chubby little fingers, and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm still here with you."
Bai Xiao looked into her son's bright and clear eyes, with a faint smile on her face, and held his little hand tightly.
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At night, Yu Jingxi consciously brought his own pillow and quilt to sleep with Bai Xiao.
Bai Xiao leaned on the bed. After Yu Jingxi fell asleep, she checked the time and called Li Yang to ask. When she was lying on the bed holding the little Yu Jingxi, Bai Xiao thought that Yu Shaoting should still be on the plane.
, I closed my eyes, and within a few hours, I already started to miss her.
She had never been so clingy before, but when it was him, she felt like she had completely become a vine, clinging to the vine growing on him.
When I opened my eyes, it was him who was in my mind, and when I closed my eyes, it was still him. Instead of fading away with time, this feeling only grew stronger and stronger.
When Bai Xiao woke up the next day, the first thing he did was to call Yu Shaoting, guessing that he had already got off the plane.
The call was picked up quickly, and the surrounding area was noisy. Bai Xiao asked, "Just got off the plane?"
Yu Shaoting may have estimated the time difference between Las Vegas and Fengcheng and asked her to go sleep for a while. Bai Xiao didn't want to sleep, but just told him to take care of himself.
Before hanging up the phone, Yu Shaoting said to her: "I'm going to Liyang tomorrow. Don't worry too much and sleep well tonight."
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In the afternoon, when Bai Xiao accompanied Yu Jingxi to change the water in the swimming pool, a guest came to her. She had never seen him, but he called out her name.
"Are you Bai Xiao?"
The sleeves of Bai Xiao's chiffon shirt were still rolled up, and the legs of her jeans were rolled up to her calf. Her long hair was tied up and tied behind her head, with a few strands of hair falling on her cheeks. Xun Sheng turned her head, her hands still
After taking the leather tube, I stood up and saw the middle-aged woman standing outside the fence.
Yu Jingxi had already shouted to the other party: "Second aunt, grandma."
The person who came was none other than Xu Ruiling. She was holding a handbag and had a graceful and noble temperament. When she saw Bai Xiao and Yu Jingxi standing together, her expression was a little complicated.
Who would have thought that Shuyuan's husband would become Lao Liu's son-in-law.
Bai Xiao roughly guessed the identity of the other party based on Yu Jingxi's "Second Aunt Grandma", patted Yu Jingxi's butt and said, "Go and open the door."
After Xu Ruiling came in, she looked around the villa. She had been here before, when Shuyuan was still alive. She didn't expect that things have changed now.
This was also the first time she had seen Bai Xiao himself. At first glance, it was indeed unexpected, but after thinking about it, it was reasonable. After all, the child was indeed only twenty-three or fourteen years old. What surprised her was that Bai Xiao would be there.
She and Yu Shaoting gave birth to Yu Jingxi at such a young age. They were observing Bai Xiao openly and secretly all the way into the house.
Bai Xiao asked Anna to make tea for Xu Ruiling. Xu Ruiling noticed that she was walking in a weird way and asked, "What's wrong with your feet?"
"...I accidentally got cut by a piece of glass this morning."
Yu Jingxi came out with the tea cup and said angrily: "It must be the short winter melon next door who secretly threw it here while we were sleeping!"
Bai Xiao glared at him: "If you hadn't brought hot water to water the pot of flowers he raised, would he have done this?"
Yu Jingxi curled her lips, handed the tea cup to Xu Ruiling, and sat down next to Bai Xiao.
Xu Ruiling looked at the 'mother and son' who got along so well, and couldn't help but sigh at the strength of blood ties. She couldn't help but think of her sixth child...
"Yu Shaoting returned to China yesterday." Bai Xiao saw that Xu Ruiling didn't speak, so she had to start first.
"Actually, I came to Las Vegas specifically to find you." Xu Ruiling looked at Bai Xiao and said, "As for the reason, you should know it, right?"
"..."
"The night before you came to Las Vegas, Lao Liu fainted after vomiting blood."
Bai Xiao's hands on her legs slightly tightened the fabric of her pants.
Xu Ruiling put the tea cup on the tea table and sighed: "To be honest, none of us thought that you would be the sixth child, but you are more like your mother."
Bai Xiao remained silent.
"Xu Heng should have been looking for you that day, right? I came here with the same intention as him. I hope you will go to the capital with me."
"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you," Bai Xiao raised his head, looked at Xu Ruiling and said, "My answer today means the same as my answer that day."
Xu Ruiling was stunned, obviously she didn't expect Bai Xiao to refuse so simply. After a while, her expression returned to normal, she stared at Bai Xiao and asked: "Don't you care about your life experience at all? Even if Lao Liu misses you as my daughter, you still don't care.
Don’t you want to see him?”
"My surname is Bai. My only relative is my grandmother in Liyang. As for the others, they have no meaning to me."
Bai Xiao's words made Xu Ruiling frown, and her voice became colder: "What is your attitude? Don't forget, half of the Xu family's blood is in your body."
Yu Jingxi saw Xu Ruiling's suddenly darkened face, looked up at Bai Xiao, grabbed Bai Xiao's clothes with her small hands and pressed against her tightly.
Bai Xiao saw the child's worry, hugged him and said to Xu Ruiling: "Go back, no matter what you say, I will not go to the capital."
After saying that, Bai Xiao nodded at her and pulled Yu Jingxi up: "Didn't you say that you want to assemble the newly purchased Iron Man model? I just have nothing to do now. Let's go upstairs."
"Because of you, our family has become restless."
Xu Ruiling also stood up, looked at Bai Xiao's back and said, "Now, Lao Liu insists on divorcing Xia Lan and won't listen to anyone else's words."
Bai Xiao looked back at her with a puzzled expression on her face: "Why...why did he want a divorce?"
Bai Xiao's feelings for Xu Jingyan are complicated. From the beginning, he was an elder who admired him, to now, he avoids him.
"He calls Yu Shaoting almost every day now. He doesn't dare to call you directly. Knowing that you are pregnant, he is afraid of making you angry and affecting your health. He can only call Yu Shaoting and ask him about your situation. You may not know
, he secretly left the hospital as soon as he woke up and booked a flight to Las Vegas..."
"I didn't see him." Bai Xiao really didn't know that Xu Jingyan had actually been here.
"You are so repulsive to his father now, how dare he appear in front of you rashly? You thought he didn't want you when you were a child, but my younger brother was also a victim in what happened back then. You can only blame fate.
Since people know everything now, why not give him a chance to explain?"
Bai Xiao just asked Xu Ruiling why Xu Jingyan suddenly wanted a divorce?
When this issue was mentioned, Xu Ruiling's temples felt swollen and painful, and she couldn't help but think of the Xu family, which was now in chaos.
That night, she sent Xu Zhenning back to the ward to take care of the sixth child. As soon as she arrived at the door of the ward, she heard her elder sister-in-law telling her elder brother that it was Xia Lan who had secretly replaced the paternity test sample from that year before she could return.
God, the nanny from the Xu family called again and told her to go back quickly.
It was already early in the morning when she returned to the compound, and she saw Xia Lan kneeling at the door of her home in the rain, regardless of her serious injuries, refusing to get up...
Xu Zhenning sat in a wheelchair and burst into tears.
She asked her father what had happened, but her father remained calm and didn't say anything. When Xia Lan fainted, he asked her to take him back to the hospital. The next morning, they went to the ward to see Lao Liu, but the bed was empty.
Unable to find anyone, Lao Liu appeared again three days later, his face pale and haggard, and his first words were: "I plan to divorce."
When things have developed to this point, Xu Ruiling does not dare to make random assertions. After all, she is not a party involved and does not know the entanglements involved.
So when Bai Xiao asked, she said: "You can ask Lao Liu yourself about the specific situation when you go back. My dad asked me to come here this time, and I have already brought him. As for whether to go or not, I have the right to decide."
I can understand that you are hiding here and can't accept the sudden truth."
"But have you ever thought about who is taking care of you now?"
"..." Bai Xiao's eyes flickered.
Xu Ruiling continued: "The night before I came to Las Vegas, Xia Lan woke up from a coma and had her pulse cut. If the nurse who went in to check the ward hadn't discovered it in time, we still don't know what the situation was. You can do this
Ignore it, but what about the Yu family?"
"The marriage between you and Yu Shaoting was already chaotic, and now it is even more chaotic. With you gone, everything will naturally fall on him." Xu Ruiling looked back at Bai Xiao before leaving: "Lao Liu didn't want to let you go. In the end,
At least from my perspective, he was happier than anyone else after learning that you were his child."
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Xu Ruiling left, and the sound of the fence door closing was heard outside, but Bai Xiao stood there in a daze, unable to recover for a moment.
Yu Jingxi called her several times from the side, but she didn't respond. All she could think about was the words Xu Ruiling left before she left.
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Some people say that marriage is a besieged city. People outside the city want to get in, and people in the city want to get out.
Xu Jingyan never thought that one day, his marriage would encounter Waterloo, and that he would be so impatient to escape from this besieged city.
What he never expected was that he had lost the one he loved and had been separated from his own flesh and blood for more than twenty years, all because of the person he was sleeping with.
Xu Jingyan stood outside the glass window of the intensive care unit and looked at Xia Lan, who was in a coma on the bed. Her eyes were red. She said she had not changed them. She said she just took a paternity test and sent it to the Xu family.
She said that she did this just because she loved him so much that she would even die to express her will, but how could he trust her again?
The sister-in-law said that she heard the conversation between Xia Lan and Xu Zhenning at the door of the ward, and heard them say that Xia Lan had planned everything that happened.
Xu Jingyan went to the bathroom and splashed cold water on his face. He calmed down a little and called Yu Shaoting.
