Chapter 125 Extra 7 (Part 2)
One year after the abortion, under the care of top doctors and salespeople, Ye Jin's body recovered to its best condition. Six months before going to the sperm bank, she entered the conditioning stage for pregnancy. After so many years in the entertainment industry, she gave up her sensual and decadent lifestyle overnight for the sake of her child. She stopped drinking and smoking, drank purified water at all social dinners, and even gave up sex. She went home before 10 o'clock every day, washed up and went to bed. She was so pure and abstinent that she could become a monk immediately.
Buying sperm is almost like customizing a child. Ye Jin, who is decisive and resolute and has strong opinions, also fell into the dilemma of making a choice. Ye Kai often stayed up late to hold online family meetings with them during this period:
"You want black eyes?"
"I think amber looks good."
"No, black is better."
Lanman interjected: "Isn't blue beautiful? Green is also beautiful."
Qu Jia: "Doesn't that make me mixed-blood?"
Ye Zheng tried to please his mother-in-law: "Mixed-blood is beautiful."
Ye Jin: "I heard that mixed-bloods are not smart."
Lan Man rolled his eyes: "Where did this rumor come from?"
Qu Jia: "I don't care, the baby must be very smart."
Ye Jin: "Dad's IQ is over 130."
"Wait, does the sperm bank have 130?"
Ye Kai was connected to the microphone, indifferent to the chatter in the microphone, and just calmly scrolled through the official website on another computer, "Yes."
As soon as these words came out, Qu Jia breathed a sigh of relief with satisfaction.
This sperm bank only serves high-net-worth clients around the world. It doesn't even have a website open to the public, but only cooperates with banks and high-end private hospitals to develop clients by invitation. In order to collect enough high-quality resources to meet the various picky, delicate, and detailed preferences of their clients, they pay much more than ordinary public institutions.
"If you have black eyes, you are still Asian after all."
Ye Kai was paying attention to the page: "You can choose to be mixed from multiple countries, you can specify which countries you are mixed from, and you can also ask to specify which bloodline your paternal and maternal lines come from."
Ye Jin: “…”
That doesn't have to be the case.
"What about hair color?"
This time the whole family said in unison: "Black."
Ye Kai said "hmm" and ticked the box on the page. His eyes behind the glasses were calm and focused as he continued to ask: "Height? Weight? Blood type, zodiac sign, religious belief, education background, hobbies, major, employment status of direct and collateral relatives within three generations, medical history——"
The whole family: “…”
What else can I say? You can even know the frequency of your partner’s sexual life or masturbation.
Ye Jin covered her face, and Lan Man held her waist and walked away from the camera: "You guys chat, I'm going to sleep first."
Qu Jia was worried: "Is this okay? When I was pregnant with you two, I didn't even ask about the gender." Ye Zheng held her hand and patted it, and said with emotion: "Having a child requires this kind of expectation of knowing nothing, which is the surprise."
But it was Ye Jin who gave birth to the child, and she had the final say. She waved her hand and wrapped herself tightly in the blanket: "I'm sleepy, let's talk about it next time."
This time it lasted for two or three months, so long that Ye Kai even doubted whether Ye Jin wanted to have a child or not.
Spring has arrived in Boston. The clear blue sky and the warm air often remind Ye Kai of Ning City. Chen Youhan took a photo of the rose wall in front of the new villa and showed it to him. It was indeed beautiful. There are hundreds of varieties of European roses. At the beginning, the grandmother and the gardener were specially invited. They spent nearly half a month to select the matching colors and flower shapes. If the flower capital hesitated for so long, it would be understandable that Ye Jin, a child, would think about it for three months.
"I went to see Grandpa the night before yesterday and saw Ye Jin drinking tea alone in the garden, so I went over to chat with her for a few words," Chen Youhan stood in front of the flower wall and casually pinched off a half-withered leaf, "Guess what she was doing."
"Choosing clothes for the child?" Ye Kai used his imagination and tried to put himself in the shoes of a prospective father. "Choosing a cradle?"
Chen Youhan laughed and said, "That's not right."
"Look at the color scheme of the baby's room? What to pay attention to during pregnancy?" Ye Kai thought for a moment, "I know, I'm looking at the database."
"Looking at photos of you when you were a kid."
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"Grandpa is in a meeting in the study." Ye Jin's eyes did not leave the photo, and he said in a normal tone, "You go to the living room on the second floor and wait for him."
Chen Youhan pulled out a chair and sat down next to her: "Are you nervous?"
Ye Jin pursed her lips and smiled: "Why are you so nervous? It's just giving birth to a child. I think each of you is more excited than me."
"I heard from Xiao Kai that you haven't chosen a provider yet?"
"Too many. I feel dizzy reading all the information every day." Ye Jin raised his eyes from the photo, glanced at Chen Youhan, then returned to the photo and smiled: "Sometimes I think fate is strange. When I asked you to attend Xiao Kai's 100-day banquet, how could I have thought that you would take me back in the end?"
Before Chen Youhan could say anything, she leaned over and showed him the photo in her hand: "Look, do you still remember when Xiaokai was five years old?"
His gaze stayed on it for two seconds, and the careless look just now became gentle, as he fell into some memories.
"Remember, I took him to Disneyland in the spring and to Universal Studios in October."
Ye Jin hummed, unconvinced, "How come you remember it better than I do?"
"not necessarily."
Ye Jin snorted and changed the photo: "You have some self-awareness. I am his sister, and I have been with him for much longer than you."
Chen Youhan said "maybe not" again, and Ye Jin was annoyed. She smiled and hit him: "You are so annoying."
The spring night was still chilly. She had a blanket covering her legs and a shawl wrapped tightly around her shoulders. She looked up at the night sky with bright eyes, clasping her hands and saying yearningly, "I still remember how he looked when he was a child. He was so delicate and well-behaved, with his dark eyes staring at you, just waiting for you to hold his hand - do you still remember the feeling of his hand? I mean when he was a child."
Chen Youhan laughed, bowed, and said in accordance with her wishes: "I don't remember."
Ye Jin really showed off subtly: "How could I not remember? Her little hands were so chubby, just that small, and she loved to hold my index finger tightly, taking every step for fear of falling."
Chen Youhan thought that Ye Jin herself probably didn't realize that those twinkling, floating stars in her eyes were all related to Ye Kai.
"It's grown so big in the blink of an eye..." Ye Jin lowered her head and swept across the blanket, sweeping away the petals that had fallen on it.
Chen Youhan looked at her for a long while, and finally chose to gently wake her up: "Actually, you like kids like Xiaokai."
Ye Jin was stunned, and his eyes moved as if he wanted to refute, but in the end he didn't say anything.
"How a child will grow up is partly determined by genes, but what's more important is nurture. Xiaokai was so well-behaved and cute when he was a child, thanks to Teacher Qu and you. It's because everyone loves him that he has this kind of personality. Ye Jin, it's actually not that complicated. Choose the one you like best in terms of genes, and leave the rest to time."
Ye Jin lowered her eyes quietly and finally said, "I'm scared."
"What are you afraid of? Your child will only get more love than Xiaokai."
"You don't understand. I've been suffering from insomnia lately, tossing and turning in my mind, am I really ready, can I educate him well? Am I qualified to be a mother? If he grows up in the future and asks me where his father is, how will I answer? Am I too selfish to bring such a little life into the world just because I like children? He is not even the fruit of love, nor is he -"
Chen Youhan held her hand: "Ye Jin, listen to me."
The last line of the voice stopped abruptly. Ye Jin opened her eyes blankly and saw Chen Youhan holding her shoulders in a gentlemanly manner: "He was born because you like children. He appeared with love and expectation. I think it's enough."
Aunt Jia knocked on the glass door of the garden: "Youhan."
The meeting with Ye Tong was over. Chen Youhan stood up and squeezed Ye Jin's shoulder with her big hand to comfort her: "You are qualified to be a mother."
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"No wonder she suddenly came to me today." Ye Kai breathed a sigh of relief and said from the bottom of his heart: "Brother Youhan, you are so awesome."
"She's not like you. People who are too controlling tend to get stuck in a rut and need guidance from others." Chen Youhan returned to the balcony and looked at the sparkling sea in the distance. "Reporting, I gave her a gift the next day."
Ye Kai deliberately said: "Jealous."
Chen Youhan sat down on a lounge chair by the pool and put out his cigarette: "You're going to drink vinegar worth fifty-nine yuan?"
"What?" Ye Kai asked suspiciously.
What kind of gift can you buy with fifty-nine dollars? He even reported it.
“A blind box.”
Ye Kai: “…”
OK, you are worthy of it.
"Having a baby is like opening a blind box. The risks are controllable to a certain extent, but there are still surprises."
Ye Kai applauded him on the other end of the phone, saying in an exaggerated tone: "Wow, that's amazing. Let Teacher Qu give you a red flower as a reward."
"I helped your Ye family solve such a big problem, and you just give me a small red flower? The richer you are, the stingier you are." Chen Youhan was calm and his voice was gentle in the sea breeze. "Don't you want to reward me with something else?"
Ye Kai unconsciously glanced at the people around him, and his voice became softer due to nervousness: "I'm outside... Don't say anything nonsense."
If I were in front of him, I would probably stand on tiptoe to cover his mouth.
Chen Youhan's eyes darkened in this scene and he said "OK".
After a while, WeChat came in with a line of words written on it:
"Baby, when will it be your turn to give birth?"
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The sperm bank in Canada received Ye Jin's final plan and asked in surprise, "That's it?"
Ye Kai was in charge of the contact work and calmly confirmed: "That's it."
Black hair and white skin, Chinese descent, mixed blood of less than four countries, black pupils, height above 1.83 meters and below 1.9 meters, loves sports, self-perception and evaluation of personality by others are that he is independent but quiet, can enjoy time alone, has hobbies in sports and art, preferably works in cutting-edge jobs in science, engineering, and finance, and has no history of genetic diseases.
These are actually routine screenings. Having seen all sorts of strange requirements and preferences, the institutional account managers were simply touched.
There were five candidates in total. Ye Jin read all their interview materials and videos one by one, and finally chose a young 29-year-old astrophysicist with clear eyes who worked in scientific research at Caltech. He had a nice voice. During the interview, when asked why he chose to donate sperm, he said calmly but frankly: "I can calculate the orbit of artificial stars, but I don't have the confidence that I can accompany a child to grow up well enough. It's just that the universe and the unknown are becoming more and more vast and boundless, and sometimes I want to leave something behind. If there is such a person who can do it and is willing to do it - I thought about this when I was doing the experiment, and I felt that I had something to rely on."
According to regulations, clients and sperm providers cannot meet each other, and the signing of all relevant documents is handled and communicated by the attorney-in-fact, eliminating any disputes.
The IVF method is more painful than natural conception, especially the egg retrieval during ovulation. A normal woman can only produce one egg during the ovulation period, but this is far from enough for IVF. Ye Jin was in good physical condition during the egg retrieval under general anesthesia, so only 24 eggs were retrieved. When she was pushed out of the operating room, her face was pale, and the anesthesia had not yet worn off. Qu Jia held her hand and couldn't stop crying, but she didn't see any of this. When she opened her eyes, she only felt that her mother's eyes were very red.
The in vitro fertilization was implanted in the body 4-5 days later, and the family members took turns to accompany her in the ward. In the first two days, Ye Jin's abdomen was swollen and bulged. She felt that there was water in her abdomen every time she took a few steps. It was difficult to urinate, and she had to muster up courage every time to go to the toilet. She even fainted at one point. But she was so proud that she didn't show much pain in front of Qu Jia. Instead, she joked, "Look, Mommy, the baby will grow bigger in your belly, won't it be more bulging than this? People say that pregnancy is ugly. You have to move all the mirrors in my room. I don't want to see them."
Ye Kai knew that she had to pretend in front of Qu Jia, so he came to accompany her more often and sent Qu Jia to live with her grandparents.
"You can cry in front of me," he said.
"Why, are you more cold-blooded than Mommy?" His face turned pale even though he was joking.
"Well, of course," Ye Kai said deliberately, "I don't care about you any more than mom does."
Ye Jin smiled, frowned, and a line of hot tears slid down from her eyes.
"it hurts."
On the fourth day, the last night before the embryo transfer, he accompanied Ye Jin for a walk in the garden. The physical pain had eased a lot, and Ye Jin looked at the moon and said, "Xiao Kai, you are going to be an uncle."
Ye Kai supported her and looked at her gently: "You are going to be a mother."
"Yes." Ye Jin held his hand. Her fingers were slender, pale, and cool. Although she could be described as "bony", she was always firm and persistent, "I'm going to be a mother."
She was embarrassed to say that when the sixteen-year-old girl was standing outside the nursery, looking at the sleeping baby from afar through the glass, she felt a wonderful, feminine power.
Exciting yet gentle, calm yet abundant.
"It's incredible to see you grow from such a small child to this. When the baby is born, I will slowly accompany him to grow up. Will he also bring me those incredible miracles like you?"
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Fourteen days after the transplant, double tests of blood and urine confirmed one fact without a doubt: Ye Jin was really pregnant.
Even the doctor was pleasantly surprised, because she had a history of pregnancy and abortion, and was already 39 years old, a very advanced maternal age. In addition, she had been working intensively, socializing, drinking and smoking for so many years, so she had been prepared to try many times. However, she did not expect that she could succeed at once.
Qu Jia held her tightly in his arms, kissing her hair and cheeks non-stop: "Baby, baby, you are going to be a mother, you are going to be a mother."
Ye Jin helped her wipe away the tears on her face: "Mommy, don't cry."
But she couldn't wipe away the tears. Qu Jia's makeup was ruined. She smiled while crying: "My daughter is amazing."
"Jin means beautiful jade, beautiful and hard, beautiful and strong."
Thirty-nine years ago, when Qu Jia gave birth to this daughter, Ye Tong wrote this line of words on rice paper.
"Just call her Ye Jin."
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