Chapter 93
Jiang Zhinian felt itchy from being tickled by him. She wanted to withdraw her hand, but she couldn't escape. So she decided to go all out and tickle Shi Ye's palm with her backhand.
However, due to the huge disparity in physical strength between men and women, Jiang Zhinian's hands were pinned to the table and she had no choice but to beg for mercy: "No more, no more..."
Shi Ye chuckled and let her go: "Hurry up and eat."
Because of the small disturbance, Jiang Zhinian's face was a little red. She lifted her hair and looked at the man opposite her who was eating with his head down. Suddenly, she felt as if her chest was filled with a warm current of happiness.
As time went by, Jiang Zhinian could increasingly sense Shi Ye's nervousness about her pregnancy beneath his calm mask. It turned out that he was not as calm as he seemed. This realization made Jiang Zhinian feel very interesting.
It was as if I had caught a glimpse of Shi Ye's unknown side, the side that he tried hard to hide.
…
Before school was over in the afternoon, Teacher Qian came to see Jiang Zhinian again.
"Teacher Jiang, I have something I'd like to trouble you with, but I don't know how to start."
Jiang Zhinian was packing up and said with a smile, "It's okay, you go ahead and talk first."
"I heard... that you came from the Dongfeng Welfare Home..."
Jiang Zhinian paused, probably guessing what Teacher Qian meant: "Do you want to adopt a child?"
Teacher Qian was stunned for a moment, nodded, and then shook his head: "Exactly, I want to understand the situation first. I heard that the requirements for adoption are very high, and I don't know if I can adopt."
She came to see Jiang Zhinian on impulse and had not discussed it with her family yet.
Jiang Zhinian hesitated and said, "In our country, one of the necessary conditions for adoption is that you don't have any children or that the child suffers from a disease that prevents him from living independently..."
Teacher Qian said with a dejected look on his face, "The doctor has already pronounced a death sentence on us. We can't have any more children."
At first, she couldn't get pregnant and thought it was her own problem. She did a lot of tests but couldn't find the cause. She was under a lot of pressure during that time.
Later, at the doctor's suggestion, her husband reluctantly went for a check-up, and it turned out to be asthenospermia.
In order to get pregnant, she followed the doctor's advice and chose in vitro fertilization. However, after trying several times, she failed. The doctor told them directly that it was impossible to get pregnant due to the quality of her husband's sperm.
They were advised to either use sperm donated by others or adopt a child.
Her husband said that since they were not related by blood, it would be better to adopt them, so she thought of asking Jiang Zhinian for information first.
Jiang Zhinian didn't say much, he just told them the situation of the welfare home and let them think it over carefully.
It's amazing to say, when Jiang Zhinian was little, it was hard for healthy girls in the welfare home to be adopted, but as the years passed, healthy girls gradually became in short supply, and even those girls with only mild illnesses had more and more families lining up to adopt them.
Therefore, the welfare homes’ requirements for adoptive families are becoming increasingly stringent.
She didn't know Teacher Qian's family situation and wasn't sure if she could compete with other families who wanted to adopt.
"Okay, thank you, Teacher Jiang. I'll go back and discuss this with my husband. Thank you."
After Teacher Qian left, Jiang Zhinian also packed up and prepared to go home.
As soon as I reached the school gate, I met Feng Peipei who was waiting there as expected.
After she told the truth to Qin Yuming today, she guessed that Feng Peipei would come to see her, but she didn't expect that the other party was so anxious and couldn't wait for a whole day.
"Why did you tell Qin Yuming that you were pregnant?"
Feng Peipei seemed to be looking for an accusation from the very beginning.
Jiang Zhinian sighed: "Pepe, I've already told you that your affairs have nothing to do with me. Similarly, whatever I said to Qin Yuming is my freedom."
Feng Peipei stared into Jiang Zhinian's eyes and said, "You just can't stand looking at me, okay?"
"What……"
"You've been so hypocritical since you were little, saying things like we're best friends, but when something good happens, you never think of me first. I know you just can't stand seeing me living better than you, so you try every possible way to get me involved, right?"
Feng Pei was wearing purple contact lenses, and the pattern on her pupils made Jiang Zhinian's hair stand on end.
"Pepe, I don't know what I have done to you over the years that would make you think of me like this."
"Oh, you don't remember? Then let me remind you, I was the one who should have been adopted, and I should have been the one with a complete family. It's all your fault. You would rather give the chance to Miaomiao than to me."
Back then, the two healthiest girls in the welfare home were her and Peipei, but the couple chose Jiang Zhinian instead of Feng Peipei.
Later, after the director's mother asked Jiang Zhinian to personally reject the couple, the person who was adopted became Miaomiao.
"You said that I was your best friend, but you liar, you gave the chance to Miaomiao in the end."
In the eyes of young Feng Peipei, if Jiang Zhinian didn't want to be adopted, then the person adopted should automatically become her. Jiang Zhinian must have said something in front of the couple that caused them to choose Miaomiao instead of herself.
In other words, she shouldn't have appeared in front of the couple in the first place, giving them another choice besides herself.
Over the years, this idea took root in Feng Peipei's heart like a seed. Her memory was even tampered with by her fantasy, and it became that the couple originally wanted to take her away, and it was Jiang Zhinian who deliberately snatched her opportunity.
"Jiang Zhinian, remember, you owe me all this, and you'll never be able to repay me."
Feng Peipei turned around and looked at Jiang Zhinian coldly: "I will definitely not let go of the Qin family. If you still feel a little guilty about me, don't block my way."
Jiang Zhinian stood there with a pale face. She suddenly realized why Feng Peipei always asked for things from her so confidently over the years.
It turned out that in this relationship, she never considered herself a friend.
To her, I am just a debtor, so she naturally enjoys everything as a victim.
How ridiculous.
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Feng Peipei stood by the road, watching Jiang Zhinian turn and leave, and reached out to knock on the car window beside her.
The glass fell and Zhao Ze'an's face appeared behind the car window.
"It's you, you looked familiar to me when we passed by just now." Feng Peipei glanced at the license plate and leaned closer. "What are you doing here? Are you doing surveillance?"
A disdainful smile appeared on her face, as if she felt that Zhao Zean's behavior was hard to describe.
"No way, you're still interested in Jiang Zhinian, after all these years."
Zhao Zean looked at her coldly: "What does it have to do with you?"
Feng Peipei clicked her tongue and shook her head: "How can it have nothing to do with me? Have you forgotten that I was the one who took the photo for you when you wanted it?"
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