Qi Mingyuan looked at Qu Jingyun who was standing there hesitantly.
Although she is nearly 40 years old, her standard oval face is still firm and smooth due to proper maintenance. There are no traces of fine lines even at the corners of her eyes. Compared with more than ten years ago, her appearance has not aged at all, but has added a bit of mature charm.
Only her upturned eyes seemed to contain many more complex and unclear emotions than when she was young, and at this moment they were trying to dodge and escape his sight.
Qu Jingyun felt her back crawl with fear under his stare, and when she didn't hear any questions from him, she became more and more panicked, feeling that Qi Mingyuan would explode and shout at her to kill her in the next second.
Just when she was so nervous that her hands and feet were numb, Qi Mingyuan finally spoke:
"Jingyun, do you know where those photos from Shengzhi's wedding came from?"
When Qu Jingyun heard him ask about the photos, her heart trembled unconsciously. Although Qi Mingyuan's tone was much gentler than she had imagined, it inexplicably made her feel very uneasy and depressed.
She forced herself to calm down and shook her head in confusion.
"I don't know, maybe Shengzhi offended someone outside, so someone deliberately disrupted the wedding? But fortunately, it's just a misunderstanding, and it will be fine once it's explained."
Qi Mingyuan watched her answer fluently without changing her expression, and in his heart he really hoped that he had misunderstood her.
But Assistant Ding will bring the person to him tomorrow, and then it will be clear whether it is a misunderstanding or not.
"Jingyun, how do you feel about me treating you these years?"
Qi Mingyuan suddenly changed the subject, and asked Qu Jingyun a question that made her stunned for a moment before she reacted and hurriedly said:
"Mingyuan, of course you've been good to me. The years I've been with you have been the happiest days of my life. I've always felt that marrying you is the luckiest thing that's ever happened to me. Why are you suddenly asking this?"
Qi Mingyuan nodded, relief in his eyes:
"That's good. As long as you feel that I haven't treated you unfairly, okay, go back to your room and sleep. I still have things to take care of."
Qu Jingyun left the study in a state of half-shock and half-doubt. Apart from not having to face the pressure of Qi Mingyuan's sharp gaze, she felt a strong sense of unease in her heart.
Why did she feel that Qi Mingyuan's last words seemed to have summarized the relationship between the two of them, making her feel like she was being abandoned!
For a moment, Qu Jingyun was in a state of confusion, his palms were sweating, and he kept reminding himself in his mind not to lose his composure.
Du Anping did not show up in the pavilion halfway up the mountain in People's Park as promised today, which means that something must have happened to him. Even if Assistant Ding goes to his house tomorrow, he will not be able to get any evidence of her guilt from him.
Moreover, she and Qi Mingyuan had been married for more than ten years, and they had a deep relationship for many years, not to mention that they had a son...
Yes! Son!
Qu Jingyun seemed to have grabbed her last life-saving straw and hurried upstairs to Qi Guangyao's room.
Qi Guangyao's room and Qi Shengzhi's room are both on the third floor, but Qi Shengzhi rarely stays overnight at the Qi family, so usually Qi Guangyao is the only one living on the third floor.
Qu Jingyun walked to the door of Qi Guangyao's room, but found that his door was closed, but there was light coming through the gap, which showed that Qi Guangyao had not gone to bed yet.
She frowned, raised her hand and knocked on the door with an unexpected look, thinking of giving Qi Guangyao a few words, asking him to behave well in front of his father these days and never make his father angry. She also taught him a few more words and found an opportunity to mention it to his father. Maybe Qi Mingyuan would soften his heart and let it go.
Unexpectedly, after knocking several times, he only heard a rustling sound from inside, but Qi Guangyao did not come to open the door for a long time.
Qu Jingyun was unhappy and knocked impatiently while shouting:
"Guangyao, it's me, open the door!"
After a while, Qi Guangyao finally opened the door with messy hair. When he saw Qu Jingyun, he looked a little flustered:
"Mom, it's so late, what's up?"
Qu Jingyun looked him up and down suspiciously, pushed open the door, stepped into the room and looked around, but found nothing unusual.
She raised her eyebrows and said sternly:
"I knocked for a long time but no one opened the door. What are you doing in the room?"
In stark contrast to her deliberate indulgence of Qi Shengzhi, Qu Jingyun has always been very strict in educating Qi Guangyao. From childhood to adulthood, she has always told him to study hard, put academics first, and focus all his attention on studying. He is not allowed to make friends or go out to play.
In Qu Jingyun's words, everyone around Qi Guangyao is just a student, and it is hard to tell who will have a bright future. Even if Qi Guangyao wants to make friends, he has to make friends with outstanding people like his father, who will be helpful to his life. The current student stage is not the time to make friends.
So apart from going to school, Qi Guangyao would do his homework, read books, and talk to his parents when he got home. He has always been a good boy who is praised by everyone since he was a child.
His well-behaved, sensible, hardworking and studious nature made Qi Shengzhi's temper even more bizarre and absurd, which made Qi Mingyuan get angry as soon as he saw Qi Shengzhi.
If the two children had a conflict, Qi Mingyuan would always subconsciously believe what Qi Guangyao said, thinking that Qi Shengzhi was bullying his younger brother, and often scolding him for not acting like an older brother.
At first, Qi Shengzhi would argue a few times unconvinced, and then Qu Jingyun would come out to take sides, blaming Qi Guangyao for being ignorant. However, Qi Mingyuan felt from the implicit meaning of her words that Qi Guangyao was the one who was wronged, and he immediately became furious with Qi Shengzhi.
The more Qu Jingyun "protected" Qi Shengzhi, the more Qi Mingyuan "taught" him a lesson. Over time, Qi Shengzhi, whose resistance was futile, also "learned his lesson". Rather than being misunderstood by Qi Mingyuan, he might as well become the person he described and be happy and relaxed.
But as Qi Guangyao grew up and developed his own thoughts and ideas, Qu Jingyun clearly felt in the past two years that Qi Guangyao was not as obedient as before. Although he still listened to her, he would show a hint of resistance from time to time.
Just like she had clearly said before, he was not allowed to close the door except before going to bed at night, but this was the third time she had found him closing the door in the past month.
In Qu Jingyun's opinion, he was the only one living on the third floor. If he was studying or reading in the room, there was no need to close the door. Qi Guangyao must have been doing something in the room that had nothing to do with studying by closing the door several times.
This is a situation she absolutely cannot allow to happen!
Qi Guangyao avoided the gaze, stared at the floor guiltily, and replied in a low voice:
"I didn't do anything. I was just reading."
"Reading?"
Qu Jingyun's face was full of disbelief. She walked to the desk, picked up the book spread out on the table and asked:
"Then tell me, what is this page you are reading now talking about?"
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