Stealing Your Heart

Cheng Yuxiu was taken to the delivery room.

Zong Qifeng paced back and forth in front of the door and stole a few glances inside, but all he could hear were Cheng Yuxiu’s painful cries.

Wen Xian walked over. “Don’t worry too much.”

Zong Qifeng turned around and looked at her, unable to speak for a long moment.

He longed for a good smoke to take his mind off things, but the posters on the wall telling him that smoking was prohibited forced him to suppress the urge.

The suffering continued for seven hours. Being a first-time mother, it took a much longer time for Cheng Yuxiu’s cervix to dilate.

“Ahhh!”

Suddenly, a loud scream pierced through the air, followed by the cries of a newborn baby.

Zong Qifeng’s eyes lit up. “Is she done?”

Wen Xian heaved a huge sigh of relief. “I guess so.”

After a while, the door to the delivery room opened, and a nurse came out with a baby in her arms. “The child has been delivered successfully at 7.20 A.M. on 21st December. He’s a boy weighing at 2.8kg.”

Zong Qifeng had been looking forward to this moment, but when it came, he didn’t know how to react. Instead, he stood rooted to the ground.

Wen Xian came forward to take the child from the nurse’s arms. “Thank you.”

“This is our duty. The mother will be coming out soon,” the nurse said, before returning to the delivery room and closing the door behind her.

Wen Xian looked at the baby in her arms, her face filled with love. He was tiny, almost fragile-looking.

It was her first time holding a baby, hence she was very careful with it and it felt amazing. She walked over to Zong Qifeng. “Look, it’s your baby.”

It was still too early to tell who the child resembles, but he had a full head of bushy, black hair.

Zong Qifeng looked down, his face taut and his hands shaking from excitement. “Give him to me.”

carefully passed him the baby.

Zong Qifeng even more

thump against his chest. He’s a father now and

“He’s my baby.”

child, and your blood is running

up. “I must thank you

was he being sarcastic – he was genuinely thankful

console the bitterness in him

moment, he could feel himself letting go of his

baby as he talked to Wen Xian, “I’ll let you go. Let’s get a divorce

he

Xian rolled her eyes at him. “My brother would probably kill you if he found out that

Qifeng laughed too. Maybe he was really going crazy from

came out as well

going to another hospital now,” Wen Xian said, taking the

up Cheng Yuxiu, who was still unconscious. She was too tired after being in pain for

body

for checkups the whole time, as it was

to go to a hospital in the city. Wen Xian would definitely not give birth at such

and wrapped it around Cheng Yuxiu’s body before putting her

and everything went smoothly. They had arranged everything beforehand to make

ready, Zong Qifeng made the call to his family and Wen

heard the news, she began to berate him on the spot, “Women

phone clenched even tighter when he heard her

yet she couldn’t bear the pain. It must

he owed

talking?” Madam

tell you yesterday. I was too nervous,” Zong Qifeng explained

the family about the birth in the midst of his anxiety. Madam Wen decided to drop the subject. “Don’t

room was crowded with people, some of them looking at the

like Qifeng,” Madam Wen