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.”

the baby. “Be careful. He’s still

made Zong Qifeng

took the baby from her arms and felt his heart thump against his chest. He’s a father now and this is his baby – it felt like a dream come true, yet it still seemed so

“He’s my baby.”

Xian smiled. “That’s right. He’s your child, and your blood is

up. “I must thank you for making me a

he being sarcastic – he was genuinely

could console the bitterness

could feel himself letting go of his

at the baby as he talked to

he finally knew what

eyes at him. “My brother would probably kill you if

Maybe he was really

door to the delivery room opened, and Cheng Yuxiu was wheeled out of it. Her doctor came out as well with a smile. “Everything is fine.

hospital now,” Wen Xian said, taking the baby from Zong Qifeng’s arms. “We don’t have

bending down to pick up Cheng Yuxiu, who was still unconscious. She was too tired after being

body

hospital had been the one that Cheng Yuxiu had been going for checkups the

the city. Wen Xian would definitely not give birth at such a

it around Cheng Yuxiu’s body before putting her

streets were still empty, and everything went smoothly. They had arranged

room. When everything was ready, Zong Qifeng made the call to his family and Wen Xian’s family to announce the birth of their baby

the spot, “Women go through hell and back just to give birth, and

phone clenched even tighter when he heard her words. Suddenly, Cheng Yuxiu’s painful cries began to ring

strong, yet she couldn’t

that he

aren’t you talking?”

I was

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

people, some of them looking at the newborn baby, and others

child looks like Qifeng,” Madam Wen said, holding the child