Chapter 382 I’ll give you a child. I’ll give you a child. This…
Yao Taotao broke up with Chao Risheng.
Yao Zhizhi was not surprised at all by this news.
This is an obvious result. She just feels that it is a blessing for two people to be together and actually get married and have children.
In addition to the need for both parties to be in love with each other, it is also necessary for the rival to not make trouble, for the elders to not cause trouble, and for the relatives and friends around to have a blessing and supportive attitude.
Otherwise, if there is a problem in any link, the process may not be able to proceed.
However, if the victim this time was not Yao Taotao but someone else, Yao Zhizhi would not have interfered.
Why bother? The one who was broken up with would definitely resent her. Even though Chao Risheng seemed to be a relatively sober and rational person, he would inevitably blame her in his heart.
However, Yao Taotao's happiness is more important than the man's complaints, so Yao Zhizhi intervened and became the cruel person who broke up the couple.
But she has no regrets.
At this moment, Yao Zhizhi stood by the Jade Lake, looking at Yao Taotao who came to her to complain. She had only three questions:
"Do you still love him?"
"Which is more important, your love for him or the mistakes he made?"
"Are you at fault in this whole thing?"
Yao Taotao took the handkerchief she offered, sighed heavily, and leaned against the stone to wipe away her tears. "I don't know. Love is love, and being annoyed is really annoying. I'm also very angry."
"Then don't rush to make a decision. Wait until you calm down and think it through." Yao Zhizhi actually wanted to reconcile.
Of course, she knew Yao Taotao's excellence and brilliance better than anyone else, but others didn't see that.
In the marriage market, many people are secular and utilitarian. They tend to only look at:
One, is it first marriage or divorced? Two, can I have children? Three, does my parents have any connections, and can they help the man to get ahead in life?
Only after making a trade-off among these three points will you probably consider the woman's appearance and personality.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some people are love-brained and only look at appearance and personality, but they are only a minority after all.
Therefore, from a secular perspective, Chao Risheng is really a good match. In his eyes, Yao Taotao does not have those secular labels that belittle women, such as divorced, poor background, and unable to help men.
His mistake was that he shouldn't have lost his composure and tried to bind Yao Taotao through the child.
But this is not an unforgivable sin. In the secular group, he is already considered an outstanding person. No one is perfect. If Yao Taotao's love for him outweighs this flaw, they can naturally get back together and continue on.
Otherwise, we will just go our separate ways.
So Yao Zhizhi was a little at a loss as to where to start, because love is such an abstract concept that outsiders cannot measure it and it can only be judged by the person involved.
At this time, Yao Taotao's mind was a mess and she couldn't make any clear and effective judgment. The only thing she could do was to break up, let Chao Risheng know her anger, and bear the price of plotting against her.
That's all.
However, people who are angry often don't listen to advice. Yao Zhizhi didn't hold out much hope and tried to persuade them as much as she could. If they didn't listen, then that was it.
Yao Taotao really didn't intend to give him a chance. She was just angry, crying, and muttering that she had misjudged him.
To her, this was undoubtedly a betrayal and a blasphemy, and she could not forgive it.
Yao Zhizhi listened for a long time and suddenly became curious: "Could it be that his behavior is more serious than what Cao Guangyi did?"
"..." Yao Taotao fell silent, biting her lip in anger. After a long while, she finally defended herself, "That's different. I didn't have much hope for Cao Guangyi at first. We were arranged to marry each other, so there was no emotional foundation. He wasn't well educated, and was raised by an old woman with bound feet, so his cognitive level was limited. But Chao Risheng is an intellectual. I was the one who dated him. He clearly acted like he respected and loved me, but behind my back... I really can't forgive him."
"What if he slapped you in the face at school that day? Would you forgive him?" Seeing that she was only focused on finding Chao Risheng's mistakes, Yao Zhizhi had to guide her to face her own problems. Otherwise, even if she found a new man, there would be problems in the future because of her overly strong self-esteem.
Yao Taotao shook her head without hesitation: "No. I know what you want to say. That incident was my fault, so I have been trying hard to make it up to him recently."
"Look, here you are again. Your so-called amends have given him the opportunity to plot against you. It seems that you are perfunctory to him, but in fact, you have fallen into his trap. I don't understand, is a simple apology so difficult? You must have mentioned breaking up with him many times before, otherwise he wouldn't have lost his composure and made such a stupid move." Yao Zhizhi was helpless. It was difficult to persuade people when they were stubborn. She could only speak more bluntly. "I'll tell you the truth, if Chang Xiao dared to scare me with breaking up, I would have dealt with him a lot. Think about it, Chao Risheng's temper is actually quite good. You two have to be strong, so one of you has to compromise. At the moment, it seems that he is the one who has been compromising. Maybe he spoiled you. It's also Cao Guangyi's fault. He has no ability at all, but he only knows how to spoil you and make you so proud that you refuse to face your own problems."
After saying that, Yao Zhizhi looked at the time. It was getting late, so she got up and prepared to go back.
Yao Taotao has a strong personality. She persuades people when necessary and leaves the rest to fate.
Yao Taotao watched her departing back and silently clenched her fists. This was the first time she had a huge disagreement with Zhizhi, and it was also the first time that Zhizhi accused her so mercilessly.
She knew that Chao Risheng did have many advantages, and she was also responsible for this incident, but she just couldn't give in. What should she do?
A person's character is difficult to change. At present, Chao Risheng's weight in her heart is not enough for her to ignore his calculations and backstabbing.
She wiped away her tears, went to Chao Risheng's residence, packed her things, and prepared to move out.
Chao Risheng had already returned. Hearing her cleaning up, he didn't stop her and just continued cooking in the kitchen.
By the time she finished cleaning up, the meal was ready.
Chao Risheng walked over and took the suitcase and canvas bag from her hands. He lowered his eyes and stared into her eyes: "It's getting dark. If you go back now, you still have to pack and go through so much trouble. When will you be able to have a hot meal? Eat with me. Just think of it as me...having New Year's Eve dinner with you in advance."
Yao Taotao raised her head in anger and slapped him. She had endured it until now, but he actually wanted to make her pregnant. She hadn't even graduated yet. He wanted her to be his puppet for the rest of her life, unable to escape from his control. He was despicable and shameless!
She was prepared for his counterattack after this slap. She closed her eyes, forced back the tears, and refused to give in.
Chao Risheng did not fight back. He silently pried her fingers apart, dragged the suitcase to the side, then turned around, went to the bedroom, opened the three-door cupboard, and took out the remittance slip for the royalties he had just received, as well as the gold ring he asked a friend to buy from Hong Kong.
He stuffed the thing into her hand and said, "If you don't want to have dinner with me, then take the gift I gave you. There's no point in me keeping it. Who would I give it to? No other woman will ever step through this door. Only you."
Yao Taotao glanced down at the glittering golden ring, which was extremely dazzling under the light. She squinted her eyes and examined it for a long time before asking, "Do you think I can't afford something like this?"
Chao Risheng smiled bitterly and said, "Of course you can afford it. You can buy a hundred or a thousand without blinking an eye, but will it be the same? Tao'er, I didn't want to delay your schooling. I calculated the time. If I could get pregnant in the spring, it would be perfect for the birth in the winter. By then, I would wear thick clothes and no one would notice. If I couldn't get pregnant in the spring, I would give up. I don't want you to be pregnant in the summer and be laughed at by your classmates. But, compared to you hating me, I'm more afraid of losing you. It's ridiculous that after all my scheming, Editor-in-Chief Yao still found out."
"You would rather I hate you forever than not have a child with you, right?" Yao Taotao held the ring tightly, raised her head and stared into his eyes.
That sharp look showed only one attitude: she wanted to hear the truth.
Chao Risheng silently closed his eyes, and after calming down, he slowly opened them again and nodded. "Yes, if you will break up with me sooner or later because of what happened between my mother and my sister, then I have no choice but to do this. I will not remarry. I will protect our child and wait for you to come back. Tao'er, feel here. There is only a true heart here. It is just scared and anxious, so it panicked and lost its way. But is it really worthless?"
"If it were worthless, I wouldn't be so miserable." Yao Taotao slapped the ring on his chest. "You can take it. I don't need it. I will find someone who is willing to respect my wishes, not someone who schemes against me and uses my guilt to get me pregnant."
"Guilt? You actually said you felt guilty? If you really felt guilty, would you break up with me on New Year's Day?" Chao Risheng seized this rare opportunity and fought back resentfully, "Tao'er, admit it, if I had dared to touch you that day, you would have broken up with me long ago. But you slapped me, and not only did I not break up, I kept trying to please you. Including the slap just now, I didn't even think of slapping you back. You want to break up with me, fine, but then who cares, what are you going to do to make it up to me for those two slaps?"
"I'll give you a child. Isn't this what you want?" Yao Taotao turned around and unbuttoned her tweed coat.
Chao Risheng was dumbfounded. What was he doing? The subtext of him asking her to make amends was that he didn't want to break up! He already knew he was wrong and had given up on getting her pregnant, but she...
He was at a loss for a moment and could only passively be forced back onto the bed by her step by step.
I watched her undress him, loosen his belt, and take off his pants...
She didn't even have a condom, she seemed to be doing it for real.
Chao Risheng was so frightened that he jumped up immediately: "I was wrong, Tao'er, I was really wrong, please don't do this, I don't want to delay your schooling, I just... I'm a beast, okay? I won't make excuses, I won't make excuses, you can hit me, you can scold me, please don't do this, I'm scared."
Yao Taotao grabbed his arm and pulled him back to the bed. She exuded an aura of dominance, mixed with anger that had nowhere to vent, making him feel particularly strange and uneasy.
He jumped up again: "Don't be like this, I've already said it, it's all my fault."
Yao Taotao looked at him calmly: "Don't regret it, there will be no such thing as this. Not only will I not get back together with you, I will not have children with you. Now is your last chance."
"Is it not okay if I don't want it?" Chao Risheng gave in. What did he want from him?
Didn't Editor Yao say that Tao'er would figure things out once she calmed down? Why, why did Tao'er scare him like this? Was he testing his resolve?
Of course!
He quickly helped her put on her clothes, crying as he did so: "Don't do this, I won't dare to do it again. Just finish your studies well, I'll wait for you to graduate."
"If you wait for me, will I turn back?" Yao Taotao sneered and pushed him away, slowly putting on her clothes. "Chao Risheng, didn't you ask me to make it up to you? I'm about to give birth to your child, but you're pretending to be a chaste and heroic man. How ridiculous."
"Yes, I'm ridiculous. I'm a complete joke." Chao Risheng closed his eyes, swallowed his tears, turned around and hurriedly put on his clothes. When he turned around, he found Yao Taotao staring at him in the dressing mirror.
He gritted his teeth, tied his belt, walked over and held her hand: "Okay, it's all my fault, just consider it my apology to you, let's have a farewell dinner."
This time Yao Taotao did not refuse. She followed him to the living room, sat down calmly, took the chopsticks calmly, and finished the meal calmly.
When they were leaving, heavy snow began to fall from the sky. Chao Risheng wanted to see her off, but Yao Taotao gave him a look and made him retreat.
He could only stand at the door and watch her go away.
After hesitating for a long time, he turned back to the house, picked up an umbrella, and followed not far away.
Walking in the fierce north wind, Yao Taotao's face quickly turned red from the cold, but the cold was soon washed away by the hot tears, and her face became moist and bright red.
Halfway through the journey, she began to realize that something was wrong. When she returned to her residence, she was already dizzy and had a fever.
She fell asleep on the bed without even closing the door, so she naturally didn't know Chao Risheng came in, helped her take off her shoes and socks that were soaked by the wind and snow, boiled some hot water for her to soak her feet, and then went outside to call a doctor from the small clinic to take her temperature, give her an IV drip, and give her medicine...
For three consecutive days, Chao Risheng took care of her without taking off his clothes.
When she woke up, it was already New Year's Eve.
Yao Taotao felt sore all over and got up in a daze. The aroma of stir-fried shredded pork came from outside the bedroom.
She put on a thick cotton jacket, got up from the bed with the help of the bedside table, staggered open the bedroom door, and saw that it was Chao Risheng who was cooking for her.
She clutched her painful forehead in pain and asked in a hoarse voice, "Today is the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, right? Go back and buy New Year's goods. Don't waste your time here."
Chao Risheng didn't say anything. After stir-frying the shredded pork, he put it on the plate and started to make steamed bream.
Seeing that he didn't listen, Yao Taotao got a little angry. After taking two steps, she felt uncomfortable with the bitter taste in her mouth, so she had to brush her teeth and wash her face first.
When I came out, I accidentally saw the calendar hanging in the living room, and then I realized that today was New Year's Eve.
She lay in bed for three days?
Is Chao Risheng the one taking care of her? Then what about his publishing house?
If you don’t give out year-end benefits, aren’t you afraid that your employees will get angry?
Her mind was full of questions, and just as she was about to speak, she heard a knock on the door.
Yao Zhizhi came. She had been helping to handle the publishing house's affairs for the past three days. She came now to give the account book to Chao Risheng so that he could see that the budget was not overspent.
Pushing the door open, she saw Yao Taotao, who looked pale. She walked over with a smile and put her arm around Yao Taotao's shoulders: "Why are you up? Come, let me take your temperature."
Yao Taotao felt weak all over and let Yao Zhizhi play with her. After taking her temperature, it was 36.7 degrees, and her fever was completely gone.
Yao Zhizhi breathed a sigh of relief, then tucked Yao Taotao into bed after thinking about it. She warned her, "You're fine now, don't run around. It's still snowing outside and it's freezing cold. Just have a ready-made meal at home. Oh, and this is a New Year's card from the stars and the moon."
Yao Taotao took it and looked at it. They were all pictures of her and Chao Risheng together. One picture showed them holding hands and carrying gifts to the courtyard to look at the stars and the moon. The other picture showed Chao Risheng riding a bicycle with her sitting behind him, returning home in the sunset.
Yao Taotao silently turned the painting upside down on the quilt, turned her head away, and didn't want to say a word.
Yao Zhizhi did not try to persuade her any further. Now that things had come to this, she could only let things take their course. There was nothing she could do.
After Yao Zhizhi left, Chao Risheng took off his apron and came in to talk.
He has obviously looked much more haggard and thinner these days, with a dark circle under his eye sockets.
He asked in a hoarse voice, "Are you hungry? Eat now. It's already four o'clock in the afternoon, not too early."
Yao Taotao didn't say anything. She turned her head and looked out the window. Her mind was still a mess and she hadn't figured out how to get rid of him.
But it doesn't matter. Thick-skinned men are blessed. While she was daydreaming, Chao Risheng had already come over, picked her up and carried her to the living room outside to have the New Year's Eve dinner.
She looked at the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner and couldn't bring herself to ask him to leave.
But it was impossible for her to ask him to stay.
He could only shamelessly stay here, hand her chopsticks and pour her warm water.
He poured himself a glass of red wine.
It was dim outside, and the lights and candlelight inside the house were intertwined.
Chao Risheng stood up and turned off the lights, leaving only the flickering candlelight.
He took out the ring again and said self-deprecatingly, "I originally wanted to propose to you on New Year's Eve, but I didn't expect that we would break up before New Year's Eve. But it doesn't matter. It was originally yours. Whether you marry me or not, it's yours."
As he said this, he stretched out his hand and wanted to put it on Yao Taotao.
Yao Taotao didn't refuse. After he finished wearing it, she took off the ring: "If you hadn't plotted against me, I would have agreed. Unfortunately, there is no if."
At this moment, Chao Risheng was completely disheartened.
Since she was determined to break up, he had no choice but to accept his fate.
But he did not take back the ring, he just lowered his head and ate.
After eating, Chao Risheng turned around to wash the dishes, with tears in his eyes.
He was like a prisoner before execution, deliberately slowing down every movement, just hoping that the death penalty would come slower and slower.
Unfortunately, there are only so many bowls, and no matter how much you wash the chopsticks, they will never become shiny.
Finally, he had to end this long monologue and prepare to pack up and leave.
But he was really unwilling, uncomfortable, and angry.
Why? He just wanted to keep her, what was wrong with that? If she hadn't always been talking about breaking up, he wouldn't have been so confused.
He untied the scarf he had just put on and asked almost without hope, "Am I really worthless in your heart?"
Yao Taotao didn't answer, but just looked at him with unfocused eyes. After a long while, she finally asked, "Is it cold outside?"
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