"It's my fault." He hugged her with one hand. Her soft sobbing made his ears and heart hurt.
"What about auntie?"
"Don't worry; I'll handle my mother. You don't have to say anything. Is there anyone else here other than me who knows that you're not pregnant?"
"Qu Jingwan."
"How does she know?"
She could only tell him how she had fallen down the stairs and why Dr. Duanmu had not revealed the truth.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Ji Ziming was full of heartache over the woman keeping the truth about her pregnancy yet also mad that she did not tell him anything immediately. In her eyes, was he that unreliable?
"I… I wanted to tell you, but I was afraid that you—"
"Why would you be afraid of me? Am I that scary in your eyes? Scarier than a monster?"
"No. I was just joking with you."
She chuckled, not expecting him to take her words to heart.
