Huo Tingdong straightforwardly asked, "So, this is you being jealous!"
Seeing his persistence in making her admit her jealousy, Lin Qi couldn’t help but burst into a mix of laughter and tears: "Why do you insist on saying I’m jealous?"
Huo Tingdong retorted, "Is admitting jealousy something to be ashamed of?"
Lin Qi humphed arrogantly: "If I admit I’m jealous, it makes it look like I care a lot about you!"
After that, she glanced at him lightly: "I’m not jealous! I’m just purely annoyed!"
Huo Tingdong knew all too well.
She was just jealous, but too shy to admit it!
Huo Tingdong was in a great mood.
He reached out, pulled her into his arms, and cooed to her like a child: "Okay, don’t be angry anymore. Except for the children you bear for me, I don’t recognize any others borne by different women."
Lin Qi blushed even more, unable to help pushing him slightly: "What are you doing? Who said I would bear your children?"
Huo Tingdong declared, "Whether you want to or not, you have already borne my child!"
Suddenly, Lin Qi remembered her pregnancy, how she took so many protective measures, guarded strictly, and yet, ended up with an unexpected pregnancy!
Where on earth is the logic in that?
Thinking this, Lin Qi couldn’t help but lightly slap him.
Huo Tingdong didn’t expect her to suddenly lash out like a kitten with outstretched claws and tap his face.
He was somewhat speechless: "Why did you hit me?"
Even though it didn’t hurt, looking at her indignant expression, and suddenly scratching him without preamble, Huo Tingdong felt that her slap was indeed unreasonable!
Lin Qi said, "I’m pregnant now, are you happy about that!?"
She had an accusatorial look.
Huo Tingdong initially didn’t catch on: "Happy or not..."
He was mid-sentence when suddenly, it clicked. He narrowed his eyes somewhat suspiciously at her.
Lin Qi then threw the pregnancy test report, which was on the nightstand, onto him: "Look for yourself!"
After speaking, she lay down on the bed in a huff, wrapping herself in the blanket, her already blushing face hidden.
Huo Tingdong was baffled, seeing her wrapped in the blanket like a zongzi, he picked up the report and glanced at it.
One was a blood test.
He couldn’t quite read it but noticed some abnormal data.
The other was an ultrasound report.
Naturally, he couldn’t understand the ultrasound report, nor the small, dark mass pictured on it, but the clear black and white words below read: Intrauterine gestational sac echo seen, embryonic echo not seen, cardiac tube pulsation not detected.
"Early stage intrauterine pregnancy, viable embryo."
Huo Tingdong’s eyes widened in surprise.
He took another look at the name on the report; it was Lin Qi’s.
This was her ultrasound report?
Huo Tingdong was momentarily stunned, "You’re pregnant?"
From under the blanket, Lin Qi’s muffled voice came: "Hmm!"
Huo Tingdong’s first reaction was to freeze, feeling a mix of emotions, yet the surprise felt so sudden he couldn’t quite organize his thoughts.
She went to the hospital in the afternoon, originally to check this!
He had been taking protective measures all along, the pregnancy really was quite unexpected.
Huo Tingdong said, "I’ve always taken protective measures."
Lin Qi couldn’t see Huo Tingdong’s expression through the blanket, but when she heard his words, she felt a surge of anger and, at the same time, a wave of disappointment!
It was as if he wasn’t looking forward to the child!
His tone was so calm, even with a trace of doubt; did he think the child was hers with some other man?
Lin Qi flipped off the blanket, sitting up and glaring at him, but when she saw the expression on Huo Tingdong’s face, her look froze again.
In Huo Tingdong’s eyes, there was a precious tenderness.
Just one glance, and she felt as if she could almost drown in such affectionate eyes.
Huo Tingdong said, "Qiqi, why did you only tell me now?"
Lin Qi replied, "I just got checked today; I wasn’t sure before, so how could I tell you?"
Huo Tingdong said, "I mean, you should have told me as soon as you got home, not talk about other people’s matters."
To him, Song Shuyan was categorized as "someone else;" he didn’t care at all.
She should have told him even sooner!
Lin Qi said, "I thought you’d be unhappy!"
Huo Tingdong chuckled, "Why should I be unhappy?"
She was pregnant, carrying his little baby, should he be sad? Or angry?
As a father, shouldn’t he feel surprised, moved?
Although Lin Qi had already borne him a child, Han and Momo were already seven years old, it was completely different this time.
Back when Lin Qi was pregnant with Han and Momo, he was in a vegetative state, lying on the bed unconscious. After pregnancy, she hid it from him and secretly gave birth.
By the time Han was brought back, he was already three years old, and Momo had already been seven when they got to know each other.
He completely missed the phase of watching his two sons grow up from infants swaddled in blankets.
Lin Qi saw such an expression on Huo Tingdong’s face for the first time.
He really did seem very happy.
Huo Tingdong said, "Did you know, I always felt that not having the chance to watch Han and Momo grow up was my biggest regret. This time, if you’re willing to have the baby, shouldn’t I be happy?"
He wasn’t a woman, but he knew how difficult it was for a woman to bear children.
She already had Han and Momo, willing to bear him another child, shouldn’t he indulge her?
His words left her with no room for refusal.
Seeing her hesitation, Huo Tingdong tensed up slightly: "You don’t want to? You want to have an abortion because you don’t want the baby?"
Lin Qi said, "I... haven’t. Initially, I felt that since I already had Han and Momo, I didn’t want to have another, so I paid close attention to protection. But the baby came anyway. I feel like it’s fate decided by the heavens..."
Maternal instinct is a wonderful thing.
She thought it over and knew she couldn’t possibly have the heart to really abort the baby in her belly.
Huo Tingdong said, "Then let’s have the baby. Are you afraid I can’t afford four kids?"
Including Lili, just four kids.
He certainly could afford them!
Lin Qi laughed, "Then you should at least settle Song Shuyan’s matter first!"
She offered a not-so-stringent condition.
Huo Tingdong hummed in agreement: "Okay, I’ll solve it right away."
Lin Qi was somewhat skeptical, "Really? Huo Tingdong, that’s your child too. Can you really be so heartless?"
They were both his children, and he was quite a hypocrite!
But she, surprisingly, really liked this hypocrisy!