Zhixi hadn’t slept well all night, and she was still a bit sluggish.
Hearing her son shouting so loudly, she blushed in rebuttal, "No, don’t listen to your uncle’s nonsense. And, your father wasn’t here last night either."
"But Dad clearly came." He scratched his head in confusion, "Could I have been dreaming last night?"
"You weren’t dreaming, Dad really came, but then he left again." Zhixi walked over and sat down at the dining table, but her expression was somewhat listless.
Pei Yuanchen raised his eyebrows in surprise at her demeanor, "No wonder you look so listless, turns out you’re frustrated because you didn’t get..."
"Pei Yuanchen, shut up!" Zhixi glared at him!
In front of Xiaobao, this man was talking nonsense.
Pei Yuanchen revealed a knowing and ambiguous smile, took a shrimp dumpling, and put it in his bowl, clicking his tongue, "I even purposely stayed away; what a waste of my good intentions."
Zhixi gave him a feeble glare.
Ah, sincerity... what exactly counts as sincerity...
She had even asked him to stay last night, and allowed him to do something to her, and still he wouldn’t relent... This man could be pretty hard to please when acting coy.
Lost in thought, Zhixi absentmindedly picked up her chopsticks.
"Mom, did you brush your teeth?" The little guy suddenly gazed at her intently, "You didn’t brush your teeth, you didn’t even go to the bathroom."
Zhixi looked at her son speechlessly...
"Mom, you said that you must brush your teeth after getting up in the morning!" Xiaobao asserted confidently.
"I just forgot for a moment..." She sheepishly stood up and quickly went to the bathroom.
But as she brushed her teeth, her mind wandered again, and the toothbrush went a little too deep unintentionally. She frowned, feeling a sudden wave of nausea.
After rinsing her mouth, that feeling of nausea still lingered. She put away the toothbrush with distaste.
Back at the dining table, the little one was nearly finished eating and was sipping on his milk.
"Mom, Uncle just said that as long as you and Dad live together, you’ll give me a little sister soon. Is that true?" He blinked as he asked.
"...It’s not." Zhixi said, her face blushing, and then glared at Pei Yuanchen again.
The man was smiling as if he relished the disaster.
"But, I want a little sister." The little guy sighed, "Mom, give me a little sister."
"One of you is enough for me to worry about." Zhixi reached out and pinched his face.
"I can help you take care of her, so you don’t have to worry!" He volunteered eagerly, thumping his chest.
Zhixi couldn’t help but chuckle, "Then you need to grow up fast."
"I’ll be grown up when I become a brother." He swayed his head as he spoke, "Mom, hurry up and give me a little sister!"
Zhixi’s head ached at his repeated calls for a "little sister," and seeing Pei Yuanchen’s schadenfreude smile only made her even more frustrated.
She had no idea what the man had been telling Xiaobao.
Feeling irritated and still not completely free of the earlier nausea, she suddenly lost all appetite at the sight of the breakfast spread out on the table.
"Little sister, little sister... Plant a little sister in spring, harvest many little sisters in fall..." Xiaobao was still humming and shaking his head.
Listening to him, Zhixi suddenly felt a jolt in her heart.
She had been back in Yangdong City for almost a month now, and she had been seduced into his bed by him just a few days after her return.
Could it be, she was really pregnant?