Chapter 524: Chapter 513: The Gossip Megaphone

This question plunged the hospital room into silence, and Qiao Jing’s expression turned somewhat ugly.

Today, she had already let two people know about her pregnancy, and if one more person knew, the mere thought gave her a headache.

Especially Xu Moqian, if he found out, he would definitely make a fuss, shouting and yelling, and she was sure that soon everyone at the institute would know about it.

Wait a second, how did Xu Moqian know about her fainting and come to the hospital?

Faced with the question, Lu Zijiao remembered what his own brother had just instructed him, and promptly started playing dumb.

“What pregnancy? Why are you looking at me? Could it be that I am pregnant?”

Xu Moqian glanced at Lu Zijiao’s stomach.

“You just said something about being pregnant for a few months.”

Lu Zijiao noticed Xu Moqian’s gaze and immediately covered his stomach, visibly annoyed.

“Damn, you actually believed that? How could a big guy like me be pregnant, Young Master Xu, I think your brain isn’t working right.”

He had just turned himself into a pregnant woman to keep Qiao Jing’s pregnancy under wraps, hadn’t he?

Xu Moqian shot back without showing any weakness:

“What do you mean my brain isn’t working right? As soon as I entered, I heard you asking about how many months pregnant, can’t I ask?”

He had thought that he finally had a chance to be alone with Qiao Jing, but as soon as he opened the door to the hospital room, he saw two men standing inside.

Lu Zijiao clicked his tongue in annoyance.

“I didn’t say you couldn’t, but why are you so curious? You’re even more gossipy than me, aren’t you?”

He was impressed with Xu Moqian’s eager-to-know attitude now revealed.

He casually made up an excuse to brush it off.

“At that time, I was asking my brother about how many months the patient in the next room is pregnant. Why are you so nosy?”

He now fully understood that he must carefully conceal the news of Qiao Jing’s pregnancy.

The price of knowing about it was there, but, Zhan Qipei was about to become a dad!

This was something he had never expected; he had thought he would become a father before Zhan Qipei.

So Zhan Qipei became a dad secretly, without the world knowing?

Xu Moqian rolled his eyes.

“However gossipy I am, could I be worse than you, the loudspeaker?”

Lu Zijiao was very annoyed when he heard others calling him by this nickname.

“Xu Moqian, don’t think just because you’re from the Xu Family that I wouldn’t dare touch you!”

Qiao Jing watched the two bickering, speechless, and twitched the corner of her mouth.

“Alright, Zijiao, how did you know I was here?”

She remembered that when she and Zhan Nanqing left, no one at the institute had noticed anything unusual.

If Xu Moqian knew now, then did the people at the institute know about it?

Hearing Qiao Jing’s words, Xu Moqian then shifted his gaze back to her.

“Grandpa told me; he asked me to come take care of you, why did you suddenly faint? Right, Grandpa told me that only he knew about this. He wanted to come too but he suddenly got inspiration and couldn’t get away.”

His grandfather had not easily gained an opportunity for him, hoping he could have a private moment with Qiao Jing. Unexpectedly, there were two other men in the room.

This shattered his pleasant illusions.

Qiao Jing then breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

“Mm, it’s good that people at the institute don’t know.”

The last time she was injured, the staff at the institute found out and isolated her from the institute, insisting she should recover well at home.

She had also tried to go to the research institute before, she just wanted to pick up some materials, but the security guard stopped her and advised her to go home and rest properly.

The staff at the institute were in cahoots, even the security guard was on their side.

If they found out about this fainting incident, she would definitely be forced to go home and rest again.

Xu Moqian walked quickly to the bedside and sat down, looking at the other person with a worried expression.

“How are you feeling now? Shall I get you a glass of water?”

Lu Zijiao looked at Xu Moqian’s eager demeanor, clicked his tongue disdainfully, and took out his phone to check his chat box with Zhan Qipei.

However, the other party still hadn’t replied to his message, he directly took a photo of the hospital room and sent out the room number.

It’s not that he wasn’t brotherly enough, it was Zhan Qipei’s own fault for not responding to the message and not coming.

There were already three men in the hospital room, and Zhan Qipei, as the husband, was still not coming, and moreover…

Among these three men, one of them was Zhan Qipei’s rival.

Meanwhile, inside Zhan Corporation.

Zhan Qipei had just finished a meeting and returned to his office, suddenly feeling an ominous premonition.

He instinctively unlocked his phone, wanting to look at Qiao Jing’s photo on the lock screen to calm his nerves, only to see dozens of missed calls and WeChat messages.

Zhan Qipei’s heart skipped a beat, and he quickly opened WeChat.

When he saw that Lu Zijiao mentioned Qiao Jing had fainted, he swiftly grabbed the coat from his chair, threw it on, and marched out of the office with large strides.

Zhan Qipei frowned deeply, then checked the messages from Lu Zijiao and Zhan Nanqing.

Seeing that Lu Zijiao said Xu Moqian was currently in the hospital room, taking care of Qiao Jing, his face instantly darkened, and he almost ran to his personal elevator.

He quickly typed a reply to Lu Zijiao’s message.

“Tell him to get out.”

Lu Zijiao felt the vibration of his phone, took it out, and checked.

Thank heavens, Zhan Qipei had finally replied.

“I can’t drive him away, you’d better come quickly.”

Once Zhan Qipei got in the car, he did not hesitate to floor the accelerator, sending his speed soaring to two hundred, narrowly avoiding several close calls with other vehicles along the way.

His hands tightened on the steering wheel, veins protruding, and his lips firmly pressed together, all to see Qiao Jing faster.

On the other side, inside the hospital room.

Qiao Jing took a sip of water and looked up at Lu Zijin.

“When can I be discharged?”

She was almost done with her work, and it had been a long time since she last had a recurrence of her stomach ailment, but now there seemed to be no major issues after the infusion.

So she wanted to go back and finish the remaining work.

Upon hearing Qiao Jing’s words, the faces of the three men in the room darkened simultaneously.

Lu Zijin furrowed his eyebrows and slowly said.

“At least not today, don’t skip meals because of work again.”

Xu Moqian immediately followed up on Lu Zijin’s words:

“Yes, Sister Jing, my grandfather said that you should rest well these next few days and leave the rest to him.”

Lu Zijiao also started to persuade.

“Qiao Jing, you should rest for a while, after all, you… cough, cough, cough.”

His words had just ended when the door to the hospital room was suddenly flung open.