Chapter 582. The World’s Number One Wife!
“Mmhm, so late… You’re working overtime on the weekend too?! What about my check-up?”
After the wedding, life became tedious and bland. Sticking at home to nurture the baby, playing a few games, doing some cleaning for exercise—every day felt so leisurely it almost made one itch.
Once a person has too much idle time, anxiety creeps in uncontrollably.
Especially when the belly grows day by day, the figure changes gradually, and ugly, deep purple, uneven stretch marks start showing up on the skin.
When she first got pregnant, Ning Chu was always restless, wandering around all the time, but now she didn’t even want to go out alone.
“I… I’ll just go to the hospital myself tomorrow, okay?”
She mumbled towards her phone, yet she couldn’t muster the courage to go out alone.
She looked so bad right now…
Ning Chu gazed at herself in the mirror, sighing at the sight of the unkempt, big-bellied pregnant woman.
Suddenly, her phone rang. She looked down to see a video call from Yan Xinya.
“Isn’t it around your due date these days?”
She murmured, picking up her phone and walking into the bedroom, sitting at the desk to answer the video.
“How do you have the time to video call me?”
After a brief black screen, Yan Xinya’s excited face appeared on her phone.
She was lying on the hospital bed, proudly sticking up her nose, her wolf ears perched high on her head: “I just gave birth! It’s a boy!”
“So fast?!”
“Of course! Let me show you…”
The wolf girl pointed the camera towards the baby on the bed: “Isn’t he cute~ Chubby and fair!”
“Um…” To be honest, Ning Chu didn’t find newborn babies particularly cute, but after a moment of silence, her gaze softening as she looked at the screen, she firmly declared, “Very cute!”
“When he was just born, he was so ugly, all wrinkly. I took one look and thought I had given birth to a monster.”
Yan Xinya didn’t look anything like someone who had just given birth.
“Did you have a natural birth? Did it hurt?”
“Yep! It was super easy! The pain wasn’t so bad, really. It didn’t feel that frightening.”
Easy…
Ning Chu twitched her mouth; she rarely heard of giving birth being described as easy. Even her sister-in-law, who had given birth the day before and was able to smack her brother-in-law’s head, came out of the delivery room so weak she could barely speak.
“Felt like I pushed out a giant lump~”
“That description is gross…”
Chatting with Yan Xinya eased Ning Chu’s anxiety. She leaned on her hand with a smile: “He looks just like you, look at that nose~”
“Right! He’ll definitely be a handsome guy when he grows up! Now we just need you to have a daughter so we can arrange a betrothal.”
“Eh~ Absolutely not! Who knows if this little guy will grow up to be a scumbag.”
The wolf girl grinned: “If he dares, I won’t hesitate to break his legs.”
“……”
Although Ning Chu had known Yan Xinya for a long time and she didn’t display much violent tendency, she was well aware of this girl’s combat power.
Normal adults would be no match; only her husband, a trained police officer, could handle her.
“Hey, where’s your husband?”
The sparkle in Yan Xinya’s eyes suddenly dimmed: “Working overtime… He might be on his way here?”
She quietly complained: “He hardly accompanied me to the hospital while I was pregnant, and he wasn’t here when I gave birth…”
Ning Chu suddenly realized she had said something wrong and awkwardly switched the topic: “Have you decided on the baby’s name?”
“Not yet! We’ve got quite a few good names~”
“I’ll tell you, having a baby is such a hassle; I’ve been in the hospital for a week now…”
She hastily interrupted: “No! Don’t say that; it’ll scare me!”
“What’s there to be scared of~” Yan Xinya suddenly lifted her head and exclaimed, “My husband’s here! Let’s chat later?!”
“Don’t be so excited; you need to…”
The video call ended abruptly. Ning Chu was left half-finished with her words, staring blankly at the chat interface.
She mumbled, placing her phone down on the table: “Forgotting her best friend now that she has a man, am I just a substitute…?”
Suddenly, the image of Yan Xinya’s child flashed in her mind. She instinctively stroked her belly, clearly feeling the life within moving.
The fetal movements were a bit frequent; it could be expected that the child she would give birth to might have a lively and active personality as well.
Ning Chu propped her chin on her hand in front of the computer, these days she played games less, fearing she’d get half-killed by her teammates, most of her entertainment consisted of watching dramas.
After finishing two episodes, she heard the sound of the door opening from the living room.
She rushed out of the bedroom in a hurry.
“Don’t run so fast; worry a bit.”
Hearing the hurried footsteps, Wen Yang, even without seeing his wife yet, could already imagine her anxious look.
Turning a corner, Ning Chu finally stopped in front of the door, glaring resentfully at her husband.
“Why are you working overtime again?”
“The company has been busy with projects lately, I don’t want to work overtime either…” Wen Yang took off his shoes, unable to wait to change into slippers, and stepped inside to calm Ning Chu, “It’ll be easier once this period passes. How about I ask mom to take you for a check-up at the hospital tomorrow?”
However, just as he reached out to touch Ning Chu’s arm, she gently brushed him off.
He was taken aback, raising his head again to see her previously resentful expression transformed into one of pitiful pleading, tears shining in her eyes.
“No, I’ll take half a day off tomorrow to accompany you.”
Wen Yang quickly conceded. It was rare to see Ning Chu cry; now he was in a fluster.
Ever since his wife got pregnant, her mood swings were comparable to the temperature changes of the season.
“Tch!”
“What did mom make for dinner?”
He shamelessly inched closer, trying to cozy up to her while massaging her neck to relax her muscles: “How about I order barbecue for you? Just a little, take a bite of each for the craving?”
“You’re just thinking about yourself, right?”
“Yeah, I want to eat it.”
Ning Chu huffed in dissatisfaction, stepping on Wen Yang’s foot: “Put on shoes! You’re leaving shoe prints all over the floor.”
“You can do fewer house chores, or let mom do it. I can take care of things when I get home in the evening.”
“Pregnant women need some exercise too, okay? I don’t like going out now, but doing housework can keep me active.”
Wen Yang fully supported his wife’s point of view: “Right! Just move a bit; if you get tired, take a break, don’t force yourself.”
Seeing Ning Chu’s expression brighten from gloom to cheer, he felt relieved, pulling her to sit on the sofa and opening the takeout app on his phone: “Look at what you want to eat; I’ll treat you.”
“But it’s all my money…” Ning Chu took the phone, looking while saying, “Xinya just gave birth to a boy. He looks pretty good; he’ll probably grow up to be a handsome guy.”
“That fast? Any photos?”
“She should post on social media soon, I saw it in the video.”
Her eyebrows slanted down as she looked at Wen Yang’s hand on her thigh, pushing it away: “No touching.”
“Still mad?”
Ning Chu instinctively wrapped her coat tighter and shifted her leg aside, rejecting Wen Yang’s touch: “No… I just look so awful right now.”
“How could that be?” Wen Yang was both amused and helpless.
“I’ve gained so much weight, plus stretch marks, my hands and feet are kind of swollen…”
“My wife is the most beautiful woman in the world, alright?!”
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