If word gets out, where will she put her face?
While the white cat was feeling melancholy, Shen Wuqiu had already slowly drifted off to sleep.
After much hesitation, the white cat finally decided to be a good companion.
After a halo of light, the white cat on the bed transformed into a charming and radiant woman.
Gu Lingyu rested her chin on her hands, lying on the bed staring at the sleeping woman for a long time before turning her head to rest her head on the woman's stomach. After listening for a while, she carefully reached out and touched it. "You two better behave and don't bother your sister anymore, or I'll skin you alive..."
The belly that was gently sliding under my palm immediately quieted down.
Gu Lingyu was finally satisfied. She looked at the sleeping Shen Wuqiu again, and the more she looked, the closer she got. Her lips first lightly touched and then parted, before she kissed him again.
As their lips met, the sleeping person spontaneously opened their mouth, letting a small fish swim freely within it, even occasionally letting their own fish leap into the other's territory.
However, the person didn't dare to be as unrestrained as before. After the long kiss, he gave the other person a comforting kiss on the corner of their lips, which was enough to satisfy him.
Just as she was about to transform into a cat and sneak into bed to sleep, she remembered something, took out a sour fruit, wrinkled her little face, chewed it up in her mouth, and then leaned over to feed it to the sleeping Shen Wuqiu. She patiently coaxed him to swallow it, and only then did she feel at ease and snuggle into a warm embrace to fall asleep.
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When Shen Wuqiu woke up, her mind went blank for a while. She lay in bed for quite some time before gradually regaining consciousness.
Some details from last night's events linger in my mind, but they only flash by and I can't quite grasp them.
This ethereal feeling wasn't pleasant. Chen Wuqiu sat up irritably, scratched her head, and unconsciously smacked her dry lips.
A slightly sweet and sour aftertaste lingered in her mouth. Shen Wuqiu stopped tapping her head, and the fragmented details that had been floating in her mind suddenly came together.
She reached up and touched her lips, then swallowed hard; the sweet and sour taste remained.
Was last night not just a dream?
Shen Wuqiu rolled over and got up, walked to the door, turned the doorknob, and found that the door was clearly locked from the inside.
Could it be just my taste buds playing tricks on me?
Feeling strange, Shen Wuqiu went to the washroom to rinse her mouth. She held a mouthful of tap water in her mouth and waited for several dozen seconds, but she didn't feel nauseous or want to vomit.
Why don't I feel like throwing up anymore?
Shen Wuqiu didn't know what she wanted to prove. She quickly washed up and went downstairs to the kitchen.
Su Yunzhi was making egg pancakes when she saw her coming over. She asked casually, "Are you feeling better today?"
"Hmm, much better." Shen Wuqiu leaned closer to the egg pancake and took a deep breath. She still didn't feel nauseous. Instead, the aroma made her mouth water.
Su Yunzhi glanced at her out of the corner of her eye, "You haven't eaten much for two days, are you hungry?"
Shen Wuqiu glanced at the freshly served egg pancakes on the plate and nodded.
Su Yunzhi put down the egg liquid in her hand, wiped her hands, took out a bowl from the cupboard, and ladled a bowl of millet porridge from the rice cooker. "You can't eat too much oily food if you have gastroenteritis. Have some porridge in the morning."
Shen Wuqiu was somewhat flattered, "...Thank you, Auntie."
Su Yunzhi didn't say anything, then turned back to making pancakes. After a while, she said, "Junjun said the job you introduced him to was very good, and he told me to thank you properly."
Shen Wuqiu had originally intended to take the porridge out, but stopped when she heard her speak. "As long as he likes it, that's fine."
Su Yunzhi, with her back to her, continued making egg pancakes. "I know that over the years, you haven't liked me much, and I never expected you to treat me like your own mother. After all, I haven't treated you like my own daughter either. I hope you won't blame me for the things I did wrong in the past."
Shen Wuqiu never imagined that Su Yunzhi would speak to her like this one day. She was at a loss for words and remained silent for a while before saying, "Auntie, you flatter me."
“I’m telling you this from the bottom of my heart today. Seeing you like this yesterday, I felt a pang of heartache. I’ve thought a lot about it, and I think that becoming a family is probably all preordained.”
After Su Yunzhi finished speaking, she turned around and looked at her, as if she needed her to express her opinion.
"Since Auntie says we're family, there's no need for further explanation."
Although these lukewarm words didn't quite suit Su Yunzhi's taste, they were still somewhat comforting. Knowing that she was always a reserved and quiet person, Su Yunzhi didn't press the matter further. Instead, she lowered her head to arrange the tableware and changed the subject, "Is Lingyu awake? Should we wake her up and have breakfast together?"
"I'll go up and take a look."
"Hmm. By the way, is there anything you'd like to eat for lunch?"
Shen Wuqiu wasn't actually a picky eater, but after Su Yunzhi mentioned it, she became a bit picky, "Sea bass, please."
Su Yunzhi looked at her strangely, "Why do you like eating fish now? Did you catch it from that girl Lingyu?"
Shen Wuqiu was also a little surprised to realize that she had eaten too much cod liver oil when she was a child, and since then she had developed an aversion to fish. Although she did not completely avoid fish when she grew up, she would never want to eat fish.
"Maybe," Shen Wuqiu replied dismissively.
She took out her phone as soon as she left the kitchen, and Baidu (a Chinese search engine) told her that it's normal for tastes to change during pregnancy.
"..." Shen Wuqiu decided that she would never trust Baidu again. She finished the millet porridge in her bowl in one gulp and went upstairs in a huff.
Perhaps holding his breath, he didn't knock on the door as politely as before, and just banged on the door until it opened from the inside.
"Sister~"
Shen Wuqiu glanced at her, then looked away, saying in a less than friendly tone, "Go downstairs for breakfast."
"Okay." Gu Lingyu stretched in front of her, making her already perky...buttocks even more impressive.
Shen Wuqiu was getting increasingly angry, so she simply turned around and said, "Hurry up."
"My sister is experiencing morning sickness today..."
"...I'm not experiencing morning sickness." Shen Wuqiu interrupted her angrily.
After feeling annoyed, I felt disgusted with my own irritability, so I took a deep breath and said, "I just have an upset stomach."
Gu Lingyu didn't argue with her, "Is your stomach feeling better today, sister?"
Shen Wuqiu nodded, then, thinking of her dream from last night, asked, "What about that kind of fruit you had last night?"
"What...what happened?"
"Nothing much, I just suddenly wanted to try it and see what it tasted like."
Gu Lingyu said in a serious tone, "Only pregnant women can eat that fruit."
"..." Anyway, she wouldn't admit that she had morning sickness, so Shen Wuqiu gave up and said, "Never mind then."
After thinking about it, she felt a little unwilling. "Is that fruit sweet and sour?"
"I wouldn't know, since I've never been pregnant before."
"...Aren't you curious about its taste?"
"I'm not curious. My mother said curiosity killed the cat."
"..." Shen Wuqiu felt as if he had been shot in the knee.
As the saying goes, the more you fear something, the more attention you will pay to it.
The more worried Shen Wuqiu was about being pregnant, the more she found that her symptoms resembled those of a pregnant woman. Not only were her eating habits subtly changing, but she also noticed that her daily routine was changing. She even occasionally felt the illusion that something was moving inside her belly when she touched it.
In addition, my period is late...
She was genuinely panicked.
So, when her period was a full twenty days late, Shen Wuqiu secretly went to the county hospital again.
This time, she went straight to the obstetrics and gynecology department and made an appointment.
From registering to receiving the test results and standing in front of the doctor, Shen Wuqiu was on edge, like a prisoner waiting to be sentenced.
The doctor first glanced at the examination reports, then took one closer, squinted and examined it carefully for a long time before looking at Shen Wuqiu with a very complicated expression.
When Shen Wuqiu saw the doctor's expression, she felt very complicated. The doctor's expression didn't seem like she was pregnant, but rather like she had a terminal illness.
After a long while, the doctor adjusted his glasses and asked her, "Do you want it?"
The two seemingly unrelated words caught Shen Wuqiu off guard. "What do you want?"
"The babies are eight weeks along, do you want them?"
Do I look like I'm here for a miscarriage...? No, what did the doctor just say?
"...What do you mean by 'children'?"
"The ultrasound showed four gestational sacs. If all goes well, this means it's quadruplets."
"..." Shen Wuqiu's mind went blank. The fact that she was pregnant was already a bolt from the blue that she couldn't bear, but then she had four at once?
The doctor understood her shock, as she herself was quite surprised when she first saw the results.
"Medically speaking, quadruplets do exist, but they are relatively rare, and the mother may have to endure a lot of pressure."
"Doctor..." Shen Wuqiu swallowed hard, trying to keep her voice from sounding too hoarse, "Is there a mistake in this result?"
The doctor glanced at her and asked, "Are you doubting our hospital's equipment, or my professional skills?"
“That’s not what I meant. It’s just that…you saw what I filled in on the medical record, that I’m unmarried.”
The doctor nodded: "That's why I didn't say 'Congratulations' first, but instead asked you 'Would you like it?'"
"What I mean is, I don't have a boyfriend yet either."
"Then it seems we can't keep this child."
Chen Wuqiu scratched her hair in frustration and said bluntly, "Do you think it's possible for someone who hasn't had sexual intercourse to get pregnant?"
The doctor paused for a moment, then peered through the gap above his glasses. "Little girl, dy is not allowed."
"..." Shen Wuqiu was completely at a loss for words. She sat down in the chair, took three deep breaths, and then said, "I have no dysphoria, nor have I engaged in sexual activity, so how did the child in my belly come about?"
The doctor also asked her, "So how did the baby in your belly come about?"
Shen Wuqiu was on the verge of collapse. "I'm asking you."
The doctor glanced at her. "Are you sure you've never had sexual intercourse?"
Shen Wuqiu nodded firmly, "No."
"Think about it again carefully, make sure you really don't have it. You don't need to think too far ahead, just within the next two or three months."
Shen Wuqiu nodded, "Really not."
The doctor looked at her and asked again, "Really?"
When Shen Wuqiu met her eyes, Gu Lingyu's eyes inexplicably flashed into her mind, followed by those indescribable images. Suddenly, she became uncertain and lowered her eyes, saying, "I have had a few related dreams..."
"You young girls these days, sometimes when you're having fun, you can't distinguish between reality and dreams." The doctor looked away, no longer dwelling on the issue. "You should seriously consider having children now. If you want to keep them, you need to be careful in all aspects. If you don't want to... quadruplets are very rare..."
"doctor."