Confess to Sister Zhuo
When Bing Jie woke up in the morning, the seat next to him was empty. He picked up his phone and saw the message she had sent him half an hour ago. It was a selfie of her with the necklace he had given her shining on her neck.
Ji Xin: I hope I won’t end up so poor that I have to pawn this necklace for travel expenses (crying)
Bing Jie replied to her with a smile that he didn't even notice, saying that he had plenty of money and told her to come to him.
Not long after, I received a reply.
She sent an emoticon of a kitten giving a thumbs-up, and said: That’s great, I like this necklace very much and I can’t bear to pawn it.
Bing Jie knew that she had been comforting herself intentionally or unintentionally recently. No matter what her purpose was, he was very pleased with the flattery. His heart was so sweet that he didn't even realize that he was smiling all day long.
He put down his phone and got up. There were a lot of things waiting for him today. Thinking about those things, he went to the bathroom to wash up. When he looked in the mirror, he found two lipstick marks on his cheeks.
Needless to say, she must have printed it before she left that morning.
Bing Jie raised his hand to wipe off his lipstick, his sweet smile completely overshadowing all the sadness of parting. He sighed softly, "You're really capable! How did you manage to kiss me twice without waking me up?"
But obviously, this is a happy trouble.
Qi Jixin sat in Sister Zhuo's newly bought car, put down his phone, and spoke seriously to Sister Zhuo who was playing games next to him: "Sister Zhuo, I want to tell you something."
"Um."
"You want to be my aunt... No, you are older than me, you should be older-"
Xuan Jiazhuo's phone flew out of her hand and landed silently on the ground. She turned around in surprise and grabbed Qi Jixin's right hand, shaking her and asking, "Are you pregnant?"
Qi Jixin quickly shook her head in denial, "No, no." Realizing she had been too hasty, Qi Jixin slowly explained, "Sister Zhuo, I have recovered my previous memories, and the child I gave birth to back then is not dead."
Before Xuan Jiazhuo could get over the news that she was not pregnant, she heard two other explosive truths. She retreated tactically, but her back hit the car door and her head was hit with a bang.
Qi Jixin didn't say anything else, but pursed her lips and waited for her reaction.
Xuan Jiazhuo's head was buzzing, as if a gorilla swinging on a vine passed by the roof of their car and lifted the carport up. She felt the whistling wind outside the car directly pass through her head, making her feel dizzy. She lay on the backrest for a long time before gradually regaining her senses.
"No, are you really fully recovered?" Xuan Jiazhuo asked while pinching her arm with one hand. Qi Jixin nodded solemnly and pinched her as well.
"It hurts, right? So it's definitely real."
"Fuck you! It hurts!" Xuan Jiazhuo rubbed her arm, blinking rapidly. She then asked the child what was wrong. After Qi Jixin explained to her the reason for renting the villa, Xuan Jiazhuo held her forehead and cursed, "Those two old guys really deserve to die!"
"By the way, does Bing Jie know about these two things?" Xuan Jiazhuo asked again.
Qi Jixin shook her head and expressed what she was most worried about.
"I have no idea if he's capable of standing up to his parents, so I can't risk telling him I've recovered my memory, let alone that the child is still alive. Otherwise, his parents might take action before I do, and all my plans will be ruined." She frowned, then said with certainty, "However, he should have learned about the child from his parents."
Xuan Jiazhuo smacked his lips and sighed, lamenting that these two old guys were not human beings. He asked her what she was going to do next. Qi Jixin then told her two plans, among which the backup plan was still handled by Xuan Jiazhuo alone.
It was not until this moment that she suddenly realized that there were no black fans at all, and she was just preparing to snatch the child away.
"But that's the worst option. I don't want to scare the child, so this vacation, I'm going to slowly approach the child. If possible, I will take the child away calmly."
"Aren't you afraid of being discovered by Bing Jie's grandparents? After all, the child is raised under their noses." Xuan Jiazhuo asked worriedly.
Qi Jixin's eyes flashed with a hint of joy and sadness, and finally she said with some sadness: "These two old guys really don't like me, let alone my child, so the child has been raised by a nanny since he was a child, and he doesn't live with them. The old guys live in Villa No. 1, and the child and the nanny are in Villa No. 6. Normally, they don't see each other very often."
It was precisely because of this that Aunt Wang was able to quickly become familiar with the babysitter and learn a lot of news that would subvert her cognition.
"You may not believe it, but Bing Jie's parents actually like this child more. They also carefully arranged a childcare nanny. Apart from not having his parents by his side, the child has been well-fed and well-clothed since he was little."
Xuan Jiazhuo's mouth opened wide when she heard this. What kind of fairy tale was this? How could the man who forced her and her daughter to death fall in love with her child?
Seeing her reaction, Qi Jixin sighed helplessly. She didn't quite understand the specific reason. Even when she first heard it, it was incredible. In any case, the safer the child, the better news for her.
"Then - was that accident when you fell into the water really an accident?" The questions that have troubled her for many years have surfaced one by one. Xuan Jiazhuo asked the most crucial question.
Qi Jixin shook his head, his expression very complicated. "Yes and no. I was really on the verge of a breakdown at the time. I had no way of knowing whether his parents had kept their promise to release the child. I could only fulfill my promise to them first. The drowning incident was my promise to them."
That day, she found out that Yan Jia and Sister Zhuo both left her by coincidence. Qi Jixin immediately knew that it was not a coincidence. She turned around and found Hua Shaoshi standing under a coconut tree.
"She was standing in the shade under the umbrella. She didn't say a word to me. She just looked at me through the crowd, then turned to look at the sightseeing boats on the beach. I knew that my time had come."
Xuan Jiazhuo could hardly breathe. She frowned and asked, "Did Qi Jixin really plan to die at that time?"
"How could that be! I lied about being afraid of water. Remember, in junior high school, I even participated in the provincial swimming championship and won a prize."
Xuan Jiazhuo suddenly realized that she had swam with Qi Jixin before. This guy was as agile as a fish when he jumped into the water. And as far as Xuan Jiazhuo knew, after falling behind in family fortune, Qi Jixin changed his track, gave up the 100-meter sprint, and instead swam 10,000 meters.
"I actually forgot about this. So your amnesia was also fake?"
"No, I can only say that I was too arrogant. I thought I could avoid Hua Shaoshi's spies by swimming far away in the water and then quietly returning. But the waves suddenly became violent that day, and the seabed where the ship was anchored was full of coral reefs. The undercurrent was naturally not going to let me go."
When talking about the situation at that time, Qi Jixin's brows unconsciously frowned.
"It was like being in a washing machine, being tossed around. You all know what happened when I was taken to the hospital. The impact on my head was real."
The two chatted all the way, and when they arrived at the rented villa, it was already dusk. According to usual practice, Qi Jixin and Xuan Jiazhuo would just take a shower and rest early, but today they had to change their usual behavior. After taking a shower and washing up, they changed into casual clothes and went for a walk with Aunt Wang after dinner.
She said she was taking a walk, but actually she was going to see the child. Qi Jixin was holding a palm-sized plush toy that she had bought specially for the occasion. It was a puppy-like doll in black, brown and white colors. When she met the child, Qi Jixin was playing with the Bernese Mountain doll.
"So you bought the toys based on your own preferences?" Xuan Jiazhuo teased her jokingly. Qi Jixin couldn't hold back her smile. She smiled and nodded, "My child's taste is definitely like mine."
Xuan Jiazhuo looked at Aunt Wang and smiled, and asked Aunt Wang if she believed what she said. Aunt Wang smiled even more, and said that children always look like their mothers. She is a mother, so she can be sure of that.
After walking outside for more than ten minutes without seeing the target person, Xuan Jiazhuo felt a little suspicious. She turned to ask Aunt Wang if they were getting closer to Villa No. 1. She was really worried that Bing Jie's grandparents would notice their whereabouts.
"No, no, no, we're heading away from Number One. We won't run into them."
Qi Jixin, who was holding a toy beside him, looked around and said, "Those two old guys, they almost need eight crutches to walk, how could they walk so far? Besides, they scolded the nanny several times and told her not to bring the child to them. It would be more convenient for us, right?"
When talking about them, Qi Jixin had no good temper at all, let alone words about respecting the elderly and loving the young. Since these two old guys did not love the young, there was no way to convince her to respect the elderly.
But speaking of them, Qi Jixin remembered one thing.
"Aunt Wang discovered that a man came to visit these two old guys some time ago. Can you guess who it was?" Qi Jixin raised his eyebrows, then stopped looking around and looked at Xuan Jiazhuo and asked.
"How can I guess... Wait, it can't be Meng - Meng what's that, Meng Jingxuan?" After finally thinking of the name, Xuan Jiazhuo just said the name and was sure in his heart that it must be this.
Qi Jixin gave her a thumbs up and said, "Smart. I think Bing Jie must have sent him."
"Come to find the child?" Xuan Jiazhuo asked.
Qi Jixin nodded: "He had no other choice, so he looked for someone everywhere. Unfortunately, he didn't expect his parents to come and hide the truth behind the scenes, so he raised the child in front of his grandparents."
Aunt Wang was the first person to know about Qi Jixin's arrangements. Through questioning and guesswork, she had a pretty good grasp of the situation. She asked, somewhat curiously, how had Qi Jixin found the child so immediately? Xuan Jiazhuo nodded. It couldn't really be some kind of mother-daughter connection, could it?
"As the saying goes, those involved are often confused. I've already stepped outside the confrontation between him and his parents, so I can see clearly that his parents only want to keep it a secret from him. This is the only place in the world Bing Jie won't come to."
Thinking of what happened back then, Qi Jixin's expression became much calmer, but the facts in his words were still shocking.
"His grandparents were still in good health at the time. Can you imagine what I felt? As soon as I walked in, his grandfather raised his cane to hit me, and he also shouted that I, an actor, had corrupted their grandson. After that, Bing Jie said he would never come to their place again."
Therefore, raising the child here is the most suitable way to deceive Bing Jie.
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