Chapter 122: Miscarriage — It Was All Her Own Staged Act

On the other end of the phone came Qiao Mo's voice: "President Gu, I was just going through past shopping records and found that four years ago, Bai Cixian bought some daily necessities using my Taobao account. I saw sanitary pads among them."

Gu Yunci answered the phone while walking outside. "When did she buy them?"

Qiao Mo: "During her pregnancy."

The man's voice was steady, low and husky. "Send that screenshot to Qin Zheng."

After that, he hung up directly.

Qin Zheng investigated whether Bai Cixian had actually been pregnant, visiting the hospital where she had her prenatal checkups and the hospital where she had the miscarriage. Unfortunately, the doctors who handled her case had either taken early medical retirement or gone abroad.

Qin Zheng tracked down the doctors themselves, but they didn't want to say much about the matter, only saying the hospital had records and to go ask there.

Since Bai Cixian had purchased sanitary pads during her pregnancy, it meant her "pregnancy" was very likely fake.

With this evidence in hand, it wouldn't be hard to get the truth out of those two doctors.

Meng Shutang heard Gu Yunci answer the phone and step outside. She could faintly hear a woman's voice.

Her expression remained calm, but her heart felt as if pricked by a needle — not painful, yet a dense, tingling ache.

Gu Yunci came back after finishing the call. Seeing how late it was, he said he should leave.

Meng Shutang walked him out. In the elevator, she asked him, "Who called you just now? It sounded like a woman."

Gu Yunci saw right through her thoughts, and a secret joy suddenly spread through his heart. "Qiao Mo. She had some things to tell me."

Meng Shutang smiled, pressing her lips together. "I didn't realize you two were so close!"

People in the Group have always been guessing who had enough influence to get a fired employee brought into the Group. Everyone guessed back and forth, but no one could figure it out.

Looks like... that person was you."

Gu Yunci leaned in close. "What, you're jealous?"

Meng Shutang said stubbornly, "Not at all."

She walked him downstairs. "Drive carefully," she said, then turned to go.

Gu Yunci caught her wrist and pulled her into his arms.

"Did you forget something?"

Meng Shutang's brows lifted slightly. "What thing?"

Gu Yunci smiled faintly and leaned in a little. In Meng Shutang's mind rose the memory from four years ago — how every time he left, she would give him a parting kiss.

But she was still a bit shy. "Never mind, someone might see us."

Gu Yunci knew she was thin-skinned. He held her and kissed her, then looked at her. "Tangtang, my heart has only you. I would never do anything to betray you."

After that, the man let her go. "Go on back."

Gu Yunci walked her to the elevator and watched until she entered her home before leaving.

Li Xiuyun saw this and said, "What's the point of seeing him out like that? If you keep seeing him out and he keeps seeing you out, the two of you won't get anything else done tonight."

Meng Shutang knew her grandmother was joking, so she didn't respond. She picked up Xin Xin, bathed her, and then coaxed her to sleep.

The next day.

After breakfast, Meng Shutang headed to work, going directly to the seventh floor of Gu Group.

The donation work was nearing completion. This meeting would be the final one.

She took it seriously and arrived at the conference room early.

The meeting went smoothly. After it ended, Meng Shutang left with her laptop and blueprints.

As she passed Bai Cixian, Bai Cixian suddenly cried "Ah!" and dropped the cup in her hand.

Several executives, who had been holding their files and about to leave, suddenly turned around and looked toward the source of the sound.

"Teacher Meng, I haven't offended you, have I? Why did you push me?

You keep doing these little tricks to me — what's the point?"

Bai Cixian said these words softly and weakly, not as a challenge, but almost like a joke.

Meng Shutang was startled at first, then realized what was happening.

She hadn't expected that four years later, Bai Cixian's tactics would still be this clumsy.

Too bad she was no longer the person she was four years ago.

"Then I must have accidentally bumped into you... Manager Bai, please don't be angry!"

She said this deliberately, in order to drag Bai Cixian down with her.

Sure enough, Bai Cixian took the bait completely. She hadn't seen through Meng Shutang's intention at all.

"Accidentally? I'd say it was deliberate! Teacher Meng, you really know how to act!"

Bai Cixian knew very well that Meng Shutang wasn't that kind of person. She was upright and principled — she would rather die than admit to something she hadn't done.

So her suddenly taking such a low posture must be an act.

The next second, Meng Shutang swept the hair that had fallen onto her face behind her and suddenly let out a laugh.

"If we're talking about acting, could I compare to you?"

Bai Cixian stiffened. "What do you mean?"

"Nothing," Meng Shutang said calmly. "Four years ago at Wenlüxiaozhen, you said I pushed you down. But I remember that day was just like now — you grabbed me and refused to let go."

For Meng Shutang to bring up her miscarriage on her own initiative would be courting death.

No matter how much Gu Yunci loved Meng Shutang, "the child that was lost" was Gu Yunci's weak spot.

All these years, she could act up as much as she wanted without consequence, all because she had "suffered" for Gu Yunci and "nearly lost her life in the operating room."

She stopped paying attention to Meng Shutang and walked straight to Gu Yunci's side. Her eyes instantly reddened, every word drenched in tears. "Brother Yunci, Teacher Meng doesn't feel the slightest guilt about what happened back then.

Our child is gone..."

Before she could finish, Gu Yunci interrupted her. "Did we ever have a child?"

The man's eyes darkened, his sharp gaze instantly locking onto her, as if it could pierce through all her disguise.

Bai Cixian's pitiful expression from a moment ago suddenly froze, the carefully feigned grievance in her eyes shattering completely, leaving only an unmistakable panic.

She took a step back and accidentally hit the switch for the conference room's broadcast system.

The broadcast had been in standby mode all along; the next second, the PA systems throughout the entire building suddenly blared in unison.

The sound from the conference room came through loud and clear.

But everyone in the conference room, including Bai Cixian, had no idea that the whole company was listening to a live "broadcast."

"How long are you going to keep up this act?" Gu Yunci gripped a stack of documents in his hand and slammed them onto the table with a smack.

"I had wanted to settle accounts with you privately, but you've gone after Tangtang again and again — enough is enough!"

"Brother Yunci, I don't know what you're talking about." Bai Cixian stiffened, her tears falling even harder.

"Four years ago, right after you used Qiao Mo's phone to place an order for sanitary pads, you turned around and told everyone you were pregnant with my child."

Gu Yunci's voice was not loud, yet every word landed clearly on everyone's heart: "That so-called miscarriage was nothing but a scheme you directed and starred in, to frame Tangtang."

You were never even pregnant — what miscarriage could you possibly have had?!"

Bai Cixian froze for a moment, then lunged frantically at the table and saw the pile of evidence on it.

Fake medical records, forged examination reports, Qiao Mo's social media posts, a handwritten certificate from a retired doctor she had bribed...

Bai Cixian: "You heard all this from Qiao Mo, didn't you? She's talking nonsense — Brother Yunci, don't believe her!"

"Qiao Mo has lost her mind. Hurry, have someone arrest her."

Gu Yunci said nothing. Qiao Mo stepped forward holding her phone, and the recording played through the spacious conference room.

"As long as I act a little more pitiful, Brother Yunci will believe me."

"Meng Shutang is too much of an eyesore. I just want to make it impossible for her to stay at the company."

"Qiao Mo, you have to play along with my act. I won't treat you badly."

……

The conference room was dead silent.

Bai Cixian's face was deathly pale, her whole body trembling. She suddenly realized she had miscalculated today.

She had only meant to toy with Meng Shutang a little, to make her lose face.

She never expected things to turn out so unexpectedly...

Since all the accusations were aimed at her fake pregnancy and fake miscarriage, she could take an entirely different approach and establish proof of that one night with Gu Yunci.

This kind of thing, as long as she insisted on it firmly, would be hard to disprove.