Chapter 204: Unavoidable Topic about One Person
Seeing the intimate interaction between the mother and son, the staff member couldn’t help smiling. While she was fetching Qin Xiaobai’s suitcase, she said to Qin Muxuan, “Xiaobai is very popular right now. He will receive so many offers from other shows. I guess he’ll be very busy in the future.”
“I’m just glad he didn’t bring any troubles to you.”
Qin Muxuan stood up while holding Qin Xiaobai’s hand with a bashful smile.
After they bid farewell to each other, Qin Muxuan then wanted to bring Qin Xiaobai into the room. Then, a black Bugatti Veyron stopped in front of the door.
“Daddy, you are back!”
Seeing the tall figure walking out of the car, Qin Xiaobai jumped with joy.
“Why did you come back so early today?”
Qin Muxuan wanted to walk to him right away subconsciously. However, Qin Xue’s words suddenly echoed in her mind. Then she stopped her steps with her heart missing a beat.
“There is nothing important in the company today, so I decided to come back early to see you two.”
He had finished his work early knowing that Qin Xiaobai would be back today.
Gu Zijin held Qin Xiaobai up with one of his arms while trying to put the other arm around Qin Muxuan’s waist. However, he only touched the air.
“Well, you should have a rest now.”
Qin Muxuan walked away embarrassedly. Then she poured a cup of water for Gu Zijin, not daring to look into his eyes all the time.
She had sworn that she wouldn’t be suspicious of Gu Zijin again, but she had been having nightmares over the few days when Qin Xiaobai wasn’t at home.
She dreamed of everything that had happened before. The time when the Qin family had been prospering, and when it had gone bankruptcy…
After hearing Qin Xue talking about what had happened at that time, Qin Muxuan found herself unable to face Gu Zijin like before.
However, her clumsy act failed to fool Gu Zijin’s sharp eyes.
She had been dodging him for several days.
He had thought that the two of them would enjoy an intimate period of time when Qin Xiaobai was out. It never occurred to him that Qin Muxuan had been dodging him the whole time.
Every time he asked her why, she would say that she had a pregnancy reaction.
When Qin Xiaobai was not at home, the atmosphere in the house was truly suffocating.
“What’s wrong? What happened?”
Today Qin Xiaobai was back. Seeing the awkward look on Qin Muxuan’s face, Gu Zijin asked that tentatively. He assumed if Qin Xiaobai could help him ask the reason for her odd behaviors, the truth would come out.
Unfortunately, this time Qin Xiaobai failed to understand his daddy and was busy chatting with his fans on Weibo.
“What on earth could happen to me… It’s just the hormones are working on me.”
Qin Muxuan was still trying to pretend although she had been seen through already. However, she still got nervous right away.
‘All right, it seems that she doesn’t plan to tell me now.’
Thinking of that, Gu Zijin stared at Qin Muxuan the whole time with inquiry and expectation in his eyes. Having dodged his eyes for a while, Qin Muxuan found him still not giving up. Then she could only find herself an excuse.
“You two were both exhausted today. I’ll go check the hot water.”
Gu Zijin got a bit anxious seeing the back of the woman who clearly had something on her mind.
‘How big that thing is that she has to hide it from me?’
‘Is it because I have been too busy lately and haven’t considered her feelings?’
‘Did she get a depression?’
…
Qin Muxuan didn’t get a depression.
Now her baby bump was getting quite obvious, and the pregnant reaction made her unable to sleep every night.
“My baby, what happened to you today? Are you happy because your brother is back? Please stop being naughty. Even if you don’t want to sleep, I still do.”
She failed to count how many times she had climbed up. After she vomited in the toilet for a long long while, she didn’t even have the strength to stand up. While she was in a daze, she felt that she was held to the bed by someone.
“The doctor said that this month would be the toughest for you. Hang in there.”
Gu Zijin sat by the bed and held Qin Muxuan’s hand. As he saw how weak she was, his eyes were filled with worry.
Qin Muxuan was too weak to speak. With her eyes squinted, she nodded gently and fell into a light sleep.
These days, the nights had been quite long for her. She was always woken up by sickness from her stomach. Sometimes she would throw up hard. Sometimes she would have to get up because she wanted to pee.
She remembered when she was pregnant with Qin Xiaobai, she had even slept in the bathroom a few times.
The past truly was brutal.
After a long time, she felt warmness on her belly in a trance. Then she finally had a sound sleep.
Seeing that Qin Muxuan finally stopped frowning, Gu Zijin rubbed his eyebrows and let out a long sigh of relief.
The sky was turning bright in the east.
When Qin Muxuan opened her eyes, the only feeling she had was a backache. However, she still felt lucky because she had thought that she would have died last night.
“Do you still feel uncomfortable?”
Gu Zijin asked tenderly when seeing her opening half of her eyes.
After taking care of her for a whole night, the man was showing a slightly tired look on his face. Only then did Qin Muxuan see that Gu Zijin was still in the suit that he wore yesterday.
“Did not you sleep last night?”
She regretted right after she had asked that question.
That was pure nonsense.
Gu Zijin never wore the same clothes that he had worn the day before.
“Your condition is worse than others. I’ll look after you by myself from now on until you get through this period of time.”
Qin Muxuan compressed her lips. She knew that Gu Zijin had spared no efforts to attend to her. However, she also knew that he was busy with work and taking care of Qin Xiaobai.
If she had to deal with all those things alone, she would never be able to make it.
‘He has been looking after me the whole time, but I was still mad at him before. How could I do that…’
“Feel better now?”
Gu Zijin asked concernedly.
“Al… almost. I don’t know why I’ll become like this. This baby is too naughty… When I was pregnant with Xiaobai, I’ve made it all by myself.”Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.
Qin Muxuan then chuckled, “Perhaps I was still young at that time. Now I am too old to do this.”
Also, now she had someone to depend on. He was right beside her.
Perhaps she only became more delicate because someone was there to look after her now.
“Tell me once you don’t feel well, understand?”
Qin Muxuan nodded and then hugged him.
This was perhaps the first time she tried to get close to him, which surprised Gu Zijin.
“What’s wrong?”
“I just want to hug you. Thanks for your hard work, my children’s daddy.” Qin Muxuan said those words in an adorable voice. The next second, she was dragged into Gu Zijin’s arms and kissed.
Qin Muxuan tried her best to cooperate while stroking his back gently.
“Don’t play with me. You don’t know what you will cause.” He said.
Hearing that, Qin Muxuan blushed at once. ‘What the hell was he talking about!’
“I want to tell you about a person… the one who has come to our home.”
After dithering over this for a long time, Qin Muxuan finally decided to tell Gu Zijin everything. Otherwise she would still feel strange deep down.
“Who is that?”
“The girl I have taken back home. She said that she is the daughter of my stepmother, Sun Lianzhi, and her name is Qin Xue.”
Gu Zijin listened to her carefully without skipping a slightest clue, “And then?”
“She told me that Sun Lianzhi is in hospital now. They don’t have any money and she can only earn a living by performing on the bridge. I couldn’t bear to hear that… Then I gave her thirty thousand yuan in order to help them pull through.”