Chapter 37 Ji Qingyu is with Lin Ying...
Ji Qingyu stayed by Lin Ying's side all night, and Lin Ying was as quiet as if she were asleep. Ji Qingyu's thoughts were somewhat scattered. He thought that when people leave, they are probably like butterflies, floating lightly in the air, and then they will probably turn into mist, or something else.
Ji Qingyu pushed open the door to the ward. The TV in the hospital lobby was showing a video of the lawsuit between the Ji family and Fu Han. It was a hot topic in entertainment news. Ji Qingyu didn't even turn his head as he passed by. He replaced the plant by Lin Ying's bedside with a pot of Guanyin bamboo.
He became numb to his body; he should have felt sleepy, but he felt nothing at all.
A transparent IV tube was attached to Lin Ying's hand, and saline solution was continuously being infused into her body.
“Mom, I’ve done another stage play project. Let me play the song for you. Our stage is excellent, and we’ve already submitted it for the competition. I can take care of myself now.” Ji Qingyu forced a smile. “I have good news for you: I’m pregnant.”
“You don’t need to worry about me anymore, Ms. Lin Ying. Do you know that the eighteen years I spent with you were the happiest and most blissful eighteen years of my life?”
Therefore, I can handle any problems or troubles that arise later.
Ji Qingyu played music and fell asleep again by Lin Ying's bed. He didn't know how much time had passed when he heard a few knocks by the glass. Ji Qingyu woke up groggily, rubbed his eyes, and saw Ma Yu looking at him anxiously by the glass window.
Ji Qingyu pushed open the door and went out. Ma Yu hugged him tightly, muttering, "You scared me to death."
“Fu Han called me last night and said he hadn’t heard from you and asked if you were with me. I thought something had happened to you.”
"I'm fine." Ji Qingyu let Ma Yu hold her, her body weak and her hands hanging down.
"What's wrong?" Ma Yu stared at Ji Qingyu. "You're not behaving normally. Something must have happened. Is it your aunt...?"
Ji Qingyu didn't speak. He gently hugged Ma Yu back, burying his head in Ma Yu's shoulder silently. Ma Yu felt a patch of her clothes get wet.
He seemed to understand something, froze for a moment, and patted Ji Qingyu's back helplessly, his eyes also reddening.
They sat outside the ward for a while and learned that Ji Qingyu had been staying in the hospital without eating. Ma Yu forcibly dragged him downstairs to eat. There were many snack shops near the hospital, but Ji Qingyu couldn't eat, finding everything greasy. He managed to stuff a little food into his mouth, but then vomited it all up.
In the end, he only ate some plain porridge before putting down his chopsticks.
Ji Qingyu used to be completely carefree, eating without any taboos, but now she's so fragile. Perhaps the omega gender really is a curse, exchanging a healthy and strong body for the ability to reproduce. Most omegas become weaker and more powerless due to their physical structure and hormones, even if it's not what they want.
Seeing Ji Qingyu's unusual reaction, Ma Yu had a bad feeling. Car horns were honking outside the window, creating noise. After hesitating for a long time, Ma Yu finally spoke: "Qingyu, you wouldn't be......"
"Yes." Ji Qingyu nodded, not intending to hide it from him, "I'm pregnant."
Ma Yu froze. Ji Qingyu didn't look at his expression. After a long while, the other person said again, "Then this child..."
“I want to keep this child.” Ji Qingyu said without hesitation.
“Okay, given our relationship, I should be able to be the child’s godfather, right?” Ma Yu tried to cheer Ji Qingyu up.
"Don't worry, I've saved you a seat." Ji Qingyu finally showed a slight smile, though it was still very faint.
"...Qingyu, Auntie must be very happy too."
Would she be happy? Ji Qingyu thought about it and thought, maybe not. She would feel more sorry for him than happy.
Ma Yu and Ji Qingyu were too familiar with each other. They had grown up together since they were little. Before they differentiated, Ji Qingyu thought they would become two betas. In the end, one became an omega and the other differentiated into an alt. However, they both regarded each other as family. After Lin Ying's accident, Ma Yu borrowed more than 100,000 yuan from Ji Qingyu. Heaven knows how long he would have to sell fruit to earn it back.
"Xiaoyu, what are your plans for the next step?" Ma Yu still supports him like family.
"I plan to take care of everything and then leave." Ji Qingyu's phone rang again. He looked at it, saw a familiar name, and then silenced it.
Ma Yu saw it too and frowned: "What about Fu Han? He's practically turned A City upside down in just one day since you disappeared. Do you think he'll let it go if you leave? You don't know how scary he sounded when he called me yesterday."
"We'll see..." Ji Qingyu didn't consider these things.
"Would you like to stay at my place for the next few days?" Ma Yu asked again.
"No need. I don't want any more complications. I just want everything to end peacefully." Ji Qingyu looked out the window; the sunlight was blinding.
Ji Qingyu returned to the hospital in the afternoon, and Ma Yu stayed with him the whole time.
"Qingyu, grapes are selling very well in Jiangcheng lately. I'm planning to sell the land I leased in City A and try my luck in Jiangcheng. If you're interested, come with me."
After Ma Yu left, Ji Qingyu stayed with Lin Ying. He felt very tired. His pregnant body was more overwhelmed than he had imagined. He had been up for a day and a night, almost thirty-six hours without sleep. As darkness fell, he finally stood up and took a taxi back to the villa.
It was very late when he got back. No one was home. It was pitch black at night. Ji Qingyu took off his coat, curled up on the bed, his hands and feet were cold, and closed his eyes.
Despite being so exhausted, he couldn't sleep well and had many bizarre dreams, all of which involved Lin Ying. In his childhood dreams, he would sit by the fish stall and watch Lin Ying skillfully stun the fish and deftly slice open their bellies. Lin Ying could unload an entire box of fish by herself. He wanted to help, but he ended up smashing all the fish.
Lin Ying found him hiding nervously behind the truck, and pulled him out with a smile: "You've thrown so many fish, enough for our family to eat for a month."
"sorry."
"How about you come with Mom to unload the goods tomorrow?"
"good!"
"Qingyu, Mom won't blame you for such a small thing. You are Mom's baby. Remember, with Mom here, you will always have a support system and can do what you want."
Lin Ying pulled a guitar out from behind her: "You've been looking at the music store for a long time that day, haven't you? Go and give it a try."
Ji Qingyu smiled and finally drifted off to sleep. She didn't know how much time had passed when the door clicked open.
The air was silent for a few seconds. Alpha strode over, grabbed Ji Qingyu's hand, and pulled him up. Ji Qingyu's hard-won drowsiness was dispelled. Alpha's gaze was gloomy and dark: "Where did you go? Why didn't you answer the phone?"
"Didn't you tell me not to come back?" Ji Qingyu coldly looked away. He didn't speak, too lazy to even try to appease him anymore; he just wanted to sleep, utterly exhausted.
“That was just said in anger.” Fu Han’s voice calmed down a bit as he tossed down a chip. “We’ve already found out. The files on the phone were planted beforehand. See this chip? It automatically eavesdrops, records video, and transmits it whenever there’s a signal.”
"Chenxing Construction has contacted us. Ji Ran has been in contact with them, so the documents were most likely leaked by them." Fu Han's voice remained calm. "Why would he do this? To frame you?"
"I want to sleep." Ji Qingyu didn't want to talk to Fu Han. He was annoyed by all the words he had heard. He tried to pull his hand away from Fu Han's, but Fu Han held on tighter and tighter.
Ji Qingyu tried to shake him off, but couldn't. He suddenly felt extremely annoyed, and those long-suppressed bad emotions were running rampant in his bones. He felt nauseous and almost instinctively wanted to get away from the person in front of him.
"Also, since it's a misunderstanding, why don't you explain?" Fu Han's tone was very deep, almost sinister.
"I've already explained it. I've explained many things properly." Ji Qingyu said calmly. He closed his eyes. There were still some scattered lights outside the window at night, the shadows were blurry and dim, and there was a layer of fog in the air.
Fu Han seemed even angrier. There were faint blue veins on his temples, and his brows were furrowed. After a moment, he said, "You didn't answer the phone all day yesterday. Do you know how many places I searched? What if something happened to you?"
“I didn’t ask you to find me.” Ji Qingyu was really sleepy. He had just dreamt of Lin Ying, but Fu Han had dispelled those illusions. He sighed inwardly, forcefully pulled his hand out of Fu Han’s grasp, lay back down, and buried his head in the blanket.
Fu Han felt a tightness in his chest. He vaguely sensed that something was wrong with Ji Qingyu, but he couldn't pinpoint the cause. It was as if this person was on a parallel line to him; he could see her, but he couldn't touch her.
Ji Qingyu, like the dim, gloomy light outside the window, was blurry and distant. Even his bones were blurred in the night. He could only see his pale skin through his shadow. Every part of his well-proportioned and beautiful body carried a kind of cold and weary feeling.
He had his back to Fu Han. The bed in the second bedroom was much narrower than the one in the master bedroom. The person behind him hadn't left yet. After a few seconds, he said again, "I bought you a fund, and I also set aside a share of the company's shares for you as compensation for our contractual relationship."
"Oh, thank you." Ji Qingyu's eyes were already closed, her voice slow and indifferent. "So, is this considered an apology?"
"Apologize?" Fu Han smiled. "You didn't apologize to me for what happened back then."
"Yes." Ji Qingyu stopped talking, gave a silent smile, and the room fell silent.
Fu Han stood there for a while, and subconsciously felt a sense of panic, as if his heart was being squeezed and pulled downwards.
He didn't leave, but lay down and hugged Ji Qingyu tightly from behind, like a warm stove. Ji Qingyu had no strength, and he tried to push him away a couple of times, but when he couldn't, he simply stopped paying attention and let the other person hug him. He was about to fall asleep.
As his consciousness gradually blurred, he vaguely heard Fu Han's voice again, as if through a layer of impenetrable sandpaper. Although they were lying on the same bed, the two of them seemed to be separated by two different worlds, neither able to see the other clearly. The alpha's voice was deep, carrying a hint of barely perceptible grievance: "Why have you become so cold?"
"Those funds and stocks are more than you can spend in a lifetime... I just yelled at you a few times, I admit it was my fault."
"Ji Qingyu, don't push your luck."
No one paid him any attention, and no one tried to snuggle into his arms anymore. Even when Fu Han pressed his teeth against Ji Qingyu's neck, she didn't seem to care. It was as if everything had become unimportant.
Even though he was weak, Ji Qingyu, with his exceptional willpower, persevered alone for six years. When it came to things he had made up his mind about, and people he had decided to part ways with, no matter how strong or arrogant the other person was, they could not shake him in the slightest.
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