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Gu Qianjing was called over just after she got up. She was hungry, and when she saw juice and some pastries on the coffee table, she sat over, opened a lava mochi and started eating.
Seeing her slow pace, Lin Mingxun was almost driven crazy by her, “Gu Qianjing, please make your words clear before you eat.”
Gu Qianjing swallowed the mochi in her mouth and waved to Lin Mingxun, “I feel a little choked. Pour me a cup of tea first.”
Lin Mingxun confusedly poured a cup of tea for Gu Qianjing and handed it to her. Then she realized,
”Are you crazy? Letting a pregnant woman serve you!”
Gu Qianjing took the hot tea and blew it to cool it down a bit. She drank two sips of the hot tea slowly before looking up with a smile. “Sister, you deliberately angered me to tell others about your pregnancy, didn’t you?”
”I didn’t!” Lin Mingxun firmly objected, “I asked you not to tell anyone.”
”If you want me not to tell anyone, why do you have to provoke me again and again? Especially in the scene in the hospital, what normal person would shout about not wanting children in public? It’s as if you’re afraid that others won’t hear you!”
Lin Mingxun’s voice became smaller and smaller, but he continued to argue, “I… that’s how I talk.”
Gu Qianjing looked at the obviously guilty Miss Lin with some amusement.
”Even if you said you wanted to be a DINK before and now you want a child, just have it openly. No one in this world cares about this except you.”
Lin Mingxun was hit in the heart by this precise remark. She became much quieter and asked in a low voice,
”Are you really okay?”
After all, she used to be a person who advocated independence and freedom, and dominated the Internet with her heroine image. Now she is suddenly going to have a baby. Will her image collapse? Will she be ridiculed by the whole Internet?
”It’s really okay!” Gu Qianjing slowed down her voice and comforted her, “The most that can happen is that your image will be ruined, you’ll be slapped in the face, and you’ll be mocked by the entire internet.”
Lin Mingxun fell silent again. She would be a fool if she expected Gu Qianjing to say something nice.
The housekeeper appeared at the door of the study at the right time, interrupting the explosive atmosphere in the room, “Madam, Miss, Madam invites you to have morning tea.”
Guided by the housekeeper, Gu Qianjing walked into the quaint restaurant and was stunned. She had never seen such a breakfast scene before.
The electric revolving dining table was filled with all kinds of small bowls and plates. She could name dozens of side dishes, including shrimp dumplings, rice dumplings, fish porridge, tortoise jelly, tofu pudding, steamed tiger skin chicken feet, pork tripe soup, etc.
There are many that I cannot name, there are probably hundreds of them in total.
All the dishes were served in small blue and white porcelain bowls and plates, which were dazzling but not messy.
Sitting at the head of the table was a middle-aged lady, wearing a white Chinese-style double-breasted gown. Her hair was tied up in a simple and elegant bun at the back of her head with a ruby bead flower inserted diagonally. She looked very plain and clean, with a bit of bookish air.
Gu Qianjing had only seen the description of “a person as pure as a chrysanthemum” in books before, but today she finally saw it in person. It turns out that the ultimate simplicity of a person is truly a breathtaking beauty.
She turned around and looked at Lin Mingxun who was walking beside her. She didn’t inherit any of Meng Shuxian’s classical elegance and looked like a European mixed-race girl.
Xiao Shu, wearing a small suit, sat obediently next to his grandmother. When he saw Gu Qianjing, he winked at her mischievously.
Seeing that everyone was present, Meng Shuxian greeted them calmly, “Please sit down.”
Lin Mingxun walked over to Meng Shuxian and sat down. Gu Qianjing took a look and chose to sit next to Xiaoshu.
Looking at the table full of delicacies, Gu Qianjing just picked up a few and felt full. If she had known that there were harems of so many delicacies waiting to be favored, she would not have eaten the mochi.
The Lin family’s family rules have always been to not talk while eating or sleeping. After finishing their morning tea quietly, the servants came in one after another and silently removed most of the untouched snacks. These clean snacks would be distributed to the servants to avoid waste.
Led by Meng Shuxian, Gu Qianjing and others walked towards the flower hall, which was a large glass greenhouse where many delicate and precious flowers and plants were cultivated.
Someone had already placed tea and snacks on the soft couch in the middle of the flower hall. Meng Shuxian sat at the upper seat, while Lin Mingxun and Gu Qianjing sat at the lower seat.
Just as Xiao Shu was about to imitate the adults and sit on the soft couch, Meng Shuxian waved to the housekeeper and said, “Take Xiao Shu to the garden to feed the fish. He will inevitably feel bored when the adults are talking.”
After Xiaoshu left, Meng Shuxian picked up the teacup in front of her and took a sip of tea. She spoke in a light tone,
”Qianqian, I watched the video of you participating in the show. I think you must have felt bad about burning the kitchen. I can see that you practiced cooking hard after you went back.”
Gu Qianjing is an orphan. The only “elder”-level person she came into contact with while growing up was the director of the orphanage.
However, the director of the orphanage was an old lady with a very hot temper. She would beat and scold the children who made mistakes and put them in a dark room. There was no such thing as “forgiveness”.
This was the first time she heard an elder say words of comfort to her. Gu Qianjing didn’t know what to say for a moment, so she could only lower her head and look like she was admitting her mistake.
Originally, when Gu Qianjing released the news that Lin Mingxun was pregnant, Meng Shuxian felt that she did the right thing and gave Lin Mingxun a way out at a critical moment. Meng Shuxian also watched her cooking video repeatedly and felt that she had really worked hard.
Now seeing her like this, she thought this child is really sensible, so her tone softened a lot.
”Qianqian, the reason I looked down on you before was not because of your background, but because you were so ambitious, selfish and utilitarian. This kind of character is bound to make others laugh at you in a family like ours. If you can change for the better, we as a family will definitely be willing to help you…”
”Oh my god!” Lin Mingxun, who was browsing on his phone, suddenly cursed and interrupted Meng Shuxian.
Meng Shuxian glared at Lin Mingxuan in dissatisfaction, “Xiaoxuan, if you feel bored, go out and feed the fish with Xiaoshu.”
”No, mom, Gu Qianjing… No, something big happened in our family.”
Lin Mingxun handed the phone to Meng Shuxian. Thinking that this matter was also related to herself, Gu Qianjing also quietly stretched her neck to take a look.
On the screen is a video with the title,
#With the popularity of “Different Moms”, Gu Qianjing may have returned to work to make money for some hidden reasons#
Lin Mingxun opened the video and found it was a video of Gu Qianjing kneeling at the gate of the Lin family mansion. It was raining and Gu Qianjing was soaked and her face was pale.
The entire video is three minutes long, without a single line of dialogue, but it reveals so much information.
Why did Gu Qianjing kneel at the gate of the Lin family mansion on a rainy night? Why did no one in the Lin family stand up to speak? Was this the rhythm of being abandoned by the rich family? No wonder she was in a hurry to make a comeback to make money.
As soon as the video was released, the comments below exploded.
[Oh my god, she’s already an abandoned wife from a wealthy family, but she’s still trying to create a persona of a wealthy lady all day long. How disgusting.]
[Gu Qianjing, please come out and explain the content of the video. Don’t treat the audience as fools. ]
[Just to remind everyone, the kitchen that Gu Qianjing had set on fire earlier was revealed to be the Lin family’s kitchen. Wearing an evening gown, she was ordered to cook in the kitchen. It’s hard not to think badly of her.]
[No wonder I always feel it’s weird when Mr. Lin and Gu Qianjing talk on the phone, they are polite yet distant.]
Gu Qianjing stared at the video and the comments for a long while. She was completely confused. She had no idea when and under what circumstances the content in this video was produced.
It wasn’t her who set fire to the kitchen, and it wasn’t her who knelt at someone’s doorstep on a rainy night. It was really tiring to have such an unreliable original owner.
Lin Mingxun also found it very strange when he saw Gu Qianjing’s confused look.
”Gu Qianjing, you haven’t forgotten, have you? This was when you were just pregnant. Our family opposed your marriage to Lin Mingqi, and you knelt at our doorstep for a whole night, forcing us to agree in the end.”
It turns out that the original owner was “forcing marriage with pregnancy”, but why did it come out at this time? And the time was deliberately blurred to make the audience mistakenly think that it happened recently.
Meng Shuxian looked away from the screen and looked at Gu Qianjing indifferently.
”When you are famous, you are prone to gossip. Do you know this now? When you are not well-known, no one cares about what you do. But once you become famous, you have to be more careful about your every move.”
Lin Mingxun was originally talking about Gu Qianjing, but she suddenly remembered that after the news of her pregnancy broke out, it did not arouse much doubt. It turned out that it was because she was not famous.
Meng Shuxian was also born as a movie queen. Her dramas have always topped the list of palace fighting dramas. Later, she gradually withdrew from the entertainment industry, but whenever a new palace fighting drama appears, it is inevitable to compare it with the classics she performed.
She has been a very famous person, and she understands the twists and turns of the entertainment industry better than anyone else.
”Do you have an agency?” Meng Shuxian looked up at Gu Qianjing, “Let the agency do crisis public relations.”
Gu Qianjing shook her head and suddenly remembered the phone call in the morning. “Someone came to me this morning and asked if I needed an agent.”
Lin Mingxun’s eyes widened. “Are you planning to find an agent to help you deal with this?”
Gu Qianjing also felt that this idea was a bit ridiculous, not to mention whether these agency companies that came to them on their own were scammers.
Even if they are not scammers, it is possible that they contacted her because they saw that she became famous in “A Different Mom”. If they knew that she fell into the trap before she became completely famous, wouldn’t they run away faster than the other?
Meng Shuxian said calmly, “It’s not impossible. You can contact him first and hear what he says. It would be best if he is willing to help.”
Since Meng Shuxian said so, Gu Qianjing still dialed the phone number that morning with the idea of giving it a try.
To Gu Qianjing’s surprise, the other party did not run away, but made an appointment with her to meet and talk in a cafe not far from the old house.
This matter cannot be delayed, otherwise it will continue to ferment on the Internet. Meng Shuxian’s suggestion is to leave Xiao Shu at home first and let Gu Qianjing meet the agent as soon as possible.
Gu Qianjing walked out of the flower hall and saw no one. Meng Shuxian asked the servant to bring up the phone. She called Nan Feng, the gold medal agent in the entertainment industry.
”It’s me, Gu Qianjing is here to find you, you do as I say…”
Lin Mingxun, who witnessed the whole process, was stunned. “Mom, it turned out that you were the one who arranged for Gu Qianjing to meet her agent?”
Meng Shuxian put down her phone and did not deny it.
Lin Mingxun was even more confused. “Then why don’t you just tell her directly? Why are you going through so much trouble?”
Meng Shuxian showed an unfathomable smile, “If I tell her directly, how can I test her then?”
Gu Qianjing, who was sitting in the car on the way to the coffee shop, also felt that something was wrong.
Even the idiot Lin Mingxun felt that this agent who came to her out of nowhere was unreliable, but Meng Shuxian was obviously trying to arrange for her to meet him.
After thinking it over, Gu Qianjing came to only one possibility: this agent was arranged by Meng Shuxian.
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