"I want the truth."
Gong Chengjue: "When have I ever not told you the truth?"
Okay, faced with Su Ziqing's meaningful gaze, he wouldn't be foolish enough to bring up the past again, so he honestly confessed.
After hearing him mention the review team, Su Ziqing sensed something subtle. Looking at the slight upturn of his lips, she made a bold guess: "Is this review team something you've wanted to set up for a long time?"
"As expected of the clever Ziqing." He blew on her and nodded. "It's not that early, but seeing Gong Changming like this, I don't want to play along with him anymore."
"Isn't Gong Changming angry?" She felt that Gong Changming wouldn't compromise so easily, right?
“He’s angry, he even objects, but he’s hoisted himself by his own petard. What does it have to do with anyone else?” Gong Chengjue laughed like a harmless child.
Su Ziqing stared at him, "The death of Gong Changmu..."
"Wait for the review team's results." Gong Chengjue looked at Su Ziqing. "No matter what the result is, Gong Changming will be implicated."
"You've planned this all out?" Didn't he consider what would happen if things didn't go as he predicted?
However, things are currently developing in the direction he had planned.
Gong Chengjue didn't want her to be bothered with the Gong family's affairs anymore, so he simplified things by saying, "In short, nothing too serious will happen. Are you free now?"
Su Ziqing shrugged. "I don't really have much free time. What's up?"
"I haven't eaten anything since I came all the way from the capital," he said, looking at her with a pitiful expression. "I wanted to see you as soon as possible..."
Su Ziqing rolled her eyes at him, but she was secretly delighted. She still had to keep a serious expression on her face. "Then I'll have my secretary order you some takeout to fill your stomach first."
"I don't want to eat takeout," Gong Chengjue clearly refused.
Su Ziqing glanced at him, wanting to say that he could just go hungry, but then she looked at his pitiful expression...
That's going too far; he's resorting to such cunning tactics now.
She couldn't bring herself to say the harsh words, so she simply stood up and said, "There's a shop across from the company that has pretty good food. I'll go with you to eat there."
"Okay." Gong Chengjue nodded, a smile playing on his lips, as if having dinner with her was something that made him incredibly happy.
Seeing him like this, Su Ziqing felt a pang of unease. "Gong Chengjue..."
"Um?"
"You...you don't need to be like this." This doesn't seem like him at all.
Gong Chengjue was puzzled. "What do I look like?"
"It's just... like he's very vulnerable." Doesn't he get tired of this pretense?
Gong Chengjue's response to this was, "I don't just seem weak; I really am weak."
She looked at him, puzzled.
"Because I love you more than she loves him," and he's now trying to make up for his past arrogance, so he's really, really weak, okay?
It's said that in the world of love, the one who cares the most is always the most vulnerable.
Previously, Su Ziqing was the weaker party; he almost lost her.
He confidently believed that everything was under his control, but he was not a god; he was just a human being.
"Oh," Su Ziqing gave him a curt reply, then turned to get her bag.
She appeared unmoved by his confession, but when she turned around, a smile appeared on her lips and in her eyes.
But when she took the bag and turned back, her expression returned to its usual calm.
Although Gong Chengjue was disappointed, he was not discouraged. He believed that one day, after she said "I love you," she would reply, "I love you too."
……………………
Su Ziqing had already eaten something, but she ate with Gong Chengjue, and he fed her a few bites in the end.
She got up after eating for about an hour, and then the dizziness returned.
She stood still, waiting for the dizziness to subside, but this time it seemed different from the previous dizziness.
It seems to be taking longer?
Seeing that she stood up but didn't move, Gong Chengjue was a little worried. "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Su Ziqing shook her head, "I'm just a little anemic and dizzy."
Gong Chengjue looked at her nervously, "Sit down first."
"No, it happens every time I suddenly stand up. I'll get used to it." Su Ziqing shook her head.
"Is your anemia caused by... the loss of your child?" However, Gong Chengjue could not bring himself to ask this question.
Even now, he still feels pain in his heart when he thinks of the child he could never have.
All of this was because of Gong Changming and the others. However, he could not escape responsibility. If it weren't for the trouble he caused, Su Ziqing, who should have been protecting her pregnancy, wouldn't have had to travel between two places.
The child wouldn't...
Su Ziqing hummed in agreement. That lost child, who had been in her womb for such a short time…
Neither of them spoke for a moment; the silence was so profound that they could clearly hear each other's breathing.
Gong Chengjue hugged her tightly, his voice filled with deep guilt and sadness, "I'm sorry, I failed to protect you."
If she hadn't been so presumptuous, she would have told him she was pregnant right away, right?
If he knew she was pregnant, he would have made different plans...
But there are no "what ifs," so where do they come from?
Su Ziqing hummed in agreement, "I'm sorry to the baby too." She also needed to feel guilty.
It's because she didn't have the ability to keep the pregnancy healthy.
"No, it's not your fault." Gong Chengjue knew that she was the one who was most heartbroken by the loss of their child, and he couldn't bear to hear her say another word of self-blame.
Su Ziqing didn't wallow in past pain; she nudged him and said, "It's all in the past."
Gong Chengjue swallowed back all the words he wanted to say. No amount of comforting would help; it would only stir up her sadness.
He simply hugged her again, his heart aching. "We'll have other children in the future, right?"
Su Ziqing did not answer him.
She loved him, but even if they started over, she didn't intend to have children easily.
"Are you still dizzy?" Seeing that she didn't answer, Gong Chengjue tactfully changed the subject.
Su Ziqing shook her head. "Let's go, I have to go back to work. What about you? What are you going to do next?"
"I'll stay with you," Gong Chengjue said seriously.
Su Ziqing's lips curled up slightly, "You're still Miss Zhou's 'boyfriend' right now, aren't you?"
“It’s not anymore,” Gong Chengjue said earnestly.
Before he came to City A, Zhou Ruoling had already told the Zhou family that the two had broken up.
Of course, Zhou Ruoling had already shown interest in developing a relationship with her "backup plan".
Gong Changming is under investigation, it seems he can't outmaneuver the Gong family's orthodoxy. The Zhou family isn't stupid, let's just wait and see. As for Zhou Ruoling mentioning that the two have broken up, just assume it was just the two young people having a disagreement when the two families met that night.
By the time the Zhou family realized that Zhou Ruoling was telling the truth, the matter had already been resolved.
"Oh?" You broke up? That was even faster than he said it.
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