Outside the house, the moon's shadow slants westward.

The room was filled with red waves.

At the most crucial moment, Huo Beixiao suddenly stopped and rushed into the bathroom.

Yang Qiaoqiao was exhausted. Although she didn't have the strength to care about what was wrong with him, she still kept her eyelids open and waited for him to come out of the bathroom.

"Brother Xiao, why did you suddenly rush to the bathroom just now?"

When Huo Beixiao returned, Yang Qiaoqiao, as usual, clung to the man like an octopus, and mumbled a reply.

"Ahem!" Huo Beixiao cleared his throat somewhat awkwardly, "Well... I mean, I'm going to... you know..."

Yang Qiaoqiao was completely confused.

A surge of curiosity jolted her awake. "Which one?"

If it weren't for the dim lighting and Huo Beixiao's dark skin, Yang Qiaoqiao would have noticed that the man's face was already as red as a monkey's bottom.

Huo Beixiao made up his mind and said directly, "It's that. I'm going to follow the national policy and I don't want my wife to get pregnant again."

He had heard before that childbirth was very painful, and that it was like a woman going through hell, but he really couldn't imagine it until he saw it for himself.

After witnessing how painful and difficult it was for Yang Qiaoqiao to give birth, he completely lost the desire to have a second child.

Yang Qiaoqiao was so sleepy that she was completely drowsy.

Hearing his words, she didn't think much of it and fell asleep immediately.

The next morning, when Yang Qiaoqiao woke up, she couldn't see Huo Beixiao anywhere.

She assumed the man had gone downstairs for breakfast and didn't think much of it.

After washing up and getting ready, I kissed the two little ones who were still fast asleep and went downstairs.

It turned out that Huo Beixiao had left early in the morning without even having breakfast.

"Qiaoqiao, is there some trouble at the mall again? Why is Beixiao in such a hurry that he went there without waiting for you?"

While eating breakfast, Lin Xiaohui couldn't help but ask with some concern.

Yang Qiaoqiao shook her head, "Nothing went wrong. It's just that the opening date is coming up soon, and there's still a lot of preparation work to be done, so he's a bit anxious."

Their villa is right next to the shopping mall, so if there's any emergency there, they can at least hear some of the commotion from their home.

If there's no movement now, it means nothing's wrong.

After breakfast, Yang Qiaoqiao went straight to the mall.

She happened to have some things she wanted to discuss with Huo Beixiao, but she couldn't find him anywhere in the mall. She went to his office, but he wasn't there either.

Just as she was wondering where the man had gone, she ran into Zhu Dong.

"Little sister-in-law, are you looking for Boss Huo?" Zhu Dong greeted Yang Qiaoqiao warmly.

Since that incident, Zhu Dong, Guo Tao, and the others have treated Yang Qiaoqiao not only with kindness and enthusiasm, but also with apology and flattery.

Especially Guo Tao, now when Yang Qiaoqiao asks him to do something, he runs faster than when Huo Beixiao asks him to do something.

Yang Qiaoqiao nodded and said politely with a smile, "Yes, Brother Dong, do you know where he went?"

Zhu Dong scratched the back of his head and shook his head. "I don't know. Boss Huo came by about an hour ago, arranged today's work, and then left."

"He didn't say what he was going to do or where he was going?" Yang Qiaoqiao asked again.

"No."

Yang Qiaoqiao didn't see Huo Beixiao at the mall for an entire day.

She was busy at the shop with the renovation workers until almost 10 p.m. when Huo Beixiao finally came to find her.

"Honey, let's go home."

At this moment, Yang Qiaoqiao was communicating with the renovation team about tomorrow's work.

Hearing Huo Beixiao's voice, she looked up at him and replied, "Right away."

Afterwards, she finished explaining the remaining points to note to the renovation team, thanked them, and then announced that she was off work.

As soon as she turned her head, she met Huo Beixiao's dark, deep, and affectionate eyes. A smile unconsciously appeared on her lips, and she quickly ran two steps toward him.

Huo Beixiao quickly strode towards her.

Huo Beixiao had only taken two steps when he grinned strangely.

"Brother Xiao, what's wrong?" Yang Qiaoqiao asked with concern, looking at Huo Beixiao's strange appearance.

"It's nothing, I just had a sudden leg cramp," Huo Beixiao said, his eyes flickering slightly.

"cramp?"

Yang Qiaoqiao was a little confused, so she squatted down to examine Huo Beixiao's calf. "Is it still throbbing?"

"No, I've stopped smoking." A hint of guilt flashed in Huo Beixiao's eyes, and he quickly grabbed Yang Qiaoqiao's hand.

After returning home, Yang Qiaoqiao, as usual, carried the two little ones from Lin Xiaohui's room into their room.

She watched over the two sleeping little ones for a while, and her heart melted completely.

Many newborns cannot distinguish between day and night, so they cry day and night.

But An'an and Lele were very well-behaved. During their postpartum period, the two siblings would have a nighttime feeding.

After the postpartum period, the siblings stopped drinking nighttime milk and started sleeping through the night.

At first, Yang Qiaoqiao was worried that the two babies would faint from hunger if they didn't drink milk all night, so she woke them up to drink milk.

The two little ones who were woken up didn't give him any face at all.

The older sister kept her little mouth tightly shut, looking at her with eyes full of grievance and accusation.

The younger brother cried and screamed, kicking his legs and trying his best to avoid the pacifier she was feeding him.

Later, Yang Qiaoqiao stopped waking them up.

I slept soundly at night, and the two little ones slept soundly too.

Yang Qiaoqiao looked at her two children and felt she couldn't get enough of them until she realized it was almost midnight and she had to go to sleep.

She quickly got into bed.

But when she lay in bed, she felt that something was off about the night.

Until the man next to her moved.

She then realized what was wrong.

In the past, whenever this man came home and no one else was around, he liked to stick to her like a leech.

But today, the man actually washed up by himself, looked after his son and daughter, and then went to bed on his own.

And instead of clinging to her and holding her like before, he lay alone on the very edge of the bed.

Yang Qiaoqiao couldn't help but stick out a finger and poke the man, "Brother Xiao, what's wrong with you?"

To her surprise, her touch caused the man to move closer to the edge of the bed before hurriedly replying, "No, nothing. Honey, go to sleep now, goodnight."

Yang Qiaoqiao: ...

The man was making it clear he didn't want to talk to her.

Well, let's just forget about it then, and she won't ask anymore.

Perhaps it's because men have those few days every month!

But Yang Qiaoqiao didn't expect that this situation would continue for a week, with the man still intentionally avoiding her, especially at night.

Yang Qiaoqiao even felt that if she could, Huo Beixiao would like to sleep with her across the Milky Way.

When she thinks about this, she thinks about having a good talk with Huo Beixiao.

But when I get busy, I forget about it again.