Secret Marriage: Reborn as A Beautiful Model Student Chapter 2459 A Man Like You Doesn't Deserve To Love My Youyou!

Li Qingcang let out a chilling laugh. "All you managed to do was snatch away my daughter. You swapped in a fake corpse to impersonate her. Without our discovery that the body wasn't hers, you'd have stolen my daughter from her parents for eternity. With a mindset like yours, do you honestly believe you're fit to speak of love?"

Tang Xiaoxiao's thoughts turned completely empty.

At last, he realized his grave error.

It was terribly wrong!

So utterly wrong it bordered on the absurd!

Could someone like him ever deserve to mention love?

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

He kept repeating his apologies fervently.

Li Qingcang rose to his feet, gazing down upon Tang Xiaoxiao.

"The one you owe an apology to isn't me—it's the girl you hold dear. You've shattered the faith she placed in you!"

Li Qingcang's form departed from the ward.

He settled onto a seat in the hallway, where Shangguan Ling passed him a bottle of beer.

"Can't you show some understanding for my emotions now? Isn't your son the one who's taken my daughter?"

Li Qingcang tilted his head back, swigging some beer. "How is that even comparable?" he retorted icily.

What sets them apart? Both our daughters have matured, and each has found a man she fancies.

Shangguan Ling took a drink from his beer while eyeing Li Qingcang. "Your son plans to wed my daughter. What amount of betrothal gift will you offer?"

"You're selling off your daughter?" Li Qingcang questioned in a voice full of sorrow.

"Li Qingcang, why phrase it so cruelly? In what way am I selling my daughter?"

Shangguan Ling cleared his throat softly. "My Ningning didn't grow up under our watch for all those years. As her father, guilt weighs on me heavily. I yearn to spoil my daughter more, back her fully, and uphold our dignity. You provide the betrothal gift, and I reciprocate with mine—that's how we make it proper. Consider this: if you skip negotiating with me and I lavish extra wedding gifts instead, won't you feel a surge of pride?"

Li Qingcang nursed his beer. Uncertainty gnawed at him—had Tang Xiaoxiao mistreated his daughter while she was held captive?

As a man, he couldn't properly inquire about it.

Left with no option, he dialed Ye Tianxin and requested her presence to address the issue.

"Hubby, Shangguan Ling."

Ye Tianxin hurried forward from the corridor's far end.

Li Qingcang got to his feet, clasping Ye Tianxin's hand. "Wifey, Youyou was in the sea for a good while today and now she's feverish. She's resting in the ward."

"I'll head inside first to check on our daughter."

Ye Tianxin stepped into the room, approaching Li Youyou step by step.

Pain stabbed at her heart upon seeing Li Youyou's pale, weary expression.

"Mom, I've caused you such worry."

Li Youyou toyed shyly with strands of her hair.

With her daughter appearing so frail, Ye Tianxin found it impossible to voice further reprimands. "Oh, so you're aware I was anxious?" she said. "Then explain why you stayed in the sea that long. What if the cold Qi seeps into you, chilling your womb? It'd make conceiving a child nearly impossible."

Li Youyou gave a soft cough. "Mom, I don't want kids anyway."

"I get that you don't want them now, but... Not wanting them is separate from being unable to later on."

Li Youyou's expression had already soured, and Ye Tianxin's remark darkened it further.

"Mom, I won't have children."

She had already borne a child.

Li Cangqiong and Feng Yi existed because of that.

Yet she hadn't been a worthy mother.

That's why the thought of motherhood never crossed her mind again.

She confessed she couldn't measure up to her own mother's parenting.

"Do you like Tang Xiaoxiao?" Ye Tianxin inquired of Li Youyou.