“I’m feeling just fine. It’s not necessary—”
“Seriously? Since you’re here, why don’t you do one?”
As Zhuang Jiawen and Shen Xinyao insisted on dragging her along with them, Lin Xinyan had no choice but to go for a round of check-ups.
It turned out everything was fine, but her son thought something must have had gone wrong somewhere throughout the process.
Thus, he told the doctor about her situation.
“Jiawen, what are you talking about?” Lin Xinyan couldn’t keep her composure anymore.
“You were washing the linen, right? Dad said—”
“Huh? How could you fall for his words?” Lin Xinyan finally figured out the reason behind their visit. “So there isn’t anything wrong with Yao, and you’re lying to me because you want to lure me to the hospital for a check-up, right?”
Her son admitted and said, “Yes, Mom. We’re worried about your health.”
Suddenly, she reached for her ringing phone in her pocket and pick up the call. The moment she picked it up, Bai Yinning’s voice could be heard. “Where are you? Are you reaching soon?”
She checked on the time and recalled she had an appointment with him. “I’m afraid I can’t make it in time today.”
After all, she was still in the hospital. She would never make it over in time since it was already way beyond the appointed time.
Chuckling, the man on the other end of the call asked, “Why? Is someone getting in your way and preventing you from meeting me?”
“No. I’m currently in the middle of something and I can’t get away.” Lin Xinyan finally figured out it was all part of Zong Jinghao’s plan.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have told their children she had wet herself in bed and lured them to bring her over to the hospital. It was merely a trick to get in her way, so she couldn’t head over and meet Bai Yinning.
“Mom, who is it?” Zhuang Jiawen asked because he had a hunch the person on the other end of the call was Bai Yinning.
“I’m in the middle of something. I got to go.” His mother hung up the call after she made herself clear.
“Who is it, Mom?”
“An old friend of mine. Come on! It’s time to go! We have to head over to Yao’s!”
Lin Xinyan dragged her son along with her and brought him away, but he refused to give up just yet. He asked rhetorically, “Is it the man with the surname of Bai?”
Glaring at him, she warned him, “You should stop poking your nose into the business of us adults.”
He pursed his lips and rebuked, “Hey! I’m an adult too, okay?”
“Actually, you’re still a child to me,” she replied indifferently, but she was irritated by her husband instead of her son.
How could he tell them these sorts of nonsense?
Finally, they found Shen Xinyao and noticed she had gone through a series of check-ups as well. It turned out she wasn’t pregnant.
Initially, Zhuang Jiawen got his hopes high because he couldn’t wait to be a father, yet it turned out his wife wasn’t pregnant at all.
Lin Xinyan noticed her son seemed to be dejected. She comforted him and said, “Both of you are still young. You shouldn’t rush things through because you’ll get there sooner or later. Remember not to pressure Yao, okay?”
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