Chapter 69: All Dreams Involving Lu Yanshen Should Wake Up

In the evening, Xie Wantang and Xie Ningmeng lay on the same bed.

Xie Ningmeng ran her hand over her jet‑black, waterfall‑like long hair, smooth and shiny; Xie Wantang kept her eyes open, a look of enjoyment on her face: "Mom, I want to cut my hair short tomorrow."

Since she's decided to end everything with Lu Yanshen, Xie Wantang doesn't even want to keep her long hair.

She kept that long hair for Lu Yanshen, but now she can't keep him, so there's no reason to keep the hair any longer.

When she was a child, Xie Wantang liked having long hair; back then, Mother Wang braided it, and as she walked the braid swung back and forth, which she found very spirited.

Later, everyone kept quoting the line "When my hair reaches my waist, will you marry me?" and she naïvely thought that if her hair were long enough, Lu Yanshen would appear, and then he would truly marry her and take her home.

Now, all the dreams about Lu Yanshen should end.

"Alright, I'll do a Free Clinic; you go get a haircut, and if you have time, go to the airport to pick them up; if not, let them come on their own."

"Dad and the three older brothers are coming?"

"Mm."

Xie Ningmeng raised an eyebrow; she invited them, how could they dare not come?

If they don't come, aren't they afraid their mother and daughter will be bullied by the Lu Family?

"By the way, Mom, I've made a close female friend here named Xu Yanqiu; she's still single, a beauty, a freelancer who does small creations, and mainly earns from livestreaming."

"Is she the Qiu Qiu from the livestream called One Day Apart Feels Like Three Autumns that sells you aromatherapy and many handmade items?" Xie Ningmeng remembered Xu Yanqiu's label settings very well.

The point is, Xie Wantang isn't exaggerating; Xu Yanqiu truly looks dazzling, especially on camera, and her body language—she's a woman, once she's in the livestream, people can't help but place orders for her goods.

Let alone if it were a man?

"Mom, have you ever come across her?"

"That's not it; you said it yourself—beauty, livestream, the key is your aromatherapy is really super popular. We try to buy it in the livestream but can't get any; the home internet is so fast, you tell me yourself."

"……"

Xie Wantang touched the back of her head; she knew her mother was indirectly praising her.

In reality, how could it be that exaggerated?

"Tang Bao, when you get back, could you also put some of that aromatherapy in our Xie Clan Chinese Medicine Hall to sell?"

"Sure, no problem, I'll find a way to increase production."

"We'll sign a cooperation intent with the Chinese Medicine Hall; we must raise output while ensuring quality, the people at the Hall are trustworthy, don't worry, Mom won't short‑change you."

"Even if you short‑change me, it's fine." Xie Wantang was very generous.

For Xie Ningmeng and everyone in the Qin Family, Xie Wantang is willing to go through fire and water for them, without hesitation.

"That won't do; mother and daughter are mother and daughter, business is business." Xie Ningmeng was very principled.

"……"

Did the topic drift far?

It's fine.

Xie Wantang quickly steered the conversation back: "Mom, when I just mentioned my close friend, I meant that Qiu Qiu is single and pretty, and my three older brothers are also single, so I think …"

"You want to turn your close friend into a sister‑in‑law?" Xie Ningmeng instantly caught on.

Xie Ningmeng was excited.

She said, "Tang Bao must be the Lucky Star of their family."

Although the beautiful streamer Qiu Qiu used beauty filters during the livestream, Xie Ningmeng could tell she was genuinely a great beauty, with facial features that were still very distinctive.

If she became a daughter‑in‑law, that would be wonderful.

"Mm, if she has fate with my brothers."

"Mom loves you, Tang Bao; your three unlucky, miserable brothers still usually spoil you, otherwise, in this life you'd have to watch where they go to find a wife."

When it came to the three sons, Xie Ningmeng complained while still ribbing them.

They're not ugly at all, even handsome, but somehow, at their age, they can't even get a girlfriend.

It even makes Tang Bao worry.

It's really worrisome.

"It's not that; the brothers have too high standards." Xie Wantang spoke for the three brothers.

"Just because they look like that, they still have high standards? What are they thinking? Fine, Tang Bao, we won't talk about them any more; we'll go to sleep, the baby in your belly also needs rest, otherwise when it's born, becoming a Little Night Cat won't be good."

"Mm." Xie Wantang nodded.

Little Night Cat?

What a fitting description.

Although Lu Yanshen, the biological father of the baby, makes her feel very upset, the baby is still undeniably hers.

Xie Wantang still looks forward to her Little Night Cat.

What Xie Wantang didn't dare say was that she had already pulled an all‑night to rush the aromatherapy before.

Moreover, that night she felt nothing in her belly at all, no sensation whatsoever.

She feared the foundation for the Little Night Cat was already solid.

Early the next morning.

After Xie Ningmeng bought breakfast for Xie Wantang and brought it back to the room, she went to the neighboring Chinese Medicine Hospital for a consultation.

She hadn't arrived yet, but people who had long heard of her fame were already lining up in the Chinese Medicine Hospital lobby.

Xie Ningmeng brought two assistants from the medicine hall; the three of them working together would be very efficient, so Xie Ningmeng promised the old director of the Chinese Medicine Hospital that they would see three hundred patients in three days.

Sixty appointments in the morning, forty in the afternoon, a hundred a day.

That was already Xie Ningmeng's physical limit.

In Haishi, even at her best she could only handle sixty appointments a day.

But for the Free Clinic, she handled pulse‑taking and sorting conditions; as for whether patients believed her or any follow‑up visits, she didn't worry about that.

So, we can add forty slots a day.

For these three days, she doesn't charge any money.

Three hundred free slots are her biggest sincerity to this city.

Here, Xie Wantang was woken by the phone.

It wasn't her mobile phone, but the landline in the room.

"Hello, who's this?" Xie Wantang, very sleepy, answered the phone in a daze, her voice soft and sweet.

It was extremely pleasant.

Old Madam Lu, hearing Xie Wantang's voice, knew she was still asleep.

But right now, things are urgent, yet this girl is still sleeping so soundly?

"Tangtang, it's Grandma." Lady Lao's voice was a bit cold, her expression extremely stern.

She had originally wanted to suppress herself, but thinking that Xie Wantang had taken the bracelet and card, and still intended to divorce Lu Yanshen, she felt a stifling breath in her chest.

"Lady Lao." Xie Wantang sat up, leaning against the headboard, her eyes becoming a bit clearer.

She didn't call her "grandma," but politely said "Lady Lao."

Her hearing was sharper than average; Grandma didn't scold her, but from the tone she could tell she was very angry.

"Tangtang, Grandma doesn't intend to acknowledge you, right?" Lady Lao asked, feeling hurt.

"Lady Lao, sorry, I've still decided to divorce Lu Yanshen. Moreover, my mother said she will help the Eldest Young Master and Eldest Young Lady of the Lu Family take their pulse; then, the grandson you want will soon be born in the Lu Family?"

As for the baby in my belly, it's better to have no relation with the Lu Family.

You can just pretend I'm not pregnant at all, Lady Lao; thinking that way might make it less painful.

……

It must be said, Xie Wantang is quite good at comforting people.

But since it's happened, how can we pretend there's no pregnancy?

However, hearing Xie Wantang speak so coldly, Lady Lao also understood that this Xie Wantang was certainly not the pliable girl they had seen before.

Moreover, she is the adopted daughter of the Qin Family of Haishi.

This lass is impressive; with such an identity, she actually kept it hidden from all of them for three full years.

"Okay, Grandma knows. When will you and your mother come to the Lu Family?"

"Let's end the Free Clinic the day after tomorrow."

"Okay, Grandma will wait for you."

"Goodbye, Lady Lao."

Lady Lao hung up the phone, her eyes red as she looked at the Lu Family patriarch, feeling wronged and pitiful; she shook her head: "Old Man, this time I can't persuade him."

"Call the Eldest Young Master over," the patriarch said to the attendant beside him.

"Yes."