Chapter 76 Meng Yanxi, don't cry, little dumpling...
On the day she received her marriage certificate, Meng Yanxi went back to the Meng family home.
He went back alone. Jin Zhao was actually a little nervous. Although she had prepared herself to bravely face the gap between the two of them and to bravely face his family, the thought of meeting his family alone, without elders but with children, still made her feel a shocking sense of fear.
Meng Yanxi, however, said that it was up to her to decide.
“Our children are raised in a free-range manner. Whether or not to meet each other’s parents after marriage, and when to do so, is decided by the younger generation. The elders usually just follow one of their parents.”
Good new views on family and marriage.
Jin Zhao had only seen this kind of interaction online. In reality, people are still quite traditional, so she suspected that Meng Yanxi was talking nonsense.
It's just a gift, not a gift of wine.
Meng Yanxi: "It's true. My aunt Meng Shijin did the same thing back then. She and my uncle got their marriage certificate a year before she brought her home to meet her parents."
He spoke with absolute certainty, and Jin Zhao silently breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank you to the Meng family for their open-mindedness.
The truth is, it's an open-minded approach.
It all depended on Meng Yanxi deceiving both sides—no, it can't be called deception, he preferred to call it an expedient measure.
That's just his personality; he's always had clear goals. To put it nicely, he's not bothered by trifles; to put it bluntly, he's ruthless. He always knows exactly what he wants.
He only wanted to get the marriage certificate as soon as possible to settle everything; everything else was secondary. Naturally, he wouldn't let Jin Zhao meet his family at this crucial juncture when things were most likely to go wrong. Now that the certificate was in hand and everything was settled, Meng Yanxi slowly returned to the Meng family home, intending to face his family alone first.
He should take the brunt of the attack first, and then bring Jin Zhao home; that would be the best course of action.
Actually, his family members—Grandpa Meng Huai, who has a laid-back personality, and his sister Meng Zhuxi, who is unreliable—are completely harmless. The main threat comes from Meng Shixu.
Meng Shixu happened to be home. As soon as Meng Yanxi entered the door, he asked with a stern face, "Where have you been? I've been trying to call you all morning but can't get through."
"Is there?"
Meng Yanxi remained remarkably calm, taking out her phone and swiping a couple of times to remove Meng Shixu from her blacklist, while casually replying, "I accidentally switched to airplane mode."
Meng Shixu didn't dwell on this and went straight to the point: "I'll have Luo Heng send you an electronic copy of the prenuptial agreement. You can print one yourself. I don't care who you like, who you propose to, how you propose, or how grand the proposal is, but the prenuptial agreement must be signed. That's my bottom line. This is not only being responsible for yourself, but also for the Meng family. If she breaks up with you because of the prenuptial agreement, then that's fine. Anyway, this isn't the first time you've broken up. Aren't you familiar with this kind of thing?"
Meng Yanxi raised an eyebrow at Meng Shixu.
He originally came back intending to have a good talk with his father, to show some rare sincerity, to scold and beat him as he pleased, as long as the atmosphere was harmonious and his wife felt the warmth of home when he brought her back. However, Meng Shixu's words provoked him to anger.
Meng Huai once said that Meng Yanxi was good in every way, except that he was very protective of his own. He couldn't say anything about anyone he cared about.
Meng Yanxi immediately lost all sincerity and said with a half-smile, "Dad, I'll give you one more chance. Take back what you just said."
His defiant attitude was quite provocative, and the old father got excited too, raising his eyebrows and asking, "What, if you don't take it back, are you planning to pull the plug on my oxygen tube in the future?"
"It's not that bad." Meng Yanxi chuckled nonchalantly. "If you live to be a hundred, we might even be able to take care of each other when we pass away together."
"Pah! You scoundrel, you're getting more and more outspoken!" Meng Shixu angrily slammed his hand on the solid wood coffee table three times, silently reciting to himself that children's words are innocent.
Without turning her head, Meng Yanxi said, "I'm going back to my room to pack some things."
Now that he was married, Meng Yanxi quickly packed up his belongings and left the Meng family home.
Meng Shixu called out from behind to remind him, "Remember to keep the prenuptial agreement in mind."
Meng Yanxi got into the car and casually replied, "I know," without much sincerity.
You know nothing.
The truth is, Meng Yanxi was already angry with his father because Meng Shixu had cursed him and his wife to break up on his wedding day. As the car drove out of the Meng family home, he was still thinking that he would be the last to inform Meng Shixu after the baby was born.
If he still doesn't repent, he won't even let you hug him.
Meng Shixu had no idea what he had missed today.
To make matters worse, not only did Meng Yanxi shield her sincerity from her old father, but within a few months, the leaky little cotton-padded jacket he had always preferred secretly went to get the certificate without telling him. Fortunately, Zhou Huaichen was quite responsible here, and talked to him in advance, and finally went to the Civil Affairs Bureau with a bruised face from his beating, otherwise the old father would have been angered by a pair of careless children.
It was late autumn, and it was Meng Zhuxi's birthday, but Jin Zhao was unaware of this because Meng Yanxi had lied to both sides. Early in the morning, Meng Yanxi only said that she was going back to the Meng family that day.
Now that she's in her second trimester, whether it's her true nature coming out or the influence of the baby, she's becoming increasingly clingy to Meng Yanxi. She can only sleep well if she's holding him, and she gets up when Meng Yanxi gets up.
Meng Yanxi got up early that day. She sat on the bed, hugging the quilt and yawning sleepily. He changed his clothes, and she stared at him unconsciously.
Meng Yanxi flaunted his eight-pack abs and V-line in front of his wife, feeling incredibly proud of himself, but still couldn't resist saying, "You're quite subtle in your clinginess. Why don't you learn from 1119 sometime?"
Jin Zhao thought for a moment and then reached out to him.
Meng Yanxi chuckled softly and leaned in to let her hug him. Jin Zhao hooked her arms around his neck, kissed the corner of his mouth, and said, "And now?"
Just that kiss from Jin Zhao made Meng Yanxi's lips curl into a wide grin, and he almost missed leaving the house on time.
Later, biting her lip, he said suggestively, "I'll be back after I finish eating, and I'll dance for you."
Jin Zhao lowered her eyes, and a blush crept across her fair neck.
On the day they got their marriage certificate, Meng Yanxi brought some things back from the Meng family. Jin Zhao didn't notice them until a month later, when she was helping Meng Yanxi look for cufflinks. She found a black and white box in the closet with a silk scarf tied on it.
A long-lost sense of familiarity suddenly welled up in my heart. I opened it, and sure enough, it was that silk dress adorned with feathers. Its color was like red jade tempered by fire, or like the sunset crumbled and soaked in satin, both fiery and radiant.
She remembered the video on Meng Yanxi's phone that Meng Zhuxi had mistakenly deleted, and suddenly felt a pang of regret.
If it were any other play, she might have been able to put it on and perform it for him again, but "The Goddess of the Luo River" is a highly difficult professional play, and after ten years, she can no longer perform it.
Perhaps it was due to the influence of pregnancy hormones, but thinking about all the missed opportunities, losses, and regrets of the past, Jin Zhao couldn't help but shed tears.
Meng Yanxi thought something was wrong with her and kissed her awkwardly.
With red eyes, Jin Zhao said, "I am no longer the Jin Zhao you liked when you were young."
Meng Yanxi was taken aback, then chuckled: "So what? I'm no longer the Meng Yanxi you liked when you were young."
“Lingling, we’re both moving forward, and so is our love.” Meng Yanxi cupped her face in her hands. “I love you today even more than I did yesterday.”
Jin Zhao felt that she would fall for Meng Yanxi again and again throughout her life.
I love him more and more each moment.
Later, Meng Yanxi said that she was pregnant and unable to dance, so she volunteered to dance for her.
Jin Zhao deliberately teased him, making him wear that silk dress adorned with feathers. But although President Meng was a bit love-struck, he was extremely concerned about his image. No matter how Jin Zhao coaxed him, he refused to wear the dress and instead practiced the currently popular leg sweeping dance.
He gave Jin Zhao a one-on-one performance at home, and halfway through the performance, he carried her to bed.
Jin Zhao initially thought it was part of the dance and cooperated with him. By the time she realized what was happening, he had already succeeded.
Jin Zhao's fingers clenched tightly, her voice trembling as she accused, "How could you... do this!"
Meng Yanxi deliberately asked, "What?"
Jin Zhao couldn't bring himself to say it, so he avoided the main point: "...dancing a striptease."
“This isn’t a striptease, this is…” The man silenced her with a heavy kiss, “It involves a real object thrusting into my hips.”
"..."
Upon hearing Meng Yanxi's hints, those erotic images immediately came to mind.
Meng Yanxi's original intention was to flirt with her, but he ended up flirting with her himself.
According to the Meng family tradition, the whole family eats together on the birthday. Meng Yanxi had to go back to the Meng family home. On the way, she was already thinking about how she would leave after the meal.
What he didn't know was that his sister was just as anxious as he was.
This morning, while he was being affectionate with his wife, Meng Zhuxi secretly went to get her marriage certificate with Zhou Huaichen.
They must be siblings to have managed to secretly get married one after the other.
The brother and sister were naturally distracted that day, hoping to finish their meal quickly so they could each go home and spend their wedding night separately. Unexpectedly, Meng Shixu deliberately made things difficult, using the excuse that he had been playing mahjong too late to leave the drafty little cotton-padded jacket at home.
Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Meng Yanxi, but unfortunately, the fire at the city gate affected the innocent, and Meng Yanxi was forced to stay at the Meng family that night and could not go back.
Meng Yanxi: "..."
He has never slept in a separate bed from his wife since they got married, so it's no surprise that he can't sleep. He'll be lying in bed in the middle of the night video chatting with Jin Zhao.
His wife, who was supposedly becoming increasingly clingy, kept yawning, which annoyed him, so he cunningly pulled back the covers.
Under the covers, the man was only wrapped in a bath towel, revealing his bare upper body, his chest muscles were taut, and his eight-pack abs were clearly defined.
Jin Zhao was now all too familiar with his tricks, but she was so sleepy that she asked, half-laughing and half-crying, "It's so late, don't you want to sleep?"
Meng Yanxi said with a haughty expression, "I don't want to, I'm not used to sleeping in unfamiliar beds."
Jin Zhao: "Isn't that your room? How could you be picky about beds?"
Just as Meng Yanxi was about to speak, he suddenly heard strange noises coming from upstairs. Perhaps because his mind was not pure at the moment, everything he heard sounded ambiguous and unpleasant.
On his phone screen, his wife was wearing a thin, off-white nightgown. Her hair had grown quite a bit and was now loosely hanging down to her chest after a shower. Because of her pregnancy, her figure was fuller, and her skin was fair and rosy, a vibrant and alluring sight before him. He could see her but not have her, and his heart was burning with desire.
Meng Zhuxi was upstairs doing something, and Meng Yanxi suddenly felt she couldn't take it anymore.
"Wait."
He said something to Jin Zhao, then went upstairs in a huff and knocked on Meng Zhuxi's door: "Meng Zhuxi, what are you doing in there in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"
Meng Yanxi was busy thinking about his wife and naturally didn't notice that Zhou Huaichen had climbed over the wall tonight. He thought that Chun Chun was just being lewd and that's why everything she heard sounded wrong.
Meng Zhuxi replied to him from inside: "I'm doing aerobics."
Meng Yanxi: "What time is it? Why are you doing exercises? Go to sleep."
After issuing the warning, Meng Yanxi went downstairs.
Back in the room, she couldn't help but complain to Jin Zhao, "Meng Zhuxi has been acting strangely lately."
Jin Zhao said honestly, "I feel like you haven't been paying much attention to her lately."
Meng Yanxi used to care a lot about his younger sister. Whenever there was any trouble at school, he, as her older brother, would rush over as fast as he could.
"Indeed, you're all I can think about these days." Meng Yanxi thought for a moment and helplessly acknowledged the fact, "Lingling, I might be a bit love-struck."
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Meng Huai was the first in the Meng family to discover that the brother and sister had secretly registered their marriage.
As they say, experience counts. Meng Huai had seen through it long ago, but he kept quiet and didn't say anything to anyone. Only when the end of the year was approaching did he casually mention: "The whole family is going to New Zealand for the Spring Festival."
The brother and sister immediately became anxious.
Especially Meng Yanxi, Jin Zhao's due date is around the Spring Festival. With the little dumpling coming soon, he must be really thinking things through to go on vacation abroad at this time.
The time was almost right, so Meng Yanxi directly announced her marriage and Jin Zhao's pregnancy, calmly dropping a bombshell into the Meng family.
Meng Shixu was completely speechless after learning that her son had taken her for a walk.
His son and daughter got married one after another without his knowledge, and the old father was starting to have a mental breakdown.
Meng Huai was good at comforting people. He said to him, "Think of it on the bright side. You're going to be a grandfather soon. The baby is sweet and soft, and obedient. Isn't that easier than those two Xis? You can start a new account."
Meng Shixu immediately cheered up and felt that life was full of hope again.
Unfortunately, he underestimated his son's protectiveness and vengefulness.
The little dumpling hatched on the day of the Spring Festival.
On New Year's Eve, the young couple stayed up together to welcome the new year. Fireworks exploded all over the city, people rejoiced, and the flames of celebration shone brightly.
Once the commotion subsided, Jin Zhao suddenly felt a stomachache.
Meng Yanxi had already arranged everything. Jin Zhao entered the delivery room at night, and at dawn, as the first rays of sunlight pierced the darkness, the baby's loud cry rang out at the same time.
On the first day of the Spring Festival, the distant sound of firecrackers brought joy to the whole country. Meng Yanxi nervously picked up her newborn son.
The newborn baby was so soft, and Meng Yanxi's eyes felt hot.
He took the baby to show Jin Zhao, and couldn't help but kiss her, wanting to tell her that the baby was born very fair-skinned, like her, and that her eyes resembled his.
As soon as she opened her mouth, her throat tightened. Then, a tear rolled down her cheek.
Caught off guard, Meng Yanxi instinctively tilted her head back, trying to hold back her tears, but she couldn't stop them; more tears streamed down her face.
Meng Yanxi: "..."
Jin Zhao was exhausted, but when he suddenly saw Meng Yanxi's tears, he was both surprised and wanted to laugh.
"Meng Yanxi, don't cry, the little dumpling isn't crying." She gently comforted the baby's father, wiping away his tears.
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Author's Note: This chapter is now complete, thank you!
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