Chapter 1326: Late-Life Daughter

The newborn's tiny fist stretched out from the swaddling clothes and was held in her mouth.

"Is she hungry? What should we do if Xuanxuan doesn't have milk yet?"

Sheng Hanyu paced the corridor holding the baby, anxious to the point of desperation.

He was just too impatient, forgetting all common sense.

A newborn baby doesn't need to eat milk yet.

Sucking on fingers is a newborn's instinctive reaction.

Soon, Baobao fell asleep.

Her long eyelashes hung down naturally, thick and curled.

Sheng Hanyu held the child without letting go, keeping her in his arms even as she slept.

Shi Youxuan had already returned to the Hospital Ward, sitting propped up on the hospital bed, drinking the squab soup sent by Ma Ling'er.

"The cooking is really good, thank you."

Ma Ling'er was quick-witted and outspoken, her mouth always moving faster than her brain: "The skill of making soup is something I practiced specifically for my daughter-in-law's postpartum recovery, but I never dreamed that the first bowl of the most successful squab soup would actually be brewed for my daughter-in-law's mother."

As soon as these words were spoken, the Hospital Ward went instantly quiet.

Yun Zhehao nudged his wife with his hand, telling her not to say any more.

Ma Ling'er also realized she had said the wrong thing and hurriedly corrected herself: "Xuanxuan, don't misunderstand, I didn't mean it that way. I didn't mean to blame Ranran for not being pregnant all this time; I meant that they should go to the hospital for a checkup, maybe it's Qitian's problem, who knows..."

This time, without her husband needing to stop her, she voluntarily shut her mouth.

Explaining was worse than not explaining; the more she described it, the darker it got.

It was meant to be a kind gesture to deliver soup, but it ended with her leaving the Hospital Ward in a dejected state.

Shi Youxuan glared at her husband: "It's all your fault!"

Sheng Hanyu held his daughter without letting go, admitting his mistake with a very good temper: "Right, it's all my fault. It's my bad. You can hit me or scold me, as long as it lets you vent your anger."

What could Shi Youxuan do?

Could she really hit or scold him?

Even if she had the heart to, she didn't have the time.

The maternity ward was soon packed with people, and visitors came in an endless stream.

Batch after batch; before one group left, the next had already arrived.

Jian Yixin was truly envious, but she couldn't say nice things properly; clearly, she was envious, yet she had to put on a very jealous appearance.

"It's so annoying, you can still give birth to a daughter at such an old age, while I can't even give birth to one child."

Shi Youxuan corrected her: "How can you say you can't give birth to one? Isn't Moli your own child?"

This was a tacit secret between them, and they would never tell Moli the truth. There was only one truth—Moli's biological mother was Jian Yixin.

"Yes, yes, look at this mouth of mine. I've been too tired lately and always say the wrong thing."

Fortunately, there were no outsiders in the Hospital Ward, so such words wouldn't leak outside.

Their daughter and son-in-law also came. They arrived relatively late, just as everyone else had left, leaving only the family.

"Dad, let me hold the little sister."

Shi Ran looked at the pink and tender little sister and wanted to hold her, but Sheng Hanyu didn't let go.

"Hold what? If you like children, why don't you have one yourself? Don't hold mine."

Shi Ran was speechless.

She really hadn't expected that her father's first time urging her to have children would be in such a way.

"I..."

She couldn't explain.

Actually, she and her husband weren't using contraception, but they had been married for a while and just didn't have children.

The two of them had even secretly gone to the hospital for a checkup; neither of them had any issues. Perhaps it was just that the timing wasn't right yet.

Usually, no one asked, so the couple didn't feel much pressure, but later, when her mother got pregnant... Shi Ran felt a bit awkward.

How could she not feel awkward?

She was already married, yet her mother had gotten pregnant again.

But Shi Ran wasn't the kind of petty girl; as long as her parents wanted this child, she didn't mind.

But today, her father suddenly urged her to have children, which made Shi Ran very unhappy.

"Qitian, let's go." She pulled a long face and dragged Qitian toward the exit.

"Ranran, Dad didn't mean it that way..."

"Don't take his side. Are you coming with me or not? If you don't go, I'm going." Shi Ran left on her own.

Shi Youxuan blamed her husband: "It's all you. Why did you have to provoke Ranran for no reason?"

Sheng Hanyu actually regretted it too, but looking at his little daughter, so pink and tender, she was truly cute.

Instantly, he didn't regret it anymore.

He reluctantly handed his little daughter to his wife, then pulled his son-in-law outside to talk: "Why haven't you and Ranran had children yet?"

"Your parents only have you as their only child; you can't be too selfish. You have to think about the family."

Yun Qitian turned bright red.

His father-in-law had always been polite to him and had never said such harsh words before.

"Dad, it's not that we don't want them, it's that we haven't..." His face turned even redder.

"You haven't?"

This was something Sheng Hanyu hadn't expected.

He had thought the young couple was just young and playful, not wanting children so soon, but it turned out they simply hadn't conceived!

"Which one of you has the problem?"

Yun Qitian wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Discussing this kind of thing with his father-in-law was incredibly awkward, wasn't it?

"Neither of us has a problem," he said, his voice as soft as a mosquito's hum.

"What did you say? Speak up, I can't hear you clearly."

"Neither of us has a problem."

It was still a tiny voice; did he really have to say this kind of thing loudly?

This was a hallway.

"Why don't you go get checked again? We're at the hospital, it's very convenient." Sheng Hanyu didn't know what was wrong with him today; a grown man like him was actually starting to interfere in his daughter's private life.

"Um, I just remembered I have something to take care of, I'll be going now, Dad..."

Before Yun Qitian's voice had even faded, he had already run off as if fleeing.

What happened at the hospital made Yun Qitian very embarrassed, but the matter was not over; it was only the beginning!

His mother-in-law Ma Ling'er came to their little home that evening and asked straight out: "When are you two planning to have children?"

Yun Qitian had just been interrogated by his father-in-law and was already full of suppressed anger; now that he was being interrogated by his own mother, he retorted unpleasantly: "You don't need to worry about it, this is our private business."

Shi Ran, mindful of her position, did not talk back to her mother-in-law, but she cast a look of approval at her husband.

Ma Ling'er was furious: "Private business? Yun Qitian, don't forget you are the only son of the Yun Family, the only son your father and I have; your duty is to carry on the family line for the Yun Family..."

People don't speak kindly when they are anxious, and Ma Ling'er was no different; she was too impatient, and the words that came out were a bit tactless.

"I just won't have any, let whoever wants to have them have them!"

The son's voice was even louder than his mother's: "Aren't you just envious because you saw others having a daughter in their old age? If you're envious, have one yourselves! Is there any point in coming all this way to pressure us?"

Shi Ran kept tugging at her husband's lapel, signaling for him to say less.

Her mother-in-law's face turned green.

But it was no use.

Yun Qitian vented all the anger he had received from his father-in-law onto his mother; he shouted at her and finally slammed the door as he left.

"Mom, please don't be angry, I'll call Qitian back and have him apologize to you."

Shi Ran stood up and had just taken a step when she was stopped by her mother-in-law: "Come back, I have something to ask you."

She didn't want to come back; it definitely wouldn't be anything pleasant.

But her mother-in-law had spoken, and she couldn't refuse to give her face.

Shi Ran bit the bullet, returned, sat down, and managed to squeeze a smile onto her face: "Mom, please calm down, it's not that we don't want children, it's just that we haven't conceived yet."