I Want a Lifetime with You novel Chapter 431

What do you mean for a boy or a girl?

Fu Chengyan frowned. “She’s only been pregnant for eight weeks. How would I know whether it’s a boy or a girl!” He looked at the sales representative as though she was an idiot and then said impatiently. “Bah! I’ll choose for myself!”

She was absolutely stunned. “Only eight weeks pregnant?” Why are you shopping for clothes when the fetus is only at eight weeks?

Zhou Zheng had just dismissed the onlooking women. He overheard the exchange between the Fu Chengyan and the sales representative when he returned and failed to suppress a snicker.

Fu Chengyan shot him a look. Zhou Zheng came over immediately and hinted for the sales representative to excuse herself first before addressing Fu Chengyan. “Mr. Fu, it’s still too early into the pregnancy so it isn’t necessary to purchase these things now. Moreover, these products can go out of style very quickly. I reckon that they would have become unsuitable by the time Mrs. Fu delivers the baby!”

Fu Chengyan looked silently at Zhou Zheng and Zhou Zheng held his tongue as well as he stood by the side waiting.

Fu Chengyan placed the items he had back down and stuck a hand in his pocket before he stated staidly, “Who said I was buying anything? I was just browsing!”

Zhou Zheng was flabbergasted.

You’re the boss! Whatever you say goes!

“In that case Mr. Fu, do we continue here?”

Fu Chengyan shot Zhou Zheng another look. What do you think?

The two men continued to window shop at Jinghe for another hour or so. Zhou Zheng almost thought Fu Chengyan was possessed and Fu Chengyan behaved as though he was completely lacking in self-awareness as he went on to cover every inch of ground on the third floor.

Zhou Zheng was concerned about getting looks and disturbances by other shoppers so he got the mall’s management to close off the third floor to everyone else except the retail assistants, Fu Chengyan and Zhou Zheng himself.

Fu Chengyan did not seem too concerned about seriously disrupting the mall’s regular operations. Zhou Zheng just stood close by as he waited for his boss.

The mall manager for Jinghe came over hurriedly. “Mr. Zhou, why are you here? Where is Mr. Fu?”

The man followed where Zhou Zheng was looking and his eyeballs nearly dropped. “Is Mr. Fu… shopping in the children’s department?”

He continued to track Fu Chengyan’s movements as though he seemed to have chanced upon something unimaginable. Zhou Zheng could not tolerate it any longer and waved his arms frantically to block the mall manager’s line of sight. “Stop looking!”

“Ha Ha, Mr. Zhou.” The manager chuckled as he self-consciously looked away. “Is Mr. Fu here to survey the operations?”

Zhou Zheng chortled and gave the man an icy stare.

“Shall I go prepare some refreshments? Or reports…?”

“That’s enough. Do you think Mr. Fu is that free? He doesn’t have time for this!” Zhou Zheng felt gassed even as he said these.

Fu Chengyan had no time for work but was able to shop for clothing for his wife and unborn children. In spite of what the truth was, Zhou Zheng felt that no one would believe this if he told them.

“But Mr. Fu…”

“You can go now. Don’t ruin Mr. Fu’s mood!” Zhou Zheng had never encountered anyone as daft as this man. “Mr. Fu doesn’t like to be followed around in a private capacity! And also, no one is to speak of what happened here today!”

“Yes, of course.” The manager then scampered away.

Despite Zhou Zheng’s best efforts to keep word of Fu Chengyan’s little excursion to the mall under wraps, it did not seem to have the desired effect. That same night, news of it started to explode within the chat group that Fu Chengyan belonged to.

The reason for it was that someone shared a video of Fu Chengyan’s interaction with the sales representative. What made it worse was it featured the sequence where the representative asked Fu Chengyan the gender of the baby.

When Fu Chengyan was in the showers, Shi Nuan casually swiped away on her cellphone. This was when a WeChat message came in. Shi Nuan quickly opened up the message when she saw that it was from the group. That was when she saw the video footage.

Her initial reaction was to look in the direction of the bathroom. When she saw that the doors to the bathroom was shut, she went to look for Fu Chengyan’s phone. Indeed, the same video could be seen on it. Shi Nuan held a hand to her forehead. On closer investigating, she gritted her teeth when she discovered that the clip was shared by Su Shaoqing. “Where did this came from?”

Shi Nuan immediately tagged Su Shaoqing. “Delete it right away or Chengyan will get you for it later!”

Before she could send out her message, others had started to chime in.