Chapter 191

He thought he was hiding his reaction well, but Qing Qing wasn’t asleep at all, and he saw all the changes in him.

He remembered Ye Zhi saying he loved that person.

Ye Zhi loved Huo Youqiao.

Qing Qing wasn’t very smart, and at first, he couldn’t understand why someone would leave despite loving them. He already divorced Huo Youcheng, so even if it was a bit immoral to be with Huo Youqiao, wouldn’t it be better than enduring a lifetime of suffering? And looking at Ye Zhi’s appearance, it seemed like he would never be with anyone else in this lifetime.

Did he want to grow old alone with the child? Why? Huo Youqiao didn’t even have a wife.

He had been searching the internet, searching for information about Huo Youqiao, searching for everything about him, even searching for others’ opinions of him, and gradually understood Ye Zhi’s concerns.

Afraid of tarnishing the other’s reputation, afraid of delaying the other’s future.

So hiding here, refusing to disclose the pregnancy, wanting to bear this heavy burden alone.

The physical pain that male betas had to endure during pregnancy, in life, they could care and help, but what about physically and psychologically?

The more Qing Qing thought about it, the more he couldn’t help it. Before going to work the next day, he finally dialed the number he stored yesterday with his own communicator.

The number of the Municipal Government Studio.

It took Qing Qing three days to dial that number.

The hotline of the city government was busy enough, often getting a busy tone when dialed, and even after getting through, the operator might not be Huo Youqiao himself, and might even be a staff member who Huo Youqiao couldn’t even contact, and it required inquiries, audits, and appointments. Qing Qing couldn’t get Huo Youqiao’s personal contact number at all, so he could only wait for an appointment, tried hard to come up with an excuse to tell the mayor about some opinions on the rental housing in the central city, and then, on the third day, finally got the call transferred to one of Huo Youqiao’s assistant secretaries.

The other party spoke in a businesslike tone, gentle but cold, and Qing Qing was not very good at socializing. When facing strangers, his reaction was a bit stronger than Ye Zhi’s, so he was particularly nervous and didn’t know how to start.

“Please leave the opinions you want to raise, and we will write them into documents and send them to the mayor’s office as soon as possible. If they are reasonable, they will be properly revised within the next six months.”

The other party urged, and Qing Qing held his breath for a long time before saying, “I want to talk directly to Mayor Huo.”

The other party had obviously dealt with many such matters and wasn’t surprised, just saying, “I’m sorry, Mayor Huo is very busy and probably won’t be able to communicate directly with you. You can tell me if you have anything, and I’ll try to convey it to you as much as possible.”

“Can it be private?”

“This is the Mayor’s office, we don’t deal with private matters, sorry.”

Upon receiving this answer, Qing Qing sighed, “Can’t you just tell me Mayor Huo’s contact information directly?”

“I’m sorry, I can’t meet your request because I don’t know either.”

Qing Qing hesitated, leaving Cheng Yanzhou, he was originally tens of thousands of miles away from that world, a distance he couldn’t shorten by himself. But after coming back, he had already changed his communicator and cut off all his past connections in the central city. It was very difficult to contact Huo Youqiao by taking shortcuts.

“Is there anything else I can help you with?”

The other party’s tone was very gentle, but obviously, he already regarded him as one of those curious about the mayor, and wouldn’t offer any substantial opinions.

“Don’t… don’t hang up yet, I… I really have something I want to find Mayor Huo about, but this matter can only be told to him in person. Please, can you transfer me? You should be able to transfer me to his office’s internal line, right?” Qing Qing’s tone was pleading, and in fact, in the past few days of making continuous calls, he had thought about giving up, but when he thought of Ye Zhi’s occasional painful moans at night and the expression he said “I love him” that day, he couldn’t help but want to continue.

Even though there was no concrete evidence to prove that the child in Ye Zhi’s belly was Huo Youqiao’s, but what if he was right?