Jun's mouth dropped in an O as his gaze held on to Ai's. He felt as if he could hear the electric crackle of a short-circuit as if the connection just broke. It was the perfect description of his state, who was still trying to absorb the news.
Ai waved her hand in front of his face, who had long escaped into a daze of the unknown. She sighed and mumbled. "Well, I might as well give this good news to everybody else since it would take some time for the father to process it."
"W-wait!" His stupor snapped into two and he held her wrist despite she hadn't moved an inch from her place. "You are…really pregnant?"
She made a dramatic gasp. "You think I will lie about something ?"
She stared straight into his dark brown eyes, cutely flaring her nostrils. They played that staring contest for sometime until tears welled in Jun's eyes.
"I-I wasn't that harsh…Why are you crying!" She hastily wiped his tears that slid down his cheeks as he sniffled, leaving her more dumbfounded.
"Okay I was being just dramatic really…" she anxiously urged.
Jun stiffened and seemed to want to say something urgently, but his tears coupled with his choked voice only made it harder.
"D-Don't be so sad," the worry in her voice only further increased, making Jun want to kill himself.
He pulled her into his embrace and sniffled hard. "I am very happy s-silly…" he managed to let out a few words amidst the whirlwind of emotions storming his heart upside down. "I want to say…don't take any w-worry, it's not good for y-your health…"
That's what he was trying to say…
Ai facepalmed and pinched his cheeks, lifting her face from his hug. Pouting her lips and puffing her cheeks, she scolded him. "You will become rapidly dehydrated at this rate…"
He continued to inhale trembling breaths as he wiped his eyes this time. "What can I do? Y-you dropped the happiest news possible on me…I thought that I would be ready for the day whenever this would happen b-but seems like I wasn't."
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"And now I am thinking all sorts of things…Will I be a good father? Will I be able to give proper education to our child?" He took a breathless gasp as he continued, "Will he or she enjoy school and college? What if they don't? What are we supposed to do then?"
What kind of a worry is that…?
"Will he or she want to go abroad in the future for studies? Isn't it terrible because I am going to miss him or her a lot so I might become a villain and ruin their admission process…"
"A-and what if they land into a terrible company of friends and lose their way? Or worse, find a good partner and w-want to get married? It's not a problem with a boy but I don't want to lose my baby girl to any boyfriend or girlfriend, oh my god…" he covered his hands with his palm, finding enlightenment, "I finally get why Dad is so possessive of Nuo. Now, I feel like killing Siying too."
Somewhere, Siying felt a chill run down his back, and he shuddered.
Nuo blinked at him and asked, "Are you feeling cold?"
Siying cautiously looked left and right. "...I do but this is a very familiar type of a chill, the one which Uncle Jinhai gives off. Is he watching me from somewhere?"
Nuo chuckled. "You are just imagining things. Even if Dad gives you the cold stares, we have Mom and my bros to control him hehe~ Especially Mom and Bro Jun. They are the sweetest!"
A very bitter feeling, though, enveloped Jun's heart, thinking of walking down the aisle with his lovely daughter.
Ai shook him hard, and the tears finally stopped flowing. "You are going very faaaaaaaaaaar ahead. Our child hasn't even been born yet! And here you are already thinking of their education and marriage…" she helplessly shook her head. "How about we take this step by step and wait for the day when we will be able to listen to their heartbeat for the first time?" Her eyes sparkled.
He looked down at her belly and thinking of his child's heartbeat broke the dam of his tears once again.
"I think our roles have been reversed," Ai gravely nodded. "The father is crying more than the mother."
"I am just so happy…" he whispered.
Her heart melted, and she pulled his head down to her neck, patting it with love. "I understand. I cried straight for two hours when I realized it."
"A-Aha! So you cried too…"
"But it seems like you will cross my record."
Jun hugged her tighter but was careful not to squeeze it to make her breathless. "Thank you Ai. You…
you have no idea how happy you have made me today. First your book launch and now our child," I cannot be happier…"
"Hehe~ Me too. I finally had my revenge from you for sweeping me off my feet by your proposal," she proudly said.
"You were thinking of that?"
"Of course! I had plans to propose to you too but slyly snatched it away from me and even made me the happiest woman on the earth. So I wanted to make you the happiest man too."
"You make me the happiest every single day."
"But I wanted to give you something grand just like you did and when I learned I was pregnant, I just knew I got my ticket~"
His brow twitched hard. "Ai, you sound like a hooligan now."
She pressed her lips against his into a fiery and melting kiss. "I have learned it from my fiance~"
"I am not a hooligan."
"No. You are a cute hooligan and soon, our cute baby hooligan will arrive too who will inherit your cuteness and my naturally lovable and warm personality," she seriously nodded. "We will be a hooligan family."
Jun thought about it and kissing her lips, he grinned. "Our child will be one hell of a child, won't he or she not?"
Her nose grew longer in pride. "There's gonna be Liu and Zhou genes in him or her, after all hahaha~!"