Qing Muye's words startled Tang Si awake, his sleepiness completely gone. "What did you say, pregnant?"
"Mm."
He replied.
After a few seconds of silence, the other party suddenly burst into laughter. "Hahahaha, second brother, are you trying to kill me? Hahaha..."
He laughed at Qing Muye unscrupulously, as if he had heard the funniest joke of the year.
Qing Muye's expression hardened, his thin lips pressing into a straight line. "Want to die?"
The three sinister words sent a shiver down Tang Si's spine. He raised a hand to cover his face, suppressing his laughter. "No, second brother, you've gone too far. I'm just happy for you. You've finally decided to have a son to play with, so I can be an uncle."
"Shut up!"
Qing Muye let out a light scoff. "Answer my question."
"Oh, that..."
Tang Si cleared his throat, coughed a few times, and said solemnly, "Okay, let me think about it."
Then, silence fell on the other end. Qing Muye vaguely heard faint laughter, not very clear.
Little did he know that Tang Si had pulled the covers over his head and was laughing uncontrollably in bed.
After a while, Tang Si said, "There's no problem with this. I'll give you some prescriptions to help with pregnancy. As long as big brother works hard, not just one child, but even a football team is not a problem."
"I'll have Song Ci pick up the prescription this morning."
"No problem," Tang Si nodded, and couldn't resist teasing, "It seems second brother is really anxious. Good thing, good thing, hahaha..."
Qing Muye's face turned as dark as ink, and he directly hung up the phone.
On the other side, Meng Jingwei drove back to the apartment, tidied up a bit, and called Lu Sen.
"Jingwei is back in the country?" On the other end of the phone, boss Lu Sen cared about her. "I heard you weren't feeling well, are you better?"
Meng Jingwei's lips twitched. She didn't know what Qing Muye had told Lu Sen. "Mm, I'm fine now. Thank you for your concern, boss. But I didn't go to the fashion show that day..."
"It's okay, it's okay. Didn't you arrange for someone to help Yiyi temporarily? That's fine."
"Oh, okay, okay, that's good."
Meng Jingwei initially thought Qing Muye had just requested leave for her from Lu Sen, but she didn't expect him to be so meticulous and thoughtful, even hiring a temporary assistant for Su Meiyi.
No wonder Su Meiyi hadn't scolded her anymore.
However, after scamming Su Meiyi out of hundreds of thousands of yuan, although she was still holding onto her anger, Su Meiyi was a shrewd person and made even more money by reselling those autographed photos.
She didn't pursue the matter too aggressively.
In the morning, she went to the Ye Se apartment and met Shu Yao.
Shu Yao was lying in bed playing games. Seeing Meng Jingwei return, she lazily glanced at her. "Back from your business trip so soon?"
"Aren't I worried about you?" Meng Jingwei deliberately said.
"Really? That's my greatest honor." While playing the mobile game, she spoke to Meng Jingwei. "Wait for me for a moment, I'll finish this round soon."
Suddenly, she sat up and turned on the team voice chat. "What the hell are you guys doing? Hurry up, attack the crystal, quick, quick! Phew... we almost lost."
She let out a long sigh, put down her phone, and tilted her head to look at Meng Jingwei. "Why do you seem so down? Look at me, I've been played for a fool, but I'm still eating and drinking well. You, on the other hand, have become dejected."
Although she said that, Shu Yao hadn't been feeling well in the past few days.
She was worried about the child in her womb and didn't know what would happen to it.
"Where is Qing Sihai?"
"I don't know what's going on. He was captured by Anthony, and then released. I guess he reached some kind of cooperation with Anthony."
Speaking of this, Shu Yao leaned back and looked at the ceiling, saying listlessly, "This is how men are. One moment they say they like you, the next, their attitude changes. Anthony hasn't contacted me these past few days. However, Sheng Sihai sent me a message, only two words."
"What?"
"You're ruthless!"
"That's three words," Meng Jingwei corrected.
Shu Yao glanced at Meng Jingwei with a look of disdain and didn't say anything.
"Get up. I'll take you out for a good meal at noon."
"I have severe morning sickness and can't eat anything," she said, her voice choking up slightly. "My parents don't know I'm pregnant with Sheng Sihai's child yet. I don't know how to explain it to them."
Seeing her like this, Meng Jingwei felt a pang of heartache, but couldn't do much to help her.
She just patted her. "It's okay, you can take your time to consider the child."
Although she was anxious, she dared not push Shu Yao too much.
Meng Jingwei spent the whole day playing games with Shu Yao, distracting her, which made Shu Yao very happy.
That day, Qing Muye did not return to the Ye Se apartment, nor did he call Meng Jingwei.
Since she had requested leave from Lu Sen, Meng Jingwei was not in a hurry to go to work and stayed in bed scrolling through her phone the next day.
Suddenly, the phone rang, and Shi Ran's call came through.
"Hello, Ranran, what..."
"Wuwuwu... Sister Wei, where are you? Lin Meng, she, she's missing."
When Meng Jingwei saw Shi Ran's call, a bad premonition arose.
It was as if a curse, whenever Shi Ran called, it was usually bad news.
"Missing? She's an adult, how could she go missing? Are you thinking too much?"
"No. Lin Meng's phone is still in the ward, and the child is still in the ICU, but I haven't seen her for a day."
"Okay, okay, I'm coming right away."
Meng Jingwei immediately got out of bed. Seeing that Shu Yao was still asleep, she didn't disturb her. After a simple wash, she went downstairs and drove to the children's hospital.
She met Shi Ran at the hospital. Shi Ran, who was anxious, had red eyes from crying and was constantly sobbing.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'll go and check the surveillance footage."
Meng Jingwei comforted Shi Ran's emotions and was about to head to the hospital's surveillance room to check the situation when a mobile phone text message notification sounded.
As she walked towards the surveillance room, she lowered her head and opened her phone.
The text message was a video, and the person in the video was none other than the missing Lin Meng.
Meng Jingwei's steps faltered, and her face instantly turned pale.
Glancing at the unfamiliar phone number, she thought: Could it be that Lin Meng's mother-in-law deliberately kidnapped her for revenge?
No, that's impossible.
If it were Lin Meng's mother-in-law seeking revenge, why would she send her a message?
Filled with doubt, Meng Jingwei dialed the number back.
The phone rang a few times before the other party answered.
"Hello, who are you?" Meng Jingwei directly questioned the other party's identity.
But after asking, there was only silence on the other end.
"Speak up. If you don't speak, how will I know what your conditions are?"
Since they had kidnapped Lin Meng and knew her phone number, and sent the kidnapping video, they must have come prepared.
"Heh heh."
A man's cold laugh suddenly sounded from the other end.
The voice sounded somewhat familiar.
Meng Jingwei frowned, pondered for less than a second, and then asked, "Xiao Cheng?"