Chapter 242: Chapter 242 She’s Heartbroken_1 Chapter 242: Chapter 242 She’s Heartbroken_1 Upon hearing this from Elder Bo, Zhang Bo, although he found it hard to bear, he dared not defy the patriarch in his pique and went to fetch the family’s disciplinary whip from the ancestral hall.

Elder Bo leaned his cane against the wall, looking at Xia Qingtian, suddenly looking as if he had aged a decade.

“Oh, Qingqing…” his dry, rough palm tightly held Xia Qingtian’s hands, “Jingyan is wrong in this matter, he has wronged you. If you’re angry, you can scold him, you can even hit him, but please don’t leave him. Please give him one more chance.”

Xia Qingtian opened her mouth, but she didn’t know what to say.

Since she found out that Chen Momo was carrying Bo Jingyan’s child, it had been several days already, but she still felt as if she was burdened with a heavy stone in her heart, making her feel suffocated.

She loved Bo Jingyan. She didn’t want to leave him, but she also couldn’t bear the repeated intertwining of Bo Jingyan and Chen Momo. She was really in a lot of pain at this moment.

Seeing her silence, Elder Bo couldn’t help but feel anxious, “Qingqing, Jingyan’s present state is also my responsibility, I haven’t brought him up well. So if you really want to blame someone, blame me…”

When he reached the end, he couldn’t help to let his tears flow, “Qingqing, I’m the one who owes you so much…”

Seeing him like this, Xia Qingtian’s eyes quickly turned red.

She gripped Elder Bo’s hand in return, “Grandpa, please don’t be like this. This is a matter between Jingyan and me, also involving Chen Momo. You’re not at fault here.”

“Jingyan was raised by me, whatever he’s become, it’s my fault.” Elder Bo’s voice became more desperate, “Please forgive Jingyan this time.”

Thinking of the old man’s kindness and protection towards her, Xia Qingtian didn’t want to see him distressed and tried to comfort him, “Grandpa, I…”

She wanted to say that she forgave Bo Jingyan, and that she didn’t mind that he and Chen Momo had slept together once and again, didn’t mind that Chen Momo was pregnant with his child, but…

The words came to her lips, but she couldn’t bring herself to say them.

She still couldn’t accept it.

Seeing Qingtian’s reaction, Bo Jingyan’s gaze suddenly dimmed.

Elder Bo wanted to say something, but at that moment…

“Master, here’s the disciplinary whip you wanted!” Zhang Bo came over with the horsewhip and handed it to him.

Elder Bo took the whip, said to Xia Qingtian, “Qingqing, I will vent your anger now. I will thoroughly thrash Jingyan with this whip until you’re not angry anymore.”

Having said that, he ordered Bo Jingyan to kneel.

With a solemn face, Bo Jingyan knelt down.

Elder Bo lifted the whip and was about to thrash him mercilessly.

Seeing this scene, Xia Qingtian thought of the time when Jingyan was disciplined by the family, his back covered in blood, high fever that didn’t break, and the refusal to summon a doctor, her heart ached.

When the horsewhip was about to lash onto Bo Jingyan, she quickly called out to stop it, “Grandpa, stop!

“Qingqing, don’t be soft. He must be punished for something he did wrong.” When Elder Bo saw that she still cared for Bo Jingyan, he knew that the situation could be turned around.

So he added more severity to his tone, “Today I will whip him until he won’t be able to get out of bed for a month.”

With that, he ignored Xia Qingtian’s protests and whipped Bo Jingyan harshly with the horsetail.

Even though Bo Jingyan was very resilient, he couldn’t help but grunt in pain, and the smell of blood began to permeate the air.

Xia Qingtian’s heart ached even more.

Seeing that Elder Bo had no intention of stopping, she kneeled before him, shielding Bo Jingyan, and said with a reddened eye, “Grandpa, don’t hit him anymore, I’ve already forgiven Jingyan.”

With her blocking the way, Elder Bo was afraid of hurting her so he couldn’t continue.

He put down his whip and asked, “Qingqing, are you really willing to forgive Jingyan? You won’t leave him or the Bo family?”

Xia Qingtian thought about all the good things Jingyan had done for her, how he had saved her life several times, and their sweet times together.

She nodded heavily, “Yes, I forgive Jingyan, and I won’t leave.”

She was also carrying Jingyan’s child, a continuation of the Bo lineage, where could she go?

Most importantly, she didn’t want her baby to be without a father’s love from birth.

Elder Bo immediately helped her up and glared at Bo Jingyan, “You see how good Qingqing is to you, how could you bear to do something to wrong her, to hurt her.”

Bo Jingyan looked at the woman who had just knelt in front of him to protect him, a softness flashed in his eyes, “I won’t do it again!”

“Humph! If there’s another time, even if the king himself comes, I won’t spare you so easily.” Elder Bo gave the whip back to Zhang Bo and asked him to put it back in the ancestral hall.

Xia Qingtian helped Bo Jingyan up, smelling the scent of blood on him, and her heart rose with dense pains.

“How are you?” She asked in a low voice.

“Thanks to you, I’m fine.” Bo Jingyan’s voice was tender.

Seeing the two of them like this, a trace of relief appeared in Elder Bo’s eyes.

Chen Momo, who had just observed the unfavorable atmosphere and dared not easily intervene for fear of putting herself in trouble, watched the whole process. Witnessing how Elder Bo intervened to bring Xia Qingtian and Bo Jingyan closer, a shadow flashed in her eyes.

What a damn old meddler – why does he interfere so much?

But now she still needed to rely on him to keep the child in her belly.

So she had to suppress her resentment and keep it all in her heart.

With all the attention on her, Chen Momo saw the opportunity to once again kneel down and said, “Grandpa, please let me keep the baby in my belly.”

“I assure you I won’t interfere with Qingqing and Bo’s relationship. I just want someone I’m related by blood to who is constantly with me. Saving one life is better than building a seven story pagoda. Please, for the sake of the times I saved your life, help me.”

Fearing that Elder Bo wouldn’t agree, she decided to resort to her own version of self-torture and began kowtowing to him.

Soon, a trickle of blood seeped from her forehead.

But she still didn’t stop, between the kowtows she begged Elder Bo to save her and the baby in her belly.

People tend to soften as they grow older, and Elder Bo was no exception.

Seeing how desperate Chen Momo was to protect her unborn child, he couldn’t help feeling compassion.

“Qingqing…” he sighed, looking towards Xia Qingtian, “Even though the child in Momo’s belly isn’t well-bred, it’s still a new life. How about letting her give birth to it?”

He knew this was cruel to Xia Qingtian, so he could only try his best to compensate her.

“Don’t worry, once the child in her belly is born, we’ll send them abroad to live. We’ll give them a large sum of money and they will never return to China, they won’t be in your sight.”

“Of course, Momo is still young. If she meets a man she likes in the future and doesn’t want to raise this child anymore, she can leave the child to Jingyan’s mother as a consolation.”

Upon finishing, Elder Bo looked at Xia Qingtian expectantly, “Qingqing, what do you think?”