"So you agreed?" Xu Jinzhi looked incredulous, "No, what were you thinking? Zhou Yueran, that bastard, must want to trick you!"

Su Yunbai smiled, "You can't be on guard against thieves for a thousand days, don't worry."

Besides, she actually wanted to know how Zhou Yueran was going to trick her.

Su Yunbai is not actually an adventurous person, but for some reason, her patience has been getting worse recently. Xu Jinzhi

frowned, "Zhou Yueran used Qu Qingyin's name to cause trouble, but Qu Qingyin didn't react?" Su

Yunbai said, "She didn't seem to know about it beforehand, so she was very surprised at the time..."

I just don't know if this surprise was real or fake.

Xu Jinzhi looked at Su Yunbai, hesitant to speak, with a knot on his face.

Su Yunbai waited for her to speak for a long time. When she turned around, she saw that she looked very bitter and resentful. She smiled instead, "What's wrong? What can't you say?"

"Actually, there's no rush for congratulations. On the contrary..." Xu Jinzhi looked at Su Yunbai with a cautious expression, "Assistant, what if it's really...what do you think?"

Su Yunbai paused.

This question was actually what she had been thinking about for the past two days.

Aunt Liu's words that day did leave some traces in Su Yunbai's heart. After returning from City C, she made an appointment for a private examination.

At this moment, she and Xu Jinzhi were sitting in a very private reception room, waiting for the results of the examination.

Although Su Yunbai looked calm on the surface, she was a little confused in her heart. She didn't know whether she hoped to be pregnant or just a false alarm.

Xu Jinzhi's heart was also in turmoil.

Many things made her heart beat fast as long as she thought about them. For example, the teaching assistant asked to go to a private hospital that was not funded by the Huo family for examination; for another example, the teaching assistant asked her to accompany him.

The teaching assistant didn't seem to want people to know about this.

But why?

Didn't she like Huo Qinian very much? If she really had a child, wouldn't it be a good thing for her? Why didn't her reaction now... look like she was happy?

At this time, the door of the reception room opened.

Su Yunbai and Xu Jinzhi both stood up subconsciously and stared at the person who came in.

A middle-aged woman in a white coat and glasses walked in, holding a stack of papers in her hand, with a gentle expression on her face.

She looked at Su Yunbai, without any intention of keeping it a secret: "The test results show that Ms. Su is not pregnant."

Su Yunbai's tightly clenched hands slowly loosened, and the expression on her face slightly relaxed, but also with a little bit of not-so-obvious disappointment.

Xu Jinzhi had been paying attention to her expression, and seeing this, he felt even more uncertain.

Is this disappointment or not?

The female doctor continued: "Ms. Su's menstrual period is not very regular, so you still need to pay attention. Even if it is not for the purpose of nurturing a new life, you have to consider your own health. I will give you a course of medicine first? Remember to keep a happy mood and don't stay up late..."

Half an hour later, Su Yunbai put away the report and medicine, and walked to the hospital parking lot with Xu Jinzhi.

The parking lot is on the second floor underground. Su Yunbai had just walked to the stairs when her phone rang.

It was an international call from her doctoral supervisor.

Su Yunbai was a little surprised.

Her supervisor was a person who attached great importance to private space. He preferred to communicate by email and rarely called people directly.

Why did he make an exception this time?

City A was brightly lit at night, and lights of various colors illuminated half of the sky. The traffic was like bright ribbons passing through the high-rise buildings in the city.

Huo Qinian sat in the back seat of the car, loosened his tie casually, half-lying on the back seat with his head tilted back, and rubbed his eyebrows.

The lights on both sides of the city avenue shone through the car window one after another, casting a series of light and dark shadows on his face. He lay quietly with his eyes half closed, his usual smile gone, his expression looking a little cold.

Assistant Zhang carefully observed Huo Qinian's face through the rearview mirror, knowing that he was not in a very good mood, and became more and more worried.

But there are some things that need to be asked.

Assistant Zhang tried to make his voice sound calm: "Boss, shall we take you back to Lanxi Garden?"

"No, we're going back to Lianshan tonight." Huo Qinian said, opening his eyes and asking, "By the way, what does my wife like to eat recently?"

Assistant Zhang was shocked, knowing that he finally had a place to use his skills, so he said, "There is a 'Liu Family Old Cake' on Huanshan Road. My wife seems to like it very much recently. If we go back to Lianshan, we can just take Huanshan Road."

Huo Qinian hummed, "If you pass by, take a portion." After he finished speaking, he asked again, "How long will it take to get to Lianshan?" "

About 45 minutes."

Huo Qinian frowned slightly, but soon relaxed, "Call me when we get there."

After saying that, he closed his eyes, looking like he was going to take a nap.

Assistant Zhang cleverly turned on the car stereo. The soft light music flowed in the car just right, echoing the low and deep hum of traffic, murmuring, with a special sense of tranquility.

Huo Qinian's expression relaxed slightly.

Although he was a little tired, the thoughts in his mind could not calm down for a while. Sometimes it was the company's preparation to enter the media industry, sometimes it was the land in the east of the city, and sometimes it was the personnel management of the branch...

A bunch of official business rose and fell in his mind, and slowly dissipated. In the end, what was left was Zhao Xun's deliberately lively joke: "Brother Huo, are you going to be a father?"

Although Zhao Xun was out of tune, he still knew the limit. There were some things he would not joke about casually.

So, what he said about seeing Yun Bai go to the obstetrics and gynecology department should be true.

Going to the obstetrics and gynecology department may not necessarily be related to pregnancy. Women's affairs are all about this and that, and they are probably very complicated.

But what if it is true?

Huo Qinian carefully recalled Su Yunbai's demeanor during this period of time, trying to find some clues from it.

But no matter how hard he thought, there were only a bunch of very trivial pictures in his mind. Coming and going, what impressed him most was Su Yunbai's eyes - he thought he was restrained and calm, but in fact, when he looked at people, all kinds of emotions were in it.

He knew that she wanted to appear as generous and calm as possible, but as long as he said something to her, her eyes would light up, as if all her attention was on him...

Huo Qinian felt a little irritated when he thought of this.

He had never thought that he would need to consider such things related to reproduction so early.

Although he did not have the idea of ​​being a DINK, he knew very well in his heart that he had no intention of changing the status quo in the short term.

If Yunbai really...

that would be a bit troublesome.

Yunbai was still different. After all, she was Mrs. Huo, and if possible, he didn't want the matter to be too ugly.

Then, the strategy of speaking was very important.

The most important thing was to confirm the news first, and then talk about other things.

Huo Qinian was thinking aimlessly, and suddenly felt the car body shake slightly. Although the push back brought by the slow speed of the car was not strong, it still interrupted his thoughts.

Huo Qinian opened his eyes impatiently and heard Assistant Zhang's voice: "Boss, we're here."

Arrived?

Huo Qinian turned his head and looked out the window. The lights on both sides of the courtyard were on. At the end of the street lights, the main building of the Lotus Hill Villa District was quietly lying in the night and lights, with a sense of silence.

We really arrived.

Huo Qinian got out of the car, grabbed his coat and hung it on his arm, turned around and wanted to go inside.

Assistant Zhang reminded him: "Boss, you specially ordered the cakes."

Huo Qinian paused and turned around.

He looked at the cakes in Assistant Zhang's hand and saw that they were just wrapped in oil paper and placed in a paper bag. The shape was rustic from the inside to the outside. He couldn't help but frowning: "Why don't you wrap it in a gift box?"

Assistant Zhang was stunned and felt a little embarrassed. Huo Qinian had already taken it thoughtfully, "But... it's okay."

No gift box seems homely, which may not be a bad thing.

Huo Qinian walked into the villa with a cake in one hand and a suit jacket in the other.

The night breeze in April was still a little cold, but it was surprisingly comfortable when it blew on the face. After the sound of the car engine gradually faded away, the surroundings suddenly became empty, and even the sound of mosquitoes seemed long.

Huo Qinian enjoyed this rare moment of quietness, and his expression was obviously relaxed.

After all, he was a man of decisive character. No matter how much he considered beforehand, he made up his mind when the time came, and his whole heart was settled. When one's

heart is determined, things become much simpler.

Huo Qinian walked through the courtyard slowly.

The street lights on both sides of the courtyard stretched his shadow from long to short and then stretched it again, clusters connected, as if quietly welcoming the owner who returned late.

Welcomed by the street lights, Huo Qinian opened the main door of the villa and pushed the door open.

He thought he would see the pair of eyes that would light up because of his return as usual, but he didn't expect that this time when he opened the door, he would be greeted by a brightly lit but empty hall.

She's not here?

Huo Qinian raised his eyebrows, slightly surprised.

He hung up his coat and tie, changed his shoes and walked inside, moving his neck as he walked, but suddenly stopped.

The lights on the first floor were bright, but it was a little darker near the living room. So until now, Huo Qinian noticed that there seemed to be someone lying on the sofa in the living room.

Huo Qinian walked closer.

There was a dimmed crystal lamp above the coffee table. Su Yunbai was lying on the sofa with her back to the lamp, sleeping unconsciously.

She didn't seem to sleep well. Even when she was asleep, her brows were wrinkled, and she looked uneasy.

Huo Qinian stood behind the sofa and looked at her. He always felt that from this angle, his wife seemed a little strange.

But this thought only flashed by and was quickly thrown out of Huo Qinian's mind. His eyes circled around Su Yunbai's face, and then his attention was attracted by something else -

after Su Yunbai fell asleep, she put one hand on her side and the other on her abdomen. She curled up slightly, protecting her entire abdominal cavity.

It is said that the subconscious can best reflect something. Does her posture explain something?

Huo Qinian's eyes deepened.