Chapter 28 (First and Second Updates) The child is mine...

After hearing what the doctor said, Pei Yumin's terrified face showed a hint of helplessness.

It took him a long time to regain his composure, and he looked at the doctor with difficulty and said, "Doctor, did I forget to tell you that he is male?"

The doctor adjusted his glasses, and although he also found it strange, he still spoke definitively: "I know."

Pei Yumin's legs went weak, and he almost knelt on the ground. He held onto the table for a while before regaining some composure after his gaze fell on Lu Shangyan's face: "Is he too ill, so you wanted to play a joke on me to lighten the mood?"

Even in his sleep, Lu Shangyan seemed to be in great pain, frequently frowning. Pei Yumin felt a pang of heartache and knew that at this moment, he couldn't afford to collapse first: "It's okay, doctor. You don't need to try to comfort me. I can handle it. Just tell me the truth."

The doctor frowned: "Have you ever seen a ethical and professional doctor lie at a time like this?"

As he spoke, he gestured to the wall behind him covered with banners.

Pei Yumin glanced over and saw a sea of ​​red. Then the words on it began to spin, and the faster he earned money each month, the more he could no longer hold on and collapsed to the ground.

At this moment, he felt no joy at the prospect of becoming a father, nor did he have any intention of using the child as an excuse to get Lu Shangyan to be with him.

His mind was filled with thoughts of Lu Shangyan's pregnancy and what he should do in the future.

Lu Shangyan, who went through so much hardship to get into Z University and struggled to climb out of there, is only a junior this year. It takes five years to graduate with a degree in dentistry. He could have easily escaped the pain of the past twenty years in just two more years, but now he might ruin all of that because of a child.

Lu Shangyan is an orphan, and after such a big incident, he doesn't even have anyone to support him.

Pei Yumin felt a growing pain in his heart as he thought about it. A woman of the same gender as him had become pregnant because of a one-night stand with him. He dared not think about how terrified Lu Shangyan would be if he found out.

He took a deep breath, struggled to his feet, and, ignoring the doctor's concern, grabbed his shoulder and said, "This must be kept a secret. It absolutely cannot be told!"

The doctor readily agreed to the patient's request for privacy, though he was also somewhat disappointed that this major medical discovery had slipped away so easily with just a few words from the young man before him.

Pei Yumin quickly called her mother again, asking her to find the most professional medical team as soon as possible.

Ms. Yuan's palms were sweating nervously: "What's wrong with you?"

Pei Yumin tried his best to control his voice, hoping it wouldn't sound too trembling: "It's Lu Shangyan."

She already knew about Lu Shangyan's background and had heard from Pei Yumin that he hadn't been feeling well lately. Upon hearing that Lu Shangyan was seriously ill, she couldn't sit still any longer: "What happened to him?!"

"Which hospital are you in now? Your dad and I will go pick him up and take him to your Uncle Wu's place." She stood up and started to walk out, but after taking a couple of steps, she remembered that Pei Yicheng was still in the study upstairs, so she quickly ran upstairs again: "What kind of illness does he have? Tell me first so I can contact a doctor."

“He’s not sick.” Pei Yumin found a chair and sat down by the hospital bed, taking his hand in hers. “He’s pregnant.”

Yuan Qingyu dropped her phone, then hurriedly picked it up, saying, "Son, didn't you say he was a boy?"

Pei Yumin had calmed down temporarily so as not to disturb Lu Shangyan's rest, and deliberately lowered his voice: "It's true."

Yuan Qingyu broke out in a cold sweat: "Is that doctor you found professional or not?!"

She got even more agitated after she finished speaking. Without even knocking, she rushed into the study, grabbed Old Pei, and ran out: "What time is it and you're still working? You're about to become a grandfather, do you even know that?!"

-

When Lu Shangyan woke up, he no longer felt unwell. His phone wasn't with him, so he didn't know how long he had slept.

He remembered the events before he fainted fairly clearly; he heard Pei Yumin's voice, which must have been Pei Yumin who brought him to the hospital.

He lay down for a while, and only sat up when he felt strong enough. When he came to his senses, he found that his hand with the IV drip was pressed on his lower abdomen.

He remembers fainting from the pain; his lower abdomen felt like it was being pricked with needles. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he had endured an unbearable torture.

Lu Shangyan sighed and began to carefully examine the ward. The ward was spacious and had a private bathroom; it could easily be described as a luxury hotel suite. He had intended to get out of bed to take a closer look, but just sitting up felt like he had exhausted all his strength.

Lu Shangyan slowly moved his body, comforting himself that his weakness was due to lying down for too long, rather than having contracted some incurable disease.

Thinking of this, he involuntarily lowered his eyelids again. If the illness that was causing him so much pain wasn't very serious, it probably wouldn't have come to this point. As he was lost in thought, he vaguely heard Pei Yumin's voice outside. It was a very faint voice, but when he realized that Pei Yumin was beside him, he finally dared to secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Pei Yumin chatted with the man for a few more minutes at the door, and when he left, he earnestly asked him, "Uncle Wu, please take care of his matter."

The other person smiled, patted his shoulder, and walked away. Pei Yumin stood there for a while before pushing the door open and coming in. When he saw that Lu Shangyan was awake, his eyes lit up instantly. He then rushed over and suddenly hugged Lu Shangyan tightly.

His breathing was erratic, and his hands holding Lu Shangyan began to tremble again: "I'm sorry, Lu Shangyan, it's all my fault."

Lu Shangyan was completely confused, but seeing Pei Yumin's attitude, he felt even more that his condition was very serious. He had made very bad plans before, but when all of this actually happened, he realized that he was not as prepared as he had imagined to accept everything that would happen.

He stared at the ceiling, trying to convince himself to accept it all, but before he could, he suddenly felt water streaks running down his neck. At first, he thought it was his imagination, but more and more water was flowing in, and he could clearly hear Pei Yumin's uncontrollable sobs.

He patted Pei Yumin on the back: "I'm the one who's sick, why are you crying?"

Pei Yumin tightened his grip on his arm, and Lu Shangyan felt pain: "It's too tight."

Pei Yumin immediately let go of his hand, looked down at his stomach, and then carefully raised her hand to touch it: "Does it hurt here?"

Lu Shangyan shook his head. In the past, he would have endured the pain as much as he could, but now he was thinking that he really didn't have many months left, so he didn't want to hide it anymore. He just lowered his head and looked at Pei Yumin with disgust: "It seems a little swollen."

Pei Yumin sat facing him, and from this angle, he looked particularly aggrieved. Pei Yumin's heart almost melted: "I'm going to find a doctor."

Lu Shangyan shook his head, disagreeing: "It's not that uncomfortable."

Pei Yumin frowned, strongly disapproving of his attitude of not taking care of his body: "Your situation is different now, you must take it seriously. Also, please let me do something for you, otherwise I really... feel uncomfortable."

Lu Shangyan pursed his lips and took several deep breaths before finally mustering the courage to ask, "What disease do I have?"

Pei Yumin blinked, stumped by the question. He was stunned for too long, and Lu Shangyan couldn't help but tilt his head and look at him with a puzzled expression, touching his palm with his finger to urge him to speak quickly.

Pei Yumin then realized that he had been so excited when he came in that he had only been crying: "Lu Shangyan, you must be mentally prepared."

Lu Shangyan rarely saw him so serious, and immediately became nervous as well: "I'm ready."

Pei Yumin exhaled and said, word by word, "You're pregnant. The doctor said you're almost three months along."

A deafening roar filled his ears. Looking at Pei Yumin's face, Lu Shangyan felt like he didn't recognize him at all. Although Pei Yumin often said nonsensical things that left him puzzled, this was the first time he had ever heard anything so incomprehensible.

Lu Shangyan closed his eyes tightly several times, then secretly pinched his palm to make sure he wasn't dreaming before daring to speak again: "Am I so sick that you're saying these things to distract me?"

Pei Yumin said seriously, "I would never lie about something like this."

As he spoke, he opened the top drawer of the bedside table and took out a thick stack of test results: "During your coma, we did every possible test, and some of them were done more than once. I guarantee that these test results are absolutely accurate."

Lu Shangyan's vision blurred. He recognized all the words, but he refused to read the test results. At first, he looked at them one word at a time, but then he started flipping through them uncontrollably. Finally, on the last page, he saw a blurry "little bean".

Pei Yumin's expression softened. He sat down next to him, put his arm around his shoulder, and pointed at "Little Bean": "This is the culprit that made you unable to eat or sleep well all day, and even made you think you had a serious illness."

Lu Shangyan stared at all this in disbelief. The fact that he was pregnant was even more shocking than the fact that he only had a few months left to live.

He looked at it several times with trembling hands: "I'm really pregnant."

Pei Yumin nodded: "It's our child."

Lu Shangyan turned the paper over and covered it with his palm. Now he was even more confused. He didn't break down in tears, nor did he try to kill himself. This was a "good thing" that Pei Yumin never dared to imagine.

He waited until Lu Shangyan's shoulders stopped trembling so much before asking him softly, "Do you want to keep this child?"

Hearing the noise, Lu Shangyan turned to look at him, his eyes filled with confusion: "This happened so suddenly, I...I don't know what to do."

Pei Yumin breathed a sigh of relief, and as if afraid of scaring him, she lowered her voice even further: "Then take your time to think about it. It's okay, I've got you covered."

“If you want to keep the child, we can get married right away. I will definitely fulfill my responsibilities as a father, take good care of you and the child, and raise him to adulthood.”

He paused for a moment after speaking before looking away and adding, "If you don't want to stay, I'll find the best doctor to perform the surgery for you."

He was afraid that the little one in Lu Shangyan's belly would be saddened if he heard this, so in the end he only dared to press his head against Lu Shangyan's head and whisper in his ear: "Of course, I need to tell you clearly before that, because of your special condition, if you keep this child, you may have a very hard time, and I cannot help you share this hardship, so you will have to bear everything."

“The baby is less than three months old now. It won’t be until October when the pregnancy starts to show at six months. By then, you will be a senior in college. You will have to choose between taking a year off from school or risking being discovered by your classmates.”

"It's really unfair to you. You have to sacrifice so much, and all I can give you is my company, or some comfort that doesn't really help at all."

He had thought about these words countless times during the time Lu Shangyan was in a coma, and now that he had finally said them, the weight on his heart hadn't actually lifted much. He didn't even dare to look at Lu Shangyan's expression anymore, let alone look into his eyes.

Time seemed to stand still, and all was silent. Pei Yumin dared not let go of his arms, nor dared to make a sound, for fear of disturbing Lu Shangyan's thoughts.

In reality, after listening to him say so much, Lu Shangyan still had no clue whatsoever; in fact, his thoughts were becoming increasingly chaotic. This matter had happened too suddenly; he simply had no time to prepare, or rather, he was completely unable to even think about preparing.

He didn't stop until he had been sitting for a long time and started to feel tired. He said in a hoarse voice, "I don't know what to do. I want to rest for a while longer."

Seeing that he wasn't defeated and was about to kneel down to thank God, Pei Yumin immediately got up to help him lie down first after hearing his words: "Is there anything you want to eat? I'll go buy it for you later. If I can't find it, I'll cook it for you. Look how thin you've gotten from studying lately. If there's anything you want, tell me and I'll go buy it for you right away."

Lu Shangyan had been lying down for almost a day and a night, but he wasn't hungry at all: "No need." After saying that, he saw Pei Yumin's expectant look and added, "I want to eat fruit salad. It's summer now, and many of my classmates go to the school supermarket to buy it. I've never had it before."

Pei Yumin almost burst into tears upon hearing this: "Buy it! I'll buy you the biggest one!"

After he finished his IV drip, Pei Yumin got up and left. He heard the door close and realized that the corners of his mouth had turned up without him noticing. He also realized that what he had just said seemed to be an attempt to get Pei Yumin to care about him a little more.

Thinking of this, Lu Shangyan turned to the side and pulled the blanket up to cover his face, only pulling it down again when he couldn't breathe.

He forced himself to refocus his attention on himself, and his hand slid down to his lower abdomen. This child was indeed an unexpected pregnancy that he couldn't keep.

Given his current situation, whether he can afford to raise the child is one thing, and whether he can successfully give birth is another. Just as Pei Yumin said, his body is special, and it's already put him through so much trouble at the very beginning; what will happen later...?

He dared not think about it any further.

If he really tries to give birth to this child, and something goes wrong in the next few months, all his efforts of the past twenty years will be in vain.

But... he closed his eyes. This unborn child, whose very existence was uncertain, was his only family in this world.

His eyes welled up with tears, and he closed them even tighter until he was too tired to fall asleep again. He still hadn't figured out what to choose.

-

Yuan Qingyu and Pei Yicheng were waiting outside the ward. Pei Yumin said that Lu Shangyan's condition was special and that he was afraid that Lu Shangyan would feel pressured if they appeared, so he insisted on not letting them in.

Yuan Qingyu said he couldn't speak well, and that he was afraid that Lu Shangyan wouldn't be able to handle such a big matter if he couldn't explain it clearly. She kept insisting on following him in, but Pei Yicheng stopped her in the end, so she gave up. However, she still squatted at the door to eavesdrop, afraid of missing any news and also afraid that something unexpected might happen, so that she could rush in as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, the ward remained quiet. He occasionally overheard a few words, all spoken by Pei Yumin when he was excited and couldn't help but say them. They were incredibly sincere and heartfelt.

Lu Shangyan, on the other hand, remained very quiet. If she hadn't seen Lu Shangyan's medical report, she would have thought that the person who was pregnant was her son. Now, he couldn't bear it and was holding Lu Shangyan, so he was crying his heart out.

When Pei Yumin came out smiling, Yuan Qingyu was speechless, but she had no choice but to speak to him: "Where is my daughter-in-law? How is she now?"

"Mom, keep your voice down." Pei Yumin quickly pulled her outside, "He just fell asleep, don't disturb him."

Yuan Qingyu immediately nodded: "What did you say to him just now?"

Pei Yumin recounted everything that had just happened word for word, and he also repeated with great emotion the heartfelt words he had spoken to Lu Shangyan.

Yuan Qingyu's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she punched him in the chest: "Not bad, son, you've got guts."

Even Pei Yicheng nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "You've really grown up and can now take on the responsibilities of a husband."

Upon being reminded, Yuan Qingyu immediately asked, "So, did Shang Yan accept your marriage proposal?"

Pei Yumin was stunned for a moment, then blushed: "I haven't proposed yet!"

After saying that, she realized something: "That doesn't count. Shangshang didn't take it to heart. I'll plan a proper proposal ceremony before I formally propose to him."

"The most important thing now is his health. Regardless of whether he keeps the baby or not, we need to make preparations in advance."

Yuan Qingyu nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, I misspoke again." After saying that, she glared at Pei Yicheng with disdain, "It's all your fault for interrupting and distracting me!"

Pei Yicheng naturally didn't dare to refute a single word, but instead changed the subject and quietly took credit: "I've already spoken to your Uncle Wu. He and his students won't tell anyone about Shang Yan's pregnancy. They've also helped contact professional obstetricians and gynecologists to form a team so that they can make the best decision in time, whether or not she gives birth."

Pei Yumin said, "This matter must not be spread. I don't want him to be discussed by outsiders."

Pei Yicheng nodded and said, "As for the school, I will also try to keep it a secret. If he wants to give birth, I will try to smooth things over whether he should take a leave of absence or continue his studies."

Yuan Qingyu also said, "I've thought it all out. If he doesn't want to take a break from school, he can go back to school when his health permits. Anyway, he'll be in the early stages of pregnancy, so it won't be easy to tell. When it becomes visible, we'll help him get a month's leave. I'll go to the school and video chat with him so he can take online classes. Then when it gets a bit colder and he can wear thicker clothes, he can cover his belly and go to school without being noticed."

When Pei Yumin was thinking, she also had a lot of random thoughts, and now she said them all at once: "It's better for Shangshang to come up with a solution by herself than for us to come up with one together."

She smiled slightly and patted Pei Yumin on the shoulder: "Son, let's arrange for him to meet us when he wakes up."

Pei Yumin knew what "meeting once" meant.

He hadn't been able to win Lu Shangyan's heart before, and he was afraid that Lu Shangyan would feel burdened, so he had always prevented him from seeing him.

Lu Shangyan still hasn't agreed to be with him, but the situation is completely different now; Lu Shangyan can no longer be left with nothing behind him.

He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Seeing him is fine, but the gift must be generous."

Yuan Qingyu also breathed a sigh of relief and said with a laugh, "You don't need to tell me that."

-

When Lu Shangyan woke up again, his phone was already on his pillow, fully charged. He picked it up and looked at it; there were only a few messages from Pei Yumin, which he couldn't reply to while he was asleep.

Then came two friend requests. Lu Shangyan clicked on one. One profile picture was of a woman holding lotus flowers, smiling at the camera from the side. She looked gentle and charming. The message in the request was:

[Shangshang, this is Mom.]

A minute later, another message appeared: [I am Pei Yumin's mother.]

The other profile picture is a calligraphy character "诚" (sincerity), which Lu Shangyan guessed should be Pei Yumin's father.

He hesitated for a few seconds, then pressed "pass" on all of them.

The next second, Yuan Qingyu's message came through.

[Green Grassland: Pictures]

[Green Grassland: I'm making you chicken soup, it'll be ready soon. I'll bring it to you later. What else would you like to eat? Tell me now, and I'll go prepare it.]

Lu Shangyan felt a warmth in his heart.

[S: No need, Auntie, it's too much trouble for you. I'll eat out.]

[Green Grassland: No, you need to eat more now. When Auntie saw you at the hospital, you were so thin, it broke my heart.]

Lu Shangyan had never been cared for like this before, and for a moment he didn't know how to reply. After thinking for a long time, he could only manage to utter one sentence:

[S: Thank you, Auntie, the soup is enough for me.]

Yuan Qingyu knew that Lu Shangyan was afraid of troubling her, after all, she was not yet considered a "mother" and Pei Yumin's progress was touching. She couldn't even be considered a "future mother-in-law" yet. Just thinking about this made her feel uncomfortable.

Pei Yicheng assessed the situation, glanced at her phone screen, then slowly strolled into the living room, put on his reading glasses, and tapped the screen with his fingers.

The next second.

[Big Fat Sheep: I've transferred 66,666 yuan to you.]

Upon seeing this message, Lu Shangyan immediately felt that his phone had become a hot potato, so he simply threw it on the bed.

Pei Yicheng was still smug after handing out the money. He knew that Lu Shangyan lived in poverty, so he deliberately gave him two fewer 6s, just in case Lu Shangyan thought it was too much and refused to accept it.

Lu Shangyan took another deep breath, picked up his phone and looked at it carefully several times. Then he took a deep breath and got out of bed, putting on his slippers to go outside for some fresh air. On the one hand, the number was so frightening that he couldn't breathe, and on the other hand, he had indeed been lying in bed for too long. If he didn't move, he would become even more agitated. He wanted to calm down and think about the child's situation so that he could make a plan as soon as possible, which would be good for both him and the child.

When the elevator doors opened, a woman stepped out; it was the same woman he had seen across the street from the school.

This time, the woman didn't ignore him. Instead, she stood directly in front of him and said, "So this is what you look like? Not the mistress I imagined."

Before Lu Shangyan could respond, she smiled mockingly and said, "I want to talk to you, is that alright?"

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Author's Note: This lousy internet!!! I posted the wrong thing and spent ages correcting it...

There should be another update tonight. [cat paw emoji]

From now on, I'll be posting daily! [kiss] Thank you for your support, my darlings! [cat paw]