The CEO’s Unkown Wife
Chapter 760 Waiting for a Hare in Here_1

Chapter 760: Chapter 760 Waiting for a Hare in Here_1

It wasn’t until Cheng Bingbing agreed that Xia Qingtian felt reassured enough to hang up the phone.

Shi Qian and the two doctors treating Bo’s mother got out of the car and entered a very quiet, quaint, yet somewhat desolate and remote building.

Xia Qingtian didn’t leave the car until they had entered the building.

Looking up at the building in front of her, she realized it was actually a tea house. She found it strange because neither Shi Qian nor the two doctors seemed to have the leisure or the taste for tea drinking.

Why would they meet here?

Regardless, she decided to follow them and find out.

Xia Qingtian decided to go in as well, but was stopped at the door.

This tea house was not only member-only, but someone had also booked the place for the entire day. So, she could not enter and had to wait outside.

Fearing the possibility of alerting them, she didn’t make a fuss and just stayed outside the tea house.

She waited for quite a while, but still didn’t see Shi Qian and the two doctors come out. She had no idea what they were doing inside.

Just as Xia Qingtian was hesitating, undecided whether to continue waiting or leave, suddenly...

She spotted another car being parked outside the tea house, and an elderly man who looked very dignified and knowledgeable got out of the car and headed towards the tea house.

The old man had a brief exchange with the tea house manager, and this time, unlike before, he wasn’t stopped and was allowed to go upstairs.

Xia Qingtian squinted her eyes thoughtfully.

She didn’t recognize the old man, but the fact that he wasn’t stopped by the tea house manager indicated that he was with Shi Qian and the two doctors treating Bo’s mother.

The emergence of this elderly man gave Xia Qingtian an idea.

She decided to wait here and capture a photo of the few of them together.

Thus, Xia Qingtian began her stakeout.

...

Meanwhile...

After finishing her phone call with Xia Qingtian, Cheng Bingbing didn’t leave the mall as she had stated on the phone, but instead started to wander around the mall.

With Huo Qilin’s birthday coming up, she wanted to get him a gift. Originally, she had been thinking about finding an opportunity to secretly buy the gift.

Now that Huo Qilin and Xia Qingtian had left the mall, she didn’t need to find another time to do so; she could buy the birthday gift today.

If it were a previous time, Cheng Bingbing might have bought Huo Qilin something more conventional, like a musical instrument, since he was into music and gifting an instrument would be perfect.

But times had changed, and Huo Qilin was now her boyfriend.

Since he was her boyfriend, she thought to herself, buying something more intimate like a tie or a shirt, something more personal and intimate, was totally acceptable.

Just the thought made her feel like she was coated in a layer of sugar. Being in love with a person you liked was an extremely happy thing, she thought.

She took the escalator to the clothing section and went straight to the clothes area.

It didn’t take her long to see a luxurious casual suit that seemed perfect for Huo Qilin, so she decided to buy it.

When she went to check out, she was so preoccupied wondering whether Huo Qilin would like her gift that she wasn’t looking where she was going and walked straight into a warm wall.

Cheng Bingbing staggered back a step after the collision. She couldn’t find her footing and her heart was racing. If she were to fall onto the floor, would that harm the child in her womb?

With such thoughts, her face turned pale. Fear and a touch of despair filled her heart. Just when she was at the brink of falling, she felt a tightening around her waist, and she fell into a warm embrace.

Someone had saved her from falling, but for some reason, she still felt unsettled. Her heart raced, her hands and feet were ice-cold, and her face remained pale.

It took Cheng Bingbing a while to recover. After her heart- which had been frightfully startled - began to pump blood around her body once more, her feet and hands began to regain their warmth.

She took a step back from the man who had saved her, then looked up at his face.

When she saw his face, despite having seen men with exceptionally good looks like Huo Qilin and Bo Jingyan in the entertainment industry, she couldn’t help but show a look of amazement.

The man had delicate features, wore a pair of rimless glasses, and exuded a refined, elegant aura. He seemed like a charming scholar stepping out from the civil war era, radiating a unique aura that was unforgettable.

Seeing Cheng Bingbing staring at him in a daze, the man’s slightly pale lips curled up, revealing an almost imperceptible smile. "Are you okay?" he asked.

"I’m fine. Thanks for what you did just now... if it weren’t for you, I..." Cheng Bingbing was about to express her gratitude, but then she noticed a string of Buddha beads around his wrist.

She froze, and suddenly felt as if she was plunged into an ice cellar.

Why do these Buddha beads look so familiar... like...

She instinctively reached up to touch the one she usually wore around her neck. It wasn’t until her hand met the emptiness of her neck that she suddenly remembered that she had lost it, that bead, the day her parents had sold her.

Cheng Bingbing couldn’t bear to look at the beads on his wrist. She hurriedly lowered her head, "Anyway, thank you for what just happened."

After saying that, she quickly headed towards the cashier counter, paid as fast as she could and left. Originally, she had planned to get a gift for Xia Qingtian after buying for Huo Qilin - as a thank you for all the help Xia Qingtian had given her, both in her career and personal life.

But now, she had dropped that plan. She just wanted to get home as quickly as possible, to be as far away from that man as possible.

Cheng Bingbing now had a heightened wary of anyone with Buddha beads, because she hadn’t forgotten that on the night of the Huaji Award, she had been tricked by Shi Qian and had lost her virginity, only to find a Buddha bead on her bed the next morning.

She certainly didn’t own any Buddha beads. Therefore, without even having to think about it, it was clear that the bead was left behind by that man.

She was now vigilant around anyone who owned Buddha beads!

Exiting the mall under the warm sunlight, Cheng Bingbing could still feel her hands and feet cold as ice, and she took a while to regain composure.

She continually reassured herself that there can’t be such a coincidence in this world; in our modern society, although Buddha beads weren’t common, in a world as vast as ours, there certainly wouldn’t be a shortage of those who owned them.

The man owning a Buddha bead didn’t necessarily mean he was the man from the night of the Huaji Awards.

The most important thing was that the man was so handsome. Given Shi Qian’s hatred for her and Xia Qingtian, even if he was trying to disgust her, he wouldn’t have picked such a handsome man for her.