Chapter 717
Yuan Tianxing took a deep breath . He was no longer a boy . He always knew that he was only a friend and a brother to Lin Qiao . Now, he had finally let out the secret that was buried in his heart for years . She rejected him straightforwardly, and he had foreseen that result . He had prepared himself for that .
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He was still very sad though . The two zombies who interrupted his conversation with Lin Qiao made him want to both laugh and cry . As they left, his sadness was suddenly eased a little bit, and of course, the slight expectation that he had before faded as well .
Sensing the warmth from his eye sockets, Yuan Tianxing felt embarrassed .
‘Eh? Did I cry? I didn’t even feel it! This is so embarrassing!’
“Eh-hem,” Yuan Tianxing slightly turned his head and coughed awkwardly . Then, he turned back and looked at Lin Qiao, “I’m sorry to make you feel troubled . You’re right . If I don’t give up, I’d be trapped in my feelings toward you . Please allow me some time…”
Lin Qiao sighed . She made a step forward and patted him on the shoulder, then turned and headed toward the stairs . She was a little delighted actually, because her rejection didn’t seem to hit the man strongly . He must have foreseen the result and prepared himself for it long ago .
He was over thirty years old . For many things, he was able to think positively .
Yuan Tianxing watched Lin Qiao’s back blur in the darkness, then disappear into the stairs . Her figure was both familiar and strange to him . As she left, he gave a long sigh, then raised his head to look at the sky . The sky was occupied by the dullish darkness . After the apocalypse, the sky was always like that at night .
The cold wind blew across him from time to time, helping him to calm down slowly .
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Lin Qiao went downstairs and gave a long sigh of relief . She had said no to Yuan Tianxing, but couldn’t manage to ask him to pay some attention to Lin Wenwen . Lin Wenwen was a poor girl, but she still had a chance .
Thankfully, Yuan Tianxing came to her to tell her about his feelings . If he didn’t do that, she would have no idea how to reject him and make him give up . He would never notice any other girl unless he gave up on her .
Lin Qiao wanted to help her little sister . So, in fact, she was already waiting for Yuan Tianxing to talk to her before he made the decision .
She went to the kitchen, picked a plate, and washed some strawberries . After that, she put some sweet potatoes on another plate and then went back to Mrs . Lin’s room .
“What took you so long? Where did you get the food from?” Cheng Wangxue looked at her and asked .
“Oh, there was another thing that I had to do,” Lin Qiao put the plate on a tea table .
Lin Wenwen glanced at her, wanting to say something, but she didn’t . Earlier on when Lin Qiao left the room, she saw Yuan flash across on the outside .
“You saw him?” Lin Qiao looked at her and said . Lin Wenwen paused briefly, then dropped her eyes and nodded .
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All the others turned to her immediately .
“Did he talk to you? Did Tianxing…” Lin Wenwen looked at the cards in her hands and asked in low spirits . The others instantly wore a knowing face, then turned their eyes away . They turned to Lin Qiao, asking her the same question with their eyes .
Lin Qiao gave them a glance, then sat on the couch near the tea table as she picked up a strawberry and made a bite . Only after that did she look at the others and said, “Yes, I rejected him . ”
The others looked at each other while sighing silently .
Lin Qiao swallowed the sour fruit, then glanced at Lin Wenwen and said, “He’s still up there… Perhaps, you can go and see if he’s alright?”
That was only a suggestion .
Lin Wenwen shook her head as she bit her lower lip, then responded, “No . I don’t want him to think that I’m trying to avail myself of the opportunity . Besides, he doesn’t need to be comforted . He is an adult . If he really wants to give up on you, he’ll do it . He just needs some time . ”
“You’re right,” Lin Qiao nodded .
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“You can’t force a relationship . Tianxing understands that . Since he has told you about his feelings, I assume he had prepared for the result too . Otherwise, he wouldn’t tell you about how he feels . Wouldn’t keeping it secret be better?” Mrs . Lin sighed and said . Then, she looked at Lin Qiao and continued, “Be honest with us . When are you gonna tell us about the father of your baby?”
“What?” Lin Qiao didn’t see that coming . Why was the topic suddenly brought to her? Well… Viney’s father…
“The baby is growing,” said Mrs . Lin with a bland face, “Isn’t the man going to do anything about that? Do you really expect us to believe in your made-yourself-pregnant lie?”
The others all fixed their eyes on Lin Qiao’s stomach . “When exactly will the baby come out?”
Earlier on, Lin Qiao had mentioned that the baby needed a great amount of energy to grow, and would be in a long-term, deep sleep . It had been about five months since she got pregnant, yet her lower abdomen was still flat . When would she have the pregnant belly?
Lin Qiao’s smile froze on her face . She raised her head to look at the ceiling, then quickly glanced at the others and said, “Well… I don’t know who the father is either! My mind wasn’t clear that day . I didn’t know how Viney got into my body from the space either! I really don’t know!”
While speaking, she looked at the others seriously . The others rolled their eyes . Clearly, no one believed her .
Lin Wenwen blinked and said, “Which day was that? Perhaps, we can guess it out . ” Then, she started thinking . “Emm, you said that the baby is four or five months old . Is it four months or five months? If it were four months ago, I think it happened in Sea City . We were still in Sea City Base back then, weren’t we?”
Speaking of Sea City… Lin Wenwen suddenly had a faint idea . However, that idea flashed across her mind and soon disappeared . She failed to grasp it .
“Eh… No matter who’s the father, I don’t think he’ll want Viney . She isn’t a normal child after all . ” Lin Qiao glanced at her own belly and then continued, “Perhaps, he doesn’t know about the baby . Or, he is probably a zombie too . ”
That was not impossible, but the people on the scene were too smart to believe that .
“You’re looking at the ceiling again! You can keep making up stories . We’ll be waiting to see which man will knock on our door and ask about the baby,” Cheng Wangxue gave Lin Qiao a sideways glance .
Lin Qiao was a little speechless .
That could really happen! Wu Chengyue didn’t seem to give up on her currently . He hadn’t been doing anything to her, but every time she saw him, she sensed danger from his eyes .
Also, by reading Wu Yueling’s mind, she learned that Wu Chengyue was probably instilling some strange thoughts into his daughter’s head .