This is a story of a marriage of convenience between complete strangers, where the powerful party eventually yields and "eats their words" (ends up loving it). It features a gentle beauty a...
Chapter 217 Should we have a baby?
It's getting hot.
Xu Qingwu suddenly felt a slight sinking sensation in her lower abdomen, and her face changed.
Oh no, it’s irregular menstruation.
When Xu Qingwu came out of the bathroom, she looked depressed. She changed her flight and rushed back overnight just to see this happen.
Isn’t this messing with people’s mentality?
Nothing went well today.
Xu Qingwu's mood became depressed again, and Cen Xihuai comforted her: "When you are well again, there will be plenty of opportunities to sleep with me."
"Honey, I want a hug."
Cen Xihuai noticed that her mood was different from usual, so he stopped smiling and held her in his arms while they sat on the sofa. Xu Qingwu leaned into his arms, and after hearing his firm and strong heartbeat, her mood gradually calmed down.
"Did something unhappy happen during your business trip?"
"My grandfather is sick. I heard it's pancreatic cancer."
Cen Xihuai knew that Xu Qingwu was abandoned by both her grandfather and her maternal grandfather after her parents died when she was a child, so it was difficult for him to have any good feelings towards them.
He didn't interrupt, and listened to Xu Qingwu continue: "I checked and found that pancreatic cancer is basically in the middle to late stages. The treatment is expensive and there is no complete cure. My cousin said that my uncle wanted to send him to Beijing for treatment, but he didn't ask for my help."
"I'm not familiar with him. We've only met a few times since we were little. It's normal for him not to want to raise me. After all, he's my father's father."
"I don't know what I should do..."
Xu Qingwu looked up at him, with a rare look of confusion in her eyes.
Cen Xihuai knew that she was kind by nature, and when she asked this, he was actually shaken.
Cen Xihuai made the decision for her: "I'll ask Xie Ying to contact the professor and bring him in for treatment another day. You don't have to worry about the rest. It's okay if you don't want to see him."
After hearing what he said, Xu Qingwu felt that the stuffy chest seemed to suddenly become much more unblocked.
Cen Xihuai kissed her lightly on the top of her head, his voice filled with tenderness and lingering gentleness: "Qingwu, you are not an unwanted child. Go forward boldly, I will always be behind you."
Xu Qingwu felt her eyes warm, and she tightened her grip around his waist. She said seriously, "Cen Xihuai, thank you."
Cen Xihuai has a strong execution ability. After asking Xie Ying to contact experts and professors for consultation, he brought Xu Huasheng from his hometown to Beijing and began to formulate a treatment plan.
She didn't know about these things until Xu Yao sent her a WeChat message to thank her.
Cen Xihuai is always so considerate and thoughtful.
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It was before the Chinese New Year that I received news from Xu Huasheng again.
Xu Huasheng's condition worsened and the doctor said he might not last a week. Xu Yao asked Xu Qingwu if she wanted to go see him, and Xu Huasheng's last wish was to see her and apologize to her.
Helping Xu Huasheng find a hospital for treatment is already fulfilling his filial duty on behalf of his father. As for what happens between them, there is no need to apologize or forgive. It can only be said that there is no fate between grandparents and grandchildren.
Xu Qingwu refused.
When Xu Yao called her, Xu Qingwu was taking the puppy for an annual physical examination with Cen Xihuai.
After hanging up the phone, she talked about this with Cen Xihuai. Cen Xihuai's expression remained calm and he only said, "You did nothing wrong. You can refuse."
Xu Qingwu breathed a sigh of relief for no reason.
Just then, the nurse came out holding the puppy and said that she had drawn blood and asked them to accompany the puppy to do a heart ultrasound.
Cen Xihuai took the puppy from the nurse and said to Xu Qingwu, "Let's go."
This was the first time Xu Qingwu brought the puppy to the pet hospital. The little guy who was the boss at home and would bite her as a punishment if he disagreed with her, was just a little coward in the hospital.
Cardiac ultrasound requires removing part of the hair on the chest and abdomen. Although it usually resists shaving, it became extremely well-behaved under the doctor's hands and didn't even whimper.
After applying coupling agent, the doctor began to use a probe to check its heart, explaining things to Xu Qingwu from time to time.
The physical examination went smoothly.
After getting in the car, Cen Xihuai handed the puppy to her and patted the cat's head: "Be good and don't bully your mother."
Xu Qingwu carried the puppy to the back seat, but as soon as they returned to the enclosed space without outsiders, the little guy showed his true colors and returned to his bully state.
It was not until it got off the car and returned to Cen Xihuai's hands that it became very well-behaved again. Xu Qingwu was simply shocked by its ability to judge people by their behavior.
After taking a shower, Xu Qingwu rested her head on Cen Xihuai's legs and watched TV.
It is a Korean drama with good ratings.
Xu Qingwu was distracted, and his hands were never idle for a second. He bent his fingers one by one, scratching his palms and then scratching the back of his hands.
Cen Xihuai pinched her face and told her to study harder and see how others fell in love.
"Cen Xihuai, why do you love studying so much?"
“It never hurts to learn more.”
"Should we have a baby?"
The ending BGM of this episode on TV suddenly stopped, the air suddenly became quiet, and soon it automatically jumped to the next episode and started a new plot.
Cen Xihuai took the remote control and clicked pause.
"Qingwu, what did you just say?"
"Cen Xihuai, I want to have a complete family with you and a child of our own."
"good."
Xu Qingwu couldn't tell when this thought came to her. Perhaps it was because Xu Huasheng's illness reminded her of her own helpless childhood, or perhaps it was because she saw Cen Xihuai holding the puppy, or perhaps it was something else...
As soon as she proposed this idea, Cen Xihuai went to the study to get the computer to check matters related to pregnancy preparation.
Xu Qingwu followed in and sat next to him.
Cen Xihuai looked at the screen very carefully and wrote down the precautions, such as pre-pregnancy check-ups, how to adjust lifestyle, ovulation period and sexual intercourse patterns, etc.
He flipped through the pages of the computer screen, serious and rigorous like an old scholar.
Xu Qingwu was already overwhelmed by seeing all this mess.
She originally thought that preparing for pregnancy was just about quitting smoking, drinking and staying up late, but she didn't know there were so many tricks involved.
She propped up her chin and said, "You don't smoke, drink, or stay up late. I've been doing this for a long time, and we're pretty healthy."
"Well, let's go for a check-up tomorrow, Saturday." Cen Xihuai continued to record.
"All right."
Cen Xihuai wrote down all the precautions and browsed a lot of related web pages. Half an hour later, Xu Qingwu had fallen asleep on the other side of the table.
After turning off the computer, Cen Xihuai carried her back to the master bedroom.
Just as he turned off the lights and prepared to go to bed, Cen Xihuai heard her checking his learning results.
"Hubby, you've been studying for so long, how do you calculate your ovulation period?"
"14 days before your period, but your period isn't very regular, so this rule won't work for you."
He not only learns, but also really absorbs what he learns and puts it into practice.
Xu Qingwu said "oh", stretched out her legs to hook his, rubbed his with the instep, leaned over and whispered in his ear: "Should we try harder today?"
Cen Xihuai reached out and held her legs, putting them in place, and said seriously, "We did it yesterday, and the quality today isn't very good."
Xu Qingwu froze: "Hmm?"
Cen Xihuai repeated what he had just learned to her: "During ovulation, you should have sex every other day, and during non-ovulation, you should have sex two to three times a week. We've already had sex twice this week and yesterday. Doing it again today is not in line with scientific pregnancy preparation methods."
Xu Qingwu: “…………”