Chapter 28 Chapter 28

The late cherry blossoms have faded, the hot summer came and went, and in the blink of an eye, the cold winter has arrived. During the blizzard, the raging wind and snow covered the sky and the sun, and you couldn't see your hand in front of you.

The sea a few meters away from the sidewalk was pitch black, with waves surging and roaring, the strange and distorted sounds of the wind and snow, the sound of the waves crashing and flying, the sound of the trees rustling in the wind and snow... Apart from this, there seemed to be nothing else between heaven and earth.

It's like the end of the world.

A figure walked towards us in the snowstorm. It was Xie Qiao.

Xie Qiao seemed to have grown into an adult. It was hard to tell what had changed, perhaps his eyes had become colder, or perhaps his expression had become more resolute.

He held the freshly baked cakes tightly to his chest and walked home in the snow and wind. When he was almost home, he saw a black car parked at the gate.

There was a man standing next to the car holding an umbrella.

Noticing Xie Qiao's gaze, the person under the umbrella turned around and looked at Xie Qiao.

Xie Qiao's face turned pale for a moment, but he quickly returned to normal. This was because Zong Xuecheng had been visiting too often in the past few months.

A few months ago, Xie Qiao came to accompany Song Lingxi during his vacation. That night, Song Lingxi suddenly fainted in the room. Just after he anxiously dialed 120 for a few minutes, Zong Xuecheng suddenly broke in with a doctor.

Xie Qiao didn't bother to think about why Zong Xuecheng showed up so quickly, and quickly asked the doctor brought by Zong Xuecheng to check the situation, and then the group hurried to the hospital.

It was also from this day that Zong Xuecheng moved from being in the dark to being in the open. He was indeed a smart man, and he grasped the distance and speed just right. He didn't get too close to give Song Lingxi a reason to chase him away, but he also appeared around her from time to time, making it impossible to ignore his presence.

The doctor said that Song Lingxi's condition was very bad. She did not look like a normal young woman, but more like a frail old woman. Her organs were failing little by little, especially her heart, which already had a heart disease.

This situation is not suitable for having a baby at all. The child is now like a parasite in the mother's body, constantly absorbing nutrients from the mother and accelerating the mother's death.

But aborting the child is also very dangerous. Not to mention surgical abortion, Song Lingxi's body is now like a fragile egg that cannot withstand any harm. If she is not careful, she may die on the operating table.

But if this child is allowed to grow up, one day she will drag her mother to death.

But Xie Qiao could do nothing. Even though he had a very high IQ, a mature mind, and endless money, he could not save his mother.

Life and death are the things that humans are most powerless against.

So even though he knew that the weirdo was useless, Xie Qiao still hated Zong Xuecheng. If there was no such child, would Song Lingxi have a better chance of survival?

Xie Qiao couldn't help but think about this possibility.

Even in Xie Qiao's opinion, Zong Xuecheng's current behavior is simply self-deception and hypocrisy.

Xie Qiao walked past Zong Xuecheng indifferently and pushed the door open. When he turned around to close the door, he saw that the other party was still standing there, but his eyes passed through the low fence and looked at the French window in the yard...

Through the glass, Song Lingxi was sleeping soundly on a recliner a few meters away from the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Have you ever had a nightmare?" Xie Qiao suddenly stopped, looked at Zong Xuecheng with sharp eyes, and asked a question with ambiguous meaning.

It has been nearly half a year since that shattered nightmare, but Xie Qiao still feels nervous when he is alone.

In the dream, Song Lingxi died. He was forced to go abroad by Zong Xuecheng and the Xie family. The child that Song Lingxi gave birth to at the risk of his life was treated badly by the Zong family. After Zong Xuecheng's death, the child became a tool for several branches of the Zong family to fight for power and profit.

By the time he finally defeated the forces that prevented him from returning to China, his sister had become depressed and disgusted with the world at a very young age and had attempted suicide several times.

Xie Qiao hates everyone. He hates his family who prevented him from returning to China; he hates Zong Xuecheng who made him lose everything; he hates Zong Fei who promised him that she would take good care of her sister but broke her promise; and what he hates most is himself for being incompetent.

So he went crazy in his dream for a while. Not only did he break the promise with his mother and give up the path of scientific research, but he also founded a technology company in the first year after returning to China to compete with Zong Fei.

He even competed with Zong Fei for a woman he didn't like at all, just to make Zong Fei suffer and let him taste the feeling of losing everything.

But in the end he failed.

In the dream, he lost to Zong Fei in everything, whether it was business competition or love and friendship. What was unreasonable was that his company had already pushed Zong Fei into a corner the day before, but a policy was introduced the next day to save Zong Fei's company from danger.

His friends clearly understood why he targeted Zong Fei, but a few months later their attitude was completely the opposite.

It seemed as if the whole world was against him.

This dream gave off a feeling of being a mixture of reality and fantasy. Xie Qiao tried to comfort himself that the dream was fake, but after Song Lingxi was found to be pregnant, everything in the dream began to spread into reality.

Zong Xuecheng's eyes suddenly became sharp, and he rushed towards Xie Qiao with overwhelming momentum, "Dream? What kind of dream?"

Xie Qiao was horrified. Zong Xuecheng's reaction was very strange. Could it be that he had also had a similar dream?

Xie Qiao wanted to test Zong Xuecheng, so he pursed his lips and said, "In my dream, my mother gave birth to a girl, but she herself..."

Zong Xuecheng's expression suddenly changed, and now Xie Qiao's expression also changed.

…

Xie Qiao carefully took out the cake from his arms and touched the paper bag to find it was still warm.

Song Lingxi, who was pregnant, was still sleeping soundly on the recliner. Xie Qiao did not wake her up, but put the cakes on the table next to her and sat on the sofa in a daze.

“Hmm…”

After a long time, Song Lingxi woke up and stretched.

"It's red bean cake!" Song Lingxi wiped her fingers with a wet tissue on the table, picked up a piece of red bean cake and ate it, then looked at Xie Qiao with wet hair strangely.

"You didn't dry your hair when you came back?"

Xie Qiao touched his hair and said, "I'll go clean it."

Song Lingxi: "You should take a hot bath to avoid catching a cold."

Xie Qiao nodded, "Okay."

After Xie Qiao left, Song Lingxi put down the red bean cake in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Although he didn't know what the doctor had said to them, Song Lingxi could guess something just by looking at Xie Qiao's gloomy face since that day.

She could only pretend nothing happened and try her best to comfort Xie Qiao. However, Xie Qiao knew that he was about to lose his loved ones and was powerless to do anything. Any comfort was of no use.

Song Lingxi was able to face it calmly because she had died once and had known her predetermined fate for a long time.

But Xie Qiao...she didn't know what else she could do for Xie Qiao.

Without her, Xie Qiao would gradually become a villain, turning against his best friend and becoming estranged from his only sister.

Thinking of the hardships Xie Qiao would have to endure in the future, Song Lingxi couldn't help but get angry at Zong Xuecheng who had appeared in her sight frequently recently.

She didn't expect that the child was so important to Zong Xuecheng.

This child did not appear in the novel. Song Lingxi was very surprised when she first found out she was pregnant, and then she felt anxious and sad.

Xie Qiao at least had her mother by her side as she grew up, but the baby in her belly might lose her mother as soon as it is born. What’s more frightening is that with her current physical condition, she doesn’t know if she can survive to give birth to the baby safely.

If the result is one body and two lives, it would be better if the child had never appeared.

The next day, Song Lingxi got up and went downstairs. The nanny came out of the kitchen and saw Song Lingxi coming down the stairs with a big belly. She hurried forward and carefully supported Song Lingxi.

After going downstairs, the nanny couldn't help but say, "Xiao Song, your belly is getting bigger now. I think it's dangerous for you to walk up the stairs. Why don't you move to the empty room downstairs?"

Song Lingxi was not a stubborn person. She thought the nanny's words made sense and nodded. "Okay, Sister Zheng, then I'll have to trouble you to move the things I often use in my upstairs bedroom down."

The nanny likes to listen to employers who give her advice. Although her suggestions will ultimately cause trouble to herself, on the one hand, she is genuinely thinking about Song Lingxi, and on the other hand, Song Lingxi treats her with respect and pays her generously, so she doesn't care about these little things.

"Okay, I'll serve you the meal first, and then I'll go upstairs and clean up after you finish eating."

Song Lingxi walked to the dining table and sat down. "By the way, where is Xie Qiao? Why isn't he here?"

Sister Zheng brought the dishes from the kitchen and put them on the table. "He left in a hurry early in the morning without even having breakfast. He told me he had something to do."

Song Lingxi almost laughed out loud. What could happen to Xie Qiao, a high school student on winter vacation? Why was he speaking so formally?

But on second thought, Song Lingxi breathed a sigh of relief.

It would be nice to have something to divert Xie Qiao's attention, at least he wouldn't have to wallow in sadness and fear every day.

On the other side, Xie Qiao and Zong Xuecheng were on the plane. They were going to meet someone in order to change Song Lingxi's fate.

Xie Qiao couldn't ask for more.

The journey took an hour and a half after two hours.

After getting off the plane, there was a special car waiting for a long time, and Xie Qiao and Zong Xuecheng walked over.

At this time, a man got off the car. Xie Qiao's eyes widened in surprise. He turned to Zong Xuecheng and asked, "Zong Fei? Why is he here?"

Zong Xuecheng said calmly, as if he didn't know how terrifying his words were, "He was dreaming too."

Xie Qiao: “…”

That’s right, according to everything that happened in the dream, Zong Fei has a much stronger presence than Zong Xuecheng. If Zong Xuecheng can dream, why can’t Zong Fei?

He didn't expect that Zong Feilai would give him more than just a shock.

"Xiaoqiao!" Zong Fei ran to Xie Qiao and bumped into him, then stopped, turned around and called out "Dad" obediently.

Zong Xuecheng nodded nonchalantly, "Let's go."

In order to avoid embarrassment, Zong Fei secretly pulled Xie Qiao into the car behind.

"I specifically ordered two cars to come out," Zong Fei smiled proudly, but soon he thought of something and hesitated for a moment before asking Xie Qiao, "Xiao Qiao, you were dreaming too, right?"

Xie Qiao nodded, "What did you dream about?"

Zong Fei frowned and said depressedly: "...I had a bad dream."

Xie Qiao glanced at Zong Fei.

Zong Fei had no choice but to tell the truth, "In the dream, Aunt Song died of childbirth difficulties, and you were sent abroad by your father. Later... later, your father also died."

He and Xie Qiao also embarked on the road of breaking up.

"However," Zong Fei's face was gloomy, "I also had another dream, but I was watching this dream from a third-person perspective. Compared to reality, this dream was more like a cool story from my perspective."

Xie Qiao seemed to realize something. "Shuangwen? Novel?"

In an instant, the absurd feeling of being controlled in life from childhood to adulthood was perfectly explained.

"Ha! No wonder!"

The malice and darkness in Xie Qiao's heart reached its peak at this moment, and now he finally understood the choice made by himself in the dream.