Receiving Qin Ya’s nod of approval, Su Zhan soon supported himself with one hand against the couch. Meanwhile, he began to caress her face, eyes, nose, and lips with his other hand. With his hands roaming all over her body, he wanted to engrave her look in his heart, as he hoped that he would never forget her.
Then, as his lips approached hers, she slowly closed her eyes.
Knowing that Qin Ya was fragile emotionally and that she required protection, Su Zhan kissed her gently, not impatient to do anything. He leaned toward her ear and whispered, “Ya, if you feel upset about anything, please inform me about it. Don’t bury your feelings deep within your heart.”
Truthfully, he envied anyone who could make her smile.
He couldn’t recall the last time that he had seen her genuine smile, seeing as she had begun to smile less, offering fake smiles in front of him. In addition to that, she had always buried her feelings, evidently reluctant to be forthcoming to him.
Feeling his kiss upon her eyes, Qin Ya’s eyes soon began to flutter open. She had felt ticklish.
However, at the same time, she felt that his lips were rather soft. Eventually, she closed her eyes again.
He kissed her gently for quite some time, so much so that she was almost used to the intimacy.
When he began to unbutton her shirt, she didn’t resist him as she had expected earlier, daring to face him instead.
Soon, their clothes were thrown all over the floor, lying in heaps.
Qin Ya was lying on the bed when she woke up. She roughly remembered that Su Zhan had carried her into the bedroom last night. When she saw Su Zhan’s shirt on the side of the bed, she grabbed it randomly in an effort to put it on. Seeing that his shirt was rather oversized for her, it looked like a mini skirt that could cover her private part, still revealing her legs in the process.
When she walked out of the bedroom, she saw Su Zhan in the kitchen with an apron around his waist. She couldn’t help but stand next to the door as she stared at him. In his casual wear, his waist and legs looked thin, but not without energy.
Shen Peichuan gave others the impression that he was sturdy, yet Su Zhan was handsome due to his fair skin and clean-cut facial features. He looked a little smug when he wasn’t serious, but his eyes would sparkle the moment he focused on something.
Besides, as a thirty-year-old man, he looked rather young. Many would have thought that he was merely over twenty years old. Furthermore, he appeared like a typical, handsome young man whenever he acted seriously without wearing his necktie.
Moving out of the house, Qin Ya seemed to be a lot more relaxed. She went into the kitchen silently and hugged him from behind all of a sudden. Then, she leaned over to look at the pot and asked, “What are you cooking?”
“Large shrimps in tomato sauce.” Each shrimp in the pot was as large as two fingers combined. She could clearly sense the smell of seafood, seeing that the shrimps were already almost cooked.
After a while, she pursed her lips and revealed her feelings to Su Zhan. “For quite some time in the past, I lived in fear, being afraid for many reasons.”
He turned off the gas as he spun around. However, when he wanted to touch her face, he realized that his hands weren’t clean. Hence, he kissed her forehead and responded gently, “I know.”
In fact, he always observed her. Unfortunately, he found that he couldn’t comfort her at all.
After all, her fear and uneasiness were brought about by him.
“From now on, don’t mention surrogacy because we won’t be doing it anymore,” Su Zhan urged seriously.
Qin Ya caressed his temples and admitted, “I love to see you smile.”
Nevertheless, Su Zhan really couldn’t smile.
Upon pondering over it for a while, Qin Ya suggested, “Let’s give it one more try. We’ll let it go if we fail again. We should at least finish what we’d started.”
He hugged her and agreed, “Alright, we’ll give it one more try. I won’t have regrets, even if we fail again…” He paused for a while and continued, “Let’s not go back. I will deal with Grandma later.”
Qin Ya agreed to it. After all, she found it difficult to face Grandma Su and was more relaxed when she lived outside.
“In that case, I shall be a little selfish and hand over everything to you. Instead, I will merely hide behind you.” It had been a long time since she had laughed heartily before him.
He loved how she appeared both now and whenever she smiled. More importantly, he appreciated it when she was honest with him.
At the end of the month, Qin Ya tried once more, this being the second time of her surrogacy. Throughout the process, she was still anxious and worried that she would fail again. She was ready to bear the pain, yet, she felt that it was difficult to accept it if the doctor had told them the same result.
After the extraction of her ovum, Su Zhan picked Qin Ya up, as they headed home together. In fact, she was disgusted by the odor of disinfectant, feeling that it was difficult to breathe whenever she was in the hospital.
Hence, she was relieved that she could rest at home now, with Su Zhan remaining by her side.
Moreover, she seldom brought up questions about Grandma Su. Since Su Zhan had already dealt with the matter, she forced herself not to think about it.
At the end of the month, Shen Peichuan finally returned.
However, Sang Yu wanted to move to the dormitory at the university with the excuse that she had to attend many classes. She even moved out secretly, on the same night that Shen Peichuan returned.
Shen Peichuan didn’t doubt her and genuinely believed that she was truly busy with her studies. When Zong Jinghao was informed that Shen Peichuan had returned, he invited Shen Peichuan for lunch at his house in the afternoon.
Since he came alone, Lin Xinyan couldn’t help but ask, “Why didn’t Sang Yu come with you? I mean, you two have hardly seen each other because you’d gone on a trip for many days.”
Besides, because they have just gotten married. Lin Xinyan thought that they were supposed to stick together. Hence, she was curious upon seeing that he had arrived alone.
Lin Xinyan wanted to persuade Zong Jinghao so that she could bring the kids along to C City. It had been more than a month after she had given birth, and she didn’t want to let go of her business in the city.
However, Zong Jinghao didn’t really agree with her decision. He was determined that it was enough, for one of them to be the breadwinner of the family. Seeing that they had a comfortable life now, Zong Jinghao was rather reluctant to see his family members separated from one another.
Lin Xinyan understood his reasoning. Hence, she didn’t take a hardline stance, as she merely hoped that Zong Jinghao would reconsider it.
Her youngest son had fewer wrinkles and looked cuter as he grew up. While Zong Yanchen looked increasingly like Zong Jinghao, her youngest son grew to look like her.
Hearing Lin Xinyan’s question, Shen Peichuan soon replied, “She has moved to the dormitory because she is busy with her studies.”
Lin Xinyan instantly felt that something was not right. A few days ago, when Sang Yu came to their house, she told her that was rather free as she was currently looking for an internship.
