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.

belly looked as

there, her mind occupied

a call from Cheng Yuwen telling her that Bai Hongfei was fine, and

had brought Bai Hongfei home after nursing him

Bai Hongfei would continue

the window with a cup of water in her hand. The dark night sky was as quiet as ever, and it was the perfect scene to

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

never have guessed that her twentieth birthday would bring

another unfamiliar city and staying in a house of strangers, even going as far as getting intimate with one

of stars or even the moon. She smiled, though it was filled with bitterness. “Oh, God, you’ve made a massive joke out of

made you

of a man cut through

A black silk robe hung loosely on his

flustered by the fact that he was eavesdropping on her

walked over and stood beside her. “You are not

“I woke up because I was thirsty,

could let things go pretty

something Zong

she be bawling in sadness after

we could go back to what we were before. Getting involved in each other’s lives from now on would only

determination. So many people out there were getting emotionally distressed or even tortured by love, but she was definitely

be as carefree

looked at her. “Remember one thing

looking at him with a confused look. He had been

was odd but she couldn’t quite

your belly, so you shouldn’t be ignoring me,” he said, before turning around

Cheng Yuxiu went silent.

did he mean

the house silently closed when Zong

belonged

issues that made her a light sleeper. Cheng

heard Zong Qifeng’s footsteps, she got up

lips when she

see Zong Qifeng’s

almost always

hadn’t realized it yet,

they knew it, Cheng Yuxiu was already eight months

had to make herself