When Love Turns the Tables: The Mysterious Husband's Chase-Chapter 565: Mrs. Sheng’s Secret (15)

Originally wanted to surprise her, but ended up arriving late. Sheng Jianan called Tang Yanqi, but no one answered. He guessed she had forgotten to turn on the sound because they were required to mute their phones at work.

Sheng Jianan directly called Xiao Li.

"Get the Young Madam to answer the phone."

It was a bit noisy on the other end, and after two seconds, Xiao Li’s voice came through: "Young Master, the Young Madam is not with me."

"She hasn’t come out yet?"

"No, the Young Madam said she had something to do this afternoon and told me not to pick her up."

"Something to do?"

Occasionally, Tang Yanqi would go out with her good friends after work, but since becoming pregnant, she almost never went out. Even if she did, she mostly invited them to the villa. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"Did she say where she was going?"

"No."

Sheng Jianan frowned, hung up Xiao Li’s call, and immediately turned on the GPS to start searching for Tang Yanqi’s location.

Although Tang Yanqi’s health couldn’t be described as particularly frail, she was so thin that she always gave off the impression of being blown away by the wind. Sheng Jianan was afraid something might happen to her, and even though he had arranged for someone to secretly protect her safety, whenever Tang Yanqi deviated from her usual route, his heart would inexplicably tighten.

Just like now, she should obviously be in Xiao Li’s car on the way home, but who knows where she went. In two minutes, countless scenarios flashed through Sheng Jianan’s mind.

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Tang Yanqi received a call from Mrs. Sheng at noon, right after she hung up Sheng Jianan’s call. This wasn’t the first time Mrs. Sheng had arranged a private meeting with her; it had happened several times before, and although every time ended in disagreement, Tang Yanqi listened to the haughty voice on the phone, her eyes slightly lowered, a faint smile on her lips: "Alright, see you this afternoon."

She was no longer the old Tang Yanqi. She used to be one step lower in front of Mrs. Sheng because Sheng Jianan didn’t like her, and neither did Mrs. Sheng. They were on the same side.

Later, she endured it because she wanted to be with Sheng Jianan, so she swallowed her pride in front of his mother.

But now it’s different. If it really came down to Sheng Jianan having to choose between her and his mother, that was something for Sheng Jianan to worry about, not her.

The concerns of the past, the chains of the past, Tang Yanqi would no longer let those messy things bind her.

She could let go of the car accident, she could let go of the mishaps orchestrated by her and Shen Yao, because all of that was in the past. But now, if people still thought she was a pushover, if they wanted to challenge her, then sorry.

She wouldn’t agree!

Once, Tang Yanqi naively thought that as long as she could endure enough, as long as she didn’t confront Mrs. Sheng head-on, she could avoid some conflicts.

Looking back now, she must have been out of her mind back then.

She called Xiao Li to tell him she had something to do and he didn’t need to pick her up. Tang Yanqi didn’t hurry to leave after work but walked slowly to the bathroom instead.

Because she was pregnant, she didn’t wear makeup. Although Sheng Jianan arranged the best nutritionist for her, she had poor blood circulation to begin with, making her face pale as paper with no vitality.

She took out the pure plant-based cosmetics Li Weiwei sent her from France, which were claimed to be stress-free for pregnant women.

Tang Yanqi simply drew her eyebrows, applied a thin layer of blush on her pale face, and added a bit of lipstick. Instantly, she looked much more spirited.