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

her that Bai Hongfei was fine, and that there’s no need for

had brought Bai Hongfei home after nursing him back to

was scared that Bai Hongfei would continue to harass Cheng

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 scene to brood

had never thought that she would one day fall into

never have guessed that her twentieth birthday would bring the biggest

in another unfamiliar city and staying in a house of strangers, even going as far

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

me that made you feel

a man cut through

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

Yuxiu asked, slightly flustered by the

and stood beside her. “You are not asleep

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

could let things go pretty

was something Zong

sadness after breaking up with

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

emotionally distressed or even

people could be as carefree

Qifeng looked at her. “Remember

him with a confused

was odd but she

child in your belly, so you shouldn’t be ignoring me,”

Cheng Yuxiu went silent.

he mean

the house silently

belonged

a light sleeper. Cheng Yuxiu had unknowingly woken her up as

she heard Zong Qifeng’s footsteps, she

crept onto her lips when she saw

see Zong Qifeng’s

almost always begins

realized it yet, but

it, Cheng Yuxiu was already eight months

to make herself look pregnant