After another month, the case in the capital was finally closed. The relevant personnel involved were sentenced to prison, including Yu Ziqi, Zheng Qize, and Fu Mingyue.
Although Yuan Zhenbang and Su Minghua pleaded everywhere for Fu Mingyue, with the Elder Yuan pressing from above, Fu Mingyue was ultimately sentenced to fifteen years in prison. This means she would spend a full fifteen years in prison, even if she behaved well and tried to reduce her sentence, she would still have to stay in there for about ten years before she could be released.
Fu Mingyue would pay a huge price for her mistakes. She would spend the best years of her life in prison, which was undoubtedly the cruelest punishment for a woman.
After hearing this news, Shanshan didn’t feel as happy as one might imagine. Instead, she felt a bit uncomfortable in her heart. Fu Mingyue loved Yuan Long to the point of madness, even to the extent of disregarding legal constraints to harm others. This kind of love was too terrifying, something she didn’t want to see.
Shanshan wondered if Fu Mingyue would still be so persistent when she got out, would she be able to completely let go of her feelings for Yuan Long?
After hearing Shanshan’s thoughts, Yuan Long looked at her for a while and said, “Why have you been so sentimental lately?”
Shanshan glared at him, “What do you mean ‘sentimental’? I’m just expressing my feelings because I’m involved in this matter.”
Yuan Long touched her face and said truthfully, “If it were before, you would have been jumping on the bed celebrating the punishment of the bad guys.”
‘really?” Shanshan blinked, trying to recall her previous reactions, and indeed, it seemed like Yuan Long was right. She murmured, “Was I really so shallow before?”
Yuan Long pressed his lips to suppress a smile, thinking to himself that she’s still as simple and happy-go-lucky as ever, her biggest worry being losing weight.
Yuan Long’s assessment of Shanshan was spot on. Shanshan’s biggest worry now was indeed losing weight. Despite her efforts to lose weight when she returned from the hospital, she only managed to lose five pounds. However, she couldn’t seem to lose any more weight no matter how hard she tried. Recently, she hadn’t lost a single pound, and she even gained two pounds back. This scared her so much that she stopped eating dinner and went back to eating cucumbers.
Although this resulted in her feeling hungry every night and wanting to sneak some meat, her inner struggle prevented her from doing so.
Little Dudu felt that his mother had been acting strange lately. Every time he ate, his mother would stare at the meat in his bowl, her eyes glowing with envy.
Just like now, his mother sat at the dinner table, nibbling on cucumbers his father fed her while looking at his bowl, with an expression that seemed to say she wanted to eat the meat in it.
Little Dudu found his mother’s envious gaze even more frightening. He quickly used his chubby hands to protect his bowl and looked at his mother vigilantly. He only had two pieces of meat, and they weren’t enough for him.
Shanshan felt a bit guilty under his watchful gaze, but as a mother, her dignity couldn’t be violated. She immediately put on a disdainful expression and said, “Little fatty, what are you protecting? It’s just a piece of meat, I don’t want it.”
Little Dudu remained vigilant and moved his bowl closer to himself, saying with suspicion, “But Mom, your expression tells me you really want to steal my meat.”
Shanshan couldn’t help but feel even more guilty. Was her expression really that obvious?
Yuan Long chuckled and put down the cucumber he was feeding her, then used chopsticks to pick up a piece of pork rib and brought it to her lips. “Eat some pork rib.”
The tempting aroma seemed to permeate into her stomach through her pores, awakening all her cravings. Shanshan couldn’t help but salivate. She really wanted to open her mouth and eat the pork rib right away, but she thought of her weight loss and dance career, so she had to desperately maintain her last bit of rationality. She shook her head and turned her face away from the meat. “I don’t want to eat, I’ll just eat cucumbers.”
Yuan Long sighed and patted her head, persuading her, “Be good, if you want to eat, just eat. It’s okay to occasionally eat some meat.”
Aunt Lian also chimed in, “Shanshan, you’re already thin enough, you’re not even a hundred pounds yet. Don’t lose any more weight, it’s okay to eat a little more.”
Shanshan pouted, “But, but I have to at least lose ten pounds, otherwise, I won’t look good dancing.” Over ninety pounds is considered fat for dancing.
Yuan Long brought the pork rib to her lips again, and when it touched her lips, her lips became oily. “You have to go to the hospital to have your cast removed tomorrow. Eat a little tonight to celebrate your recovery, okay?”
Aunt Lian quickly agreed, “Yes, yes, tomorrow your arm will be free again. It’s such a big celebration, we must celebrate properly tonight. So let’s eat well tonight, and tomorrow we’ll go back to dieting after the cast is removed.”
Yuan Long’s words directly cut off Shanshan’s last bit of rationality. At this moment, the craving in her stomach was about to burst out, and her mouth was secreting saliva incessantly. Her mind was telling her one thing: I want to eat! I really want to eat!
So, Shanshan couldn’t resist anymore and opened her mouth to eat the pork rib. As the pork rib entered her mouth, she felt like crying. How could it be so delicious? It’s really delicious…
While eating, Shanshan swore like it was an oath, “I’ll just eat one piece, and I’ll come back to diet properly tomorrow.”
Aunt Lian smiled and nodded, “Okay, okay, let’s diet tomorrow.”
Yuan Long couldn’t help but smile at her indulgence. After she finished the pork rib in her mouth, he picked up another piece and brought it to her lips. “Eat another piece, since you’ve already eaten, it doesn’t matter if you eat one more. You can just lose an extra piece tomorrow.”
Shanshan thought he was right. Since she had already eaten, it didn’t matter if she ate one more. She could come back and run to burn it off after her arm was free tomorrow.
Thinking like this, she opened her mouth again and ate the second piece of meat, closing her eyes in happiness.
How come she never thought meat was so delicious before?
At this moment, Yuan Long picked up a piece of fish and brought it to her lips. “Fish doesn’t make you gain weight. It’s like not eating anything when you eat it. Try a bite.”
Shanshan thought Yuan Long was right. Fish is for losing weight and won’t make you gain weight. Besides, it’s just one piece, it’s okay. So she ate it.
At the dining table, Dudu saw his father feeding his mother one chopstick after another, and his mother eating the meat eagerly, almost finishing most of the meat for the night.
“Burp~” At the end of dinner, Shanshan burped uncontrollably, feeling a bit refreshed. This burp seemed to have a refreshing effect, bringing back her lost rationality.
She suddenly realized what she had just done—she had eaten a lot of meat, enough to burp! Oh my god!
Shanshan couldn’t believe her eyes as she looked at the pile of bones in front of her. She felt terrified and trembled as she asked Yuan Long, “Did I eat all this?”
Yuan Long chose to remain silent, and Aunt Lian quickly lowered her head to clean up the table, pretending not to hear.
Only Dudu nodded straightforwardly, “Mom, you ate all of it. You ate most of the meat we cooked tonight. Aren’t you going to diet?”
Shanshan froze in place, then suddenly yelled out, and rushed into the room, burying herself under the covers and screaming wildly.
Aunt Lian: ……
Dudu: ……
Yuan Long told Aunt Lian and Dudu not to worry, got up and walked into the room. He looked at the little woman who was screaming with her butt up, couldn’t help but smile, walked over and patted her butt, and then pulled her out of the covers, sitting her on his lap and kissing her forehead to comfort her, “It’s okay, it’s just one night, you won’t gain weight.”
Shanshan looked at him accusingly, “It’s all your fault, you kept feeding me meat, otherwise I wouldn’t have eaten so much meat.”
“Okay, okay, it’s all my fault, my fault.” Yuan Long laughed and took the pot off the stove.
Shanshan hummed twice, feeling depressed, and leaned her forehead against his chest, almost crying without tears, “I’ve been so gluttonous lately, I can’t resist any temptation. I’ve fallen…I wasn’t like this before…sob, sob…”
Yuan Long sighed helplessly, comforting her with various words, but in his heart, he couldn’t help but wish her mouth would be even more gluttonous and eat more meat.
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The next day, Yuan Long took a day off and drove Shanshan and Dudu to the hospital to remove the cast.
After a check-up, the doctor confirmed that Shanshan’s arm had fully recovered, and there would be no problem after removing the cast.
After more than three months of living without arms, Shanshan finally regained her freedom once again, and her hands could move again. She no longer had to be an armless hero, and her mood was simply boundless.
The first thing she wanted to do after her arms were free was to go to the bathroom by herself.
She ran into the women’s restroom, and for the first time, she used the toilet by herself. The feeling of freedom moved her to the point of tears. No one knew how embarrassing and painful it was for her to have someone else help her go to the bathroom all these days. Now she was finally liberated.
After using the toilet, Shanshan was about to leave when she heard a girl in the next cubicle suddenly speaking as if on the phone, sounding panicked, so she didn’t bother to control her volume, and Shanshan overheard her.
The girl was in a panic, saying, “What should I do? I think I’m pregnant. My period hasn’t come this month.”
‘really, it hasn’t come. I’ve never experienced this before. I feel like I’m pregnant. Should I go for a check-up?”
“But I’m scared. What if it’s true? I’m so scared. Can you come over and accompany me…”
Hearing these words, Shanshan thought the girl must have accidentally gotten pregnant, feeling unprepared, or she was still young, so she was so panicked. Just like when she was pregnant with Dudu, she was also so panicked.
At that time, she hadn’t had her period for two months, and that was when she felt something was wrong and went to the hospital to find out she was pregnant.
Thinking about this, Shanshan decided not to listen to the girl’s phone call anymore. She hurriedly opened the door to leave, but in that split second, her mind suddenly jolted, and she stopped in her tracks.
Could it be…she hadn’t had her period last month, and it seemed like it wasn’t coming this month either?
Although her period was never very regular, and it was even more chaotic due to her injury and surgery, could it really have been this long?
Moreover, recently she had been too gluttonous, so gluttonous that she felt it wasn’t normal. It really seemed like a sign of pregnancy.
With this thought, Shanshan’s heart suddenly thumped, and she felt a bit dizzy.
Oh my god, it can’t be true…
Without thinking too much, Shanshan rushed out of the bathroom, grabbed Yuan Long, and went back to get a new number.
Yuan Long was puzzled, “What’s wrong?”
Shanshan didn’t answer him, but went to get a number for the obstetrics and gynecology department, then pulled him to sit down on a chair at the entrance of the department, waiting for the number to be called.
Yuan Long looked at the obstetrics and gynecology department, suddenly understanding something, and held Dudu’s hand tightly, nervously asking, “Shanshan, are you…pregnant?”
Shanshan swallowed hard and said nervously, “I, I didn’t have my period last month, and it seems like it’s time this month, too.”
Yuan Long’s heart tightened suddenly, inexplicably thinking of Shanshan’s recent sentimentality and her habit of craving meat. His eyes couldn’t help but glance at her stomach, and a feeling of excitement rose in his chest.
Was she really pregnant? Could it be true?
—
Half an hour later, Shanshan came out of the doctor’s office, still a bit dazed, her mind swirling with disbelief.
But Yuan Long’s eyes were full of smiles. He picked up Dudu and spun him around, announcing to him, “Dudu, you’re going to have a little brother or sister.”
Dudu bit his finger in confusion, “Little brother? Little sister?”
Yuan Long pointed to Shanshan’s stomach, ‘”There’s a little baby in Mommy’s belly, that’s your little brother or sister.”
Dudu’s eyes widened, looking at his mother’s stomach curiously, and then carefully touched it, tilting his head and asking, “Is it Sanbao?”
Shanshan: ……
Yuan Long: “…….Yes, it’s Sanbao.”
Dudu jumped up in excitement, cheering, “We have Sanbao! Dad, let’s go back quickly. I want to tell Erbao that we have Sanbao! Erbao is going to be a big brother!”
Shanshan: ……
Yuan Long: “……
“Yuan Long: “Okay, let’s go home and tell Erbao this good news.”
Shanshan couldn’t understand why Dudu was so eager for a Sanbao. It was truly a mystery. In other families, the eldest child usually didn’t want their parents to have a second child. Why was their family so different?
Unable to figure out this question, Shanshan fortunately stopped thinking about it and instead focused on another more important issue: how did she get pregnant? She and Yuan Long had always taken precautions, so it shouldn’t have been possible.
Seeing her expression, Yuan Long knew what she was wondering. He leaned close to her ear and reminded her softly, “Do you remember the night I came back from the capital?”
With his reminder, Shanshan suddenly widened her eyes. She remembered! That night, they had been particularly intense, and a condom accidentally broke. Yuan Long had been worried, but she had thought it was nothing serious. She thought maybe it hadn’t gone inside, and even if it had, how could it be so coincidental to conceive in one go?
But the result was: it really was that coincidental to conceive in one go.
Just because she didn’t take it seriously, she got pregnant!
Shanshan looked up at the sky, not knowing what to say.
Seeing her dazed expression, Yuan Long rubbed her head and tentatively asked, “Don’t you want this child?”
Shanshan shook her head. She didn’t not want it, it’s just that the child came so suddenly and unexpectedly, it left her a bit dazed. However, this child was the fruit of their love, so since it came, it was their another baby destined by fate.
Although it might disrupt her plans, she was still very happy to welcome this little one.
After accepting this fact, Shanshan’s remaining mood was only happiness. She said to Yuan Long, “I hope this time we have a daughter. Having Dudu as a son is enough for our family.”
Yuan Long smiled and nodded, “Yes, I also want a daughter, a beautiful daughter like you.”
After hearing this, Dudu raised his hands to join the conversation, “Mom, I want a sister, a beautiful sister!”
Alright, now the whole family unanimously decided to have a daughter.
However, whether it was a girl or not depended on fate.
Back home, Dudu rushed into the house first, hugged Erbao, rubbed against him, then came over to touch Shanshan’s belly and announced to it, “Erbao, we’re going to have Sanbao in our family! Both you and I will be big brothers! I’m the big brother, and you’re the second brother.”
Erbao made a sound and walked over too, imitating Dudu’s actions, gently rubbing against Shanshan’s belly, as if he knew he was going to be Sanbao’s big brother.
Aunt Lian was also stunned by this good news. After reacting, she wanted to stew soup for Shanshan and earnestly advised her, ‘shanshan, you’ve been dieting recently, and the child in your belly lacks nutrition. You can’t diet now, okay? You need to eat well.”
Shanshan touched her belly, speaking to Sanbao in her heart, “Sanbao, for you, Mommy is going to gain weight again, and I’ll stop dancing for a while. But it’s okay, you’re the most important, and Mommy will lose weight again after you’re born. By then, Mommy will still be a beautiful ballet princess.”
After speaking to Sanbao, Shanshan raised her hand boldly and said, “Aunt Lian, I want to eat meat!”
T/N: This is the end of the main text.🎉🎉
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