Chapter 300: Chapter 280 Do You Know About It?
Zhou Xiaoyu was just about to go over and see what was happening when she suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure hurriedly leaving from the woods on one side.
She subconsciously tightened her grip on the photo and voice recorder in her hand. Could it be that someone had overheard her conversation just now?
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Gu Qili sat in the middle of the road, still in shock. Just moments ago, she had crossed the street without noticing an oncoming car in normal traffic. By the time she realized, it was too late for the driver to hit the brakes.
Fortunately, the driver reacted quickly and, in a desperate effort, swerved to one side, hitting a roadside trash can, which flew several meters away.
"Miss, are you alright?" The driver was also terribly frightened, hurriedly opening the car door and getting out, "
"Why isn’t this person moving at all, could she be shocked silly? Oh my God, what should I do?
Hearing the driver calling out a few times, Gu Qili finally moved her eyes and blurted out, "I’m not dead?"
Driver: "..."
"Miss, of course, you’re not dead, but you nearly scared me to death. Why didn’t you look at the traffic light when crossing the street?" The driver sighed repeatedly, "You better get on quickly, I’ll take you to the hospital for a check-up."
Gu Qili tried to move, but she had scrapes on her legs and arms, some places even bleeding. Even though she wanted to meet Mu Shuoqian, she couldn’t go with all these injuries, so she nodded at the driver: "Please take me to the hospital."
"Alright, get on quickly, oh dear, I was so scared. I hope you are okay; I have old folks and children depending on me."
Once at the hospital, Gu Qili willingly took out her health insurance card and said: "Don’t worry, I have health insurance that can cover this. It was my fault today; you were also implicated. Please go back, I can undergo the checkups alone."
Hearing her say this, the driver felt too embarrassed to leave, "The insurance only reimburses hospital stays. Never mind, these tests won’t cost much... regardless of whose fault it is, it was still wrong of me to hit someone. Wait here, I’ll go pay for your registration."
The driver went to register, followed by a series of tests; blood draw, CT scans, ECGs.
Gu Qili went to the treatment room to bandage the scrapes on her arms and legs while waiting for results. They weren’t very serious; just some antiseptic was applied.
After about an hour, all the results came out, the doctor looked them over without speaking right away.
The driver was the most nervous, swallowing nervously.
"Other things are fine," the doctor suddenly spoke.
"Doctor, what do you mean other things are fine? Then what’s wrong?" the driver asked anxiously.
Gu Qili, still thinking about how to start the conversation with Mu Shuoqian, blinked at hearing this statement,
The anxious driver whispered, "Miss, it turns out you’re pregnant, oh my, you almost killed me there. Luckily you’re okay, or it would have been devastating for me. I need to go pray tomorrow, heaven hasn’t been too harsh on me."
The driver muttered to himself for a long while, and it took a moment for Gu Qili to react, staring at the doctor in surprise and asking, "Doctor, what did you just say? Pregnant?"
The doctor explained patiently, "Your body is fine, just some scrapes, but according to these test results, you are pregnant."
"Are you sure?" Gu Qili suddenly excited, stood up, and grabbed the doctor’s arm, her eyes shining with excitement.
"I suggest you go to the gynecology department for a detailed checkup, I can only perform preliminary tests here..."
Before the doctor could finish, Gu Qili had already disappeared from the room, found by the driver as she was registering at the gynecology department, her face wearing a warm smile.
Seeing she was fine, the driver greeted her and left.
Little did she expect, after clarifying Zhou Xiaoyu’s identity, another surprise crashed down in front of her. No matter what unspeakable secrets Mu Shuoqian was hiding from her, she could be sure that whatever he did, he did it for her good.
After paying, Gu Qili underwent a series of tests, and the results confirmed that she was indeed pregnant, already two months along. The doctor prescribed a box of folic acid, reminding her to take one daily and to undergo regular prenatal checkups.
"Doctor, I went for a run today, is that alright?" Gu Qili asked nervously.
"It’s fine, the fetus is in very good condition right now, don’t worry,"
Gu Qili noted down carefully.
As she walked out the hospital doors, looking up at the blazing sun, it didn’t seem piercing at all.
She gently placed her hand on her lower abdomen, beneath this flat surface was a little life brewing, a child belonging to her and him, a surprise from heaven just as she was nearing despair.
She was eager to know what expression Mu Shuoqian would have upon hearing this news.
Inside the hospital’s consulting room, right after Gu Qili left, a woman wearing a hat and sunglasses came in, she greeted the doctor who had just treated Gu Qili, "Doctor, my friend said she left her outpatient book here."
"Your friend?" the doctor asked, raising his head in confusion.
"It’s the one who just left, with long hair, big eyes..." She hadn’t finished speaking, but the doctor remembered and immediately smiled, saying: "They say pregnancy makes one silly for three years, your friend is only two months pregnant, how come she’s already becoming silly? Her outpatient manual is in her bag, I saw it with my own eyes."
The woman seemed stunned for a moment but soon nodded at the doctor: "Thank you, doctor, her memory hasn’t been very good lately."
When the woman came out from the clinic, she took off the sunglasses from her face, revealing a delicate and petite face, her bright eyes quickly clouded over with a shady expression.
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Gu Qili hailed a taxi and reported the building’s address to the driver.
After the car drove off, she took out her mobile phone and sent a WeChat message to Mu Shuoqian: I’m coming to see you now, I have something important to tell you.
It was quite a while before Mu Shuoqian’s reply arrived late: Let’s talk over the phone.
Just as expected, he didn’t agree to meet.
Gu Qili showed a warm smile, not the slightest bit angry, only filled with deep concern. What could have pushed their relationship to such a stage?
When she was in pain, he must have felt even more pain than her.
However, she was about to expose his little game soon; she wanted to slap the laboratory report on him in person, to tell him that no matter what troubles or difficulties he faced, she was willing to face them together with him, even if it was a matter of life and death.
She loved him so much, she had already surpassed the boundaries of life and death, thus, there was nothing that could separate them, as long as he still loved her, she would never turn back.
Now, they had an additional little bond, they definitely could not part ways now.
Thinking this, Gu Qili quickly typed another message: It’s very important, we must meet in person, please, okay?
This time, Mu Shuoqian replied very quickly, with just two words: Hideaway.
She often waited there for him to have lunch together.
Gu Qili typed ’Okay,’ put away her phone, and turned to look out of the window, finding even the scenery she had grown tired of appearing picturesque at this moment.
Mu Shuoqian stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in his office, looking at the familiar scene, his eyes gradually gleaming with anticipation.
She said she wanted to see him. Although he didn’t know what it was about, having such an excuse to sit face to face with her felt like a feast of life.
Since his leg injury, he seldom went out, and his time with her had decreased. Every day he could only console himself with thoughts of her, and right now, he was so eager to see her.
As Mu Shuoqian thought about this, he suddenly turned around and pressed the intercom on his desk: Has the custom-made clothing from Paris arrived?
The secretary, very diligent, replied: "Young Master Qian, it has arrived."
"Bring a set over to me."
"Okay."
Soon, the secretary brought over a set of clothes. Since they had been together, he had let her pick out his clothing styles, and this set was picked by her before she left, her favorite one.
Mu Shuoqian picked up the clothes and went into the lounge, the secretary watched his high spirits as if he were a groom headed to church for his wedding, his handsome face all smiles.
He didn’t know what happy event the president had encountered; to be precise, the president hadn’t smiled at all during nearly these two months and had been especially irritable,
Mu Shuoqian stood in front of the mirror in the lounge, meticulously adjusting his tie, redoing it several times as he wasn’t quite satisfied with how it looked.
He usually despised using things like perfume, thinking them too effeminate, but today, he had even specifically taken a bottle of cologne, spritzing some on himself.
After everything was put in order, he looked at himself in the mirror for a good ten minutes, deciding that the reflection was perfect enough to leave the lounge with full satisfaction.
Checking his phone and seeing no message from her, he thought he should be a bit more gentlemanly, so he took the elevator to the ground floor, went outside, and turned into the nearby café.
Mu Shuoqian chose a discreet spot, sat down, and quietly waited for Gu Qili’s arrival, even taking a nervous and excited trip to the restroom in the midst of waiting.
Gu Qili took her eyes off from looking around and checked her phone, her heart pounding as if it was about to leap out.
Just then, WeChat popped up with a notification that someone wanted to add her as a friend. She didn’t know who it was, but the person had written her name in the request, thinking it was someone she knew, she accepted.
Shortly after adding her, a message popped up in her chat with that person, consisting of two voice messages.