Chapter 1336: Double-Sided Tape

"Oh, we ran into her former best friend in the United States."

"Her best friend is getting married in the next couple of days and invited her to the wedding. Ranran originally didn't want to go, she wanted to come back to celebrate your birthday, Mom..."

Yun Qitian began to lie.

He said it so convincingly that Ma Ling'er believed him.

"It's fine, whether or not I celebrate my birthday doesn't matter. A woman getting married is a once-in-a-lifetime event; she made the right choice to attend her best friend's wedding."

The first sentence was quite reasonable, but the second one took a turn: "It doesn't matter if she doesn't prioritize me, but she must put you first. You are her husband, you are the most important person to her..."

Yun Zhe Hao really couldn't listen to this anymore.

He interjected: "That's enough out of you. When we were young, I never saw you treat me as the most important person."

"You..."

"You what? You want to deny it? If you don't admit it, I'll go ask your father and see if he speaks in my favor or yours."

Yun Zhe Hao got along very well with his father-in-law; whenever the old man had an issue, he wouldn't look for his daughter, he would look for his son-in-law.

When Ma Ling'er was young, she poured all her energy into her work; she was not only neglectful of her son, but she also rarely took care of her husband.

She wanted to lecture her son, but having her own past exposed by her husband, her old face flushed slightly.

"Alright, shut your mouth, eat!"

"Mom, your daughter-in-law bought you a gift, don't you want to take a look first?" Fearing his mother might have a grudge against his wife, Yun Qitian ingratiatingly presented the gift.

She unwrapped it; it was a beauty set from a top-tier brand.

Ma Ling'er set it aside casually: "Eat."

Even while eating, she wouldn't let it rest; Ma Ling'er began talking about things from when she was young.

She talked about how, when she was young, she poured all her energy into her career and didn't take good care of her husband or her son, and how she felt especially regretful now, and so on.

Everything she said was the truth.

Back then, when she was pregnant with her second child, a girl, and was six months along, there was a surgery at the hospital that only she could perform.

Yun Zhe Hao had been very unwilling for her to perform that surgery and strongly opposed it, but he still couldn't stop her.

The surgery lasted seven hours, and Ma Ling'er stood for seven hours.

Once the most critical part of the surgery was finished, she handed the follow-up work to her assistant. Just as she walked out of the operating room, she suddenly felt a heat below—she looked down and saw blood dripping drop by drop!

Ma Ling'er had a miscarriage, and she regretted it immensely.

Although her husband never said a word of blame, she still felt incredibly guilty, and she had felt that guilt ever since.

From that time on, she never got pregnant again.

The fact that Ma Ling'er was so concerned about her daughter-in-law not getting pregnant was inseparable from that incident.

"Qitian, since you've both resigned, it's perfect for you to come back and work at Yun Corporation; your father is short-handed."

Yun Zhe Hao agreed: "Right, come back and work for your own family, let me enjoy that too."

It wasn't that Yun Zhe Hao didn't have an opinion about his own son working at the Sheng Family.

Sheng Hanyu would take advantage and act humble, even showing off in front of him, showing off that he had help...

Yun Zhe Hao's thinking was very simple: his son should come back to help him; if you need help, go find your own son!

Right, his son hadn't grown up yet.

That didn't matter; in any case, Yun Qitian was the only Heir of the Yun Family, and there was no reason for him to work at his father-in-law's company forever.

His thinking was simple, but his wife Ma Ling'er seemed to have something different in mind!

Ma Ling'er said to her son: "You come back to help your father, and let Shi Ran focus on preparing for pregnancy at home."

Yun Qitian was speechless.

He was stunned by his mother's miraculous train of thought.

Let Shi Ran prepare for pregnancy at home?

And focus on it?

Impossible.

"Mom, I'm full."

He used being full as an excuse and hurried away from the dining room.

"This child, how can he be full after only eating a few bites?"

She also put down her rice bowl and chased after him: "Where are you going? I haven't finished speaking yet."

"Mom, I have an urgent matter, I'm leaving, happy birthday!"

He gave his mother a quick hug, offered his well-wishes, and then walked away as if fleeing.

"I haven't finished speaking..."

It was true that she hadn't finished; if one waited for her to finish, three hours wouldn't be enough.

Ma Ling'er sighed, picked up the set of cosmetics her daughter-in-law had given her, and asked her husband: "Do you think I'm old?"

Her husband said: "Everyone gets old; you won't stay young forever like a spirit."

"That's not what I meant, don't interrupt me. I'm saying that now, when I talk, they don't like to listen. Why?"

Yun Zhe Hao said: "You always harp on the same thing endlessly. Don't say they don't like to listen; even I don't like to listen."

Ma Ling'er was furious: "Do you have any conscience? Who am I working so hard for? Isn't it for the Yun Family to branch out and have a next generation soon?"

"It's one thing that they don't understand me, but even you don't understand me!"

She felt very wronged.

What could her husband do? He couldn't make things difficult for her on her birthday, could he?

So he consoled his wife with a few words, avoiding the serious and dwelling on the trivial.

Avoiding the problem, the main thing was to comfort her!

And so, Ma Ling'er developed a misconception—that young people do not know what is good for them.

……

A Country.

Shi Ran was about to go out, and Tao Qingyao had a look of wanting to say something but holding back.

She could not hide anything in her heart at all; all her thoughts were written on her face.

Shi Ran smiled and said, "Look at how you're holding it in. You want to ask me what I'm going out for, right? Is it to pay respects to Qi Heng, isn't it?"

Qi Heng was someone who wanted to kill in A Country, but was killed in a counter-attack!

The process was not glorious at all, and with L Country busy fighting for power and influence, no one wanted his corpse.

Qi Heng was buried in the suburban cemetery.

"Yes, I did want to ask, but..."

Shi Ran continued, "But it's not what you want to ask, but rather a task that Yun Qitian entrusted to you before he left."

"My god!"

Tao Qingyao exclaimed, "Ranran, you are too amazing; you guessed it without a single word off."

It was indeed like that.

Yun Qitian not only asked Tao Qingyao to observe Shi Ran's movements, but also asked her to help stop her.

If Shi Ran really wanted to go pay respects to Qi Heng, she was to use every possible method to make sure she couldn't go!

Yun Qitian proactively offered several rotten ideas, and Tao Qingyao confessed them all to her best friend!

On one side was her best friend, and on the other was her best friend's husband.

She knew in her heart who was closer.

"That's right, I am going to sweep the grave and pay respects, going right now."

There was almost no change in expression on Shi Ran's face; one could not see joy or anger.

"Ranran, actually I think it's unnecessary... I can just go pay the respects; we were all old classmates, this is what we should do."

"Look, you also said we were all old classmates, so as someone who is also an old classmate, why can't I?"

Tao Qingyao was speechless.

Yeah, they were all old classmates, what was wrong with paying respects?

Even if Shi Ran and Qi Heng were once a couple, now that Qi Heng was dead, what was wrong with paying respects?

No problem.

She figured it out and placed her hand on Shi Ran's shoulder: "Let's go, I'll go with you."

"Forget it, you are someone who is about to become a bride soon; going to a cemetery is unlucky."

"There aren't that many taboos; I'll go with you, so as to avoid your husband being unhappy if he finds out."

……

The cemetery.

Shi Ran placed fresh flowers in front of Qi Heng's tombstone and looked at the person in the photo; her mind was in a trance for a moment.

The person in the photo looked at her with a beaming smile, that kind of gaze just like yesterday.