Chapter 28
- You are not allowed to publicize Wei Jinzhi’s identity as an omega.
- You are not allowed to contact Wei Jinzhi on your own initiative. You may only obey summons.
- During the duration of the marriage, you are not allowed to behave ambiguously with anyone.
- The timing of the divorce will be decided by Wei Jinzhi.
Pei Suyuan looked at these four unequal clauses, and her heart trembled fiercely.
On the sofa, Wei Jinzhi sat with her arms crossed, chin lifted as she stared at Pei Suyuan. Seeing her dazed expression, she asked coldly, “Do you have any objections?”
Pei Suyuan lifted her head. When she looked at Wei Jinzhi, she blinked rapidly several times. From the moment she saw Wei Jinzhi until now, not even five minutes had passed. The two pieces of news—pregnancy and marriage—had struck her until she felt a little dizzy. She had no idea how to answer her at all.
“You… wait a moment.”
Pei Suyuan held two pieces of paper in her hands. After saying this, she lowered her head and carefully read them several more times.
Only when Wei Jinzhi impatiently changed her posture did Pei Suyuan raise her head again and ask her, “You’re pregnant. Mine?” She lifted her hand and pointed at herself, her round eyes somewhat at a loss.
Wei Jinzhi let out a light snort, which counted as an answer.
Then she urged, “If you have no objections, sign your name. Tomorrow, bring your documents and go to the Civil Affairs Bureau.”
Wei Jinzhi looked very exhausted. Every time she spoke, her voice grew a little hoarser. Pei Suyuan frowned along with it. By the time Wei Jinzhi finished speaking, Pei Suyuan’s brows were already tightly knitted.
Aside from the pregnancy and marriage, she felt that something else had happened to Wei Jinzhi. Her entire person was clearly very wrong.
The Wei Jinzhi she had seen before was either full of flirtatious words or soft and sweet as she acted spoiled. When had she ever been like this? Her whole body was filled with a lonely coldness.
And ever since entering the door, she had not even taken off her mask.
“Wei Jinzhi… what happened to you?” Pei Suyuan put down the report and contract as she asked. When Wei Jinzhi heard this, she was clearly a little impatient. “Didn’t I tell you I’m pregnant?”
“No. I mean, you… did something else happen?” Pei Suyuan could tell that her mood was very bad, so she asked carefully, then quietly waited for Wei Jinzhi to answer.
A few seconds later, Wei Jinzhi turned away with reddened eyes. Her voice carried a trace of tears, yet she still asked stubbornly, “Are you signing or not?”
Pei Suyuan, who had not received an answer, furrowed her brows even deeper. Her expression was somewhat anxious, yet she did not dare ask Wei Jinzhi again. Instead, she lowered her head and looked at that pregnancy test report.
Pei Suyuan, who had grown up in an orphanage, Pei Suyuan, who only had a mother with schizophrenia by her side, actually yearned for a normal family more than anyone else.
Parental affection and family love were things she had no way of possessing.
As for a child…
Pei Suyuan had fantasized about it before, but only in fantasy. There were many things she had to do, and having a child was placed at the very end. It was not that she did not look forward to it, but before she was fully prepared, she did not dare think about it.
Raising a child was far too difficult. There were many things to do, and every single one of them had to be handled with care.
She wanted to have a child under circumstances where she had enough time, energy, and money.
The most important prerequisite was that she also needed to have a lover.
Wei Jinzhi…
could not be considered her lover. The two of them had done it twice, but each time, it had been labeled as mutual help.
Yet it was precisely this person who had a child with her.
Pei Suyuan hesitated deeply.
What she hesitated over was whether she and Wei Jinzhi could take good care of this child. Could the child grow up healthily?
But if, because of these things, they erased a child’s existence, it seemed far too cruel. She could not do it.
The pregnancy test report was crumpled in Pei Suyuan’s hand. She took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled. Picking up the pen, she signed her name on the contract.
Wei Jinzhi had her back to her. Hearing the soft scratch of writing, she covered her reddened eyes.
Only after that sheet of paper was handed to her by Pei Suyuan did she lower her hand. Then she turned around and said to Pei Suyuan, “Then that’s settled. Tomorrow morning at nine…”
“You were hit.”
Pei Suyuan spoke with a dark expression. Hearing this, Wei Jinzhi stiffened and subconsciously turned her face away.
When she had covered her eyes just now, Wei Jinzhi had shifted her mask out of place. Some of the red marks on her left cheek were exposed. Pei Suyuan did not know where her courage came from. When Wei Jinzhi tried to hide, she raised her hand and removed Wei Jinzhi’s mask.
The left side of her face was slightly swollen. The palm print was obvious. Whoever had done it had used a lot of force.
“Who hit—”
“No!”
Before Pei Suyuan could finish asking, Wei Jinzhi turned her head and sharply interrupted her.
They stared at each other. In the end, Pei Suyuan was the one who lost. She lowered her head, not daring to ask again.
If Wei Jinzhi did not want to say it, no matter how many times she asked, it would be useless. And… she also did not know from what position she should ask.
Pei Suyuan took a deep breath and suppressed the sourness in her heart. Staring at Wei Jinzhi’s face, she asked, “Does it hurt? I’ll go get you an ice pack…” As Pei Suyuan spoke, she began walking toward the kitchen. But after only two steps, Wei Jinzhi hugged her from behind.
Wei Jinzhi’s arms were very strong, so tight that Pei Suyuan could almost not breathe. She subconsciously struggled a little, though not with much strength. Then she relaxed and let Wei Jinzhi hug her.
“Don’t ask me anymore.”
Wei Jinzhi’s voice was full of exhaustion.
Pei Suyuan stopped moving and let her hold her. After a while, Wei Jinzhi’s state improved a little. She released Pei Suyuan, lowered her eyes, and said, “I’ll go back first. You… sleep early.”
The first half of the sentence was cold and distant. The second half was gentle and calm.
As if she was trying to say that she was fine.
Pei Suyuan knew Wei Jinzhi did not want to tell her, and she could not possibly chase after her to ask.
It was only that Wei Jinzhi’s state was too poor. Her eyes were completely red, and she looked terribly exhausted.
“Wait a moment.” Pei Suyuan quickly walked to the refrigerator, took out an ice pack from below, then wrapped it in a towel. When she went back, Wei Jinzhi was still standing in the living room, unmoving. She had only put her mask back on.
Pei Suyuan walked over and raised her hand beside Wei Jinzhi’s ear, gently coaxing her. “Can I help you ice it for a while?”
Wei Jinzhi’s eyes rapidly reddened. Her lashes, damp with tears, blinked several times in a row, forcibly holding the tears back.
She still said nothing, but like this, she also did not seem to be refusing.
Because the aura around her had changed, releasing a very faint sense of fragility.
If one carefully counted the time the two of them had spent together, it actually was not much. But Pei Suyuan could feel that Wei Jinzhi was also someone who was not very willing to express herself.
Although Wei Jinzhi talked far more than she did, most of it was meaningless chatter, completely unlike now.
That fragile loneliness radiated from within. She did not want Pei Suyuan to see it, but she could not hide it.
When the towel wrapped around the ice pack touched her face, Wei Jinzhi subconsciously dodged. Pei Suyuan held her wrist, pulled her in front of herself, then guided her to sit on the sofa.
Perhaps because it felt somewhat comfortable, Wei Jinzhi did not struggle. She obediently sat beside her.
Time passed second by second. Wei Jinzhi did not even move once. She was very wooden, completely without emotion.
After her face had been iced enough, Pei Suyuan withdrew her hand and asked Wei Jinzhi, “Have you eaten? If you haven’t…”
“No need.” Wei Jinzhi’s eyes were still fixed ahead, not looking at her.
Being rejected again and again suddenly made anger rise in Pei Suyuan. For questions that were too private, if Wei Jinzhi did not want to answer, fine.
But hunger was such a simple matter. Why did she have to refuse that too?
The anger came suddenly. Before Pei Suyuan had even figured it out herself, it directly burst out. In a rarely forceful tone, she said to Wei Jinzhi, “I’m hungry. You definitely haven’t eaten either. Sit there and wait for me!”
After saying that, she did not look at Wei Jinzhi. She stood up and walked toward the kitchen. Before long, sounds came from inside.
Wei Jinzhi blinked several times in a row, finally reacting.
Just now, Pei Suyuan… seemed to have been fierce with her?
But not only did she not find it fierce, she instead felt a warm current spreading from the bottom of her heart.
When she came out of the Song family home, her whole body had been cold. That towel wrapped around the ice pack—she actually had no sensation of it. Her heart had long since gone completely cold.
After being slapped by Song Nina, Wei Jinzhi had not argued or made a scene. She had only glanced at Song Qiliang, who stood in front of her, then looked past her toward Wei Qing.
Song Qiliang argued with Song Nina for her. Song Haoyuan harshly scolded Song Qiliang, and Song Nina was so furious that she nearly wanted to hit Song Qiliang too.
The three people surnamed Song made a mess of themselves.
And her mother, Wei Qing, did not even dare look at her.
Wei Jinzhi suddenly felt that it was meaningless. She no longer wanted to be like before, arguing and making trouble.
She quietly left the Song family home and walked alone on the street for a very, very long time. Negative emotions swept over her, and the thick self-loathing made her tears spill over.
But when she saw Pei Suyuan, that feeling gradually faded.
Until this moment, when it disappeared completely.
When she decided to come to Pei Suyuan with the pregnancy test report, it had been impulsive.
The clauses were even more an outlet for when her emotions were unstable.
An outlet against herself.
An outlet against Song Nina’s abandonment and control.
But now, she felt that perhaps she had done something wrong, and perhaps she had done something right too.
Pei Suyuan was very good.
So good that Wei Jinzhi regretted her impulsive decision to use the child and marriage to bind Pei Suyuan to herself.
Yet she also felt grateful.
Grateful for her own impulse, which allowed her to feel the warmth she had longed for over many years.
……
Pei Suyuan had not been home for a long time. The only edible things at home were noodles and eggs. Wei Jinzhi’s condition also was not very good, and Pei Suyuan did not dare go downstairs to buy anything. She could only cook something simple.
Pei Suyuan preferred boiled eggs, but she did not know whether Wei Jinzhi would prefer fried ones. She wanted to ask, but she was afraid Wei Jinzhi would not want to answer, so she cooked the eggs according to her own taste.
The noodles were made very lightly. After taking them out of the pot, Pei Suyuan only drizzled a little sesame oil over them before placing them in front of Wei Jinzhi.
“There’s only this at home. Make do and eat a little.” She pushed the bowl in front of Wei Jinzhi, then picked up her own bowl of noodles and began eating.
She really was hungry. After eating lunch, she had been busy the whole afternoon and had not eaten anything else. Very quickly, half the bowl of noodles was gone, while Wei Jinzhi still had not moved.
Pei Suyuan had thought that perhaps the noodles were too simple and Wei Jinzhi did not like them, or perhaps she truly was not hungry. But very clearly, it should be neither.
Wei Jinzhi was still in a bad mood.
At this moment, Pei Suyuan had completely forgotten that Wei Jinzhi was pregnant, and she had also forgotten about the Wei Jinzhi who had demanded she sign those unequal clauses. All she thought about was making her eat.
After eating half the noodles, Pei Suyuan’s stomach was no longer so empty. So she put down her bowl, picked up Wei Jinzhi’s bowl of noodles, lifted the boiled egg with her chopsticks, and placed it beside Wei Jinzhi’s mouth.
She did not speak, only held it there.
After a long time, Wei Jinzhi turned her head. Her eyes were pure and clear, yet carried a faint sadness.
Pei Suyuan’s heart suddenly tightened, and there was even a trace of pain.
Wei Jinzhi opened her mouth and bit into the egg white. The next second, a tear slid lightly down her cheek. Choked with sobs, she asked Pei Suyuan, “Can I stay here tonight?”
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