After five years of a cold marriage, I can no longer hide the child I secretly gave birth to.

Upon arriving at the backyard, they saw Xu Jiaojiao wearing a safety helmet, holding several large blueprints, and talking animatedly to Dean Zhao.

Zhou Yanci was not by his side.

She stopped abruptly, preparing to turn and leave.

At that moment, Dean Zhao, with his sharp eyes, immediately called out to her.

"Xiao Xu, we're going to plant some expensive plants in the backyard. Miss Xu also donated some money to our fund, saying she wants to replace the old plants in the front yard too. Come over and get your opinions."

Hearing that she was about to cause trouble again, Xu Daikui felt disgusted.

Xu Jiaojiao's reach is already long enough!

It's not enough to just tinker with the backyard; now we're going to replace all the plants in the yard?

Anyone who didn't know better would think she was the owner of this pet hospital.

A surge of anger immediately welled up inside her, and she strode over. "Which plants do you want to replace?"

Xu Jiaojiao smiled at her, a deep meaning flashing in her eyes, "It's like this, Dai Kui, Aci and I discussed the newly built backyard and decided to use cedar and ginkgo trees as the green plants. As for the front yard, all the areas I circled have been changed to roses."

Roses?

Xu Daikui couldn't help but sneer and looked at the dean, "Dean Zhao, are you getting senile? Most of the patients who come to the hospital have low immunity and are prone to allergies. Planting roses will only worsen their condition due to the pollen."

Dean Zhao naturally understood this logic, and quickly gave a sheepish smile as he looked at Xu Jiaojiao.

"Miss Xu, this..."

Xu Jiaojiao crossed her arms and interrupted him with an arrogant expression, "It's just planting a portion, not the whole thing. Those animals aren't that delicate."

Seeing her assertive attitude, Dean Zhao dared not offend her and quickly nodded in agreement.

Then, looking at the angry Xu Daikui, she said, "What your sister said makes sense. Our hospital is outdoors, so planting a small number of roses won't have much of an impact."

Then he looked at Xu Jiaojiao and said, "Miss Xu, please circle the parts that need to be replaced, and I will have the workers prepare them this afternoon."

Xu Jiaojiao had already marked it, and simply stuffed a drawing into Xu Daikui's hand.

"These are the places that need to be replaced. Dean Zhao has been working hard day and night and has a lot of things to do. I'll have to trouble you to keep an eye on the workers' planting process."

Xu Daikui looked down at the blueprint and realized that the small patch of sunflowers she had planted herself, which was covered by a greenhouse, was also among the plants she was replacing.

Her delicate brows furrowed instantly. She took a deep breath. "You can do whatever you want with the rest of the place, but this sunflower was planted by me six years ago, and I've nurtured it every day for the past few years. This cannot be replaced."

She has loved the resilient sunflower since she was a child, and she even planted a sunflower in her yard when she was little.

Once, Xu Jiaojiao broke the sunflower stem, and they got into a fight that day. Xu Guodong was so angry that he threw the half-dead sunflower, pot and all, out of the house.

Later, it was Lin Nanhuai, a little boy from next door, who took care of it and planted it in his yard.

From then on, she would often go to Lin Nanhuai's house to see the sunflower.

But Lin Nanhuai later died in an accident.

His family moved away too; the flowers and the people were gone.

To commemorate him, she planted a sunflower at the foot of the office building.

She was very happy to see it grow stronger every day.

Xu Jiaojiao must have known that she loved sunflowers.

So, she did it on purpose?

"Oh?"

Xu Jiaojiao peeked over, seemingly unsurprised by her disagreement. She frowned and thought for a moment, "Whether to keep this sunflower or not, I need to carefully consider the area to be used for planting roses."

"After all, these roses are for my wedding, so I can't have one more or one less."

Xu Daikui could easily understand what she meant.

The wedding she's referring to is the one she had with Zhou Yanci, right?

Using the example of growing roses to deliberately disgust her.

They are truly wicked to the extreme!

Dean Zhao also knew that Xu Daikui had carefully tended the sunflower bush for the past six years, and she valued her highly.

Given that her name contains the character "葵" (kui), that patch of sunflowers might hold great significance for her.

So he looked at Xu Jiaojiao hesitantly, "Miss Xu, we can look at other places. That patch of sunflowers doesn't take up much space, so let's not touch it?"

Xu Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows. "No, I had a feng shui master carefully calculate these locations. Missing any one of them would be bad luck for my wedding."

As she said this, she felt she couldn't be too harsh on the surface, so she smiled insincerely and said, "However, I'm not the kind of unreasonable person. How about this, I'll find a feng shui master to calculate the feng shui of this place again at noon and see if it can be changed."

"Oh, that would be perfect. Thank you for your help."

Dean Zhao flattered Xu Jiaojiao and coaxed her to go explore other places.

Xu Daikui's hand, which was holding the blueprints, had turned completely white.

She would never allow Xu Jiaojiao to touch that sunflower.

Back at her office building, she stood in the sunlight, staring at the sunflower for a long time.

As long as she can keep it, that's all she can do; there's nothing else she can do now.

...

At noon, she had little appetite because of this matter.

I feel so choked up. I have to drink a glass of water after every bite of rice because it's so hard to swallow.

She ate a few bites hastily, sat blankly in the cafeteria for a while, and then dragged herself toward the office building.

As soon as I approached the building, I saw a group of workers in gardening uniforms destroying her sunflowers with lawnmowers.

Xu Jiaojiao, dressed in a red dress and wearing a large sun hat, stood there with her arms crossed, giving instructions.

Seeing the greenhouse being demolished and most of the sunflowers already uprooted, she disregarded everything else and rushed over to shove Xu Jiaojiao away violently.

"Stop! Stop it, all of you!!!"

She screamed in despair.

Hearing her desperate cries, the workers stopped what they were doing and looked at her blankly.

Xu Daikui held a sunflower with its head tilted to one side, blooming the most brilliantly. Her body trembled violently, and tears streamed down her face, falling into the mud.

Caught off guard by the push, Xu Jiaojiao fell flat on her face. She angrily got up and rushed over to grab Xu Daikui by the collar.

Why did you push me?!

She questioned him angrily.

Xu Daikui was almost suffocating from being choked by her. Enraged, she grabbed a brick and smashed it directly on her head.