[Oh my! Is my second uncle in a good mood? Didn’t he say that I shouldn’t eat too much candy? Why did he stuff a lollipop into my mouth? ]
Shen Zhongli: I want you to be quiet for a while.
Shen Zhongli frowned and looked at Jiang Manyue, "Can you explain to me what's going on?"
Feeling his own cold tone, Shen Zhongli panicked subconsciously and carefully observed the changes in her expression.
Damn it!
I'm used to being spoken to this way, so I was a little slow to react.
She wouldn't think there was something wrong with his attitude, would she?
What does it mean that she doesn't speak?
You won’t be angry anymore!
Just as Shen Zhongli was about to apologize, her cold hand touched his jaw, which was tense due to nervousness.
"..." Shen Zhongli's breathing suddenly stopped.
"sorry!"
Then she added: "Are you a big fool?"
Shen Zhongli covered her small red hand with his big palm, and said teasingly with a smile, "Are you making fun of the professor?"
Not a mockery.
He is just a fool.
There was a basket full of apples, but he picked the most plain one.
"Don't change the subject, tell me about your newly unearthed..."
Shen Zhongli still couldn't utter the word "fiancé", so he just raised his eyebrows to let her understand.
Jiang Manyue's fiancé Xu Yanqing is a university teacher.
Not only is he a teacher, his parents and grandparents are all professors. It can be said that he comes from a family of scholars.
Being born into a scholarly family has its own advantages, for example, one can enjoy an excellent educational environment from an early age.
Of course, everything has two sides, good and bad.
From grandparents to parents, they have many students all over the world, which makes the whole family attach great importance to reputation.
They could accept that Xu Yanqing married a poor girl who had a paralyzed mother to take care of.
At worst, they can say that what they value is Jiang Manyue’s filial piety, and any young lady from a famous family will pale in comparison to her filial piety.
For this reason, the Xu family may also gain a good reputation as a clear-minded scholar.
But he could not accept Xu Yanqing's sexual orientation no matter what.
Even though they have read a lot of books and taught a lot of people that love has nothing to do with gender...
Love has nothing to do with gender!
When these words are applied to others, they seem light and airy, but when applied to oneself, they are several times heavier than Mount Tai.
After more than ten years of war among three generations, the elders finally compromised.
Let Xu Yanqing find a girl to marry and have a child. This way, they won’t care what happens between him and his boyfriend, as long as no one knows about it.
Shen Zhongli's expression was solemn, "Only you would agree to this kind of thing."
"You want to say something stupid like this!" Jiang Manyue rolled her eyes at him coquettishly.
Shen Zhongli smiled, "That's what you said."
"It's stupid, but it's the best option for me."
Facing Shen Zhongli's puzzled but distressed gaze, Jiang Manyue continued, "All the money I have saved from working over the years has been used to treat my mother's leg.
My mother feels sorry for me because I am still single at the age of 30.
I'm also afraid that no good family would be willing to marry me because of me.
Xu Yanqing is the perfect match. He needs a wife and children as a decoration, and I just need a husband and children to make my mother feel at ease.
Besides, the Xu family members are all very nice, knowledgeable and educated, so I don’t have to worry too much about the child.
This way, I can find time for both my career and taking care of my mother.
They also don’t treat me badly in terms of money.”
"So you're just selling out your happiness?"
"Happiness is a luxury. I, who am struggling on the edge of food and clothing, cannot have it."
"you……"
"You want to know why I live so pessimistically?" Jiang Manyue said without waiting for an answer: "Whether optimistic or pessimistic, life just exists like that.
Just get by, it's enough. You can't have everything in life.
I choose to make my mother feel at ease, and I can’t force anything else.”
"I understand..." Shen Zhongli held her face in his hands and choked with heartache, "I'm too stupid, I'm too self-righteous..."
Jiang Manyue shook her head.
"Leave this matter to me, I will talk to him, okay?" Shen Zhongli coaxed in a low voice.
"..." Jiang Manyue was stunned for a long time before nodding.
When the young master takes action, there is nothing he cannot accomplish.
In fact, the main reason for this was that the Xu family were all scholars. Once Shen Zhongli told the story of him and Jiang Manyue, the Xu family felt guilty and agreed to cancel the marriage.
The Xu family was easy to talk to, so Shen Zhongli certainly had to return the favor. Not only did he use the Shen family as a guarantee that they would not tell anyone about the inside story of the marriage, he also helped Xu Yanqing apply for a teaching position abroad.
After resolving the Xu family's issue, Jiang Manyue began to worry that Shen Zhongli's family didn't like her.
Shen Yue was speechless about this.
[You are dating my second uncle, not the entire Shen family, so why do they like you? ]
That's true, but Jiang Manyue always felt that her situation was special. Even if the Shen family accepted her background, they probably wouldn't be able to accept the fact that she had trouble having children.
"Didn't you say you would arrange surgery for me? When would it be?"
Shen Zhongli almost choked on the steak he was eating, thinking, is it necessary to bring up such an unappetizing thing in such a romantic place?
Good upbringing taught him to chew the food in his mouth politely before speaking.
"Your problem is indeed complicated." Shen Zhongli put down his knife and fork, crossed his hands on the table, and looked like he had something serious to discuss.
Jiang Manyue looked at him nervously and even forgot to chew.
How come she is still so cute, Shen Zhongli thought to himself.
Shen Zhongli took a napkin and wiped the sauce off the corner of her lips with a smile, "Just keep eating, I'll tell you what I'm saying, just listen."
"Oh!" Jiang Manyue did as she was told, picked up a piece of broccoli and started chewing it.
“In your case, it can be repaired through surgery, but the chances of natural fertilization and successful implantation are still very small.
Plus, you are already thirty years old, and your ovarian function will only decline.
So the safe option is to do IVF.”
"Sure." Jiang Manyue had food in her mouth, and her voice was muffled and not very clear.
"Do you know what you will face when you do IVF?"
Isn’t it just in vitro fertilization, selecting well-developed embryos and transplanting them into the uterus?
But facing Shen Zhongli, an expert, Jiang Manyue didn't say these nonsense that everyone knew. She just looked at him with her long eyelashes fluttering.
"First, you need to take an ovulation-stimulating injection. Normal women will only ovulate once during a menstrual cycle. In order to ensure that good embryos can be selected, 20 to 30 eggs need to be released at a time.
After in vitro fertilization, the embryo is transplanted, and after the transplant, progesterone is injected. "
“…”
"I just briefly described the whole process to you, and everything went smoothly.
If any of the items does not meet the standard, additional treatment will be required, and the success rate of a single IVF test tube procedure is less than 30%.
The first step I mentioned is accompanied by pain.”
"I'm not afraid," Jiang Manyue said.
"It's not a question of whether I'm afraid or not, it's that I don't want to."
"Why?"
"Not to mention anything else, a normal woman only ovulates once a month, but IVF requires two to three years of ovulation at a time, which means overdrawing the body.
In addition, pregnancy itself will cause irreversible damage to the mother.
Even if you take good care of yourself in the future and your life span is not affected, it will still affect your quality of life.
I want you to be healthy and happy more than having a child."