Chapter 138

"..."

Old Master Qi was still talking. Everyone was talking, but Qi Sheng could no longer make out a word. All he could think about was the way Ji Shuyao had looked at him. He had tried desperately to forget it, yet every scrap of news about her brought it back to torment him all over again.

Until—

"You can leave."

Only when the old master dismissed him did Qi Sheng come back to himself. He rose in a daze and turned to leave, then realized he was the only one going.

Everyone else remained seated.

Qi Wen saw him stop and gave a cold laugh. "What? You want to stay? If you don't hurry back to that lover of yours, she'll come make a scene at the old residence again. This time, I won't let her off so easily."

"Oh, and tell her to take care of herself. She's only just gotten pregnant. She shouldn't be running around—she might lose the baby."

Qi Wen had never liked her second brother. He was vicious and had no scruples. He would harm his own brothers for profit, and for the sake of his reputation, he had driven his wife to jump from a building.

Most absurd of all, when he saw how much Qi Yang hated him, he decided the boy would never come around and conceived the idea of having another heir. He found a lover and planned to marry her and have another child. Of course the old master would never approve of the marriage. They could marry if they wanted; whether he acknowledged her as his daughter-in-law was another matter.

Then, for some unfathomable reason, the woman had shown up at the old residence. She cried in front of the old master and demanded to know why he