Chapter 1054: This Is the First Time

"Hmm? Are you really angry?"

Seeing Cai Xiaotang looking at him with puffed-up cheeks, Li Xiao hurriedly stopped while he was ahead and pulled her into his embrace.

"It's not like I meant to scare you just now. I promise you, I won't use that kind of move to scare you again next time. Is that okay?"

Cai Xiaotang rolled her eyes at him; she wasn't actually angry at all, and the corners of her lips couldn't help but curl up slightly.

She hadn't originally figured out how to bring up the matter of the child, but at this moment, she suddenly had an idea.

Scaring her, was he?

Then she would let him experience a sudden shock too!

"Ahem..."

She gave a light cough, deliberately stepped back a bit to put some distance between them, and then said in a fast, nonchalant tone: "I don't really mind, I'm just afraid of scaring away your future precious son or daughter."

"How could that..."

Li Xiao naturally started to reply without thinking, but he had only said three words before he instantly reacted. His whole body stiffened, and he looked at Cai Xiaotang with a face full of disbelief.

Their eyes met.

Cai Xiaotang felt incredibly satisfied with the shocked expression on his face right now.

Immediately after, her shoulders were gripped tightly!

"What did you just say?"

Li Xiao looked clearly caught off guard, yet joy was already welling up in the depths of his eyes as he asked again: "What son or daughter? You couldn't possibly be..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but his gaze had already meaningfully shifted toward Cai Xiaotang's lower abdomen.

"What? Is someone already hard of hearing just past thirty?"

Cai Xiaotang didn't answer his question directly, teasing him with a laugh.

No sooner had she finished speaking than she was pulled into a full embrace by Li Xiao!

"When did you find out? Why didn't you tell me sooner? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? I... I'll have someone prepare... prepare..."

Li Xiao was so happy he was almost incoherent, muttering non-stop.

He knew there were many things to pay attention to during pregnancy.

But now that it had really come to this, he had no clue what specifically needed attention.

It was rare for Cai Xiaotang to see him like this; she enjoyed the sight for a good long while before grabbing his hand, her face filled with irrepressible smiles.

"I thought I was panicked enough, but how are you even more panicked than me? You're a grown man over thirty, after all! Can't you show a little composure?"

"I originally thought I was already panicked enough, but how are you even more panicked than me? You're a grown adult over thirty, at least! Can't you show some backbone!"

For the first time, Li Xiao was left speechless by a single sentence from her. After a long pause, he said helplessly and dotingly: "Concern leads to chaos. I'm not Beijue, with so much experience in being a dad. After all, it's my first time..."

Li Xiao was choked for words by her sentence for the first time; after a long pause, he said helplessly and dotingly, "Care leads to chaos; I'm not Beijue, with such rich experience as a daddy. After all, it's my first time..."

Cai Xiaotang felt a bit uncertain inside as well. As she spoke, she hurriedly recounted how she had felt unwell today and how she had gone to the Hospital for a check-up.

After listening, Li Xiao immediately asked back: "Why didn't you call me to go with you?"

"Of course, I wanted to give you a surprise!"

Cai Xiaotang answered without hesitation.

As she finished, her lips suddenly grew hot.

A gentle, fiery kiss was pressed onto her lips; it came suddenly, yet the timing was just right.

In this regard, the two of them already had an incomparable rapport.

Cai Xiaotang took the opportunity to wrap her arms around Li Xiao's shoulders, letting him slowly deepen the kiss.

The lights in the room were dim.

In her ears, the faint sound of people talking in the movie drifted over.

The atmosphere was just the right amount of ambiguous.

The wide, soft sofa wouldn't feel crowded even with two people on it.

Their figures were intertwined, and it looked like they were about to fall back onto the sofa...

Just then—

Their figures also overlapped, and it looked like they were about to fall onto the sofa...

Li Xiao suddenly pulled away, the desire in his eyes instantly replaced by clarity.

"Hmm?"

Cai Xiaotang responded subconsciously.

Then she also suddenly realized something.

Oh, right...

She was a pregnant woman now!

During pregnancy, I'm afraid... someone is going to have to suffer a little!

"Ahem... that..."

Cai Xiaotang gave a light cough and looked at Li Xiao.

She really wanted to show a sympathetic expression, but for some reason, her face was full of irrepressible schadenfreude.

"You're still laughing?"

Li Xiao could tell what she was thinking with just one look, but he could only pinch her cheeks in annoyance.

"There's nothing to be done about it..."

Cai Xiaotang lowered her head and touched her lower abdomen.

"There's nothing to be done about that..."

Cai Xiaotang lowered her head and touched her lower abdomen.

Immediately after, another gentle hand also covered it.

"Is there anywhere you feel uncomfortable?"

Li Xiao asked softly, his voice incomparably gentle, as if he were afraid of startling the little one in Cai Xiaotang's belly.

"Except for feeling nauseous when I ate that piece of almond cake today, there's nothing else."

Cai Xiaotang shook her head, and immediately heard Li Xiao ask again: "Then... you say... what would be a good name for the child in the future?"

Cai Xiaotang: "..."

Isn't this topic jumping a bit too fast?

"It's too early to think about this now, we don't even know if it's a boy or a girl!"

She retorted with amusement.

Li Xiao, however, replied with complete seriousness: "Then let's think of two! One for a boy and one for a girl!"

"Then what if it's twins? Two boys or two girls?"

Cai Xiaotang deliberately tried to stump him.

Li

Xiao replied again without hesitation: "Then four!"

"Four what four! I think you've gone silly!"

Cai Xiaotang almost looked at the person in front of her as if he were a fool, unable to decide whether to laugh or cry for a moment.

Soon, at dinnertime, the two of them told Li Laoyezi this good news as well.

Li Laoyezi had been waiting and hoping, and finally received this good news; his entire spirit improved instantly, and he even ate two extra bowls of rice!

After the meal, he pulled Cai Xiaotang aside and gave her slow, earnest instructions: "Xiao Tang, just rest easy at home and nurture the pregnancy during this time. Don't overthink anything. If you lack anything or want anything, just tell Li Xiao. If there's anything you want to eat, I'll have someone hire a specialized nutritionist tomorrow! If that brat Li Xiao makes you angry or bullies you, you tell me! I'll make him roll back to his own lousy villa to live alone! So he doesn't affect your mood!"

Having been granted "privileges," Cai Xiaotang naturally agreed happily, and took the opportunity to "tease" Li Xiao, whose family status had plummeted to the very bottom, before being carefully escorted back to her room by a servant.

In the bedroom.

Cai Xiaotang washed up briefly and sat by the bed, still feeling somewhat unbelievable.

Although it was confirmed that she was pregnant...

But right now, her belly really didn't feel like anything at all.

Just thinking that a little life was slowly developing and growing inside her belly made her feel it was very wondrous.

I wonder if it will be a boy or a girl?

Will it look more like her... or more like Li Xiao?

As Cai Xiaotang was thinking, her gaze suddenly swept over the mobile phone Li Xiao had just casually placed to the side.

Immediately, she saw the screen was a colorful mess, and there seemed to be quite a lot of

dense, tiny text.

What was he looking at?