Chapter 87: To Stay or to Go

Chapter 87

On her way home, Zhi Xia ran into Wang Li.

Wang Li told her that last night, her parents had taken her to Zhi Xia's house specially to thank her, because that day Zhi Xia had pretended to be drunk and accidentally saved her.

Originally, Wang's family was still very angry. Although it was Zhi Xia who saved Wang Li, in their eyes, the one who harmed their daughter was from Zhi Xia's family. Their daughter was dragged into the infighting between the two families.

But later after reading the newspaper, they realized that Zhi Xia's family had severed ties with that vicious woman.

Additionally, these past two days, their daughter had been saying nice things about Zhi Xia. After thinking it over, they decided to go thank Zhi Xia in person.

At the same time, they wanted Zhi Xia's family to know that they could distinguish their own children's good and bad deeds. They wouldn't mention the one who did bad things, but they couldn't let the one who did good things feel disappointed.

Listening to Wang Li's words, Zhi Xia could only feel irony.

It turned out that after hearing about what happened at the wedding from Wang Li herself, they still went ahead to help Gao Meiyun get a divorce.

And they kept saying they would compensate Zhi Xia and treat her well. How could they say such hypocritical words?

After saying goodbye to Wang Li, Zhi Xia went home while the sky was still bright. NewW novels updates at novelhall.com

She stood at the front gate for a long time before walking next door.

It was very quiet in the Pei family's yard. Zhi Xia followed the path to Pei Jing's room and knocked twice on the door.

"The door's not locked, come in," Pei Jing's low, rich voice came from inside the room.

Zhi Xia opened the door and went in. She saw Pei Jing lying on the desk writing.

At this time, he had taken off his military uniform. His upper body was only wearing a vest, revealing the wheat-colored nape of his neck and his strong, muscular arms.

The half-revealed shoulders still carried traces of faint red marks.

Pei Jing didn't expect it to be Zhi Xia coming in. He looked up at her, put down his pen, and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Zhi Xia nodded. "What are your plans?"

"I was thinking, your condition is special right now. I have to leave the day after the wedding, which is quite rushed. I haven't had the chance to prepare and arrange housing over there yet. Also, after I return to the troops, I might be sent on missions and often have to leave you at home alone. So why don't you wait before joining the army, since there are many people at home who can take care of you? What do you think?" Pei Jing made the arrangements based on various considerations. Also, Zhi Xia's attitude towards him was very unstable. Bringing her along might not necessarily be good for her.

He thought the old lady's words made sense. She was still young and some willfulness was unavoidable. He could tolerate it.

After the child was born and she became a mother, and grew a little older, she would get better.

But his job was special, and there were indeed some things he couldn't attend to. If he went on a mission for ten days or half a month, leaving her alone at home, it would be hard to feel reassured.

Just a moment ago Zhi Xia was thinking of leaving this place. But now she heard that he was unwilling to take her away.

"Then what's the point of us getting married?" Zhi Xia asked him, "You don't even want to take me away. I'll give birth to the child and raise it myself. Why do we need to get married? Just to give the child a legitimate reason to be born?"

She had come wanting to apologize to him, but now she didn't like what he was saying.

"Who was it that told me just a while ago that his position had reached the level to bring along family, and now you're going back on it? Also, if you don't want to bring me along, fine, you don't need to make up other excuses to fool me. I'm not insisting on following you."

Zhi Xia stood up to leave, feeling a bit hurt.

"Zhi Xia," seeing her get angry, Pei Jing frowned, got up and stopped her, "I said we were discussing this, not making decisions. If you're not satisfied, you can voice it and we can discuss properly."

Zhi Xia wasn't completely ignorant, and could understand that from Pei Jing's perspective, his arrangements made sense.

Just like with her elder brother and sister-in-law. Wen Qing was already two years old, yet her sister-in-law was still at home. Apart from her reluctance to give up her job, surely there were reasons on her brother's side too?

After calming down and thinking it through, Zhi Xia also became composed again and replied rationally, "Actually I know there's nothing wrong with your arrangements. It's just that I don't want to stay here anymore, and I don't want to say why."

Pei Jing could probably guess some of the reasons. When discussing the wedding with the old master, he had said Zhi Xia would be married out of the ancestral home. Clearly this went against common sense.

After thinking it over, Pei Jing suddenly made a decision. "Since you think this way, then come with me. But the environment there may not be too good, transportation is inconvenient, and the housing is quite shabby..."

This was giving advance notice, in case she regretted it after going and wanted to come back, which wouldn't be so easy then.