You cheated, I divorced, why are you kneeling and begging me? - Chapter 45

Lin Rufei couldn’t believe that Qin Xiaozhe would speak to her like this.

“You’re blaming me?” she cried, clawing wildly at his face, not caring whether he was injured. “It was you who, unhappy about my divorce, took the initiative to comfort me, accompany me, and even proposed to me. It was you who liked me. And now you’re blaming me? Back then, didn’t you marry Nanxi precisely because she looked like me?”

Qin Xiaozhe fell silent.

Everything Lin Rufei said was true these were all things he had done.

But looking back now, he found it ridiculous. How could he have been so foolish?

No wonder Nanxi was angry.

Now, with Nanxi involved with another man, just seeing her kiss Mu Yichen was already unbearable for him.

At that moment, he suddenly realized he had been wrong.

From the moment he comforted Lin Rufei, he had been completely mistaken. He shouldn’t have neglected the person right in front of him and crossed boundaries to console Lin Rufei.

He had married Nanxi back then precisely because her face resembled Lin Rufei’s.

He couldn’t forget Lin Rufei, but after five years together, he had unknowingly grown inseparable from Nanxi. He had grown accustomed to her presence. Only after she left did he slowly realize that he couldn’t live without her. Without her, his life and career had begun to falter.

As for Lin Rufei, it wasn’t love he felt for her it was an obsession that had lingered for five years.

Now that everything had shattered, he felt dazed, as if it weren’t real. He regretted it. If given another chance, he would never make the same mistakes again.

“I was wrong,” he murmured.

Lin Rufei froze. “What do you mean?”

“I love Nanxi. You and I ended five years ago. I just didn’t see my own heart clearly.”

Lin Rufei’s heart sank. Seeing that he wouldn’t even look at her anymore, she burst into tears. “What are you saying? Do you think a simple ‘I didn’t see clearly’ is enough? Even if you can’t let go of Nanxi, so what? She’s already married. She married Mu Yichen. How could she possibly come back to you?”

“I will find her and bring her back. I will remarry her,” Qin Xiaozhe insisted.

He was certain he had the ability to do so.

Back then, he had made Nanxi give up everything and throw caution to the wind to be with him. He could make her turn back and be with him again.

Lin Rufei cried even more bitterly. Seeing that he was unmoved, she pointed to her stomach. “You want to remarry Nanxi? Then what about me? What about the child? Qin Xiaozhe, do you want our child to grow up without a father from the moment they’re born?”

Qin Xiaozhe looked at Lin Rufei’s stomach and hesitated.

This was his child.

He and Nanxi had been married for years but never had children.

He had always longed to be a father, but his busy work schedule had kept postponing it.

He and Lin Rufei shouldn’t continue like this.

But he couldn’t bring himself to abandon the child.

“I will provide child support.”

Lin Rufei had thought he would reconsider for the sake of the child, but instead, he only mentioned financial support.

“Qin Xiaozhe, you’re too cruel,” Lin Rufei spat out angrily before storming off.

Back in her car, she called home.

“Mom, Qin Xiaozhe won’t listen. He regrets everything. He wants to remarry Nanxi and doesn’t even want the child. What should I do?”

Lin’s mother comforted her daughter for a moment before asking, “If he doesn’t care about this child, someone else will.”

“Mom, what do you mean?”

“Deng Xiu hasn’t had a grandchild all these years. Do you think she wants one?”

Lin Rufei understood and immediately headed to the Qin family after hanging up the phone.

Qin Xiaozhe waited at the Mu residence for a long time, but Nanxi never returned. Disheartened, he went back to the office with the injuries still visible on his face.

Luo Rongfei noticed his wounds but didn’t dare ask too many questions. He only suggested, “Boss Qin, should I get some ointment?”

Recalling the scene of Nanxi applying medicine to Mu Yichen, Qin Xiaozhe waved his hand dismissively. “No need.”

Nanxi had a soft heart. By tomorrow, the bruises on his face would spread and turn dark and swollen. When she saw them, she would surely feel sorry for him. He wanted her to personally apply the medicine for him.

Having delayed work for quite some time, Qin Xiaozhe began tackling the tasks at hand despite his injuries.

He had just opened a folder and hadn’t even started reading the documents when the office door was abruptly pushed open.

Bang!

The sound startled Qin Xiaozhe.

“Madam, Boss Qin is working. You can’t just barge in like this,” Luo Rongfei protested, but he ultimately failed to stop her.

Realizing it was his mother, Qin Xiaozhe gestured for Luo Rongfei to leave and attend to his own duties.

Once the office door closed, Qin Xiaozhe looked at Deng Xiu and asked, “Mom, what are you doing here?”

“What happened to your face?” Deng Xiu raised her voice as she noticed the injuries on her son’s face.

Qin Xiaozhe didn’t want to discuss it and changed the subject. “What brings you here?”

Getting straight to the point, Deng Xiu demanded, “Why won’t you marry Lin Rufei?”

Surprised that his mother was interfering in this matter, Qin Xiaozhe replied, “Weren’t you the one who didn’t like Lin Rufei before?”

“She’s carrying my grandchild!” Deng Xiu had been waiting for years. All her old friends already had grandchildren in elementary school, while she didn’t even have a glimpse of a grandchild.

Qin Xiaozhe’s expression turned cold. “I won’t get married. The child can be born, and I’ll take responsibility.”

“Take responsibility?” Deng Xiu was furious. “How exactly will you take responsibility? The Lin family has only one daughter, Lin Rufei. Do you think they’ll just hand over the child she gives birth to?”

Deng Xiu didn’t care whom her son married she only wanted her grandchild. That child would be a descendant of the Qin family, her own flesh and blood.

Qin Xiaozhe hadn’t considered this. “We can always take it to court if necessary.”

The Lin family’s influence was slightly inferior to the Qin family’s. As long as he stepped in, he was confident of winning the lawsuit.

“Is it that easy to win a lawsuit? A newborn is almost always granted to the mother. How am I supposed to see my grandchild then?”

The mention of her grandchild made Deng Xiu even angrier.

Her daughter-in-law, Nanxi, had been married into the family for five years but hadn’t produced a single child. Her son’s affair was an unpleasant matter, but at least it had resulted in a child.

As long as she could see her grandchild, it didn’t matter whom her son married.

Qin Xiaozhe understood his mother’s perspective but firmly rejected her demand. “I won’t marry Lin Rufei. Once she gives birth, I’ll claim the child.”

Deng Xiu pointed at her son, exasperated. “What on earth are you thinking? You were the one who pursued Lin Rufei, and now that she’s pregnant, you say you won’t marry her?”

“This is my mistake. I’ll make it clear to Lin Rufei. In my heart, it’s still Nanxi. I want to be with her and remarry her.”

“Are you trying to drive me to an early grave?” Deng Xiu’s voice rose sharply. “You’re already divorced, yet you’re still hung up on her. Right now, my grandchild is what matters!”

“I only want Nanxi,” Qin Xiaozhe stated resolutely.

“You, you, you!” Deng Xiu trembled with rage. “Marry Lin Rufei, or I’ll disown you as my son!”

Unfazed by his mother’s threat, Qin Xiaozhe replied indifferently, “As you wish.”

Deng Xiu had no choice but to bring up the old man. “Your grandfather is still ill. If he finds out you’ve caused so much trouble and even abandoned your child, he’d be furious to death.”

This statement reminded Qin Xiaozhe of something.

In the entire Qin family, Nanxi cared most about her grandfather.

Once Grandfather recovered, he could ask him to persuade Nanxi she would surely listen.

“Grandfather loves Nanxi the most as his granddaughter-in-law,” Qin Xiaozhe remarked.

Hearing this, Deng Xiu seemed to recall something and didn’t argue further. She turned and left the office, but before going, she threw out one last remark, “You must marry Lin Rufei for me.”