Chapter Forty-Four: The Helpless Jiang Xiaoqiao

  Jiang Xiaoqiao arrived at the hospital, and we met in the hospital lobby.

  However, in just a few days, she became haggard again, and now she doesn't even dress up. Her explanation to me was that pregnant women shouldn't wear makeup, as cosmetics are bad for the baby.

  After we met, we went to a nearby Starbucks and had some dessert because I was really out of energy.

  The Starbucks near noon is not very quiet, but everyone is busy with their own affairs. Some people are tapping on the keyboard against the computer, while others are discussing the afternoon time with their companions in a low voice, and the atmosphere is very quiet.

  "Your parents have asked you to get an abortion, are you going to keep dragging this on?" I twirled the straw in my hand, continuously stirring the mocha in the cup.

  "If I abort this child, I may never be able to get pregnant again!" Jiang Xiaoqiao lowered her head and carefully scraped the jam around the mousse cake with a metal spoon.

  "But you can't ruin your life for this child! Can't you see that Liang Chengming doesn't love you at all?"

  "I know... I know he doesn't love me, and he even told his wife that I'm pregnant." Jiang Xiaoqiao stopped what she was doing, but still kept her head down.

  "Did he tell his wife that you're pregnant? What does he mean?" I looked at Jiang Xiaoqiao in surprise.

  "He and his wife guaranteed that they would make this child disappear, and then he would be done with me." Jiang Xiaoqiao continued to scrape the jam around the cake with a spoon, as if she didn't care about it at all.

  "My god... How shameless is he! Are you still determined to give birth to the child? He's already said such absolute words!"

  "Are you using your own happiness as a bargaining chip for revenge? Jiang Xiaoqiao, you weren't like this before. Among the five of us, no matter what happened, you always put loving yourself first. What's wrong with you now?"

  "Because I love him!" Jiang Xiaoqiao suddenly raised her head, staring straight at me with her eyes.

  At this moment I deeply know that her feelings for Liang Chengming are true, because I know the feeling of loving to the bone and turning into hate, which has nothing to do with time, but only with love.

  Jiang Xiaoqiao and I stared at each other in a stalemate, after about four or five seconds, her phone suddenly rang, Jiang Xiaoqiao glanced at the phone and hung up without answering.

  "Who is it? Is it Liang Chengming?" I asked curiously.

  "No, it's Liang Chengming's wife." Jiang Xiaoqiao replied calmly.

  "What? How did she know your phone number? Is she trying to get in touch with you for trouble?" I asked in surprise.

  "It must be looking for trouble! The phone number was definitely given to his wife by Liang Chengming. I reckon he thought he couldn't persuade me himself, so he got his wife to bail him out. This way, he can still appear loyal to his wife - what a sly move. For the past three days, his wife has been calling me every day, scolding me as soon as I pick up the phone, saying I seduced her husband. I'm speechless." Jiang Xiaoqiao continued playing with the mousse cake in her hand, looking nonchalant.

  Jiang Xiaoqiao's calm reaction was beyond my expectation, because in my impression, she wasn't the kind of person who could be strong enough to have her dignity slandered.

  Jiang Xiaoqiao and Liang Chengming were together, she didn't know that Liang Chengming was a married man, she just wholeheartedly believed in the existence of true love.

  She was a woman of principle, but now her principles have been broken. This can't be blamed entirely on her, it can only be blamed on this deceitful world, and the people she has met who are not good to her.

  Jiang Xiaoqiao and I sat at the entrance by the window, very conspicuous.

  Then, in nearly three seconds, Jiang Xiaoqiao and I simultaneously heard a high-heeled shoe hitting the ground, with a very high frequency and piercing sound. It was estimated that this person was in a hurry, but the sound of the high heels was getting closer and closer to us.

  It was just a moment's work for the owner of those high heels to appear before Jiang Xiaoqiao and me.

  At a glance, she was a woman in her thirties who didn't look worn out at all, but rather well-maintained. Her hair was black and straight, very smooth to the touch. Her face was as pale as Jiang Xiaoqiao's, although not as delicate, but she had an aura about her.

  That's right, this woman is Liang Chengming's wife, her name is Wang Tao.

  "You're Jiang Xiaoqiao, right? It's okay that you haven't been answering my calls. I've been following you for many days now. Since you're so resistant to my calls, let's just clear things up today. You're a mistress!"

  Sexy woman Wang Tao spoke before Jiang Xiaoqiao and I could express our surprise, and this first sentence stunned both of us.

  From her first sentence, I knew she wasn't a good person.

  This woman who is both wild and reckless in public, making a scene, is terrifying. Moreover, when she says the two words "little three", she raises her tone by eight degrees.

  Jiang Xiaoqiao faced Wang Tao's threat without speaking or moving. She still lowered her head, playing with the spoon in her hand, scraping the mousse cake.

  Although I haven't experienced this kind of situation before, but after being splashed a glass of cocktail by Li Yue in the bar yesterday, I guess Wang Tao will definitely make some physical attack on Jiang Xiaoqiao next.

  As expected, Wang Tao suddenly grabbed the cake on the table and was about to put it on Jiang Xiaoqiao's head.

  I saw things were taking a turn for the worse and swiftly grabbed Wang Tao's hand with lightning speed.

  "Wow! There are still accomplices for the mistress these days? You really do smell alike!" Wang Tao tried to struggle free from my grasp while sarcastically insulting me.

  "Who the hell are you talking about?!" Perhaps because of Wang Tao's impertinence towards me, Jiang Xiaoqiao finally counterattacked.

  Jiang Xiaoqiao snatched the cake from Wang Tao's hand, which was almost crushed, and slapped it onto Wang Tao's delicate makeup, making her face look like a nauseating yellowish-white mask.

  Wang Tao's eyes were stuck shut from the cream, she could only stumble around like a blind person, shouting loudly, "Jiang Xiaoqiao you bastard! You fox spirit! You won't come to a good end!"

  Taking advantage of Wang Tao's inability to open his eyes, Jiang Xiaoqiao took me and escaped from Starbucks, leaving Wang Tao alone there shouting and making a fool of himself in front of everyone.