Married to My Ex-Fiancé's Cousin
Chapter 374: The Child is His (2)_1

Chapter 374: Chapter 374: The Child is His (2)_1

Ji Yunhuan walked far ahead. Bai Liyan watched her from behind. He felt like a fierce beast, and she had been avoiding him.

The sky grew dark. Because she was pregnant, she walked slowly. However, the dim light seemed to stretch the distance between them, making Bai Liyan’s heart feel empty.

He quickened his pace and caught up. "Yunhuan."

Ji Yunhuan stopped and looked at him walking toward her.

Bai Liyan kept a polite distance from her without touching her. "You really don’t want to see me?"

"No."

"Then let’s stay out a bit longer before going back." Bai Liyan said, "Look at the sky. The stars are out."

Ji Yunhuan lifted her head, gazed at the sky, and smiled as if she had forgotten today’s ’incident’. "The sky here is vast."

It was a sky unseen in the bustling city.

Bai Liyan smiled. "Yeah."

The moon also hung in the sky.

The scenery was truly beautiful.

Because they delayed a while longer, Qi Cheng and the others had already finished dinner by the time they got home. Butler Liu prepared a meal for the two of them.

After walking all afternoon, Ji Yunhuan felt a bit tired and, without spending much time with Bai Liyan, went back to her room.

Her luggage had already been brought in.

She didn’t unpack right away, but lay on the bed for a while before taking a shower.

When she came out, there was a knock at the door. She thought it was Bai Liyan, but when she opened the door, it was Lin Xiang standing there.

"I want to talk to you," Lin Xiang said directly.

"Come in." Ji Yunhuan didn’t stop her.

Lin Xiang walked in and looked around the room. The rooms were similar, but Lin Xiang’s room was more richly decorated with many personal items she had brought.

Lin Xiang sat on the sofa. Ji Yunhuan, dressed in a nightgown, also sat on the sofa. "What brings you here, Ms. Lin?"

"There aren’t many people around, so I came to chat," Lin Xiang’s gaze fell on Ji Yunhuan. Lin Xiang just couldn’t bring herself to like Ji Yunhuan.

Lin Xiang had been out by herself for a long time today. At dinner, Qi Cheng didn’t talk to her much. He hadn’t been like this in the morning! Lin Xiang thought it was all because of Ji Yunhuan.

"Are we that close?" Ji Yunhuan scoffed.

Lin Xiang held her phone, fiddling with it. "I didn’t hold you accountable for what happened with your aunt before. We don’t seem to have any grudges."

"But you like Qi Cheng. Don’t you hate me?" Ji Yunhuan was surprised that Lin Xiang came to find her.

She could tell Lin Xiang wasn’t simple, but she didn’t know what Lin Xiang planned to do.

The reason for letting her in was because she knew Lin Xiang liked Qi Cheng. Lin Xiang wasn’t likely to do anything too foolish.

So she wasn’t afraid Lin Xiang would harm her.

Lin Xiang looked at Ji Yunhuan with a wry smile. "Alright, I can’t hide anything from you. I came for Brother Qi Cheng."

"What do you think I can do for you?"

"I don’t expect you to do anything for me. I just want to hear your story with him. Why does he love you so much? Why did you choose to leave him?" It’s said knowing the enemy leads to victory.

Lin Xiang felt she couldn’t conquer Qi Cheng because she didn’t understand Ji Yunhuan.

She hoped to gradually understand Ji Yunhuan to see what Qi Cheng loved about her.

"He loves many women. I’m not the only one." Ji Yunhuan smiled. "You ask why he loves me? Maybe it’s because I’m pretty."

After all, men love beauty; Qi Cheng was no different.

Lin Xiang said, "Do you think I’m not pretty?"

"Very pretty." Ji Yunhuan didn’t lie.

Lin Xiang was indeed beautiful, far surpassing Xie Xingwei and Xia Duo. She looked like a classical beauty from Jiangnan. Bai Liyan said Lin Xiang had spent a long time abroad, but she was entirely different from someone like Su Zi.

Lin Xiang said, "But I don’t think Brother Qi Cheng likes me."

"I don’t know. Maybe you’re not meant to be. Or maybe, in his eyes, he sees you as a sister and doesn’t want to play with you." All the women Qi Cheng liked were merely playthings in his eyes.

Xie Xingwei was carrying his child, yet he was here, vacationing with beautiful women.

It was truly ironic.

"So you mean, in his eyes, I’m different?" Lin Xiang asked expectantly.

Ji Yunhuan was speechless at her question, but since she had said it, she had to follow through. "Maybe?"

Lin Xiang laughed. "Thanks for telling me all this."

Seeing Lin Xiang comforted by her words, Ji Yunhuan felt extremely uncomfortable.

She was actually comforting one of Qi Cheng’s women?

Was she crazy?

But thinking about it, she realized she didn’t need to hold a grudge against the women around him anymore.

If she didn’t let go, she would only make herself more miserable.

Lin Xiang soon left, and Ji Yunhuan followed to close the door behind her.

She lay back on the bed, wanting to rest.

The manor was very quiet at night.

The scenery was beautiful, with a romantic ambiance. Thinking of Lin Xiang and Qi Cheng alone together...

What could they be doing in the room?

Bringing a woman to a place like this likely meant going to bed. Thinking about it, Ji Yunhuan felt uncomfortable lying on the bed, as if there were thorns on it.

She turned a few times before there was a knock at the door.

She didn’t want to move, but the person kept knocking, making it impossible for her to sleep. She turned on the light, put on slippers, and went to open the door to see Qi Cheng’s darkened face.

She was startled by his sudden appearance.

Did he know she was thinking about him and came over?

This thought had just crossed her mind when she saw Lin Xiang standing beside Qi Cheng. Unlike the confident woman who had left earlier, Lin Xiang was now holding her face with one hand, looking pitifully at Ji Yunhuan with grievance.

"What happened?" Ji Yunhuan asked, bewildered.

Did they encounter robbers?

Qi Cheng pulled Lin Xiang over for Ji Yunhuan to see and asked sternly, "Did you hit her?"

Qi Cheng recalled what had just happened—

He was in his room, feeling extremely agitated. After just taking a shower and preparing for bed, Lin Xiang came to him with a handprint on her face. He asked what happened, and she said Ji Yunhuan had hit her.

This surprised Qi Cheng. He hadn’t expected Ji Yunhuan to hit Lin Xiang. Lin Xiang was his fiancée. How dare Ji Yunhuan hit his fiancée? What was this woman thinking?