Chapter 466 She Smiles at Others
Shi Chen: "It's rare that you two still have such a good relationship after all these years since graduation."
Tang Qing: "Well, maybe it's because the three of us are nostalgic."
Shi Chen: "It's good to be nostalgic. I am nostalgic too."
When he said this, he kept staring at her with an obvious smile on his face, and emphasized the word "nostalgic". Tang Qing immediately knew that he had something else to say.
When she was thinking about how to respond, Shi Chen suddenly opened his mouth and asked her directly: "Will you consider me?"
Tang Qing: "...Hmm?"
Shi Chen smiled: "You are so smart, you must understand what I mean."
Tang Qing did understand what he meant, but he didn't expect him to say it so suddenly, so he was a little surprised for a moment.
After thinking for two or three minutes under Shi Chen's gaze, she took a deep breath and said to him, "You may just feel sorry for me. I'm not as perfect as you think."
Shi Chen: "How do you know I think of you as perfect?"
He denied her words, "I'm not a perfect person myself. People are three-dimensional because of their flaws, right?"
"Shi Chen, I didn't tell you the truth before," Tang Qing didn't evade the question. She knew she would have to tell him sooner or later. "I had an abortion before I left for my trip."
When talking about this topic, Tang Qing unconsciously put his hand on his lower abdomen. It was very flat and you couldn't tell that there had been a life there.
She did not regret her decision to have an abortion, but she was still emotionally affected to some extent when talking about it. As for the reason, she herself could not explain it clearly. Maybe when she was pregnant, the hormones stimulated her maternal instinct a little bit.
After hearing Tang Qing's words, Shi Chen's gaze fell on her lower abdomen.
Tang Qing thought he was going to ask about the child, but instead he heard him say, "You went diving right after surgery. Can your body handle it?"
Tang Qing's shoulders stiffened, and he suddenly raised his head to look at him, with obvious surprise on his usually calm face.
Her palms were slightly sweaty and her heart was beating faster.
She thought he would ask her whose child it was, and she also thought he would not be able to accept this and end all contact with her, but she never expected that his first reaction would be to care about her health.
"It's no big deal." A few minutes later, Tang Qing found his voice again. "It had been two months since I left for Australia."
Shi Chen: "When I met you while diving, I noticed you were thinner than before."
He stared at her thin face. "I thought you were too busy with work in the years we haven't seen each other—is it because of the surgery?"
Tang Qing nodded. She was now almost 15 kilograms lighter than before. When they were eating hot pot just now, Song Yi and Ying Xing both said that she was so thin that she looked unrecognizable.
The operation still had an impact on her. Although she was not too weak to walk after the operation, she had a poor appetite and could not eat anything. She was always traveling and walking a lot every day, so she became thinner and thinner.
"Then you have to take good care of your body. If you are too thin, your immunity will be reduced and you will get sick easily." Shi Chen was still talking to her about her health.
Tang Qing: "Well, it should be better after I come back."
"I thought you were going to ask me other questions," she said.
Shi Chen: "Are you talking about the child? That's your privacy. If you want to talk about it, you can tell me. It's not polite for me to ask."
Tang Qing: "It's indeed not very glorious."
Thinking of her relationship with Jiang Budu, Tang Qing smiled self-deprecatingly.
Although it was shameful, she still confronted Shi Chen.
Tang Qing did not mention Jiang Budu's name, but only told Shi Chen that she had an affair with a man the year she graduated and started working. A few years later, she met him again in Beicheng, but he already had a fiancée.
Even if she didn't say it, Shi Chen could guess what happened next.
Shi Chen listened to her words carefully, reached out and held her hand, "You've worked hard."
Tang Qing: "Is this all you want to say?"
Shi Chen smiled and said, "Tang Qing, we are both over thirty. Before I said those words to you, I knew you couldn't be a blank slate. Everyone has a past. You don't have to be ashamed of your past. It's not your fault."
Tang Qing: "I don't think I did anything wrong, but this kind of thing is really shameful."
Shi Chen: "I'm more surprised about the child."
He said, "It's not like you to be so cautious."
Tang Qing twitched his lips in self-mockery, "It's all his credit."
Shi Chen frowned, his expression becoming much more serious: "He wants you to have a child?"
Tang Qing: "Yeah, he liked my genes."
Shi Chen: “…”
He couldn't bear to think about what kind of ups and downs Tang Qing had gone through to be able to recount this experience so calmly.
He was just an ordinary man. He couldn't say against his will that he didn't mind what Tang Qing had experienced. But after understanding the whole story, besides being concerned, he was more worried and distressed.
All these misfortunes were imposed on her by another person.
"Are you still in touch now?" Shi Chen asked.
Tang Qing shook his head.
Shi Chen was silent for almost half a minute, then he said solemnly, "Tang Qing, please consider what I said."
Tang Qing: "...You don't care about these?"
Shi Chen: "Compared to these, I care more about your personal safety."
"We can't change what happened in the past. I've been in a few relationships and played the role of a heartless scumbag in other people's lives. I'm not as perfect as you think."
Tang Qing didn't respond.
"Let's give it a try first. If it doesn't work out, we can part ways amicably," Shi Chen said. "Just think of it as giving each other a chance to make up for past regrets. What do you think?"
Tang Qing listened to his words very carefully, lowered his eyes, held the cup in his hand, thought for a long time, and then gave an answer: "Give me some time, I will think it over carefully."
Shi Chen smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'm not in a hurry, you take your time to think about it."
He glanced at his watch and said, "Then, shall I take you home?"
He originally wanted to stay with her for a while longer, but after hearing what she said, Shi Chen felt that she should rest earlier.
…
Tang Qing and Shi Chen came out of the restaurant and walked towards the nearby parking lot.
Shi Chen's car was parked in the basement of the shopping mall next to the block. The two entered the mall and took the elevator down.
There weren't many people in the mall on a weekday evening, so the two of them stood out.
——
late at night.
Jiang Budu received photos and videos sent by his assistant Xu Jiang. After reading them, his eyes became bloodshot.
Although the pixels of the secretly taken photos are not high, one can still see the harmonious and joyful atmosphere between the two people, especially Tang Qing.
She had a big smile, and even the blurry photo couldn't hide it.
Jiang Budu looked at her smile and found it extremely dazzling.
When she was by his side, had she ever smiled at him like this?
She always had an expressionless look on her face, and later it became a dead face. He even forgot for a while that she could make expressions.
He could numb himself before, maybe she is like this to all men.
But after seeing these photos, I just think the idea is ridiculous.
Jiang Budu sneered and sent a WeChat message to Xu Jiang with a gloomy face: [Write down the license plate number and go check on him.]
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