After dinner, Yan Tinglan sent the kid to bed as usual, and then took Zhu Fuli to take a nap.

Seeing her lying on the bed with her eyes open, Yan Tinglan leaned over and kissed her, "Didn't you say you were sleepy? Are you not sleepy now?"

She hugged his waist and rubbed his cheek, "I want you to put me to sleep."

"Okay." With a smile in his eyes, he hugged her and patted her back gently, "Do you want me to read to you?"

"Read it, anything you want." She closed her eyes in his arms.

Yan Tinglan took the book beside the bed, opened the part she had marked and started reading in a slow and pleasant voice.

When she was about to fall asleep, she suddenly opened her eyes and said, "It's amazing, I'm going to be a mother."

He looked at her and kissed her lips, "Well, we have a baby."

He held her and lay down, pinching her cheek, "I've been reading to you and I've become sleepy myself, can we close our eyes together?"

"Okay." She leaned over and pressed her cheek against his, closing her eyes.

Yan Tinglan hugged her tightly, closed his eyes and patted her back.

It has become a habit to coax her.

After being pregnant for more than two months, Zhu Fuli suffered from loss of appetite and nausea.

She lazily nestled in Yan Tinglan's arms, looking listless.

"If you don't want to eat, then don't eat. If Ali wants to eat, then eat."

She raised her eyes to look at him, "Why don't you persuade me like my mother did, and eat a little more for the sake of the baby in your belly?"

"Put Ali's wishes first. It's already uncomfortable, but you force yourself to eat, and then vomit after eating. Isn't that even more uncomfortable?" He picked her up and said, "Let's take you out of the palace to walk around and relax."

When she was five months pregnant, Yan Tinglan, who was holding her and reading to her to put her to sleep, felt the first fetal movement with his hand on her belly.

Yan Tinglan took her hand to feel it, put his cheek against hers, and smiled: "It seems that she is still a lazy baby. She is willing to move only after more than five months."

In the later stages of her pregnancy, Zhu Fuli had difficulty moving around, and Yan Tinglan took care of her when she got up at night. He massaged her legs every day and prescribed medicine for her to prevent stretch marks.

One day in the middle of the night, Yan Tinglan heard her crying secretly and felt panicked.

He held her to face him and wiped her tears gently, "What happened to Ali?"

"I don't know. I just want to cry."

"Unhappy?"

"No." I just felt something was wrong.

Yan Tinglan held her face and said, "Kiss Ali, okay?"

He leaned in to kiss her, gently and tenderly, with a soothing touch, and she responded softly.

When she was about to give birth, it was Yan Tinglan who panicked. He woke up from time to time in the middle of the night and only felt relieved when he saw that she was sleeping soundly.

When he woke up in the daytime, Zhu Fuli pressed the dark circles under his eyes with his fingers and said, "Don't worry."

"Yeah, don't worry." He took her hand and put it against his cheek.

"Liar." She kissed his lips and whispered.

"Whatever Ali says is right."

Zhu Fuli was speechless and had no temper towards him.

When she was giving birth, Yan Tinglan was there personally to deliver the baby. Looking at her pale face, he felt so distressed.

After the baby was born, he cleaned her up silently, then held her hand and kissed her forehead, "Ali, let's just have one, and not have any more in the future, okay?"

His voice was trembling as he spoke.

"Yeah." She answered him softly.

He put the cleaned child next to her, "Ali, it's my daughter. She's asleep."

Zhu Fuli glanced sideways, reached out and touched the child's cheek, her eyes filled with joy, "So soft, so small, and the skin is red."

When she touched him, the child just opened his eyes, met her gaze, and then closed his eyes again.

"She looked at me."

"Well, you will be as beautiful as Ali when you grow up. Ali, just close your eyes and go to sleep. You have worked hard."