I walked up to her very seriously and said, "Can you take our relationship a little more seriously? I was so happy last night that I couldn't sleep, and then you pour cold water on me first thing this morning."

"I took medicine for a cold last time. Do you think this child can still be kept?" Pei Shi Yu finally turned to look at me.

"Then let's go get it checked first and see what the doctor says."

"What if it's born with a brain as crippled as yours?"

Although this sentence wasn't pleasant, I suddenly became open-minded, put aside my emotions, and replied, "Then consider it genetic. I'll raise it."

She reached for the bag on the cabinet and said, "Let's go, let's go to the hospital together."

Pei Shi Yu's sudden change of attitude made me feel a little dumbfounded, as if she was deliberately trying to make me irritable by going around in circles.

I walked out of the office first and ran into Pei Xianglong. He looked at me and asked, "You're really not going to Ningbo?"

"We're going to the hospital," I blurted out.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, just a check-up."

"You and Shi Yu?"

"We're both going for a physical." I lied.

"Planning to get your marriage certificate?" Pei Xianglong asked curiously.

"It's still early. I'll definitely tell you before we get it. Let's get a physical first."

"Okay."

After Pei Xianglong finished speaking, he walked inside. I heard him say to Pei Shi Yu, "I'm going to Ningbo now. There may be customers this afternoon. Xiao Wu will contact you. Please entertain them. I won't be back so soon."

"Okay, I'm free this afternoon."

"Then I'm leaving."

Pei Xianglong seemed to be in a hurry after giving his instructions, and turned around and entered the elevator.

I stood outside, sizing up the dynamics of the corridor. It was also the first time I had carefully observed it. This floor was divided relatively spaciously and was very quiet. The doors of the offices next to it were all closed, one of which was labeled "Foreign Trade Department," which should be managed by Pei Shi Yu.

By the time she came out, I had been waiting outside for more than five minutes. Today, she was dressed more femininely, with a cardigan sweater over a knee-length skirt, and high-heeled boots rhythmically tapping on the floor tiles. I just quietly looked at her demeanor, my eyes seeming to penetrate through her to look at her belly. Although I couldn't see anything, it seemed I was getting used to this gesture.

Pei Shi Yu didn't mind at all and said, "Let's go."

I instinctively grabbed her wrist, but she refused...

"Don't form cliques in the company. It's not good for the employees to see," Pei Shi Yu explained.

"It's not like we're having an affair. What's wrong with being open and aboveboard? Your wording is even more inappropriate."

Although I said that, I still gave up the action of holding hands. She walked in front, and I followed calmly behind her. I stared at the woman in front of me. I never thought I could be with Pei Shi Yu. I remembered that for a period of time after I came out, I was still full of hatred for her, and I never thought I could talk about marriage with such an excellent woman.

I felt that President Li had played a big role in gaining Pei Shi Yu's approval. If he hadn't said some pertinent words in front of Pei Shi Yu, how could I have what I have today? And in gaining Pei Xianglong's trust, I thought of another person, Lao Wang. His appearance, to some extent, improved my status, as if he had suddenly given me a home in name, allowing me to enter and exit the Pei family without any psychological barriers.

Pei Shi Yu walked directly to my car. I gently pressed the remote control and got in. As I started the car, I asked Pei Shi Yu a question, a topic that had been on my mind for a long time...

"I'm going to ask you a question, and you have to tell the truth."

"Depends on the question," Pei Shi Yu replied shrewdly.

"Then I'll ask directly."

"Go ahead."

"The reason you're willing to date me, is it because you think I look a bit like that Shen Yi?"

Pei Shi Yu didn't answer directly, but stared at my face, carefully sizing me up. After a while, she said, "I didn't notice if you hadn't said anything. There is indeed a bit of a resemblance in spirit, but overall, you are more handsome and younger, plus you have the air of a young gangster."

I laughed at her analogy and then asked, "You like young gangsters?"

"I don't like them, so you have to change."

"Something that's innate is my natural temperament. Taking away that part might mean I can't attract you anymore."

"Hmm, maybe, but I don't want our children to have such traits in the future."

"Then you educate him well. Your temperament is so good, he'll inherit your genes."

"I hope so, but there's no 100% certainty."

Before I knew it, we were discussing the topic of children again. I asked curiously, "You're planning to have it, right? Was that on purpose just now?"

"I wouldn't say on purpose. I've been arguing with myself these past few days, thinking about ideas like what if it's born unhealthy."

"It won't be."

"It better not be. I'm not ready to be a mom. Are you ready?"

"That's an instinctive responsibility. Do you need to prepare for that? I was just thinking wildly."

"Thinking about how to scold me?"

"Thinking that you've been acting strangely lately. Is it because of that Shen Yi that you're like this? Anyway, if your attitude towards me is bad, I'll think of that person."

"He's been married and divorced this year. Do you think I can be with him again?"

"Why the flash marriage and divorce? Can't he forget you?" I guessed casually.

"Well, men still understand men's hearts. That's what he said to me."

"Then why did you break up in the first place?"

"I'm not too sure. Since he proposed the breakup, why should I ask so much? I guess it's because he looked down on me."

"How is that possible? I even want to hide you away. I was thinking so negatively for the past few days when we didn't contact. You're really lowering yourself by being with me. I've lived a really decadent life in the first half of my life, but the second half of my life will make you look at me in a different light."

"I've already loved deeply once and just freed myself. I think it's better to be a little calmer."

At this moment, we just happened to drive into the hospital. Her words made me find a parking space at random. Because my feelings for her are very deep, if her love for me is only a kind of plain love, then our feelings are unequal.

I looked at her calm expression. Love is something that can't be forced. I don't know if everyone only has the ability to love once, or if she still has lingering feelings for Shen Yi, as if the feeling is still there, but the person has changed, has become no longer the man she wanted in the first place, like a blank sheet of paper stained with a stain, even if you wipe it off, it will never be the same as it was in the beginning; and me, I was this way when we met, so now for her, she can only see me getting better, and from a psychological point of view, she can still accept me, right?