Stealing Your Heart

She stared at him, noticing the worry in his eyes.

“Sang Yu… we might have forgotten something…”

“Huh?” Sang Yu asked, confused. “What did we forget?”

Shen Peichuan pursed his lips together. “W-What if you got pregnant?” he asked after a long while of hesitating.

Oh… so that’s what he’s worried about…

She glanced around and found no trace of condoms or any kind of protection.

Shen Peichuan had taken the time to buy some beforehand, but it had slipped both their minds to use them during their many intimate encounters.

Sang Yu, however, did not have any qualms about getting pregnant.

“Don’t you love kids?” Sang Yu asked, soothing his nerves. “We can have a child of our own if I got pregnant!”

Shen Peichuan shook his head. “I do love kids, but you haven’t even graduated yet!”

“No worries. I’m already of age and married. I have a capable hubby who can support a family. What’s there to worry about?” Sang Yu said.

She walked into the room took to pick an outfit for herself. Out of convenience, she decided to put on the only dress that she owned.

It was nothing glamorous, but it was the most comfortable thing she could find.

Shen Peichuan walked over. “I’ll wait outside.”

Sang Yu nodded.

When she was ready, the two of them walked out of the front door together.

she wanted to have dinner, and he would bring her there, no matter how far

occasions meant nothing to him, but

man I

dinner, they walked back home

set, and they savored the cool

held on to his arm and skipped around, touching every shadow she could see with her toes like a young child. The street was teeming with people

by the side of the road that sold bouquets wrapped in simple construction paper. The cart itself was easy to miss, but the colorful flowers that adorned it made

Peichuan over and pointed at a bouquet of baby’s

The florist smiled. “Twenty-five.”

“Fifteen,” Sang Yu bargained.

sure your companion here won’t mind spending a little for some flowers. I’ll be making a loss if I sold you those flowers for

Yu huffed. “Let’s go,

the florist called, panicking. “Sir, why don’t you just buy these flowers for your girlfriend? Surely twenty-five isn’t too high

Yu seemed to like the flowers, and twenty-five would barely make a dent in his

hand. “His money is mine, and I don’t think

at bargaining, eh? Alright then, fifteen

florist took out the bouquet of baby’s breaths from the cart and handed it to Sang

bouquet with a smile.

that he would incur a loss, but she swallowed her words at the last second. Making a living off selling flowers was not easy, but Shen Peichuan’s money was not something to be thrown out like

Peichuan’s wallet to him, and he glanced at her before handing

continued with their walk home afterward with Sang Yu holding on to her bouquet of baby’s breaths tightly. When they got out of the florist’s earshot, Sang Yu turned to Shen Peichuan and chided, “You can’t just spend

Su Zhan’s or Zong Jinghao’s, so he was

wasn’t much…” Shen Peichuan

for something you could get for fifteen?” Sang Yu asked, shooting a

so I’d buy it for you no matter

Yu grinned. That’s

about the cost so

baby tomorrow?” she asked before realizing that he had work the next day. “Wait… what time