Chapter 628 - Hatred Was Out Of The Question (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

In the coffee shop across from the hospital, Su Qingsang and Su Chenghui were sitting across from each other. Su Chenghui looked more haggard than he did two days ago.

Su Qingsang didn’t know why Su Chenghui asked her to come here. She thought Su Chenghui had already returned to Lin City.

“Dad? Why are you looking for me?”

Su Chenghui was quite politely distant. The other party was her father, so why couldn’t he look for her?

Su Chenghui naturally discerned the implication as well, and his expression was a little awkward.

“It’s nothing. I have a flight back to Lin City tomorrow, and I wanted to come see you.”

“Thank you.”

Su Chenghui looked at his daughter in front of him. Su Peizhen looked like her mother, but Su Qingsang and Su Yuxin really looked like him. Su Yuxin looked even more like him. Su Qingsang’s face actually looked a little like Li Qianxue’s. If one looked carefully, one would be able to tell.

He lowered his head and thought of the words he had overheard when he entered the hospital.

“I heard that you’re pregnant?”

Su Qingsang glanced at him. She didn’t expect him to know about this. “Yes. I’m pregnant.”

She didn’t intend to deliberately hide it. Since he knew, there was nothing that she couldn’t say. It was a good thing anyway.

“Good, good.” Su Chenghui said good twice, but then hhe couldn’t find anything else to say. “I, when I went to your hospital just now, I heard your colleagues discussing. I think they said they’re twins?”

“Yes.”

“Good. That’s great.” After Su Chenghui finished, he didn’t know what else he could say. “I haven’t taken care of pregnant women before, so I don’t know what you should eat or use at this time. You –”

“Dad, I’m a doctor.” Su Qingsang saw his embarrassed expression and remained calm. “I know how to take care of myself. Don’t worry.”

Su Chenghui nodded repeatedly. He thought of another matter. “Does your mother know that you’re pregnant?”

“Not yet.” Su Qingsang didn’t have time to tell her. “I ate outside yesterday so I didn’t video chat with my mother. I’ll tell her today.”

Su Chenghui nodded. His lips moved a few times as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he stopped.

There was silence again. Su Chenghui picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip. The black coffee was a little bitter. “Qingsang.”

“Yes?”

“After your child is born, can I go see you?”

“Why not?” This was the first time Su Qingsang saw Su Chenghui being so careful. “You’re their grandfather. Of course you can go see them.”

Su Chenghui’s expression changed slightly because of her words. His emotions ambivalent, he lowered his head.

“I went to see Peizhen yesterday.”

Thinking of his daughter whom he had doted on for more than 20 years but had become like that in the end, Su Chenghui sighed with regret.

“She didn’t want to see me, and was unwilling to see me. I used some tactics to meet her.”

Su Chenghui didn’t need Su Qingsang’s reply. He just wanted to find someone to talk to. Since when did he no longer have anyone to talk to?

“I don’t know since when, but I’ve been thinking. Did I do something wrong? This thought finally reached its peak after you guys switched back. I knew my mistake was irreparable. But I didn’t know that it would bring about such serious consequences.”

Su Qingsang didn’t comment. They were all adults, so it wasn’t easy to brush the matter off with just one sentence. Everyone had to pay the price for their actions. No matter who it was.

“She seems to be in a good state.” Saying that she was in a good state was just words of comforting. How good could she be in a good state in that sort of place?

“Qingsang, I’ve already persuaded her. I told her to serve her sentence obediently, try to reduce her sentence, and get out of there as soon as possible.”

Su Qingsang didn’t respond. That would be for the best. She had never regarded Su Peizhen as an enemy. She didn’t in the past, and she wouldn’t in the future.

As long as she didn’t provoke her, even if she wasn’t willing to get along with her peacefully like a normal sister would, she was willing to peacefully coexist with her.

After Su Chenghui said all this, he didn’t get any response from Su Qingsang. He was a little disappointed, and looked up at Su Qingsang with a nervous expression.

“Qingsang? Do you still hate me?”

“No.” Su Qingsang had never hated Su Chenghui. “Dad, you’re overthinking things.”

“In the past, many things were my fault. It’s only right for you to hate me.”

Su Qingsang was silent. She had no way to respond. “Dad, I don’t hate you.”

There was resentment and blame, but there was no hatred at all.

Su Chenghui looked up at her. Her gaze was clear and sincere. He believed that she really didn’t hate him. It was a pity that just because she didn’t hate him didn’t mean that others didn’t hate him. For example, Li Qianxue.

“But, your mother hates me very much.”

Su Qingsang couldn’t respond to this. Li Qianxue loved him back then as much as she hated him now. It was normal for her to hate him.

Su Chenghui seemed to realize that it wasn’t appropriate for him to say this to his daughter.

“Are you free tonight? Shall we have dinner together? And invite Huo Jinyao as well?”

“I promised to treat my colleagues to dinner tonight.”

Su Chenghui looked disappointed. Su Qingsang lowered her head and thought about it for a moment before adding, “They’re all colleagues from the department. If you don’t mind, would you like to join us?”

Su Chenghui’s eyes lit up immediately. He looked at Su Qingsang in disbelief. “Qingsang.”

“Huo Jinyao will be coming too. My colleagues are all very nice and take care of me. They’re very happy that I’m pregnant this time. That’s why I said I’d treat them to dinner.”

“It’s only right, it’s only right. Then, is it inconvenient?”

“No, it’s not inconvenient.”

..

Huo Jinyao was a little surprised when he saw Su Chenghui that night. He glanced at Su Qingsang, who was beckoning her colleagues to enter the private room.

Everyone from the department had arrived, and the table was full.

Huo Jinyao, Su Qingsang, and Su Chenghui sat at the top of the table. This was the property of Tang Mohan’s family, so the environment and dishes there weren’t ordinary.

When the others saw Huo Jinyao, they were a little restrained at first, but they soon let go.

Huo Jinyao had learned his lesson, so he didn’t touch a single drop of wine. Su Chenghui, on the other hand, ate quite a lot. Thanking them for taking care of Su Qingsang and asking them to continue taking care of her in the future, he toasted every single one of Su Qingsang’s colleagues present.

Su Qingsang watched Su Chenghui’s actions and didn’t say anything. However, when Su Chenghui sat down, she served him a bowl of soup.

That action was done casually. Su Chenghui looked at her, but his eyes were a little warm.

This meal was considered to be a feast for both the guest and the host. Huo Jinyao was very sober, but Su Chenghui drank too much. In the end, Huo Jinyao and Su Qingsang sent him back to the hotel together.

..

Huo Jinyao took out a hair dryer to dry Su Qingsang’s hair. Her eyes were half-closed, as if she was enjoying his service.

“Are you tired?”

“No.” She didn’t move much today, so how could she be tired?

“Why was your dad here today?”

“He came to see me in the afternoon and heard about my pregnancy. He asked if I was free for dinner tonight. He said he was going back to Lin City tomorrow, so I called him along.”

Huo Jinyao could guess that this was probably the result.

“I thought you hated him.”

“I don’t.” She looked at Huo Jinyao in the mirror. “Why do you all think I hate him?”

“You don’t hate him?”

“You only hate someone when you have expectations. There’s no such thing as hate if you don’t have expectations.”

Su Qingsang’s hair was almost blown out, so she turned to look at Huo Jinyao.

“Why does my mother hate my father so much? It’s because she always had high hopes for my father. She thought that one day, she would be able to move him and make him fall in love with her. That’s why she hated him so much when she found out that he would never love her, and on the contrary, he would only bring her pain.”

“But I’m different. I’ve never had high hopes for my father ever since I was a child. Perhaps there were, but it had been too long, too long, and those expectations eventually disappeared without a trace.

“I always knew that the person he liked the most in his heart was Su Peizhen, and then Yuxin. So after I tried a few times, I gave up. I knew in my heart that in his life, he would never put me in the same position as Su Peizhen. I also knew that in my life, I would never genuinely regard him as a father. Because I didn’t have any expectations, I wasn’t surprised no matter what he did.”

“At most, it’s a little uncomfortable. After all, even if treated like that by a stranger, it’ll still be a little uncomfortable, but it’ll only be slight discomfort. Once the discomfort subsides, it doesn’t matter anymore.”

After all, she didn’t care that much about Su Chenghui’s thoughts. Therefore, hatred was out of the question.

Huo Jinyao didn’t say a word. He bent down and hugged Su Qingsang gently, then placed his hand on her abdomen.

Su Qingsang felt his movements and placed her hand on his. It was still flat.

“Huo Jinyao, I think we’ll be good parents, right?”

She wouldn’t let her children grow up like her. She believed that Huo Jinyao wouldn’t let them grow up like he did when they were young.

“Of course.”

Huo Jinyao looked at her intently and felt the warmth in her abdomen. “We are different from our parents.”

“Yes, we are different from them.”

Her and Huo Jinyao’s child would definitely receive a lot of care and love.

..

Li Qianxue also found out that Su Qingsang was pregnant. She was overjoyed and said that she would fly to Rong City to visit her. She wasn’t the only one who came. Old Master Li and Su Yuxin also came.

If it weren’t for the fact that they still had matters to attend to in Lin City, they would probably still want to stay in Rong City until Su Qingsang gave birth.

It wasn’t easy to convince Li Qianxue that she didn’t need to worry that much. After sending Li Qianxue away, Su Qingsang focused her energy on the examination at the end of the month.

This was the bad thing about being a doctor. She had to submit her thesis every year and take all kinds of examinations. She busied herself and slowly ignored the discomfort in her body.

Huo Jinyao was very worried about her, but she refused to rest and insisted on continuing to work. He had no choice but to hire a nutritionist at home. He also specifically told Auntie Yu to follow the instructions of the nutritionist.

Liu Tongjia and Old Master Huo also came to see them from time to time. Su Qingsang, on the other hand, didn’t have the slightest self-awareness of being pregnant. She did what she had to do.

She didn’t neglect going to the outpatient clinic or any surgeries.