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Fu Rongyin sighed and pulled her over to sit on his lap. "Once I have everything arranged, I’ll go in for the surgery, okay?"

"How long will that take?"

"Soon."

Chi Yue earnestly said to Fu Rongyin, "When you say soon, are you talking about a week, a month, or a year?"

"Yueyue."

Chi Yue insisted, "Give me a time frame."

"Half a year, six months at most, okay?"

"No good. This month, if you don’t undergo surgery this month, I’ll take Mianmian and marry someone else, let your daughter call someone else father."

Fu Rongyin felt a headache coming on, "Three months?"

"Half a month. Go ahead and bargain all you want, and we’ll see if I really go through with this."

Fu Rongyin: "...You’re just taking advantage of the fact that I can’t bear to oppose you, so you dare to threaten me so brazenly."

Yes.

Chi Yue admitted, since she had remembered the past, she had recalled how to manipulate Fu Rongyin.

Before, she always used this kind of threat to act coquettishly towards him, and gradually, she found that it worked on him, so she perfected the tactic to a fine art.

Fu Rongyin indeed gave in and agreed to have the surgery within half a month.

But Chi Yue knew very well that Fu Rongyin was just saying it, and when the time came, who knows what might change, so she also had to be prepared.

That evening, Chi Yue arranged to meet Chu Shuo. Just as she stepped out of the hospital, she saw Ling Jiayu and Xi Yihang.

Chi Yue walked past them without a sideways glance, but then she heard Ling Jiayu call out to her, "Chi Yue, let’s have a meal together."

Chi Yue stopped and looked at Xi Yihang, whose face was expressionless.

Ling Jiayu noticed her gaze and affectionately took Xi Yihang’s hand, "The two of us are planning to get married. We’ll send you an invitation when the time comes; you must attend, oh, and remember to bring Nan Bingyu. I still need to thank her for giving up on Yihang."

Chi Yue’s gaze remained on Xi Yihang, "Congratulations, but you don’t need to send an invitation, just make sure you don’t appear before us."

Ling Jiayu smiled, "We all know each other; why be like this? Besides, Yihang won’t be troubling Nan Bingyu anymore."

Chi Yue said nothing, walked past them, and got into Fu Rongyin’s car.

Chu Shuo and Leng Siling had just lulled Fu Mianmian to sleep, both sporting rather heavy dark circles under their eyes.

The two glanced at Chi Yue simultaneously, then tacitly looked away,

"Would you like to see the child first?" asked Leng Siling.

Chi Yue nodded.

Her guilt towards Fu Mianmian was deepening, but there was no better way to care for her at the moment.

Chi Yue stayed in the room for quite a while, and when she came out, Chu Shuo and Leng Siling had already finished their late-night snack.

Chi Yue went over, "I saw Xi Yihang and Ling Jiayu at the hospital entrance just now. Ling Jiayu said they’re about to get married."

Chu Shuo raised an eyebrow, "That’s good news; it means Nan Bingyu is finally free."

"Not necessarily, Xi Yihang didn’t seem very happy about it. I’m afraid they might have ulterior motives."

Chu Shuo reacted immediately, "I’ll have someone look into their intentions."

After making a call, Chu Shuo added, "I’ve arranged the operation for the fifth. The chief surgeon has some connections with my family; as long as the tumor isn’t malignant, the success rate is very high."

Chi Yue: "I’ll trouble you with that, but I still hope the surgery can take place in Hai City."

Leng Siling was puzzled, "Why?"

Chu Shuo explained, "Right now, too many people in Nancheng are eyeing the fifth, especially Xi Yihang. Being back in Hai City means he’ll have some protection."

Leng Siling: "Are you talking about the Gu Family? But isn’t it just Lady Fan who wants to protect him?"

Chu Shuo and Chi Yue exchanged a look, falling into contemplation.

Leng Siling was right, but even just having Fan Xuesong protect him was enough. If all else failed, there were also the Bai Family and the Situ Family, plus Fu Rongyin’s own men. It certainly was safer than Nancheng.

"I’ll discuss this matter with the fifth. You two just focus on taking good care of the child."

I don’t know what Chu Shuo and Fu Rongyin discussed, but Fu Rongyin didn’t agree.