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

him standing there, her mind occupied

telling her that Bai Hongfei was fine, and that

Yuwen had brought Bai Hongfei home after nursing

was scared that Bai Hongfei would

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 perfect scene to brood

of her life, she had never thought that she

guessed that her twentieth birthday would bring

unfamiliar city and staying in a house of

looked at the empty sky that was devoid of stars or even the moon. She smiled, though it was

me that made you

man cut through the air like

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

flustered by the fact that he

and stood beside her. “You are

out of the window. “I woke up because I was thirsty, not because I haven’t

let things go pretty

something Zong

after breaking up with

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

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

people could be as carefree and

her. “Remember

asked while looking at him with a

but she couldn’t quite

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

Cheng Yuxiu went silent.

did he mean by

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

room belonged to

sleeper. Cheng Yuxiu had unknowingly

Qifeng’s footsteps, she got up as

lips when she saw

Zong Qifeng’s eyes focusing

almost always begins from

realized it yet, but he’s already

they knew it, Cheng Yuxiu was

make herself look pregnant