Night Fire Lingering

More and more people gathered, forming layers upon layers around the crowd.

Excuse me, could you move aside?

As Wen Yan walked in, she heard painful groans and frightened cries coming from the crowd.

"Luo Beiqing is too vicious! Miss Qiao is pregnant!"

"That's right! Even though the baby in that belly hasn't been born, it's still a life!"

"Luo Beiqing, although Qiao Weiwei is carrying your husband's child, the child is innocent! How could you be so heartless!"

……

The people around him were all talking at once, criticizing Luo Beiqing one after another, and some even wanted to poke their fingers into Luo Beiqing's face.

Wen Yan stepped to the side, blocking Luo Bei's leaning body.

“Mrs. Guo, we in Beiqing are indeed not as magnanimous as you. You even help take care of your husband’s illegitimate child.” Wen Yan looked puzzled. “However, I heard that you beat your stepson a while ago. Why weren’t you magnanimous enough?”

After Wen Yan finished speaking, her expression turned cold and sharp, and her imposing aura silenced everyone around her.

Mrs. Guo was so angry that her face turned pale and then red. She was so furious that she wanted to tear someone apart, but her companion pulled her back. Only after her companion reminded her did she see Gu Yanci standing next to Wen Yan.

Gu Yanci was dressed in a casual suit today, not too formal, but very appropriate. He stood silently beside Wen Yan, like Wen Yan's personal companion.

"Young Master Gu, you'd better be careful with Wen Yan's attitude in the future," Mrs. Guo said meaningfully.

Isn't this a veiled message to Gu Yanci: Wen Yan is so fierce and jealous, you'd better watch out and you won't have any freedom left! Not even a chance to cheat on her!

Gu Yanci said nonchalantly, "Mrs. Guo, your husband and I are not the same."

Mrs. Guo was mocked again, her face darkened and she stopped talking, cursing Gu Yanci as an idiot in her heart.

"Bei Qing, were you scared?" Wen Yan held Luo Bei Qing's hand; her hand was slightly cool.

"I'm fine." Luo Beiqing looked at Qiao Weiwei, who had just been pulled out of the artificial lake.

Wen Yan then looked at Qiao Weiwei—she was in a terrible state, soaked to the bone, her long dress clung to her body in wrinkles, and her face was deathly pale beneath strands of wet hair, groaning and panting in pain.

The red bloodstains were diluted by the lake water and meandered down her thighs...

Judging from the amount of bleeding, the fetus cannot be saved.

"Why hasn't the ambulance arrived yet?" The maid who was accompanying Qiao Weiwei was sweating profusely, her eyes filled with fear.

If something goes wrong with the fetus, she's doomed!

"Bei Qing, let's go." Wen Yan didn't want Luo Bei Qing to be attacked here.

"Don't leave!" the maid said immediately. "Young Madam, you've left Miss Qiao in this state; you should quickly think of how to explain this to the He family!"

The maid's job is to take care of Qiao Weiwei. Now that Qiao Weiwei has gotten into this mess, she can't shirk her responsibility, so naturally she'll try to drag someone down with her.

Luo Beiqing was so angry she laughed.

Before she could even speak, Wen Yan sneered, "Bei Qing and He Tingchuan have already signed the divorce agreement. Who are you calling 'young mistress'? Could it be my Bei Qing? Which eye of yours saw that Bei Qing was responsible for Qiao Weiwei's condition?"

Wen Yan's aura was completely like, "Which eye of yours saw this? I'll gouge it out for you!"

The maid shuddered in fright and subconsciously glanced at Qiao Weiwei, who was already on the verge of death.

"Luo... Beiqing..." Qiao Weiwei looked at Luo Beiqing with difficulty, her eyes full of resentment, weakly accusing, "Push... me!"

Those around gasped in shock.

"It really is Luo Beiqing!"

"She's pregnant herself, how could she do that!"

"Isn't she paving the way for the child in her belly? If Qiao Weiwei can't give birth, then she'll be the first child of the He family in this generation!"

"That's so cruel!"

"Mrs. Gu, you heard it all! It's Miss Luo... Miss Luo!" The maid seemed to have found the ultimate evidence and tried to grab Luo Beiqing to stop her from leaving.

But before she could get close, Wen Yan blocked her way.

"What do you want to do?" Wen Yan's face was icy cold.

"Mrs. Gu, even if you are Mrs. Gu, you cannot protect Miss Luo, otherwise the He family will not let you off the hook!"

"I'd like to see if the He family dares to touch me!"

"Aren't you just relying on the Gu family? The Gu family can distinguish right from wrong and will not allow you to do this!" The maid thought these words would anger Gu Yanci.

"Oh?" Gu Yanci seemed quite intrigued and said with a smile, "Our Gu family only helps relatives, not those in the right."

Those around them exchanged glances, and those who had originally wanted to speak up for Qiao Weiwei dared not utter another word.

Throughout this entire process, Luo Beiqing, who was 'convicted', did not utter a single word.

Qiao Weiwei's face was as white as paper, and she was so weak that she looked like she was about to faint at any moment, but the current situation was completely beyond her expectations.

She forced herself to stand, speaking slowly and deliberately: "Wen Yan... you... you just believe... Luo Beiqing? She's the one who pushed you..."

"She pushed you?" Wen Yan interrupted Qiao Weiwei.

Qiao Weiwei nodded firmly, staring at Luo Beiqing.

Luo Beiqing looked at her as if she were a clown.

"Qiao Weiwei, Wen Muzhi used the same trick on me five or six years ago." Wen Yan looked down at her condescendingly. "Even if she pushed you, do you think I couldn't protect her? Besides—Bei Qing wouldn't even deign to touch you; he'd find it disgusting to even touch you!"

"Miss Luo, if you didn't push it, you should say something!" a guest said.

Luo Beiqing retorted sarcastically, "What's the point of telling you?"

The He family is the main party in this matter, so it's only useful to talk to them. There's no need for her to waste her breath on these onlookers.

The ambulance arrived quickly, and Qiao Weiwei was taken to the hospital.

"Bei Qing, you go home first, I'm going to the hospital." Wen Yan called her driver and bodyguard.

"You're planning to help me deal with the He family?" Luo Beiqing was touched and helpless, but not surprised.

This is Wen Yan: she will believe her when everyone wrongs her, protect her when all the blame is directed at her, and fight for her without hesitation when she is needed!

Wen Yan placed her hand on Luo Beiqing's lower abdomen, where she could already feel a slight bulge. "I can't let my goddaughter or godson suffer."

Qiao Weiwei insisted that Luo Beiqing had pushed her, and this matter was destined to be a mess.

“Yan Yan, I don’t want you to suffer for me either.” Luo Beiqing hugged her. “Only the strong deserve to be my child. If he was driven to death by his father’s family, then he didn’t want to come into this world.”

Gu Yanci's gaze lingered on Luo Beiqing's lower abdomen for a second before quickly shifting away.

A newly received message lay on his phone: "How is she?"

Gu Yanci lowered his eyes and replied: 【I don't want your child anymore.】

……

Luo Beiqing did not experience morning sickness after becoming pregnant; on the contrary, she had a very good appetite.

Wen Yan first took Luo Beiqing out for afternoon tea before leisurely heading to the hospital.

"I was looking for a quiet place to hide away when Qiao Weiwei came up to me and started talking. I didn't want to talk to her, and just as I turned to leave, Qiao Weiwei fell into the artificial lake." Luo Beiqing told Wen Yan the details of what happened.

"It sounds like she came prepared." Wen Yan was a little puzzled. "But why would Qiao Weiwei do this? She finally got pregnant, and this was her only bargaining chip to marry into the He family. Using this method to frame you, losing the child, is not worth it."

Luo Beiqing's bare face was still beautiful in the sunlight. After becoming pregnant, she lost some of her glamorousness and gained more gentleness, but her eyes were exceptionally bright.

She said, "What if that child can't be born in the light of day?"

On the way to the hospital, Luo Beiqing's phone kept ringing, and the caller ID showed that it was He Tingchuan's mother, Zhong Xue.

Luo Beiqing got annoyed and simply blacklisted the person.

Private hospitals are rarely crowded.

The ward door was not closed, and heartbroken sobbing could be heard from inside.

Qiao Weiwei lay on the bed, her face pale. Her mother sat beside her, comforting her with concern and telling her not to be too sad and to take good care of herself during her postpartum period.

Mr. Qiao sighed repeatedly from the side.

"How could it be gone... how could it not be saved..." Zhong Xue was supported by the maid, swaying precariously, and kept muttering to herself.

Only He Tingchuan was out of place with him.

His face was cold, showing neither sadness nor anxiety. He gripped his phone as if someone had provoked him and slapped him, and he looked extremely upset!

"Knock! Knock! Knock!"

Wen Yan knocked on the door as a gesture of goodwill.

As soon as Qiao's mother looked up and saw Luo Beiqing, she rushed over excitedly: "Luo Beiqing, give me back my grandson! You harmed my daughter! You vicious woman!"

He Tingchuan stood up and stopped Mrs. Qiao: "Mrs. Qiao, if you are emotionally unstable, I will have the bodyguards ask you to leave."

"Tingchuan, she killed your child!" Qiao's mother cried out in anguish.

Qiao Weiwei cried as she weakly said, "Young Master He, it was Luo Beiqing who pushed me, that's why we lost our child!"

He Tingchuan seemed not to hear what these people were saying. He looked at Luo Beiqing for two seconds, made sure she looked well, and then looked at her lower abdomen, but didn't see anything unusual.

His gaze passed over Luo Beiqing and met Gu Yanci's, who was leaning lazily against the door frame, their eyes locked in a fierce stare.

This person actually lied to him on WeChat, saying that Luo Beiqing was going to have an abortion!

"Miss Luo, you'd better give us a reasonable explanation!" Mr. Qiao said sternly, his expression half-threatening.

"Your daughter fell into the artificial lake on her own. It has nothing to do with me. What do I need to explain?" Luo Beiqing found it quite ridiculous.

"Luo Beiqing, watch your attitude!" Zhong Xue finally lost her temper.

"If it really has nothing to do with you, why are you here now? Aren't you just feeling guilty?" Mr. Qiao slammed his fist on the table and roared.

“Your daughter slandered me, which caused Mrs. Gu to keep calling me.” Luo Beiqing glanced at Zhong Xue. “I came here for two reasons. First, I don’t want Mrs. Gu to keep calling me or trying to have someone kidnap me to meet me. Second, I want to tell you that if Qiao Weiwei slanders me again, I will choose to call the police to avoid affecting my reputation. It won’t look good for anyone in the end.”

"Luo Beiqing, you killed my child and then threatened me!" Qiao Weiwei cried as she accused him.

Luo Beiqing smiled and shook his head: "Talking without doing is the real threat."

And she did what she said she would do!

As Luo Beiqing spoke, he had already dialed the police number, just one button away from being pressed.

Qiao Weiwei was so frightened by Luo Beiqing's actions that her crying froze for a moment.

"Wait!" Zhong Xue said immediately.

Her husband was already having an affair. If she couldn't even handle these things properly and had to take it to the police station, her husband would be even more dissatisfied with her!

Zhong Xue's gaze fell on Luo Beiqing's lower abdomen and said, "Luo Beiqing, our He family can let this matter go, as long as you give birth to this baby in your belly and hand it over to our He family!"

She doesn't just have Qiao Weiwei's grandson; Luo Beiqing is also pregnant with another one!

Qiao Weiwei's face turned even uglier.

She...she just became Zhong Xue's discarded pawn like that?

After the child was gone, Zhong Xue completely abandoned her?

Wen Yan laughed when she heard this: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Gu, but I've already reserved the one in Bei Qing's belly."

"Wen Yan, this is a child of the He family!" Zhong Xue was furious, but she had already complained to Ji Chang, but it was no use!

A troublemaker's friends are all troublemakers; they're all incredibly stubborn!

"Madam Zhong, please learn some law!" Wen Yan said helplessly to the legal illiterate. "Only a legal illiterate wouldn't know that Bei Qing's child will have Bei Qing's custody in the future."

“Wen Yan, Luo Beiqing, society isn’t school, and the laws you talk about don’t work.” Zhong Xue was already plotting how to deal with Luo Beiqing and fight for custody of the child.

Luo Beiqing spread his hands and shrugged, indicating that he didn't care. Go ahead and mess with me if you dare!

"Enough!" He Tingchuan glared coldly at Zhong Xue, finally finding an opportunity to speak, "Bei Qing, I want to talk to you."

Wen Yan was shocked: "Wow! The mute can speak? This is a medical miracle!"

He Tingchuan: "..."

Gu Yanci: "..." Why did you have to imply that he was being implied as well?