Chapter 500 - It’s Because You Abandoned Me (1/2)
“Really?” Shi Mengwan asked as she touched her face. She looked at Su Qingsang, turned up the corners of her lips and gave her a guilty smile. “It’s maybe because I stayed up working late last night.”
“You.” Su Qingsang poked her forehead with a finger, said, “you haven’t been taking care of yourself since I moved from Lin City, right?”
“That’s not true.” Recalling running into Zhan Haoze again yesterday, Shi Mengwan’s smile grew stiff.
Sensing the concern in Su Qingsang’s eyes, she put an arm around Su Qingsang’s arm and said half-jokingly, half-seriously, “It’s because you abandoned me. I even lost my appetite after you left Lin City.”
“Poor thing,” said Su Qingsang as she clicked her tongue and patted on Shi Mengwan’s shoulder. “alright, I’m gonna take you to have some delicious food today.”
“Sure you are,” teased Shi Mengwan. She glared at her and said, “you are the wife of the president of Tianyu Group. You won’t have the heart to let me eat from the stalls by the roadside, do you?”
“I will. If you keep complaining, I might treat you with spicy hot pot.”
Often, the two of them had spent time eating spicy hot pot together when living together. There was one spicy hot pot stall near where they had lived, and having a meal there was simple and convenient.
“Alright. I’ll eat it if you treat me to it. Then I’ll make a WeChat Moments post and Weibo post, to let everyone know how stingy Mrs. Huo now is.”
“Do that, do that right now.”
Su Qingsang happily chatted with Shi Mengwan. Both of them felt as if they had traveled back in time to when they shared an apartment.
However, Su Qingsang was so happy to see her best friend, that she hadn’t noticed the sorrow which flashed across Shi Mengwan’s eyes.
Su Qingsang brought Shi Mengwan home and let her stay in the guest room.
Shi Mengwan walked in, looked at the tastefully furnished apartment and said, “not bad, this is low-key luxurious.”
The apartment was furnished in a minimalist, modern style. She could tell that every piece in the apartment was the best of its kind.
She often designed wedding dresses for her clients, so she had some knowledge about top-rank brands.
“Is this Huo Jinyao’s apartment?” The man who owned this apartment surely had a good taste.
“Yes. This apartment is close to his company and my hospital, so we decided to live here.”
The apartment had one only floor but was very roomy. It was two apartments connected and the entire floor was occupied by Huo Jinyao and Su Qingsang alone.
As the two apartments had been merged into one, every room in it became spacious. There was also a huge terrace on the roof with a great view. Neither did Su Qingsang nor Huo Jinyao have much time for the view, though.
Su Qingsang put Shi Mengwan’s luggage in a guest room. Thankfully, she had cleaned all the guest rooms in advance, as she believed that Shi Mengwan would come to visit her sooner or later.
She took out a clean sheet and started to make the bed. Shi Mengwan wanted to help, but Su Qingsang didn’t let her. She told her to sit there and talk to her.
Shi Mengwan looked around but didn’t see Xiang Caiping. That was unexpected.
“Eh? Where is Aunty Xiang? Isn’t she living together with you two?”
She thought that Xiang Caiping would certainly be living with Su Qingsang.
Su Qingsang stopped short. She hadn’t talked to Shi Mengwan about her real parents yet, because she thought it would be hard to explain everything clearly via phone. Now that Shi Mengwan was here, she finally had a chance to tell her the story.
She told Shi Mengwan everything, from how she had found out she couldn’t possibly be Xiang Caiping’s daughter to how she became Li Qianxue’s daughter, finally ending with how she had convinced Li Qianxue to come to Rong City with her.
Currently, she still video chatted with Li Qianxue every day. She had also been forging a close relationship with Old Master Li and Su Yuxin slowly.
“That’s what happened.”
The bed-making was finished long ago. Su Qingsang finished talking and looked at Shi Mengwan who was looking stunned.
At last, Shi Mengwan clicked her tongue, stood up and walked to Su Qingsang. She walked a circle around her.
“Oh my God. Why is your story so fascinating?”
Su Qingsang found it unbelievable too. “I didn’t want to believe it at first, but the paternity test wouldn’t lie.”
Besides, she was aware that she instinctively never had that kind of desire to be close to Xiang Caiping, despite how grateful she was to her and how bad she felt for her.
Shi Mengwan abruptly patted hard on her shoulder and said, “you found out the truth on New Years, didn’t you? I can’t believe you didn’t tell me until now. Am I still your friend?”
Su Qingsang pressed her lips together with guilt and said, “I’m sorry. I wanted to tell you.”
She just didn’t know how to tell her, and more importantly, the circumstances at that time didn’t allow her to share the secret.
“You knew my mom. I mean, Aunty Xiang’s condition back then. She was upset and her waist was injured. I was afraid that you might fail to hide your real feelings and accidentally let her figure out that you knew. So I decided not to tell you.”
Also, she had decided to treat Xiang Caiping as her real mother at that time anyway. What did it matter if she told her friend the truth or not?
Shi Mengwan nodded. She was able to control her emotions, but it would indeed be a little difficult for her to act like nothing happened if she knew the truth.
“It must have been hard for you to have kept it a secret for such a long time. You spent a long time with her after finding out the truth. Did she ever suspect you?”
“No,” Su Qingsang shook her head. “Why would she suspect me? She had always felt so guilty for me at that time. Of course, she wouldn’t think so much.”