"I can go home later, can I go to school tomorrow?" Xiao Xingxing was in good spirits and didn't want to lie down. He was excited about going home.
Susu coughed lightly and had to tell him, "Xingxing, we can't go home yet today. After Dad handles your discharge, we want to take you to another hospital for further examination..."
"Why more checks?" The smile on Xiao Xingxing's face vanished instantly. "I don't want to. I'm fine now. I want to go home!"
"How about we go home after the check-up at the other hospital?" Susu explained to him, "You've never had a full physical since you were little. Since you're sick, wouldn't it be good to get a thorough check-up?"
Xiao Xingxing was about to cry and said, "I don't like hospitals. I don't want any more checks."
"Be good," Susu said, wanting to gently stroke his head. "Mom promises that after the check-up at the next hospital, we'll go home..."
Xiao Xingxing turned his head away, avoiding her hand, and cried, "You're lying to me. Am I going to die? The doctors here can't cure me, so you're taking me to another hospital!"
Susu hugged him tightly and said, "How could that be? You'll be fine. You'll definitely get better..."
As she spoke, she couldn't help but cry.
Tianyi had already completed the discharge procedures. When he entered the ward, he saw his mother and son hugging and crying. He asked softly, "What's wrong?"
Susu quickly wiped away her tears, held Xiao Xingxing, and said, "It's nothing. The child wants to go home."
Tianyi understood what had happened. He walked to Xiao Xingxing's side and said to Susu, "Let me talk to him."
Susu held back her tears, nodded, let go of Xiao Xingxing, turned her back, and stepped aside.
Tianyi wiped Xiao Xingxing's tears and said, "My little man, you've already cried your face off. What's there to be afraid of even if you are really sick? With Mom and Dad by your side, we'll face it optimistically together. There's nothing we can't overcome, right?"
Xiao Xingxing stopped crying and looked at him, asking, "Dad, I'm seriously ill, aren't I?"
"We're not sure yet. We need to do more checks," Tianyi tried to communicate with him, hoping he could face it himself.
"Okay," Xiao Xingxing said, hugging Tianyi's neck and burying his face in his shoulder.
Tianyi said gently, "I'm here. Nothing will happen to you."
They took Xiao Xingxing to a specialized children's hospital and checked into a VIP ward, awaiting further examinations and diagnosis from specialists in the field.
...
After Feng Rou pulled herself together, Xie Zhendong hadn't returned home for several days.
She continued to use the private investigator hired by Xie Huibing to investigate Xie Zhendong's whereabouts. As expected, he went to the vixen's place every day after work.
Moreover, Xie Zhendong was looking for a nanny who could cook and take care of pregnant women.
It seemed that this old man valued the child in that vixen's belly very much, and her position in the Xie family was precarious.
She absolutely could not let that vixen succeed. Even if Qining went to jail, she still had a grandson. No matter what, it wouldn't be the turn of the child in that woman's belly to be prominent.
She couldn't let Zhan Jiayi give birth to this child. She had people watching Zhan Jiayi constantly.
But she waited for a week and couldn't find an opportunity to strike.
That woman had been staying in the apartment and hadn't left the house at all during this time.
And Xie Zhendong went to her place every night, sometimes staying overnight, sometimes not.
When he didn't stay overnight at Zhan Jiayi's place, he would return very late and wouldn't even come to her room, resting in another room.
Feng Rou hadn't gone to find him either. She was holding back her anger, wanting to deal with the child in Zhan Jiayi's belly first before reporting it.
But Zhan Jiayi was too cunning. She wasn't going to the company anymore and wasn't going out, so there was no opportunity to deal with her.
Xie Zhendong had returned to rest last night. Feng Rou got up early, dressed up meticulously, and planned to talk to him before he left in the morning to see what his intentions were.
Did Xie Zhendong really plan to let the child born to the woman outside inherit the family business?
In the past few days, she had resumed her normal schedule and diet, no longer lying in bed unwilling to move. Her complexion had improved a lot.
However, she had lost a lot of weight and lacked the former elegance.
After applying light makeup, she no longer looked so dejected.
When Xie Zhendong came out of the study early in the morning and entered the dining room, he saw Feng Rou already sitting there.
Her makeup and attire did surprise him for a moment.
He thought she would be heartbroken and unwilling to live a normal life from now on because of Qining.
"Good morning," Feng Rou greeted him first and quickly asked the servant to serve his breakfast.
Xie Zhendong sat in his usual seat and looked at her, saying, "Good morning. Are you alright?"
"Much better," Feng Rou forced a smile.
"Oh, that's good, that's good." Xie Zhendong looked at the tablet on the dining table and began to browse the morning news. He also reminded her, "Go out and relax more when you're free."
Feng Rou hummed, took a sip of milk, and said, "I've thought things through. Qining became like this because I doted on him too much since he was little. I didn't discipline or restrain him in many things and behaviors. Sometimes when you tried to discipline him, I and Mom would stop you. Now I truly regret it."
Xie Zhendong listened while watching the news, feeling that she had finally come to this realization, but it was too late.
"Don't think about the past anymore. We'll just pretend we never had a son like Qining. You take care of yourself."
Feng Rou's heart sank. He had indeed been bewitched by that vixen and was abandoning the old for the new.
Was he going to sever his father-son relationship with Qining?
She suppressed her anger and said, "Qining has learned his lesson after this incident. He's still young. He'll be around forty when he's released from prison. It's not too late for everything..."
"I hope he can truly reform and not cause trouble after being released from prison. It would be good enough if he could be filial to you by your side." Xie Zhendong didn't want to talk about Qining with her anymore. The thought of this son annoyed him.
"No matter how filial he is to us, he still has to inherit the Xie family..."
"Let's not talk about him anymore." Xie Zhendong quickly started eating his breakfast, not wanting to hear Feng Rou talk about these things. "The Xie family cannot be handed over to him..."
"You, you're not letting our son inherit the Xie family anymore? Then who do you plan to let?" Feng Rou couldn't control herself anymore. "Do you want the illegitimate child outside to become the heir? Never!"
Xie Zhendong drank his milk in one gulp, looked at her, and said calmly, "This is not up to you to decide. The most capable person gets it. If the time comes when an heir is truly needed, I will have my own considerations."
Feng Rou glared at him and said, "Don't forget, even if Qining goes to jail, he still has a son! Our grandson can also be the heir. It's not the turn of that bitch's child to take the throne!"