My CEO Baby Daddy Keeps Falling for My Tricks
Chapter 233 - 236 Romantic Youth_1

Chapter 233: 236 Romantic Youth_1

After agreeing to this arrangement, Lin Xiangwan found herself in a state of sadness, fear, and nausea!

She desperately wanted to talk to her friends, but Shen Hanqian was unreachable by phone. Song Yuyun and Xiaoqi were too busy with work to accompany her.

At that moment, Zhou Ziqing called her for some shopping.

Lin Xiangwan agreed since she wanted to get out and distract herself.

Zhou Ziqing asked to meet at a supermarket, a regular international joint.

The places she liked to shop were very down-to-earth, offering special deals on underwear, slippers, detergent, laundry liquid, and soap.

She spent about as much as an average working-class woman, a fact that surprised Lin Xiangwan very much. After all, she was a returnee from overseas with a decent income and could afford more expensive goods!

"I thought... you would only pick imported brands!"

While loading discounted packs of toilet paper into the shopping cart, Zhou Ziqing replied. "Why go special when everyone uses these things? Sure, foreign products might be better, but that doesn’t mean local ones are unusable!"

"Yes..." It was a likable statement!

Lin Xiangwan, not needing anything from the supermarket, followed along. "Ziqing, you have it tough!"

In this world, many were less fortunate than herself, like Ziqing. Having a child like Duoduo was a lifelong pain for both mother and daughter.

Having such a healthy and intelligent child was an extraordinary blessing for her, she realized. Not all the good things in life could possibly belong to just one person.

"It’s not so bad..." Zhou Ziqing still faced everything rationally. "About my daughter, I’m actually quite lucky financially, and raising Duoduo would have been really difficult otherwise."

"What about the father of the child? Does he know about her?"

"No idea!" Zhou Ziqing smirked. "We broke up before he knew about the child!"

"Then why didn’t you tell him? You should have let him know, instead of bringing up the child single-handedly." Lin Xiangwan held this viewpoint.

Even if a couple is not together, when they have a child, they should co-parent.

At least, they must have been in love when they had a child, right?

Looking pained then smiling, Zhou Ziqing said, "But he’s already married, with a wife and child. I don’t want to disrupt their lives! I can afford to raise the child, why should I go and cause trouble?"

"...He has a wife?" Lin Xiangwan was taken aback.

Zhou Ziqing waved her hand. "Don’t get me wrong, he wasn’t married when we were together! He got married after we broke up!"

"Oh..." Lin Xiangwan had more admiration for the woman in front of her. This woman was just too kind, wasn’t she?

While continuing shopping, Zhou Ziqing started to tell her story. "He was my military training instructor in college. Even though he was only a little bit older than me and very handsome, all the girls in our class liked him! After our military training camp, I was hungry one night and went out to buy food. He happened to be there, wolfing down food. I teased him by saying I thought instructors don’t snack on pig hooves in the middle of the night! He retorted that instructors aren’t monks, why can’t they eat pig hooves. His humor made me laugh, and I coaxed him into treating me. He couldn’t refuse, so we ended up having supper together. Afterwards, he blamed me for violating the rules by leaving the barracks at night. I countered him with his own misconduct. We then reached an agreement to not blabber about each other."

Having left the supermarket, Lin Xiangwan stirred her coffee in the café. With a mix of envy and melancholy in her voice, she said, "Ziqing, your beginning with him was so sweet, so youthful, so romantic. You two should have ended up together, why..."

Zhou Ziqing sipped her coffee, looked at Xiangwan, then after a while, hesitated before speaking. "We were indeed doing great. I studied abroad for three years and our relationship stayed strong. I was eager to graduate, return to China, and marry him. He was waiting for the same."

"Yeah..." Lin Xiangwan was touched by this lovable story. It had made her imagine movie scenes.

Zhou Ziqing looked at Lin Xiangwan, her hesitation growing. "But... the year I was supposed to return home, he went to the Middle East for peacekeeping..."

"Oh? Peacekeeping!" What a coincidence. Qin Muchuan also went to the Middle East for peacekeeping, right? His grandmother had mentioned it!

Tears began to well up in Zhou Ziqing’s eyes. Her eyes were red, her nose was red. "Yes, he went for peacekeeping. I don’t know what happened during that time... When he returned, and I returned from studying abroad, I thought I’d be coming home to a wedding. But what awaited me was... He had a child. Another woman bore him a child..."

Upon saying that, Zhou Ziqing closed her eyes, her tears flowing though clenched eyelids.

Lin Xiangwan was stunned. A union so beautiful, a bond so vigorous, was it all over just like that?

"The woman had already given birth to the child. No matter how much I loved him, I couldn’t let the child grow up in a family without both parents, right? I heard that the woman had long crushed on him despite him not reciprocating her feelings. Nevertheless, she won." Zhou Ziqing choked out. "Then, without a word, I ended things with him and went back abroad. Once there, two months later, I found out I was pregnant, with his child! I loved him, so I decided to keep the baby. I thought it would be nice to have his child and let the child keep me company. But five months into the pregnancy, I discovered Duoduo would be different."

She knew the child would be different five months into the pregnancy, yet she still had the child? Lin Xiangwan’s admiration for this woman increased once more.

"Overseas, doctors wouldn’t suggest an abortion to a pregnant woman without due cause. Furthermore, I was already emotionally attached to her, despite knowing she would be different. But she was a gift from heaven, and I was determined to accept it. So Duoduo was born." Zhou Ziqing finished her story with a sense of solidity.

Lin Xiangwan could not help feeling upset. She felt even more grateful for her blessings. "I should learn from you, Ziqing. I should be stronger!"

"No need, you’re fortunate! Your husband treats you well, and your child is great. Women should enjoy their lives when they can!"

"Yeah..." Lin Xiangwan’s mouth tasted bitter. Qin Muchuan treats her well?

If only that were true!