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

Fu Jingting held the phone to his ear, dialing the dial tone.

Why did you hang up?

The man frowned, wanting to return the call, but Xiao Xuyuan insisted that her father give her some advice.

After discussing it with her, we finally chose the little princess's cake. After buying it, the two of us ate the cake with the little princess.

Children's desires are often fleeting; they only ate a few bites of cake before losing interest, though they said nicely, "Yuanyuan wants to give Grandpa and Grandma a taste."

Fu Jingting didn't call her out on it, "Okay, Grandma and Grandpa will be very happy."

After Xu Qingyao took her away, Fu Jingting intended to call Xu Qingcheng back, but then he received a call from the police and rushed over, so he forgot about it.

When Song Chang finished his work and came out of the study, he saw Xu Qingcheng standing on the balcony. It was completely dark outside. She was hugging herself with her arms crossed and looking out the window, seemingly lost in thought. She didn't even notice Song Chang standing next to her.

"Hey, what are you looking at?"

Song Chang nudged Xu Qingcheng's arm, and she snapped back to reality, clearly startled. "What are you doing? You scared me!"

"Who's scaring whom?" Song Chang was turned around and accused. "What were you thinking? You didn't even react when I came over."

"I wasn't thinking about anything."

Xu Qingcheng turned and walked into the living room. She tidied up the room casually, then turned back to ask Song Chang, "You still haven't told me how you and Fu Jingting met?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, you're really different, you've started to care about him now," Song Chang teased her, thinking to herself, "I only met him through you, but I can't say that. I need to choose someone reliable and safe. My brother is close to him, they're really good friends."

Xu Qingcheng nodded. "Then you should know him very well, right?"

"It's alright, they're pretty reliable, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to pair you two up," Song Chang said with a smile. "I'll have Fu Jingting give me a big red envelope later, since I'm the matchmaker."

Xu Qingcheng made Song Chang a cup of coffee, then sat down opposite her with another cup. "So, tell me, is he married?"

"Marriage?" Song Chang was stunned for a moment. She looked at Xu Qingcheng and then laughed, "Are you kidding me? If he were getting married, would I recommend him to you? I would have kicked him out of the way long ago."

"Let me rephrase the question," Xu Qingcheng said, rubbing her aching temples. "Has he ever been married?"

I've definitely been married before. Not only that, I've also been married, divorced, and remarried. I've gone through it all.

And the woman in front of me is one too.

Both of you are currently married.

Song Chang was having a bit of a headache; how was she supposed to respond to that?

"You're concerned about his past relationships, huh? Didn't you ask him about them?" Song Chang asked curiously. "You slept with him, and you didn't question him about it beforehand?"

"I didn't ask." Xu Qingcheng suddenly felt a little wronged when she was asked this question.

She didn't ask, and he didn't say.

He said he wanted to pursue her, but she didn't agree to let him.

And then...

It was too fast, unbelievably fast, so fast that she didn't even have time to regret it.

"Do you know anything about him?" Xu Qingcheng nudged Song Chang, urging her to speak quickly. "Is he married before? Does he have children?"

"There was definitely no marriage. How could there be a child if there was no marriage?" There was no wedding, and fearing that she would be devastated if she found out about the child through other channels, for safety's sake, Fu Jingting completely deleted all information about them from the internet when Qingcheng was discharged from the hospital. It was impossible to find any trace of them.

Song Chang was also afraid that the topic of children would upset her, so she avoided it.

"Why are you suddenly asking this question?"

"It's nothing. I was just asking out of curiosity." Xu Qingcheng's nose suddenly felt sore. Even Song Chang, a friend of Song Xingzhi, might not know much about his private life.

And being unmarried doesn't necessarily mean you won't have children.

Xu Qingcheng was certain she hadn't misheard; it was Fu Jingting responding to the child.

She sweetly called him "Dad".

Xu Qingcheng thought he would call her back eventually, but she didn't receive a call from him all night.

The Fu family is very good at protecting their family privacy; it is surprisingly difficult to find any private information about Fu Jingting online.

It felt like my heart had been stabbed; it hurt terribly.

She closed her eyes; the thought of him having a child with another woman made her feel incredibly sad and want to cry.

How could he do this?

When Xu Qingcheng reappeared in the morning, her face was covered in cucumber slices. Song Chang was startled. "What are you doing? Putting cucumber slices on your face first thing in the morning?"

"Um."

Xu Qingcheng leaned back on the sofa and responded. She only realized that her eyes were swollen when she woke up this morning. She didn't think she had cried that much last night, so why were her eyes swollen?

Not wanting to arouse suspicion and cause them further worry, Xu Qingcheng covered herself with cucumber slices.

She peeled the cucumber slice off her lips. "I've made breakfast. Hurry up and eat. Didn't I say I had an important meeting to attend today?"

"You're in the mood to serve me today?" Song Chang was surprised. Xu Qingcheng didn't like going into the kitchen much, and she would avoid lifting a finger whenever Song Chang was around. Seeing that Song Chang had fried eggs, oat milk, and a steak on the table, which he had cut into squares for her, Xu Qingcheng was incredibly considerate.

Xu Qingcheng didn't want to say that she needed to find something to do to calm herself down.

"It shouldn't take long," Song Chang said while eating.

"It's okay, don't look at me like I'm a criminal. Just go about your business. I'll contact you immediately if I have any problems. I'm not a child anymore, don't worry." Xu Qingcheng sighed, "Give me some space too."

"understood."

Song Chang said this, but still called Fu Jingting.

She was entrusted with this task and could not make an agreement with the patient on her own.

Fu Jingting nodded after hearing Song Chang's words, "I asked Lu Jingzhou, and her emotions are relatively stable. We need to give her some space."

Otherwise, everyone will be tense, which will do more harm than good.

Hearing this, Song Chang felt relieved.

However, Fu Jingting was still worried.

He took a break from work and had his driver take him to Xinghewan.

The little babies at home are growing up fast and are very cute. They're twins, and Qinghan must be just as cute.

Now, I just hope he's still healthy.

Through the village committee's investigation, Fu Jingting promised to reward those who provided valuable information. Many people provided information, but most of it was false. Yesterday, the police told him that the past was just a way to screen information. No matter what, it was a channel. Some information was all over the place, but Fu Jingting did not miss any of it, even if there was only the slightest possibility.

You can enter by simply swiping your fingerprint.

The moment he stepped inside, Fu Jingting stepped back out and rang the doorbell.

Xu Qingcheng opened the door, and when she saw the person standing there, she immediately tried to close it, but the man blocked her way with his outstretched hand.

"What are you doing here?" she asked coldly.

Fu Jingting frowned slightly; this attitude was off.

"I came to see you."

"I don't need you to look at me, I don't know you." Xu Qingcheng pushed the door forcefully.

"How are we not familiar anymore?" The man raised an eyebrow. "You slept with me and now you're denying it?"

Who would deny having slept with someone?

Does this person have no shame?

Xu Qingcheng's eyes reddened with anger. "Get out."

Instead of leaving, the man squeezed in next to her. Xu Qingcheng tried to distance herself from him, but he seized the opportunity to slip in and close the door behind her.

"What are you angry about?" Fu Jingting raised his hand to put his arm around her shoulder, but Xu Qingcheng dodged it.

From yesterday until now, she has been thinking about it for a whole day and night, feeling restless and uneasy, with indescribable inner turmoil.

However, it's possible that he deliberately deceived someone.

But she never asked, so she deserved it.

Xu Qingcheng frowned as she stared at his seemingly nonchalant face, her expression a mixture of resentment and grievance.

There was also shock and disbelief.

"What's wrong?"

Fu Jingting was puzzled. Her rejection and avoidance were too obvious, and he had never seen her so resistant when they were intimate before.

He pondered, trying to figure out why she was angry. "I went on a business trip and had a lot of things to take care of, so I didn't wait for you to wake up yesterday morning..."

"Don't mention that, it's not important." Xu Qingcheng gritted her teeth. "It's normal for adult men and women to be like that."

Xu Qingcheng now truly wishes nothing had happened between them, so she could calmly make a new choice.

But time can't be turned back, so... let's just pretend nothing happened.

"Normal?" Fu Jingting paused slightly, uttering those three words in a low voice.

His voice had no strong inflections, yet it struck her heart heavily, making her feel inexplicably guilty.

However, she quickly came to her senses. What did she have to feel guilty about? In any case, he wasn't at a disadvantage.

Xu Qingcheng tilted her chin slightly. "Of course. Mr. Fu wouldn't want to keep pestering me just because we slept together once, would he?"

That's it?

Fu Jingting stared intently at her with his dark eyes. He suddenly moved closer to her, and Xu Qingcheng instinctively stepped back, but her legs were blocked by a small stool placed behind her. Before she could react, she was already pinned against the wall by the man.

The other man pressed closer, his body like a huge mountain barrier, pressing her down firmly. He exuded a faint anger, but apart from pressing her down and trapping her, his actions were not particularly outrageous.

Xu Qingcheng was still startled by the suppressed anger emanating from the man.

Why is he angry?

"Is Miss Xu planning to take advantage of me and then deny everything?" Fu Jingting lifted her chin with his finger, making her look at him.

"Who's denying it? Don't be so rude, you're not at a disadvantage." She retorted, pursing her lips, but her face couldn't help but turn red.

Whether he believes it or not, even without the first mark, even though she had only known him for a short time, she had slept with him without any restraint, he was still her first man.

He certainly didn't suffer a loss.

"So you feel like you got the short end of the stick?" he asked, looking down at her, his brows furrowing slightly, his tone quite serious. "Did I hurt you? Didn't you feel good?"

Xu Qingcheng blushed at his question and quickly retorted, "No."

As soon as she spoke, she realized something was wrong and that he had tricked her into revealing information. Annoyed, Xu Qingcheng reached out and slapped him hard!

Fu Jingting neither dodged nor flinched, letting her slap him. He stretched out his arms and hugged her. "Are you angry with me? What are you angry about? Tell me so I can know."

"I'm not angry, why would I be angry with you!" Xu Qingcheng said in a low voice, her eyes burning as she spoke, tears welling up in her eyes.

She felt very wronged.

He should pursue her, not tell her about his situation.

He didn't say it, so she naturally assumed that he was like her, single, unmarried, and without children.

Fu Jingting sighed. She was clearly angry. "Qingcheng, don't make me guess. I'm afraid I'll guess wrong and not know how to coax you properly."

"Who needs you to coax me? I don't need it."

"But I want to comfort you." He lowered his head and touched her forehead with his lips. "I want to make you happy."

Xu Qingcheng pushed him hard, but she turned her head away from him, her ears turning red.

This man's sweet talk is simply irresistible.

Xu Qingcheng had to admit that she couldn't remain completely indifferent.

Seeing her relax, the man felt a slight sense of relief. He kissed her earlobe, his tender kisses lingering on the skin beside her ear.

Xu Qingcheng, tickled, tried to dodge, but was sharply stopped, though her voice still carried a hint of coquettishness, "I have something to ask you."

"Okay, go ahead and ask."

"Are you single now?" Xu Qingcheng pursed her lips, staring at him intently.

If you tell others, you're obviously not single; but if you tell her you are single, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

After a moment's thought, Fu Jingting readily replied, "Yes."

This answer relieved Xu Qingcheng; thankfully, she wasn't a third party involved.

"Have you ever been married?"

Why did she suddenly bring up this question? Fu Jingting frowned. "Why are you suddenly asking this?"

Instead of answering directly, he asked her a question, which chilled Xu Qingcheng to the bone. If there was no answer, most people would have given a firm reply. Why would he change the subject?

"Don't ask me why, just tell me the truth." Xu Qingcheng's eyes welled up with tears. "Don't lie to me, tell me the truth."

Fu Jingting considered the potential negative consequences of his answer. In reality, whatever he said was correct, but seeing the tears in her eyes, he suddenly hesitated to deny the premise that they had been married.

"Qingcheng, you..."

"Stop talking nonsense, answer me!" Xu Qingcheng suddenly interrupted him impatiently; she just wanted a real answer.

The man hesitated for a moment, knowing that she must know something to ask this question, so he simply replied, "It's over."

Tears streamed down Xu Qingcheng's face. Even though she had guessed it when he wasn't happy, hearing him say he had been married made her tears fall uncontrollably.

Fu Jingting panicked when he saw her crying. What was she doing? He was about to raise his hand to wipe her tears when Xu Qingcheng slapped his hand away.

She reached out and forcefully wiped away her tears, then asked him, "You have a child?"

When the child was mentioned, Fu Jingting felt apprehensive, fearing that she might suddenly have a headache; the way she had been in pain before was terrifying.

Seeing that he didn't reply, Xu Qingcheng chuckled, "I called you last night and heard a little girl calling you 'Dad'."

She gritted her teeth, very angry, "Why didn't you tell me before?"

Her eyes were red, and she was very angry.

Fu Jingting was having a bit of a headache. This was a legacy issue; how was he going to explain it to her?!

"So, even if you knew, what impact would it have?" Fu Jingting asked rhetorically, not understanding for a moment why she was reacting so strongly.

"Fu Jingting, am I so badly treated that I can only marry a divorced man?"

Fu Jingting, "..."