Families with a great amount of wealth and influence usually had their own private doctors and the Cheng family was not an exception.
The doctor felt Chloe's pulse for quite a while. Then, he asked Chloe to let him check her other hand.
He spent almost fifteen minutes feeling her pulse.
Chloe felt bored and kept shifting her feet. Then, she looked at Nolan and said, "I've already told you that I'm fine. Why won't you believe me? Look, the doctor can't even figure out anything after checking for so long."
The doctor suddenly took back his hand and looked at Nolan. A rare surprise could be seen on his wrinkled face. "Congratulations, Mr. Cheng! Your wife is pregnant. In my estimation, it has only been a little more than a month, so it's not that obvious right now. I couldn't see it at first, but after careful examination, it's clear that she is pregnant."
The doctor breathed a sigh of relief afterward.
If he wasn't mistaken, Nolan was about to lose his temper just moments ago.
"Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Cheng," Addis happily exclaimed while looking at Nolan and Chloe.
Addis had been working for Nolan for the longest time. Seeing what Nolan had done for Chloe, he knew that the man loved her very much. Now that Chloe was pregnant, how could he not be happy?
"What?"
After hearing the doctor's words, Chloe stared at him in disbelief.
"Are you sure? I... I'm pregnant? Am I really pregnant?"
she kept asking while looking at the doctor. She would have never expected it to happen to her. After all, it was all too sudden.
Just today, Chloe was thinking that her friends had all become pregnant and had their own children. She was wondering when she could be like them, having a baby of her own. How amazing it was that her silent wish had suddenly turned into reality on the same day! She was so surprised, to say the least.
The doctor was a little offended that his professional skills were being questioned. He had been working for the Cheng family for so many years.
He had always made himself feel better with the thought that even if he wasn't as good as the ancient famous doctor Hua Tuo, he had more expertise and experience than most other doctors in the area. He had never made a mistake during the years that he worked for the Cheng family.
How could his diagnosis be wrong?
But judging from Chloe's reaction, it was obvious that she just genuinely could not believe it. She wasn't pretending at all. So, after a second thought, the old doctor did not make a big deal of her reaction.
"Yes, Mrs. Chloe. You've been pregnant for more than a month."
"Thank you. If you don't mind, please let us have a private moment," Nolan said.
Since Nolan had requested it, the doctor and Addis prepared to step out of the room.
But before the doctor could leave, he thought about what Chloe told him earlier. So he said to her, "Mrs. Cheng, the food you ate was braised fish, right? It doesn't have a strong smell. It's just because you're pregnant so you become more sensitive to it than usual. That is just natural."
After he said that, he left the room.
Chloe and Nolan were left by themselves in the bedroom, looking at each other awkwardly.
"Ah, I'm pregnant. I'm really pregnant."
Chloe looked at Nolan with so much happiness in her eyes. She then jumped out of the bed and threw herself at him.
Nolan raised his eyebrows and caught her in his arms in time. "How can you jump like this since you're pregnant? You should take care of the baby inside you," he reminded her.
"Oh, I almost forgot. I was too happy. I'm really pregnant."
Chloe continued to look at him with a wide smile.
But Chloe, who buried her face in Nolan's arms, didn't notice that he had distress all over his face. In fact, he wasn't happy about the news at all.
Chloe had immersed herself in the happiness so much that she was completely clueless about what he was feeling.
Nolan thought that when Chloe mentioned something about having a child, she wasn't that serious. In all honesty, he didn't want to have a baby now. They had been together for quite a long time and he had gotten used to living with her. If a baby were to suddenly come into their lives, her love for him might be divided. He felt that it wasn't ideal and he might not be able to take it.
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