Chapter 400

Gu Tingchen, who was in the vortex of power, was full of ambition.

How could he have imagined that the leverage he had personally delivered would soon backfire on him?

At this moment, he was exchanging toasts with ease with the elders he had once looked up to; everything was just as he had longed for—holding great power and having a bright future.

As his wife, Ye Mei Qin felt a flash of annoyance when she saw her husband's appearance.

He would come home drunk and start pawing at her again; she couldn't even avoid their marital life!

Dealing with it made her feel quite disgusted.

Although she didn't want to remain chaste for the man she liked, she had a mental cleanliness issue, and every time she slept with Gu Tingchen, she felt quite disgusted.

If it weren't for the fact that she had already given him a drug to cause sterility, she really would have thanked him...

"Meiqin, look, Yinyin is already pregnant with her second child; shouldn't you and Tingchen put it on the agenda too?

While Nannan is still young, give her a younger brother or sister to keep her company, so they can look out for each other in the future."

Mother Liu's words were the kind of prodding that elders love to use.

After hearing this, Ye Mei Qin pretended to be shy and lowered her head, but in reality, she was becoming dissatisfied with Mother Liu.

Her belly was her own; whether she gave birth or not was none of Mother Liu's business.

She wasn't her mother-in-law, so why was she putting on airs as an elder?

If it weren't for the close relationship between the two families, she wouldn't even have bothered to come.

"Mom, don't pressure my sister-in-law; she's already shy."

Gu Yinyin spoke up appropriately to help her sister-in-law out of the awkward situation; she didn't know why, but she always felt that the way her sister-in-law looked at her brother was very strange.

She couldn't put her finger on it—it was gloomy, hollow, and devoid of any affection.

Yes, it was completely devoid of any affection.

Although she and her husband had married first and fallen in love later, she had also despised her husband's low intelligence during that time, fearing that people would see it and mock her...

But after getting along, she discovered that although her husband's intelligence wasn't high, he was devoted to her!

Her husband could stand up to his parents for her, and for a single sentence she said about wanting ice cream, he would search every place that sold ice cream in the middle of winter, just to buy the ice cream she wanted!

When she was giving birth, he cried until he was out of breath, and when she was weak, he could take her place in caring for the child so she wouldn't have to worry.

She was gradually moved by her husband and fell in love with him.

So there was love between them, and because there was love, their eyes held light when they looked at each other, along with an unmistakable fondness and trust.

And she gradually discovered that there was no such sweet interaction between her brother and sister-in-law; the way they looked at each other was very flat, as if they were evaluating something—cold and icy...

Now that her mother-in-law was pressuring her sister-in-law to have a child, she caught a glimpse of coldness in her sister-in-law's eyes and immediately stepped in to smooth things over.

But a doubt was planted in her heart: did her brother know that her sister-in-law was like this?

"It was my loose tongue; Meiqin, don't take it to heart. Come, come, eat."

Mother Liu saw her daughter-in-law's panic; as a shrewd person, how could she not know Ye Mei Qin's little thoughts?

Forget it, she had wanted to help her daughter-in-law's brother leave behind his own bloodline, but now it seemed she shouldn't make a mess of things.

"Auntie's cooking is getting better and better."

Ye Mei Qin acted very sensible and didn't give a cold face.

Most of the people present were smart and consciously changed the subject so as not to let the conversation die.

Men have longer reaction times; after a few drinks, Gu Tingchen couldn't hide his smug attitude.

However, he still had his reason and knew to restrain himself a bit in front of Uncle Liu, and there was still respect in his eyes.

Father Liu had been floating in the system for many years; he had eaten more salt than the young man had walked paths.

Overall, Gu Tingchen hadn't lost his composure or been bossy toward him, so the discomfort that had just emerged in his heart was quickly suppressed.

This turn of the wheel of fortune—hadn't it just turned to him?

Dinner lasted until about eight o'clock, and Gu Tingchen and his wife took their child and said their goodbyes.

Because they lived close by, there was no need to be escorted; it was just a few steps to get home.

After arriving home, Gu Tingchen handed his daughter to Mother Wang and asked her to help with the bath; after turning around, his gaze was heavy as he pulled his wife back to their room.

"Why don't you want to have a second child? Auntie Liu is right; if we have a younger brother or sister for Nannan, the two children won't be far apart in age, and their relationship will be better, won't it?"

"It's not that I don't want to have one, it's just that you don't know, our Ye family specifically hired a master to calculate it, and it's not suitable for us to have offspring in these two years—it clashes with the Tai Sui!"

"After we get through these two years, we'll have children, and the child's fate will be noble, and their future will be limitless..."

Ye Mei Qin's ability to tell lies with her eyes open was innate; beautiful women can lie and deceive, can't they?

Seeing his wife speak as if it were true, Gu Tingchen also felt some suspicion.

The Ye family was in business, so it was true that they were quite superstitious.

His wife had no reason to lie to him; it seemed he was overthinking it.

"I'm sorry, I was the one who thought wrong. Waiting two years is just waiting two years, for the sake of our child..."

"Mm, tomorrow I'll take Nannan back to my parents' home for a short stay. Isn't Yinyin pregnant again?

I'll pray for her in our family's small Buddhist shrine and pick out a gift for my future nephew."

Ye Mei Qin always had a way to calm everything down and a way to rationalize everything.

Gu Tingchen had never discovered anything unusual, so he was always happy to see it happen.

"Good, give my regards to Father-in-law and Mother-in-law."

Gu Tingchen took off his watch, preparing to go to the bathroom to wash up.

He had work tomorrow and couldn't take his wife to her parents' home.

But his wife could drive, and since they had a car, it was convenient for her to drive home herself.

"Good."

Ye Mei Qin stood on her tiptoes and planted a kiss on his cheek.

She wasn't the virtuous and good wife he saw in his eyes, but she knew how to act.

On the other side, in the Sea Island Jiashuyuan.

Shen Man used the light to put the clothes and other items for the family of four into the sub-space, leaving only one suitcase containing the children's milk bottles and formula to keep up appearances.

She checked the work certificates, the introduction letters issued by the unit, money, and various vouchers three times to ensure they were correct, only then feeling at ease.

"Wife, come up and sleep; don't stay up late. If you can't get up tomorrow and miss the boat or train tickets, that won't be good."

After Jiang Ye lulled the two children to sleep, he had been gazing at his wife with burning eyes for a while.

If this continued, he was afraid that by dawn, his wife would still be checking for omissions.

Shen Man sighed, closed the suitcase, moved to the bed, crawled into the mosquito net, sat face-to-face with her man, and muttered in a low voice:

"I don't want to either, it's just that I'm quite excited; maybe it's because I haven't been out to play in a long time, and I'm worried I've left something behind."

"It's my fault for being so busy with official business and neglecting you. In the future, when I have long holidays, I'll take time off and take you traveling everywhere to see the world, okay?"

Jiang Ye thought about it seriously and gave his promise.

Work is never-ending, but accompanying his wife and family is time that must be set aside.

"Good, sleep, sleep, turn off the light!"

Shen Man covered her face; facing the man's serious expression at such close range, she couldn't quite handle it.

In order to be able to wake up on time tomorrow, she had to sleep on time!

"Mm."

Jiang Ye calmly pulled his wife into his arms and then pulled the light cord; the room instantly went dark...