The wait was agonizing.

Finally, after five minutes, the test strip revealed its result.

A single line!

Zhang Yuxi let out a huge sigh of relief.

Outside the bathroom, Zhao Lizhen had mixed feelings. As a woman, she knew the suffering involved in carrying quadruplets. If she's really pregnant, what will they do?

After mulling it over, Zhao Lizhen decided not to intervene and to leave the decision up to the young couple.

CLICK. The door opened.

Zhao Lizhen hurried forward. "How did it go?"

Zhang Yuxi smiled. "It was a false alarm!"

Hearing this, Zhao Lizhen felt a pang of disappointment but was also happy for her daughter.

"Then it's probably just an upset stomach."

Zhang Yuxi nodded. "That's what I was thinking, too."

"When I was pregnant with the quads, I felt the symptoms as soon as it happened. I could just tell."

Zhao Lizhen frowned. "You two need to be more careful. When you do that sort of thing, you have to take proper precautions to avoid any accidents."

Zhang Yuxi nodded.

When she returned to their room, she saw Lin Feng reading a book and felt an inexplicable flare of irritation.

Lin Feng closed his book and asked, "What did Mom want?"

Zhang Yuxi decided to give him a scare and said with a straight face, "I'm pregnant."

Lin Feng let out a confused "Huh?" thinking he had misheard.

"You're... you're pregnant?"

Zhang Yuxi nodded. "That's right. Why, aren't you happy? Have you thought about whether we should keep it?"

Still in shock, Lin Feng ignored her question and asked one of his own.

"Are you sure? Are you really pregnant?"

Zhang Yuxi nodded again. "Yes."

Lin Feng paused for a moment before speaking. "But you had your period last month as usual. It's only been two weeks… how could you be pregnant?"

Zhang Yuxi was momentarily stumped.

He's right, it's only been half a month. How could I be pregnant?

Zhang Yuxi blinked. "I don't know. The test came back positive."

Lin Feng held out his hand. "Let me see the test!"

At this point, he was beginning to suspect that Zhang Yuxi was just messing with him.

Maintaining a neutral expression, Zhang Yuxi said, "I threw it away."

Lin Feng beckoned her over. "Come here, honey."

Zhang Yuxi obediently walked over to him.

Lin Feng took her wrist to check her pulse.

Zhang Yuxi was taken aback. "Honey, what are you doing?"

Releasing her hand, Lin Feng gave her a wry smile. "Darling, are you sure you're pregnant?"

Zhang Yuxi didn't answer directly. "What do you think?"

Lin Feng hadn't expected her to joke about something like this. He pulled her into a hug and playfully tapped her on the nose.

"You little rascal. Did you really think I wouldn't know whether I got you pregnant or not?"

"After we weaned the babies, I started taking contraceptive medication."

Women typically don't get pregnant while they are breastfeeding. During that period, he had been very careful and made sure they never ran out of condoms. After the babies stopped breastfeeding, he started taking the pills.

Zhang Yuxi's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly grew nervous.

"You-you're taking medication? Does it have any side effects on your body?"

Lin Feng laughed. "No, it's all made from herbal ingredients."

He tilted her chin up. "Alright, spill. Why the joke? You gave me a real scare."

Zhang Yuxi pouted and explained what had happened.

So that's what happened!

Lin Feng surmised, "You probably ate something for lunch that didn't agree with you. If you're still worried, we can go get it checked out."

Zhang Yuxi shook her head, feeling that would be making a mountain out of a molehill.

"I feel fine now. No nausea or anything."

Lin Feng nodded. "Well, let me know if you start feeling unwell again, okay?"

Zhang Yuxi obediently agreed, then asked, "Honey, if I really had been pregnant, would we have kept it?"

Lin Feng frowned. "I won't let that happen. We have four wonderful babies, and that's enough. We don't need any more."

Zhang Yuxi pressed, "Why not? You love children so much."

"Loving children doesn't mean we have to keep having them!" he said. "Giving birth to quadruplets was hard enough on you. I don't want to see you suffer like that again."

A sweet warmth spread through Zhang Yuxi's heart. "Even if you wanted more children, I'd be willing to have them for you."

"But it might be another set of multiples."

Lin Feng glanced at her. "Don't even think about it!"

Zhang Yuxi pursed her lips and smiled.

「On the other side.」

Zhao Lizhen, planning on an afternoon nap, was sitting at her vanity and taking off her earrings.

Zhang Fuyong asked, "I saw you go to the pharmacy earlier. What's wrong?"

"Nothing much," Zhao Lizhen replied. "I was just feeling a bit unwell, so I bought some medicine."

"Where are you feeling unwell?" he asked.

Zhao Lizhen couldn't be bothered to explain the whole fiasco to him.

"It's none of your business!"

Out of her line of sight, Zhang Fuyong silently rolled his eyes. Fine, be ungrateful.

Zhao Lizhen lay down for her nap.

Just as Zhang Fuyong was about to lie down as well, he remembered that he hadn't taken his blood pressure medication. He opened Zhao Lizhen's handbag to get it.

"Huh? What are these? And there are so many of them!"

Zhang Fuyong took them out to get a closer look.

The next second, he was so shocked he dropped them.

M-My wife... is pregnant? No way! Am I really that potent?

A surge of pride was immediately followed by sheer panic. He suddenly felt completely lost.

Looking at his sleeping wife, Zhang Fuyong quietly put the items back in her bag. He decided to go have a cigarette to calm his nerves.

When Lin Feng came downstairs, he saw the lonely sight of Zhang Fuyong smoking.

"Dad, what's wrong?"

Zhang Fuyong was so lost in thought that the cigarette burned down to his fingers. The burn jolted him from his thoughts, and he quickly threw the cigarette to the ground.

"Aren't you taking a nap?"

"I came down to get a glass of water."

"Oh."

After getting his water, Lin Feng looked at Zhang Fuyong's troubled face and asked, "Dad, did something happen?"

Zhang Fuyong opened his mouth to speak several times but always stopped short. It was the kind of thing that was too embarrassing to talk about. After all, his grandsons were already a year and a half old. If his son-in-law found out, wouldn't he laugh at them?

He seemed fine when we came back from lunch. Why is he so worried all of a sudden?

"Dad, are you in some kind of trouble? Is it about money?" Anything that could be solved with money wasn't a real problem.

Zhang Fuyong waved his hand. "I appreciate the offer, but it's not about money."

"Then what is it?" Lin Feng asked.

Zhang Fuyong heaved a long sigh, a troubled look on his face. "Just... don't worry about it!"

With that, he got up and headed upstairs, sighing the whole way.

This left Lin Feng completely bewildered. He went back to their room and told Zhang Yuxi what had happened.

Zhang Yuxi frowned. "I'll tell Mom. She can ask him about it."

In the afternoon, after waking up from her nap, Zhao Lizhen was startled to find Zhang Fuyong sitting by the bed.

Clutching her chest, she asked irritably, "What are you doing, just sitting here in silence?"

"Do you have anything to tell me?" Zhang Fuyong asked.

Zhao Lizhen glared at him before getting up to get dressed.

"You don't?" Zhang Fuyong pressed.

Zhao Lizhen turned around, her face stern. "I do. Stop being so strange all the time."

With that, she walked out of the room.

Zhang Fuyong was left speechless.

When Zhao Lizhen went downstairs, she saw the babies were already awake and playing in the living room. Her face immediately brightened with a smile.

"Mom!"

Zhang Yuxi got up and pulled Zhao Lizhen aside. "I need to tell you something."

"What is it?"

"A little while ago, Lin Feng saw Dad smoking in the living room. He seemed to have something on his mind, but he wouldn't say what it was when Lin Feng asked."

"What? He dared to smoke in the house?"

Zhang Yuxi was speechless.

Mom, isn't the part about him being worried the actual point?

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