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Even Ye Qing, who had seen many big scenes, couldn't help being stunned at this moment. She never expected that Yuan Yuan's mother would suddenly appear in front of her eyes, let alone that she seemed to know who she was.

In a sense, Ye Qing is considered a mature woman, but compared with Xin Ya in front of her at this moment, she still looks a little tender.

Seeing her reaction like this, Xin Ya was not displeased.With a slight smile on her lips all the time, she sized Ye Qing up with eyes that were neither obvious nor offensive.

"I'm sorry to disturb you so late. I have something to tell you. I heard that you will leave early tomorrow morning, so I chose to come here now."

Xin Ya's words woke Ye Qing up, and she immediately invited her into the room.After Xinya was seated, Ye Qing took out a bottle of mineral water from the minibar and put it on the tea table.

"It's getting late, I don't think it's suitable to enjoy tea or coffee at this time. There's nothing else to drink in the room, so I can just make do with it." Ye Qing explained politely, feeling a little nervous.

I didn't feel like this when I went to see the old lady in Yuan's mansion, but now I feel reserved in front of Yuan Yuan's biological mother, whom Yuan Yuan hasn't seen for more than ten years.Probably because she knew that in Yuan Yuan's heart, this mother who had been missing for many years still occupied an important position, so she also paid attention to Ai Wu Ji Wu.

Nervous, not because of fear, but because of concern.

Xin Ya doesn't look like a harsh and difficult person, but Ye Qing knows that she is not a weak and pure master.

"Don't stand still, I came to you to talk to you about Yuan Yuan."

Xin Ya was more straightforward than when she went to find Yuan Honghao last time, but it was very to Ye Qing's liking.They are not people who like to beat around the bush, to some extent they are somewhat similar.Yuan Honghao probably didn't expect that he might be subconsciously looking for the shadow of his ex-lover, or a substitute.Even if he is not really tempted, what can make him look at him differently also has the characteristics of his predecessor.

Ye Qing sat across from Xin Ya according to her words, and there was only a narrow tea table between them.Ye Qing came here to book an ordinary standard room in a medium-sized hotel this time, which can't be compared with Yuan Honghao's suite, nor can it be compared with Xin Ya's usual executive room.

She looked around casually, and said with a light smile: "It seems that I should tell the people in LYE that next time you come to deliver the manuscript, I will book you a better hotel."

Ye Qing was startled again, but this time he reacted quickly.

"Are you the one named to cooperate with me?"

The arc of Xin Ya's mouth deepened, and she liked Ye Qing's intelligence very much.

"I should have met you earlier to express my sincerity, but I was delayed by an old friend a while ago, so I had to wait here for you."

Ye Qing nodded, expressing his understanding.But she thought of another possibility, her face was not as relaxed as before.

"So, you did this for Yuan Yuan?"

Xin Ya quickly replied: "No, I did this purely because of you."

"because I?"

"Ye Qing, I appreciate your talent. I have studied your past works, and this time your contribution to LYE is a great breakthrough, and it is very attractive to me."

Ye Qing had heard a lot of similar words at today's dinner, and they were all praises from industry elites. This made Ye Qing very happy, and also strengthened his determination to stick to the new style.But when these words came out of Xin Ya's mouth, she dared not rejoice rashly.

Compared with Yuan Honghao, Xin Ya's eyes are sharper, as if she wants to see through people.If Yuan Honghao is a gentleman as gentle as water, then Xin Ya is a hot lady who stirs up the situation.

"Don't be burdened. You got this contract because of your ability. But I don't deny that it's because of Yuan Yuan that I insist on protecting you."

Xin Ya was honest enough, which dispelled Ye Qing's doubts.Since she came directly to the door tonight, she certainly didn't intend to hide it.

"Thank you for your affirmation. I will work harder to live up to your expectations and not waste the opportunity you gave me. As for Yuan Yuan, I don't want to involve her."

Ye Qing didn't realize it himself, he had already protected Yuan Yuan as if he was private in his words.

Xin Ya suddenly laughed, the corners of her eyes slightly curved.

"I've heard several versions of your story, and I'm not here today to listen to the original version. I just want to ask you, how much affection and sincerity do you have for her?"

Ye Qing calmed down completely, it was different from the you and me when she was snuggling with Yuan Yuan, nor the shyness and softness when she couldn't help expressing her heart.At this time, she was on guard all over her body. No matter who the other party was, once she wanted to deeply test this relationship, she would not be able to face it easily.

"You don't have to tell me. But if you tell the truth, maybe I can help you."

Seeing that Ye Qing refused to let go, Xin Ya took the lead in expressing her attitude.

"Are you willing to help us?" Before this, Ye Qing had been thinking about how to persuade Xin Ya not to object, at least not to be disgusted.

How sad would it be if Yuan Yuan knew that her biological mother was disgusted by her choice?Ye Qing absolutely couldn't bear to see Yuan Yuan suffer such pain, she would rather let herself face all the accusations.

Xin Ya stopped talking, as if she was waiting for Ye Qing to give her a clear reply.Whether you are willing to help them depends on Ye Qing's answer.

Ye Qing obviously also understood Xin Ya's meaning, she straightened her thoughts, suppressed her shyness, and confessed her heart to a person she had just met but had a special status.

"This relationship is the most real feeling I have ever felt in my life except mother's love. She is also someone I can't let go of. Although many people can't understand me and Yuan Yuan, we have a very good relationship with her. firm."

Xinya listened expressionlessly, her slender fingers tapping on the armrest of the sofa from time to time.

"When in love, couples think like this, and are even willing to die for each other." There was a hint of playfulness on her face, but a look of embarrassment flashed in her eyes.

Ye Qing didn't rush to refute, she was always calm and didn't like to argue with others.But she is also stubborn, unless she gives up on what she believes in, no one can persuade her.

"Yuan Yuan is not yet 19 years old, and the future has infinite possibilities. Her identity is doomed to her future. Have you considered the impact of this relationship on her?"

Ye Qing listened to similar questions a lot, even if they didn't directly reach her ears, there were quite a few cryptic expressions.She has been in the society for many years, and has seen so many people's feelings, how can she not understand such a simple truth.

"I understand all of this, and I have thought about it." Ye Qing smiled helplessly, as if completely resigned to fate, "But, I love her."

Xin Ya stared at Ye Qing closely, as if she wanted to discern whether her words were true or false.But soon she withdrew her scrutinizing gaze. She had such sincere feelings before.

As someone who has experienced it, she knows too well what it feels like to love someone with all her heart.

"I should feel lucky for Yuan Yuan. It was you who met me. Her personality is like mine. When she falls in love with someone, she will never look back and walk forward without looking back. But I don't want her to hit her head one day. Blood flow, and I don't want her to despair of this world."

Xin Ya's attitude softened, and her tone was earnest.Ye Qing's heart tightened when she heard that, she had heard from Yuan Yuan that before Xin Ya left Yuan's house, she had a very unpleasant quarrel with Yuan Honghao.

"Yuan Yuan and I are working very hard to manage and maintain this relationship, and we both hope that it will blossom and bear fruit." When mentioning the result, the word "marriage" unconsciously appeared in Ye Qing's mind.

"Sooner or later, your ability will be recognized by the industry, and you will shine at that time, so you won't be unworthy of Yuan Yuan. It's just that the Yuan family's test is not easy."

Xin Ya's words obviously mean that she has passed this test.

In the Yuan family, Ye Qing thought of the old lady, she seemed very picky.

"I know that you and Yuan Honghao have been in contact with his mother for several years while pretending to be a couple. I think you can guess that the biggest hurdle for the Yuan family lies in her."

After years of separation, since leaving Yuan's mansion, Xin Ya has never seen Mrs. Yuan again.But she is still alienated from this former mother-in-law-to-be.

Ye Qing and her had the same distress, they looked at each other and smiled.

"Now we are still stuck at Yuan Honghao's level, let alone the old lady."

Although Yuan Yuan kept stressing that she would take care of her father's side, Ye Qing was still worried.

Xin Ya didn't take it seriously: "You don't have to worry about Yuan Honghao, I'll take care of it. But with the old lady, I'm afraid I can't do anything, after all, she kicked me out at the beginning."

When Xinya recalled the scene back then, she no longer felt bitterness or hatred, but she couldn't deny that she was deeply impressed.

"She drove you away? But, I heard from Yuan Yuan that you left voluntarily back then. She also said..." Ye Qing stopped in time, thinking that it would not be good to say in front of Xin Ya.

Xinya, who had always been elegant and calm, became excited at this moment, and she asked: "What else did she say?"

From her face, Ye Qing saw the concern and anxiety unique to a mother, which would only show if she truly loves her daughter.She had seen it on her mother's face many times back then.

Ye Qing didn't want Yuan Yuan and his mother to have an unresolved knot.You might as well take this opportunity to test Xin Ya and find out what happened back then.

After several struggles, Ye Qing made a decision.

"She said that you gave up on her on your own initiative and chose to leave. It has never appeared since then."

In Yuan Yuan's description, the Xin Ya that Ye Qing knew was a person who gave up her family for the sake of her career.She can't say that doing so is 100% wrong, after all, it's not just a man's privilege to have ideals and aspirations.

But as a mother, she left without nostalgia and disappeared completely, which cannot be erased no matter what.

Xin Ya was extremely astonished, she was stunned for a full 5 minutes, only a blank expression remained on her face.

Afterwards, she muttered to herself: "Is this what Yuan Honghao told his daughter? He said he would take good care of his daughter and give her the best."

But it turned out that what he gave his daughter was just a discredited image of a mother.

"It wasn't Yuan Honghao who said it, but Yuan Yuan heard it himself."

Afraid of causing more misunderstandings, Ye Qing simply repeated what Yuan Yuan told her that day.

After hearing this, Xinya couldn't calm down for a long time, and even choked up.

"I didn't expect that she was outside the door that day."

The long-term memory, when Ye Qing mentioned it, easily jumped out.Almost no special reminder was needed, Xinya immediately remembered what day it was and what kind of scene it was.

She subconsciously clenched her hands into fists and placed them in front of her chest, using this as strength to support herself.

"Yuan Honghao and I met on a ski resort in Europe. He was so bad that he bumped into me, and then we became acquainted. I was still studying and working as a model at the time. My dream was to be a professional model. , but after getting to know him, I changed my mind.”

Ye Qing realized that Xin Ya wanted to confess the past to her, so she held her breath for fear of disturbing the other party's thoughts.

"At that time, I was crazy about love, and I was desperate for love. I put down my career, put down my studies and followed him to Haicheng. Later we had Yuan Yuan, who was named after him. He said that our meeting was a godsend. Then later , The wedding he promised has never been held, but he still treats me very well. I am not a person who cares about status, I value relationships more, as long as our family is healthy, I don't care so much whether we get married or not.

I found out later that it was his mother who refused to let me in, saying that I was of mixed race and my identity was not pure enough.But Yuan Yuan is very cute, the old lady likes it very much, and she can't bear to drive me away directly.Yuan Honghao has been doing his mother's work, but after a long time, I know he is tired and hesitates. "

Ye Qing recalled getting along with Yuan Honghao in the past few years, they didn't have much in-depth understanding between them.In her impression, Yuan Honghao was a filial son, and his respect for his mother was absolutely perfect.

"Our conflict intensified after we lost our second child. At that time, I was pregnant for one month but I didn't realize it. It was too depressing in Yuan's house, and I wanted to go out to work, so I accepted the invitation from the company I had worked with before. I thought it was just a short week of shooting, but I didn’t expect to need underwater shooting and rock climbing modeling. The child is young and can’t stand such a toss.”

Ye Qing saw the reflective tear stains on Xin Ya's face, no matter how much time has passed, the mother's love for her child is always hard to let go, even if the child has not yet formed.

She took out a tissue and handed it over, and asked softly, "So Yuan Honghao won't let you go out to work because of this?"

Xin Ya wiped away her tears and took a deep breath: "It's just a trigger. He always hoped that his future wife would stay at home and take care of his husband and children. He couldn't understand my thoughts about returning to the workplace."

Ye Qing thought, such disagreements are very common nowadays.It's just that many families don't have the capital of the Yuan family, so naturally they don't have the confidence to insist on keeping their wives at home.

"But why didn't you come back once after you left Yuan's house? Don't you miss Yuan Yuan?"

If Xinya cared so much about the child she lost before she met more than ten years ago, how could she ignore Yuan Yuan for so many years?

"Of course I miss her, but the conditions at the time did not allow it. I have never married Yuan Honghao, and Yuan Yuan was born in Haicheng, and her nationality is Chinese. She was already five years old at the time. If I insisted on going to court with Yuan Honghao , there is no absolute certainty of winning, and it will have a bad influence on Yuan Yuan.

So I agreed to his condition that I would not take my daughter away, and he also promised me that he would not find his stepmother to bully Yuan Yuan before Yuan Yuan became an adult.But the only condition is that Yuan Yuan can't see her before he reaches adulthood. "

When Ye Qing heard this, she completely overturned Yuan Honghao's elegant and polite image in her heart.

"I know, this must be what his mother meant, but he must also have resentment towards me. I had no choice but to agree to him first. I thought that I would wait until I returned to the workplace to work hard for a few years, and I would gain confidence Going to him to reason again, I originally thought that Yuan Yuan and I would not be separated for so long."

Back then, Xin Ya thought that with her capital and connections, even if she returned to the modeling circle, she would still have a place.

"I don't know if it was my bad luck or Yuan Yuan's bad luck. Shortly after returning to work, I was injured and hospitalized in a shooting accident. My clothes were accidentally set on fire, and my entire back was burned. Since then, I have been There is no way to be a model anymore."

Ye Qing couldn't imagine what kind of suffering Xin Ya had experienced back then.But now she is calm and elegant, except for crying when she mentions her daughter, she is calm and breezy at other times.

"Later, I met a wealthy businessman from South Africa. He brought me to South Africa to do charity with him. Slowly, I looked away. Then he passed away and left me the inheritance without any children. "

So, it's no wonder that Xinya has such strong financial resources now.

"I thought about going to see Yuan Yuan, but later I heard that Yuan Honghao was looking for me. I think it's because I don't know how to deal with feelings. I don't want to see him, and I don't want to be discovered by him, so I simply don't even see my daughter. gone."

This was probably the thing Xinya regretted the most, but that was what she did at the time.

Ye Qing sighed endlessly, but she couldn't speak any words of accusation.She has never been a mother, so she cannot understand the pain of separation between mother and daughter.But she knew that Xinya must have had a hard time these years.

"Then do you still want to see Yuan Yuan now?"

Now that Yuan Yuan is an adult, the agreement between her and Yuan Honghao will also be invalidated.Xin Ya suddenly appeared at this time, it was hard to say that she was not looking for her daughter.

Xin Ya's eyes sparkled instantly, but she quickly covered it up.

Ye Qing saw her worry and embarrassment, and encouraged her with a smile: "If there is a chance, I will try it out for you."

This time it was Xinya's turn to be surprised: "Will you help me?"

"Actually, I'm not helping you, I'm helping Yuan Yuan. I hope she will always be happy. If this shadow is not lifted, she will always feel that she is abandoned. I hope she will stop thinking like this in the future. I hope she Be able to believe that you are worthy of being loved."

This is what Yuan Yuan taught Ye Qing, and now Ye Qing also wants to help Yuan Yuan realize it.

Xin Ya's gaze softened, and she changed her identity to look at Ye Qing.

"It's not too bad for Yuan Yuan to meet you."

Ye Qing was a little embarrassed, she hadn't thought about what identity she would use to face Xin Ya.In public, Xin Ya is her boss, who determines her future career development; in private, she is Yuan Yuan's biological mother, regardless of status or not, she is her mother-in-law.

But Xin Ya was very young when she gave birth to Yuan Yuan, so now their age difference is not much, so it is not too much to call them sisters.

Xin Ya seemed to see Ye Qing's distress, and smiled to help her out: "I have been abroad all year round, and I don't care about those titles. If you want, you can call me by my name."

Call them by their first names, simple and equal.Put aside the cumbersome seniority, and only associate with this person.

Only then did Ye Qing realize that Yuan Yuan was more like his mother.

**

Xin Ya stayed in Ye Qing's room until very late the night before, and they chatted a lot.The next day Ye Qing washed her eyes in a daze, although she was still sleepy, but the joy of returning home supported her.

Before boarding the plane, she sent Yuan Yuan a message, and got a good night's sleep on the plane.The appearance of Xin Ya gave Ye Qing a little more understanding of the Yuan family and more confidence in the future.

At least one of Yuan Yuan's parents was on their side.

Ye Qing went to California with only simple carry-on luggage, and walked quickly to the parking lot after getting off the plane.But within a few steps, he was shocked by the new news on his phone.

I couldn't make a reply in time, so I called directly.It took a long time before the phone was picked up.

"Yuan Yuan, what happened to Zhilan?"

"Zhilan is fine now, don't worry. I just got out of the hospital and I'm on my way to the airport. Wait for me and we'll talk about it after we meet."

Hearing the sound of starting the car, Ye Qing didn't dare to disturb her any longer.She hung up the phone in a hurry, but she couldn't calm down.While waiting for Yuan Yuan, she called Jiang Zhilan again, and she was sent to the voice mail without any surprise.

Ye Qing thought for a while, and called Jian Xinhe's number again.This number was saved by Yuan Yuan for her, saying that there are not many friends in the United States, and one more friend means more insurance.I didn't expect to use it today, Ye Qing thought while dialing.

The call was connected after a long time, and Jian Xin's hoarse voice was almost unrecognizable.

"Is it Xinhe?"

"It's me." Jian Xinhe seemed to cry just now, and it was a heart-piercing cry.

"I'm Ye Qing, I heard that Zhilan was injured and her phone couldn't be reached, so I thought..."

Before she finished speaking, Jian Xinhe continued: "Yes, she is in the hospital and just finished the operation. I will accompany her here. Just get off the plane, take a rest first and then come to see her."

"Can you tell me exactly what happened?" As Jiang Zhilan's friend, Ye Qing couldn't feel at ease going home to rest without knowing clearly.

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be sobbing again, and the suppressed sobs made people feel distressed.

"It's my fault. I insisted on dragging her to the bar. She stopped the harassment for me. We were harassed when we walked out of the bar. Then someone tried to hit me with a wooden + Cangda, but she blocked me."

A passage was said intermittently, but it was thrilling enough.Ye Qingguang was terrified when she heard it, but seeing Jian Xin and this state, she really couldn't bear to ask.Now that Zhilan is fine, the rest will be left to Yuan Yuan to ask her.

F city is not big, and the airport is not far from the city.Ye Qing had never felt that waiting for the bus was so hard, but now she wished she could fly to Yuan Yuan's side immediately.

Ye Qing got into the car 45 minutes later.When the car door was opened, Yuan Yuan smelled the familiar clear fragrance, and the short separation made her miss her returning lover very much.

He leaned over and kissed her cheek, and Ye Qing kissed her back.

"I know you want to know about Zhilan. I was also shocked when I received a call from Xinhe in the middle of the night last night. I didn't tell you because I was afraid it would affect you."

Yuan Yuan turned around and drove home.

Ye Qing was indeed very anxious, but at this moment, he looked ahead and said in a cold voice, "Yuan Yuan, concentrate on driving, and talk slowly when you get home."

Although it's just a small farewell, each other's hearts are still full of concern for their lover.No matter in California or in F City, unexpected accidents happened.Ye Qing was a little tired, but she thought that the person beside her was Yuan Yuan, and she was here to pick her up.

Yuan Yuan seemed to have sensed what Ye Qing was thinking. After a night of chaos and tension, she dared not relax at all.After comforting Jian Xinhe, she urgently needs to find someone to rely on.But she knew that Ye Qing needed more support than herself, so she came to take her home.

It's good to be home.