Chapter 721

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Dad, I'm pregnant!"

Liu Mei Qi called her father first.

"That's great!"

Upon hearing the news, Liu Shanshui's face lit up with joy.

He was genuinely happy for his daughter.

He also said: "You must live well with Erhai. Whatever happens between husband and wife, you must discuss it properly. Never start arguments over nothing—arguments hurt family harmony the most."

As someone who had been through it, Liu Shanshui had been deeply hurt by family arguments, and he also knew Liu Mei Qi's personality was very much like her mother's, which was why he reminded her so tirelessly.

"Dad, I know. I'll live well with Erhai," Liu Mei Qi replied.

She had a very strong feeling that as long as she gave Wang Erhai a son, she could firmly hold onto Wang Erhai.

"Good, good. You must never follow the old path your mother and I took. Otherwise, in the end, it won't just be the two of you who suffer—the child will suffer too."

Liu Shanshui nagged on; he had actually said similar words to Liu Mei Qi countless times.

"I know, Dad!"

Liu Mei Qi then called her mother Deng Cuihua, but Deng Cuihua's reaction to her daughter's pregnancy was completely different from Liu Shanshui's.

"You're pregnant, and now you have to take care of your own child. So what am I supposed to do from now on?"

Deng Cuihua asked that very question.

It was because she had far too little sense of security.

Nowadays Liu Shanshui almost never came home unless Liu Mei Qi went back; otherwise, even during the Spring Festival he wouldn't return.

She lived alone every day, had few things to do, and was prone to wild thoughts.

"You take good care of yourself. Even if I give birth, I estimate I won't need to trouble you to come take care of me."

The real meaning behind Liu Mei Qi's words was that she didn't want Deng Cuihua to worry about her affairs, but once those words reached Deng Cuihua's ears, they took on another meaning entirely.

"You really dislike me that much?"

Deng Cuihua posed a soul-searching question.

She felt that Liu Mei Qi saying so early that she didn't need her to take care of the child was a sign of disliking her.

And in reality, it couldn't be denied that Liu Mei Qi did have that layer of meaning.

She would lose her nerves and have emotional outbursts from time to time—who wouldn't bear a grudge?

"I don't mean that. Don't let your imagination run wild. Isn't it because I don't want to trouble you?"

Liu Mei Qi hurried to explain.

She quickly added: "If you really want to come over and help me take care of the child later, then just come over. As long as you don't mind the hardship!"

After Liu Mei Qi said that, Deng Cuihua finally had nothing to say.

After a long silence, Deng Cuihua finally spoke:

"I don't care what you say. From now on you must come home often. Home is so close by—at least come back once a month! These past few months you haven't come back at all. Is it because you found a man and forgot your mother?"

"I haven't! Isn't it because work is busy?" Liu Mei Qi hurriedly denied.

But in reality, her work wasn't busy at all now. She was in a marginal department at Shanhai Real Estate and hardly had to work.

To say she had forgotten her biological mother Deng Cuihua—that wasn't actually true.

She simply didn't want to go home.

She didn't want to face Deng Cuihua.

Whenever she thought of Deng Cuihua's overbearing old face, her heart was filled with resistance and rejection.

Overbearing parents, once their children grow up, will without exception want to escape.

As for their contributions, no matter how great, they are nothing more than self-satisfaction.

Their children cannot be controlled and still feel grateful. Not having hatred is already not bad.

"Work is so busy, how come I don't see you earning any big money?" Deng Cuihua complained. "You used to occasionally send money back, but these past few months I haven't seen you send any."

Liu Mei Qi's face was full of speechlessness. At this moment she finally understood the feeling of Wang Erhai being driven crazy by her.

Wasn't her previous attitude toward Wang Erhai exactly what her mother's attitude toward her was now?

"Enough, enough, stop talking. I'll send you five thousand in a moment. I've been too busy these past few months. Isn't that why I forgot? That's all for now—I still have things to do."

Without waiting for Deng Cuihua to answer, she hurriedly hung up the phone.

Logically, someone who has been caught in the rain should be unwilling to let others get caught in the rain.

But some people, after being caught in the rain, have a different psychology. They feel that since they were caught in the rain while others weren't, it's unfair, so they want others to get caught in the rain too.

This kind of person is what people commonly call someone lacking empathy.

Liu Mei Qi was actually just such a person. She had been controlled by Deng Cuihua since childhood, and now she also wanted to control Wang Erhai.

Although after Zhang Sheng's persuasion she had slightly reined herself in, now that she was pregnant with Wang Erhai's child, her first reaction was that she could now firmly control Wang Erhai in the future. She was happy about being able to control Wang Erhai, not happy about having a child herself. This shows her nature hadn't changed.

But this is also normal. It's easy to change the landscape but hard to change one's nature. If human nature could really be changed so easily, people wouldn't be people anymore.

Liu Mei Qi hung up Deng Cuihua's phone, opened WeChat Moments, and saw that her just-posted Moments already had many likes—familiar and unfamiliar friends alike were liking it, all sending her polite blessings.

Only Wang Erhai's like was missing.

"Why didn't you like my post?"

Liu Mei Qi turned back and asked Wang Erhai.

"Oh, oh, I'll like it for you right away."

Wang Erhai replied emotionally stable with such a sentence.

"I'm pregnant with your child, aren't you happy?" Seeing Wang Erhai's emotions so calm, Liu Mei Qi couldn't help but ask one sentence.

"Happy, how could I not be happy? I'm very happy! Okay, I've liked it for you." Wang Erhai said this while liking Liu Mei Qi's post.

Seeing Wang Erhai's such attitude, Liu Mei Qi felt somewhat depressed in her heart, and then said:

"Why don't you also post a Moments!"

Wang Erhai was unwilling, and casually made an excuse saying:

"I generally don't post Moments much, Moments are all real estate advertisements."

Wang Erhai was telling the truth; as a real estate intermediary, his daily Moments were just posting real estate advertisements.

Personal life was rarely shown on Moments.

Liu Mei Qi was different; even when she used to do sales before, she would often post her private life on Moments, such as having meals with sisters, traveling, even posting late at night while drunk, she would post Moments.

So she now felt that Wang Erhai being unwilling to post Moments was being unwilling to announce this matter.

But she had also changed; if it was her former self, she estimated she would be like her mother, directly asking, do you think me being pregnant with your child makes you lose face?

The current her, after Zhang Sheng's persuasion, her nature hadn't changed, but her way of doing things had undergone some changes.

He no longer questioned aggressively, but said with a smile on his face yet very forcefully:

"You said that was the general situation, but now it's not the general situation, but a special moment worth commemorating!"

Without waiting for Wang Erhai to answer, she said again:

"If you don't know how to post, then give me your mobile phone, I'll help you post it."