Ye Wanwan held Zhouzhou gently and said, "It’s okay, Zhouzhou. You can tell Mommy whatever you want."
Ye Wanwan encouraged Zhouzhou to speak his mind honestly.
Zhouzhou hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he said in his baby voice, "Mommy, I want a little sister too."
"What?" Zhouhou’s voice was so soft that for a moment, Ye Wanwan doubted whether she had heard him correctly.
But clearly, she hadn’t misheard. Although Zhouzhou spoke quietly, his enunciation was clear. He had said, "Mommy, I want a little sister!"
Ye Wanwan glanced at Shen Yi a little frantically, obviously unsure of how to answer Zhouzhou’s request.
At this very moment, Shen Yi was also panicking. Neither of them had expected that after just one day at kindergarten, Zhouzhou would come back wanting a little sister!
What on earth was going on?
However, seeing Mommy and Daddy not speaking, Zhouzhou quickly said, "Maybe I don’t want a little sister after all."
Even though he claimed that he didn’t want one anymore, it was visibly obvious that Zhouzhou’s mood had dropped.
Ye Wan cleared her throat and asked with feigned calm, "Why does Zhouzhou suddenly want a little sister?"
Before, Zhouzhou had never said anything . Both sets of grandparents knew that Ye Wan didn’t plan on having a second child, so nobody had ever mentioned the topic of siblings in front of Zhouzhou.
Zhouzhou blinked earnestly and said to Ye Wan, "Xu Kaiyang has a little sister. He showed me her picture. His little sister is so pretty, like a doll."
"Xu Kaiyang also said that his little sister can already call him ’big brother’ and that she’ll go to kindergarten with him next year."
"Xu Kaiyang?" Ye Wanwan still remembered the name. It was that child who had been lined up in front of Zhouzhou after school, the one who kept turning his head back to talk to Zhouzhou.
"Is his sister cute?" Ye Wanwan asked.
Zhouzhou nodded eagerly, his eyes sparkling with little stars, "Xu Kaiyang’s little sister is so cute."
"So Zhouzhou wants a little sister too?" Ye Wanwan thought back to the moment at the school gate. Could it be that the little friend named Xu Kaiyang was talking to Zhouzhou about his sister all the while?
"Yep!" Zhouzhou nodded energetically. He too wanted a sister that pretty, and he wanted a sister to call him ’big brother.’
But the little stars in Zhouzhou’s eyes quickly vanished again, and his mood dropped as he said, "I still don’t want a little sister."
"Why?" Ye Wanwan was perplexed. He was so happy just now about wanting a little sister, and now he didn’t want one again?
Zhouzhou frowned and said seriously in his baby voice, "Xu Kaiyang said that Mommies feel very uncomfortable and have a hard time when they give birth to little sisters."
"I want a little sister, but I don’t want Mommy to be uncomfortable." He liked the idea of having a little sister very much, but if it meant Mommy would be uncomfortable, he thought it was better not to have one.
Before Ye Wanwan could figure out how to discuss this with Zhouzhou, he thought of something else.
"Xu Kaiyang said that Mommies suffer a lot and it’s really hard when they have babies, so when Mommy gave birth to me, was it very painful and hard for you?" Zhouzhou looked up at Ye Wanwan with a worried expression.
Seeing the expression of concern that Zhouzhou had for her at this moment, Ye Wanwan felt her heart melt.