Chapter 522 Will You Dislike Me?

Qiao Xing didn't stand on ceremony with him and put the bowl in front of her to start eating.

As expected of their specialty, this pork rib soup is really delicious.

After we finished eating and drinking, the road was still congested, but not as badly as before; we were just moving a little slower.

It was past ten o'clock when I got home, and it was time to go to bed. But Qiao Xing had slept in the office that afternoon, so he was wide awake again.

After showering, the two sat on the sofa. Qiao Xing held a fruit platter in her arms, watched TV, and couldn't help but complain, "Since I stopped going to work, my schedule has become even more chaotic."

She turned her head and pointed to a pimple on her cheek, "Look, I'm getting pimples because of hormonal imbalance."

Qin Ce leaned closer to take a look and saw a red pimple, about the size of a grain of rice.

"I squeezed it for you."

Qiao Xing slapped his hand away, "Don't squeeze them, they'll leave acne scars."

Qin Ce withdrew his hand. "Then what should we do?"

"Let it break on its own."

"Well, the doctor said that hormonal imbalances during pregnancy are normal, so it shouldn't be related to your sleep schedule."

Speaking of this, Qiao Xing suddenly thought of the videos she had seen these past few days, about stretch marks, wrinkles, and all sorts of minor ailments that couldn't be treated with medication, and she started to feel anxious again.

"By the way, I saw this video yesterday, it was so scary, I hope I won't end up like that too."

She took out her phone and showed him a video she had saved. Qin Ce looked down at it and saw that the woman in the video had given birth and her belly was wrinkled and sagging like a thousand layers of meat.

"Is she a twin?"

"I didn't know, there's this one too." She scrolled down and opened another video, which was similar, and even more wrinkled than the previous one.

Qin Ce looked at Qiao Xing with a puzzled expression, "What videos have you been watching all day?"

"I don't know, the system recommended this to me. If I become like this, will you dislike me?"

Qin Ce sighed. Although he didn't understand why women always liked to ask such questions, he still pulled Qiao Xing into his arms. "No."

"Really? But I still feel a little..." Qiao Xing thought for a moment. Putting aside whether Qin Ce would mind or not, she herself couldn't accept it.

Qin Ce said, "Don't be afraid, you won't become like that."

How did you know?

"That's what the doctor said."

"When did the doctor say that?" Qiao Xing thought carefully, but she didn't remember the doctor saying it.

Qin Ce ruffled her hair. "You can ask the doctor when you go for your next checkup."

With his words, Qiao Xing felt a little more at ease.

Qin Ce added, "Don't watch these kinds of videos and create anxiety for yourself. You can watch them, but to save them? Have you become that bored?"

"Hey, I'm just looking up some experiences, since it's my first pregnancy."

Qin Ce glanced down at her, then looked away without saying a word.

He picked up the remote and found a soothing show, saying, "I'll watch TV with you for a while."

"good."

This soap opera was indeed quite hypnotic. His original intention was to make Qiao Xing fall asleep while watching it, but Qiao Xing wasn't hypnotized; he fell asleep first.

Qiao Xing took the remote to skip the end credits and switch to the next episode, but felt her shoulders getting heavier and heavier. She turned her head and saw that Qin Ce had fallen asleep on the sofa at some point. The man's weight was leaning on her, and one of his arms was around her shoulder.

Because he had washed his hair, strands of hair hung down from his forehead, and uneven bits of hair fell between his eyebrows. The light from the television screen cast flickering shadows on his face.

At this moment, he no longer appeared as sharp as usual, but rather much gentler, and with a touch more youthful energy.

She doesn't look thirty; she looks at most twenty-five or twenty-six.

Qiao Xing quietly turned the TV volume down a bit and couldn't help but reach out and touch his cheek.

She had barely touched it a couple of times when a large hand grabbed hers.

Qiao Xing was stunned for a moment.

Qin Ce opened his eyes a crack, looking at her sleepily, "Aren't you sleepy yet?"

Qiao Xing blinked and shook her head.

Qin Ce closed his eyes again, sighed, opened them again, sat up straight, picked up his phone from the table, and checked the time.

It's one o'clock.

Qiao Xing touched her nose. "Why don't you go to sleep first?"

He took the remote control from Qiao Xing's hand and asked her, "Is this TV show good?"

"It looks great, and it makes me feel more energetic the more I look at it."

"..."

Qin Ce was silent for a while. He seemed to realize that what he thought of hypnosis was different from what Qiao Xing thought of hypnosis.

So he quit the show, looked around, and finally switched to a news channel, which was also foreign.

"Look at this."

Since it was already 1 a.m., Qiao Xing didn't dare to say anything and just said "oh".

This is good. Qiao Xing started yawning after watching for less than ten minutes.

She leaned against Qin Ce's chest, listening to the chattering of the TV, and fell asleep without realizing it.

Qin Ce couldn't sleep now.

By the time he finished reading, it was almost five o'clock. Looking down, he saw Qiao Xing sleeping soundly in his arms.

He got up, picked up Qiao Xing, and carried her to the bedroom. After putting her down, he changed his gear and went for a run.

Qiao Xing was half asleep when a cell phone rang, waking her up. When she opened her eyes, it was already daylight.

She picked up her phone from the bedside table and saw that it was Tao Yang calling.

What are you doing so early in the morning?

"So early in the morning? It's almost lunchtime, are you still sleeping?"

Qiao Xing was stunned. He swiped his phone and saw that it was indeed 11 o'clock. Oh no, he had slept until now and was going to have insomnia again tonight.

"What's wrong?"

Tao Yang said, "You don't know about that game library thing? Tianyue told us to do it first, and then they would pay us together with the game after it was finished. We think you might actually be right. This kid wants to get something for free."

"Don't they make an advance payment?"

"Bullshit, if I had made a prepayment, I wouldn't have called you. I was planning to have a meeting with you this morning, but you didn't even reply to my WeChat messages."

Qiao Xing scratched his messy hair and yawned. "So what do you guys think?"

“We are considering whether to give up on this project. It feels like another pitfall. We had no choice before, even if it was a pitfall, we had to step into it.”

"If we can get Li Ya's final payment, we can be more confident in filtering out some problematic projects."

Qiao Xing asked, "Has Li Ya's review result not been released yet?"

"No, I wonder what He Yu is up to this time."

"Let me ask."

"It's no use asking. Shen Boyan has been asking every day but to no avail. Even he can't get anywhere with it. What good will it do you to ask? When do you have time to come and have another meeting?"

Qiao Xing was having a headache; how could there be so many things going on?

Actually, Tao Yang and the others meant well. They invited her to the meeting so that she, as a shareholder, could feel involved. Otherwise, if they made the decision on their own, they were afraid Qiao Xing would have objections.

"Tomorrow."

Qiao Xing postponed the meeting until tomorrow, hoping to resolve the matter today so that he wouldn't have to go tomorrow.

Thinking of the smoky, unpleasant atmosphere inside that room, she really didn't want to go.

So this time, she decided to ask Xiao Lin, regardless of everything else.