You promised her five minutes, yet you broke your word.
Truly... this is too much.
Seeing Qing Muye walk away, Meng Jingwei grabbed his arm. "Qing Muye, I haven't settled the score with you for sleeping with me. Can you get the expert team to treat my father? I won't shortchange you on the surgery fees. I have money!"
Yesterday, she had wanted Qing Muye to give her a discount on the surgery fees, but the scoundrel had gone too far, so she had given up.
Just three minutes ago, she had been touched by Qing Muye's words, "The expert team will come to treat your father," and thought he wasn't a complete scumbag, at least having some humanity.
Now, it seemed she had been naive.
Pulled by her, Qing Muye stopped, turned, and his narrow, sharp eyes fixed on her. His gaze finally fell on her neck, and he found the necklace particularly glaring.
"You have money?"
His handsome face was tinged with a mocking smile. "Are you planning to sleep with Xiao Cheng? How much per night?"
For more than two months, he had arranged for someone to secretly monitor Meng Jingwei and her phone, so he was certain she hadn't slept with Xiao Cheng.
However, the nurses' conversation in the hospital just now, and the necklace on Meng Jingwei's neck, were enough to indicate that she was dating Xiao Cheng.
"You..."
Meng Jingwei didn't expect Qing Muye's thoughts to be so filthy. Angrily, she snorted and added, "Yes, Xiao Cheng gave me the money."
With a surge of unknown anger, she lifted her neck and showed off the exquisite and beautiful necklace at her collarbone, as if to declare, "This necklace was given to me by Xiao Cheng. He and I are dating. So, Mr. Qing, please stay away from me, or my boyfriend won't let you off."
She regretted her deliberate 'show' after saying it.
Although claiming Xiao Cheng as her boyfriend might prevent Qing Muye from touching her again, provoking the man meant the expert team would definitely not treat her foster father anymore.
A cold glint appeared in Qing Muye's eyes. He reached out and hooked her chin, rubbing his thumb against her skin. "I warn you, stay away from Xiao Cheng. Otherwise, don't blame me for being harsh."
"Heh, Young Master Qing is accustomed to having his way in Lancheng. You don't think you can be unscrupulous just because you have money and power, do you? You tell me to stay away from him, but I refuse."
She was not a girl who liked to admit defeat. Her nature was to be stronger against the strong and weaker against the weak, which meant she wouldn't back down to Qing Muye.
"You try me!"
The man leaned in, his breath faintly brushing her face, making Meng Jingwei uncomfortable, creating a sense of intimacy between them.
But in the next moment, the man said, "If I catch you again, I'll break your legs."
"You're crazy."
Meng Jingwei thought Qing Muye had a mental problem. "Fine, if you won't treat him, I'll transfer my father to another hospital."
Tired of Qing Muye's threats, Meng Jingwei detested him to her core. "I'm transferring him now."
"Do you think you can escape my grasp?"
Hearing his words, Meng Jingwei furrowed her brows. "Hmph, my legs are my own. I can do as I please."
Meng Jingwei's actions were completely outside Qing Muye's control.
This situation, being beyond his control, displeased the man.
He stepped forward, grabbed her collar, and lifted her slightly. "You're carrying my child, and you think you can do whatever you want?"
Although he had kept it from Meng Jingwei, a month had passed since he had tested her.
She had not only not sought him out but had even been very repulsed by him.
Qing Muye was sure Meng Jingwei had no feelings for him, and she had been working part-time for a month, and her pregnancy had not been terminated.
He actually thought it wouldn't be bad to have Meng Jingwei give birth to his child.
After the child was born, he could give her a sum of money and leave, preventing her from pestering him. It seemed like a good option.
Qing Muye had made up his mind and planned to tell her the truth in the next couple of days. Who knew he would encounter her and Xiao Cheng at the hospital.
And he would never allow her, carrying his child, to get involved with a good-for-nothing like Xiao Cheng.
"What child of yours? If you have mental problems, go see a psychiatrist."
She reprimanded him angrily. "Even if I was bitten by a dog yesterday, I took the medicine. Qing Muye, I, Meng Jingwei, will never carry a child of your Qing family in this lifetime."
Damn it, did this woman think he couldn't understand she was insulting him?
"Oh, is that so?"
The man smiled instead of getting angry. "After the last miscarriage, did you not feel anything? Did your period not come?"
He reminded her.
"I..."
Meng Jingwei was speechless, looking at the man before her in confusion, his question echoing in her mind.
That's right, after the last miscarriage, she hadn't felt any pain.
But she heard that miscarriages were very painful, so why hadn't she felt anything?
Moreover, her period seemed to have really not come.
A few days ago, Meng Jingwei had just thought her menstrual cycle was irregular after the abortion surgery, but hearing Qing Muye's implication...
She hadn't actually had an abortion surgery that day?!
"Impossible. I even took a contraceptive pill yesterday."
"Was the pill white and oval, with a slightly sour taste?"
"You... How do you know?"
"Because from 'Ye Se' clubhouse to Jinxiu Garden, I had people make arrangements everywhere."
Qing Muye no longer hid anything. His handsome face wore a faint smile, as if mocking Meng Jingwei's naivety.
Meng Jingwei, as if struck by lightning, shook her head like a rattle drum. "Impossible, impossible, I haven't... haven't gotten pregnant with your child."
"This is a hospital. Whether you are pregnant or not, you can get it checked."
"I don't believe you. This is Saint De Hospital, which your family owns. Whatever the results are, it's all up to you."
"It's not hard to confirm. Go to a clinic and buy a test strip, and you'll know."
"Impossible, you liar..."
Meng Jingwei muttered.
Despite saying she didn't believe him, her mind was in a turmoil.
She had just said she would arrange for her foster parents to transfer hospitals, but now she walked past Qing Muye and headed outside.
Then she got on her electric scooter to go home.
On the way, she saw a pharmacy and prepared to buy a test strip, but she wondered if Qing Muye had already instructed this pharmacy?
After all, she often took this route.
So, she changed her mind and drove down a road she rarely took. She bought several boxes of test strips from two pharmacies there.
Upon returning home, she started testing.
Ten minutes later, a scream erupted from the bathroom, "Qing Muye, you're not human... Woo woo woo..."
She looked at the five or six test strips placed before her, each showing two lines, indicating a positive result for pregnancy.
She was so angry that she kept cursing Qing Muye.
But she was unwilling to give up. She went to a traditional Chinese medicine clinic and asked the old doctor to check her pulse. The result was still... pregnant.
She walked out of the TCM clinic, walking dazed in the street. She then sat on a bench, her gaze blankly fixed ahead, as if frozen.
After sitting for an unknown amount of time, a car stopped in front of her. The door opened, and Qing Muye walked towards her, step by step.