Chapter 295 What a pity
Two months passed in the blink of an eye, and Lincheng entered summer.
Wen Lan, Xie Yansheng, and Jiang Jingci had never met since the last unpleasant incident.
To be precise, the two men had never appeared in front of her again.
Xie Yansheng would occasionally send her a greeting message, and she would just look at it but never reply.
Her belly was slightly bulging because her Nuan Nuan was already five months pregnant!
When her pregnant belly was revealed, everyone was shocked.
Before the divorce, she and Xie Yansheng had been in a secret marriage. It was not until Wen Yunzheng died that her marriage with Xie Yansheng was exposed.
Xie Yansheng's reputation in Jiangcheng had long been rotten. Everyone attributed the end of her first marriage to Xie Yansheng's unreliability and frequent cheating.
She was now single and pregnant. Although no one dared to say it openly, they all secretly believed that it was Xie Yansheng's seed.
It was also summer, but Lincheng was much hotter than Jiangcheng.
Since the beginning of summer, Wen Lan's appetite has been poor. She only shows up at events that are essential for her circle, and all other jobs that require her to show up are given to Xiao Li.
She feels comfortable only when she stays in an air-conditioned room all day, and only goes to the pedestrian street in the morning.
In the past three months, she has devoted all her attention to work, and TT's high-quality customers are five points more than she and Zhou Qiao expected.
The increase in customers forced Zhou Qiao to recruit two more female designers, so all the small apartments on the third floor were full.
After a busy day's work, Wen Lan would make clothes for Nuan Nuan.
What monk clothes, butterfly clothes, fart clothes, jumpsuits... one after another, by the time Nuan Nuan was eight months old, she had already made all the clothes that Nuan Nuan wore when she was three years old.
Perhaps because of her poor appetite, she only gained 12 pounds compared to when she was not pregnant, with thin arms and legs, and only a perky belly.
She is very good at dressing up. When the first trimester comes, she often wears dark-colored slim-fitting tops and loose skirts. If you only look at her slender back, nine out of ten people would not guess that she is an expectant mother.
At first, she was still paying attention to the news from Jiangcheng, wondering what Xie Yansheng and Jiang Jingci were up to, but later she was completely powerless.
Although both men were in her address book, she had no interaction with them since the last unpleasant incident.
To her relief, the two men did not harass her again!
Zhou Qiao could not sit still when Nuannuan was six months pregnant, so she flew to Lincheng and persuaded her to give up her work and return to Jiangcheng to take care of the baby.
She refused outright.
Xie Yansheng and Jiang Jingci were both in Jiangcheng, so it was obvious that she would be in trouble if she went back. It would be better for her to stay in Lincheng and not be bothered by them!
Zhou Qiao persuaded her several times but to no avail, so she stopped persuading her and had to change her visit to Lincheng from once every half a month to once a week.
Wen Lan had several prenatal checkups at "Anbeiqin". The facilities and services there were good, which made her give up the idea of returning to Jiangcheng to give birth.
"Anbeiqin" also has a special confinement center. She looked inside and out and felt that it was very high-end. She paid a deposit without thinking.
After the confinement, she had to continue working, and found a nanny for Nuannuan through an agent.
Now the child has not been born yet, and tens of thousands of yuan have been thrown away. Wen Lan knows that only if she works hard to make money can Nuannuan have a good life in the future.
After these few months of experience, Xiao Li can already stand on her own. Whether it is maintaining customers or dealing with the media, she has shed her original immaturity and become Wen Lan's most powerful arm.
Wen Lan has been in Lincheng for half a year, and her high-end customization performance has been growing rapidly. In addition to the salary and commission she verbally agreed to in Jiangcheng, Zhou Qiao also gave her an extra 10,000 yuan every month.
Wen Lan didn't want it, but Zhou Qiao said that she couldn't refuse it, so she would just buy nutritional supplements for her goddaughter.
Every time she chatted with Zhou Qiao, Wen Lan told her not to tell anyone about the relationship between Nuan Nuan and Xie Yansheng.
Zhou Qiao would always agree while gently touching her belly and sighing.
Wen Lan's due date was in the middle of September of the lunar calendar. As the Mid-Autumn Festival approached, she had already had a hard time going up and down the stairs.
What she didn't know was that when she was just pregnant, the news of her pregnancy reached the Xie family's old house.
While An Zhen was at work, Mr. Xie "invited" Xie Yansheng, who had not returned home for many days, to the living room of the main building.
After two months of recuperation, Xie's mother was able to leave the wheelchair and move freely. Seeing Xie Yansheng, who looked decadent, coming in, she was furious.
"You don't go home, and you don't know how to love your good wife. Have you gone to Lincheng to find that vixen again?"
Since the second trial, Xie Yansheng would choose to remain silent every time he heard Xie's mother slander Wen Lan.
Because even a casual rebuttal from him would bring more crazy abuse from Xie's mother to Wen Lan.
Seeing Xie Yansheng silent, Xie's mother slowed down her tone and turned to the main topic, "An Zhen has been generous to you, so hurry up and take back your heart and expand the Xie family as soon as possible."
"You called me home just to say this?" Xie Yansheng stood up and prepared to leave.
Old Master Xie scolded with a stern face: "Get over here, you unfilial son! Is the child of the woman surnamed Wen yours?"
"I dreamed that it was mine, but unfortunately - it's not." Xie Yansheng's eyes flashed with a depth that outsiders could not detect, and his thin lips showed a light smile.
"It really has nothing to do with you?" Xie's mother stared at Xie Yansheng, her eyes full of anxiety.
"It doesn't matter." Xie Yansheng's voice was desolate, "You also know that her heart has never been with me. With all the mess you guys have done, if she really got pregnant with my child by accident, she would have gotten rid of it quietly and never gave birth to it."
"It's better not." Old Master Xie's turbid eyes were full of calculations, "But what if it is?"
Xie Yansheng took out a cigarette and held it between his fingers, his deep pupils hiding emotions that others could not see.
"When the child is born, if it is a boy, find an opportunity to do a paternity test. If it is really your child, you must never let the child wander around. When the time comes, just give the woman surnamed Wen a sum of money to get rid of it." Old Master Xie frowned, "If it is a girl, forget it."
"With Wen Lan's resentment and hatred for our Xie family, do you think she will give birth to a child for me?" Xie Yansheng asked sarcastically.
"Whose child is hers? After you divorced, she was close to Jiang Jingci for a while, but they broke up soon. I really can't think of it-" Mother Xie sneered, "If it's not Jiang, could it be Shen?"
"I advise you not to think of those unrealistic things! Wen Lan's child has nothing to do with our Xie family!" Xie Yansheng bit the cigarette and lit it.
Mother Xie snatched Xie Yansheng's cigarette and slammed it into the ashtray, "You've been married for half a year, and An Zhen's belly hasn't moved yet. Your father and I are almost dying of anxiety! Please be considerate of us and let us hold our grandson as soon as possible!"
"Soon." Xie Yansheng's black pupils were stained with a layer of coldness, "Soon you will hear the good news that An Zhen is pregnant."