Chapter 136: He Regretted It

Shen Yuan turned and ran away.

The damp clothes clinging to her skin seemed to remind her of her own miserable life right now.

How could Si Rong be so shameless?

At such an advanced age, she was still learning from young girls and getting pregnant!

It was simply as disgusting as the idiom "an old clam producing a pearl"!

She didn't even feel embarrassed; people around her age were already almost becoming Nainai.

After leaving the Jiang Family, Shen Yuan did not immediately go home to tell Li Xuan.

In her heart, she did not rely too much on Li Xuan as a mother.

In the end, Shen Yuan went to find the place where her brother Shen Chi set up his stall, at the entrance of a bustling vegetable market.

All sorts of people were setting up stalls here.

Shen Chi's expression was somewhat numb as he watched the hurried passersby, not knowing what he was thinking about.

In fact, Shen Chi was puzzled, wondering why, despite both being stall owners, the difference between himself and the two uncles from the Si Family was so great.

Those two men had gone from setting up stalls to founding companies, while he was merely struggling at the subsistence level.

Especially now, with his father demoted and Li Xuan fired from school, the family had provided him with no capital support, and all his money was tied up in stock.

Maintaining turnover was already difficult enough, let alone starting a company.

Seeing his younger sister come to find him, Shen Chi lifted his eyelids, "What are you here for?"

Shen Yuan squatted on the ground, looking at Shen Chi with a sense of shared misfortune, "Si Rong is pregnant."

Snap—

The handful of socks Shen Chi was holding suddenly dropped.

What?

He suspected he had heard wrong.

"Brother, it's true, she really is pregnant. I saw it with my own eyes. With Si Rong's self-discipline, it is absolutely impossible for her to let her belly get that fat, so she must be pregnant."

Shen Chi instantly felt his brain go numb; he was currently working diligently every day to set up his stall and start a business.

The only thing supporting him was the firm belief that Si Rong would definitely regret it and would one day use kind words to win back him, her son.

When that time came, everything Si Rong had would be his.

But now, his younger sister was actually telling him that Si Rong was pregnant?

If Si Rong had her own child, then what about him?

Would he only be able to remain mediocre and have nothing for the rest of his life?

"Brother, don't you think it's strange? How come she couldn't conceive when she was with our dad before, but now that she's married to another man, she can?"

"Could it be that our dad is the one who can't?" Shen Yuan guessed boldly, "He always told the outside world it was Si Rong's fault. Could it be that Shen Lan isn't our biological father?"

Her mother wasn't exactly a decent woman, so perhaps there were other men outside.

Shen Chi shook his head; their parentage should not be an issue.

Si Rong's previous infertility was very likely caused by those two.

His gaze flickered.

She had been infertile for so long, so why would she suddenly want to get pregnant and have a child?

However, it was only a pregnancy, not a birth yet.

This world changes in an instant; who knows what will happen in the next second.

……

The moment Li Xuan learned from her daughter that Si Rong was indeed pregnant, she felt as if the sky had collapsed.

Hadn't Si Rong already drunk the medicine? Where exactly did something go wrong?

Li Xuan simply could not fathom it.

But now she had no heart to ponder those things; the fact that Si Rong was about to become a mother was too great a shock to her.

Did Si Rong know what they had done in the past?

Li Xuan held a sliver of luck in her heart; perhaps that simple-minded fool Si Rong wouldn't think too much about it at all.

She would only be ecstatic.

Heh~

Only a hen that couldn't lay eggs would be happy about being pregnant.

Even if she gave birth, so what?

Si Rong still couldn't compare to her; she had given birth to a pair of boy-girl twins for Shen Lan all at once, giving him both a son and a daughter.

Dragging her tired body to finish cooking, Li Xuan went to the bedroom to call Shen Lan, only to see him staring intently at a painting on the wall.

That painting was a portrait a painter had made for Shen Lan and Si Rong previously.

But later, when Si Rong left, she had cut the painting in half and only taken her own half with her.

Later, the remaining half with only Shen Lan was re-framed by Shen Lan.

Looking at it with such nostalgia, what? Was he missing Si Rong?

Hadn't he been saying over and over before that he didn't love Si Rong?

A man's words were truly not to be trusted.

"Eat!"

Li Xuan swallowed the harsh words, but when she heard Shen Lan tell her to knock on the door before entering the bedroom in the future, she couldn't help it anymore.

"Shen Lan! I am your wife!"

She yanked the frame off the wall, "Hmph, I'm telling you, don't go pining after people you shouldn't pine after in the future! That Si Rong is already pregnant!"

"What did you say?"

Shen Lan quickly regained his senses and slapped her, "Bitch, what did you just say?"

"I said Si Rong is pregnant!"

Li Xuan covered her aching face and repeated it loudly again.

"Didn't you give her the medicine I gave you?" Shen Lan looked at her with a terrifying gaze; Li Xuan was somewhat afraid and hurriedly guaranteed, "I don't know, I really don't know why she would still be pregnant after drinking that medicine."

Shen Lan sat dejectedly on the bed.

Since Si Rong is pregnant, perhaps she will soon discover the truth about her infertility back then.

Then she might never forgive him for the rest of her life.

He regretted it.

Why was he so obsessed back then? If Si Rong wanted a child, he should have just given her one.

If Si Rong had given birth to a child belonging to both of them back then, she wouldn't have been so resolute in leaving now.

Not even looking back.

Now she is off bearing children for another man.

Thinking of her being pregnant with another man's child, Shen Lan could not stand it.

But even if it was hard to accept, he had no way to change it.

Now he could only pray that Si Rong would not discover what he had done back then.

The next time he saw Si Rong was half a month later.

The College Entrance Examination results were out.

Si Rong and Jiang Cheng accompanied Jiang Zhi to the school to check the results.

The summer wind carried heatwaves; Jiang Cheng held an umbrella in his hand, and since Si Rong was currently in her pregnancy period and not using those cosmetics, she had to be especially careful about sun protection.

"Jiang Cheng, have I gotten fat?"

Si Rong saw a slender female teacher walking toward them and compared it to herself, as her calves had thickened somewhat after becoming pregnant.

Jiang Cheng had heard from his underlings that discussing body shape with women was a death-trap question.

But later he was a bit drunk and forgot the coping strategies taught in County Magistrate Jiang's little classroom.

However, the most important thing between a husband and wife is mutual honesty, so Jiang Cheng nodded, "Indeed, you are a bit fatter than before."

Jiang Zhi:...

She now knew why her eldest uncle had missed out on her aunt for over twenty years.

Even when given a chance, he was useless.

What was he saying?

But there was no help for it; since her uncle was foolish, the niece had to be a bit smarter and help him make up for it, "Ahem, Uncle, I think the word you just wanted to use was 'plump,' right? Aunt doesn't look fat at all. Just like the Imperial Concubine Yang Yuhuan, it's that kind of slightly plump beauty."

Jiang Cheng saw her blinking and thought she had sand in her eyes, "But Yang Yuhuan was fat."