The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 128 - 132: The Creature Known as Phoenix Man (Part 14)

Chapter 128: Chapter 132: The Creature Known as Phoenix Man (Part 14)

Nine months ago, Su Li had selected several of the highest quality sperm from the Sperm Bank and combined them with her own eggs to create embryos, which were then implanted into her body.

During those nine months of constant companionship, Su Li marveled at the magical feeling of the embryo slowly growing inside her, an odd feeling emerging as if breaking through the soil.

She felt deeply about all of this, with a sense of déjà vu growing stronger, as if... as if she had experienced it all before.

That anxiety, nervousness, anticipation, surprise... I still remember.

What was it back then... Su Li’s mind was blank, unable to recall anything, but then that void of despair, the agony... it carved into her heart.

Su Li clutched her head, cold sweat beading on her forehead.

What happened afterward, how could she not remember?

A chill from the spirit platform struck her, and the pain that had seeped into her soul instantly faded away, cleansed by a rice grain-sized droplet formed from the Water Spiritual Power.

This uncontrollable feeling made Su Li’s complexion unsightly, no hurry, no hurry...

Her memory would return one day.

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For the crucial postpartum month, Su Qing spent it drenched in tears.

Her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law did not take care of her, and her husband left early and returned late, claiming he was busy with work. Su Qing tried to negotiate and asked Xu Baifeng, her stepmother I might add, to care for her for a few days.

Yet, she was met with cold rejection. Su Qing wanted to hire a maternity nurse, but everyone in the family was against it. She also had no money and had to ask her husband for anything she needed. Although Zheng Zhanpeng did give her the money each time, he did so reluctantly, dragging his face.

"You’re used to spending big, but things are different now, I work very hard for the money..."

Su Qing felt a wave of humiliation assault her. After all, she used to spend thousands on him for various things, yet now, even buying milk powder or diapers for her daughter was frowned upon.

One day, Su Qing lay in bed unable to get up, and her daughter in the small wooden crib beside her cried heart-wrenchingly.

Su Qing called out several times, but no one came. Hearing her baby’s desperate cries, her heart nearly broke.

Propping herself up with her arms, Su Qing bore the pain that felt like her body had been run over by a massive tank and slowly moved to her daughter’s crib, lifting the baby. Her daughter kept burrowing against her chest, and Su Qing knew, Little Treasure was hungry.

She opened the formula can, which was already empty. Having not eaten for a long time, Little Treasure pursed her lips and started crying again.

Su Qing had no choice but to lift her shirt and try to express milk, managing only a few drops.

Hearing noise from the kitchen, Su Qing knew her mother-in-law had returned.

Looking at her continuously crying daughter, enduring her discomfort, she still moved and stepped out towards the kitchen, calling out awkwardly, "Mom, you’re back..."

"Yes, I am back, you unseeable thing, knowing I am back and not even getting me a glass of water..." Shi Erxiu was angered looking at her daughter-in-law, not only did she fail to produce a son for the Zheng Family, but now she couldn’t even handle some household expenses.

She had long forgotten her son’s persuading words, suspecting that her daughter-in-law was deceptive, completely fooling her son.

Look, she had a loss-making child for so long, yet nobody from her maternal family has ever come to visit, let alone the subsidies she had imagined.

Whenever she thought of these things, her face grew even more sullen.

Su Qing looked at her mother-in-law’s angry face and still ventured, "Mom, the baby is hungry..."

Seeing the other party unmoved, with a cold expression, Su Qing felt extremely distressed. Yet, she still forced a smile and continued, "You see... Zhanpeng isn’t at home, and I don’t have enough money. Could you... could you lend me some money to buy a can of formula..."

Before Su Qing could finish speaking, Shi Erxiu, reactively like her heart and lungs were pricked, jumped three feet high, and curses started spewing out.

"Eat, eat, eat, such a loss-making child and you still want her to drink formula? Isn’t my son working hard enough?"

Shi Erxiu’s judgmental gaze swept over Su Qing, "You, always wanting to live a rich wife’s life without the means, lying in bed all day without a worry for food or drink, never thinking about how hard your husband works outside to earn money..."

"Mom, the baby..."

"Stop it, just make her some rice soup. In those days, rice soup was a precious thing, even my son couldn’t have it, and now she gets to have it cheaply."

Shi Erxiu glanced sideways, scoffed, and added, "And stop buying diapers; they’re a waste of money. I’ve got a few old clothes under my wardrobe you can cut into cloths for her; that’ll save enough money for my son to have meat several times a month."

The bitterness in Su Qing’s heart was akin to eating a lotus seed pod, but she dared not retort. She knew all too well the extent of Shi Erxiu’s street cursing, with all kinds of foul languages effortlessly thrown around.

Moreover, Zheng Zhanpeng was a filial son. It wasn’t just inadmissible to utter half a word about his father; even a slight complaint was forbidden, as it implied dissatisfaction with him. Couldn’t she love everything related to him?

Unable to get money from her mother-in-law, Su Qing opened her wallet and searched through her clothing pockets, finding only bits and pieces, not enough to buy even a decent can of formula.

She had no income, and never once had her husband turned over his salary card to her, leading to such a desperate situation.

Su Qing felt her entire life’s luck had worn out over those twenty plus years; now she even dared not look in the mirror.

Her once delicate and pretty face, without expensive skincare, became like a delicate flower losing moisture, and she could even feel a tiny wrinkle forming at the corner of her eye with her fingers.

Little Treasure cried herself to sleep, but even in dreams, she wasn’t calm, occasionally twitching.

Pained at heart, Su Qing hadn’t yet dialed Zheng Zhanpeng’s number when her bedroom door was forcefully pushed open with a "bang."

The loud noise woke Little Treasure from sleep, and the next second, a shrill cry erupted.

Seeing Zheng Zhanpeng enter furiously, Su Qing was scared witless and quickly picked up Little Treasure, holding her close.

Zheng Zhanpeng’s fearfully grim and angry demeanor made Su Qing afraid he might suddenly lash out, picking up the ceaselessly crying baby and throwing her away.

Such events had precedent; just a few nights ago, annoyed by the baby’s crying giving him a headache, he abruptly turned the barely one-month-old Little Treasure a full 360 degrees, leaving her heart to stop for a moment.

Su Qing, holding the child, stepped back a few paces and tentatively asked, "Zhanpeng, what happened?"

At that moment, Zheng Zhanpeng, with red eyes and a ferocious demeanor, looked like an evil ghost who had just escaped from hell.

Without any consideration for his wife’s still frail body, he dragged her into the living room, turned on the TV, and switched to the finance channel. "Look at this, what is it?"

Zheng Zhanpeng pointed at the vividly dressed person on TV and said through gritted teeth, "Your mother has given birth to another brother for you..."