Chapter 544: Chapter 544: My Eyes Hurt Just Looking at You

Yu Yue still wanted to chase after more questions but was interrupted by his own dad.

"Alright, enough with the questions, everyone will become pregnant. Twenty years from now, you might too. What’s there to be curious about?"

The rough tone made it clear that he was in a foul mood.

Yu Yue was like he’d been struck by lightning and asked with a trembling voice, "I... I’ll have a little sister too?"

Yu Xia: "...Yeah, like when you eat too much watermelon."

As she spoke, she looked at Yu Heng, who was frowning, and suddenly remembered she’d agreed to meet Xie Qingci’s parents earlier but hadn’t informed Yu Heng yet.

It was really a bit tricky.

She hesitated for a moment, climbed onto the back of the driver’s seat, and flashed a very bright smile.

"Hey, big brother~"

Yu Heng: "Don’t tell me you’re already pregnant, or I’ll kill Xie Qingci."

"...No, no, you’re overthinking it. I wanted to tell you something."

"Say it."

"Well, I haven’t told you, but did you know Xie Qingci’s parents work at the National Research Institute?"

Why suddenly bring up Xie Qingci’s parents?

Yu Heng had already guessed what she was going to say, and his expression darkened instantly like a flipping PowerPoint slide.

"So? Do you want me to spend some money to sponsor them?"

Yu Xia forced a laugh and said in one breath, "They don’t always have time to come back even once a year or two, and this year they finally have time. Xie Qingci said they want to see me. See, bro, you educated me to be so excellent, humble, and polite, I couldn’t refuse, so I reluctantly agreed."

Yu Heng, with a sarcastic tone: "Seems like there’s a problem with my educational methods."

"What are you saying? Talk properly," Yue Ling chided him with a poke, taking over the conversation with Yu Xia, "Did Xie Qingci bring this up voluntarily? When?"

"About six months ago, I guess. Last Spring Festival, his parents didn’t come back, remember? He had the reunion dinner at our place?"

Yue Ling: "Why would he bring up you meeting his parents?"

"That’s not a big deal, we’re dating, and eventually bringing this up is quite normal, don’t you think?"

Yue Ling gave her a meaningful look: "Xiaxia, you have to know that meeting the parents is not a casual thing. Some people may not meet each other’s parents even after dating for five or six years."

Yu Xia glanced at Yu Heng’s expression, resignedly: "That’s because some people already decided to separate. We’re different. I quite like him, maybe we’ll be dating for many years, so meeting his parents isn’t strange, right?"

Yu Heng let out a cold laugh: "And after meeting the parents? Do you need to reassure them to hand over Xie Qingci with confidence? Do you need adoption paperwork?"

"..." How to respond to that? She could only force another couple of laughs, "Come on, it’s just formally telling the uncle and aunt that we’re dating. Didn’t you invite your girlfriend home for dinner with me right after you started going out?"

Yu Heng almost banged the steering wheel: "How could those be the same?!"

"Why wouldn’t they be the same? It’s just a meal, doesn’t signify anything, bro, don’t make it sound like I’m about to elope and never return home."

Yue Ling laughed and said, "Your brother just riffs on some particularly serious consequences."

It got to the point where his lips were trembling with anger.

His wife and kids did not take him seriously, and his silly sister acted as though he was making a fuss, so Yu Heng had to take deep breaths several times to calm his anger.

Then, with a stiff voice, he said, "Let Xie Qingci come and talk to me; don’t incite you to do everything."

Yu Xia was eager for Xie Qingci to face the storm himself and immediately agreed: "Sure thing, bro."

Once Xie Qingci is back, I’ll inform him of this bad news; his reaction sure will be priceless.

Switching topics to deflect the discomfort, Yu Xia felt a lot lighter, even reached out from the back to give Yu Heng a shoulder massage.

"Bro, you worked hard driving. Once we get to the hospital, you don’t have to run around, I’ll handle everything! Just sit with sis-in-law comfortably in the doctor’s office."

Yu Heng didn’t even spare her a glance.

"I wasn’t planning on running around; do you think I invested so much money to throw it in the City God Temple for charity?"

"Alright then." She swiftly retracted her hand from his shoulder.

Yu Heng got frustrated again, gave her a scathing look through the rearview mirror.

The prenatal check-up wasn’t complicated at all for the vvip members. Yu Xia just needed to stay with Yu Yue in the doctor’s office and wait.

Yu Heng transformed into a model husband, personally helping Yue Ling through the examinations, leaning down to listen to the fetus’ heartbeat, recording what the doctor said, then pulling out a whole list of questions to ask.

Yu Xia soon lost interest in all this, distractedly scrolling up and down her phone.

There were also children’s illustrated books in the doctor’s office that Yu Yue was engrossed in; midway through, he was called by Yue Ling, and he eagerly scampered over to listen to the movements with his dad on Yue Ling’s belly.

Just she was alone in the corner, scrolling Xie Qingci’s messages up and down, gazing at nothing in particular.

If the plane was on time, Xie Qingci would be back in three hours.

They hadn’t seen each other for a month and a half, the longest and furthest they’d been apart since they reunited.

She... she did miss him a little, wanted to see him quickly, wanted to give him a hug when he returned travel-weary.

Wondered what he was doing at this time on the plane.

Her distracted demeanor was caught by Yue Ling.

Considering Yu Heng’s stubborn nature, Yue Ling didn’t directly ask if she wanted to go back and see Xie Qingci, but rather subtly approached the topic after the check-up when they were back home:

"Xiaxia, now that your brother’s home, do you have work over there? If you’re busy, you can head back."

Yu Xia didn’t immediately catch on, replied, "Work? Oh, temporarily none."

Yue Ling: "..."

She had to spell it out: "What about Xie Qingci? I remember you said he’s returning today? Aren’t you going back to meet him?"

Yu Xia finally uttered "ah".

Next to her, Yu Heng predictably jumped: "Meet him for what? Can’t he find his way back? Or is he without a nanny and unable to eat without you spoon-feeding him? Stay at home for me!"

Yu Xia’s eyes dodged, somewhat sheepishly tossing a plea for help towards Yue Ling.

Yue Ling laughed, nudging up next to Yu Heng lightly.

Which was like nudging a blow on a hard man’s heart, Yu Heng’s hair-raising anger dropped a notch.

Yue Ling: "Young couples dating, isn’t it normal to want to see each other quickly after being apart for so long? You used to be the same."

"I wasn’t that ridiculous."

"Really? When I went on an excursion for a week before, you couldn’t resist and went directly to find me. Isn’t that exaggerated? It’s double standards, Xiaxia isn’t a minor, why are you being so strict?"

Yu Xia raised an intriguing eyebrow: "Bro, were you that passionate in love back then?"

As Yu Heng’s past was laid bare at this moment, he felt his authority was insufficient, and looking at her expression only made him angrier.

"If you want to leave, then go quickly; you both give me headaches looking at you!"

Little Yu Yue glanced around, surely this "both giving headaches" didn’t include his mom, so then... why did he get chided too?!