My Wife is Actually a top-tier Soldier King?!-Chapter 1183 - 1085: An Unexpected Joy? Yunxuan is Worried!
Beautiful eyes swirling, red lips lightly pursed.
Chu Yunxuan’s delicate, jade-like hands tenderly caressed her belly.
In her eyes, there was both the sweetness of happiness and an unmistakable worry.
She was pregnant.
People often say.
When you try to bring forth flowers, they may not bloom; yet willows planted without intention may thrive.
Tang Xiao, who had been most eager to get pregnant and bear Wu Jie’s child, tried hard but couldn’t conceive.
On the other hand, Chu Yunxuan, who had never thought about pregnancy, unexpectedly found herself blessed with it.
Most people realize they’re pregnant when their menstrual period is overdue and decide to take a test.
But in truth, pregnancy can be detected as early as ten days, and of course, the later the testing, the more accurate the results.
Yesterday, upon hearing that a colleague was confirmed pregnant, Chu Yunxuan, out of curiosity, went to buy a pregnancy test and tried it out.
The result...
She was pregnant.
After a moment of uncontrollable elation and excitement, Chu Yunxuan realized there was a problem.
This child was definitely Wu Jie’s.
He was the first and would be the only man in her life.
But the question is...
Should she keep this child or not?
If she decided to keep it, then for the first two or three months, there would not be much visible change in her figure, especially with the winter clothing providing ample cover.
But as time goes on, and her belly grows increasingly prominent, could she still conceal her condition... unless everyone around her turned a blind eye?
Moreover, relatives, friends, and colleagues have always known Chu Yunxuan to be single.
What would people think when a girl known for her long-term single status suddenly sports a round belly?
Her mother, Huang Meijuan, was already famously gossipy.
Since retirement, she loved to chat and gossip with the neighbors all day long, commenting on everyone’s affairs.
When she came to work at the construction site in Science Research City, it was even worse. Once you started a conversation with her, she was like a machine gun with infinite ammo, fiercely chattering away non-stop.
If she found out that her daughter was pregnant before marriage and hiding who the father was...
Where would she put her face?
Then Chu Yunxuan knew, her life would be forever without peace.
And what about Wu Jie... What should she say to him?
Would Wu Jie think that she got pregnant on purpose and was forcing his hand, pressing him to divorce Tang Xiao and marry her?
Wouldn’t she then become a despicable mistress?
But if she didn’t tell him, Wu Jie wasn’t blind. If he asked, should she lie and say it was someone else’s?
It was agreed before intimacy that, should there be a change of heart, it must be disclosed in advance.
For her to silently give him a green hat would only complicate matters further.
So...
Chu Yunxuan considered having an abortion right away.
The pregnancy was not far along; she could go to the hospital and take two types of abortion drugs.
One would cause the forming child to die directly, while the other would induce violent contractions in the uterus, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea, expelling the dead fetus.
This method is the simplest and quickest, causing a brief period of pain but the least damage to the body.
If left too long, and the child has developed to five to thirteen weeks with some limb development, then a vacuum aspiration must be used.
A thick metal tube is inserted into the uterus, and with intense suction, the fetus is torn into pieces and evacuated.
If the fetus is already five or six months old, and the body has reached the size of a palm, an abortion can only be done through a dilation and evacuation procedure.
It involves lying the pregnant woman down in the operating room, inserting dried seaweed sticks to absorb moisture and dilate the cervix, followed by further dilation with dilators.
Then using curettes to forcibly tear off the fetus’s limbs, torso, and head... It’s a brutally painful process.
As for pregnancies over seven months, an induction abortion is the only option, requiring thorough examination in formal hospitals since the fetus could survive prematurely at this time.
Anyway.
Abortion is not as simple as advertisements claim.
"Painless three-minute procedure, return to work on the same day of surgery..."
These are nothing but deceptive marketing gimmicks.
Whether it’s a medical abortion or a surgical one, the longer the pregnancy has lasted, the greater the pain and damage will be.
However, according to incomplete statistics, there are nearly twenty million abortion procedures carried out in the country each year.
Not to mention the countless number of self-administered abortions and those performed in small clinics.
Some women collapse mentally under the torment on the operation table.
Others live long-term in the sadness of flesh and blood separation, unable to move past depression.
Many think one or two abortions are no big deal.
But what then?
Multiple abortions have led to infertility in no small number of women.
And for Chu Yunxuan... 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
If Wu Jie didn’t want it, she would unhesitatingly go for an abortion.
But Chu Yunxuan knew that a man as sentimental and upright as Wu Jie would never agree to abort his child, especially when it’s not a matter of financial constraints.
Besides, Wu Jie’s parents were desperate for grandchildren, nearly going crazy over it.
After all, just the other day, Zhang Hao shared in his circle of friends that he and Joy’s child could already be seen via a four-dimensional ultrasound, small and delicate.
This only added to Mr. and Mrs. Wu Jianguo’s eagerness, pressuring Wu Jie and his spouse to conceive, didn’t it?
In this case.
At this very moment, Chu Yunxuan was truly torn.
Whether to keep the child was a major issue.
And how to tell Wu Jie about it also gave Chu Yunxuan a headache.
She didn’t know what kind of upheaval it would cause once she told him.
Lifting her gaze toward the direction of the airport, Chu Yunxuan murmured to herself:
"The child is Jie’s; he has the right to know, and I should tell him!"
"As soon as I tell him, he will never agree to an abortion; he will make sure I give birth no matter what!"
"The best outcome would be for me to resign after the Spring Festival and go to Jiahuan City to secretly have the child!"
"The worst outcome would be to divorce Tang Xiao and have him marry me... but..."
Chu Yunxuan clenched her fists.
Deep down, she still didn’t want to cause too much of a ruckus.
The man she loves is Jie, not the pursuit of wealth or status.
She had already bought a nice house in Jiahuan City and had over a hundred million in her bank account. Her salary and bonuses were so plentiful she couldn’t spend it all, and she didn’t care for those intangible things.
She didn’t want to put Jie in a difficult position, nor did she want to cause any conflict or discord in his family.
So...
Chu Yunxuan only sought Wu Jie’s agreement to quietly retire to Jiahuan City to give birth to their child without disturbing anyone else.
Buzz~~ Buzz~~
Her cellphone started vibrating.
Chu Yunxuan glanced at the caller ID, took a deep breath, and answered the call.
"Mom, what’s up?"
"Huh, can’t I call you if there’s nothing important?" Huang Meijuan snapped back, "Your dad asked me to check with you; it’s New Year’s Day tomorrow, aren’t you taking a break and coming home?"
Chu Yunxuan pulled over a chair and sat down, "I’m not coming back, there’s too much work on the project to get away!"
Huang Meijuan snorted, "Isn’t the project almost finished? What else could there be to do?"
"The closer to completion, the more things there are to do!" Chu Yunxuan pouted, "Alright, I’m busy and have things to do. We’ll talk when I’m free!"
"Hey, wait a second!" Huang Meijuan hastily said, "This morning, Li came back with her husband..."
Chu Yunxuan listened patiently.
Li was not only her next-door neighbor but also her classmate from kindergarten to high school.
The two of them grew up as close friends, so naturally, Chu Yunxuan would pay attention to her affairs.
But...
She really didn’t expect Li to be so shocking.
Because their college entrance exam scores were different, Chu Yunxuan got into a top university and came to Tianyuan.
Li didn’t score high enough and ended up going to an ordinary normal college, planning to become a teacher after graduation.
Perhaps because college life was too fun, or maybe she was too busy dating, Li didn’t even manage to get her teacher’s certification in the end.
Unable to land a formal teaching job, she took a position at a private tutoring center, teaching language arts and foreign languages to students.
Though not obtaining the teacher’s certification was a loss of face for her parents, making them unable to lift their heads high among the neighbors,
Nobody expected that the tutoring center would be so lucrative. Li managed several classes and easily earned twenty to thirty thousand a month.
She mortgaged a house in her home province and got a BMW.
Every time she returned to her hometown for the holidays, she was the epitome of glamor and grandeur.
And during that time...
Chu Yunxuan had not yet become a sales director, and her modest monthly salary was barely enough to sustain herself.
As a result.
The academically excellent and beautiful Chu Yunxuan was no longer the golden child in the adults’ eyes; Li was the one everyone praised as a role model.
There was a time when her parents would often use Li as an example to preach to Chu Yunxuan.
Fortunately, Chu Yunxuan was lucky; she met Jie, joined one of the Fortune 500 companies, and even became a general manager of two subsidiaries, finally getting her parents off her back.
Regrettably, when it came to matters of love, she was still ’outperformed’.
Li had already switched through several boyfriends, but in the eyes of friends and relatives, Chu Yunxuan was still single to this day.
And according to her mother’s account.
This morning, Li brought a boyfriend home for the third time, each one handsomer than the last.
What was different this time was that she was planning to get married because of a pregnancy.
In itself, this was good news; after all, Li wasn’t getting any younger, and she had a house, a car, and a job. Her frequent change of boyfriends was an embarrassment to her parents, but if this meant double happiness coming their way, they would certainly hold their heads high!
What a pity...
Li’s current boyfriend is such a ruthless man!
For Li, he left the home empty-handed after divorcing his wife. He not only didn’t take a single penny of property but also separated with a twin between himself and his ex-wife.
So this morning, when Li and her boyfriend drove home, the man was holding a little boy over one year old in his arms.
Pregnant before marriage! A shotgun wedding!
That was already shocking enough!
Who would have thought that Li would actually marry a man who was divorced, had children, and had no property.
Such a thrilling and stimulating drama, naturally attracted neighbors from several streets to come and watch with great interest.
And so.
Li achieved a ’double kill’, infuriating her parents so much they ended up in the hospital.
Luckily, her grandparents had passed away early; otherwise, their anger might have turned a happy occasion into a funeral.
"... Sigh, what is this all about? How could Li be so unreliable!"
"With her character, guiding the children, wouldn’t that be leading them astray?"
The words of Huang Meijuan made Chu Yunxuan feel her face burning with shame.
Li is certainly bold.
But I... seem pretty similar, don’t I?
The only possibly better aspect is that I haven’t caused Wu Jie and Tang Xiao to divorce.
"Mom, mind our own business and don’t talk about others; don’t add fuel to the fire with a big fuss!"
Chu Yunxuan cautioned.
Huang Meijuan huffed: "Do I even need to stir things up? In this small county city, it’s already common knowledge! On the other hand, your father and I have discussed it and think that you being picky when choosing a partner is the right decision!"
"A woman must not be shameless; please don’t follow Li’s example. I’d rather you stay single than see you embarrass yourself!"
Chu Yunxuan awkwardly uttered a couple of mhm mhm in response.
"I got it, if there’s nothing else, I’m going to hang up now!"
"Hey, hey, are you coming back or not? The leaders are still waiting for me to reply!"
"Ah??"
Chu Yunxuan couldn’t sit still anymore and stood up with a swoosh.
Huang Meijuan laughed: "You are now a high-level executive in Tanglong Industrial Group, who doesn’t know our group is wealthy enough to rival countries, technologically advanced, and has numerous industries! If you come back, the county will definitely receive you with great honor!"
"Our county is striving to become wealthy and develop well; shouldn’t we rely on you to come back and invest in some projects? Casual investments of two or three hundred billion could make our county’s economy soar!"
"Of course, if you could bring Mr. Wu and President Tang over, tsk tsk, that would make your father and me even prouder..."
She couldn’t bear to continue listening to her mother’s words.
One man’s success brings honor to all his relatives?
She was just managing two big projects within the group, both worth hundreds of billions.
This inevitably made her parents back in her hometown anything but moderate in their swagger!
She was merely managing projects, not in charge of investing, and definitely not the owner of the group.
And casually investing two or three hundred billion...
That’s way too inflated a figure! Is money considered as cheap as paper?
Chu Yunxuan was distressed, but for Jie’s child’s sake, she couldn’t afford to get angry.
After vaguely agreeing with her mother, she hurriedly rushed to the airport...
