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 flat

there, her mind occupied with

by a call from Cheng Yuwen telling her that Bai Hongfei was fine, and that there’s no need

Yuwen had brought Bai Hongfei home after nursing him back to

scared that Bai Hongfei

but feel saddened as she walked over to the window with a cup of water in her hand. The dark night sky was

had

have guessed that her twentieth birthday would bring the

in a house of strangers, even going as far as getting

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

that made you

low voice of a man cut through the air like a

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

you slept yet?” Cheng Yuxiu asked, slightly flustered by the fact that he was eavesdropping on her

and stood beside her. “You are not asleep

of the window. “I woke up because I

let things go pretty

was something Zong Qifeng had not

in sadness after breaking

getting myself into, and there’s no way we could go back to what we were before. Getting involved in each other’s lives from now on would only hurt

there were getting emotionally

people could be as carefree

at her. “Remember one thing

Yuxiu asked while looking at him with a confused look. He had

was odd but

the child in your belly, so you shouldn’t be

Cheng Yuxiu went silent.

did he mean by

east side of the house silently closed when Zong Qifeng

belonged to Wen

that made her a light sleeper. Cheng Yuxiu had

footsteps, she

lips when she saw them

Zong Qifeng’s eyes focusing on Cheng

always

yet, but

knew it, Cheng Yuxiu was already

had to make herself look pregnant as