Chapter 72 Do you know who the father of the child is?
Nian Nian's almond-shaped eyes, which were exactly the same as Wen Ci's, looked at Xie Peizhou quietly.
For a long, long time, I didn't say yes or no.
Xie Peizhou smiled bitterly and touched her little face. Perhaps deep down in the child's heart, she always longed for her father to love her mother and to have a complete and happy family.
Xie Peizhou said softly: "It's okay, go to sleep first."
There is still a long time left in his life, and he will impress Wen Ci and his daughter.
Wen Ci woke up and found herself lying on a hospital bed. She sat up and clearly remembered that she had been working remotely with the editing team on the sofa last night.
She looked down at her clothes. She was fully dressed, not even the collar of her shirt was undone.
Xie Peizhou also said that she was grinding her teeth and talking in her sleep. Who was she talking in her sleep?
What nonsense!
"Squeak--" The door of the ward was pushed open, and Xie Peizhou, wearing a white shirt and black suit pants, walked in with his usual cool and steady style, holding a hot breakfast in his hand.
"woke up?"
"Well, good morning, uncle."
Wen Ci's face flushed with guilt. She was still thinking about the cricket in the previous second, and the next second the real person appeared in front of her with breakfast.
"Why is your face so red?"
Xie Peizhou noticed that her face looked strange, so he put down his breakfast and walked over to check the temperature of her forehead to see if she had caught a cold from overwork.
Wen Ci felt guilty and wanted to hide, "I'm fine..."
Xie Peizhou frowned slightly. The more she struggled, the more he wanted to try. "Don't move. Let me touch you."
"Mommy."
I heard my daughter's voice shouting from behind.
For a moment, Xie Peizhou and Wen Ci both stopped. Wen Ci got out of bed and walked to her daughter's bedside. "What's wrong?"
Wen Niannian looked at her mother, then glanced at Xie Peizhou who was not far away, and held Wen Ci's hand more intimately, "Mommy, I want to drink some water."
"Yeah, okay."
Wen Ci poured a glass of warm water for her daughter. "Uncle bought breakfast. After drinking the water, let's go wash up. We will go to the special ward in the afternoon."
Wen Niannian cooperated obediently, got up, washed, and had breakfast.
But in this process, I was extremely attached to Wenci.
Wen Ci sensed something was wrong with her daughter, but she thought she was going to stay alone in the sterile laminar flow ward.
Xie Peizhou understood that she was still unwilling to accept him as her "stepfather".
The man smiled bitterly in his heart and said nothing.
After breakfast, the doctor performed some routine examinations on Wen Niannian and transferred her to a sterile laminar flow ward in the afternoon where parents were not allowed to accompany her.
In order to appease her daughter's emotions, Wen Ci promised to buy her the latest versions of dolls and brain teasers.
Only then did Wen Niannian obediently follow the nurse into the elevator.
Although Xie Peizhou is thirty-three years old.
But he had never been to the children's merchandise section in his life. Compared to Wen Ci, who was familiar with finding the Snow White Barbie doll and fairy tale book that his daughter wanted, he was like "Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden", finding everything new and interesting.
He picked up a Chinese version of "Brain Teasers" for customers to try out and suddenly felt playful. He asked Wen Ci, "Who will win in a fight between an egg and chocolate?"
Wen Ci concentrated on picking out the fairy tale book her daughter liked, without even looking up, "Chocolate."
"Why?"
Xie Peizhou raised an eyebrow and flipped through the answers on the back page. Wen Ci's voice was exactly the same as the words on the answer sheet, "Because of the chocolate bar."
Xie Peizhou: "..."
Wen Ci noticed his "speechless" state and laughed out loud in amusement, then asked him a question in return, "Which of the pheasants, partridges, or turkeys, gets beaten more often?"
Xie Peizhou's wise eyes revealed confusion, he was completely bewildered.
After a few seconds, he gave in. "Who's the answer?"
"Turkey."
Xie Peizhou asked doubtfully, "Why?"
Wen Ci smiled and was about to go back when she suddenly heard someone calling her English name "Celine".
When she looked over at the sound, she unexpectedly ran into an acquaintance. She smiled and greeted him, then introduced him to Xie Peizhou, "This is my former psychiatrist, Ms. Judy."
When introducing them to Judy, Wen Ci hesitated for a moment and then said, "This is my family."
Xie Peizhou extended his hand like a gentleman, "Hello, Xie Peizhou."
After a brief greeting, Judy also came to buy fairy tale books and dolls for her little daughter, so they went together.
Xie Peizhou pushed the shopping cart and walked on the other side of Wen Ci, listening quietly to their conversation.
From the content of the conversation, he could vaguely conclude that Wen Ci still suffered from severe postpartum depression after being discharged from the hospital. It was Judy who gave her hope, but whenever Judy mentioned these past events, Wen Ci interrupted and changed the subject.
She chuckled and said, "That's all in the past. I'm fine now."
After coming out of the mall, the two separated from Dr. Judy and went back to the hospital with the toys they bought. After professional disinfection and sterilization, they gave them to Nian Nian.
Before the hematopoietic stem cell transplant, Nian Nian needed to stay in a sterile laminar flow ward for one to two weeks before the transplant surgery. During this time, parents could not accompany her and could only communicate with her via video.
Everything went smoothly, and Wen Ci said, "Uncle, I can handle Nian Nian here by myself, you can focus on your own work."
Xie Peizhou did not agree and booked an executive suite near the hospital, saying that he would return home together after his daughter's surgery was successfully completed.
Wen Ci didn't have the courage to force him to leave.
However, apart from going to the hospital to visit their daughter, the two of them were like two "oxen and horses" in the hotel, one of them holding a laptop and working in the living room or study.
In the evening, Wen Ci rubbed her sore neck, closed her computer, walked out of the study, and prepared to pour a glass of warm water.
The living room was quiet. There was no sign of Xie Peizhou leaning on the sofa, concentrating on his work. There was no sound of his cold and low voice talking on the phone on the balcony, and the door to the second bedroom was open.
He's not in the hotel?
Wen Ci poured a glass of water, went back to the study, picked up her phone, and saw the message her "uncle" had sent her an hour ago: "I'm going out for a while."
Wen Ci looked at the message and replied "OK".
It was pitch black outside the window and it looked like it was going to rain heavily. Although she was curious about what he was doing outside, she didn't ask any more questions.
After a while, the sound of raindrops hit the glass, and it began to rain at night.
Xie Peizhou listened to the sound of rain outside the window. The temperature in the clinic was just right and the light was soft.
Across the desk, Dr. Judy spoke calmly about Wen Ci's severe postpartum depression.
"I still remember that when she first came to see me, I gave her an Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Her condition was very serious. There were several self-inflicted scars on her thin arms. She even wanted to jump off the building and commit suicide several times while holding her daughter."
"In her own words, she described herself as a selfish lunatic who was filled with guilt towards her daughter and said she was not a good mother because she gave birth to her daughter without the father's knowledge, leaving her without a father, without healthy love, and without a happy family."
Xie Peizhou's heart began to ache. He could imagine how devastated and helpless Wen Ci was at that time.
He opened his mouth hoarsely, "Excuse me, do you know who the father of this child is?"
Dr. Judy saw the distress in his eyes and shook her head. "I don't know. She never told me. Perhaps this is the deepest secret in her heart, and also the deepest and most painful scar."
"In fact, from my observation, Celine loves her daughter very much. She is not only a wonderful mother, but also a very outstanding and talented young person. I have seen the films she has made, and they are all very exciting and excellent. She is confident and bright in her work, but when it comes to emotional issues, she becomes a different person. She is extremely sensitive and has low self-esteem. She feels that she does not deserve any love. From a professional perspective, she may have been deeply hurt emotionally..."
“Boom—”
Suddenly, a flash of lightning appeared outside the dark window, and the rumbling thunder was so terrifying and chilling that it even interrupted Judy's analysis.
Judy suddenly thought of something and said, "Celine still has very severe PDST symptoms from rainstorms. She must have suffered an extremely deep emotional trauma during those rainstorms. Many of her self-harm episodes occurred during those rainstorms. I wonder if she's feeling better now..."
Before Judy finished speaking, Xie Peizhou stood up and ran out. "Sorry, I'll call you another day!"
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