Mr. Bo, Madam Is Pregnant!
Chapter 127 I Don’t Want to Treat Her That Way

Chapter 127: Chapter 127 I Don’t Want to Treat Her That Way

In the elevator... No, to be exact, as soon as they had come out of the suite.

Bo Jingshen had quickly let go of Xiao Caizi’s hand.

Xiao Caizi glanced at her own hand indifferently, her lips even curved in that impeccable smile.

Jing Ruo quickly followed out from the suite and caught up with them at the elevator entrance.

"Wait for me."

"Why are you also coming?" Bo Jingshen looked at her.

Jing Ruo pouted and said, "Am I not allowed to follow you?"

Bo Jingshen didn’t express any objections and entered the elevator.

Xiao Caizi also followed in and stood quietly to one side, as if she could even minimize her presence.

Then the elevator became very quiet, Bo Jingshen didn’t feel like talking, Xiao Caizi followed suit, and Jing Ruo, despite wanting to find a topic, didn’t know what to say after a while, so she remained silent as well.

Until the announcement of the elevator’s arrival on the first floor broke the silence.

"Ding! First floor!"

Bo Jingshen was the first to walk out of the elevator, Jing Ruo hurriedly followed suit, and even quickly took Xiao Caizi’s hand, "Sister Caizi, are you hungry? Shall we go have some late-night food or something?"

Xiao Caizi smiled at her, very amiable and courteous, and then glanced at Bo Jingshen. She turned her gaze and said softly to Jing Ruo, "I’m not very hungry, but we could find a quiet place to sit and have a chat, I think..."

As she spoke, she turned her head to look at Bo Jingshen, her gaze still gentle and warm, the amiable expression on her face, whether it was the look in her eyes or the smile on her lips, didn’t change much. It was as if she wore a mask, as if it was her camouflage.

She looked at Bo Jingshen, her voice as gentle as ever, "I think President Bo needs to chat with me, doesn’t he?"

The words ’I don’t need to’ were already at the tip of Bo Jingshen’s tongue, about to blurt out, when Jing Ruo hastily pulled him back and quickly spoke before he could, "Then let’s find a place to sit down, just sit for a while."

Bo Jingshen had no comment on this, just giving Jing Ruo a look, his eyes seemingly not too pleased.

Jing Ruo didn’t mind that at all, she felt like a loyal old housekeeper; it was simply remarkable how she not only decided the location but also took on the role of the driver.

Bo Jingshen normally sat in the back seat, always with a manner that intentionally treated Jing Ruo as the driver. Jing Ruo was used to it by now, but this time, Bo Jingshen sat in the passenger seat instead.

The back seat was left empty, with Xiao Caizi sitting there alone. However, she seemed indifferent, with little change in expression or mood.

She didn’t show any intention of initiating conversation or warming up to cold shoulders. Although Bo Jingshen was very resistant, he had to admit, Xiao Caizi’s character wasn’t really annoying.

After all... think about it, the situation was disagreeable enough already, and if he had to deal with someone with a character like Su Jiao’s, noisy, attention-seeking, and full of affectation.

Wouldn’t it be annoying to death?

And Xiao Caizi being calm and quiet, at least, was not annoying.

Jing Ruo didn’t know if it was an illusion, but she felt Xiao Caizi’s character, gentle and composed, peaceful and quiet, seemed to have a certain degree of similarity to the woman Bo Jingshen liked.

Jing Ruo actually knew a bit about Su Lu, aware of some of her past experiences.

Jing Ruo felt... it was as if women raised in such families invariably shared some trait in their personalities, where even though marriage and life seem like trajectories exploited by others, long-term exposure to such realities and adjusting one’s mentality over time meant that one might face such injustices with a calm and composed manner, quietly, without subservience or arrogance.

Su Lu seemed to be such a person, and now it appeared that Xiao Caizi also bore a resemblance.

On the other hand, Jing Ruo felt that she herself was not quite as composed, although she had also grown somewhat numb to going with the flow, but she was still not as calm as they were.

Jing Ruo thought that perhaps it was because she did not grow up in such an environment from a young age.

Jing Ruo drove to the destination and, while looking for a parking spot, Xiao Caizi got out first, saying she was going inside to the restroom.

But it seemed more like she was giving the siblings plenty of time to talk on their own.

Jing Ruo was okay at driving but terrible at parking, she found a spot and then slowly reversed into it.

Jing Ruo sneaked a glance at Bo Jingshen and said, "Don’t reject the idea too quickly, it’s not like she’s particularly fond of you either. We’re all in this reluctantly, but I think... maybe a calm and rational conversation would be better? I think Xiao Caizi is alright, at least her personality and temper seem quite good, and she’s not difficult."

Bo Jingshen cast a cold glance at her, his heart already heavy with emotion, naturally not intending to converse rationally. His first reaction after hearing her words was, "Then tell Jing Ce that you marry Xiao Caizi."

Jing Ruo: "...Brother, be sensible. I’m being serious here."

Bo Jingshen fell silent for a moment then asked in a low voice, "What do you mean? Are you saying that I should just compromise and put on an act for Jing Ce?"

Jing Ruo pursed her lips, her voice growing weaker, "It’s a solution, isn’t it? As long as you’re not so resistant from the start..."

"I am resistant," Bo Jingshen cut her off decisively, "I am very resistant."

Jing Ruo knew herself to be weak, having already succumbed to Jing Ce’s authority, at least superficially. She had always felt that if one day she was arranged by Jing Ce, she would definitely look for a way that works out for both sides, even if it meant putting on a show for him.

But Bo Jingshen had not succumbed, and he seemed to have no intention of ever doing so.

Yet when Jing Ruo thought of the outcomes that had befallen Han Zhiya and An Ningqiu, both products of Jing Ce’s tactics to warn Bo Jingshen, she felt, why push things to that extreme?

So she remained silent for a while, then whispered a word of advice, "Brother... but that’s what she did back then."

Bo Jingshen caught the ’her’ in Jing Ruo’s words referring to Su Lu.

Su Lu had indeed compromised back then, accepting the arrangement to marry according to Su Yukan’s wishes, to Gu Xin.

That was what she had done.

Indeed, according to Jing Ruo’s understanding, that was not wrong.

But Bo Jingshen’s gaze was profound, and he thought of the injuries she had suffered at the time...

Bo Jingshen spoke calmly, but his resolve remained firm.

Bo Jingshen: "It’s different."

Jing Ruo: "What’s different about it?"

Bo Jingshen: "She could do that to me, but I don’t want to do that to her."

Bo Jingshen paused, then added softly, "I stopped wanting to take revenge on her a long time ago, even if I did, I never wanted to do it in that way."