Chapter 178
"We can't be together."
Zhong Qiao stood there, as if abandoned by the world, but when Ji Hebai met her eyes, his expression was so calm and firm.
"You can see that the obstacle between us has never been love, but prejudice. Whether it's your parents or the people outside, they can't tolerate you and me being together. I chose the wrong path, so I ended up divorced and unwanted, while you have a bright future. We've long been separated from each other and are only connected by our old feelings."
"Ji Hebai, I've actually been forcing myself. I admit that I have some feelings for you, but in my life, feelings are not the only thing. My life also occupies friendship, my daughter, my parents, and everyone who treats me sincerely. I can't let them down."
"Today, for my sake, you've hurt everyone who's been kind to you. Maybe now you just feel like they're restricting you, and you don't agree with their actions. But no matter what, you share the same blood in your bones."
"Ji Hebai, I don't want to get married, and I don't want to be bound by any of the constraints and torture of marriage anymore. I don't want to suffer at all, because I can avoid this suffering. As long as I don't get married, I won't have to suffer this."
"Obviously, I can't deceive myself into suffering this just because of you and my feelings for you."
After saying these words, Zhong Qiao breathed a long sigh of relief. This was the first time she had said so many words to Ji Hebai. Usually when they were together, she always felt like a big stone was pressing on her heart, but now she felt relaxed.
She could finally be herself again.
Ji Hebai looked at her and didn't speak for a long time.
"Have you been enduring this alone for a long time?"
She had never told him this, which made him think that she really wanted to marry him. He was even happy for a long time. However, this fantasy was shattered today. He heard Zhong Qiao say these words with his own ears, and his heart ached. It was indeed a pain as if he was torn apart by the truth.
He was actually also afraid, afraid of everything unknown, and even more afraid of Zhong Qiao's compromise and rebellious behavior when facing the elders.
But Zhong Qiao tore all of this apart.
"Zhong Qiao, as long as we are determined to be together, no one will stop us. They will agree sooner or later." Ji Hebai said.
Zhong Qiao suddenly laughed and asked, "You used the word 'block'. In your subconscious, do you also feel that our being together is wrong? That it's not accepted by the world?"
Ji Hebai was speechless.
Zhong Qiao added, "If we like something like this, why do we have to use a marriage certificate to tie it down? It's just a piece of waste paper. It can't prove that our feelings will still be there 10 years later."
Ji Hebai's originally frowned brows suddenly relaxed at this moment.
10 years later?
She was talking about 10 years after being with him.
"You're right." Ji Hebai said suddenly, "As long as we truly love each other, it doesn't matter if we don't get married."
It doesn't matter if they don't have children. Wanwan is their child. As long as she comes from Zhong Qiao's belly, she is his child. Xu Shaojun is a stupid guy who doesn't even want his own wife and children, so don't blame him for snatching them away.
"Zhong Qiao." Ji Hebai's eyes softened. "Just think of it as not for yourself, but for Wanwan. Find her a father who can spend money and doesn't have to get married."
Zhong Qiao was speechless for a moment.
I thought that after saying all this, Ji Hebai would give up, so why did he let him face the challenge head on?
"Ji Hebai!" Zhong Qiao's voice was a little loud. "I'm talking to you about serious matters now, marriage. Can you please be serious?"
Ji Hebai: "I'm serious, you're right. If you love me, why do we have to get married? As long as you're with me, that's all."
Zhong Qiao knew that it was impossible to convince him, so he just let him be.
However, Ji Hebai already had a new plan in mind. If he wanted to win over Zhong Qiao, coaxing and persuading would be useless. He could only start with the child. As long as he was good to the child, sooner or later, Zhong Qiao would get used to his presence.
By then I will have a wife and children.
With this bad idea in mind, Ji Hebai frequently went in and out of the Zhong family, buying small toys, clothes, and even milk powder for Wanwan from time to time.
Later on, he gradually became a dad and started to make milk powder and change diapers for Wanwan, looking like the child's biological father.
This action really made the Zhong family look at him with admiration.
On the one hand, I was shocked by his shamelessness. How could someone be so capable of doing this? On the other hand, I was a little touched. What a good man! He actually treated a child who was not his own as his own. Who else could do that?
One day in the yard, Ji Hebai finished feeding Wanwan and was practicing calligraphy on the stone table. Mother Zhong couldn't help but ask, "Hebai, why do you like my daughter so much?"
When Ji Hebai heard this question again, his hand holding the pen slightly flickered as countless fragments flashed through his mind.
Red ropes, bells, the remains of painted walls, a rainy night, under an umbrella, and a field of fallen crabapple blossoms.
In her arms, wrapped in spring mud, was a dirty white kitten.
Her eyes were like green fruits, quiet and fragile.
"Because, a cat."
Ji Hebai smiled, but what he said was ambiguous, which made Zhong's mother look confused. She wanted to ask more, but Ji Hebai avoided the question.
As soon as Zhong Qiao came back from the warehouse, she saw Ji Hebai practicing calligraphy while checking the exercise book she had written last night, holding a baby in his arms. The scene was so beautiful.
A bit like a good husband and father.
Then, Zhong Qiao suddenly sighed, no wonder men all want to get married, life is so good, when they return home, there are hot meals, and they can see their wives at home with their children on the warm bed.
"You're back." Mother Zhong came from afar to greet her, and did not forget to take the things in her hand and take them home.
"He Bai has already prepared the food, go and eat it quickly, it's all your favorite."
Zhong Qiao smiled and nodded and went to wash his hands.
Unexpectedly, Ji Hebai studied in a university abroad and is also a good cook. These days, Ji Hebai has taken care of herself meticulously and even didn't let her enter the kitchen door. To be honest, Zhong Qiao has become accustomed to his presence these days.
Sitting at the dinner table, there were several refreshing home-cooked dishes, braised chicken wings, scrambled eggs with loofah, and a cabbage and tofu soup. Because Zhong Siqi was out on a date and Zhong's father went fishing with an old friend, there were only three mouths to feed at home, so Ji Hebai didn't cook too much.
Mrs. Zhong’s taste is very similar to Zhong Qiao’s, so all three of them ate with gusto.
After dinner, Ji Hebai was responsible for washing the dishes as usual. Zhong Qiao looked at the peeled apples and cut into pieces, as well as the peeled grapes, and lay lazily on the bed. Her intuition told her that something was wrong, but the care she had received during this period was like boiling a frog in warm water, making her unable to extricate herself.
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