Chapter 53: The Lu Family are all Monday-morning quarterbacks

Xie Wantang was about to get in the car when Liu Shiyue walked over, her posture swaying.

As the former top socialite of Sijiucheng, even just her way of walking drew plenty of glances.

"Grandma, Grandpa, I and Lu Yanze want to ask Wantang a favor—may I have her ride in our car?" Liu Shiyue bent over to ask the elders' opinion.

"What is it?" Lady Lao frowned; if Liu Shiyue didn't make it clear, she wouldn't agree.

"It's... it's about having a child..." Liu Shiyue's face flushed, her voice like a mosquito.

Lady Lao was sensitive to the three words "having a child"; she heard them instantly, her eyes lighting up: "Really? You and Lu Yanze have finally decided?"

"Mm." Liu Shiyue nodded.

Upon learning that Liu Shiyue finally agreed to bear children for the Lu Family and continue the lineage,

In the eyes of the Lu Family, since Liu Shiyue married Lu Yanze, she has refused to have children because she cared about her figure and, when she first joined the family, was solely focused on her dance career.

If it weren't for the accident during a performance, Lu Yanze would have doted on her, caring for her over a month, but in the end she was declared unable to dance again.

Otherwise, she would not have been willing to give up her work for the family.

"Wantang, then... you can sit in the back with your older brother and his wife? I'll have your older brother take you to the ancestral home; this week, Lao Er isn't around, so we'll look after you."

Xie Wantang shook her head, refusing: "No need, Grandma; I'm still small this month and mobile enough—I'd rather stay at the hotel, where my private butler takes excellent care of me and attends to my every need."

"The most important thing is that I'm happy staying at the hotel."

Just as Lady Lao was about to say something else, she suddenly recalled the doctor's advice: for Xie Wantang now, the most important thing is to do whatever makes her happy.

That way, the baby in her belly will be better off.

Thus, Lady Lao relented: "All right, Grandma will have someone put the bird's nest in your hotel room; remember to have your private butler stew it—you need to eat it three times a week."

"Mm, got it."

Xie Wantang nodded, then turned to Liu Shiyue: "Let's go, sister-in-law—please have my older brother take me first to Yu Jing Zun Di."

"Okay." Liu Shiyue nodded.

After getting into Lu Yanze's car, Liu Shiyue sat beside him, and Xie Wantang sat opposite the couple.

"Would you like some juice, Wantang?" Lu Yanze asked gently; his car had everything.

Xie Wantang shook her head: "The doctor told me to cut back on sweets; I still have several checkups to pass."

"Yeah, it's not easy for women to get pregnant and give birth; if it weren't for Grandma and Grandpa pressing us, I'd be reluctant to let your sister-in-law get pregnant now." Lu Yanze feigned deep feeling.

Liu Shiyue beside them pressed her lips and smiled, an embarrassed smile.

"Older brother treats his wife well; if Lu Yanshen could manage even a third of that, I'd be satisfied." Xie Wantang's expectations of Lu Yanshen were really low.

"Hey, Lu Yanshen just said he only sees Xia Meng as a sister." Lu Yanze gave a fake cough, seeming to comfort Xie Wantang.

"A sister? If that's the case, then Miss Xia is also the older brother's sister—why don't we see him rushing around for her?" Xie Wantang's question was sharp.

Actually, she was still angry.

Her emotions were still agitated.

Precisely because her emotions weren't fully under her own subjective control, Xie Wantang looked down on herself.

"You also know that the older brother has been frail since childhood, while Lu Yanshen is healthy; she and Xia Meng are similar in age, and they used to get along so well that they were inseparable."

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"Um, older brother talks too much, sorry, Wantang."

Xie Wantang shook her head: "No, older brother is just speaking frankly; if speaking the truth requires an apology, then who would dare speak the truth thereafter?"

Lu Yanze sighed: "Ah, but Lu Yanshen this kid is really clueless this time; when he returns this time, older brother will give him a good talking-to for you."

Xie Wantang pressed her lips.

The Lu Family are all Monday-morning quarterbacks.

If you really think Lu Yanshen did something wrong, why didn't you say it to his face just now?

She doesn't need this kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking.

"Sister-in-law just mentioned having children; I wonder what I can help you with?" Xie Wantang brought the circling topic back.

"It's like this: I know Qin Furen, Miss Xie, a descendant of the Xie Family Traditional Chinese Medicine, is said to be skilled at pulse diagnosis; I wonder if Wantang could introduce us? My husband and I want to see her for a checkup, but all the available appointment slots online are booked."

"No appointments left; their TCM clinic only releases slots for the next three months."

Xie Wantang knew all this, but helping them use a back door—do they really need to do that?

With Lu Yanze's mindset, he might just be testing her.

Last time, her older brother came with her to Sijiucheng; his reputation in the legal world was huge, so Lu Yanze might already have suspected her.

"Once my parents arrive, I'll have them ask the lady for me." Xie Wantang neither directly agreed nor refused.

"All right, Wantang, older brother and his wife will thank you; if this works out, once Lao Er returns, older brother will definitely force him to break things off with Xia Meng."

Lu Yanze is a businessman; for clear-minded people to maintain long-term cooperation, there must be an exchange of interests.

Xie Wantang helps her schedule an appointment with Qin Furen, and in return he helps Xie Wantang preserve her marriage.

Yet he doesn't realize that Xie Wantang doesn't need it at all.

"No need to do that; if older brother truly wants to help me, I'd actually hope he spends time persuading Lu Yanshen to sign, for I genuinely want to see him and Miss Xia together."

"Besides, since Miss Xia came to the hospital that day and let me return Lu Yanshen to her, given their mutual affection, I also don't want to be the villain who breaks up a loving pair."

"But, Wantang, you and Lu Yanshen already have a child, right?" Liu Shiyue couldn't help reminding her.

Their country's law stipulates that pregnant women cannot be divorced.

"Older brother, sister-in-law, to be frank, I'm not pregnant." Xie Wantang said seriously.

"What?" The couple opposite stared, their eyes wider than camel bells.

That Royal First Private Hospital is highly authoritative; all its examination instruments and equipment are the most advanced, imported high-tech from abroad.

So if Xie Wantang really tried to fake a pregnancy, how could she possibly fool them?

"Please don't get too worked up; let me explain slowly. At first, I really just wanted to make my mother-in-law and Lu Rourou fearful—not to fake a pregnancy for favor, nor to make Lu Yanshen turn back."

I also didn't expect this matter to blow up so big; actually, I've been suffering from insomnia for a while. To treat the insomnia, Madam Qin prepared a medicine for me. That medicine might cause the HCG index to rise, making it look like pregnancy.

But, if we do a B-ultrasound check, it will give us away. Older brother, older sister-in-law, please keep this secret for me. I will go beg Madam Qin to get you two an internal number, how about that?

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