He Lingchuan held his breath, knowing that Shen Yanxi was asking this on purpose.

He gritted his teeth, determined to risk everything for his child: "I don't want you to leave."

After he finished speaking, the entire office fell silent.

Shen Yanxi stared into his eyes. In order to prevent Shen Yanxi from discovering that he had made up a lie on the spot, He Lingchuan's lips trembled slightly, and his eyes looked around randomly. He looked a little nervous.

Shen Yanxi stared intently at his lips, waiting for him to speak.

"I think it's better for children to stay with their parents."

"Then why don't you remarry?"

He Lingchuan had been thinking about what Shen Yanxi had just said for a long time, but he didn't expect her to be so straightforward.

I don't think the two of us are a good match.

“If it’s not a good match, there’s no need to force it together for the sake of the child.”

Shen Yanxi turned her head away, deliberately rejecting He Lingchuan.

He took a deep breath and swallowed Shen Yanxi's unreasonable demands.

"What do you want from me to go back?"

"I……"

"She's not going back."

When Zhou Mingyan pushed open the door and entered, Shen Yanxi was thinking of a reason.

Upon hearing the familiar voice, he frowned for the first time, revealing a look of displeasure in his eyes.

"Mingyan, what brings you here?"

Shen Yanxi's eyes were indifferent, and her tone was even colder, as if she were looking at a stranger.

Zhou Mingyan paused as he stepped forward, looking at Shen Yanxi in disbelief: "Xixi, what's wrong?"

He immediately adopted a wronged tone: "Xixi, I've been waiting for you at home for a long time, so I came here specifically to find you. Why did you bring the child to He Lingchuan's place?"

Shen Yanxi put on a stern face, intending to be indifferent, but after hearing Zhou Mingyan's words, she couldn't bring herself to be ruthless.

Thinking of Zhou Mingyan sitting by the bed waiting for her, Shen Yanxi couldn't help but feel sorry for him: "He Lingchuan and I have some things to discuss, so for convenience, we stayed at his house. We are husband and wife, so there's nothing wrong with living together."

Shen Yanxi said this without considering Zhou Mingyan's feelings at all.

He Lingchuan was somewhat surprised; he hadn't expected Shen Yanxi's attitude towards Zhou Mingyan to change so drastically.

He leaned against the wall, his hands crossed over his chest, waiting to see what would happen.

Shen Yanxi raised her head, her gaze towards Zhou Mingyan carrying a hint of detachment: "Mingyan, is there anything else?"

Hearing Shen Yanxi's words, Zhou Mingyan paused for a few seconds, then said somewhat awkwardly, "I came to pick you up. Aren't you someone who has trouble sleeping in unfamiliar beds? You probably won't sleep well outside, so..."

“I slept well at He Lingchuan’s house, so you don’t need to worry about me.”

Shen Yanxi gently patted Zhou Mingyan's hand, clearly indicating that she did not intend to go back with him.

Zhou Mingyan froze for a few seconds, then belatedly realized, "Xixi, you and Mr. He are already divorced, but you're sleeping together..."

"Mingyan, I'll be going back in a few days, so don't make a fuss."

Shen Yanxi rejected him one after another, and even Zhou Mingyan, with his good temper, could no longer tolerate it.

He finally mustered up the courage to come find Shen Yanxi, only to see her flirting with He Lingchuan.

In that instant, Zhou Mingyan felt as if his chest was about to explode.

He suppressed his anger and asked Shen Yanxi bluntly, "Xixi, did the police say anything to you? Did they say I was the culprit? That I encouraged Xu Fei to take the child away?"

Shen Yanxi stood there stunned, not expecting Zhou Mingyan to ask so directly.

She pursed her lips, momentarily feeling a little embarrassed: "Xixi, do you really believe I'm that kind of person?"

Zhou Mingyan began to morally blackmail her: "I can understand that you doubt me, but how can you believe other people's one-sided stories without listening to my explanation? You should know very well how I treat the children."

Zhou Mingyan looked at Shen Yanxi with a disappointed expression: "I thought we at least trusted each other."

He wiped his eyes, as if he were crying: "I never expected this..."

His voice was choked with emotion, and he could barely speak the rest of the sentence.

Before he arrived, Shen Yanxi secretly told herself not to trust Zhou Mingyan, but who knew if what he said was true or not.

As a result, Zhou Mingyan cried a little, and Shen Yanxi decided to forgive him, even feeling a little sorry for him.

She looked up and couldn't help but comfort Zhou Mingyan: "Mingyan, I will find out the truth about this. It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that Nanchen needs his father right now, which is why I'm staying with He Lingchuan."

"And what about you?"

Zhou Mingyan countered Shen Yanxi's question: "Don't you also live with him?"

He raised his finger and pointed it at He Lingchuan, his eyes filled with malice: "He Lingchuan, what underhanded tricks did you use to make Xixi trust you so much?"

Zhou Mingyan's voice was hoarse, as if he had been crying for a long time.

He Lingchuan shrugged and said, "I didn't do anything. It was your Xixi who chose to believe me."

After saying that, he raised an eyebrow at Chen Yanxi: "Am I right? Weren't you deliberately teasing me? Trying to make me stay?"

He Lingchuan knew that Shen Yanxi didn't want to show that she cared about him in front of Zhou Mingyan, so he insisted on asking.

He moved closer to Shen Yanxi, deliberately provoking Zhou Mingyan: "Have you forgotten what you just said? You even said I had to beg you, but you did it on purpose, didn't you? You weren't planning on leaving in the first place, were you?"

Shen Yanxi gritted her teeth and warned He Lingchuan in a low voice, "Shut up."

"Why should I shut up? I'm going to talk anyway."

He Lingchuan described the scene in detail, glancing at Zhou Mingyan's increasingly broken expression out of the corner of his eye, a smug look on his face.

He added, "Shen Yanxi, aren't you tired of wavering between the two of us? I think you should hurry up and make a choice, lest you end up with neither of us."

Shen Yanxi slammed her hand on the table and stood up, her face fierce, looking genuinely angry: "What right do you have to make me make a choice? Do you think you can compare to Mingyan?"

"Whether it's comparable or not, I don't know, but I can be sure that you don't care that much about Zhou Mingyan."

Thinking of how Shen Yanxi had deliberately teased him earlier, He Lingchuan walked up to Zhou Mingyan and said, "You'd better give up on Shen Yanxi as soon as possible, lest she dump you and it sounds really bad to others."

Zhou Mingyan gritted his teeth, panting heavily, his chest heaving violently.

"Xixi, is that really true?"

He was not giving up and demanded an explanation from Shen Yanxi.

"Don't listen to He Lingchuan's nonsense."

"Then why don't you leave?"

Zhou Mingyan looked at Shen Yanxi with some annoyance and questioned him in a low voice.

Shen Yanxi raised her head, but remained silent for a long time.

Zhou Mingyan interpreted his silence as tacit agreement. He gave a self-deprecating laugh and stepped back to the door: "I know, you're taking revenge on me. You hate me for leaving you, and you don't believe me. Xixi, I had no choice but to leave you. As for the Nan Chen matter, I can prove to you right now that I'm innocent."