Chapter 606 - I Owe You Again (1/2)

This was a rather remote villa in Rong City. It was a small three-and-a-half-story villa. It wasn’t particularly big, but it had an elegant environment and its surroundings were very quiet.

The distance between residents was also quite far, so the privacy was very good.

In the garden outside, there was a small white carved table. Huo Jinyao sat on the rattan chair next to him and looked at Qi Xiwei, who was pouring fruit juice into her cup.

“I’m sorry. I quit coffee when I became pregnant. I only have fruit juice at home.”

“It’s okay. I’m not here for a drink.”

Huo Jinyao looked at her and realized that her face was much paler than it had been two days ago.

“Are you okay? You don’t look too well.”

“No.” Qi Xiwei filled her cup with fruit juice and retracted her hand. She looked at Huo Jinyao and said, “It’s normal. There will be some changes because I’m pregnant.”

Huo Jinyao looked at Qi Xiwei. He didn’t quite believe her story.

“Is it really not because of that shot?”

Qi Xiwei froze for a moment and suddenly smiled. “What are you thinking about? Of course not.”

She picked up the glass of juice in front of her and took a sip. She said softly, “It’s been so long. I forgot about it. It’s remarkable for you to still remember.”

“How could I not remember? Of course I would remember.”

Huo Jinyao’s eyes were filled with guilt and pity.

The only people in his life he felt guilty towards was his brother, sister, and Qi Xiwei.

Huo Jinyao had studied at Yale. There were many Chinese people in their school, but Qi Xiwei was not only Chinese, but also from Rong City.

By chance, Huo Jinyao and Qi Xiwei got to know each other. Because both of them were Chinese, and both were from Rong City.

Qi Xiwei and Huo Jinyao got close.

Huo Jinyao was a diligent and hardworking person. He put all his energy into his studies.

However, Qi Xiwei was also very capable. She could be considered one of the few girls who could follow his train of thought when it came to business and studies.

This made Huo Jinyao, who originally only wanted to keep a distance from Qi Xiwei, unwittingly admire Qi Xiwei even more.

After a while, the relationship between the two became much better.

Some of the classmates who knew about the relationship between the two even thought that Huo Jinyao and Qi Xiwei were a couple.

However, only Huo Jinyao and Qi Xiwei knew that they weren’t a couple. They were just two people who had a good relationship with each other.

Qi Xiwei looked weak on the surface. However, she was very determined on the inside.

She had similar experiences with Huo Jinyao. She was born into a scholarly family. Her mother was born into a blue-blood family and was a professor at Z University, while her father was the president of a bank.

Growing up in such an environment, she was naturally very capable.

But just like Huo Jinyao, she had an unfortunate past. Her mother was a professor, and she had the air of a schola, but her father was the vice president of the bank.

His father was always busy with work. He cared more about his own interests and his own future than his family.

As a professor, her mother had always wholeheartedly supported her father’s work. But who would have thought that such devotion, support, and excessive trust would allow her father to indulge in his vices.

Qi Xiwei’s father later made a mistake that all men in the world were vulnerable towards, falling in love with another woman. That woman was also his secretary.

After Qi Xiwei’s mother found out about this, she thought it was useless to make a fuss. She calmly expressed that she wanted a divorce. However, Father Qi happened to be facing promotion at that time. He didn’t want to cause such a scandal and was unwilling to divorce.

Mother Qi had no patience. After collecting all the evidence of Father Qi’s infidelity, she intended to negotiate with Father Qi. Unexpectedly, she got into a car accident on the way.

After she was sent to the hospital, she died. At that time, Qi Xiwei was only a 12-year-old girl.

After her mother suddenly left, her father soon brought the secretary home and she became her stepmother.

If there was a stepmother, there would be a stepfather. Her father, who had doted on her in every possible way, gradually distanced himself from her after her stepmother entered the house. After her brother was born, her status plummeted.

It was also because of this that Qi Xiwei went to the United States to study alone at such a young age.

After learning about her experience, Huo Jinyao had a feeling that they were in the same boat.

Although his parents weren’t his step parents, they weren’t much different from step parents. More importantly, the turning point in their lives seemed to be when they were 12 years old.

He didn’t have any romantic feelings for Qi Xiwei, but his feelings for her surpassed that of platonic friendship.

Qi Xiwei was the same. Unlike Huo Jinyao, she had always been thinking of ways to avenge her mother.

After so many years, she kept suspecting that her mother’s death wasn’t that simple. She didn’t believe in the coincidence that her mother had a car accident just as she was about to divorce her father.

Unfortunately, she was too young back then, and there was nothing she could do about it. After she grew up, she left Rong City.

After she got to know Huo Jinyao, and after the two of them got to know each other more and more, one day, she couldn’t help but tell Huo Jinyao about her background.

Huo Jinyao was more capable than she was. She believed that he had the ability to find out.

Sure enough, Huo Jinyao helped her find out very quickly. Back then, her stepmother, the secretary, had tampered with the car.

Qi Xiwei unceremoniously sent her to prison and at the same time, spread the news. It made her father bear the responsibility.

In the end, her father lost his job and her stepmother went to prison. After settling all this, Qi Xiwei returned to Yale to continue her studies.

Huo Jinyao helped Qi Xiwei with a lift of his hand. He felt that it was something insignificant. However, Qi Xiwei was certain that she owed him one.

Huo Jinyao had many girls in school who liked him. Qi Xiwei was rumored to be his girlfriend, but since she never came forward to verify it, the girls felt that they still had a chance.

Qi Xiwei felt that she owed Huo Jinyao this time, so she automatically took on the responsibility of getting rid of them for Huo Jinyao.

Her looks made her very popular with Europeans and Americans, and she also had many suitors. Similarly, she used Huo Jinyao to fend off those suitors.

However, such a mutually beneficial relationship wasn’t enough to make Qi Xiwei think that she paid off her debt towards Huo Jinyao. She had always wanted to return Huo Jinyao’s favor.

Huo Jinyao knew what she was thinking, but he never took it to heart.

The Huo family had a lot of resources, and helping Qi Xiwei to solve this kind of problem was a piece of cake. However, he didn’t expect Qi Xiwei to be so serious, and she really seized the opportunity.

That Christmas, the two people in foreign land were invited by their classmate to attend that classmate’s party.

Before they went, Huo Jinyao first went to pick up Qi Xiwei, and then the two of them planned to buy a gift for that classmate.

When the two of them went to buy a gift, a terrorist attack actually happened on that street, the famous local shopping street.

Everything happened in an instant, so fast that people were caught off guard. There was no way to guard against it at all.

Gunshots rang out. Huo Jinyao looked at the few people who were shooting wildly in the distance. He was still thinking of protecting Qi Xiwei and bringing her to the nearest shop to hide for a while when Qi Xiwei suddenly pounced on him with her eyes wide open.

“Be careful.”

Qi Xiwei was too fast. She successfully pounced on Huo Jinyao. At the same time, she let out a muffled groan.

Behind Huo Jinyao, there was another car. Two people got out of the car and were about to shoot in his direction when Qi Xiwei happened to see them.

“Xiwei?”

The gunshots continued, but Huo Jinyao couldn’t care less. He didn’t expect Qi Xiwei to use such a method to repay him.

In fact, he wasn’t an easy person to get close to. Even though he had known Qi Xiwei for so long, and they were even a couple on the surface, he only admired her a little.

They weren’t really intimate with each other.

But Qi Xiwei made such a choice at such a time.

Qi Xiwei was shot in the lower back, and blood gushed out. Huo Jinyao didn’t know where she was injured. The continuous gunshots outside made it impossible for him to send Qi Xiwei to the doctor.

He carried Qi Xiwei into the nearest shop. He looked at Qi Xiwei’s pale face and a rare look of guilt appeared on his face.

The bullet passed through Qi Xiwei’s uterus. When she was sent to the hospital, she went into shock.

It wasn’t easy to resuscitate her. The doctor told Huo Jinyao that Qi Xiwei’s uterus had been pierced by the bullet. Although she had been resuscitated, it might have some effect on Qi Xiwei’s later pregnancy.

The doctor didn’t specify the extent of the effect. After all, everyone’s constitution was different. It still depended on their later recovery.

The doctor said it conservatively, but in reality, even if foreign doctors didn’t know much about China, they could understand that Chinese men had their own obsession with children.

This time, it was Huo Jinyao’s turn to blame himself.