"Where's Zhizhi? Didn't she say she was waiting for me and the baby?" Zhen Tian turned her head with difficulty and looked at everyone.

Yang Tao quickly chimed in; she was the one who started the conversation, so naturally she had to finish it.

"Brother Ji went for a check-up, he'll be fine soon."

Zhen Tian stared at her for a long time, until Yang Tao could barely hold back and looked away. Then she said calmly, "You're lying to me, aren't you?"

Yang Tao was startled, her mouth moving faster than her brain: "How could that be? How could I lie to you? Hehehe..."

She gave a dry laugh.

Zhen Tian looked away, not wanting to look at her, but she knew in her heart: "Forget it. You can't even pretend."

Yang Tao touched her nose. "Why does Sweetie seem different after giving birth?"

New mothers are usually not in good physical condition, and Zhen Tian was no exception. She fell asleep as soon as she was wheeled into the ward.

He slept for two days straight.

While she was asleep, Ji Yuzhi's condition wasn't so good.

His illness wasn't considered severe, but the virus was at its most rampant, and even his body, which he had been working out for years, was struggling to cope.

He often wakes up at night feeling suffocated, and sometimes he can't sleep because of the pain in his body.

But he held back; he had only one thought in mind.

That is,

go home.

He was also in a coma for two days while Zhen Tian was in one.

But this time, for some reason, it was as if his meridians had suddenly been opened during his coma, and his condition was improving.

The doctor was also surprised during the examination.

If the examination hadn't revealed no organ lesions, he would have seriously wondered if it was just a temporary resurgence of lucidity before death.

The first thing Ji Yuzhi did after regaining consciousness was to call home.

At this moment, Zhen Tian was drinking warm water in small sips on the hospital bed, swallowing each sip in four or five sips.

She was so quiet that she looked like a doll.

It's been like this ever since she woke up.

Many pregnant women become depressed after childbirth because they don't receive proper care. Ye Qingyan and Yang Tao were worried that Zhen Tian would become like that, so they would tell her jokes and funny stories every day at her bedside.

Today it was Yang Tao's turn, and she told Zhen Tian about the strange people she had encountered during her internship.

Zhen Tian didn't react yet, but Ye Qingyan laughed so hard she almost fell off her stool.

Upon receiving Ji Yuzhi's call, Lu Ti rushed over without even swallowing her food.

“Baby, it’s Yuzhi.”

Upon hearing this, Zhen Tian placed the cup on the bedside table before picking up her phone.

She sat on the edge of the bed, took two deep breaths, and then pressed the call button.

As soon as Ji Yuzhi's face appeared on the other end of the video, Zhen Tian wanted to cry, but she held back.

She pinched herself in bed.

"Zhizhi." Zhen Tian smiled, her tone no longer the hysterical outburst of her earlier tears, nor the mischievous quirk of before. Instead, it was gentle and soft.

Ji Yuzhi thought he would be met with a storm of criticism when he called, but he smiled when he saw Tian Tian's gentle face.

"Sweet."

Zhen Tian seemed to have forgotten that Ji Yuzhi was ill, and also forgot how long they had been in a cold war and how angry she had been. She picked out the funny things that had happened in the past two days and told him about them.

Their relationship seemed to have returned to normal. This phone call was just one of many conversations Ji Yuzhi had during his numerous business trips.

However, both of them had a haggard face that they wouldn't normally show.

Zhen Tian told herself not to pay attention, not to care, and not to cry.

But she couldn't help asking, "Didn't you eat properly?"

Ji Yuzhi's smile froze, and his gaze unconsciously drifted to the unopened lunchbox on the side.

He smiled calmly, but the pain throughout his body kept screaming, and he couldn't eat anything.

"I knew it." Zhen Tian mimicked his previous helpless expression: "Zhizhi, do you know how haggard you look now? You're so ugly."

"Ugly?" Ji Yuzhi chuckled.

"Yeah, it's ugly. So you need to eat properly and get your face back to normal." Zhen Tian grinned at him, "Got it?"

"Okay, I'll eat in a bit."

The two patients looked at each other and a lot of warmth arose between them.

"Oh, right." Zhen Tian suddenly patted the bed, then nudged Yang Tao and Ye Qingyan beside her: "Go and bring the baby over."

Then he turned to the video and said, "Zhizhi, you haven't seen the child yet, have you?"

"A child?" Ji Yu was stunned. Only then did he realize what he had missed: "The child... was born?"

"Yes, she gave birth." Zhen Tian smiled at him.

The young man moved quickly, and soon the child was brought over.

In the past two days, Zhen Tian has learned how to hold a baby.

She held the doll in her arms, and Yang Tao naturally took the phone and held it up to a suitable position for her.

Ji Yuzhi then saw her in full. Tian Tian had regained her previous slender figure, and the sweet burden in her belly had been born.

“Baby, look, this is Daddy.” Zhen Tian pointed to the screen in her arms.

As if the child could understand, he turned his head and stared at Ji Yuzhi with curiosity.

Tears instantly blurred Ji Yuzhi's vision. He was laughing while crying, looking utterly pathetic.

Seeing him like that, Zhen Tian couldn't bear it either and turned away to wipe her tears.

"Zhizhi, look, it's our daughter."

As soon as Zhen Tian finished speaking, the child in her arms struggled to stretch out his short arm and point at Ji Yuzhi on the phone.

She likes you a lot.

Ji Yuzhi's tears fell as Zhen Tian said those words.

"Look at us, mother and son, we're both such good-for-nothings. We've liked you since we were little." Zhen Tian sniffed and gave him a reproachful look: "I don't know what kind of magic you have."

Ji Yuzhi remained silent, his throat choked with emotion.

The camera showed his wife and newborn child, but he couldn't be there to hold them in his arms.

"Talk to her," Zhen Tian urged him.

Ji Yuzhi lowered his head, dabbed his tears on the web of his left hand, then raised his head, revealing the silliest smile of his life.

"Hello, baby, I'm your dad."

Zhen Tian's tears were suddenly made to fall by his unexpected joke.

"What? You're acting like a complete idiot."

Even so, the child responded to Ji Yuzhi with a big smile.

The people in the room, who had been quiet for so long, were utterly amazed. It was as if the child truly understood what his father was saying.

Before long, the little one in my arms got tired and fell asleep on its own.

She didn't cry or make a fuss much; she was very quiet, as if she knew not to cause trouble for her parents at this time.

Looking at her sleeping face, Ji Yuzhi felt incredibly tender.

"Zhizhi, let's give her a name. We can't keep calling her 'Baby' all the time."