Mrs. Fu, please be mindful of the appropriate boundaries.

"what?"

Xu Qingcheng was stunned. "What?"

Fu Sichen put his finger to his lips and shushed twice. The two went into the room, and as soon as the door closed, Fu Sichen said, "I don't know the specifics, but they say she was pregnant out of wedlock, and the child is already four or five years old."

"Didn't you know before, brother?"

"I don't know, but my brother's attitude just now was really indifferent. That's why Mom got angry. She thinks my brother doesn't take marriage seriously and is just treating it so casually." Fu Sichen shrugged.

"That Tang Tang, she's not very old, is she?" Xu Qingcheng pondered for a moment, "Twenty-seven?"

"She seems to be a year or two younger than my older brother." Fu Sichen scratched his head. "I don't know what my older brother is thinking. Even if he can't stand up, finding a decent woman wouldn't be difficult! Besides, the Tang family..."

Fu Sichen stopped abruptly before speaking, "Oh well, let's not talk about them, I don't understand anyway."

Xu Qingcheng nodded. She judged that this marriage must be because the Tang family had something that her eldest brother needed.

Xu Qingcheng dared not make any wild guesses, nor did she dare to ask any more questions. There were many speculations about the relationship between the two brothers, but in her eyes, the two were neither close nor distant; their relationship was not very good, but it was not too strained either.

Perhaps they both restrained their tempers in front of their parents. Fu Jingting rarely mentioned his older brother, so Xu Qingcheng had no way of knowing about their relationship and was even less inclined to make unwarranted comments.

She just remembered Fu Jingting's meeting with Tang Kejia. Xu Qingcheng had some uneasy thoughts.

Downstairs, Zhong Wanxiu's eyes were red. "Pinxiu, just be a traditional, old-fashioned mother. Wouldn't it be better to marry a clean and decent girl? Having a child out of wedlock!! Are you so eager to become a stepfather?"

Fu Pingxiu's forehead twitched. He didn't care who she was marrying into; it was a business marriage to gain short-term benefits.

It didn't matter who it was, so when the Tang family sent Tang Tang's information over, he glanced at it. She was from a collateral branch of the Tang family, with mediocre talent and little presence. Tang Kaiji was unwilling to marry a child from the main branch of the Tang family to a cripple like him.

However, this is better for Fu Pingxiu.

So he agreed without hesitation, and didn't even ask Zhou Qian to investigate.

But unexpectedly, a child suddenly appeared!

"Mom, I'll talk to Tang Tang about the specifics first." Fu Pingxiu said in a deep voice, then beckoned Zhou Qian over.

Zhou Qian understood and quickly left.

"Don't be angry anymore. The Tang family has all arrived in Ancheng. Let's have a meal together tomorrow to save face," Fu Pinghui reassured. "Let Pinxiu find out the situation first."

Zhong Wanxiu finally calmed down. She wiped away her tears and then remembered, "Where's Qingcheng?"

"She's upstairs with Si Chen. I'll go call her down." Fu Jingting went upstairs to call her.

Xu Qingcheng came down with him and grabbed his arm, asking, "Is Mom alright?"

"Thankfully, I've calmed down."

Fu Jingting reached out and tucked a stray strand of hair behind her face. It was such a natural gesture that even Xu Qingcheng didn't find anything wrong with it, but to others, it was a different story.

Fu Sichen was inexplicably fed a mouthful of dog food again. She squeezed past Xu Qingcheng from behind and pushed her into her second brother's arms. "Seriously, my eyes are going to go blind. You two keep being lovey-dovey. I'm going down first."

Fu Jingting hugged the person who had bumped into him tightly and scolded, "How can you bump into someone while walking? What are your eyes for?"

Fu Sichen ran downstairs with a clatter, sticking out his tongue.

Sigh, I always thought that someone as shameless as my second brother probably didn't know what tenderness meant, but look at him, oh my god, those eyes, tsk tsk tsk...

Xu Qingcheng smiled, her eyes softening, and she snuggled closer to him, saying, "Husband."

Fu Jingting felt a prick in his ear and looked at her sharply. "Hmm?"

Xu Qingcheng snuggled her face against his chest, and chuckled shyly in a low voice, "It's nothing, I just wanted to call your name."

She hurriedly pushed him away and ran downstairs.

Fu Jingting clicked his tongue, then pressed his finger hard against his brow before moving down.

Seeing her smiling and coquettish appearance, his heart felt both light and heavy, as if someone had cut it in two.

Xu Qingcheng handed the finished jade jewelry pieces to Zhong Wanxiu. Zhong Wanxiu sighed, "You meant well, but I don't think I'll need these."

"How could you not need it? Mom, you can use it yourself!" Xu Qingcheng cleverly avoided steer the conversation in that direction.

Fu Pinghui called his two sons into the study, and it's unclear what they said.

It was quite late when they came out. Zhong Wanxiu was in a bad mood, so she didn't invite them to stay for dinner. She only told them that she would be hosting a banquet for the Tang family at the hotel the next day at noon and asked them to come along.

They left with Fu Pingxiu, and Fu Sichen saw them off. When they went out, they ran into Zhou Qian. Perhaps because he felt that they were all there, Zhou Qian hesitated to speak.

"Speak," Fu Pingxiu said without hesitation.

Zhou Qian didn't speak, but handed the photo directly to Fu Pingxiu, "There is a child, a boy, five years old."

The photo shows a young woman with her hair in a ponytail, wearing a dress, and a very handsome little boy standing next to her, wearing roller skates, as if they were at a competition.

Fu Pingxiu's face turned extremely ugly the moment he saw the photo, and he squeezed the photo in his hand until it was deformed.

Xu Qingcheng glanced at Fu Jingting, puzzled, only to see him staring intently at the photo, seemingly quite surprised.

Fu Sichen, who had originally come to see some gossip, gasped in shock. She snatched the photo from her older brother's hand, exclaiming, "Oh my god! Does Dad have an illegitimate child?"

Before he could finish speaking, Fu Jingting smacked him hard on the head. "What nonsense are you spouting!"

"What nonsense are you spouting? Second Brother, don't you think this kid looks a lot like you?!"

Fu Jingting's forehead twitched, wondering how his family could have produced such a brain-dead person!

Fu Sichen was still in shock and couldn't come to her senses. To prove her point, she took out her phone and flipped through her photo album. "I just took some old photos of myself when I was little a few days ago. Fairy sister, look, doesn't he look like Second Brother?"

Fu Sichen took photos of her when she was a child, including some of her being held by Fu Pinxiu and Fu Jingting, and a family photo taken when she was a month old. Fu Pinxiu and Fu Jingting were only ten years old at the time, and she looked about seven, and they were very handsome.

Xu Qingcheng took a look and, to be honest, it really did look quite similar.

For a brief moment, Xu Qingcheng's mind went blank, and she looked at Fu Jingting.

His face darkened instantly, and he reached out to take the photo from Fu Sichen's hand and hand it back to Fu Pinxiu.

Fu Sichen was still rambling on, "Mom can't find out about this! Dad went too far! How could he do such a thing..."

"Shut up!" Fu Pingxiu suddenly roared coldly.

Fu Sichen immediately fell silent.

The man gripped the wheelchair so tightly that the veins bulged. "Zhou Qian, bring her to see me."

Fu Pingxiu got into the car and left, leaving the three people standing there.

Fu Sichen turned his head. "Second brother, my mind is a little confused..."

Fu Jingting sneered, "You're never thinking straight."

He dragged Xu Qingcheng away, leaving Fu Sichen alone at the doorstep, bewildered in the wind.