New York, winter.
In the corridor outside the delivery room.
Gong Shaoyu paced back and forth anxiously.
Not long ago, he was in a company meeting when he received a call from a servant. He left the company executives in the meeting room and rushed to the hospital.
Who knows how long he had been walking when the door of the delivery room finally opened.
A nurse came out, holding a newborn baby in her arms.
"Congratulations, congratulations, both mother and child are safe."
The little one in the nurse's arms was tightly closing his eyes, with a wrinkled face.
The nurse told him that newborns looked like this, and it would change as they grew older.
He carefully took the child from the nurse, holding it cautiously.
Gong Shaoyu had once learned how to hold a baby from the elderly in the villa, but holding such a tiny one in his arms,
he couldn't help but feel a bit nervous...
Soon, the mother was wheeled into the ward, and Gong Shaoyu sat by the bedside holding the baby.
"Young Master, the child really looks like Miss Ye."
The butler standing nearby said.
"Really? I don't see it."
Looking left and right, he couldn't really see how this little one resembled Ye Xinluo at all.
"Xinluo is so beautiful, how come the baby is so..."
Gong Shaoyu thought for a while before coming up with a word to describe it.
"So... difficult to describe, like a little old man."
The little one in his arms wriggled a bit, and a smile tugged at the corner of Gong Shaoyu's mouth.
"Little guy, I just said you look like a little old man, not happy?"
The little one in his arms seemed to understand his words and kicked his feet in dissatisfaction.
Gong Shaoyu was stunned for three seconds, then carefully pinched the little one's wrinkled cheek.
He hadn't even said anything bad about Ye Xinluo, so why was he so worked up?
If it weren't for the closed eyes due to just being born, Gong Shaoyu might really have thought this little one was already a few months old.
What newborn kicks their legs like that?
From birth, this one already sides with Ye Xinluo. Surely, he'll be a mama's boy when he grows up...
An image of a little chubby baby clinging to Ye Xinluo asking for hugs popped into Gong Shaoyu's mind, and the smile stretched wider across his face.
Before long, the person on the bed woke up.
Ye Xinluo opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was the white ceiling, and the air was filled with a strong smell of disinfectant, sharp and unpleasant.
Only then did she realize, this was a hospital, and she had just gone through childbirth not long ago.
"Awake?"
Turning her head, she saw Gong Shaoyu sitting by the bedside, holding a baby.
Is this her child?
She tried to prop herself up with her arms, but just after childbirth, she had no strength at all. After several attempts without success,
she accidentally tugged at her wound, wincing in pain.
Gong Shaoyu supported her with one hand while holding the child, helping her lie back down.
"Let me see the baby."
Gong Shaoyu didn't say anything, placing the baby beside her.
Ye Xinluo turned her head, looking at the baby's wrinkled little face, reaching out to touch the little one's cheek.
Ye Xinluo's lips curved into a sweet smile, revealing two dimples.
This child came unexpectedly...
On her 19th birthday, she was drunk by friends and accidentally had a fling with a stranger.
Inexplicably, she had a night with a stranger, losing her virginity for a reason as strange as the situation itself.
What should have been her first time with her future husband ended up with a man unrelated to her.
Moreover, it was a one-time hit...
Most importantly, she didn't even know what that man looked like.
Ye Xinluo vaguely remembered the man's silhouette. She only knew the man was very tall, around six feet, but she couldn't recall his facial features.
Ye Xinluo once swore that if one day she could meet that man, she would surely tell him one thing.
Damn it, would it kill you to be gentle, don't you know how to cherish the weak?
Messed her up so bad she felt like her bones came apart.
While others fantasized about their first night, Ye Xinluo had only one thought.
It was painful, truly frigging painful...
Really unlucky.
God, her luck, she might as well buy a lottery ticket...
Something you would only expect to happen in a novel happened to her.
So, when Ye Xinluo woke up early the next morning, she didn't have time to think clearly and fled like a wild escape.
A month later, when Ye Xinluo received the test result, she was dumbfounded for ten seconds,
'Intrauterine early pregnancy, 4 weeks'
Damn it, what the hell...
The story isn't supposed to go like this. Who's the scriptwriter? Drag them out for ten minutes of execution.
Ye Xinluo felt powerless looking up at the sky, dazed for quite a while before snapping back to reality.
Looking at the test report with 'Intrauterine early pregnancy, 4 weeks' written in bold letters, she felt a mixture of emotions, something indescribable.
For a girl, being pregnant before marriage is a disgraceful thing, subject to disdain and scorn.
Yet the facts were staring her in the face, and whether Ye Xinluo accepted it or not, she had no choice.
It's not that she didn't think of aborting the child, but she couldn't bear it.
Just thinking of the cold surgical forceps dragging the little one out of her womb felt like a sharp tug on her heart.
A heart-wrenching pain.
A person's heart is made of flesh, more so your own flesh and blood.
What mother can endure the pain of separating from her child?
After much thought, Ye Xinluo made a decision.
She decided to give birth to this child, regardless of what the future might hold, she had no regrets.
This might be the strength of a mother's love, enabling a naive girl to grow up instantly.
Having decided what to do, Ye Xinluo booked a night flight and flew to America in the dark of night.
Before leaving, she didn't tell anyone, because she didn't want that man to know about the little one in her womb.
She feared that once that man knew she was pregnant, he would stop at nothing to take the child from her.
That would be more painful than killing her.
In America, Ye Xinluo was unfamiliar with everything. Being pregnant, no company dared to hire her.
No matter how much Ye Xinluo pleaded, it was useless.
There was a company that was quite satisfied with her, but when they heard she was pregnant, they directly rejected her,
This was Ye Xinluo's first experience in this foreign land, realizing the coldness and warmth of human feelings,
that nothing is a given, and everything relies on oneself.
Giving birth is easy, living is easy, but living a life is truly not easy...
Just when Ye Xinluo was at a loss, not knowing what to do next, she met the man who changed her fate,
Gong Shaoyu—
Although Gong Shaoyu never mentioned his identity, from his demeanor and manner of speaking, it was not hard to tell he was of the upper class.
Ye Xinluo came back from her thoughts and looked at the man standing by the bedside.
"Thank you."
Thank you for bringing me hope when I was most helpless, thank you for being by my side during my toughest times.
Gong Shaoyu curved his lips into a smile.
"Have you thought of a name for the little one?"
Ye Xinluo thought for about ten seconds and came up with a name.
"Jingxi..."
Her fingers softly brushed the little one's face.
Darling, you are the best gift from heaven, meeting you in this life is the best decision I have ever made.
I hope you live happily and joyfully in the days to come...