Chapter 578: Continue the Music, Continue the Dance (Part 2)

Even though she’d had a child, at her core, she was as inexperienced as a virgin.

Remembering the way Qi Sheng had “bullied” her.

Ding Wei felt a mix of shame and embarrassment, yet she couldn’t deny that she’d gotten a taste for it and wanted more.

BZZZ~

The phone on the table suddenly began to vibrate.

Ding Wei picked it up and glanced at the screen, her brow furrowing slightly.

‘Yuan Mingxuan.’

The butler tactfully excused himself from the room, giving Ding Wei the privacy to take the call.

“What is it?”

Ding Wei answered the phone distractedly.

“Bring Qiuqiu over later. My parents want to see him.”

The man’s voice on the other end was steady, but his tone held a domineering quality that brooked no refusal.

“I’m busy.”

Without a second thought, Ding Wei hung up.

BZZZ… BZZZ…

He called again and again, but Ding Wei rejected the call each time.

Before, Ding Wei would never have dared to hang up on him.

After all, she was just an ordinary woman who had used her son to climb the ladder, and he had a million ways to make her disappear from the face of the earth.

But Qi Sheng’s appearance had given Ding Wei a backbone.

Although she hadn’t yet secured a promise from Qi Sheng, she recalled how miserably he had “bullied” her last night.

‘He wouldn’t just ignore me after all that, would he?’

With this thought, Ding Wei answered the call.

“Ding Wei, you’ve gotten bold, haven’t you?”

The voice of Yuan Mingxuan on the other end was filled with incredulous fury.

Before today, whenever he asked her to bring the child to see his parents, she never dared to refuse.

‘What gave Ding Wei such nerve?’

“President Yuan, I’m very busy right now. I don’t have time to play along with your charade.”

Ding Wei played absently with her nails, thinking to herself that she’d have to get them redone later.

The manicure she’d gotten before had been ruined when she scratched Qi Sheng’s back yesterday.

“Ding Wei, the car you have, the house, the money in your bank account—I gave you all of it. Don’t think you can escape my grasp. I suggest you…”

BEEP… BEEP… BEEP…

Ding Wei pursed her lips. ‘And he really thinks he’s so great.’

Compared to Qi Sheng’s fortune, Yuan Mingxuan was a pathetic clown at best.

After hanging up this time, Ding Wei blocked Yuan Mingxuan’s number.

That would stop him from calling nonstop and distracting her from thinking about her relationship with Qi Sheng.

There were only two paths before her.

She could either continue to be a casual partner at his beck and call, which would at least let her make some money off Qi Sheng.

Or she could give the child back to Yuan Mingxuan for good and become a canary in a gilded cage, kept by Qi Sheng just like Liu Rong.

As for the kind of treatment Liu Rong and the others received, it was incredibly tempting for an ordinary girl.

But for her, it was just average.

After all, she didn’t just have a five hundred million yuan breakup fee, but also a villa, luxury cars, and commercial properties.

Even if she were in the top tier of Qi Sheng’s girlfriends, she would only get two million a month.

To accumulate her current net worth at that rate, it would take decades, at least.

‘Still, one shouldn’t be so shortsighted.’

Just the tip of the iceberg of Qi Sheng’s wealth was enough to leave her in awe, able only to look up at him in worship.

“The child…”

Ding Wei thought of Yuan Qiu. A flicker of reluctance crossed her mind, but she quickly made her decision.

Given Yuan Mingxuan’s… condition… he would surely treat Yuan Qiu like a precious treasure.

For the child, it might not be a bad thing.

As someone who had successfully climbed her way up from being a mere student, Ding Wei certainly didn’t lack decisiveness.

“Mom, Dad, Yuan Mingxuan’s people will be coming to pick up the child later. Just hand him over.”

Ding Wei called her parents to make sure they wouldn’t try to stop the child from being taken.

“Weiwei, didn’t you say before that we shouldn’t just hand the child over to the Yuan family?”

On the other end of the line, Mr. Ding’s voice was filled with surprise.

“That was then, this is now. It’s better to give Qiuqiu to them. I’m still young. I can’t just decide not to get married ever, can I?”

Hearing Ding Wei put it like that, Mr. Ding fell silent.

“Sigh… It’s all my fault for not being more capable. You’ve had to suffer so much.”

Mr. Ding remembered his daughter coming home pregnant right after graduation. At the time, he’d wanted to find Yuan Mingxuan and take him down with him.

Even though Ding Wei later gave birth to a son, for which Yuan Mingxuan had very generously rewarded her with several hundred million.

But for Mr. Ding, who had spent his entire life as an educator, he wouldn’t touch a single penny of that man’s money, not even if his life depended on it.

“It’s nothing. Everything will be okay.”

Ding Wei said a few more words and then hung up.

She pressed the service bell, and the butler entered moments later.

“Ms. Ding, how may I help you?”

“Could you please call LV… actually, never mind. Have Prada and Chloé send over a few outfits. And please buy me a new set of makeup as well.”

Ding Wei figured that since she was practically the boss’s woman, she should naturally support the brands under Qi Sheng’s name.

“Not a problem. We at Banyan Tree have partnerships with all the luxury brands under Misha. Whenever you need anything, staff from any brand will provide in-room delivery service!”

The butler explained with a proud expression. This was a unique advantage that Banyan Tree now offered.

How many other hotels could get these haughty luxury brands to be so cooperative?

…

After Ding Wei had changed her clothes and put on exquisite makeup.

She left the Banyan Tree Hotel and went down to the 31st floor.

“How can I help you, miss?”

the receptionist asked with a smile upon seeing the radiant Ding Wei.

“I’m here to see your Chairman Qi.”

Ding Wei said bluntly.

“Of course. Let me ask the Chairman for you.”

Seeing how beautiful Ding Wei was, the receptionist suspected she was involved with her boss, so she made a call to check.

“Miss, Chairman Qi will see you now.”

The receptionist hung up and enthusiastically led Ding Wei through the employee and secretarial work areas.

She knocked gently on the door to the chairman’s office.

“Enter.”

Ding Wei heard a certain someone’s pretentious voice, smiled at the receptionist, and pushed the door open to enter.