Lin Luoxi glared at her: "Do you want to die?"
Sally: "No."
It's simply impossible to communicate with them.
Xu Qingzhu huddled in a corner, ticked off the dishes she wanted to order, handed the menu back to the waiter, put her hands in her pockets, and sunbathed there, showing no desire to interrupt.
“Liang Shi, you be the judge,” Sally asked. “Can you accept this?”
Liang Shi: "...Uh."
“Don’t be shy,” Sally said. “I can’t accept it! I only want my baby to call me that.”
Lin Luoxi's ears burned, and she kicked her under the table, "That's enough!"
Sally pulled her hand off the table. "I'll tell you the truth."
Lin Luoxi broke free from her, gritting her teeth and saying, "Have some shame."
Sally: "..."
Sally continued to question Liang Shi, seemingly determined not to give up until she got an answer.
After a moment, Liang Shi carefully replied, "It's alright."
Sally asked in surprise, "What?"
It's just "okay"?!
Sally was completely bewildered. Was she the only one with such a strong possessive streak?!
This is not scientific.
“Because she doesn’t call other people ‘baby,’” Liang Shi said over the phone. “So I don’t feel anything.”
Sally: "?"
I have a reasonable suspicion that you're just showing off.
Sally was exasperated. "Fine, that's settled then. I'm hanging up."
Liang Shi chuckled softly on the other end of the phone, while Xu Qingzhu huddled in the corner, her eyes half-closed, seemingly unconcerned, but her tense back betrayed her nervousness.
Sally didn't actually hang up. Instead, she changed the subject and asked, "What have you been up to lately? Are you still in Haizhou? Come over for dinner."
Liang Shi paused for a moment, then said, "No, I'm on my way to the film set. You guys eat."
Sally expressed her deep regret, but also made an appointment with her to have dinner together again.
As she hung up the phone, Sally asked Xu Qingzhu, "Blanche, what do you want to say to Liang Shi?"
Xu Qingzhu shook her head: "No."
It was a very clear and crisp voice; even through the receiver, you could hear her cool and aloof tone.
In an instant, she silenced all the noise in the store, even though she spoke in a very low voice.
Sally then hung up the phone.
After hanging up the phone, Sally suddenly asked, "Blanche, did you and Liang Shi have a fight?"
Xu Qingzhu was taken aback, then shook her head: "No."
It was Liang Shi who unilaterally wanted a divorce.
She's the one who wants to leave.
They were kissing passionately the night before.
But when I woke up, everything was gone.
It all seemed like her illusion.
She drank too much and remembered nothing.
Although she knew that Liang Shi's reason for doing this might be related to the nightmare she had a few days ago, she still couldn't accept it.
Sadness, grief, and confusion filled me with a rollercoaster of emotions throughout the day, experiencing every kind of feeling imaginable.
“But I feel there’s something strange between you two,” Sally said.
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Luoxi kicked him, saying, "If you don't speak, no one will think you're mute."
Sally: "...I was just mentioning it casually."
Lin Luoxi placed a piece of food on Xu Qingzhu's plate. "Alright, let's eat. Don't pay any attention to her."
Xu Qingzhu really didn't have much of an appetite; she hadn't wanted to eat anything lately.
This was largely influenced by Liang Shi's statement about wanting a divorce.
She poked around in the bowl with her chopsticks, but only managed to eat a few bites.
Lin Luoxi picked up another piece of fish for her, saying, "Try this; their fish is very tender."
Xu Qingzhu frowned slightly as she looked at the tender white fish meat, and for some reason, she immediately smelled a fishy odor.
"What's wrong?" Lin Luoxi asked, "Don't you want to eat?"
"No," Xu Qingzhu replied immediately, though she seemed somewhat reluctant.
Lin Luoxi frowned: "Honey, you really can't do this, you'll ruin your health."
Afraid that she would worry, Xu Qingzhu picked up a piece of food with her chopsticks and fed it to her, "I know... ugh..."
Before I could even finish speaking, I felt nauseous; it was a nausea rising from deep within my stomach.
She immediately covered her mouth and ran outside.
Fortunately, it was just dry heaving.
However, what followed was an even stronger feeling of nausea. The waiter serving her was also startled and immediately took her to the restroom.
In the bathroom, she leaned over the sink and dry heaved for a while, then vomited, her face turning deathly pale.
I vomited up almost everything I had just eaten, until I vomited up stomach acid.
Xu Qingzhu turned on the tap to rinse away the dirt, and then filled a bowl with water to rinse her mouth.
The sudden accident startled Lin Luoxi, and she stood beside her and patted her back.
After waiting for a while, Xu Qingzhu finally recovered, and Lin Luoxi handed her a bottle of water.
Xu Qingzhu rinsed her mouth before drinking, but soon felt like gagging again.
It took a lot of effort to suppress it.
Xu Qingzhu leaned against the wall, looking weak.
"You and Liang Shi..." Lin Luoxi paused before asking, "Is it serious?"
Xu Qingzhu was taken aback: "What?"
"Are you two having a cold war?" Lin Luoxi said, then immediately denied it, "You love her so much, how could that be? Then you..."
Xu Qingzhu pursed her lips, her half-closed eyes trembling slightly, and shook her head: "I don't know."
She's been eating like this lately.
Lin Luoxi thought for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Are you... pregnant?"
Xu Qingzhu first denied it: "No way..."
He stopped mid-sentence, his face drained of color.
Chapter 159
Golden light and shadow overlapped and fell on the ground, into the crowds of people coming and going.
Xu Qingzhu sat on a bench in the hospital, holding the test results, lost in thought.
She is pregnant.
It has been more than forty days.
Coming to the hospital for a check-up was a difficult decision; Xu Qingzhu spent an entire afternoon in her office thinking about it before finally making an appointment with the doctor.
They deliberately avoided Zhao Xuning and Lin Luoxi.
The unspoken words were slowly revealed under Lin Luoxi's curious gaze, and he shook his head, denying Lin Luoxi's guess.
However, feeling uneasy, he made an appointment with the doctor for a check-up.
She thought she was having her period, but it turned out she almost miscarried.
She stopped bleeding later and assumed it was due to excessive stress, which caused her menstrual cycle to become irregular.
I didn't even think to come to the hospital for a check-up, and the result...
If you count the days, it should be around the time Liang Shigang returned.
After Liang Shi temporarily marked her, their pheromones were very strong, so they would connect in the small space.
That's how I got infected.
This child seems to have arrived at a very inopportune time.
They were deeply in love and had no intention of getting pregnant, so they were making a ruckus in bed, which almost caused them to miscarry.
...
The doctor said that if we had come a day later, the child would not be in this condition.
Therefore, she must rest and protect her pregnancy now.
Xu Qingzhu sat there in a daze for a long time, until the setting sun disappeared behind the mountains, the moon hung high, and the lights of the whole city lit up in an instant, making the dark world bright.
Then she heard a nurse call her name, "Xu Qingzhu".
Xu Qingzhu then came to her senses and followed her into the ward. The doctor first inserted an acupuncture needle into Xu Qingzhu's wrist and started an IV drip. Then, she stood there and instructed, "These days, avoid spicy and greasy foods. Your morning sickness is quite severe, so try not to eat seafood. Don't even smell fish or shrimp. But you need to make sure you get enough nutrition. Drink some porridge every day, preferably with red dates and goji berries."
"Oh, by the way," the doctor suddenly asked, "where's your partner?"
Xu Qingzhu was taken aback: "She's busy."