Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself

Chapter 495: Break Your Legs

Yu Xia snorted lightly."I actually wanted to. But I was afraid you’d say I forgot about family, so I rushed back to see you. Who knew I’d be bombarded with this as soon as I arrived."

Yu Heng said, "This was unexpected. Don’t you want a niece to call you Aunt?"

Yue Ling playfully scolded, "How can you be so sure it’s a daughter?"

"Didn’t I say? I dreamed about it." He placed his hand on Yue Ling’s belly, gently touching it.

Watching the way he was so cautious yet full of affection for Yue Ling, Yu Xia felt a slight ache in her teeth.

Suddenly, she recalled a question she was asked on a previous show.

Taking advantage of Yu Heng’s good mood, she asked, "Bro, if I got pregnant..."

"The child is Xie Qingci’s," she hadn’t even finished this half-sentence when Yu Heng looked at her belly with a stern expression and eerily asked:

"What did you say? You’re pregnant?!"

Yue Ling also looked at her in shock.

Yu Xia quickly denied: "No, no, it’s hypothetical, just a hypothetical situation."

Yu Heng: "It better be, or I’ll break his legs!"

"Haha, it’s really just hypothetical," she laughed awkwardly, "I’m just asking a question."

Yue Ling patted Yu Heng’s hand and looked up to ask her, "What do you want to ask?"

"If I got pregnant and it might also be a daughter, would you be as happy?"

Yu Heng’s face darkened: "What do you think?"

"... Ha, it doesn’t seem like you’d be very happy. Why wouldn’t you be happy? You’re thrilled your wife is pregnant."

"How could it be the same? How old are you? Plus, you’re not even married."

She pressed on, "What if I were married?"

"Childbirth is a dangerous thing, being pregnant means putting your life at risk to have a child for him. How happy do you think I can really be?"

The question reached its crux.

"So why are you only happy when your wife is pregnant? Are all men like this? Is it because it’s their own child, so the joy overshadows the worry?"

Yu Heng paused, gripping Yue Ling’s hand tightly.

Yue Ling patted him and explained calmly, "Your brother isn’t without worry. When I was pregnant with Yu Yue, he couldn’t sleep the whole night before my delivery, worried about complications, worried about problems during surgery, worried that my health would decline afterwards. But Xiaxia, pregnancy is also a joyous occasion for a couple in love.

We look forward to the arrival of the child with joy, it’s a wondrous feeling. If you’re pregnant, Xie Qingci will feel this way too, happy and worried, and your brother can’t empathize with that anticipation and joy, so his worries are a bit more."

After slowly explaining it all, Yue Ling asked her in return, "Do you feel Xie Qingci is behaving poorly on this matter?"

Yu Xia shook her head.

"It’s my problem, I don’t plan to have children. He, well, said something similar, but I’m not sure if he’s just saying it to comfort me."

Yue Ling curiously asked, "Why don’t you plan to have children?"

"Because it’s dangerous and it would affect my career. I researched the impact of pregnancy and childbirth on women’s bodies, and it seems there’s no benefit."

During pregnancy, there might be pigmentation, stretch marks, and later on edema, difficulty sleeping, and frequent urination.

The dangers during childbirth are obvious, one slip and I might not make it off the operating table.

Even if nothing happens and childbirth goes smoothly, there might be issues like incontinence, sagging breasts, susceptibility to infections, depression, and even limitations on intense physical activities.

People always overreact to unknown pain, and she’s terrified of these issues, wanting to avoid them.

Yue Ling nodded in agreement with her analysis, "It is dangerous. But this is something you both need to discuss, and if you both agree, then naturally you can choose not to have children."

However, she doubted whether they would agree on this matter.

Yu Xia wasn’t worried about that issue: "I am what’s most important to myself, if we can discuss it, then we will, but I’m not going to step back and wrong myself if we can’t."

Both carefree and ruthless, Yue Ling smiled approvingly.

The still disgruntled Yu Heng took the opportunity to interrupt their conversation.

"Alright, why discuss something so far-fetched in such detail. Leave the worries of decades later for decades later, no need to panic now."

Yu Xia: "... Thank you, bro."

In decades she’ll already be in her grave!

After dinner, it was time for Yu Xia to call Xie Qingci.

Yu Yue came running to sit with her, waving his hand energetically at Xie Qingci on the screen, calling him brother incessantly.

On the opposite balcony, Yu Heng held Yue Ling, walking back and forth lovingly exchanging sweet words.

Both "families" seemed very happy.

Xie Qingci mischievously asked about Yu Yue’s homework, wondering how come his parents weren’t supervising him.

Yu Xia turned the camera towards Yu Heng and Yue Ling for a couple of seconds, then back.

"See? My brother is too busy walking off dinner with his wife and daughter to worry about a primary schooler’s homework."

The heavy responsibility fell on her shoulders.

Xie Qingci: "A daughter? What daughter? Your sister-in-law...?"

"Yes, you guessed it. I just had a talk with them about pregnancy and childbirth."

Yu Yue slyly chimed in: "And then my dad said he’d break your legs."

"... What do you mean?" How did he end up having his legs threatened?

Yu Xia pushed Yu Yue’s head away, saying, "I asked them what to do if I got pregnant, and my brother said he’d kill you."

Xie Qingci opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

He always ended up with a death warrant without being informed.

"But don’t worry, my brother said it’s a question to ask him decades later when he’s more composed."

"Decades later???" He was puzzled again.

Yu Xia continued to kindly explain: "What he means is, with him around, you can only progress to the next step with me decades later."

Xie Qingci was silently frustrated.

She collapsed onto the couch, laughing mercilessly.

Then Xie Qingci also laughed, as if they’d heard the funniest joke ever, and they laughed across the screen for several minutes.

As a primary schooler, Yu Yue just found them both strange, looking from Xie Qingci on the screen to his aunt, furrowing his brows in confusion.

"Aunt, what are you laughing at? Is it really that funny?"

Yu Xia blinked, held back her laughter, paused for two seconds before telling him:

"This is called the feeling of being in a committed relationship, something someone like you, who’s always writing love letters as a form of normal social interaction, wouldn’t understand. When you grow up and meet a girl who makes you just want to giggle when you see her, you’ll understand."

Yu Yue, half understanding, asked, "Why would I want to giggle at her? Aunt, do you like people who like to giggle at you? Brother, did you win her over by giggling at her all the time?"

Yu Xia: "..."

Xie Qingci smiled on screen.

"Yeah, whenever I see your aunt, I just want to giggle, and she thinks I’m interesting and got together with me. But your aunt doesn’t like everyone who giggles at her, she only likes me."