Chapter 301: There Was Nothing At All |
Ying Yue He didn't like the idea of having to take care of Luo Ju Di and her daughter at all. While Li Yang now acknowledged her as a girlfriend, Ying Yue He was aware that it didn't change the fact that Luo Ju Di was the mother of his child.
Did the fact that some other woman gave him a child and Ying Yue He didn't make the amount of affection that Li Yang have for Ying Yue He about the same with Luo Ju Di because she had a child of his?
Those were some questions that probably had obvious answers, but it still dwelled on Ying Yue He's mind. Now that it was a lot harder to conceive as a cultivator—she wondered when would be the perfect time for actually settling down.
Ying Yue He was a pretty simple woman, ever since she got out of the unfortunate circumstances a couple years ago, she promised herself to live a simple but happy life.
Naturally, things were a little different since she was with Li Yang and the people surrounding him were far from normal and so were the events… but Ying Yue He was determined to make it come true.
Li Yang depended on her to do the job and she wouldn't let her man down at all.
—Not that there seemed to be a lot of work and tasks that Ying Yue He needed to actually do in the first place. Chunhua was running around the room happily like a little kid and talking aloud to figures that Ying Yue He didn't expect.
Spirits co-existed with humans in this world, but it wasn't so often that they'd be drawn to one person alone and conduct conversations with them. Ying Yue He could remember some discussions about getting a ghost to cultivate with—but even that was a difficult endeavor.
So it was surprising to Ying Yue He to see Chunhua chatting and actually having friends that were those who seemed to have died in the hospital or were spirits roaming around the city. What kind of monster was this child that held no ounce of qi that was being utilized for cultivation?
Despite all of that, Chunhua was a child.
Young and carefree… Ying Yue He couldn't remember a time when she was like that. But she shook her head.
"Are you alright, Miss Secretary?" Luo Ju Di looked at the secretary with a small frown on her face. For the love of all things good and holy, Luo Ju Di did not have the slightest idea as to why it was this woman that was sent to take care of Chunhua.
Luo Ju Di was not being ungrateful, but there was a different rapport between a secretary who seemed to be lost in her thoughts and a child who just wanted to have fun. Luo Ju Di wished that Chunhua wasn't cooped up here in the hospital.
"I'm fine. How is your condition, Miss Luo?" Ying Yue He asked.
Polite, prompt and with no hint of malice underneath the tone at all. Luo Ju Di couldn't name as to why she was somewhat comfortable around the secretary—but she realized it was how Ying Yue He carried herself with a self-assurance that was different from before.
Well, there was also the fact that Ying Yue He didn't actually look interested or concerned about Luo Ju Di. There was a certain look on Ying Yue He's face that said she wouldn't bat an eye at all if Luo Ju Di were to die again—except for the fact that it would agitate her boss.
It was a gut feeling that Luo Ju Di got from working and also by being a mother.
There was also the odd sensation that Luo Ju Di was trying to ignore, but there was a sense of energy, almost like a thick and grayish fog around Ying Yue He that Luo Ju Di couldn't block out so she was pretending that it was a hallucination of some sort.
Probably the medicines that she'd been taking too much.
Wait. Luo Ju Di forgot to give a reply.
"Thank you for your concern, but I'm alright." Luo Ju Di clasped her hands together and fiddled with her thumb. "Do you know when Yang is coming?"
"Yang?" Ying Yue He asked and then smiled lightly. "He's actually coming tonight to pick up Chunhua, I think."
"I see, well that's good." Luo Ju Di nodded and then glanced at her child. "Chunhua, make sure to say hi to him and greet him properly when he gets back, okay?"
"Okay, mama. I'll say hi to Uncle Yang." Chunhua nodded. "But I don't want to leave with him and I want to stay with you again."
"Why not? Yang is a good person, isn't he?" Luo Ju Di said. "Mama wouldn't be able to get some rest or get better if it weren't for him. He cares alot about you too, Chunhua."
"Okay…"
"Thank you, Chunhua."
Ying Yue He noticed the lack of honorifics—and thought it might be the fact that this woman was older than Li Yang—but it also denoted a closeness between them. Casual enough to be on first-name-basis… Ying Yue He did not understand what she had missed.
Surely, Li Yang went looking for Ying Yue He immediately, right?
There wasn't that enough time for any differences and misunderstanding to be resolved that quickly, couldn't it? Ying Yue He knew that her boss, ex-boss… former boss, Li Yang, was good at laying down terms and conditions that favored both parties.
But Li Yang always sort of lacked the more emotional side and factor of such agreements. In cases like Luo Ju Di and her child—simple arrangements weren't enough to solve the crisis and problem that happened between them.
...So this was just a start?
Maybe Ying Yue He was just getting worried for nothing, right? There were amicable relationships between those who could divorce on good terms and Ying Yue He considered this situation to be just like that.
There was nothing more to it.
Absolutely nothing at all.