“So there’s not the slightest concern for my physical and mental health?” He had a problem with such unfair treatment.
“Your mind and body are mature, the children’s are still young.” She reasoned with him seriously.
“No!” He didn’t accept such a statement, bent his head, and bit her on the lips. “The matter of the child’s early love affair, I’ll go and probe into it and then give him a thorough nip in the bud. But don’t even think about distancing yourself from me at home!”
“You’re so bossy … But aren’t we being too cruel to snuff out the fire of his love just like that?” What if the child gets sad?
“Not cruel.” He shook his head and said seriously, “It’s more cruel to be unhealthy in mind and body.”
“Yeah? Well … Jerry, what are you doing?”
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“Jerry … still making breakfast outside …”
“That’s not what I want to eat right now …”
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The two of them, tangled up in the bed. The first time I saw her was when she was in the kitchen, and she had to go back to her room.
“Hmm? You say.” He gently caressed her soft hair and helped her button up the shirt on her body one more time. She looked a little tired, half squinting her eyes and looking at him pleadingly, “Let’s … have another baby, okay?”
He froze for a split second. “Look, you’re already going to be screwed up with two kids now. Adding another one will only tire you out more.”
“Never mind. Mom and my mother-in-law mean for us to have another one and they’ll help us with it. Although I can’t get pregnant successfully, I’ve already been to the hospital for tests, and I’m fit for IVF.”
After Zoey’s words, Jerry Xiao didn’t say anything for a long time, just locked his eyebrows and hugged his wife tightly. He just locked his eyebrows and hugged his wife tightly. zoey didn’t rush to say anything, she just wanted to give him enough space to think things through clearly.
The atmosphere, plunged into a kind of serious silence. In the middle of the day, he finally spoke slowly: “Zoey , I want … to hold off on this matter for a little while longer.”
I had thought it would be an answer like this, but the disappointment, still couldn’t help but well up from the bottom of my heart. She hugged his waist, a little tighter. With her face pressed against his chest, she slowly, gently opened her mouth, “Jerry, don’t slow down anymore, okay? I know you are a very good father, you can’t bear to see another child like you, but … aren’t you having a good time now? You’re completely healed, aren’t you?”
“Just because you’re a good father, that’s why I want to give you another child – one that’s born with all of us expecting it!”
“Zoey …” Jerry gazed deeply at her, “With Nini and KK, none of that matters. They have been the biggest surprise life has given me!”
“But, I feel sorry for my mother-in-law and father-in-law.” Zoey half crouched up and looked down at him, “Don’t you really want to see your child’s teeth? Don’t you want to feel the process of your child’s slow growth? Don’t you want to be a part of your child’s first childhood?”
Want to, of course!
He even dreamed … and … for so long, he had been so sorry why he hadn’t been with her earlier, so that he could have been involved in her and the children’s lives earlier.
But …
“Nowadays, the success rate of this disease is too low. I don’t even dare to let Nini undergo treatment, she’s still so young and already has to suffer. How can I bear to drag another child down?” Nini’s difficulty had already made him suffer. If he could, how he would want to suffer all the sins for his child …
Where would he dare to take another risk nowadays?
“Jerry, even if it’s my wish, we … bet again, okay?” Zoey pleaded again.
Jerry Xiao looked sullenly into those expectant eyes and looked bleak, “With these two children, I already feel satisfied …”
He had, apparently, made up his mind.
But Zoey knows that he’ll never be satisfied. In recent times, taking the kids to Mt. Fuji, going to Disney, walking through so many scenes, he looked at the two children’s figures in a daze. The shame and regret in the bottom of his eyes was so obvious.
Often times, one would go through the pictures Zoey had saved of his children from infancy to the present day. He would look at them one by one, and his eyes would get moist. Even though there are many things he can’t clearly say, Zoey understands how this father feels.
Available, now at …
She knew that she simply couldn’t convince him anymore. She could only give a shallow smile and didn’t say anything more, faintly changing the topic, “It’s time to eat, get up.”
She, for one, went out first.
And then …
Downstairs, came the voices of the children and her. The children were laughing and screaming, and the two who had just had a falling out were now at peace with each other.
Jerry Xiao listens to these lively, belonging to the sound of home, the heart floats happiness and touching.
In life, there are always inevitable regrets. Perhaps the fact that such regrets remained would, in turn, make him more appreciative.
Now …
He hardly wanted to leave his two children and her even for a moment …
…
The kids went to school together, Jerry Xiao was at work, Zoey was sitting alone in front of the computer, writing her resume, and Sea Gu was chatting with her on MSN while she was at work.
“Still haven’t convinced him about the baby?” Sea Gu sent a message.
Zoey sent a ‘crying’ emoji over to express her depression. Sea Gu replied quickly, “I think, it’s better to repudiate him. How can you not even want your own child?”
Looking at the rows of words, Zoey loses her smile. One could almost imagine him falling on his sword on that end. He still held a grudge from the last elopement?
“I don’t dare to take a break, no one will support me if I do. I’m a hobo now.”
“Aren’t you putting in a resume? Vote for me and I’ll give you an offer.” Sea Gu missed the brief time when Zoey had been his secretary. She was the only one who really wasn’t his dad’s eyes and ears, a spy.
“Cast around first. I’m still pitching without him knowing.”
Zoey wanted to stay at home and be a housewife for a while. She was devoted to taking care of him and the two children, but after being married for a while, she realized that she was the only one who was really idle in the house.
The children are starting school, in this side of the new classmates, new friends, even on weekends and classmates go out to play, life is colorful, do not need her as a mother to worry too much.
And Jerry …
He had to go to work every day, much less need her company at all times.
A keeper of the house, a thought swelled in her heart, and she thought of him every moment, and all day long, she was filled with that figure. The thoughts were truly terrible! She was afraid that if she didn’t find something to do for a while, she would break herself completely.
Owen had asked her several times to work for his family’s company, and she had considered that it was time to go back and help out.
“When he finds out, he’s going to get you in his company. By the way, I’ll teach you a way to get pregnant.” Sea Gu suddenly said.
Zoey was instantly interested and tapped an expectant face, Sea Gu typed in a string of words, “Go steal the gold and get pregnant first. When the rice is ripe, I’m sure he won’t dare to nag.”
What kind of bad idea is this?
Zoey, so speechless. Straight up speechless, typing a string of ellipses over.
In fact, she shouldn’t have expected much from him.
“Well, let’s do that trick you women do, a cry or two or three!”
“No!” Coercing him was something she couldn’t do.
“It’s neither here nor there. I think it’s better for you not to give birth. Two children are already enough of a headache, add another one, and you’ll really have to settle for being a housewife!”
Zoey rested her cheeks in agony. She couldn’t come up with any good ideas for a while, so she just flattened her mouth and changed the topic with Sea Gu, “How are you and Original Shadow doing these days? I heard that you are being forced to get married, is that true?”
Sea Gu sent a straight up scratchy emoji and no more words.
Zoey could almost imagine him yelling about demons over there, and then freaking out to the max. She lost her smile, “Let’s see, you take it from Chairman Gu! His Excellency has always had a good eye for people.”
“… The secretary has called me to a meeting, so I’ll leave now. Bye! Good luck with your pregnancy!”
The words just typed over, and his avatar went black all of a sudden. This man, actually directly offline!
Zoey cried and laughed. It seemed that the original shadow had a real influence on him!
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After writing her resume, Zoey nestled on the couch and moved to the computer, haphazardly keeping an eye out for web pages about babies, thinking about how to convince him of her heart again. The eyes, suddenly, stopped on a cute baby picture …
Suddenly …
Thoughts flashed.
There it is!
It’s sure to get under his skin and will definitely succeed in convincing him!
Zoey, feeling better all of a sudden, immediately shut down her computer and started plotting.
The cell phone, when it rang, she was contacting the hospital very enthusiastically.
When she saw the number on the screen, she rippled a smile and hurriedly picked it up. She heard the familiar voice ringing in her ears, “What are you working on?”
Zoey laughs, “Just been bullshitting Ingram! What about you? Busy at work?”
“Just got out of a meeting and wanted to hear your voice.” His tone, all tenderness and fondness.
In fact …
She wasn’t the only one who had that longing, he, who was in the company, missed it just as much. Even if every day is busy with endless work, reading endless documents and reports, but …
Her figure was still that constantly playing around in his mind. Even Ah Feng and the other secretaries, could see it – the newly married president’s mind was not on work at all.
Hearing his words made Zoey’s heart soft and sweet as cotton candy.
“So when are you coming back? Make what you and the kids like tonight.”
Jerry Xiao laughs away, “What day do you make something that the kids and I don’t like?”
Now, her tastes followed suit. Whatever it was, the tastes were becoming practically identical to his.
“Bored of staying home alone? Don’t stay at home all day, it’s good to go out for a walk. Why don’t you come to my company?” Jerry Xiao compelled her.
She raised the corners of her lips, “Is it again for me to observe the last kind of drama where you were sexually harassed? Well … I’m your wife now, I don’t have the same kind of good patience that I used to have, to be able to hold back until the end without rushing in.”
He lost his smile, “You’re welcome to storm in.”