Chapter 167
When the call ended, Fu Jingting put the phone down, his eyes dark and uncertain.
He was thinking about what Cheng Huai had just said.
Perhaps what Cheng Huai said was right, some times, some things, dragging on to the back of the line will indeed lead to some uncontrollable developments.
The first thing he did was to pick up his phone again and tap on Rong Shu’s friend about your pregnancy.
Rong Shu was reading the information when her phone suddenly vibrated.
She looked up and saw that it was a message from zh and couldn’t help but be a little surprised.
It had only been a short while since the chat had ended, so why was he sending another message?
“What’s the message?” Rongshu was curious and clicked on it.
However, when she saw what zh had sent, her entire body stiffened.
He knew about it?
Rong Shu clenched her palm and took her phone with a tight frown How did you know?
The first time I saw it, I saw it.
When she saw this, it dawned on Rongshu and she couldn’t help but slap her forehead.
So that was it, she thought she had his people around her.
It was true that one pregnancy was silly, she hadn’t even thought of that.
Rong Shu’s fingers flew as she typed Since you already know, then I won’t hide it from you, yes, I’m pregnant.
Why didn’t zh tell me?
Rong Shu frowned Why should I tell you?
Seeing her rhetorical question, Fu Jingting’s expression was somewhat bad.
Why?
She also asked why?
Because I am the father of the child.
Rong Shu skimmed her mouth You are indeed the baby’s father, but that doesn’t mean I have to tell you, our relationship was originally an accident, conceiving this child was even more of an accident, and we don’t know each other, I don’t know your identity, and I don’t need you to be responsible, so why should I tell you just because you are the baby’s father?
“…… “Fu Jingting suddenly ran out of words, his thin lips pursed tightly.
Although he knew what she said was right, and considered it right.
However, in his heart, he still did not feel good.
I want to know what you think about that child, whether you want to stay or ……
He suddenly stopped typing for several seconds before squeezing his fist, typing out the last two words and sending them over.
When Rongshu saw him ask himself whether he wanted to keep the baby or to get rid of it, his heart couldn’t help but contract a little.
Although the doctor had asked this question before, at that time, her whole body was in shock from the pregnancy, and she basically didn’t think much about the survival of the child.
But now that the child’s father was asking, she had to start taking the issue seriously.
Rongshu bit her lower lip, and her fingers trembled a little as she typed I don’t know.
Fu Jingting was not the least bit surprised by her answer.
These days, she had never gone to the hospital for a checkup, so she must not have decided yet.
The first thing you can do is to take your time to think about it. If you want to stay, you can stay, and I will secretly raise it with you. If you don’t want to stay, I will compensate you for the full extent.
Raised in secret ……
When she saw these four words, Rongshu’s eyes narrowed for a moment Okay, I’ll think about it.
I will think about it and let me know.
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you want to do.
He said that he was raising her secretly, meaning obviously that he did not intend to acknowledge the child in her belly openly and honestly.
In this case, either he was married or had a girlfriend fiancée, or his family wouldn’t allow him to get a child outside, which was why he said he was raising it in secret, so that no one would know he was the baby’s father.
But whichever it was, it didn’t change for her that the child in her belly was an unwelcome b*****d.
Unwelcome to her as a mother, unpopular with her father, and unpopular with his family.
It was clear then that this child was going to stay or go.
Rongshu touched up the small of her back.
Children, they should be conceived with someone they liked, not born to a strange man with no feelings for them.
She also couldn’t accept that the child she had given birth to was an illegitimate child, so ……
“I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, I’m not a good mother and you shouldn’t have come into my belly, I’m sorry ……” Rong Shu clutched the clothes on her belly, holding back the pain in her heart as she apologised to the child in her belly.
Just then, the door to the office was pushed open and Lu Qi came in with a breeze, his face full of anger.
“What’s wrong?” Rongshu asked as she collected her inner apologies and looked up at him.
Lu Qi walked over to Rongshu’s desk, picked up her coffee, and tilted his head to drink it.
It was too late for Rongshu to stop her.
Forget it, it was only a cup of coffee.
He didn’t even mind that she had drunk it, so why should she remind her.
“D*mn Cheng Huai!” Lu Qi heaved his empty coffee cup onto his desk and cursed loudly.
Rongshu blinked, “What’s wrong with him?”
“Didn’t I go to him and ask him to hand over that man, only for him to be nice and say that the man is abroad.”
“He is abroad.” Rongshu said.
Lu Qi grunted, “So I asked Cheng Huai to give me that man’s phone number, and guess what, that Cheng Huai guy gave me an empty number, dammit!”
Rongshu snickered, “Maybe Cheng Huai didn’t mean it, the guy changed his number.”
“Who knows, anyway, this matter is not over, I must find that man.” Lu Qi said as he slapped the table.
Rongshu rubbed her temples, “Well, that man already knows I’m pregnant, Cheng Huai told him, he just came to see me too.”
“Cheng Huai said that?” Lu Qi frowned and then became furious, “Good, Cheng Huai really did trick me, so he gave me an empty number, how else could he contact the other party?”
“This ……” Rong Shu also froze for a moment.
Yes oh, Cheng Huai gave Ah Qi zh’s phone number, Ah Qi called with an empty number, but Cheng Huai was able to get through.
This means that Cheng Huai did not give A Qi zh real number, why would Cheng Huai do that?
“sh*t, that b*****d Cheng Huai!” Lu Qi’s fist was itching and he wanted to punch someone, “Next time I see him, I’ll beat him up, how dare he fool me.”
“Alright, let’s put aside Cheng Huai first, aren’t you curious about what that man said to me?” Rongshu looked at him.
Lu Qi came closer to Rongshu, “What did he say, did he deny it or ……”
“No, he didn’t deny that the baby in my belly was his and he was willing to take responsibility for it.” Rong Shu said.
Lu Qi’s face improved, “That’s more like it, as a man, that’s how it should be, otherwise what kind of man is he, but how does he plan to take responsibility?”
“Ah Qi, what do you think about me getting rid of this child?” Rongshu asked instead of answering.
Lu Qi’s expression grew serious, “Are you serious?”
Rongshu nodded, “Yes, I don’t want to give birth to the child of a man with no emotional foundation, and I don’t want this child to become an illegitimate child, so I want to get rid of him.”
Lu Qi smiled, “That’s right, since that night was an accident, then this child shouldn’t be kept, it’s good for you, for that man, and for the child in your belly, it’s great that you’ve figured it out, baby.”
With her best friend’s support, Rong Shu’s desire to get rid of the baby was strengthened.
She took a deep breath and nodded, “That man said that if I get rid of the baby, he will fully compensate me, as for what kind of compensation, I don’t know.”
“It’s nothing more than money.” Lu Qi said.
Rongshu smiled a little, “I guess so.”
“Baby, when are you going to have the operation to remove him, I’ll go with you then.” Lu Qi asked as he looked at her.
Rongshu shook her head, “I haven’t thought about it yet.”
She had just decided to get rid of it, so how could she think so far ahead so soon?
Rongshu thought about it, “Then the day after tomorrow, I’m not busy the day after tomorrow.”
“Okay.” Rongshu gave a hmph and agreed.
Afterwards, she looked at the time and stood up, “Alright Ah Qi, I should go to the hotel, the project that was handed in to Fu’s group is due to come out today.”
Chapter 168
“I’ll go with you.” Lu Qi stood up, looking as if he was very nervous about her.
Rongshu was both touched and amused, “No need, I’m only pregnant, not injured, where do I need your company, well I’ll go first.”
After saying that, she took off her bag, left the office and drove to the hotel.
Coincidentally, Rong Shu had just arrived at the entrance of the hotel when she met Fu Jingting and a*sistant Zhang.
They had also just arrived and had not expected to see Rong Shu here, and their faces were also a little surprised.
“Miss Rong.” a*sistant Zhang greeted Rong Shu.
Rong Shu nodded slightly in response.
Afterwards, she glanced at Fu Jingting and also opened her mouth to greet him, “Mr. Fu.”
Fu Jingting gave a hint and stopped in his tracks, wanting to let her go in first.
However, Rongshu thought the same thing.
After all, Fu Jingting was the initiator of the cooperation and also the owner of the hotel, so for reasons of reason, she should let him go first.
So, the three of them stood at the entrance of the hotel, no one went in, and the atmosphere could not help but be a little awkward.
In the end, it was a*sistant Zhang who reacted and understood Rong Shu’s thoughts, coughed lightly and reminded Fu Jingting in a whisper, “Mr. Fu, Miss Rong is asking you to go in first, I know you also want Miss Rong to go in first, but you are the initiator of the cooperation, if you don’t go in, Miss Rong won’t go in either.”
Fu Jingting’s brows knitted slightly.
He hadn’t even thought that she cared so much about the rules of the mall.
If she didn’t care, she wouldn’t have disliked Mangyin for not knowing how to come first when she was at the resort.
Thinking of this, Fu Jingting lifted his foot and entered the hotel.
a*sistant Zhang followed closely behind.
Rongshu looked at their backs and let out a faint sigh of relief.
It was good that they had left, if they didn’t, she would be ready to break the mall rules.
If they hadn’t left, she would have been ready to break the mall’s rules, knowing that people who broke the mall’s rules at will would be ostracised and rejected by the mall.
Rongshu lifted the bag chain on her shoulder, took a breath and entered the hotel as well.
She came to the lift.
Rongshu pressed the up button of the first lift.
What she didn’t expect was that after pressing it, the light on that key went off by itself.
What the hell?
Was there a lift open?
Rongshu frowned and was just about to see which lift had opened when she heard a voice from the right front, “Miss Rong, this way.”
Rong Shu subconsciously twisted her head to look and saw a*sistant Zhang poking his head out from the third lift compartment in this row and was smiling at her.
At this moment, what else did Rong Shu not understand.
No wonder the wait on the key went off when she pressed the key for the lift.
It turned out that Fu Jingting and a*sistant Zhang and the others, had been waiting for her in the third lift.
“Miss Rong, come over quickly, just waiting for you.” a*sistant Zhang saw Rong Shu standing in front of the first lift, hesitating to move, and urged her once more.
Rong Shu’s red lips moved, “No need, you guys go up first, I’ll ……”
“It’s going to be late!” a*sistant Zhang received the look cast by his boss and hurriedly interrupted Rong Shu’s excuses.
Hearing this, Rong Shu lifted her wrist to see that she was indeed almost late, there were still a few minutes left.
It seemed that she had to go over and go up with them.
Rong Shu sighed and entered the lift.
Looking at the man standing in the middle of the lift, his aura powerful, Rong Shu slightly lowered her eyes, “Thank you.”
“It’s alright.” Fu Jingting glanced at her in the remaining light and said back.
Rong Shu walked to the corner of the lift and stood still, not speaking.
Fu Jingting didn’t say anything either.
a*sistant Zhang, as a subordinate, was naturally not in a position to speak without his boss opening his mouth.
Therefore, in the small lift compartment, there was only the sound of shallow breathing.
The professional smile on a*sistant Zhang’s face had gradually become stiff from the natural one at the beginning.
God, you guys say something, do something.
It’s too cold and depressing to say nothing, isn’t it?
Finally, the lift dings.
The door opened and a*sistant Zhang took the lead and went out, blocking the door of the lift, and only then did his heart let out a big sigh of relief.
It was a great relief to finally not have to accompany these two people in this suffocating atmosphere anymore.
Rongshu didn’t know what a*sistant Zhang was thinking as she was the last to exit the lift.
After leaving the lift, she stood for a couple of seconds, waiting for Fu Jingting and a*sistant Zhang to take a few steps away before she resumed her steps, following not too far behind.
Soon, the conference room arrived.
a*sistant Zhang pushed open the door.
Fu Jingting entered, followed by Rong Shu.
When the people in the meeting room saw them enter, they stopped talking at once and quieted down.
Gu Yaotian sat on the first seat on the lower left of the main seat of the conference table, and when he saw Rong Shu, his old eyes narrowed for a moment, “Jingting, why did you come with Mr. Rong again?”
“I met them downstairs, well, let’s have a meeting.” Fu Jingting pulled out his chair and sat down.
Gu Yaotian understood that he didn’t want to say more, so he could only let it go.
But Gu Yaotian’s eyes, however, were staring at Rong Shu gloomily, as if Rong Shu and Fu Jingting coming in together was something that Rong Shu had done on purpose.
Rongshu rolled her eyes in her heart and ignored him, flipping open her notebook and preparing to take notes of the meeting.
In the main seat, Fu Jingting swept his gaze around the faces of all the people and fixed it on Rong Shu’s face for two more seconds before withdrawing his gaze and saying lightly, “I have finished reading all the projects submitted by all of you yesterday and have selected the five best ones from them, the companies behind these five projects are the partners of the new energy technology.”
Here we go!
The crowd subconsciously straightened their backs and got serious.
Rongshu was no exception, and apart from her seriousness, she was also a little nervous.
Of the twenty or so people here, whether it was their business ability or the strength of the company behind them, she and Tiansheng were far from being at the bottom of the pile.
So she really didn’t have much confidence that her project would be chosen.
“Mr. Fu, since the cooperation seats have been decided, then you should announce it quickly so that we can know which ones are so lucky.” At this point, someone urged.
“Yes Mr. Fu,, hurry up and announce it.”
“Jing Ting, just announce it.” Gu Yaotian also said, with undisguised anticipation in his tone.
Yesterday when Mangyin returned from his trip to Fu’s to hand in his plans, he told him that his seat for the collaboration had already been decided.
So now he couldn’t wait to find out if what Mangyin had said was true, after all, he knew that it would be difficult to be chosen for his project, but in case Jingting changed his mind and opened the back door for him, his future father-in-law, for Mangyin’s sake, it wasn’t impossible.
Rongshu also stared at Fu Jingting nervously.
Fu Jingting felt her gaze and raised his eyes to look at him.
Rongshu didn’t expect him to look at her suddenly, so she froze for a moment, then lowered her eyes, turned her head away and stopped looking.
Seeing her so cold, Fu Jingting could not help but purse his lips, and his voice was much deeper, “a*sistant Zhang, announce it.”
“Yes.” a*sistant Zhang answered and read out a list of names, “According to the plan, we have finally decided on five seats of cooperation, these five seats of cooperation are Wang from Chengxin, Chen from Maocai, Zhang from Lin’an, Liu from Xueyang, and ……”
Except for the four whose names were read out, the hearts of the rest of them all lifted up.
Both of Rongshu’s hands, moreover, were tightly clasped together, and her teeth were clenched on her lower lip.
Could it be her?
Rongshu’s heart was beating, and her gaze was fixed on the list in a*sistant Zhang’s hand for an instant.
Seeing her eyes, a*sistant Zhang sighed inwardly, pushed his gla*ses, raised his volume and announced the last seat for the partnership, “And Mr. Gu of San Sheng!”
As the words fell, there was a sigh of disappointment from below.
Rongshu’s eyes dropped in gloom, and the hands that were clasped together, slowly let go.
It wasn’t her.
Although she had prepared herself psychologically before, when she really heard the result, her heart still felt very hard.