Chapter 132 A Womans Scheme for Love (1/2)

”It's been half a month since Smith's came to the country. At first, he got in touch with me, saying that he's never been to China, so he'll come to see you once he's done touring the country. But even now, there's no news from him. How can this be?” Young Master Shen glanced at Ying Qingcang, but he found that the other man was not even listening to him. Instead, Ying Qingcang was staring something on the screen of his computer.

”What are you looking at?” Young Master Shen said, approaching Ying Qingcang. ”Wedding dresses?”

Ying Qingcang shut off the screen. ”Go away. You're not allowed to look.”

”Hah! As if you even know what you're doing!” Young Master Shen teased. ”Anyway, don't bother. I'll have a designer make one for Xiao Qingqing.”

”Oh. Is this so-called designer reliable?” Ying Qingcang asked doubtfully.

Young Master Shen glared at him. ”Do you even know how many Hollywood stars are trying to acquire this designer's service? If you line them up, the queue would reach all the way to the Pacific ocean.”

”I'm planning to hold the wedding during the National Day. Think you can make it by then?”

”Don't worry. We'll skip the queue,” Young Master Shen said, smiling smugly. ”Dude owes me a favor.”

Ying Qingcang nodded. Then, as if a thought came to him, he added, ”It can't be too revealing. Anything below the neck shouldn't be exposed.”

Young Master Shen did a face palm. ”Then you might as well put Xiao Qingqing in a burlap sack!”

”My woman looks good even in a burlap sack,” Ying Qingcang retorted.

Meanwhile, Xin Qing was not wearing a burlap sack, but the lower half of her body was hidden inside a burlap sack as she and Ah Sha did frog leaps together. They were in the middle of the parent-children workshop, and today's course involved sensory processing training. The activities were designed to train a child's sense of balance as well as help them develop their leg strength. Xin Yudie was unable to make it for quite some time now; she was pregnant again. In Xin Yudie's own words, she and her husband had ”taken things too far” during their lovemaking due to their being unaware of her pregnancy, causing her to exhibit signs of miscarriage. Huang Jianbin was so startled that he was now staying home everyday to take care of Xin Yudie and the baby.

At the thought of Huang Jianbin, Xin Qing felt a wave of emotion. No one would have a good impression of someone who had once attempted to bring dishonor upon oneself. Although she had been brought away by Ying Qingcang back then, it did not change the fact that Huang Jianbin had once traumatized Xin Qing. After that, Ying Qingcang did not take any action against Huang Jianbin, but only because Huang Jianbin was smart and observant; Huang Jianbin had offered his help to taunt Xin Pengfei to death. That was why Ying Qingcang let him off the hook.

As for why he was treating Xin Yudie so well right now? Well, that was because his doctor had once told him that his chances of having kids were slim due to an injury he had sustained in his younger days.

When Xin Yudie first got pregnant, he was neither cold nor affectionate in his treatment of Xin Yudie, though he did take very good care of her. After the baby was born, he secretly did a DNA test and confirmed that the baby was indeed his. That led to his immediate marriage to Xin Yudie. Among all that, there was another reason: he went to a fortune teller.

According to the fortune teller, Wang Jianbin was meant to be sterile due to karma; he had done too many bad things in the past. But now that someone had given birth to his child, thus breaking his preordained fate, this person would become the most valuable person in his life.

The fortune teller had even predicted that he and his valuable person were destined to have more than one child together. Xin Yudie's current pregnancy had fully convinced Huang Jianbin of the truth of the fortune teller's words. Right now, he just wanted to keep Xin Yudie all to himself. As for his other women, he had already put them all behind him.

When Xin Qing told all this to Ying Qingcang, Ying Qingcang's reaction was not what she had expected.

”You thought the fortune telling's real?”

”But it's so accurate!' Xin Qing wondered if she should pay the fortune teller a visit too.

Ying Qingcang smacked her ass. ”Don't be silly. It was all staged by Xin Yudie.”

”Huh?” Xin Qing said in surprise, ”You mean that fortune teller? Xin Yudie hired the fortune teller?”

”Of course. Why else would Huang Jianbin believe in any of that crap? The fortune teller had spoken of many details about Huang Jianbin's life and had been accurate right down to the exact details. But that's only because Xin Yudie had told the fortune teller everything beforehand.”

Xin Qing gaped. For a long while, she could not bring herself to accept that reality. When she met up with Xin Yudie again after that, Xin Qing could not help but think of Xin Yudie's maneuver as being exceptionally brilliant. Using her own skills and cleverness, Xin Yudie had managed to secure her current life. Again, in Xin Yudie's own words: ”Covert scheme or overt scheme, it doesn't matter what you call them. As long as it ends up serving a good purpose, it's called a good strategy rather than a scheme.”

Feeling emotional, Xin Qing sighed. At the same time, she thought she would never be able to come up with any schemes no matter how hard she tried, at least not in this lifetime...

When she left the parent-children workshop, Xin Qing stuck to her usual routine: be at the coffee shop downstairs and wait for Ah Che to pick her up.

”What a pretty little Chinese doll!” A foreign man with blonde hair stood before her. Then, he threw a remark at Ah Sha, who was sitting inside her stroller. ”She's even more adorable than what's shown in the advertisement!”

At his comment, it immediately hit her who it was that was standing before her.

”Mr. Smith?” she called out in an attempt to test out her earlier guess.

The blonde man pumped his fits dramatically. ”Oh! I can't believe Miss Xin even knows my name.”

Xin Qing had no idea how to respond to that. She never expected to run into the man under such circumstances. After that, she frowned. ”You followed me, didn't you?”

”Pfft!” Smith chuckled. ”Relax. I was just passing by.”

Xin Qing did not buy a single word of it.

Smith saw the look in her eyes, which confirmed what he already knew. He knew that she would not have believed him. Still, he sat down, not minding her doubts at all.

”I'll be dining with Mr. Ying tomorrow. Why don't you join us, Miss Xin!” said Smith, whose eyes were now fixed upon Xin Qing. The slightly sunny and cheerful disposition which had been there just moments ago had vanished without a trace. Right now, his face held nothing but arrogance and unruliness.