The first chapter and the author's note both contain a friendly reminder: please do not be misled by subjective speculation. This is not a stock-picking story; the female protagonist is fickle ...
Chapter 133 How Did Your Mom Raise You Like This?
Ruan Yi decided to take Gu Zhi to the hospital first.
Even though the man clung to her hand when she got out of the car, and even though they had already discussed their future relationship, he was still like a piece of candy she couldn't shake off.
In the end, Ruan Yi got impatient and, after kissing him, slapped him again in anger before kicking him out of the car and forcing him to treat his wound.
After dealing with Gu Zhi's matter, I went back to my residence to change into clean clothes and tidy myself up before heading to the place I had arranged to meet Fu Wang.
As soon as I got off the bus, I saw a tall, conspicuous man rushing over. It seemed he had been pacing around the entrance for quite some time.
But Fu Wang stopped half a step away from her. Although he was ready to be a father, he was still a little flustered when it came to meeting people and did not dare to touch Ruan Yi rashly.
Seeing his expression, Ruan Yi suddenly felt like teasing him.
Suddenly adopting a melancholic expression like a heroine from a Qiong Yao drama, she deliberately took a breath, puffed out her belly, and gently touched it with her hand.
"How are you?"
Fu Wang had already noticed that the girl's face was pale, and seeing that she didn't answer and was still acting like this, he became even more anxious.
"May I...may I listen to the child's heartbeat?"
His tone was awkward, carrying a hint of urgent urgency that left no room for refusal, yet also revealing a cautious inquiry.
Ruan Yi suppressed a laugh and nodded, letting Fu Wang dramatically escort her into the house, where she sat down on the soft sofa.
The man immediately bent down and gently pressed his ear against her lower abdomen, his movements so light as if he were afraid of breaking a fragile piece of jade, and he even softened his breathing.
After listening for a long time without any sound, he panicked and muttered under his breath.
"Is it because I'm not pregnant enough? I can't hear you..."
"Don't move, let me listen again."
He had just put his ear back on when he heard a soft "gurgling" sound.
Fu Wang's eyes lit up instantly, and he looked up abruptly, his tone full of surprise.
"I heard it! It's the baby's voice!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, another "gurgle" came, this time even clearer—it was clearly the sound of hunger.
Fu Wang was stunned for two seconds before he reacted, his ear tips instantly turning bright red, and he abruptly straightened up.
"Ruan Yi! Aren't you going to eat if you're hungry?"
He spoke fiercely, but his hand had already reached for his phone, quickly sending a message to order food delivery, afraid of being even a fraction of a second late.
Before Ruan Yi could speak, he asked a series of questions.
"How many months pregnant are you?" "Have you had your prenatal checkup?" "You look terrible."
Despite asking so many questions, the man deliberately avoided mentioning the child's father, seemingly trying to avoid any questions that would hurt the girl. After asking, he immediately responded with an urgent and earnest tone.
"Move in with me! I'll take care of you during your pregnancy, okay?"
Ruan Yi looked at his fierce yet serious expression and her heart suddenly softened.
There are too many weirdos around me. It's rare to see someone like Fu Wang, who is so innocently naive and honestly kind. It's like being purified.
However, this feeling of being moved did not last long. She couldn't help but roll her eyes, and her previously pale face became rosy.
People don't feel tired when they're doing bad things.
Ruan Yi opened her mouth slightly.
"I had an abortion."
The moment the girl spoke, Fu Wang's anxious expression froze, as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water over his head, and he even stopped breathing.
He lunged forward, trying to grab Ruan Yi's shoulder, but his hand stopped abruptly halfway through its reach.
Afraid of hurting her, afraid of injuring her with too much force, I just froze at her shoulder, holding her loosely, so anxious that all I could do was shake the air.
"What...what did you say?"
Ruan Yi bit her lip tightly, and inexplicably swayed her body slightly in response to his movements, deliberately making her tone mournful.
"That's right, just as you think."
"Ruan Yi! Are you crazy?!"
Fu Wang's voice suddenly rose, his eyes filled with a mixture of anxiety and pain, his wide eyes looking as if they were about to pop out.
"Do you know how harmful an abortion is to your body? I already said I'd be a father! I... I don't just care about the child... but... but you..."
"How can I not explain it! Oh well! Anyway..." The man was completely incoherent.
"Ruan Yi! Why did you agree to him not using a condom?!"
He spoke more and more urgently, his chest heaving, but afraid of scaring the girl, he forced his voice down, his voice choked with a hint of grievance.
"That idiot doesn't want kids, I do..."
"Why didn't you tell me sooner? I know it's your body and you have the right to make decisions, but..."
Ruan Yi was stunned as she listened to Fu Wang's incessant chatter.
She really didn't expect that Zhou Wan, who was rumored to be so bad, and the old man Fu, who was so lewd and disgusting, could raise such a good child.
Fu Wang may appear fierce on the surface, but he is so innocent that he is easily hurt. His values are not warped, especially in the Fu family environment, and against the backdrop that Zhou Wan was the mistress who caused the death of the original wife.
Raising a child like Fu Wang is nothing short of a miracle.
Overwhelmed with gratitude for being cared for, Ruan Yi's eyes welled up with tears. Unable to hold back, she suddenly reached out and hugged Fu Wang, crying out in a sob.
Wow! How did your mom raise you like this?!
The man was startled by the sudden hug. His eyes widened, his hands instinctively pulled back, and he swallowed several times.
After realizing that Ruan Yi had taken the initiative to hug him, Fu Wang tentatively and furtively reached out and gently put his arm around her waist.
The man wanted to pretend it was unintentional, but he subtly used a little force to pull the person closer to him, inching them closer together.
Ruan Yi felt like crying and laughing at the same time, so she reached out and patted his shoulder.
Fu Wang immediately relaxed, his ears turning bright red as if they were about to bleed. He tried to remain calm, but when he saw Ruan Yi looking up with red eyes and big, watery eyes, he was shocked.
His Adam's apple bobbed violently, and he forcefully suppressed the urge to pull the person into his arms, opening his mouth fiercely.
"You hugged me first!"
Ruan Yi was amused by his innocent yet awkward appearance. She swallowed hard, reached out and cupped his face in her hands, softening her tone.
"Oh my gosh, how can she be so cute? I can't resist... let Mommy give her a kiss!"
As she spoke, she gave him a hard kiss on the cheek, not the kind of affection between a man and a woman, but more like kissing a kitten or puppy.
When Fu Wang heard Ruan Yi refer to herself as "Mom," he was taken aback and immediately retorted.
"Who's your son?!"
"Husband is more like it..." she muttered quietly to herself.
His body, however, remained still, and when Ruan Yi kissed his cheek, he secretly turned his head, wanting her lips to land on his own.
But Ruan Yi stopped moving as soon as he turned his face halfway around.
The man awkwardly turned his face away, his ear tips turning even redder. He quickly changed the subject, avoiding her eyes.
"You still haven't said anything... Why were you cursing at me just now?"
Ruan Yi belatedly added a sentence, her tone soft and gentle.
"I'm not insulting you, I just really want to ask, if I have children in the future, I hope I can raise them to be as cute as you."
When the girl said those words, it was like a thunderbolt to Fu Wang's mind; at that moment, only one sentence remained in his head.
"Want to have someone like me?"
"Doesn't that mean you have to have my child?"
"Ruan Yi wants to have my baby!!!"
The man stood frozen in place, his eyes glazed over, even his fingertips burning. Fireworks were exploding in his mind, and even his breathing became erratic.
Seeing that he was standing there dumbfounded, Ruan reached out and gently patted his shoulder, then brought the question back to the main point.
"What are you daydreaming about? You still haven't told me, how exactly did your mother raise you?"
Fu Wang then came to his senses. The blood on the tips of his ears had not yet faded, but he tried his best to keep his tone steady.
"Well... my mom and grandpa basically don't care about me."
Ruan Yi couldn't help but feel a little confused. After all, Fu Wang had tattoos and blond hair, and they had only met for a short time at a bar. He looked like a good-natured playboy, but who knew he was so well-behaved at heart?
Her gaze softened as she stared at him, unconsciously softening with a tender, overflowing maternal love.
But that look in the man's eyes took on a different meaning.
Why does she see me that way?
"Is it seduction...? It's definitely seduction!"
He stared into Ruan Yi's bright eyes, swallowed hard, and struggled to suppress the urge to go numb.
“I was raised by Zhang Ma, the family's maid. When I was little, my mother would only teach me all sorts of nonsense. It was Zhang Ma who taught me how to be a good person and what things I shouldn't do…”
“My mom is always busy. All she ever tells me is how important it is to become the heir of the Fu family.”
What he didn't say was that he became who he is today because he spent most of his childhood helping out under Zhang Ma's thumb.
He also didn't mention how Zhou Wan always whispered in his ear about how vicious Fu Jingchen and his deceased mother were.
His relationship with his half-brother was already tense, and later the atmosphere became even more strained.
But he knew in his heart that this hostility was driven by selfish motives, because Fu Jingchen stopped going home when he was still young due to his provocation.
This was actually something he was happy to see, because Fu Jingchen would always be scolded by Old Master Fu whenever he came home.
When those fists and feet are used against young children, it can even be called abuse.
Even the most naive person knows how painful that scene must be.
He didn't say it aloud, but he secretly hoped that Fu Jingchen would come back soon, so that he wouldn't have to suffer that unwarranted punishment anymore.
Fu Wang is still very grateful that he met a good person, otherwise he would have become the kind of heartless and crazy person Zhou Wan wanted, who only knew how to fight for the family property.
But he didn't say these words aloud; to say them to Ruan Yi so abruptly would have been hypocritical.
But after hearing this, Ruan Yi became even more certain of her thoughts.
Zhang Ma was teaching Fu Wang to be virtuous, and Zhou Wan was also instilling in him some fallacious ideas about striving for fame and fortune. Human nature is easily led astray by pleasure and greed, and one may go astray if one relaxes even slightly.
But Fu Wang was able to steadily learn to be a good person from Zhang Ma amidst these two completely different forces, which is how he developed such a personality.
She couldn't resist reaching out and pinching Fu Wang's cheek, her voice excessively soft, "Aunt Zhang is a good person, but so are you!"
Both were stubborn, but Ruan Yi felt that Fu Wang was much more adorable than Shen Xun, that "pervert." Fu Wang's tendency to say hurtful things was far superior to Shen Xun's straightforwardness and naivety.
Fu Wang was startled by the sudden touch, and the redness on the tips of his ears instantly spread down his neck, even staining the back of his ears with a thin layer of blush.
"Praising me won't help."
The man kept a straight face, but a sweet feeling spread from his heart to every part of his body.
Even if you want to have a baby with me...
"You shouldn't easily harm your body by having an abortion."