"Yaoyao, I'm sorry. Were you waiting anxiously? I'm on my way back now."
On the highway, Gu Yueji received a call from Xiao Yao. She had delayed Xiao Yao's return home this time, and she wondered if it had affected Xiao Yao's plans.
"Why don't you go home first? I'll be there tomorrow."
Yesterday, as soon as her mother agreed to let Gu Jiahui go out to work, Ren Jin drove them off early this morning.
That night, Gu Jiahui said he wanted to go out and work with them. She then told him about her and Ren Jin's true situation on the phone, including that she actually ran an online store and a garment factory, and that Ren Jin was a foreman on a construction site. However, when he saw Ren Jin change into a set of designer clothes and drive a Land Rover out of the hotel parking lot, Gu Jiahui was surprised for a moment, and then became even more determined to go out and work to earn money.
Now Ren Jin is driving her, Gu Jiahui, and Sun Xiaohui to G City.
Xiao Yao took the report from the worker and put her phone on speakerphone. "No rush, I'm not going back. I called you to tell you that the spring new style samples for your online store are ready. Remember to come and take a look when you get back. Aren't you getting ready to launch new styles for the new season?"
Gu Yueji was taken aback. "Why aren't you going home?"
Xiao Yao frankly stated, "There's no need to go back. I'm not pregnant, and I've broken up with Zhong Xuyang."
Gu Yueji was so surprised that she sat up straight. "Huh? What happened?"
Xiao Yao said calmly, "I'll tell you in detail when you get back. Be careful on your journey."
"Okay, I'll come back to you soon."
Xiao Yao hung up the phone and looked up at Zhong Xuyang, who was sitting outside her office door.
He sat at a rickety folding table with only a laptop on it and nothing else. He held a phone in one hand and a mouse in the other, talking about work while looking at the computer.
Sensing her gaze, he looked up.
His expression was calm and composed, but a tender light shone in his eyes, as if he had a thousand words to say.
He had been staring at her like that for the past few days, which annoyed Xiao Yao. She stood up angrily and slammed the door shut.
On her way home from the coffee shop that day, she stopped at a pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test. She had originally wanted to experience the moment of waiting for the baby to arrive with Zhong Xuyang, but after all this trouble, she no longer had the mood or the expectation.
When she saw the line on the pregnancy test, she breathed a deep sigh of relief, feeling an indescribable sense of ease. She stopped dwelling on the subtle emotions swirling in her mind, knowing that only in this way could she decisively handle her relationship with Zhong Xuyang.
Zhong Xuyang arrived later than she expected, knocking on her door that evening.
He opened the door, changed his clothes, but was still pulling a suitcase.
"I waited for Liu Yang to pick up Lin Wenwen. I went home with Liu Yang's car on the way and then drove over."
He explained to her calmly, as if nothing had ever happened between them, that there was no Lin Wenwen, and no affair or pregnancy.
Xiao Yao had calmed down. She didn't want to argue or make a scene. She just wanted to talk things out with Zhong Xuyang and then part ways amicably.
She opened the door and turned to go back inside.
Zhong Xuyang followed him into the house. His slippers were still neatly placed by the door. He bent down to change them, and then continued to explain as he walked into the inner room.
“The child in Lin Wenwen’s belly is Liu Yang’s. Liu Yang came over after I left that night, and Zhao Yanni has already confirmed this on the phone. Because the two of them are breaking up now, Liu Yang left after waking up, which caused the misunderstanding. I just notified Liu Yang to come and pick up Lin Wenwen. We have already made things clear, and this kind of thing will not happen again.”
He explained the situation in a few words, and Xiao Yao listened silently. After he finished speaking, she took out a pregnancy test and placed it on the table. "I'm not pregnant."
Zhong Xuyang was stunned, his gaze fixed on the pregnancy test for a long time. When he looked up again, the calm on his face was finally broken. He looked at her with a complicated and painful expression.
When did you first suspect you were pregnant?
Xiao Yao shook her head. "That's not important anymore. If it's not there, it's not there. Since fate has made the decision for us, let's break up peacefully."
Zhong Xuyang's Adam's apple bobbed slightly, and his voice was very soft, "I never said I would break up with you if you didn't get pregnant."
Xiao Yao looked at him with a firm gaze and said, "But I told myself that."
She told herself that the moment she placed the bet.
A hint of sadness crept into Zhong Xuyang's eyes. "Yaoyao, why do you keep thinking about breaking up with me?"
"Because you lied to me. We should have broken up the last time you came back from the class reunion."
Whether or not he had anything with Lin Wenwen that night, he lied to her; the perfume he wore that night did indeed come from Lin Wenwen.
Zhong Xuyang lowered his head and remained silent for a moment. He couldn't explain, but suddenly asked, "Haven't you liked me for a long time?"
Xiao Yao felt a sudden pang of sadness.
I've liked him for so many years, but I've never felt so humbled and sad as I do today.
Why do they all have to bring up this buried feeling? Lin Wenwen feels this way, and so does he. So what if she likes him? What did she do wrong? Who did she hurt?
Xiao Yao's eyes welled up with tears. She blinked quickly, telling herself not to cry.
"So what? I've liked you for a long time, so I should tolerate you lying to me? I've liked you for a long time, so I should accept your lingering relationship with your ex-girlfriend? Am I guilty for liking you for a long time?"
Zhong Xuyang panicked immediately, "That's not what I meant..."
That's not what he really meant. He just sensed that Xiao Yao was truly prepared to break up with him this time, and he didn't know what to do. He wanted to remind Xiao Yao of her feelings for him, that's all.
But Xiao Yao didn't give him a chance to explain. "Actually, I was only with you to fulfill a dream I had in college." She said indifferently, "Now that the dream is over, we should break up."
Hearing this, Zhong Xuyang felt a mix of emotions. "Are you disappointed in me?"
Xiao Yao thought for a moment and nodded, "A little."
Zhong Xuyang's devotion and passion for Lin Wenwen were also the reason she liked him. On the court, no matter how many people called his name, he always looked only at his girl. He clearly rejected the advances of other girls, and it seemed that there was only the one he liked in his eyes.
Why couldn't he do it with her?
Because she isn't that person?
"So let's break up." Xiao Yao's voice trembled as she finished speaking.
Zhong Xuyang didn't say anything, but Xiao Yao saw that his eyes were red.
However, just when Xiao Yao thought they had broken up and would never see each other again, Zhong Xuyang appeared downstairs at her house the next day.
He said, "Tell me where I disappointed you and I'll change."
Then he stayed at her factory, following her wherever she went.
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