Now, they've even started arguing over something as trivial as going for a medical check-up.
Su Yan now seriously doubts whether Duan Sisi and Qiao Chen's personalities are compatible.
"Why are you two arguing again? What happened?"
"I only mentioned his mother once, and he exploded like a firecracker, yelling at me..."
Just as Duan Sisi was about to pour out her grievances, Su Yan's phone rang on the table.
Su Yan glanced at it and quickly pressed the close button without thinking. But even so, Duan Sisi still saw the name flash across the screen.
Su Yan turned her head away nonchalantly, "It's nothing, please continue."
Duan Sisi couldn't continue, looking at Su Yan with a complicated expression: "You're still not answering Yi An's calls? At least give him a chance to speak, what kind of cold violence is this!"
Su Yan listened to her advice, sighed deeply, and her face was once again filled with gloom.
"It's not that I didn't want to give him a chance to speak, and I know he didn't do anything wrong. I just..."
She hesitated for a moment, head bowed, before saying, "I just can't accept who I am now."
Duan Sisi grabbed her shoulders, forcing her to look into her eyes.
"Is there anything wrong with Su Yan now? I actually think Su Yan is better now that she's with Yi An. She's more flesh and blood, warm and cold, she can cry and laugh. She's so much better than the emotionless, puppet-like Su Yan before."
Su Yan looked conflicted, and hesitantly said, "But I'm not clean..."
Upon hearing the word "unclean," Duan Sisi immediately interrupted her.
"You're still bothered by that incident. What's wrong with that? It's only human nature! Everyone feels that way! Aren't you still urging me to have a child? Even if you've had a child, can't you accept it?"
Faced with Duan Sisi's urgent and almost interrogative questions, Su Yan struggled to break free from her hand and turned her head away in evasion.
"You are not me, you wouldn't understand."
Duan Sisi sighed helplessly as she saw her revert to that familiar expression.
“Honey, you still haven’t moved on. You’re still troubled by that incident. I’ve told you so many times, neither your parents’ divorce nor what happened six years ago was your fault. Why take all the blame on yourself and punish yourself for nothing?”
Su Yan covered her face with her hands in evasion and sat there without saying a word.
Seeing her utterly devastated state, Duan Sisi also lost her nerve and hurriedly apologized and admitted her mistakes.
"I'm sorry, darling, I was too hasty and my words were too harsh. Don't overthink it, okay? I know that incident really affected you a lot. If it were that simple, you wouldn't have fled the country, and you wouldn't have stayed there for five years."
She placed a comforting hand on her shoulder, "Honey, listen to me, let's go see a therapist. If you keep going like this, you'll really drive yourself to the brink of collapse."
Su Yan took a deep breath, lowered her hand, and looked at Duan Sisi with feigned strength.
"I'm fine, I'll think about it myself. You go ahead with your work, I'll be going now, it's almost time to pick up the kids."
"My dear! My dear!!"
Duan Sisi couldn't stop her no matter what she did. Watching Su Yan's retreating figure as she ran out the door, she grabbed her hair in regret.
"What's wrong with me today? Is it Mercury retrograde? Everything I do is wrong, everything I say is wrong!"
Duan Sisi thought this was the unluckiest day of her life, but she never expected there would be an even more unlucky day.
She sat on a bench in the hospital, looking at the test report in her hand over and over again, the doctor's words echoing in her mind.
"Your husband has obvious asthenospermia, and the chances of getting pregnant are extremely low. If you want to have a child, it's best to bring him to the hospital for relevant treatment as soon as possible."
Qiao Chen had an emergency meeting at her company today and couldn't get time off, so Duan Sisi volunteered to come and pick it up herself, but she never expected to get this result.
She sat there feeling her head swell up. "How could it be asthenospermia?"
She fell into deep self-doubt and kept talking to herself.
Finally, a phone call from Qiao Chen interrupted her thoughts.
Duan Sisi took out her phone and saw that it was Qiao Chen calling. She immediately panicked, and the phone in her hand felt like a hot potato.
With her phone ringing incessantly, Duan Sisi had no reason not to answer it and had no choice but to bite the bullet and pick it up.
"Hey honey, is your meeting over?"
As soon as she answered the phone, Duan Sisi rushed to speak, but that still couldn't stop Qiao Chen from asking that question.
"Is the process over? Have the results come out yet? Have you received them?"
Duan Sisi looked serious. After thinking it over and over, she still felt that it was better to talk about these things face to face.
"Honey, are you at the company right now? I'll come find you, and we can talk face to face."
Qiao Chen realized something was wrong, her heart skipped a beat, but she still tried to remain calm and said, "Okay."
Duan Sisi drove to the building where Qiao Chen's company was located, and instantly became anxious and restless.
She tried to calm herself down and practiced repeatedly how to tell Qiao Chen in the most tactful way.
But when she saw Qiao Chen running out of the company, all her practice was useless, and her mind went completely blank.
The first thing Qiao Chen said after opening the car door was to urgently ask about the results.
"What was the result? Am I okay?"
Duan Sisi bit her lip, looking at Qiao Chen with a conflicted expression, unsure of what to say.
Seeing her hesitant manner, Qiao Chen became impatient and urged loudly, "Just tell me already! What do you think this is? Why are you being so secretive!"
After being scolded like that, Duan Sisi closed her eyes and blurted out, "The doctor said you have asthenospermia!"
The moment those words left her lips, Duan Sisi felt the whole world fall silent.
She tentatively opened her eyes a crack to peek at Qiao Chen's expression and saw that his face had indeed fallen.
Duan Sisi knew how devastating this result would be for a man, so she softened her tone and comforted him, "Honey, don't worry. The doctor said it's nothing serious, and medication can help. As long as we..."
"Shut up!"
Qiao Chen suddenly shouted, interrupting Duan Sisi's words and startling her.
"Husband," Duan Sisi called out in a trembling voice.
At this point, Qiao Chen had no more pity for her and loudly questioned, "Are you kidding me?! You're the one with the problem, aren't you?! Don't be ashamed to admit it, you're just trying to pin it on me, aren't you?! Don't try to fool me! Come on! Let's go get tested again!"
He kept pulling Duan Sisi to leave, but when he looked up, he met Duan Sisi's sympathetic and pitying gaze.
Qiao Chen froze on the spot as if she had been electrocuted, her body trembling uncontrollably.
"I don't believe it! It can't be! Where's the test report? I need to see the test report! You must be lying to me!"
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