Birthday

Chen Jie immediately smiled and fooled the child, responding to her words, and then changed the subject, telling her to play with the toys quickly. Qi Jixin and Xuan Jiazhuo also immediately picked up the toys at hand to tease her, and the child's attention was quickly diverted.

Aunt Wang, who knew everything, pretended to be quite surprised and asked, "How could such a coincidence happen?"

In order to avoid attracting the child's attention, she and Chen Jie tacitly avoided the word "Dad".

"Actually, it's not a coincidence. The people living in Villa No. 1 are her grandfather's biological parents. I guess he came here just to look for the child." Chen Jie hesitated three or four times before she let the cat out of the bag.

Now not only Aunt Wang was stunned, Qi Jixin and Xuan Jiazhuo were also puzzled. They couldn't understand why Chen Jie dared to say such a secret thing so casually?

Fortunately, she immediately answered the questions and resolved the doubts of the three people present.

"I'm terrified too. I haven't told anyone about these things in the past few years. Now that something like this has happened, I definitely don't dare report it to my employer. If I do, it would be a serious dereliction of duty..." Chen Jie shook Aunt Wang's hand, turned to look at the two people on the carpet, and said sincerely, "Everyone, just think of it as me complaining to you about this. You must keep it a secret for me!"

Everyone present nodded, and Qi Jixin also spoke to comfort her, saying that they would definitely not tell anyone. She was also secretly glad about this, as it was a declaration that Chen Jie was more familiar with them.

She stood up and patted Chen Jie's shoulder to comfort her. Then the phone on the sofa rang. Aunt Wang turned around and handed her the phone. When Qi Jixin saw that it was Bing Jie calling, she hurried upstairs to answer the call.

There was an open-air balcony on the second floor, about ten square meters in size. Qi Jixin leaned against the railing and answered the phone. "Hello."

"Are you busy? What took you so long to answer?" the person on the other end asked in a deep voice. Qi Jixin immediately chuckled and replied, "When you're on vacation, your phone can't always be with you, right? Is there something you want to talk to me about?"

"It seems like you've been very happy these past two days. Otherwise, how could you have forgotten that you warned me not to contact you?"

Qi Jixin tilted her head and paced anxiously by the glass wall, but her tone was unmistakable. "So what you're saying is, do I have to hang up on you now? When you miss me, I miss you too."

Bing Jie wasn't looking for trouble with her, so she naturally let the matter slip by. Then he said, "Can't you really tell me where you are and let me find you?"

"Or in other words, how long will it take you to think carefully about our relationship?" Without waiting for Qi Jixin to answer, he added, tugging at his bow tie nervously.

"Tsk..." Qi Jixin walked to a lollipop-shaped plant in the corner of the balcony and used her plastered hand to pull at the nail-sized leaves one by one. After a long pause, she replied, "I can't tell you the exact time, but if there's a result, I'll definitely tell you the first time. Don't worry."

There was no response from the other end of the phone. After a long silence, Bing Jie lowered his gaze and looked through the floor-to-ceiling window at the two people, one big and one small, playing with toys. He said, "...Okay, then I'll wait for your news." After that, he hung up the phone.

He saw everything clearly through the car window. Before the call was connected, he was still wondering whether he should show up to see her directly. He hesitated and did not do so. This call made Bing Jie, who had returned, even more sad.

After returning home, he sent Meng Jingxuan away and returned here again. There was a voice in his heart clamoring for him to come and confront Qi Jixin and find out whether she really wanted to leave him...

never mind.

A black car parked in a parking lot not far away drove away quietly. Qi Jixin noticed that he was a little lost, but just thought that he was anxious about something uncertain and didn't know that so many things were happening before his eyes.

In Qi Jixin's view, the next month passed quickly, but she felt different emotions every day. Her relationship with her baby became closer and closer, so close that she and Sister Zhuo could drive her out to play, and Chen Jie was very confident in them.

It was said before that Bing Jie might send someone to monitor them, but Qi Jixin and the others did not notice any unfamiliar faces, so they felt more at ease taking their children out to play.

The paternity test was also done by taking a hair from her when Sister Zhuo was doing her hair. The evidence in black and white gave everyone peace of mind.

The most touching thing was when Qi Jixin knew the child's name. That night, Qi Jixin cried all night. When she escaped from the hospital, she didn't even know whether the child was alive or dead, let alone let Bing Jie's parents listen to her suggestion and give the child the name she wanted.

But the fact is, they kept their promise.

"Jie Xin" was the name she thought of before she met Bing Jie's parents in the hospital. It was the first gift she left for the child. Four years later, she learned that the gift had already been delivered to the child.

Today, Qi Jixin hadn't gotten up yet, but the little guy opened the door downstairs and came upstairs. He lay beside her bed and pulled her up. He woke up Qi Jixin and then went to call Xuan Jiazhuo. She was very busy all morning.

As sweet as the present days are for Qi Jixin, they are also as torturous for Bing Jie. He has not slept well for a single day in the past month. He wakes up every day in fear that she will take the child away from him.

He usually goes straight to wash up after getting up, but in the past month, he has always checked his phone first, just to see if he has received any message from Qi Jixin, and then puts down the phone with disappointment and luck.

When he opened his phone today, there were indeed unread messages. He sat up and took a look, only to find that it was a message from Meng Jingxuan.

Jingxuan: Happy birthday!!! I ordered a birthday cake for you. Do you want to eat it at the office or at home?

Bing Jie looked at another chat interface again, to be precise, the chat interface with Qi Jixin. The last message was five days ago.

He sighed softly, thinking that it was normal for her not to wish him a happy birthday. His real birthday was different from his birth date, and he had never told her the exact date, so it was normal for her not to know...

No, that's not normal at all! Since she can remember her child, why can't she remember her own birthday? Thinking of this, Bing Jie almost gritted his teeth.

[Let’s go to the office. When was my birthday not spent at work?]

Bing Jie quickly replied to Meng Jingxuan's message, threw his phone on the bed and went to wash up. Meng Jingxuan on the other side saw the message and grumbled to him quietly: "I don't know who was the guy who took five or six days off for his birthday and flew around the world with his wife..."

But thinking of his current situation, Meng Jingxuan could only sigh helplessly. It was almost a month since Qi Jixin left, and this ancestor still hadn't replied. Not to mention Bing Jie's growing anxiety, he was also suffering.

As per previous years' practice, Meng Jingxuan would only buy a small five or six-inch cake as a token of his appreciation. After all, neither of them, grown men, liked cakes, and Bing Jie didn't want anyone to know his birthday, let alone share the cake with the employees.

The shop where he bought the cake was also the one where Bing Jie often bought cakes for Qi Jixin. Bing Jie would only take one bite of other cakes, but he would do him the honor of eating a few more bites of this shop.

Meng Jingxuan went to pick up the cake at 11:30, and then rushed to Bing Jie's company without stopping. As soon as he pushed open the heavy door of the office, he saw Bing Jie standing on the chair lying on his back.

"It's rare to see Mr. Bing so idle." Meng Jingxuan teased him. Bing Jie then raised his head, glanced at the person who came, and then glanced at the cake in his hand.

"Come to think of it, I still have a membership card for this cake shop, and there's still a lot of money in the card." Bing Jie stood up and walked to the reception area on the right side of the door. Seeing Meng Jingxuan carefully put down the cake, he said something to make conversation.

Meng Jingxuan looked up at him in surprise. Bing Jie was so different today, he seemed to be suddenly sentimental. Meng Jingxuan asked, "What's wrong with you today?"

No matter how much Bing Jie wanted to hide in his heart, he no longer wanted to do so. He said frankly that today might be the last chance. If he couldn't get a reply from Qi Jixin today, she might really leave him.

"Why do you say that? Not many people know your birthday, right?"

"...It's just intuition." Bing Jie didn't tell the truth in the end. Meng Jingxuan still doesn't know to this day that Qi Jixin has recovered his memory.

"Don't overthink it. I think she was just having too much fun. Besides, it's not that easy to figure out matters of the heart. Give her some more time." He took out a lighter, lit a spinning candle on the cake, and quickly waved to Bing Jie: "Come and make a wish and blow out the candle!"

Singing birthday songs was still too much for two grown men like them, so when Meng Jingxuan celebrated Bing Jie's birthday, it was all done quietly. Bing Jie sat up straight with his arms on his knees, closed his eyes for a few seconds, then opened them and blew out the candles.

"Okay, let's start eating cake!" Meng Jingxuan busied himself with the cake and handed him a small piece. He then cheerfully suggested, "Your work isn't urgent anyway, so come out with me this afternoon. It's been a while since we've gotten drunk together."

Seeing that Bing Jie neither agreed nor refused, but only picked up the fork and ate the cake bite by bite, Meng Jingxuan urged him again: "Think about it, if you get drunk, just go home and sleep, and you won't have to worry about your unfounded intuition, right?"

This was a good suggestion. Bing Jie nodded. He should indeed get drunk. That way he wouldn't have to wait anxiously for the trial. Instead, he could see the result directly the next day after a hangover.

After having a birthday party with Meng Jingxuan at noon, the two went to the bar opened by Meng Jingxuan. It was very noisy outside, so the two of them drank in the private room.

Bing Jie has always been a good drinker, and Meng Jingxuan is well aware of his own ability. He knows that it is impossible for him to get Bing Jie drunk by himself, so he called Sun Liangzhi over. After working together for a period of time recently, they have become very familiar with each other.

When Bing Jie was half drunk, the two men were almost unconscious, so Bing Jie drank by himself until the evening. He was indeed a little dizzy, and when he looked at the two people beside him, he found that they had already fallen asleep on the table.

Before he left, he asked the waiter to go into the house and send the two people home. He was helped downstairs by the driver. He was feeling a little drowsy in the car. At this moment, a message popped up on his phone.

【moon secret: Dear customer, hello, your membership card has been used to pay for an order】