"Avoiding it?" Xia Qiqi looked at Le Ling.
Xiao Nanchen wasn't yelling at her, he was avoiding it?!
"Miss Xia, Mr. Xiao is actually very good to you," Le Ling couldn't help but want to say some nice things about Mr. Xiao. She truly felt that he was the best man she had ever seen. "The porridge today was cooked ahead of time for you by Mr. Xiao. He said that he was afraid you would be hungry when you woke up and said that you like to eat mung bean porridge. He remembered it all since you ate two bowls that morning."
Xia Qiqi pursed her lips.
She looked at the mung bean porridge in front of her and suddenly didn't know what to say.
"I'm from the countryside. The men from my hometown have never treated women this well. They just order them around. No woman from my hometown could be as arrogant as Miss Xia is in front of a man. If a woman acted like this, she would be soaked in a pig cage."
Xia Qiqi's face darkened as she glared fiercely at Le Ling.
Le Ling was frightened, but still worked up the courage to continue, "Although the city always emphasizes gender equality, I have worked in several households before. In public, the man of the house will show tenderness and care for his wife, but in private, he actually does not respect her at all. Nothing is like Mr. Xiao, who can indulge you so much, and even after getting married still sleep in separate rooms, only having slept with you one night in all this time. You don't know, but one morning I even saw Mr. Xiao washing his own underwear."
As for washing underwear...
As an old hand like Xia Qiqi, she understood instantly.
Le Ling's face turned a little red. She said, "Mr. Xiao would rather endure it himself than force Miss Xia. I don't know if there is any other man in this world who could be so good. And on top of that Mr. Xiao is so handsome. If I had a husband like that, I'd be smiling even in my dreams..."
"Shut up!" Xia Qiqi cut Le Ling off and yelled loudly.
She really couldn't stand to listen anymore.
At the moment, she didn't want to hear anything good about Xiao Nanchen at all. Yet Le Ling had just said a bunch, deliberately trying to provoke her?!
Moreover...
Xiao Nanchen treats her well... She wasn't blind. She knew it perfectly well!
In fact, Xiao Nanchen didn't just treat her well. He treats everyone well.
When they were young, his treatment of her and An An seemed exactly the same.
And now with Le Ling, he is patient to a fault with even a little maid, and is even teaching her foreign languages sound by sound.
In short.
Xiao Nanchen is just a great guy.
But so what if he's good?!
She just doesn't love him!
She just doesn't like him!
No matter how good Xiao Nanchen is to her, it's useless!
Xia Qiqi lowered her head and continued eating the mung bean porridge.
She didn't want to think too much.
In any case...
In any case.
She unconsciously looked down at her belly.
Damn!
How on earth did she end up pregnant?
And she actually couldn't make herself do something as awful as having an abortion!
Just now, she had even wanted to force Xiao Nanchen to make that decision for her!
In the quiet hall.
There was a sudden knock at the door.
Who has come so late?!
Le Ling hurried to open the door.
At this moment, Xia Qiqi also looked toward the door.
When she saw Xia Zheng Hai, her face turned green.
Why did he come so late?
She pretended not to see him and lowered her head to eat porridge.
She deliberately ignored the large and small packages he brought with him that suddenly filled up the entranceway.
Xia Zheng Hai had Le Ling put away his things while he changed into house slippers and walked over to sit across from Xia Qiqi with a doting look on his face.
Xia Qiqi got goosebumps from Xia Zheng Hai looking at her. "Can you stop disturbing my meal!"
"I just heard that you are pregnant?" Xia Zheng Hai's voice was gentle to a ridiculous degree, for fear that speaking too loudly would startle her.
Xia Qiqi rolled her eyes.
That blabbermouth Xiao Nanchen had really spread the news quickly!
"It's good to be pregnant, it's good to be pregnant." Since Xia Qiqi didn't answer, Xia Zheng Hai quickly created an excuse for himself. "You don't need to go to work during this time. Just stay home and nurture the baby."
Xia Qiqi looked at Xia Zheng Hai, seemingly in disbelief.
"Your allowance and salary will still be paid. Dad will give you extra as a nutrition fee every month. Don't let the baby go hungry." Xia Zheng Hai quickly added.
"Are you sure you’re not letting me go to work?" Xia Qiqi asked.
If it weren't for the money, there was no way she would go to that mind-numbingly boring place.
"When has Dad ever lied to you? Your top priority now is to safely give birth to the child. Don't worry about anything else." Xia Zheng Hai doted on her without hiding his delight for this child.
Xia Qiqi rolled her eyes again.
Although she was quite happy to not have to work, seeing her dad so excited made her inexplicably unhappy.
Why should she have to please her dad? She hated him to death.
"Also, Dad bought you a lot of baby supplies, formula, little clothes, toys, etc. If it's not enough later, Dad will buy more." Xia Zheng Hai was clearly overjoyed.
"It's not even born yet. What did you buy that stuff for!" Xia Qiqi was truly speechless.
She had doubted her personality since she was young and felt now that she probably took after her unreliable dad!
"Just preparing in advance. Anyway, it wasn't expensive."
Xia Qiqi didn't even have the energy to say more to her dad. "It's late. Go home."
"I wanted to spend more time with you." Xia Zheng Hai was clearly reluctant to leave.
"Stop spending time with me. Seeing you gives me a headache. It'll be better for me and the baby if you leave and my mood improves." Xia Qiqi rushed him out.
"Dad won't cause any trouble..."
"If you don't leave now, I really will get worked up and it will be bad for the baby!" Xia Qiqi threatened.
Xia Zheng Hai was so frightened his face turned white. He hurriedly stood up from his chair. "Okay, okay I'm leaving right away. You have to take good care of yourself, you hear?"
"Hurry up and go." Xia Qiqi urged.
When Xia Zheng Hai walked to the door, he suddenly seemed to remember something else. "Or you could move back to the villa. There are more servants at the villa who can take better care of you, and the villa is bigger than here if you want to go for walks..."
"Do you know the one thing I was happy about when I married Xiao Nanchen?" Xia Qiqi interrupted her dad.
"Having a child." Xia Zheng Hai blurted out.
Xia Qiqi almost spit blood. She enunciated word for word, "It was that I could get away from you and not have to live under the same roof."
"..." Xia Zheng Hai was clearly somewhat hurt.
But Xia Qiqi felt no remorse whatsoever.
Even if...
"It's late. Tell your driver to be careful driving home." As Xia Zheng Hai walked to the door, Xia Qiqi still couldn't help saying something.
Xia Zheng Hai couldn't believe what he was hearing. He turned to look at Xia Qiqi in surprise.
"I'm just afraid if you die I won't be able to mooch off of you anymore."
"..."
"Hurry up and leave!" Xia Qiqi was annoyed.
When Xia Zheng Hai left, he was clearly smiling. He said, "Don't worry, Dad can let you mooch for another 30 years no problem."
Who said you'd live that long!
