The four were made to sit in line on the chairs as they faced the charges. Everytime Jun tried to look at Ai, she would move her head away, dismissing his eye contact.
He folded his arms. "You know why I told you to limit your cravings?"
"Because you are a mean husband."
"Because you got sick when you ate too much."
"I wasn't that much sick."
"You couldn't step out of the bed for three days."
"Do you want to fall sick like that again?"
"I ask the same question to my wife too," Jian asked with a smile. "You caught a terrible cold because you ate four cups of ice-cream at once."
Leina coughed and averted her gaze. "A simple cold cannot defeat me."
"It defeated you so yes."
Liu Hai raised his hand. "But I am not pregnant so I can eat whatever I want!" He exclaimed, giving his side of defense.
Jun sneered. "You are not pregnant, but you are old. Do you wanna kick the bucket so badly?"
"Hey! Speak with respect to your grandfather!"
Nian raised his hand next. "I am not pregnant and I am not old either. So I can eat whatever I want!" He chirped. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel⟡fire.net
"But you cannot steal," Jun's gaze darkened. With a judgmental look at Jian, he snorted. "I don't expect you to reprimand him since you used to be an accomplice as well."
Jian cleared his throat. "Excuse me, I was always against this mindless cheating and stealing. It was always Nian who would brainwash me."
They could hear the sound of something shattering which was nothing but Nian's heart. "You are my twin! How could you betray me !? We were in it together! And I never brainwashed you!"
Jun narrowed his eyes at Ai. "Coming back to the topic, do you learn your lesson or do I need to chain your legs with shackles at night?"
"I want spicy ramen."
"You will get as much spicy ramen as I give you."
"You give very little."
"That's called portion control."
"I don't like that term."
"Then you like getting sick?"
Jian shot a deadly glare at Liu Hai and said, "Grandpa, instead of joining them in this thievery, you should have done the scolding job and not us."
"The Liu family men never raise their voice against the women here! This is the ironclad rule of the Liu family and you two have broken it! How dare you scold my granddaughter-in-laws! I disown you two!"
Ai and Leina clapped hard with this overwhelming support.
"Let me see who has the guts to touch you two as long as I am here," His nostrils flared.
But soon, he felt a gloomy and looming figure behind him and felt his hair tingling at his back. "What if I have the guts, Hai?"
Liu Hai pressed his lips, slowly meeting the murderous gaze of his wife. "Ch-Chunhua dear…you are awake?"
"Why won't I be awake when my husband keeps stealing food despite the numerous warnings?"
"I thought you were sound asleep since we made such passionate love tonight."
"Oh my God, TMI! TMI!" Nian closed his ears and eyes. "So shameless."
The rest of them choked in their throats. It wasn't new for the brothers for their grandfather to talk about his sex life so openly now and then and they thought that would have gotten used to it over the years. But apparently, they weren't.
Liu Chunhua stood frozen like a statue, not expecting the sudden bomb he would drop in front of their grandchildren. "Liu…Hai!!!"
Liu Hai was aware of what was going to happen so before she could grab her slippers, he was already up and running on his feet.
"I will kill you!" She exclaimed with a mix of a furious and blushing expression.
Jian sheepishly asked, "Grandma, is Grandpa's performance really good at this age too?"
"Shut up, Liu Jian!" She smacked his head with the slipper first.
Jun didn't feel even a single ounce of pity for him.
"Come back to bed, wifey. Your 'Grandpa protection charm' is running for his own protection now," Jun smiled, looking down at Ai, who was fruitlessly trying to escape with her accomplices Leina and Nian.
Ai touched her belly, furrowing her brows. "Ouch, it hurts."
"I will see all your drama in the bedroom, so come with me. I have seen this many times before," he pinched her cheeks.
Ai blinked rapidly and staring hard at Jun, sweat began to accumulate on her forehead. "Jun."
"My water just broke."
Jun, in turn, endlessly blinked his eyelids as well. "What?"
"M-My water just broke…" she breathed hard.
Jian, Leina and Nian froze at the same time and stared blankly at Jun. "What did she say?"
"She said her water just broke."
"Which means…" Nian scratched his head, "is it baby time?"
After a long beat of silence, the twins shouted. "Fuck, it's baby time!!!"
Leina gasped. "But how, how, how? Wasn't Ai's due date still a week away?"
"Guess my niece or nephew decided to visit us sooner!" Nian jumped on his feet, his eyes radiating and sparkling golden. "Congratulations Juuuuun! You're gonna become a father anytime now~ OMG, let me give this good news to Xing Bi!!!"
"H-Huh what? A-Ai's water broke?" Jun dumbly asked.
The unexpected news had short-circuited his brain, leaving it to only one recording setting.
Jian laughed out loud. "This is not the time to break the fuse, little brother. Reset your wiring when we are on the way to the hospital, but first we need to get going!"
"Hey what is happening here? Liu Hai breathlessly asked, still running away from his wife's flying slippers.
Leina urgently squealed. "Ai's water broke, Grandpa! It's time for the little one to come!"
Liu Chunhua's voice roared the loudest such that it woke up the entire villa. She abandoned the slipper and rushed towards Ai. "R-really?"
Ai blankly nodded, who mimicked the same short-circuit state as her husband. It was really the time for the little dumpling to come into this world and that surreal moment was failing to register in them.
Jin then arrived, yawning and rubbing his sleepy eyes. "What is happening? Why did Grandma shout so-"
"Jin, take out the car right now! We have to take Ai to the hospital! She is going to give birth!" She squealed hard. "Let's go!"
All his sleep flew away in an instant. "What!?"