"If you don't mind, that's good."
Qing Muye was touched that Meng Jingwei chose to accompany him to see Tang Wanxing.
He sat by the bed, raised his hand to caress her face, and said affectionately, "Awei, thank you for your understanding."
Putting himself in his shoes, he knew he might not have been as magnanimous as her.
Meng Jingwei could feel his sincerity from Qing Muye's expression and knew his words were genuine.
Thinking of his past efforts for her, she couldn't bring herself to argue with him.
"There are some things you might not know yet," Meng Jingwei said after careful consideration. "A while ago, I went to the capital to see your father."
After speaking, she met Qing Muye's gaze, as if to see if he would be angry.
However, the man's expression remained calm and composed. "What did you go to him for?"
"That day..."
Meng Jingwei had intended to tell Qing Muye her true intentions, that she had originally sought help from Qing Kangyu to ease his current predicament. But fearing for his pride, she gave a different reason. "I inadvertently discovered that Tang Wanxing knew your father, and I had some suspicions about Tang Wanxing's motives, so I went to the capital to see your father. As expected, after meeting your father, everything confirmed my thoughts."
Qing Muye's brows furrowed slightly. "What thoughts?"
"Of course, it's that Tang Wanxing likes you and wants to marry you. It's just..." She paused, raising her eyebrows helplessly. "Things are more absurd than I imagined. Your father's intention is for you to marry into the Tang family as a live-in son-in-law, to achieve a marital alliance between the Qing and Tang families, and to become the greatest prominent family in the capital."
Listening to Meng Jingwei, Qing Muye was bewildered. "Although Wanxing has several companies, their strength is far inferior to Qing Kangyu's. Did you... mishear?"
Meng Jingwei blinked, her brow furrowed, and her small face was filled with confusion. "Far inferior? You... you don't happen to not know that Tang Wanxing is the only daughter of the foremost Tang family in the capital, do you?"
After she finished speaking, Qing Muye fell into a long silence.
Seeing Meng Jingwei's confident demeanor, Qing Muye knew she was not lying.
He reached for the cigarette pack on the table, took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, lit it, and began to smoke silently.
Qing Muye's words and actions at this moment confirmed one thing: he genuinely did not know that Tang Wanxing was the daughter of the capital's Tang family.
Meng Jingwei couldn't help but be curious. "You are quite familiar with her, how could you not know her identity?"
Although the Tang family had never let Tang Wanxing show her face in public, and few people knew she was the young lady of the Tang family, Meng Jingwei had always assumed that Qing Muye was so close to Tang Wanxing that he must know her background.
Who would have thought he didn't know at all!
Qing Muye held a cigarette between his fingers, flicked ash into the ashtray, and sighed. "We executed missions together, you could say we are life-and-death friends. When it came to family background, she said she came from an ordinary family. I thought, if they were a prominent family, why would they send their daughter to the army to suffer? So, I believed her."
However, Qing Muye did not know that the reason Tang Wanxing claimed to be from an ordinary family was simply because she didn't want him to think of her as a wealthy heiress and distance himself from her.
She lied deliberately to befriend him.
Meng Jingwei was not surprised by Qing Muye's words.
From the moment she witnessed Tang Wanxing's astonishing skills on set, she had been guessing the other party's true identity.
Later, when Qing Muye mentioned that he had been through life and death with Tang Wanxing, Meng Jingwei had almost guessed that they must have carried out some kind of mission together and experienced a hail of bullets.