Cheng Yuxiu’s face went pale in a second. She held on tight to her phone and couldn’t say a single word.
Bai Hongfei began to panic. “Yuxiu, please come and see me. If there’s any misunderstandings, we can work it out together!”
Cheng Yuxiu sighed. He had been extremely stubborn, to the point that even Mrs. Bai couldn’t get him to go home. He stayed in front of the Cheng residence for about a week without food and water, before he finally collapsed and had to be carried back by Mrs. Bai’s men.
However, he ran to the Cheng residence again the moment he woke up, saying that he would not leave unless he got to see Cheng Yuxiu.
With that, Cheng Yuwen had no choice but to bring him to B City just to meet Cheng Yuxiu.
“Let me talk to her,” Cheng Yuwen said, snatching the phone over. “Hello? It’s me, sister. Bai Hongfei is being a stubborn mule, so I have no choice but to bring him here to see you. Make things clear with him once and for all. Y’all had such a long history together, so you should probably give him some closure.”
Cheng Yuxiu closed her eyes for a second, before opening them again and glanced at Zong Qifeng. “I need to go out for some matters…”
Cheng Yuwen managed to convince her to see Bai Hongfei and put an end to their entanglement.
She had to end things herself.
Zong Qifeng wasn’t sure what happened, but he could tell that Cheng Yuxiu was troubled. He didn’t want to give her any more pressure now that she’s pregnant.
“You shouldn’t tire yourself. I’ll send you there.”
Cheng Yuxiu hesitated for a moment before rejecting him. “I…”
“If you don’t let me send you there, I won’t let you out of bed. Even the doctor has ordered you to stay in bed.”
Cheng Yuxiu had no choice but to nod. She asked Cheng Yuwen where they were so that she could go over.
After he told her the address, she hung up and grasped the phone tightly in her hand. “Can you go out for a moment?” She asked Zong Qifeng, slightly embarrassed.
Zong Qifeng frowned. “Is something wrong?”
Cheng Yuxiu immediately shook her head. “No, it’s just…”
“It’s just…?” Zong Qifeng frowned.
Cheng Yuxiu lowered her head. She couldn’t tell him that she wanted to go to the bathroom, could she?
He was a man after all.
Although they had gotten intimate before, there hadn’t been any feelings involved, let alone the fact that they were barely acquaintances.
She couldn’t bring herself to say it.
Looking at her flushed face, Zong Qifeng seemed to understand. He was a man after all then he got up from the bed and said, “I’ll go out first.”
He called a nurse to take his place, since he couldn’t trust Cheng Yuxiu to be alone.
When the nurse came in, Cheng Yuxiu froze for a second. “I’m fine.”
She thought the nurse came to check up on her.
Instead, the nurse walked over and said, “Mr. Zong told me to come in since he was worried about you being alone.”
Cheng Yuxiu looked at the nurse and blinked a few times, feeling surprised that Zong Qifeng would do such a thing. She was feeling sad suddenly.
Was he concerned about her because she was carrying his child?
The nurse helped her into the bathroom and closed the door.
After a while, the nurse heard some noise coming from inside, and took that as a cue to knock and ask if she was done.
Cheng Yuxiu answered yes, and the nurse opened the door.
She offered to help Cheng Yuxiu back to the bed, but she waved her off. Instead, Cheng Yuxiu told her to bring her coat over.
“You can’t go out, you are too weak,” the nurse chided.
Cheng Yuxiu nodded. “I know. I’m just going out for a short while, and I have someone to accompany me.”
“But you…”
“It’s fine. I’ll take care of myself. Besides, I won’t be gone for long.”
Before the nurse could finish what she was going to say, Cheng Yuxiu cut her off and told her that Zong Qifeng gave her permission to go out. However, the nurse was still reluctant to let her out. “You can’t walk if you want your child to survive.”
Cheng Yuxiu felt troubled. How was she going to go out if she couldn’t walk?
The nurse looked from Cheng Yuxiu to Zong Qifeng, and she couldn’t help but wonder why he was being so dense in front of his wife. “Aren’t you a couple? Why don’t you just carry her?” The nurse asked in a loud voice.
Cheng Yuxiu’s face went red and was about to explain herself when Zong Qifeng cut her off. “Let me carry you.”
“But…”
“But what? The child you’re carrying doesn’t just belong to you. Both of you should put in effort to ensure the baby’s safe delivery.”
The nurse gave Cheng Yuxiu a look. She’s going to become a mother soon, and she’s still so shy in front of her husband? That’s unheard of.
Zong Qifeng bent down and picked her up bridal-style. “I’m not plotting anything, I just want you to be safe and healthy.”
Cheng Yuxiu didn’t know where to put her hands, but Zong Qifeng came to her rescue by placing them on his shoulder. “We’re supposed to be a ‘couple’, so we gotta act like one in public. It’s not good to tip people off that we’re just acting.”
Cheng Yuxiu had never been so awake and aware of their intimacy, and her entire body went taut. Zong Qifeng noticed it and sighed. “Aren’t you going to get tired from being so tense?”
Cheng Yuxiu lowered her head. “I’m not used to this.”
“It looks like I’ve been neglecting you. I’ll come and see you more often from now on,” he said, before adding, “For the sake of our child.”
They arrived at the car park downstairs. Zong Qifeng gently placed her down on the backseat of the car and buckled up her seatbelt for her. When he turned around to look at her, Cheng Yuxiu immediately pushed herself upright against her seat.
Zong Qifeng gave her a look without saying anything. He closed the door and slid into the driver’s seat in front then started the engine.
Reversing the car into the main road, he turned around and asked, “Where is it?”
“The train station,” Cheng Yuxiu said. Cheng Yuwen and Bai Hongfei had called her right after they got off the train, and since they didn’t know anyone in B City, they decided to wait at the exit of the train station for the time being.
“Is it your brother?” Zong Qifeng asked.
Cheng Yuxiu felt anxious, and she clasped her hands together tightly. “Yeah…”
She didn’t know how to tell him about Bai Hongfei.
After all, they hadn’t officially broken up yet, and it would be a lie to say that they won’t regret it considering how close they were in the past.
She had mixed emotions.
Zong Qifeng looked at her through the rearview window, and although he noticed that she was worried about something, he didn’t question it and drove on without saying a word.
Soon, Cheng Yuxiu could see the train station from the car window, and two people were standing on the steps right outside the exit.
One of them was her brother, the other her ex-boyfriend.
Cheng Yuxiu took a while to alight the car after it stopped and grabbed the handle on the car door tightly.
Zong Qifeng got out first and opened the door for her, but when he made a move to carry her out, she pushed him away almost instinctively.
Zong Qifeng raised his head. “The child in your belly is mine too, and I don’t want anything to happen to our baby.”
It sounded like a simple reminder, but he was actually reiterating that fact that she had no right to disregard his presence.
