On the road to the City High School.

People were looking at a couple who stood on the road, the woman was on the verge of crying, while the man seemed to say her something.

The people around were about to charge at the man for making the woman cry.

“Hey, Mengmeng there is nothing like that, it’s just that, I haven’t figured that out until now.”

Seeing that she was about to cry Ye Qian quickly explained.

“Oh, it’s like that.” Yuan Meng gave a sigh of relief as she heard him.

Yuan Meng quickly wiped the tears that were forming in her eyes and smiled.

“I was worried you know.” Yuan Meng said as she wiped her tears

“Yeah, I know.” Ye Qian smiled at her and said again.

“How about, I tell you about those things tonight. Everything that happened.”

“Sure but you must not hide anything from me or I will know and tell me if there was any woman too.”

Yuan Meng said as she tried to tease Ye Qian.

But Ye Qian seemed to have got it as something else and looked at her with his eyes wide and mouth agape.

“What, don’t tell me you had some other woman while you were away all this while.” Yuan Meng rolled her eyes.

“Umm. Never, I never thought about women, I only used to think about you and Qiqi even when I was about to die several times.”

Ye Qian almost spilt out everything.

“What?” Yuan Meng who was in her teasing mood suddenly blanked and started upon hearing him.

‘Did he say he used to think of us even when he was about to die several times?’

‘That means he was in such dangerous situations all the time.’

Yuan Meng thought and looked at him in a daze.

“I will tell you everything ok, just treat it as a story and listen to it.”

Ye Qian said as he held Yuan Meng’s hand tightly.

“Hmm.” Yuan Meng still nodded in a daze.

“Hey, where is your school now?”

Yuan Meng looked and pointed at a huge six-storey building which was a 100 metres from them and said “That’s the City High School I work at.”

Ye Qian turned at the large manmade mountain and looked at it for a while.

The building was not only large but the campus surrounding it was just, too big.

“Hey Mengmeng what time is it now?”

Ye Qian asked curiously wanting to know at what time does her school start.

“It’s about 10:30 now.” Yuan Meng replied to him casually without giving it another thought.

As if struck by a lightning Ye Qian stood there, ‘It was around 9 when we went to Qiqi’s Kindergarten now its nearly 10:30, does that mean Mengmeng would walk for an hour just to get here. Was she always trying such things to save some money?’

As Ye Qian thought things through he felt his heart got pricked and he started trembling. As he felt heartache he felt more anger growing within, yes he was angry at himself, for being such worthless.

Meanwhile, as Yuan Meng saw Ye Qian trembling all over, fear started to cover her mind and she asked.

“Qian’er are you alright?” Yuan Meng held onto Ye Qian’s hand tightly to support him.

Ye Qian said her nothing and after some time of controlling himself he got his hand in his pocket and handed her over 100 Yuans.

Yesterday he used the other money while buying the groceries and other food materials.

He gave a thought and kept the remaining 40 Yuan with himself and said after handing over the money to Yuan Meng.

“You must come back in a taxi or I won’t let you work anymore.” Ye Qian said every word to her.

“Hmm” Yuan Meng nodded and didn’t ask him anything she clearly saw he only had left with 40 Yuans.

But seeing him giving her this much money just so that she could come back moved her heart.

‘How many times did I felt helpless, now such will never happen, even if we were to sell the house we will and go to Mom and Dad and do the farming works.’

‘What really matters is that he is with me now.’

Ye Qian looked at her and smiled, the people walking around felt a different sense of chemistry within them, as they didn’t talk much but knew each other well.

Soon a middle-aged woman came walking and greeted Yuan Meng seeing her from far away.

“Hello, Miss Yuan.”

“Oh, Hello Miss Ning. How are you?” Yuan Meng greeted her and asked with modesty.

“Oh sorry, miss I thought you were someone I know.” Miss Ning said as she got close to Yuan Meng and looked at her face.

“Miss Ning is me, Yuan Meng.” Yuan Meng said as she somewhat got an idea of what Miss Ning was thinking.

“Oh it really is you, Miss Yuan, you look completely different from yesterday, did you went to the parlour?” Miss Ning asked and she touched Yuan Meng’s skin.

“And your skin also feels smooth. You got to recommend to me the parlour or the cosmetic you used, Miss Yuan.” Miss Ning urged seeing Yuan Meng.

“Umm, really Miss Ning I didn’t use any cosmetics and nor did I went to a parlour.”

Yuan Meng said as she looked at Ye Qian.

“Oh, Miss Yuan you are really keeping a secret from me. This is so inappropriate.” She teased as she looked at Yuan Meng.

Miss Ning then followed Yuan Meng’s line of sight and saw a good looking man in his late twenties standing there, he looked around while smiling.

He was not too skinny, you could say well developed.

As Miss Ning looked at him Yuan Meng said “Miss Ning this is my husband Ye Qian.”

Miss Ning looked at them turning her head from one to another and said “Miss Yuan is he, Little Qiqi’s father?”

“Yes, Miss Ning, he is Qiqi’s father.” Yuan Meng replied.

This Miss Ning was usually quite nice to her so Yuan Meng didn’t try to be angry at her.

“Oh, he is really Little Qiqi’s father.”

She turned her gaze to Ye Qian and there was some disgust in her eyes as she saw him.

“Miss Ning it’s not what you think of he was picked up by the Military on a confidential project so he was not allowed to inform us at all. Now he has returned and really cares for us.”

Yuan Meng said as she saw hostility in Miss Ning’s behaviour, Miss Ning had always been good to her and Little Qiqi and scolded Yuan Meng for taking care of Little Qiqi all alone, while Ye Qian left her to suffer.

“Alright if it’s like that we can’t do anything then, but you must take care of Little Qiqi and Miss Yuan now that you are here.” Miss Ning said as she looked at Ye Qian.

Ye Qian understood that this Miss Ning was good and was just angry at the situation Yuan Meng and Little Qiqi were in.

He nodded her and bowed to her “Thank you for taking care of Mengmeng and Qiqi for the while.”

“Um, it’s alright since I am also a woman I know how much she had to go through, so I was just annoyed. There is nothing else.” Miss Ning replied as she turned to Yuan Meng and said.

“Miss Yuan how about I go in first while you say goodbye to your husband.” Miss Ning said while teasing Yuan Meng. She then came close to her ears and said “But make sure not to hug or do other things.”

Yuan Meng’s face turned red and she backed off while looking around.

“Miss Ning you!” She said as she looked at Miss Ning who smiled at her mischievously.

“Hehe, oh my, I was just saying, were you really going to do it.”

Miss Ning teased and then walked to the gate.

Yuan Meng looked at her back and smiled.

‘This Ning Wei is really mad.’

Soon she turned to Ye Qian who was looking at her with a smile and said.

“I must go now, the school will start soon.” Yuan Meng said while still blushing.

“Sure when will Little Qiqi’s Kindergarten get closed?”

Yuan Meng looked at him and said “She would leave at 2 pm.”

“Ohh, then when do you get free?” Ye Qian asked as he looked at the school building.

“Umm, I will be free from work at 5.”

“Uhh.”

‘If she will leave at 5 and further needs an hour to walk to Qiqi’s kindergarten so she might reach there at 6, so where does Qiqi stay all the time.’

Ye Qian thought as he started to panic.

Yuan Meng saw the change in his expression and understood that he was worried about Little Qiqi and said quickly.

“You don’t have to worry about her, there is an Old Age Home near her Kindergarten, so she stays there till I go to pick her up. She spends most of the time there and also loves their company, they also treat Qiqi as their granddaughter, so there is nothing to worry about.”

“Sometimes they even feed her snacks and play with her, it also makes them happy.” Yuan Meng continued after thinking a bit more.

“Sigh.” Ye Qian gave a sigh of relief and thought, ‘It’s good she stays at Old Age Home the people there might be caring considering that Qiqi is so well cultured, they must be teaching her some good things as well.’

“Alright, I will pick up Qiqi earlier and you don’t need to come walking.”

Ye Qian’s voice was stern but it had an opposite effect on Yuan Meng.

“Hmm.” She nodded and smiled while seeing him turn and walk away.

She waved at him as he turned around at her and smiled by waving his hand.

Seeing his silhouette becoming blur Yuan Meng turned to the School and started walking to the school gate.

Yuan Meng greeted the slightly old aged guard to which he smiled and let her enter.

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Meanwhile, Ye Qian was walking back to his house at a fast pace, there was no one around considering that the work hours have started and most of the people were either in the vehicles or in their office.

Ye Qian took the wallet in his pocket and saw that there were only about 40 Yuans left as he thought.

“This amount of money won’t help, I need to buy a vehicle or Mengmeng will have a hard time while coming and going to her school. I need to earn some money.”

He was walking around when he saw a charm shop and again thought “What if I make some simple charms and sell them?”

“I can’t Concoct Pills as the herbs might not be available, but the charms can be used as it will also not require me to use my Spirit Energy and there is no need to make some high grade one, low one will also do the work, just a few simple charms like Ghost Repelling, Protection, Spirit Cleansing Charms and some Fireball Charms will do.”

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Ye Qian will do some earning for his living.