Standing on the steps, Huangfu Ruo watched the two men’s cars gradually disappear before she finally withdrew her gaze.
"Qian, shall we go for a walk by the river?"
"Sure!" Luo Xiaoqian naturally wouldn’t refuse, and the two girls walked together towards the river.
Strolling along the shaded path by the river, Huangfu Ruo would occasionally bend down to pick up a pebble and throw it across the water, revealing her somewhat agitated mood.
"What’s wrong?" Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Luo Xiaoqian gently asked.
"Qian?" Huangfu Ruo turned her face with a delicate expression that was unusually solemn, "I’m having second thoughts about getting married!"
Luo Xiaoqian was taken aback, "Why?!"
"I..." Huangfu Ruo tossed the stone she had picked up into the water, "I feel like Qin Lan doesn’t love me anymore."
"How could that be? I saw the way he looks at you, and there is nothing in his eyes but love!" Luo Xiaoqian consoled, supporting her arm and pulling her to sit on a smooth rock, "You’re overthinking it."
"Really." Huangfu Ruo looked despondently at the flowing river, "In the past, when we were together, he used to share everything with me, but lately, since we’ve decided to get married, he’s become secretive. Several times he’s made phone calls behind my back, and as soon as he sees me, he either walks away or hangs up the call. I... I feel that he must have another woman!"
"No way, Qin Lan can’t possibly be that kind of irresponsible man," Luo Xiaoqian said.
"Have you asked him about it?"
"No." Huangfu Ruo shook her head gently, "Qin Lan isn’t one to lie, and I’m afraid, if it turns out to be the possibility I’m imagining, what should I do..."
That man, she had loved for five years, since she first met Qin Lan at the age of nineteen while visiting Leng Zimo on set, until now, at twenty-four, from a naive girl to a mother, that’s her entire youth.
"Do you still love him then?" Luo Xiaoqian asked.
"Of course, if all the people in the world were lined up, Qin Lan would be first, my brother second, and myself third," Huangfu Ruo sighed, "I heard men are most likely to cheat when their own woman is pregnant. Since I got pregnant...we’ve rarely...you know. He must be tired of my body..."

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