Stealing Your Heart

Cheng Yuxiu didn’t hesitate to answer, “I want a girl.”

Boys were too much to handle, while girls tend to be gentle and caring. Many people have said that girls bring warmth and joy to their parents, and Cheng Yuxiu could see why.

Boys were not as meticulous as girls.

She really wanted a girl.

Bai Hongfei had asked her the same question as well, and she had given him the same answer. “I’d better have a daughter this life,” she told him.

However, reality turned out the opposite of what she wanted.

Wen Xian scooped some food into her bowl. “Me too, but I was hoping that your child will be a boy.”

Wealthy families had always wanted sons over daughters. Even though time had changed and gender equality was the talk of the century, boys were still the preferred choice when it comes to inheriting large family businesses.

Cheng Yuxiu understood what she meant, yet she couldn’t bring herself to say so. “I can’t promise you that it will be a boy,” she said with her head hung low.

“Are you dumb?” Wen Xian said, laughing. “I’m just saying. No need to feel pressured.”

The days where the woman gets blamed for not producing children of a preferred gender were long gone.

Zong Qifeng put down his chopsticks and left the table. He wondered why Wen Xian acted more like the child’s father than he did.

He felt like a sore thumb in this family.

During mealtimes, the two women chatted away, leaving him alone and lonely.

He was puzzled.

Both Wen Xian and Cheng Yuxiu looked at him.

“I think he’s mad at something,” Cheng Yuxiu said.

Wen Xian seemed to understand, but she didn’t call him out. “Maybe it’s some work-related issues.”

Cheng Yuxiu nodded.

At night.

Zong Qifeng had trouble sleeping, and after a while of tossing of turning, he got up to go downstairs, where he saw Cheng Yuxiu getting something to drink. Looking at her slender silhouette beside the table, he wondered how she still didn’t look pregnant at all despite being almost three months into her pregnancy.

looked as

there, her mind occupied

from Cheng Yuwen telling her that Bai Hongfei was fine, and that there’s no need for her

home

Bai Hongfei would continue

saddened as she walked over to the window with a cup of water in her hand. The dark night sky was as quiet as ever, and it was the

first twenty years of her life, she had never thought that she

twentieth birthday would

in another unfamiliar city and staying in a house of strangers,

smiled, though it

made

cut through the air like

behind her. A black silk robe hung loosely on his slender body, and she couldn’t quite make out his facial expression due to the

you slept yet?” Cheng Yuxiu asked, slightly flustered by the fact that he was

Qifeng walked over and stood beside her.

the window. “I woke up

could let things

was something Zong Qifeng

she be bawling in sadness after

Yuxiu glanced at him and replied, “I know what I’m getting myself into, and there’s no way we could go back to what we were before. Getting involved in each other’s lives from now on would only hurt us even more. I figured that

by her determination. So many people out there were getting emotionally distressed or even tortured by love, but she was definitely not

could be as carefree and decisive as

her. “Remember

with a confused

odd but she

shouldn’t be ignoring me,” he said, before turning

Cheng Yuxiu went silent.

he mean

on the east side of the house silently closed when Zong Qifeng went

belonged to

that made her a light sleeper. Cheng Yuxiu had unknowingly

heard Zong Qifeng’s footsteps, she got up

her lips when she saw them

Zong Qifeng’s eyes focusing on

almost always begins from

realized it yet,

knew it, Cheng Yuxiu

Xian had to make herself look pregnant as