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 flat

Yuxiu didn’t notice him standing there, her mind occupied

Yuwen telling her that Bai Hongfei was fine,

had brought Bai Hongfei home after nursing him back

scared that Bai Hongfei would continue to

feel 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

years of her life, she had never

her twentieth birthday would bring the biggest twist to her life

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

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

it me that made you feel

man cut through the air

A black silk robe hung

you slept yet?” Cheng Yuxiu asked, slightly flustered by

and stood beside

up because I was thirsty, not because

like you could let things go pretty

Zong Qifeng had

sadness after breaking up with

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

many people out there were getting emotionally distressed or even tortured by love, but she was definitely not one

people could be as carefree and decisive as she

at her. “Remember one thing from

a confused look. He had been acting weird

odd but she couldn’t quite

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

Cheng Yuxiu went silent.

did he

bedroom on the east side of the house silently closed when

belonged to Wen

sleep issues that made her a light sleeper. Cheng Yuxiu had unknowingly woken

Qifeng’s footsteps, she

smile crept onto her lips when she

could see Zong Qifeng’s

almost always begins

it yet, but he’s already doing

knew it, Cheng Yuxiu was already

had to make herself look pregnant