Originally wanted to surprise her, but ended up arriving late. Sheng Jianan called Tang Yanqi, but no one answered. He guessed she had forgotten to turn on the sound because they were required to mute their phones at work.
Sheng Jianan directly called Xiao Li.
"Get the Young Madam to answer the phone."
It was a bit noisy on the other end, and after two seconds, Xiao Li’s voice ca through: "Young Master, the Young Madam is not with ."
"She hasn’t co out yet?"
"No, the Young Madam said she had sothing to do this afternoon and told not to pick her up."
"Sothing to do?"
Occasionally, Tang Yanqi would go out with her good friends after work, but since becoming pregnant, she almost never went out. Even if she did, she mostly invited them to the villa.
"Did she say where she was going?"
"No."
Sheng Jianan frowned, hung up Xiao Li’s call, and imdiately turned on the GPS to start searching for Tang Yanqi’s location.
Although Tang Yanqi’s health couldn’t be described as particularly frail, she was so thin that she always gave off the impression of being blown away by the wind. Sheng Jianan was afraid sothing might happen to her, and even though he had arranged for soone to secretly protect her safety, whenever Tang Yanqi deviated from her usual route, his heart would inexplicably tighten.
Just like now, she should obviously be in Xiao Li’s car on the way ho, but who knows where she went. In two minutes, countless scenarios flashed through Sheng Jianan’s mind.
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Tang Yanqi received a call from Mrs. Sheng at noon, right after she hung up Sheng Jianan’s call. This wasn’t the first ti Mrs. Sheng had arranged a private eting with her; it had happened several tis before, and although every ti ended in disagreent, Tang Yanqi listened to the haughty voice on the phone, her eyes slightly lowered, a faint smile on her lips: "Alright, see you this afternoon."
She was no longer the old Tang Yanqi. She used to be one step lower in front of Mrs. Sheng because Sheng Jianan didn’t like her, and neither did Mrs. Sheng. They were on the sa side.
Later, she endured it because she wanted to be with Sheng Jianan, so she swallowed her pride in front of his mother.
But now it’s different. If it really ca down to Sheng Jianan having to choose between her and his mother, that was sothing for Sheng Jianan to worry about, not her.
The concerns of the past, the chains of the past, Tang Yanqi would no longer let those ssy things bind her.
She could let go of the car accident, she could let go of the mishaps orchestrated by her and Shen Yao, because all of that was in the past. But now, if people still thought she was a pushover, if they wanted to challenge her, then sorry.
She wouldn’t agree!
Once, Tang Yanqi naively thought that as long as she could endure enough, as long as she didn’t confront Mrs. Sheng head-on, she could avoid so conflicts.
Looking back now, she must have been out of her mind back then.
She called Xiao Li to tell him she had sothing to do and he didn’t need to pick her up. Tang Yanqi didn’t hurry to leave after work but walked slowly to the bathroom instead.
Because she was pregnant, she didn’t wear makeup. Although Sheng Jianan arranged the best nutritionist for her, she had poor blood circulation to begin with, making her face pale as paper with no vitality.
She took out the pure plant-based costics Li Weiwei sent her from France, which were claid to be stress-free for pregnant won.
Tang Yanqi simply drew her eyebrows, applied a thin layer of blush on her pale face, and added a bit of lipstick. Instantly, she looked much more spirited.
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