Chapter 1263: The Choice (Part 1)

He answered without thinking, “Sure, I’ll be there on time tomorrow.”

Old Zhang’s voice carried a hint of laughter, “Donglin, you’ve never let me down.”

“It’s all thanks to your guidance, Uncle.”

“By the way, it won’t affect Xixi’s health, right?”

“No worries. Everything is pretty stable now, rest assured.”

After hanging up the phone, he glanced at Yan Xixi lying on the bed. This crafty one was pretending to sleep earlier, acting like it was nothing, yet her ears were obviously perked up, listening very attentively.

As soon as she saw him hang up, she immediately asked, “What’s up?”

He replied casually, “There’s an important meeting tomorrow, Old Zhang wants me to attend.”

“Old Zhang called you himself? Doesn’t that mean the meeting is quite significant?”

He laughed, “It’s a crucial moment now, I guess Old Zhang hopes I can hold the fort. But, work issues are never a big deal, so don’t worry about that, Xixi. The only thing you need to focus on is the baby in your belly…”

Yan Xixi smiled.

He saw her being so carefree and was surprised, “Silly girl, what’s so funny?”

“I’m not worried about your work issues at all. Any problem that can be solved by work isn’t really a big problem.”

“Of course. People spend their whole lives working, but having a child is something that can’t wait. So, I still think the child is much more important than work.”

Yan Xixi laughed heartily.

That night passed peacefully, and early the next morning, Wan Donglin set off.

Lying in bed, Yan Xixi felt it wasn’t true to say she wasn’t nervous at all. She thought to herself that ever since she got pregnant, she’s been living the life of an Empress Dowager: clothes and food are brought to her without her having to lift a finger, and for every meal, she had to consider her mood, prepare in advance, and sometimes things were bought but she’d lose appetite, making the nanny tirelessly prepare something else.

She even felt like she had become an especially annoying person.

But, what can you do, no appetite means no appetite. Especially the delicacies and meats she used to love… just the smell makes her nauseous now. Especially lamb chops, she can’t even think about them without being overwhelmed by that mutton smell and feeling like throwing up.

Feeling bored, she picked up all the test sheets and carefully reviewed them.

Starting from the first HCG test which was just two or three thousand, it later surged to over ten thousand, fifty thousand, eighty thousand, and more than a hundred thousand… then to the first ultrasound. At first, you couldn’t see anything; starting from the second time, there were fetal heartbeats, fetal buds, and heart tube pulsations… It’s so miraculous, like a tiny seed, initially the size of a lentil, slowly starting to have a heartbeat, a pulsation, its own consciousness…

From that moment, she firmly believed: the child could already hear adults speaking. He could sense every emotion of his mother.

Thus, she took special care to keep herself calm, to laugh often, to let the child deeply feel that he was loved and extremely welcome…

She even occasionally and quietly checked her portion of the property agreement, looking at that unbelievably astronomical amount of assets: truly, forgive us for being such ordinary folks.

Love with material security is the real love—at least, a marriage with material security allows us to be wholeheartedly focused and steadfastly have a child for a man—