Lu Shaoming sent a text message.

[I didn’t lie to you today.]

It was simple and clear cut.

Ning Qing’s long lashes that were like butterfly wings fluttered twice, and she understood what he was trying to get across. He did not have a change in feelings, and he would also not be interested in another woman.

She was silent for half a second and wanted to put her phone away.

Ding! Another text message came in.

[Do you want…to have time as a couple?]

Ning Qing’s irises contracted, and she instinctively bit down on her lip. How could he be so shameless?

She did not bother with him.

She would not bother with him.

But the 3rd text message came in. [ I want… give me some time. I will give little Qinwen a younger sister.]

Ning Qing’s small face burned up. Forget it if he was shameless, he actually thought of her of being so shameless also.

His tone made it seem like she could not hold it in any longer.

“Director Ning…” There was a journalist calling her.

She lifted her gaze and stood up. “I am coming.”

As she stood up, she glanced at the French windows to see a handsome, lanky figure standing quietly in the corridor. He was holding his phone with one hand, and another hand was placed inside his pocket. He was looking over in her direction.

The previous time in the supermarket, and now here, he seemed to be in a corner maintaining this position as he looked at her while she wasn’t aware of.

He didn’t say a single word throughout.

As if he were using his gaze to swallow her into his soul.

Ning Qing looked sideways. She snorted inside her heart. Since he had such deep feelings, why was he so cruel? Whatever she gave him, he didn’t want it, so now, forget about it then.

Ning Qing turned around.



Lu Shaoming went back to the Lu family villa. The expansive villa was cold and empty. Even though winter has passed and given way to spring, it still did not have a touch of life and energy in it.

He walked into the living room. Lu Dinghua was seated on the sofa flipping through the dictionary, and Song Yajing was watching television.

Lu Shaoming scanned the television screen. The person on it was very familiar. He had just seen that person in the birthday banquet today, and he was the man standing beside Ning Qing.

Song Yajing was watching <Lurker>.

Noting that he had returned, Song Yajing took the remote control and switched the television off, then she stood up slowly. “Shaoming, you are back now? Have you eaten already?”

“Yeah, I already ate.”

Song Yajing nodded her head and said, “Then go rest. Mum will return back to my room.” She turned around to head up the stairs.

Lu Shaoming looked at his mother’s back profile. Over these past two months, his mother had become much more frail. She had more strands of white hair on her head, and her expression on her face was both lonely and frustrated.

Sometimes, he also was thinking, this type of situation was even worse compared before Ning Qing had appeared, it turned out that there was no such thing as worst, and there could only be even worse.

Whatever she previously gave to the Lu family, she had taken it all back now.

“Shaoming,” Lu Dinghua flipped through the dictionary and said, “Come over here, I am picking a name for Little Young Master Lu. Look at which one is good?”

“Dad, Little Young Master has a name already — Lu Qinwen. Ning Qing gave it to him.”

Lu Dinghua froze. He forcefully lifted the corners of his lips before throwing the dictionary onto the coffee table. He slowly walked over to Lu Shaoming and stretched out his hand to pat his shoulder. “Okay, Lu Qinwen. Qinwen. It’s pretty good, it’s pretty good.” He let out a sigh and also headed upstairs.

Lu Shaoming stood in place as he froze there for a full minute. He lifted his heels as he headed upstairs and pushed the bedroom door open before walking in.

He threw the documents in his hands haphazardly onto the sofa, and he allowed that small exquisite face to linger in his eyes.

Knock knock knock. The sound of someone knocking on the door rang out in the air, Zhou Dayuan walked inside.

In the previous month, Zhou Dayuan had also moved to the Lu family villa, and he would also perform body check-ups for Lu Shaoming daily.

“What are you thinking about?” Zhou Dayuan took the stethoscope as he listened to Lu Shaoming’s heartbeat.

Lu Shaoming lifted his gaze to look at Zhou Dayuan. The man who had a pair of gold rimmed glasses on his face was pure and clean, as if he didn’t have times where he was anxious and in fear.

“Da Yuan, in these six years since Jian Han left you, how did you survive through it all?”

Zhou Dayuan’s beautiful, white hand froze for a moment, and he then had an easygoing laugh as he said, “How did I survive? Every time you think that you can’t survive any longer, the sun still rises the next day.”

He looked at the sun rise the following day, and no matter how he looked at it, it seemed so hopeless.

Many days passed, and he still did not have a single update on where that woman went.

He was not afraid of waiting, but he was afraid that he was not in time to wait for her, no matter whether he felt every day pass by like a year, the time flowed through his fingers like sand, and it passed him by in a flash.

He was already 32 years old.

How many six year intervals would he have in life?

Lu Shaoming listened to what he said without saying a word. He looked at the crystal chandelier above his head. His long legs were crossed lazily on the bed, and there was a lack of care in his elegance.

Zhou Dayuan had a frown on his face, and he glanced at Lu Shaoming. “Where did you go today? Why is your heartbeat so messy? Your blood is flowing at rapid speed. Oi, what are you thinking about right now?”

Lu Shaoming closed his eyes lightly and was in a good mood as he questioned Zhou Dayuan instead. “What do you think?”

Zhou Dayuan snorted in laughter as he said, “I advise you to take it easy. If the cure didn’t arrive from Miao Jiang a month ago, you would have been dead a long time ago.”

One month ago, Lu Shaoming was lying on the operating table, only regaining his heartbeat after getting shocked multiple times. At that time, the small team of medical experts in Miao Jiang coincidentally got their hands on a traditional medicine that could reduce pain from the locals there. If not, Lu Shaoming would be long dead.

Lu Shaoming had a frown on his face. He laughed softly and said, “What saving cure? How come I still pain at this moment right now?”

“You should be happy. Without this cure, could you accompany Ning Qing in England for so long? The reason why you still feel pain now is because your body still wants to do more. Did you see Ning Qing today?”

Lu Shaoming smiled, and there was a gentleness in his face as he said, “Yeah, Dayuan, Ning Qing told me today that we have not done anything together a couple for a long time. She even said that she wanted to give birth to a younger sister for little Qinwen.”

If Ning Qing were around…she would be glaring at him seriously!

Zhou Dayuan shook his head and said, “Ning Qing said that? I don’t believe you.”

“Who cares if you don’t believe it, as long as I know, its fine.”

He knew.

At that, he heard her say spending time as a couple from her mouth, and heard her say younger sister. If she had never thought so inside her heart before, she would not say it like that.

So he knew.

Sometimes, men’s biological needs were stimulated by both what they saw and heard.

Lu Shaoming half-closed his eyes. He could see the mature man in front of him as he said, “Dayuan, you don’t know. Ning Qing is so beautiful with curly locks, and after her retinal reattachment surgery, her eyes are so beautiful…”

There was also another point that he was unwilling to tell Zhou Dayuan. It was that her figure looked so beautiful after she had given birth.

The parts of a woman that were meant to be curvy, she had them now. It was only her tiny waist that he loved and was the most mesmerized with that did not change. When she left, she revealed a beautiful back profile, and he secretly measured the distance. He opened his hands wide, and it was the distance between his thumb and index finger — the distance of a palm’s width.

She was getting more and more beautiful. After her retinal attachment surgery, her bright, sparkling eyes were glowing even more, and when she looked at him, she looked very attractive.

She regained her look that she had in the past. She was not frail and depressed anymore. Her exquisite face was full of youthful energy, and when she battled wits with Zhou Zhilei and Tang Xueli at the birthday banquet, she made him proud.

His feelings wouldn’t change.

He would not be interested in another woman.

He had her at home, and no matter how much he loved her, he felt that it was still not enough.

Furthermore, he was still unable to love her right now.

This feeling was burning both his heart and his lungs.

Zhou Dayuan snorted in laughter as he said, “Lu Shaoming, keep your dirty thoughts to yourself. Don’t think about all this nonsense for the entire day. With your body’s current condition, it is not safe to think about her.”

“Why, I still cannot think about her even though she is my wife already?”

In the previous month, he could only look at her from afar in England. She was dressed in a hospital gown with her eyes blindfolded. At that time, his heart ached for her, and the pain was multiplied inside his heart.

Now that she had recovered, could he not miss her?

She said that Little Young Master Lu was already four months old, and now one more month had passed, so he was five months old.

He missed her so so much.

He missed her.

Lu Shaoming turned his head to look at Zhou Dayuan. “Where is that solution in the test tube?”

There was a test tube with solution that came together with the oriental medication. He heard that it was the latest result of the medical team’s research. It could give him seven hours to be a normal human being.

And allow him to do whatever he pleased.

Zhou Dayuan heard his words and his expression darkened, he stretched out his foot to kick him. “That solution in the test tube is a last resort to allow you to stay alive. What do you want to do? Forget it about indulging your body in sinful acts!”

Lu Shaoming was kicked by him, and snorted unhappily. “You are so petty!”

Zhou Dayuan did not bother with him.

“Dayuan, let me discuss an important matter with you. That younger sister of yours, what do you think?”

Zhou Dayuan, whose hands were holding the equipment, froze, and he stood up straight to look at Lu Shaoming. “Shaoming, do you plan to harm her?”

Lu Shaoming still maintained his position with both of his hands placed behind his head lazily. The corners of his lips were curled into an evil arc as he said, “Dayuan, your younger sister is already on the path of no return. There is no cure for her anymore. I can only promise you that I would not go to harm her personally, but it’s not my business if others do.”

Zhou Dayuan was calm and collected as he thought through his matter. His younger sister, Zhou Zhilei, worked together with Tang Xueli to cast a spell on Shaoming. Shaoming would not let her go off scot free, and she had to be responsible for whatever she did.

This younger sister of his had a twisted heart, and she had gone to attract the attention of Tang Xueli who had an unhealthy mentality. Even if Shao Ming did not do anything, she also did not have any path of retreat.

Everyone had to pay the price for their own choices.

“When do you plan to go ahead with your plan?”

Lu Shaoming closed his eyes, and he buried his head into the soft pillow lazily. “Very soon.”



Tang Xueli and Zhou Zhilei got in the luxury sedan, and the two of them sat in the back seat, and the chauffeur was driving the car.

Zhou Zhilei looked at Tang Xueli’s sinister expression on his face and immediately went to hold his elbow. With a gentle voice, she said, “Xueli, are you angry? Don’t be fooled by Ning Qing.. She wanted to create a wedge between us. Whatever happened between me and Lu Shaoming is all in the past, I am your woman now.”

Zhou Zhilei thought about what Ning Qing had said and still felt angered till her entire body was shaking. A person like Tang Xueli was easily suspicious and liked to guess. He liked to challenge people. Such matters seemed thrilling to him; he liked to bully others. The reason why he liked her was because she had rejected him chasing after her throughout these years. She was arrogant like a little princess, and he had the desire to challenge and trump over her.

But Ning Qing said that he was only suited to be a supporting character, and it was natural that Tang Xueli was not able to accept that.

This was an extreme insult to him.

Tang Xueli looked at Zhou Zhilei. He stretched out his hand to pin her waist down and wanted to drag her to sit on his thighs.

“Xueli, don’t.” Zhou Zhilei rejected him immediately, and she looked at the chauffeur up front. “There is still someone around..”

She still wanted to speak. Her chin was lifted up, and Tang Xueli used his strength to keep it there. He looked at her with an evil expression, “Zhilei, we have been dating for three months already. You just used your mouth to say that I am your man. Why won’t you even allow me to touch you? How are you going to prove to me that you don’t have Lu Shaoming in your heart anymore?”