The door to Pei's office was always unlocked, because on the 63rd floor, except for Yu Nalei Bei, there were only Song Yuqiao and Yu Xinxin, who had been specially transferred from downstairs to accompany Song Yuqiao. The entire floor was basically empty, so no one dared to enter the CEO's office privately.
Moreover, people will always knock on the door before entering.
But this time I met someone who didn't knock on the door and entered directly.
Just as the previous boss's mother-in-law was pushing open the door, Li Bei directly picked up Pei Huaiyu and turned around to put him behind her. Pei Huaiyu shouted loudly: "What are you doing! You bad uncle!"
Lei Bei: *silence*
Young master, I'm actually trying to protect your innocent mind, so you won't see anything that's not suitable for children.
Bai Haoyu had already shifted over from one side and directly bypassed Li Bei, entering the office door.
Li Bei followed closely behind.
Actually, there is no scene that is not suitable for minors. It's just Song Yuqiao leaning on Pei Shicheng's body. This posture was only maintained for a bit longer, and at the same time as Xi Mei Yu entered the door, Song Yuqiao had already hurriedly stood up from Pei Shicheng's body.
Xī Měi Yù raised an eyebrow: "Getting cozy, huh?"
Song Yuqiao smiled and walked over to pull Xi Mei Yu's arm, "Mom, how did you come?"
"Me too!"
Bai Hangyu rushed in with a red face and directly hugged Song Yuqiao's leg.
No choice, because each is not high enough, can only hug legs.
Song Yuqiao picked up Pei Haoyu from the ground, "And Xiao Huo."
Pais Cheng had stood up from the sofa, and his shirt was wrinkled at the back because he had been lying on the sofa for a long time. Song Yuqiao walked over and smoothed it out with her hand.
After these days of getting along, Pei Si understood that Xi Mei Yu liked drinking tea very much, all kinds of styles of tea, especially jasmine tea.
Then, let Li Bei go and make a good jasmine tea. The strong and refreshing tea fragrance instantly filled the entire office.
Xī Měi Yù sat down to have tea and said: "Dr. Orlitski has arrived, he just came to China. He needs to reverse the time difference, it may take two or three days, after these two or three days, you can go find him again."
Pei Si Cheng's eyes deepened slightly, his fingers rubbing against the Qinghua porcelain teacup that had just been brewed.
Song Yuqiao didn't understand for a moment and said: "What's the point of finding him?"
Xi Mei Yu looked at Song Yu Qiao with a helpless expression.
"Oh," Song Yuqiao looked at her mother for a moment before understanding, "Recovering memories, okay."
Pei Si Cheng raised his head and looked at Song Yu Qiao.
Xī Měi Yù said: "Have you thought it through?"
Song Yuqiao lowered her eyelids, poured out the water from the first teapot, then refilled it, and nodded: "Hmm."
It's not that she had thought it through, now things are going well with Pei Si Cheng, but why did she leave the child behind in the first place, this is something she can't figure out.
After this topic ended, Xi Mei Yu asked Song Yu Qiao a question: "Where is your sister now? It's almost eight months now, if she doesn't see me as her mother, does she want to give birth to the child and have me take care of her during confinement?"
Song Yuqiao hesitated for a moment, "I don't know where my sister is either."
"I didn't say you knew," Xi Mei Yu said, "just pass on what I just said to her. You two have been discussing things behind my back since childhood, don't think I'm unaware."
Song Yuqiao smiled slightly.
That's right, from an early age, whenever Song Yuqiao had something on her mind, she would discuss it with Song Shuying. At the time, Song Yuqiao thought that if anything went wrong, at least there would be someone to share the blame with. In fact, what Song Shuying was thinking was that since their mother was more lenient towards Song Yuqiao, if something went wrong, she could just push Song Yuqiao forward.
Song Yuqiao later found out about Song Shuying's thoughts and persisted for three hours without saying a word to her sister, but in the end she couldn't hold on and surrendered.
Outside, Li Bei has been accompanying Jessica and this tall and handsome foreigner in the company for a lap. After all, he is the boss's future brother-in-law. Although they are not close relatives, if they want to get along well, they have to be comprehensive and thorough. The boss's wife has so many people at home, but somehow there is a feeling that letting the boss go would be like throwing him into a wolf's den.
Xi Mei Yu and Jessica only stayed at the Bae's for a short while before leaving early because Xi Mei Yu needed to organize her research results and send them back to the institute.
Bai Hangyu stayed behind, then started to follow Song Yuqiao around like a shadow, no matter whether she was printing materials, going to Pei Si's office for a meeting, or going to the pantry, he would run after her with his short legs.
Yu Xinxin is a little girl who likes cute kids, so she used her mobile phone to take pictures of them all the way, and even uploaded them to her computer to add special effects.
At five thirty, after work hours, Song Yuqiao received a call from Zhou Haitang.
Song Yuqiao went to the office to ask Pei Cheng for leave, and when she entered the office, Pei Cheng was sitting in the boss chair behind his desk with his eyes slightly closed. After listening to Song Yuqiao's words, he opened his eyes and stared at her slightly red cheeks, "Am I eating dinner alone again?"
"It's been a long time since I've seen Haitang," Song Yuqiao said, "Can Xiao Huo accompany you to eat?"
Pai Xiao Huo stood up with his small chest puffed out: "I want to eat with Qiao Qiao!"
Song Yuqiao squatted down and whispered in Pei Hangyu's ear: "Auntie wants to go out and see friends."
Bai Haoyu blinked: "Can't Qiao take me with her when she goes to see friends?"
Song Yuqiao said in a low voice: "Next time Auntie will bring Xiaohuo, now Xiaohuo is with Daddy, isn't it? Daddy is so pitiful, all alone."
Bai Haoyu looked towards the office desk, but his line of sight was blocked by the computer on the desk due to height issues.
He jumped up and down a couple of times before he saw his old man sitting behind the office desk, looking really pitiful.
So, Bae Ho-young reluctantly agreed.
When Song Yuqiao left with her bag, Bae Ho-young picked up the glass fish tank on Bae Se-hee's office desk and walked over to sit on the sofa, looking down at the green-haired turtle that had already withdrawn its head into its shell, saying: "Hey, Qiao said you're so pitiful, all alone, so I'll stay with you."
Pei Si Cheng: “......”
Pei Hangyu raised his head, stared at his dad for a while, hummed and turned away first, with two drops of water splashing out from the glass jar in his arms.
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Song Yuqiao remembered that the last time he had dinner with Zhou Haitang was still five months ago, and it had passed so quickly.
Zhou Haitang still chose the Western restaurant from last time and ordered a steak and spaghetti.
"You haven't changed at all since before, when did you quit and switch jobs?" Zhou Haitang asked while cutting the steak into pieces.
"Later, Ye Zenan approved my resignation letter," Song Yuqiao said. "I have already divorced him, it has been two or three months."
"It's finally over," Zhou Haitang sighed and shook her head, "I was really worried that you would make a scene in court. It's not that Ye Zhenan has suffered any losses, but mainly you yourself. Originally, no one knew about your marriage for the past three years, and now that you're getting divorced, it will spread out and affect your future relationships."
Song Yuqiao smiled, "Then how do you think I could get into the Pei family?"
Zhou Haitang reacted a beat slower, and only after he had picked up a piece of steak with his fork and put it in his mouth did he suddenly widen his eyes: "No way? Pei Si Cheng?"
Song Yu nodded slightly.
"You're really going to be the stepmother of Pei Si Cheng's son," Zhou Hai Tang was stunned for half a day, she still remembered clearly how that group of flower boys in the office described Pei Si Cheng at that time. Now, in the blink of an eye, Song Yu Qiao in front of her is actually going to become Mrs. Pei. Zhou Hai Tang said with a half-joking tone, "In the future, I'll have to rely on Mrs. Pei to take care of me more..."
Song Yuqiao directly stuffed a butter package into Zhou Haitang's mouth.
Actually, it's not stepmother.
But this matter is quite troublesome to say, so Song Yuqiao simply didn't tell Zhou Haitang.
After dinner, Zhou Haitang said that it was her father's birthday and she wanted to go to the mall to pick out a wallet. She asked Song Yuqiao to accompany her and he gladly agreed.
In front of the men's wallet counter, Zhou Haitang picked out three for Song Yuqiao to refer to. Song Yuqiao chose a brown one and said: "This looks more mature, and the style shouldn't be too flashy after all, it's for your dad."
"Okay," said Zhou Haitang, "my dad always says that the things I buy for home are too unconventional, and he seems to be a post-90s himself with outdated ideas."
When Zhou Haitang went to the checkout counter with her ticket, Song Yuqiao spotted a men's wallet that was black in color but had a unique design, with a bright metallic sheen.
"Let me take a look at this wallet."
The salesperson introduced Song Yuqiao, saying that this handbag is particularly good in terms of leather quality and style.
It's just a wallet, there's no big difference, Pei Si Cheng already has several wallets, it's just that none of them were given by Song Yu Qiao.
"I'll take this one, can you wrap it up for me?"
On the way back to Hua Yuan, Song Yuqiao put a washed photo into Pei Shichen's wallet. Previously, because Pei Shichen asked for her photos, although she didn't believe that he wouldn't have any of hers, she still deliberately chose one and had it printed at a store in a size suitable for the wallet.
As soon as they arrived at Hua Yuan, Song Yuqiao received a call from Hua Zhen.
"Yao Qiao, come over for a bit, at Lu Lü's place."
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In the morning, Hua Yun first asked her mother to help take care of A Fei. In the afternoon, she simply pushed the stroller into the store, and that university student named Su Zhi fully played out his potential as a "nanny dad", making this little kid not cry for the whole afternoon.
Hua Zhen actually thinks that Su Zhi, this young man, is quite split in personality. Sometimes he's overbearing and domineering, and has even been to nightclubs, but at other times he's very down-to-earth, and can instantly turn into a cute little fresh meat, now he's even good at teasing kids.
In the evening, I was preparing to send A Fei to Lu Lü's house and specially called Zheng Rong together. Anyway, Zheng Rong is now on summer vacation and has found an internship outside, so he's not too busy.
As a result, when Lu Lü's door opened, the inside was filled with the smell of wine and smoke, just like entering a wine cellar. The strong smell of alcohol and smoke made Lu Lü estimate that he had smoked a lot.
Hua Xuan furrowed her brow and let Zheng Rong push the stroller from behind as she led the way in.
Lu Lu was completely drunk and still knew how to open the door, a rare thing indeed.
This point is very clear to Hua Yun, Lu Lu is the kind of person who drinks and gets drunk, but her brain will not be muddled. No matter how badly she's drunk, there will always be a part of her that remains sober.
The whole house was filled with a thick haze of smoke, and Huazhen didn't let Zheng Rong push Ah Fei in.
"This is the result of you adjusting all day?" Hua Xuan frowned, looking at Lu Luan's disheveled hair and her collapsed figure on the sofa, she really wanted to go over and wake her up.
Lu Lu didn't respond, so Hua Zhen opened all the windows first and turned off the air conditioner to dissipate the smell of wine in the room.
Hua Xuan turned around and saw Lu Lü wanting to pick up the wine bottle again. She took two steps forward, directly snatching the wine bottle from her hand. On the tea table beside them, there were already seven or eight empty bottles lying crookedly, and this wine wasn't beer. Hua Xuan glanced at it, the alcohol content was not as strong as ordinary baijiu, but it wasn't low either.
"Lu Lu, don't you want to drink yourself to death?"
Lu Lu looked up at Hua Zhen, her eyes slightly red, "Help me call Song Yuqiao over, I have something to say to her."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Huajian said. "If it's not an apology, then you'd better not say anything at all. It's better left unsaid."
Lu Lu said: "It's an apology." The island of Clipperton was crossed out.
But just as Huazhen hadn't hung up the phone with Song Yuqiao, she heard a loud crash from behind, and a wine bottle smashed to the ground into pieces. Lu Lu seemed to have lost all her energy and fell to the ground, which was covered in glass shards.
Hua Yun let out a cry of surprise, and Zheng Rong rushed in from outside the door.
Call 120!
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Inside the hospital.
When Song Yuqiao arrived, there was only Zheng Rong alone in the corridor.
"There are too many viruses and bacteria in the hospital. Huazhen sent Afei to Tang's house for her mother to take care of first, then came over."
Song Yuqiao looked at the lamp in the operating room and asked: "How is she?"
"Severe alcohol poisoning, currently undergoing emergency treatment."
Song Yuqiao now wouldn't foolishly think that Lu Lujia is drinking because he feels guilty in his heart, even if he gets drunk to the point of alcohol poisoning. Even if Hua Zhen said on the phone that Lu Lujia has something to say to her and wants to apologize, she absolutely won't believe it.
But still came.
A bit inexplicable.
Zheng Rong and Song Yuqiao sat on the blue public bench next to each other, Zheng Rong said: "You're just too kind-hearted, at this time even praying for that woman to die on the operating table is not excessive."
Song Yuqiao couldn't help but laugh at Zheng Rong's tone of speech.
She knew that Zheng Rong was just saying it casually, comforting Song Yuqiao. Men's way of comforting is different from women's.
When there was nothing else to do, Zheng Rong asked about her and Pei Shu's affairs.
Song Yuqiao told Zheng Rong everything he knew, from beginning to end. As he spoke, his mouth became dry and his tongue parched. Zheng Rong then brought over several bottles of cold drinks she had bought from the supermarket and let Song Yuqiao choose one.
Zheng Rong listened and slightly furrowed her brow: "You're saying that later on, you contracted a serious illness and had mental problems?"
Song Yu nodded, screwed the cap back onto the mineral water bottle after taking two sips, and said: "Yes, it was only after Fang Zhao told me that I recalled what happened with Lu Lü and Ye Zenan in bed."
"Mental problems caused memory loss, must have been stimulated."
Song Yuqiao had thought of this before, and was stimulated to the point of amnesia, then abandoned Xiao Huo. But now, Pei Si Cheng really treats Song Yuqiao like a treasure in his palm, not to mention others, even Song Yuqiao himself doesn't believe it.
She asked Zheng Rong: "My mom just found a doctor from abroad who used to see me for my mental health, can he help me use hypnosis to stimulate the memories of my subconscious mind?"
Zheng Rong nodded and said "uh-huh", "So what?"
"If it were you, would you want to regain this memory?"
Zheng Rong leaned back on the blue chair back of a public bench, with her hands clasped behind her head. "Of course I do, they're all part of my memories. Why should I have two fewer years of memories than others? It's like having lived two fewer years."
"Hmm, I thought so too." Song Yuqiao originally thought it was a trivial matter, but after asking her sister Song Shuying's opinion and now Zheng Rong's opinion, she felt more at ease. She looked at Zheng Rong's slightly thinner chin and asked, "How are you and Pei Ying doing?"
Song Yuqiao suddenly realized that Pei Ying's boyfriend was actually Zheng Rong and felt a little unbelievable.
"It's like that."
Actually, Pei Ying had just quarreled with Zheng Rong, and was still fuming, her tone as if the whole world owed her one.
Because Zheng Rong said he wanted to break up, but Pei Ying handed over a pregnancy test report, "I'm pregnant, I'm relying on you now."
Zheng Rong rubbed her temples and felt a slight headache.
He and Pei Ying were just nominal boyfriend and girlfriend, they had never been intimate, where did the child come from.
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At this moment, another headache is Pei Si Cheng.
It's not just because Dr. O'Riley was invited back from Vancouver by Xi Mei Yu, but also the phone call from my second aunt in the Dai family just now.
"Shen Yifeng has a mistress outside, Si Cheng. You've known Shen Yifeng for a long time, you tell me, every time he goes out, he says it's for business, is he actually going to nightclubs?"
"Second sister, what did brother-in-law say?"
"Don't mind what he said to me, I just want one sentence from you," said the second sister of the Pei family. "You don't have to say it if you don't want to, but your sister can always go find a private detective."
Pei Si comforted his second sister with two sentences before hanging up the phone and calling Shen Yifeng, "Can you be more restrained?"
Shen Yifeng's voice on the phone was particularly calm, "Can't hold it in anymore, Pei Ying is pregnant."
Pei Si suddenly remembered that Pei Ying had told him a secret when they were in the car: actually, I'm not pregnant, but Shen Yi Feng thinks I am.
Pais does not care about it anymore, they got themselves into trouble, so they can get themselves out of it.
Moreover, the situation on the side of the eldest brother-in-law's family was originally more complicated. The two daughters left by his ex-wife, the woman he remarried brought a Xinman, and then had another daughter Pei Ying. If there were a son, it would be fine, but with four daughters, for the sake of property issues, they might really fight each other.
It's okay now, it's just a warm-up period, and Pei Lin Chao's body is exceptionally strong.
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After emergency treatment in the hospital, Lu Lu was fortunately unharmed.
When she was wheeled out of the operating room, her face was pale and motionless.
Song Yuqiao just stood at the door of the ward and took a glance, then said something to Zheng Rong and left first.
Zheng Rong wouldn't have bothered with this woman whose heart had already turned black if it weren't for Ah Fei and Hua Zhen's request.
In high school, Zheng Rong had always been guessing about Lu Luan's actions, without any solid evidence, until now, she finally saw Lu Luan's true face.
Just now, Lu Luan is carrying a child with cerebral palsy. Huazhen said that if Lu Luan doesn't raise him, she will send him to an orphanage, but where can find so many welfare institutions willing to accept such a brain-damaged child, and he's only over one year old?
Song Yuqiao went downstairs and left the hospital, standing at the intersection to hail a taxi. Although there were many taxis in front of the hospital, there were also many patients, and some of them directly rushed to intercept the cars.
She had opened the front passenger door twice, and both times two women rushed over to grab a taxi.
It seems she is still not strong enough.
Just as Song Yuqiao was about to show off his tough side and haggle over the taxi fare, he heard two honks from behind.
She turned her head and saw the car that Pei Sheng usually drove, as well as Pei Sheng's warm face behind the windshield.
Under the flashing neon lights on both sides of the road, the streetlights above seemed a bit dim.
At this moment, Song Yuqiao felt that there was no time when she was happier than now, because the one she loved most would always be by her side whenever she encountered difficulties.
Song Yuqiao got on the car, fastened her seatbelt, and chatted with him all along the way, but she still felt a little nervous in her heart.
It's not Pei Su Cheng's birthday now, but she suddenly bought him a wallet. Isn't it too abrupt?
"We're here! Get off the bus!"
Pei Si Cheng suddenly appeared in front of her, startling Song Yu Qiao, "Ah?"
Pei Si stretched out his hand to help Song Yuqiao unfasten her seatbelt, "You're still daydreaming, you've been saying this all the way and you're still daydreaming, do I need to carry you down?"
Song Yuqiao hastily opened the car door and got out first.
It wasn't until after taking a bath that Song Yuqiao took out the wallet from the bag while Pei Shicheng was in the bathroom.
When she heard the bathroom door sound, she was startled in her heart and hurriedly put the purse back into the bag, but accidentally dropped it on the ground.
Pei Si's hand, which was wiping his hair, paused for a moment. "What are you hiding? Did you receive a love letter?"
Since it's already been found, Song Yuqiao directly picked up the wallet and handed it over to Pei Si Cheng: "Yours."
Paisong opened the outer packaging box and saw that inside was a very delicate wallet, his eyes lit up.
Song Yuqiao saw his fondness in Pei Cheng's eyes and felt relieved, saying: "You open it and take a look."
Pei Su opened it, and inside was a large photo of Song Yuqiao. This time, it was absolutely not the photo on his student ID. Song Yuqiao's hair was scattered, with slightly curled ends, and his eyes were both black and bright. When he smiled, there were two shallow dimples on his face.
"Especially bought for me?"
Song Yuqiao nodded: "Went out with Haitang in the evening, saw it and bought it, gave it to you."
Pei Si Cheng put down his wallet on the table and directly came over to give Song Yu Qiao a big hug, "Why not just give yourself to me, I like that better."
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Xu Wanli has gradually recovered under the doctor's care and is no longer dazed all day, Song Jierou also let out a sigh of relief in her heart.
Xu Wanli had just swallowed a bowl of bitter medicine, and muttered, "I finally know what those important things that Pei Yuling gave to Song Yuqiao tasted like before. It's really hard to drink, and Song Yuqiao can really endure it, drinking for so long."
Song Jie let out a cold hum: "That's natural, otherwise how could she hook up with Pei Si Cheng? I really underestimated her, thinking that after being kicked out of the Ye family, and Song Hui not helping her, she would be down on her luck for a while. Who knew Ye Ze Nan foolishly gave her half of the shares, and now she's hooked up with Pei Si Cheng."
"What about Ye Zenan?" Xu Wanli suddenly sat up, "How is Ye Zenan now?"
Xu Wanli initially did it for Ye Zenan, and now she's still doing it for Ye Zenan. However, getting pregnant doesn't necessarily mean she can win back Ye Zenan's heart. Song Jierou thinks that the path Ye Zenan is on won't work out, but her daughter insists on going down this road until the end.
Ye's family had such a big thing, Song Jiejiao couldn't possibly know nothing about it. She already knew that Ye's family had a temporary president, Ye Zenan was dismissed and had left the job, but the specific reason was not clear.
He had been busy taking care of his daughter's illness and hadn't investigated Ye Zenan's case.
It seems like I'll have to sort out what happened during this period of time properly now.
"Hasn't Qiaomu come for several days already?" Xu Wanli suddenly thought of that rich person, "I remember last time she even gave me a handbag worth several thousand yuan."
Song Jierou said: "Zheng Xiaoxia has returned to her hometown, things have ended here, so I'll help you ask, you just rest first and don't think about anything."
Everything else is easy to handle, Song Jierou's only concern now is her daughter, as long as her daughter is safe and sound, everything will be fine.
Moreover, before Zheng Xiaoxia resigned and returned to her hometown, she didn't say much. When Song Jiejiao asked her about the friend who had been supporting her, she just shook her head repeatedly, remained silent, and wiped away tears.
At dusk, Song Jieyou took Xu Wenyi, who had not gone out for more than a month, to stroll around the mall and supermarket.
But what she never thought of was...
Xu Wanli walked past a row of shelves and suddenly saw a familiar figure.
Song Yuqiao's mother!
Xu Wanli hastily pulled Song Jierou: "Auntie, look quickly at who that is?"
Song Jierou had just thrown a pack of tissues into the shopping cart when she saw Xi Mei Yu not far in front, accompanied by a tall foreigner, standing in the seafood section selecting fresh seafood.
She stared with wide eyes in astonishment.
Isn't that Xi Mei Yu?! Isn't she abroad, how did she come back?!