"Qiao Mo, I had thought that the one who would stop me from marrying Xiao Yan would be Song Xiazhi, because Ah Yan had always felt guilty towards Song Xiazhi's elder brother. However, I never expected that two years ago, he would have married you without thinking at all. If it weren't for the fact that six years ago … "Forget it."
Su Qingwan lowered her delicate face. She let out a bitter laugh and finally stopped talking.
Qiao Mo was shocked. Many question marks seemed to be on the verge of appearing on the surface of the water, but they were stopped by Su Qing Wan.
"Miss Su, since you have helped me lie, I beg you, for the time being, don't tell Ah Yan about me being unable to conceive."
Su Qingwan raised her lips and sneered, "Don't worry, I won't use those small tricks behind your back that I despise." "However..."
She turned around and looked back at Qiao Mo with a smile, "What I have to remind you about is that it is impossible for the Xiao family to not need an heir. Qiao Mo, you can't really be naive enough to think that just because Ah Yan loves you, you will be able to bear the fact that you can't give birth to a child, right? "You know..."
"Miss Su, I do not need you to remind me."
Qiao Mo's face paled slightly, but she had already snatched Su Qingwan's words away.
Su Qingwan curled her lips and smiled, "I don't plan on hiding anything from you. I came back this time because I was unwilling to. We have been childhood friends for so many years, why did you snatch him away the moment you appeared six years ago? "
Qiao Mo frowned and corrected him: "Miss Su, there is something you need to understand. Six years ago at the bar, I didn't try to seduce Ah Yan!"
"Is that important? In Sea City, there are a lot of women who want to climb onto Ah Yan's bed. I just never thought that Ah Yan would really be enchanted by you. "
Qiao Mo stood in front of the french window in a daze, while Xiao Yan, who had just finished making his call, walked over from the living room.
At this time, the conversation between Su Qing Wan and Qiao Mo had already stopped.
Su Qing Wan laughed, turned around and left. As she brushed past Xiao Yan's shoulder, she said softly, "Ah Yan, I didn't think that your wife was someone with such a personality."
Qiao Mo's expression was extremely pale. She walked up to her and held her slightly cold hand. "What, what did Su Qing Wan say to you?"
Qiao Mo shook her head, "It's nothing, I just said some common words, I'm not feeling well, let's go home."
Xiao Yan took a look outside. Originally, there was a light snowfall in the sky, but it had gradually turned into a heavy snowfall.
"I'm afraid we won't be able to leave. The snow is falling heavily. Mom just left us here for the night. "
It was hard to refuse such a generous offer, and Qiao Mo, as her wife, indeed should not reject it.
"Alright then."
When Xiao Yan and Qiao Mo walked into the living room, they heard Xiao Ru Qing and Su Qing Wan conversing.
"Qing Wan, it's snowing heavily outside. It's not safe on the road, the city is too far from here. You can stay here tonight."
Su Qing Wan looked at Xiao Yan and Qiao Mo who had just returned from the backyard, narrowed her eyes and smiled, then readily agreed. "Alright, Aunt."
… ….
It was snowing silently outside, the villa was warm and comfortable, but Qiao Mo's hands and feet were cold.
After the meal, Aunt Lan cut some warm fruits and passed them to the tea table.
"Young Master, Madam, Miss Su, please enjoy."
Xiao Ru Qing habitually drank some red wine for dinner and went to bed early.
There were only three people left in the living room.
Su Qingwan poked a piece of fruit and ate it slowly in an elegant manner.
"Ah Yan, you're not young anymore, after this year's New Year's Eve, you'll be thirty-five years old. Why, do you still not plan to have a child with Qiao Mo?"
When the subject of a child was brought up, Qiao Mo's palm tightened into a fist.
She stared at Su Qingwan with a puzzled expression. She didn't understand what Su Qingwan meant. Why did she keep on poking her wound after lying to her?
Xiao Yan looked at Qiao Mo indulgently, and reached out to hold her slightly cold hand, his ten fingers interlocked, "There's no rush with children. Little Mo and I have a long way to go, so we aren't in a hurry. Furthermore, we have just reunited after a long period of separation. If I were to suddenly have multiple children, it would be hard for me to adapt to them in a short period of time. "
Qiao Mo's pale face was slightly better.
But Su Qingwan was not wrong, in a few days, it would be New Year's Eve. After the new year, Xiao Yan would be thirty-five years old, and she would be twenty-five.
Even if she could still be considered young, but Xiao Yan, no matter how handsome he was, and how young his appearance could be considered, he was not young at all.
At the age of thirty-five, most men would already have a child that was five or six years old.
Qiao Mo subconsciously raised her eyes and looked at Xiao Yan...
He could not have children now, but he could not have children for the rest of his life.
The emotions churned in Qiao Mo's heart as all kinds of feelings mixed together made her feel extremely dizzy.
Qiao Mo reached out his hand and pressed it against her temple, "I'm feeling a little uncomfortable, excuse me for a moment."
Xiao Yan looked at her worriedly, "What's wrong, why are you suddenly feeling unwell?"
Su Qingwan looked at Qiao Mo from afar, her gaze carrying a trace of ridicule and provocation. "Since Qiao Mo isn't feeling well, then let's go and rest early."
Xiao Yan nodded slightly and supported Qiao Mo up to the bedroom on the second floor.
… ….
After entering the bedroom, Qiao Mo sat on the bedside in a daze.
Xiao Yan asked with concern: "A headache?"
"It may be cold, but the heater is blowing too much. I feel a bit dizzy."
Xiao Yan got up, "I'll pour some hot water for you to drink."
Once he stood up, Qiao Mo grabbed his hand, "Ah Yan."
Maybe it was because this voice was a little urgent, or maybe it was because Xiao Yan was too sensitive, and he always felt that there was something wrong with Qiao Mo tonight.
"What's wrong? Ever since I've seen Su Qingwan tonight, I haven't felt quite right. "
Qiao Mo bit her lips and said with a droop of her face: "I'm fine, I don't want to drink water, it's good that you stay here with me."
Xiao Yan turned back and sat by her side with his tall and straight back. He grabbed her with his arm and pulled her into his embrace.
Qiao Mo also didn't want to struggle. Leaning against his chest, she was at ease.
Su Qingwan's words were like a spell that echoed in her ears.
She was right, but Qiao Mo … She really couldn't bear to let go of him.
"Ah Yan, a man your age, if he was married and gave birth early, he might be even ten years old. Are you really not in a hurry?"
If he had a child when he was twenty-four, wouldn't he be ten years old now?
"When I met you, I was already 32 years old when I married you. Since the first step was late, so what if I'm a bit late?"
Qiao Mo's eyes moistened. She knew that he was trying to console her in a different way.
Qiao Mo buried her face into his neck, her voice choked. "Why aren't we using contraception anymore, and I still can't bear a child?"
Xiao Yan was startled at the bottom of his heart, but his large hand still patted her delicate back, "Don't let your thoughts run wild. We just met not long ago.
Qiao Mo looked up, her bright eyes stared blankly at his handsome chin. You didn't meet me at thirty-two, earlier. "
"What did you say?"
Qiao Mo softly replied, "Mn, six years ago, we met. At that time, you were twenty-eight years old, I, I … From what Su Qingwan said, when you first met me at the age of twenty-eight, did you fall in love with me at first sight? "
Xiao Yan had lost his memories of the past thirty-two years. Naturally, he could not remember the past and he laughed, "So it turns out that I've lost to you a long time ago."
"Since you fell in love with me at first sight, why didn't you come and find me afterwards?"
Xiao Yan frowned, also puzzled.
After a while, he said, "But I heard Jing Yu say that six years ago, I had a brain cancer. Two years ago, it was only a relapse."
Qiao Mo was slightly startled, "What you mean is that when you met me, you happened to be sick?"
Xiao Yan didn't really want to investigate this matter. His thin lips landed on her opened lips and he softly sighed: "Perhaps, but that isn't important. What's important is that … Now you are in my arms. "
Qiao Mo looked out the window at the snowflakes silently falling, and muttered: "Tomorrow morning, let's go home."
Xiao Family Villa, she was really not used to it. Moreover, with so many people coming and going, it was indeed a bit inconvenient.
Compared to the peace and quiet in New Garden Villa, Qiao Mo liked it there more.
"Alright."
That night, the snow silently fell and wrapped the entire Seahold up in silver.
Qiao Mo stayed in Xiao Yan's embrace the entire time, watching him without sleeping for the entire night.
She had thought about giving him a baby, boys and girls alike, but now the dream seemed about to break.
… ….
In the morning of the second day, Xiao Yan was still asleep.
Qiao Mo had been unable to sleep throughout the night, so she woke up very early the next day.
In the living room downstairs, he met Su Qingwan who was eating breakfast.
"Good morning, Qiao Mo."
Xiao Ru Qing didn't seem to have woken up yet, there were only two people in the living room: Su Qing Wan and Qiao Mo.
Su Qingwan drank a cup of fruit juice and smiled as she said, "From the looks of it, you don't seem to be planning to leave Ah Yan yet."
Qiao Mo's fingers stiffened, lifted her eyes and laughed: "I do not quite understand Miss Su's words. What do you mean, I still don't have any plans to leave Ah Yan? "
"You can't give Xiao Yan the most important thing. Even if he loves you, can this love last a long time? Normally, people would have quarreled in their future life because their wives couldn't bear children, let alone the well-established Xiao family. If they couldn't give birth to an heir, their marriage would eventually break down. Rather than letting Ah Yan hate you when the time comes, it would be better to leave early and go to a place that Ah Yan cannot find.
Qiao Mo's small face paled, "Really? Is it not right for me to be grateful that Miss Su has taken such pains for me? "
"If you think it's necessary, I don't think there's anything wrong with it."
Qiao Mo turned around coldly, and when she reached the stairs, she stopped in her tracks, but she did not look back, and said calmly: "Miss Su, if you want to get Ah Yan, then go ahead and snatch him, but whether or not I leave Ah Yan, and when I leave Ah Yan, all these have nothing to do with you."
Su Qingwan sneered from behind, "Humans are very strange. They don't like others to deceive them, but they like themselves to deceive themselves." Right now, you are lying to yourself. You are using Ah Yan's love for you as a bargaining chip in this marriage. You are betting that even if you don't have children, Ah Yan will still love and spoil you as usual. Qiao Mo, I really fight for Ah Yan, he is so outstanding, why should he marry a woman that can't even have children? This is too selfish of you! "
Qiao Mo closed her eyes lightly, and tears rolled down her face. She laughed coldly, "Does Miss Su not know that love is always selfish?"
She pursed her lips and started up the stairs.
However, the wavering thoughts in his heart became more and more intense.
If she really can be selfish, to the point of not caring about anything else, just for the sake of obtaining Ah Yan, then … What was the difference between her and the Song Xiazhi back then?