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

standing there, her mind occupied

by a call from Cheng Yuwen telling her that

had brought Bai Hongfei home after nursing

was scared that Bai Hongfei would continue to harass Cheng

help but 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 was the perfect

her life, she had never thought that she would one day fall into

would never have guessed that her twentieth birthday

a house of strangers, even going as far as

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 of me, haven’t

made you

a man cut through the air

man standing behind her. A black silk robe hung loosely on his slender body, and she couldn’t

asked, slightly flustered by

walked over and stood beside her. “You are not

window. “I woke up because

you could let things

something Zong

in sadness after breaking up with

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

people out there were getting emotionally distressed or even tortured by love, but she

people could be as

looked at her. “Remember one thing from now

with a confused

was odd but she

you shouldn’t be ignoring me,” he said, before turning around to go

Cheng Yuxiu went silent.

did he

side of the house silently

belonged to Wen

sleeper. Cheng Yuxiu had unknowingly woken her up as

Zong Qifeng’s footsteps, she got up

her lips when she saw them

see Zong Qifeng’s eyes focusing on Cheng

always

it yet, but he’s already

Yuxiu was already

Xian had to make herself look pregnant