Chapter 812 - 430: The Bride’s Other Meaning

Huang Zhiyi, age, six months and three days.

Li Weiyi, age, three days.

On the third day after Li Weiyi was born, Zhao Qingge completed the discharge procedures and returned home for a peaceful recovery.

The successive births of two sons finally made Li Peifeng realize the difficulties of being a father. It truly was a matter of raising a child with hard toil.

Huang Tianxuan was busy with work and couldn’t help much. Zhao Qingge, meanwhile, needed care during her postpartum period, so most of the time, it was up to Li Peifeng to take care of the two children. The mothers were only responsible for breastfeeding; he took care of everything else.

Throughout the day, the house was filled with one child’s cries or another’s; Zhiyi would just finish pooping, and Weiyi would wet the bed. The two children cast their spells day and night, which left Li Peifeng quite exhausted.

Fortunately, Li Qiyuan and Yu Huizhi, the elderly couple, did not leave the Capital immediately after Zhao Qingge gave birth but stayed to help Peifeng take care of Old Zhao and the two children.

They were all Li Peifeng’s sons, and they all carried the blood of the Li family. Even if they had different surnames, Old Li and Old Yu treated them equally.

Occasional ’preferential treatment’ was nothing but a play for a particular daughter-in-law, to make her feel a bit better, especially since Li Peifeng was about to have a wedding with another child’s mother.

No matter what the Li family did to compensate, it could not make up for such betrayal and wrongdoing.

Initially, the elderly couple wanted to delay the wedding for a while longer, but repeated phone calls from Mr. Huang and Mrs. Huang, coupled with Tianxuan and the child’s smiling faces, made it impossible for them to voice their objections, so they had no choice but to instruct Li Peifeng to handle Zhao Qingge’s feelings properly.

Only if the victim chooses to forgive can they, with peace of mind, attend the wedding. But the difficulty of this matter was extremely, extremely high.

Faced with Zhao Qingge, who was in confinement, even if Li Peifeng was literally a brute, he couldn’t bring himself to say anything like, ’Wife, I’m marrying Tianxuan next month. Just agree without contributing anything financially, and I’ll bring back leftovers for you to enjoy the feast,’ or other such nonsense.

He didn’t even dare to tentatively express his intentions and warned Huang Tianxuan to keep the wedding date secret, planning to fly to Hangzhou under the guise of a business trip to get married once they were close to the wedding date and right after Zhao Qingge’s confinement period was over.

That’s right; Li Peifeng still wanted to pull a fast one and muddle through.

But relying on a woman’s intuition and the tacit understanding they had developed, Zhao Qingge had already clearly sensed something was amiss.

Especially when Li Peifeng unintentionally mentioned, ’Next month I might have to go on a business trip to Shanghai for a few days,’ or ’Mom and dad are going back to Ningyuan,’ although Zhao Qingge appeared calm on the surface, she was already on high alert inside.

"Work is important; I’ll also resume work in two weeks...but with you and mom and dad gone, who will take care of the kids? Me by myself?"

"You could let Wenyue help; she’s been quite free lately. And I’ll be back in two or three days at most, so why not wait for me to come back before returning to work?"

Zhao Qingge responded with an ’mm’ and asked again, "What about Huang Tianxuan? Does she have the time?"

Li Peifeng’s expression was subtle: "You want her to help you with the kids? It wouldn’t be very appropriate, would it? Zhiyi alone keeps her busy enough, and during National Day, she seems to be planning to take the child back home since her parents want to see the child, too."

"Is that so?" Zhao Qingge slightly frowned, saying nothing further.

But two days later, during the second weekend after Li Weiyi’s birth, Zhao Qingge unusually suggested going next door to have a meal with the other three women.

The elderly couple didn’t attend this dinner and stayed to look after the two children at home. The atmosphere at the dinner started off fairly amicably, until Zhao Qingge casually asked a question that suddenly made the scene tense.

"You’ve set the date during the National Day holiday?"

"...What date?"

"You know what date I’m talking about."

"What are you saying? I don’t understand."

Huang Tianxuan feigned confusion, simultaneously casting a questioning look at Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning; was it you two who leaked the info?

We didn’t!

Xu Manning and Wu Wenyue were innocent because leaking information to Zhao Qingge wouldn’t benefit them at all. Just like the two involved parties, they hoped for the wedding to proceed smoothly without Zhao Qingge’s knowledge because it would prove the feasibility of this strategy, which they intended to use for their own weddings.

And right now, even though Huang Tianxuan was still playing dumb, the thin metaphorical window paper had been completely pierced by Zhao Qingge.

She wanted to bring everything to the surface, speak openly and candidly, clearly expressing her stance to everyone, and straightforwardly shatter Li Peifeng and the other three’s unrealistic fantasies.

"If someone wants me to regret marrying such a thing, I’ll make him understand what kind of monster he’s marrying too."

"Don’t doubt whether I dare, as long as you’re brave enough to commit bigamy, then I’m brave enough to be ruthless. Don’t think it’s a case of mutual destruction and self-harm; such actions won’t affect me at all. As early as when Zhiyi was born six months ago, I thoroughly contemplated countless worst-case scenarios, and in any case, I can accept it all!"

Zhao Qingge’s determined words fell, the echo seemingly lingering above the dining table for half a minute, leaving everyone unable to speak.

Huang Tianxuan’s face turned pale, and Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning’s expressions weren’t good either. Li Peifeng sighed and spoke with difficulty, "The date is set, invitations have been sent, both families are prepared—must you...Duoduo, even if you don’t care, won’t you consider the two children? If it turns into such a mess..."