QT: Grace To Grass Counterattack System



An hour and thirty minutes later, Chen Meili returned to the Han mansion with a lost expression. At the gate, the security guard smiled at her. "Miss Chen, some mails came in for you just now. I was about giving them over to the servants."

Chen Meili merely nodded listlessly and was just about to walk past when her eyes widened. The mails were probably the test results from the three hospitals! Her heart shook and she walked closer to the security guard. "Where are they?!"

The security guard was taken aback by the fierce tone. Since he had come to know Miss Chen, this was the first time he'd ever seen her look so fierce. He smiled dryly before handing three envelopes over to her. "These.. these are the mails."

Chen Meili directly snatched the envelopes and walked into the estate. With her mind and heart all over the place, how could she have time to think of the image she currently presented? Besides... What if the doctor had made a mistake and she was indeed pregnant?

She practically speedwalked down to the mansion and the second she entered inside, she took a quick glance to make sure no one was in the living room before turning towards the stairs.

As soon as she reached the second floor, Chen Meili eagerly tore open the first envelope and took out the result. And then the hope in her heart sizzled down a notch..

Negative.

No... Her lips quivered and her hands shook as she tore open the second envelope.

Negative.

Looking at the third envelope, she tried to gulp down her despair. 'The first three results had to be a coincidence,' She thought desperately. She was pregnant!

As soon as Chen Meili saw the content of the third envelope, her legs stopped working and she bonelessly plopped to the ground. Negative. The doctor hadn't made a mistake. She was... not pregnant.

Anxiousness permeated her bone marrow and she quickly brought her hands to her mouth to stifle the choked sob that left her mouth. How could she not be carrying brother Tao's child?!

She thought back to Xu Lifen's declaration during breakfast and her heart clenched painfully. If brother Tao and Xu Lifen really got together then it was unlikely that brother Tao would sleep with her again.

She couldn't even inform Xu Lifen of the fact that she had had sex with brother Tao because she didn't have any proof! Besides, if Xu Lifen confronted brother Tao about it and he found out that she had told on him, he might disdain her.

The pregnancy was her only shot at successfully getting brother Tao!

A few steps away;

He Yuan watched with relish as Chen Meili went through all the stages of grief -minus acceptance. The woman had been so eager to check the results that she didn't even get to her own wing before opening the envelopes. He chuckled before stepping forward.

"Sister-in-law, what's wrong? Why are you sitting on the floor and crying?"

Chen Meili's neck snapped to He Yuan at the speed of light. With horrified eyes, she quickly gathered all the results and held them tightly.

He Yuan bit back a smile and walked forward to help her up. "You shouldn't sit on the cold floor like that, what if you get sick again?"

"Leave me alone!" Chen Meili screamed when He Yuan's hands touched her shoulders. She quickly held the papers to her chest and stood up. "You awful woman! You're happy aren't you?!"

He Yuan blinked innocently. "Happy about what? Oh.." He put on a thoughtful expression. "You're talking about me fixing my relationship with everyone and not wanting to divorce my husband anymore?" He smiled softly. "Then yes. Yes I am very happy, thank you for asking."

A helpless smile crossed 888's features but Chen Meili did not share the same sentiment. She glared at He Yuan with red eyes. "You.. you.." She couldn't say anything so she settled for slamming her shoulder with He Yuan's and running up the stairs of her family wing in tears.

He Yuan watched her go with a mischievous grin. In his hand, was the envelope and result that he'd swiped from her. Why would he suddenly want to help Chen Meili up for no reason? Ha.

With the result in hand, He Yuan's mood skyrocketed and he spent the next hours waiting around the second floor. His reason for this? Well Gu Longwei hadn't joined them for breakfast this morning and had left very early to who knows where?

The sleaze must have gotten a tough blow when he found out Chen Meili was 'pregnant.' For the past three days, he had been leaving the mansion quite early and coming back late.

The twins were currently with the Han Madam so He Yuan had plenty of time to wait. He alternated between observing from his room window to waiting at the second floor.

A couple of family members passed by and looked at him weirdly but he ignored them. The servants were also confused to find him hanging around the entrance of the family wings but they knew when to mind their business.

He Yuan skipped lunch and dinner -opting for a hunger relieving pill instead and apparently, so did Chen Meili. The woman had not stepped out of her wing since she ran in.

Min Yanyu and Han Rong carried up her food to her though. When they saw He Yuan hanging around the stairs, they made up a random excuse as to why a mother-in-law and an aunt-in-law were personally delivering a huge trolley of food and supplements to the daughter-in-law.

As he watched them go, He Yuan wondered just how dumb they all thought Xu Lifen was.

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By 11:45pm, He Yuan was seated on a step with legs wide open and an elbow propped on his thigh to support his chin with a fist. He was absolutely bored and tired of waiting. Just when he was about to go up to the room and peer through the window again, his system's calm voice came through.

[He's back.]

He Yuan sprang up from the step excitedly and walked over to peek down the staircase leading to the ground floor. When he spotted the top of Gu Longwei's head, he rushed over to stand before Han Jinhai's family wing -making sure his back was facing the staircase behind.

He spread out his qi and used it to monitor Gu Longwei's movements. When the man was a single step away from coming into full view, he let the now sealed envelope fall to the floor and began his show.

"Ah? What is this?" He Yuan picked up the envelope from the floor before 'subconsciously muttering to himself,' "Hm? Isn't this one of the envelopes Chen Meili had been holding earlier?"

He slowly turned the envelope every which way with a curious expression on his face. "What is it doing here?" And then he made a motion as if to open the envelope.

Less than a second later, a hand came out of nowhere and snatched the envelope from his hand. Gu Longwei looked down at the envelope before eyeing He Yuan, "Where did this come from?"

He Yuan's eyes widened. "This..." He swallowed. "Oh, it's... It's mine. I had mistakenly dropped it a while ago." Then he let out an embarrassed laughter.

Gu Longwei sneered. Did Xu Lifen think he was a fool? He'd clearly heard her mutter that the envelope had been dropped by Meili! He grit his teeth. "I received information from my wife that you had apologized to everyone and promised to change.

-Whilst that can fool everyone else, you can't fool me! You're still a horrible person looking for ways to antagonize Meili!"

He Yuan opened and closed his mouth speechlessly before lowering his head in defeat and walking up the staircase to his room.

Left alone in the spacious area, Gu Longwei scoffed in the direction of Han Tao's wing before looking down at his hand and scrutinizing the envelope. He was also curious so he directly opened it.

At first, the content of the report did not make sense... Until it did. He froze and his eyes popped out of their sockets. He automatically took a step up Chen Meili's wing before having a second thought and hurrying to his own family wing instead.

Up in the master's bedroom of Han Jinhai's wing;

Chen Meili sat before her dresser and eyed her slightly puffy eyes in disdain. She had been crying all day and even when Min Yanyu and Han Rong had showed up, she made up a random excuse as to why she had been crying.

As for the food they brought, she had no appetite so she had flushed everything down the toilet after they left in order to shut their nagging up.

She slowly raised a hand to touch her face, watching as her reflection did the same. Right after, she lowered her hand to her stomach with teary eyes. Her and brother Tao's baby was supposed to be in here. Where did he go?

She was still lost in thought when,

Knock! Knock!

Chen Meili looked over to the door and grit her teeth. It was probably Min Yanyu or Han Rong here to nag her again. She chose not to answer and pretend to be asleep but then,

Knock! knock!

Knock! Knock! Knock!

Knock! Knock!

Bam!

Chen Meili slammed her hand on the dressing table softly before standing up and walking over to the door with a glare. The minute she opened it though, confusion creased her features. "Uncle Gu?"

With a freshly showered scent, Gu Longwei observed the woman before him. So youthful and supple. Her skin practically glowed with a radiant light. He felt the full force of his fantasies hitting him. When he took in her slightly swollen eyes though, he frowned.

She had been crying? What for? Did that Han Tao do something stupid? His middle aged features turned cold as he asked softly, "What happened?"

Chen Meili pouted softly and her lips trembled. Uncle Gu had been so mad at her for the past days, it felt good to receive his care once more. Too bad the problem she had was one that could not be shared so she opted for placing a hand against her forehead and smiling dryly.

"It's nothing major. Just some slight discomfort here and there." She motioned at her stomach. "You know how it is."

Gu Longwei folded his arms and leaned on the door frame with a sleazy chuckle. "Indeed, I do know how it is. So..." He took took out the envelope and fiddled with it. "...When are you going to tell everyone that you're not really pregnant?"

Chen Meili's eyes widened and her heart stopped beating.