Chapter 311: Chapter 287: I Don’t Want to Fight with You Anymore_2
Gu Qili originally didn’t want to concern herself with her matters. Unfortunately, just as Hu Jiaojiao had finished her consultation, the doctor called Gu Qili’s name. As Hu Jiaojiao walked out, she entered, and the two naturally ran into each other.
Seeing her, Hu Jiaojiao appeared slightly flustered, but she quickly composed herself, pulled up her face mask, and said in a deep voice, "Let’s talk in a bit."
"I don’t think there’s anything to talk about." Gu Qili ignored her and went straight into the consulting room.
About half an hour later, Gu Qili saw Hu Jiaojiao at the hospital entrance, who seemed a bit impatient, constantly checking her watch, until she saw her and walked over briskly.
"Let’s talk." Hu Jiaojiao gestured towards the nearby café.
Without saying a word, Gu Qili headed towards the café.
Both ordered a juice and sat face to face, yet it felt as if there was an invisible chasm between them. Once like sisters, now foes, it inevitably made one sigh.
"Qiqi, I know you hate me, but I want to tell you now, I don’t want to fight with you anymore." Hu Jiaojiao held her cup, her expression serious, "Let’s say I’ve lost, it doesn’t matter. In our rivalry, I’ve never won, losing one more time is nothing."
Gu Qili bit the straw and frowned slightly.
"What happened between you and Mu Shuoqian? Why are the rumors about him and Zhou Xiaoyu flying everywhere, and you haven’t been back to the old house for a long time."
In the face of Hu Jiaojiao’s question, Gu Qili didn’t answer right away. She was like a startled bird, becoming too wary to trust anyone. Even if Hu Jiaojiao claimed to have stopped fighting, Gu Qili remained on guard.
She stayed silent. Hu Jiaojiao couldn’t help but sigh softly: "To tell you the truth, my child can’t be saved. There’s a congenital deformity."
Thinking of the examination results just now, Hu Jiaojiao’s eyes suddenly reddened. She had no idea she was pregnant and indulged herself in food and drink, even taking drugs once, which caused the child’s poor development. Now the baby was no longer growing.
She once resented this child because he was Mu Hewen’s, but as the pregnancy went on, her affection for him deepened. Mother and child connected, blood is thicker than water. Just when she started to try loving him, she was told he couldn’t survive.
Hearing this news, Gu Qili was so shocked that she couldn’t speak.
If before she could not understand Hu Jiaojiao’s feelings, now, as a mother herself, her heart also clenched in pain. She couldn’t imagine the agony if she were to lose her own child.
"Does it have to be terminated?" Gu Qili asked her first question since she came in, probably out of empathy, she felt a bit of sympathy for Hu Jiaojiao now.
"Yes, I don’t want to either, but there’s no other way. What about you? Why are you here?" Hu Jiaojiao asked while glancing at her stomach.
"Seeing a doctor." Gu Qili casually brushed it off, "My periods are irregular and I always have stomach pain, wanted to get some medicine to regulate it."
"Oh." Hu Jiaojiao took a sip of juice, no longer dwelling on that issue, "Qiqi, I don’t like Mu Shuoqian anymore."
Gu Qili looked up at her and noticed for the first time that Hu Jiaojiao had lost a lot of weight. Already slender, she now resembled a paper-thin figure, pale and with lackluster eyes.
"I was crazed about Mu Shuoqian before. I thought it was because I loved him. Yet when I decided to stop competing with you, I suddenly realized I couldn’t even muster any interest in him. Turns out, I was just competitive, always wanting what you had, even needed to surpass you. That’s why I was so obsessed with Mu Shuoqian. I won’t lie to you, when I realized I couldn’t compete with you, I even thought about seducing his father, if not his wife then his stepmother. How foolish I was, looking back I just want to laugh at myself," Hu Jiaojiao snorted, slowly sipping her juice, her gaze drifting out of the window, "But I won’t give up on my dream of marrying into wealth, I’m determined to cling to this big tree, Mu Hewen."
"But if your child can’t be saved, how will you compete with Qi Meihui?"
"Qiqi, don’t you know? The Qi Family is no longer what it used to be, so I still stand a chance." Hu Jiaojiao said, glancing at her watch, "I’m heading back, I’ll treat this time."
She took out a bill from her bag, placed it on the table, put on her sunglasses, "Actually, I am quite envious of you and Mu Shuoqian, I wish you happiness."
Truth be told, I also miss the days when we were together. Without suspicion and jealousy, you and I probably could have been really good friends.
Hu Jiaojiao silently swallowed these words, her departure seemingly nonchalant.
Too bad, there was no going back.
Gu Qili sat alone for a long time. Her memories weren’t filled with the days they spent as adversaries, but rather, they were more of the reckless times of youth. Even though Hu Jiaojiao approached her with a purpose in the beginning, she too had been kind to her, even if just a little bit.
They once wished death upon each other, but as time went by and circumstances changed, without the intrigues, those hatreds somehow slowly dissolved.
After finishing her juice, Tang Tianyou came to pick up Gu Qili.
She said, "Let’s go home first, I have something to do."
After returning home, she dug out something from a drawer, wrapped it in waterproof foam, and called for a courier to send it out.
The next day when Hu Jiaojiao received the package, Mu Hewen was also at home. He seemed to be especially kind to her recently, caring to the smallest detail. While she was opening the package, he curiously asked from behind her shoulder, "Who sent it?"