The man replied coldly, "Yes, yes, you have a good eye for people."
Xiang Nanzhi pinched his arm, but he didn't react. She then slapped his arm again, saying, "You're tough."
Upon arrival, Xiang Nanzhi got out of the car.
She opened the parasol in her hand, looked up, and squinted slightly. "Why does this housing development look so familiar?"
It felt familiar, but I couldn't quite place it. When I walked into the community, I realized that this was the project that Song Ze had been so proud of before.
When they were dating, Song Ze brought her here and said that he had also participated in the architectural design and that his family's construction company had personally completed the project. He said that the Song family had made a lot of money from this project alone.
But Song Ze asked her to talk to her older brother and find a way to get a batch of low-priced steel and essential building materials.
Returning here, Xiang Nanzhi felt somewhat awkward.
Shen Shixun asked a security guard for directions to the building, then pulled the woman's hand and led her there. The wind was a bit strong, and Xiang Nanzhi's umbrella was blown inside out, making her feel like she was about to lose her grip on it.
"Shen Shixun, slow down."
Seeing that she had turned her umbrella inside out, the man casually tucked it away. "What are you doing? The sun... the sun..."
"Don't you get tired of carrying this thing?"
Carry an umbrella with you whenever you go out; what kind of image do you project?
"Open it for me."
Shen Shixun opened the umbrella, gripped the handle with his upper arm, and held it for her.
Xiang Nanzhi felt a little more comfortable, and her facial expression relaxed. "You must remember, I can't get sunburned, or I won't be pretty."
As she spoke, she looked in the mirror and touched up her makeup.
Shen Shixun stood like a statue, his 1.9-meter height holding an umbrella for her as he watched her slowly touch up her makeup, then smiled at herself in the mirror.
Then she looked up at him and asked, "How is it?"
He didn't feel that anything had changed.
Let's go.
Upon arriving at Liu Panpan's house, Xiang Nanzhi sent Shen Shixun away, saying, "You go stand there and don't come out."
"Why?"
"You're so tall and imposing, people can tell at a glance that you don't look like a good person."
His height can easily create a sense of oppression. Liu Panpan, a housewife, would probably be dumbfounded if she saw a tall, dark-skinned man who was 1.9 meters tall appear at her door.
"What, you think you're the only good person?"
Xiang Nanzhi tossed her curly hair at her chest. "What, you're not convinced?"
"I'll just wait here, okay?"
"Don't come out unless it's absolutely necessary." She handed the folded umbrella to the man.
"Um."
Xiang Nanzhi found out that Liu Panpan's husband was not at home. When she got to the door, she heard a child crying inside. She hesitated for a moment before knocking.
I knocked twice, waited half a minute, and then knocked twice more.
Liu Panpan was wearing pajamas, her hair was clipped up with a shark clip, and she was holding her child.
Who are you looking for?
Are you Liu Panpan?
Liu Panpan nodded, "You are..."
"I am Xiang Nanzhi, and I would like to talk to you about Shiqi."
Upon hearing the name, Liu Panpan's expression changed drastically. "I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about. Please leave."
"Shiqi has leukemia. We finally found a bone marrow donor, and she's having surgery today!"
Xiang Nanzhi quickly blocked the door with his hand, "She called your name before she went into the operating room. She said she missed her mother, and I would like to ask you to come and see her."
“Miss Liu, you are a mother. Yang He doesn’t want to put you in a difficult position, but since you gave birth to Shiqi, you have to take responsibility, just like you would take responsibility for the child in your arms.”
Shen Shixun was listening at the elevator entrance.
Xiang Nanzhi added, "Shiqi is so sick right now. As Yang He's friend and as an observer, I just want to fulfill one of her wishes."
“Miss Liu, Shiqi’s appearance will not disturb your current life.”
"I'm sorry, I really can't go."
Once you go and see the people, you'll feel reluctant to leave, and you'll naturally reconnect with them.
What will happen to her family now that her husband has found out she had a child before?
Liu Panpan's family wasn't very wealthy either; like Yang He, her parents were from the countryside. She had finally married into the ancient city and was living a good life, so she couldn't bear to break the warmth and happiness she had now.
"You should go, I really can't go."
"Are you still a mother?"
Xiang Nanzhi looked directly at her and said, "You have to give Shiqi an explanation today. Even if you don't care about her anymore, you have to talk to the child yourself. Either you cut off her hopes and don't let her have any expectations of you!"
Liu Panpan wiped away her tears, looked up, and asked, "Who are you to Yang He? What is your relationship with him?"
"Yang He is my friend."
"Really? A friend or a bed partner? What right do you have to tell me these things?"
"You're a strange person. Your daughter is in the operating room right now, her life hanging in the balance, and she wants to see you!"
Liu Panpan wiped away her tears with her index finger. "You...you should go. I can't go. I have a family. Don't come looking for me again."
"It's not easy for me either."
"Do you know the biggest difference between humans and animals? Humans have feelings and thoughts."
"No matter how much you criticize me, I really can't go."
Xiang Nanzhi wanted to speak again, but the woman holding the child's legs went weak and she knelt in front of her. "Can you please let me go? I was a child when I gave birth to Shiqi. I was only nineteen years old. I didn't understand anything."
Liu Panpan sobbed uncontrollably, “I don’t want to stay in the countryside for the rest of my life. I think there’s something wrong with living in the city. My current husband treats me very well, and he doesn’t know that I’ve had a child.”
"Can you just pretend I'm dead?"
Xiang Nan was at a loss, "Get up..."
"Judging from your attire, you're from the city, aren't you?" She was dressed in designer clothes, adorned with jewelry, and had fair, rosy skin. She also possessed a graceful and poised demeanor.
“You’re from the city, you don’t know how hard life is in the countryside. I was in pain every day after I gave birth in the countryside. I was only nineteen when I had my child. What am I going to do with my life?”
"But you chose to follow Yang He yourself."
“People always make wrong choices. Isn’t there a way back? I was naive. I was young and didn’t know what love was. Can’t I turn back?” Liu Panpan cried until her voice was hoarse. “I want to live my own life now. What did I do wrong?”
"Shiqi is pitiful, but am I not pitiful too?"
Liu Panpan looked up and said, word by word, "I don't even know the process of giving birth. I gave birth to the child in a daze. I don't want to look back. I want to look forward."
"Shiqi misses you very much."
"She's going to ruin my life. I know I was wrong and I want to turn back. Why can't I turn back?"
Liu Panpan's question stumped Xiang Nanzhi: "But you are a mother."
“If I go to see Shiqi, it will be a betrayal of my current family. My husband will definitely blame me for lying to her and will divorce me. What will happen to my child?”
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