Chapter 575: Chapter 575: Did You Bang Your Face Into a Wall?

"Have you recently felt any pain, swelling, or itchiness in your teeth?"

Yu Xia opened her mouth wide like a hippopotamus, observing the doctor’s serious expression, thinking to herself, what kind of terminal illness is gum swelling?

She grimaced with her mouth wide open and tried to shake her head, but the doctor held her head in place, so she could only substitute with her finger, stubbornly shaking her index finger.

Doctor: "No? But your condition is quite obvious, you have wisdom teeth and need to remove them."

Wisdom teeth? The thing that can make your face swell like a pig’s head?

She hadn’t fully processed this sad news when Yu Yue ran over, grabbed her hand, and exclaimed:

"Auntie, did you eat too much sugar and get cavities?!"

"...You kidding..."

Why are you so excited!

She couldn’t speak clearly, and Yu Yue lowered his head to listen by her side, as if a devoted son listening to his father’s last words at the hospital bed.

"Auntie, what did you say? Did you really eat a lot of sugar?"

The doctor watched with amusement and explained, "Your aunt doesn’t have cavities, she has wisdom teeth, that’s not caused by eating sugar."

"Then what’s it caused by?" Yu Yue looked worriedly at his pretty aunt who had turned into a hippopotamus, "Could it be because she’s dating that handsome guy? He doesn’t watch you brush your teeth every day, does he, Auntie?"

Yu Xia: "..."

The doctor teased him, "He probably does watch, maybe it’s because she brushed her teeth too many times."

Yu Yue frowned, pondering for a moment, then asked Yu Xia, "Why do you brush your teeth so many times a day? Is it because he wants to kiss you? I’ve seen it several times."

"..." Enough, enough, devoted son, stop speaking!

She agreed to the wisdom tooth extraction, the doctor’s skills were excellent, finishing it within half an hour, but it was a bit painful, requiring an ice pack for relief.

After a trip outside, she returned looking like a swollen-faced bear with bared teeth, causing Yu Heng to jump in shock as they stood again by the hospital room door, looking like refugees returning from wandering.

"...What happened to you? What’s with your face? Did you hit a wall or something?"

Yue Ling also looked over while holding the little one.

Yu Xia’s eyes were teary, but she couldn’t speak, so she patted Yu Yue.

Yu Yue blurted out, "Auntie brushed her teeth too much, grew wisdom teeth, went to get them pulled!"

Yue Ling: "Brushed too much? Who told you brushing too much causes wisdom teeth?"

"The doctor said so! Because brother kisses... Mm mm mm!"

Yu Xia quickly covered his mouth, warning him with her eyes.

But Yue Ling had already grasped the gist from the few words exchanged, smiled, and asked her, "Does it hurt a lot?"

She nodded weakly.

Yue Ling then said to Yu Heng, "Have Mrs. Li make an extra meal for patients, liquid food, something light."

Yu Heng kept an eye on Yu Xia while taking out his phone to make a call.

Yu Xia found it strange and asked vaguely, "Brother, what are you staring at me for?"

"Don’t talk, you’re going to drool."

"...Not drooling!"

Even though she refused to admit that speaking after the extraction would make her drool, later on she didn’t want to talk at all, just stayed on the side pretending to be mute.

When Yu Yue and Yue Ling called her, she squeezed out a low "mm" from her throat.

Yu Heng called her and she wouldn’t even utter a sound, just glared at him mournfully.

After eating a bland, tasteless white porridge, she simply hid away in the inner room to sleep, quietly healing her heartbreak.

Maybe due to staying up late last night, she slept quite long, listening to the muffled sounds outside, half-asleep and half-awake, she had a dream.

In the dream, they were also at a hospital.

The handsome and gentle Xie Qingci, sweaty, picked up a bundle from the hospital bed and handed it to her, his voice as tender as her sister-in-law’s.

"Look, darling, I’ve given you a big, chubby son."

In the dream, she seemed to be enveloped in golden light, dazedly taking the bundle, the child inside was beautifully round, weighing the equivalent of eight pounds, two ounces, and as he wailed loudly, she awoke from her dream, joyfully placing the child down, resting her forehead against Xie Qingci’s, moved, saying:

"Dear, you’ve given our family a big, chubby son! This is a huge credit!"

The father was overjoyed, and the frail Xie Qingci emitted maternal radiance throughout his body as he looked at the child.

...This dream felt quite real, even after waking, Yu Xia still felt a bit disoriented, sitting on the bed in a daze.

Yu Heng knocked on the door outside.

"Awake yet? Slept right through to dinner time, has your agent been short-changing your sleep? When will you change your habit of hiding in the room, ignoring everyone whenever you’re upset? You’re nearly twenty-five."

After waiting a couple of seconds without getting a response, he softened his tone, "Alright, made some dishes you like, come out and eat. The little one has been named, you haven’t seen it yet."

Being both an elder brother and a father, with two kids outside, it really aged him.

Yu Xia sleepwalked her way out, passing by him without a glance, sitting next to Yue Ling’s hospital bed, continuing to daydream.

Yue Ling gently coaxed the little one, seeing her vacant expression, asking, "Xiaxia, does it still hurt a lot?"

Yu Xia casually opened a bottle of water, drank two sips, the mouth pain made her a bit clearer-headed.

"Still hurts," she carefully held her face, then leaned in to look at the little one, "Named already? What’s it called?"

"Yu Li, with the wood radical and the character for ’joy’."

Yu Xia looked at her brother, "Brother, you really are obsessed with homophonic names. To truly blend with your wife’s name, can’t you use another character?"

Yu Heng: "Yu Ling? Do you think that sounds nice? Once he goes to school and gets a nickname, will you take responsibility for comforting him?"

"..." She feigned a lisp, "Fine, whatever."

Yu Yue was amused by her accent and laughed loudly, the little one frowned, probably annoyed by his brother’s loud laughter.

Auntie brought the family’s dinner, Yue Ling’s was a postpartum meal, Yu Xia’s was a patient meal, Yu Heng also ate light like them, only Yu Yue’s meal was colorful and flavorful.

Dinner time was when she video-called with Xie Qingci, because Xie Qingci was filming, his off-set times were irregular, usually only available during meals.

As she opened her meal box here, Xie Qingci called via video there, the special ringtone attracting everyone’s gaze in the hospital room.

Yu Yue: "It’s the handsome brother!" 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Yue Ling corrected him, "Yue, that’s your aunt’s boyfriend, you should call him uncle."

Yu Yue puzzled, "But brother looks very young."

Yu Xia stared at him expressionlessly, "Are you saying I’m not young?"

"..." Men’s intuition is quite sharp; Yu Yue wavered between nodding and shaking his head, eventually he dared not act rashly, lowered his head eating his meal as if nothing happened.

Yu Xia snorted, positioned her phone before answering the video call.

Xie Qingci’s face appeared on the screen, along with the simple dining setting behind him.

"You’re eating too huh?" She strictly controlled the angle her face appeared on screen, "I’ll show you the little one."

The movements were steady, trying to be a half-faced beauty.

But Xie Qingci soon sensed something was off.

"Sister, why are you only showing half your face?"