CHAPTER 399: CHAPTER 399: JIANG WEI (SECOND UPDATE)

"An Yu," Zhao Rou and Cheng Ziqing arrived at the alley gasping for breath, both looking somewhat guiltily at Qin Anyu.

Tang Yue was about to leave, but Qin Anyu persuaded her to stay, so she did and made each of them a cup of tea, saying, "Sister Rou, Sister Qiao, have some tea."

"Thank you."

The two sat down to the side and faced Qin Anyu, who remained silent. Zhao Rou took the initiative to admit their fault, "An Yu, we were somewhat wrong yesterday."

"But, we did it for your own good."

Just as Zhao Rou finished her words, Qin Anyu spoke up, "Zhao Rou, what are you thinking? Thinking it’s for my good to pair me up with Chu Hong?"

"Cough." Cheng Ziqing stood up and moved next to Qin Anyu, while An Yu shifted her body away, visibly ’very angry.’

"An Yu, don’t get upset yet. Yesterday, Zhao Rou and I had a bit too much to drink. We didn’t know that when we went out we would bump into Chu Hong. Chu Hong hurried over when he heard you were drunk," Cheng Ziqing explained, "An Yu, that bastard Chu Xuan doesn’t appreciate you. Seeing Chu Hong treating you kindly and considering he’s now a key figure being groomed by the Chu Family, we thought..."

"Thought that this would get back at Chu Xuan?" Qin Anyu sneered, "You guys sure are confident, aren’t you afraid he’ll take advantage of me and then deny responsibility?"

"He wouldn’t dare!" Cheng Ziqing suddenly stood up.

Qin Anyu sighed, "My affair with Chu Xuan is already in the past. Besides, I don’t like Chu Hong, even if I married him, I wouldn’t be happy."

"But Chu Hong likes you," Cheng Ziqing said.

Zhao Rou added, "That’s right, he was really anxious when he heard you’d gotten drunk."

"You’re overthinking it; I’m three years older than him," Qin Anyu shook her head, disbelieving the situation, "And don’t bring up that nonsense about a woman being three years older being catching a gold brick. Anyway, I don’t want you two trying to play matchmaker between me and Chu Hong, or else, don’t blame me if I turn hostile."

Zhao Rou muttered, "Chu Hong is such a gentleman, being three years younger doesn’t matter at all."

Cheng Ziqing was more direct, "An Yu, Chu Hong is really not bad. Although his reputation is a bit of a playboy, Zhou Rou and I have done some snooping, and it turns out he just has a slightly flirtatious reputation, but he’s actually quite a decent person."

Qin Anyu looked at them helplessly, knowing that at her age and still unmarried, they must be worried to death, which is why they did what they did yesterday.

"An Yu, we both have kids now, and you see, you’re still all by yourself; we worry about you," Zhao Rou said quietly.

Cheng Ziqing was even more straightforward. She looked at Tang Yue and said, "Look at Xiao Yue, only nineteen and already engaged. She will probably get married at twenty. You are six years older than Xiao Yue and still not married; we’re just concerned about you."

Tang Yue, who was unfairly dragged into this, sat to one side and laughed awkwardly. Being engaged at nineteen and married at twenty was not considered early in this era, and even in the future, there were many who married and had children at eighteen.

*

A small county town near Jing City.

"Chu Xuan, you’re back?" Jiang Wei, with her six or seven-month pregnant belly, heard the door and immediately came to greet him. She had a smile on her face as she took his coat for him, speaking softly, "Chu Xuan, I made your favorite lotus root and pork rib soup today."

"Mhm, is the baby behaving?" Chu Xuan looked at her pregnant belly. His previously gloomy expression also lightened up. He kissed her on the forehead and sat down with Jiang Wei on the sofa, placing his large hand on her stomach, feeling the joy of having his child in there.

Although the child was unexpected, he was very happy, thinking that it was his and Weiwei’s.

"Behaving, just missing daddy," Jiang Wei said with a coquettish smile, purposely grabbing Chu Xuan’s hand just as the baby moved, exciting Chu Xuan as he eagerly listened close to her belly.

Jiang Wei had a pure and beautiful face. She had been with Chu Xuan since university. Although they had been separated for two years because of the Chu Family, when they reunited, Jiang Wei wanted to cling to Chu Xuan even tighter, having spent years nameless and unrecognized, all to marry into the Chu Family.

Earlier, Jiang Wei knew that Chu Xuan was planning to marry Qin Anyu, so she had planned early to get pregnant. After becoming pregnant, she used work as an excuse to not see Chu Xuan for a while until the next time they met, Chu Xuan found out about her pregnancy, but because the baby was already big, especially when the ultrasound report was placed in front of Chu Xuan, he hesitated.

Chu Xuan couldn’t bear to terminate the pregnancy but also couldn’t bear to give up his current status and the Chu Family’s inheritance. When Jiang Wei tearfully begged him to just let her have the baby without asking for any status, Chu Xuan was even more reluctant.

Chu Xuan hid Jiang Wei well, but unexpectedly, she was still discovered in the end.

Chu Xuan had suspected that Jiang Wei had done it on purpose, but she cried so pitifully, pledging her life, that Chu Xuan stopped suspecting her. Later, when Chu Hong appeared, Chu Xuan naturally knew it was Chu Hong’s doing.

Afterwards, when the Qin Family found out, his only option was to call off the engagement.

He still remembered the day his father, Chu Shisong, told him that if he married Jiang Wei, he could not go back to Jin City. So he came to this small county, which also meant that he would no longer have any connection to the Chu Family’s fortune.

In the Jin City company, although it was just a subsidiary, who didn’t treat him with respect? Who didn’t know he was the eldest son of the Chu Family?

But now, in this remote small county, Chu Xuan felt as if he had experienced the full spectrum of human life. During this time, Chu Xuan had felt discouraged, but looking at Jiang Wei and the child in her belly growing day by day, Chu Xuan thought that it was not bad after all. He had been indecisive initially, causing Weiwei to suffer without recognition.

Now, because of this child, it prompted him to make a firm decision.

"Chu Xuan, I’m sorry, it’s me and the baby who are holding you back," Jiang Wei said softly, lowering her head with a remorseful expression, looking so pitiful that it was heart-wrenching.

"Weiwei, you waited for me for so many years, being with you and our child, no matter how hard or how tired, it’s worth it," said Chu Xuan earnestly. He added, "In the future, I will definitely provide a good life for you and our child."

Chu Xuan gently placed a kiss on her forehead.

Jiang Wei nestled happily and contentedly in his arms.

Chu Xuan’s eyes narrowed; he thought that with his ability, even without the Chu Family, he would definitely not be worse off than others.

*

Jinghua University.

Tang Yue coincidentally went to look for Zhang Tingyu and ran into Yu Zhaodi, the girl with the big braids.