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"Did you mean that? If you have any difficulties, you can tell me. I may not be very capable, but helping you shouldn't be a problem."

Xu Han smiled. "Really, there's nothing. Come visit me sometime, and you'll see that I'm living quite well now—relaxed and carefree."

Tang Yueyue was half-convinced, but when she heard Xu Han invite her over, her eyes lit up. "Sure. Once I'm on break, I'll come find you."

The next day, Xu Han had just gotten up when she heard someone ringing the doorbell outside. After getting dressed, she opened the door and saw an unfamiliar man standing there, pushing... a very stylish-looking stroller.

"Excuse me, does Miss Qiao Wanqing live here?" the man asked politely.

Xu Han nodded. "That's me."

Hearing that, the man pushed the stroller forward. "Mr. Gu Yanqing sent this stroller for you. Mr. Gu said that since you rarely come here, if you want to go out, pushing the baby in a stroller won't be so exhausting."

"..."

Xu Han hadn't expected Gu Yanqing to be so considerate. He had even thought of this.

Still, she couldn't accept something for nothing. Without hesitation, Xu Han refused, "No need. Tell Mr. Gu that I'm only staying for one day, so there's no need for all this trouble. I can't take this thing back with me anyway. Using it for one day would be a waste."

"I'm only responsible for delivery, not returns. Miss Qiao can speak to Mr. Gu herself. Goodbye." With that, the man set the stroller down and hurried off.

Xu Han: "..."

Were all men this overbearing?

Although Xu Han had Gu Yanqing's business card, she had left it back in her hometown and had never saved his contact information. She couldn't return it, and she certainly couldn't leave it outside the door, so she could only push it inside.

Xu Han had indeed planned to go out and buy a few things. There was only a little over a month until the New Year, and she needed to buy Koukou two new outfits. She also wanted to give Grandma Qiao a new outfit. Though all those things could be bought online, since she had come all this way, she couldn't exactly go back empty-handed.

Tang Yueyue had been encouraging her to go as well. In the end, Xu Han threw away her principles, unpacked the stroller Gu Yanqing had sent, and went shopping at the mall with Koukou and Tang Yueyue.

The two of them first bought an outfit for Grandma Qiao. Xu Han thought about how cold it was in the mountains. Grandma Qiao usually piled layer after layer of clothing on before going up the mountain, wrapped up like a rice dumpling, so they went to a down jacket store and bought her one.

After buying the down jacket, they came out to find a mother-and-baby store right next door. The two went in to see whether there was anything they could buy for Koukou.

"Wow, everything here is so cute. It's making me want to have a baby." Tang Yueyue looked at the dazzling array of baby products with an indulgent smile on her face.

Xu Han said, "Then hurry up and have one."

"First, I need a boyfriend. Ah, forget this painful topic. Let's go take a look."

It was probably Tang Yueyue's first time in a place like this. She found everything fun, and whenever she liked something, she tossed it into the cart.

When Xu Han saw her toss two pink rabbit-shaped bowls into the cart, she said helplessly, "There's no need to buy bowls. Are you planning to make me carry two sacks of stuff back? I can't carry that much."

"Have Gu Yanqing drive you back."

Xu Han laughed.

"Don't

be ridiculous

."

"No, I really think Gu Yanqing doesn't dislike you. He even seems pretty willing to spend time with you. Maybe if you try a little harder, you'll have a chance."

"He's only doing it for the child." Xu Han shook her head. "He's just being gentlemanly. There's no other meaning behind it."

It had been five months, on and off, since she and Gu Yanqing had first met. Other than those three meetings, they had no private contact at all.

Gu Yanqing was probably the sort of person who treated you according to how you treated him. He was gentlemanly and polite, but if you tried to take things further and touched a nerve, he would retreat countless steps away, leaving you far behind.

Whenever Xu Han thought of Qiao Wanqing's tragic ending in the book, her heart would race with fear.

Farming was happier.

"Oh, isn't this Qiao Wanqing? Tsk, tsk. You disappeared for so long, and now your child is already this big. So you finally hooked yourself a rich man?"

As the two were talking, they suddenly heard a voice dripping with sarcasm. They looked up at the same time and saw a young couple. The woman was visibly pregnant, around six or seven months along.

The man... well, he was fat and dark-skinned, with squinty eyes. To be honest, he looked rather unfortunate.

Xu Han's expression changed slightly.

The woman was named Wen Yao, and as for Qiao Wanqing... ahem, Wen Yao's boyfriend was the legendary rich second-generation heir, the kind whose family owned mines. Though he looked somewhat unattractive, after Qiao Wanqing learned of his extremely wealthy background, she had tried to seduce him.

Although she hadn't succeeded, the grudge had already been formed.

Xu Han glanced at the man opposite her, who truly looked... somewhat unpresentable, and couldn't understand how Qiao Wanqing had ever taken a liking to someone like him.

But Qiao Wanqing had indeed been in the wrong first, so Xu Han couldn't really say anything. She merely nodded to Wen Yao in greeting and tried to walk around her.

However, Wen Yao blocked the stroller. "What, is that how you treat an old friend when you run into one?"

Tang Yueyue said, "What, do you want us all to find somewhere to sit down and catch up?"

"That wouldn't be a bad idea. We can talk about how things have been. I'm very interested in Miss Qiao's exciting experiences over this period of time."

Tang Yueyue was immediately annoyed and was about to retort when Xu Han tugged at her sleeve. Wen Yao was no pushover, and besides, she was pregnant now. If Tang Yueyue provoked her a little, Wen Yao was fully capable of claiming she had been upset enough to make her stomach hurt and demanding compensation.

So Xu Han didn't argue with her further. She gave Tang Yueyue a look, and though Tang Yueyue was angry, she wasn't foolish. The two prepared to backtrack and leave directly.

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