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When Jin Mengxi got out of the car, she was still in a daze. The new Aston Martin she had just picked up felt like it was launched like a rocket under Jin Chengyan's driving. If she hadn't trusted his driving skills, she would have been terrified on the spot!
Finally, the car came to a stop outside a restaurant. Jin Chengyan got out and opened the door for her, casually stating, "The stability isn't great. The acceleration from start to speed is too slow, and the seat is too low; it's not suitable for you."
He dismissed the car she bought as if it were worthless, leaving the doorman nearby utterly stunned.
What exactly did this Aston Martin do to provoke him?
"Aren't you hungry? Let's go inside and eat!" With that, Jin Chengyan led the way into the restaurant, while Jin Mengxi slowly regained her senses and followed him.
If she had known better, she wouldn't have asked Jin Chengyan to test drive the car. But it was her own choice, and now she had to face the consequences.
At that moment, she had no appetite whatsoever; it felt like she might vomit up what she had eaten for lunch!
"Mr. Jin, I apologize for not knowing you were coming today. The window seats are all taken; would you and Miss Jin mind sitting in the middle?" said Bi Gong Bi Jing, the restaurant manager.
Jin Chengyan frowned slightly. He didn't like unexpected arrangements, especially when there were no seats by the window.
His gaze swept over the window seats one by one. Just as he was about to look away, he spotted a familiar figure.
Qiao Nuo.
Ah, Faye!
She wore a stunning red dress, her long curls cascading casually down her back, and an unmistakable smile graced her face.
A smile full of happiness.
Jin Chengyan searched his memory: had Qiao Nuo ever smiled this happily when they were together?
No, he didn't think so...
She picked the vegetables out of the salad noodles on her plate and placed them onto the plate of the little girl beside her.
That little girl!
His daughter!
Qiao Kawai!
How could she even give her daughter her own surname? Was she really that unwilling to acknowledge that this was their shared creation?
Seeing the mother and daughter sitting together was truly a pleasing sight, if not for the man sitting across from them.
“Brother…” Jin Mengxi caught up, linking her arm with Jin Chengyan’s, only to find his gaze fixed on a table by the window.
She focused her eyes and realized that it was…
The couple at the window seemed to have noticed the intense gaze directed at them as well. The man and woman turned their heads simultaneously, spotting the couple standing hand in hand.
Four pairs of eyes met in the air, yet everyone remained calm as water. It was unclear who turned away first, but they began to speak about trivial matters with their companions.
“Faye, is that him?” Xi Yisheng raised an eyebrow and asked. Knowing that Qiao Kawai liked shrimp in her salad noodles, he casually scooped some shrimp from his plate onto hers, asking without much thought.
“Mm.” Qiao Nuo replied, seemingly unaffected by the situation.
“He’s… not as handsome as I am,” Xi Yisheng said with a laugh after finishing his sentence.
Qiao Nuo chuckled along; she knew very well how Xi Yisheng liked to lighten the mood.
“Of course! Daddy is the most handsome!” Qiao Kawai said with her mouth full of shrimp, speaking in a garbled manner.
The three of them looked like a harmonious family of three.
"Brother, is that... Sister-in-law Qiao Nuo?" Jin Mengxi asked cautiously. Everyone in the Jin family knew that Jin Chengyan had closed off his heart over the past few years because of Qiao Nuo, even more so than he had due to Ruan Shengyu.
At that time, Jin Mengxi was young and, having studied abroad, was unaware of the situation here. She only knew about Qiao Nuo through snippets of conversation and had seen her photos.
"Aren't you hungry?" Jin Chengyan scoffed and promptly pushed Jin Mengxi onto the nearest chair.
Jin Mengxi felt that she must have neglected to check the calendar before leaving home today. She ate her meal with trepidation, constantly aware of Jin Chengyan's subtle changes.
However, throughout the meal, Jin Chengyan never directed his gaze at her.
Halfway through, Jin Chengyan suddenly called over a waiter and whispered something in his ear before casually returning to his meal.
Yet, Jin Mengxi remained particularly curious. Since Sister-in-law Qiao Nuo was still alive, how could she be having dinner with another man while accompanied by a child? How could her brother bear to watch?
The answer was, of course, that he couldn't bear it!
When Qiao Nuo took her child Qiao Kawai to the restroom, Jin Chengyan immediately removed the napkin from his lap and followed her.
Jin Mengxi rubbed her temples and made eye contact with Xi Yisheng, who was sitting alone at a distance.
He seemed magnanimous and didn't mind that Jin Chengyan followed Qiao Nuo. In fact, he raised his glass and clinked it with Jin Mengxi's from across the table.
...
"Qiao Nuo!" In the corridor leading to the restroom, Jin Chengyan called out to her.
However, the person in front did not stop and continued pulling her child toward the restroom.
“Mommy, someone is calling your Chinese name!” Qiao Kawai looked up at her mother and then turned back to the man who had called her mother’s name.
Instantly, her big eyes sparkled with excitement.
The uncle is so handsome! Even more handsome than Xi Dad! He knows Mommy; could he possibly be one of her potential candidates for a dad?
Mommy always says that we, Qiao Kawai, are so beautiful because we have a pretty mommy and a handsome daddy, which is why Qiao Kawai is so beautiful!
So far, the men who have interacted with Qiao Nuo include Qiao Chen, Little Daddy, who is very handsome but is Mommy’s brother, so he’s out of the running.
Then there’s Xi Dad, but Mommy has always denied that.
Now there’s a man even more handsome than Xi Dad. Could he be her daddy?
However, Qiao Nuo didn’t respond to her and walked straight towards the restroom without looking back.
“Faye!” Jin Chengyan had no choice but to call her by her English name; God knows how much he hated that name!
He successfully maneuvered around and intercepted Qiao Nuo and Qiao Kawai.
Jin Chengyan’s gaze was entirely focused on Qiao Kawai. It was an indescribable feeling; he knew she was his daughter but feared that revealing this unexpected truth to the little girl would be too much for her to handle. So he could only endure in silence.
“Sir, you’re blocking our way,” Qiao Nuo said coldly.
Sir? She didn’t even bother to use his last name; how unwilling was she to admit she knew him?
Jin Chengyan felt a surge of frustration!
But he sensed that the adorable little girl was looking up at him with great interest!
Jin Chengyan crouched down, wanting to reach out and touch Qiao Kawai's head, but Qiao Nuo suddenly pulled Qiao Kawai away, leaving him grasping at air.
Logically, Jin Chengyan's smile should have frozen on his face, yet when facing Qiao Kawai, he maintained his cheerful demeanor.
"Hello, Qiao Kawai."
"Do you know my name?" Qiao Kawai asked in surprise, her excitement palpable.
"Of course I know your name. I also know that you are my..."
"Qiao Kawai, don’t talk to strangers casually. There are many bad people in this world!" Qiao Nuo interrupted Jin Chengyan, likely to prevent him from revealing that Qiao Kawai was his daughter.
He didn’t want to create more fantasies for Qiao Kawai.
"But he knows your name and mine... and he doesn’t look like a bad person..." Qiao Kawai pouted adorably.
Jin Chengyan truly wanted to touch Qiao Kawai's face; it was so chubby and small that he felt he wouldn’t dare hold her too tightly.
What was she like when she was born? She must have been much smaller than this, right? Did she laugh or cry when she first came into the world? How did she spend her early years...
These questions surged in Jin Chengyan's heart upon seeing Qiao Kawai. A flood of paternal love overwhelmed him, and he longed to give her a unique kind of affection that belonged only to her.
However...
"Qiao Kawai, bad people don’t have the word 'bad' written on their faces! From now on, don’t talk to strangers. If a bad person takes you away, you’ll never see Mommy again." Qiao Nuo pulled Qiao Kawai toward the restroom.
In the end, Jin Chengyan placed his hand gently on Qiao Kawai's head and smiled. "Little cutie, I’m a good person."
Qiao Kawai was confused; she didn’t quite understand what Mommy and this Handsome Uncle were saying. Yet she felt that whatever Mommy said was right. No matter how handsome the uncle looked, if Mommy said he was bad, then he must be bad.
"We're leaving." Qiao Nuo pulled Qiao Kawai along, unwilling to confront the man directly.
Jin Chengyan stood up, placing one hand against the wall to block Qiao Nuo's path.
"Is this how you bring my daughter to dinner with another man? Qiao Nuo, I can tolerate your disappearance for four years, but I will not stand idly by while you cheat. That man—his name is Xi Yisheng, right?" he said in a tone only the two of them could hear.
Qiao Nuo glared at Jin Chengyan. "If you dare to touch a hair on Yi Sheng's head, I will make you regret it for the rest of your life!"
"Do you care about that wild man so much? Huh?" If it weren't for Qiao Kawai being there, Jin Chengyan would definitely not be so restrained.
"More than my own life," Qiao Nuo replied as she led Qiao Kawai around the stunned Jin Chengyan toward the restroom.
She actually cared about that man more than her own life?
What had happened between them in those four years? The only information he could find was about Qiao Nuo's activities over the past six months; beyond that, there was nothing!
He had no doubt that even the information from the past six months had been deliberately leaked for him to discover.
As he looked up, Jin Chengyan's gaze collided with Xi Yisheng's calm eyes.
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