"Go on," Qi Jingchen said, waiting for her to continue, but his gaze involuntarily fell on her abdomen, his eyes filled with complex emotions.
She pointed at Jiang's father and said, word by word, "I want to sever all ties with him."
Jiang's father's expression immediately changed: "You good-for-nothing! I raised you with so much hardship, and this is how you repay me?"
Jiang Qingtang didn't care at all. She was fed up with being a burden to them, fed up with that "family," and fed up with living without dignity.
She knew that legally, blood ties couldn't be severed, but she deliberately said it in front of Jiang's father to frighten him and instill fear in him:
“He has been gambling, whoring, and taking out high-interest loans for years, doing a series of illegal and disorderly things. I want you to promise me that if he continues to harass me, I will send him to jail. I believe that with the power of the Qi family, it would be easy for him to spend his life in prison.”
Jiang's father then panicked.
"Jiang Qingtang, I am your father!"
Do you consider me your daughter?
As soon as Qi Jingchen uttered the word "good," Jiang's father's face turned ashen.
"Do you believe I'll find a media outlet to expose you, this unfilial daughter, and make sure you can never act again..."
"Do you think I'm afraid? Go ahead and go find him. Let everyone know that your precious son in junior high has a father who breaks the law and a sister who has lost his reputation. Let's see how he can stand in school and whether he can survive."
Jiang's father was furious.
Qi Jingchen's gaze towards her changed slightly; the usually submissive and easily manipulated girl had learned to resist.
The door to the ward was suddenly kicked open.
Before Qi Jingchen could even see who it was, he was punched in the face.
He staggered a few steps, steadied himself by holding onto the table, and after recognizing who he was angry at, he spat out a mouthful of blood, licked his lips, and frowned as he cursed, "Liu Yu, what's wrong with you?"
Liu Yu's eyes were bloodshot, and his fingers were clenched so tightly they cracked: "I'm going crazy, yes, I'm going crazy, I should have gone crazy a long time ago!"
He took two steps forward, grabbed Qi Jingchen's collar with one hand, and stared into his eyes questioningly:
"Tell me, back in school, when someone accidentally hit Qin Yue with a ball and she passed out, who was the person who carried her to the hospital?!"
Who stayed by her bedside for an hour? I had to leave early, leaving you there alone to watch over her. I clearly left my contact information, so why is it yours now?
If he hadn't called Qin Yue today to tell her his feelings that he had kept hidden for so many years, and hadn't casually mentioned why she had gotten together with Qi Jingchen back then, would he have been kept in the dark forever?
Qi Jingchen's expression changed, and his eyes darted away: "Didn't I go with her? I've been waiting for her to wake up, so why should I be criticizing you?"
Even if she knows you took her to the hospital, so what? She has no romantic feelings for you at all. Even if you gave her your phone number, you two wouldn't end up together.
Liu Yu was certainly aware of this.
Let her know that even if I helped her, it doesn't mean I'll be with someone else just because someone helped her.
But he couldn't help but think, what if...
He had been silently watching her for so long; that was his only chance to get close to her.
As a result, someone else took the spot.
Qin Yue said that she treated Qi Jingchen to a meal to thank him, and that's how they got to know each other and eventually got together.
How could Liu Yu not overthink it? What if she invited him to dinner? Would he then be with her?
The thought of this possibility is like a knife twisting in my heart.
The person who stabbed him in the back was his best friend.
They've already broken up. Should I talk to Qi Jingchen first and then Qin Yue? He's such a fool!
Jiang Qingtang, lying in her hospital bed, saw them fighting again.
Enraged, Liu Yu pinned him to the ground and punched him hard across the face: "I treated you like my best brother, I shared everything with you, and this is how you treat me! You knew how much I liked her, you knew I was the one who paid attention to her first, yet you still stole her away."
You were with her and you didn't cherish her. You kept saying you couldn't forget her, but you've got a child with someone else. Qi Jingchen, how could you do this to me? How could you do this to Qin Yue?
"Stop fighting!" Jiang Qingtang, lying on the hospital bed, was terrified. She quickly threw off the covers, got up, and went barefoot to them. "If you keep fighting, something bad will happen! Please stop..."
There was absolutely no room for her to intervene; Jiang Qingtang could only press the call button on the bedside table.
The doctor arrived quickly, and the ward was in chaos. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Jiang's father slunk away.
As soon as he stepped out of the ward, profanities started pouring out.
He never expected that the money-loser would become so powerful.
As expected, I shouldn't have had a daughter in the first place; I should have given her away after she was born.
It's no use talking about this now. He needs to figure out what to do. If he can't come up with the money, he'll lose his hand.
As he left the hospital and waited for a car by the roadside, a black luxury car stopped in front of him.
The car window rolled down, and a young man with slicked-back hair, wearing a shirt and tie, looked him up and down, twirling the ring on his index finger, and slowly asked, "Jiang He, Jiang Qingtang's father?"
"Who are you?" Jiang He squinted at the man warily.
The man chuckled: "It doesn't matter who I am. I have a business deal to do with you that I think you'll be interested in. How about we talk somewhere else?"
"If you don't tell me, how am I supposed to know what you want to talk about?"
"Why don't you take a look at your phone?"
Jiang He took his phone out of his pocket and looked at it suspiciously.
"Short message."
He opened the message as the man instructed, and the next second his pupils dilated so much that his eyeballs seemed to pop out of their sockets.
"It's just a small token of my appreciation, but I hope it can help Mr. Jiang out of his immediate predicament. Would Mr. Jiang be willing to discuss this elsewhere? Once we reach an agreement, Mr. Jiang will receive ten times the amount in this case."
Jiang's father was still uneasy, but then he thought to himself, "I'm old enough as it is, what am I afraid of?"
Just as he was about to open the car door and get in, the man raised his hand to gesture for him to sit in the passenger seat.
The car quickly disappeared into the traffic.
...
When it was time to leave work, Lu Yanci was already waiting downstairs at her company. As she requested, he texted her that he had arrived, and then added that there was no rush and that she could come down after she finished her work.
Five minutes later, Qin Yue appeared in front of the office building, carrying a square paper bag in her hand.
Along the way, Qin Yue talked to him about some trivial matters at the company, but did not mention the phone call she received about Liu Yu.
She already felt she was blind to have fallen for Qi Jingchen, and Liu Yu's words only proved that she was not only blind but also stupid.
She had no desire to bring up that unpleasant past again, as it would only spoil the good mood for both of them.
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