Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
Zhou Dayuan was coming out of the operating room. He was wearing a white coat. His long, fair fingers raised to lift the mask, revealing a handsome and graceful face.
“Doctor Zhou, this is Young Master Lu’s report. Have a look.” The nurse passed the report in her hand to him.
“Okay.” Zhou Dayuan took it, not forgetting to thank her. “Thank you.”
He left.
The nurse looked at Zhou Dayuan’s back. He was 1.85 meters tall. His white coat didn’t even reach his knees. His black pants showed through the white coat when he was walking. He had a pair of leather shoes on his feet. Not a single flaw could be found on his clean figure.
There was passionate worship in the nurse’s eyes. He was successful in the medical industry, his private life was clean and simple, and he was almost perfect with his noble upbringing and manners.
Zhou Dayuan went into the office and saw that Lu Shaoming was sitting on a chair.
“How is it?” asked Lu Shaoming upon seeing that he had arrived.
Zhou Dayuan walked around his desk and sat in his office chair. He looked up from the report and was in no hurry. “Your brain is recovering very well. I have also contacted the hypnotist Bill the other day. There is a 70% success rate of hypnotic treatment in your case. Hypno-therapy will be carried out by me and Bill together.”
“Alright.” Lu Shaoming was in a good mood as he raised his sharp brows.
Zhou Dayuan lifted his lips and handed a document to Lu Shaoming. “We have arranged a date for you. It’s the 15th of next month; be on time then.”
“The 15th of next month?”
“Why, what’s wrong?” asked Zhou Dayuan with a laugh. “Oh, I remember; the last time I saw your wife in England, she was seven months pregnant. The end of next month should be her due date?”
“You’ve met my wife?” Lu Shaoming was surprised because Ning Qing had not told him.
“Yes.” Zhou Dayuan nodded. “She seems nice.”
Lu Shaoming frowned. “I’m not very happy to hear this kind of praise from other men.”
“Come on, you.” Zhou Dayuan threw the documents into his arms. “At that time, a little girl was almost hit by a car in the middle of the road. Your wife went to save her, despite the fact that her stomach is so large now. If I hadn’t arrived in time, how would you have a wife now?”
“What?” Lu Shaoming’s face turned dark. This Ning Qing!
Zhou Dayuan took a glance at his face and shrugged, “I seem to have said something wrong.”
“You’re only realizing it now?” Lu Shaoming stood up in a bad mood. “I’ll come on time on the 15th of next month. I’m out of here.” He grabbed the black suit on the chair.
“Shaoming,” Zhou Dayuan called him, “Although hypnosis has a 70% chance of success, there is also a 30% unknown risk. I hope you are already prepared. Maybe you will forget the present when you remember the past.”
Lu Shaoming suddenly froze.
“Come back and call me when you’ve thought it through. Besides, you didn’t bring your wife with you for the last operation in England. You lost your memory and went crazy. This time, I suggest you bring your wife with you. Hypnotic surgery is stressful; let your loved ones accompany you.”
Ning Qing was nine months pregnant when Lu Dinghua and Song Yajing officially went to the Ning family house.
Ning Zhenguo and Yue Wanqing got up early in the morning to clean up and buy food. Ning Qing looked at her parents’ nervous expressions, covered her mouth and laughed. “Dad, Mom, you are welcoming the head of the country.”
Ning Zhenguo laughed and said, “Qingqing, the Lu family is a big family and would be more critical of things; we should try our best.”
At this time, Lu Shaoming came down the stairs. “Dad, although the Lu family is a big family, it’s also your family. My parents don’t eat people. Don’t be nervous.”
Yue Wanqing opened her mouth and said, “How can we not be nervous? The Lu and Ning family are only meeting today, and your status is not the same. Qingqing is climbing up the social ladder by marrying you, so we can’t make any mistakes.”
Lu Shaoming wanted to say more, but at that moment, with a ding, the villa doorbell rang.
“I’ll open the door.”
Ning Qing went to open the door of the villa. It was the afternoon. The sun was shining warmly and beautifully. The room was sprinkled with golden rays of sunshine. Lu Dinghua and Song Yajing had arrived with gifts.
Ning Zhenguo and Yue Wanqing came forward to welcome them. “Mr. Lu, Mrs. Lu…”
When the two families stepped into the living room, Lu Dinghua and Song Yajing looked around. Although the villa was not as big as the Lu family’s house, it was elegantly and serenely decorated with clean windows. They sat on the sofa with great satisfaction.
“President Ning, I’m so sorry for visiting you so late.” Lu Dinghua shook Ning Zhenguo’s hand.
Ning Zhenguo modestly said, “Our Qingqing has married into your family. She is young and ignorant, and must have bothered Mrs. Lu.”
Song Yajing smiled gracefully, “How could she have bothered us? Qingqing is the happy fruit of the Lu family. With her around, it is always joyful. Beside, Qingqing has our Lu family’s Little Master Lu in her belly, so she’s a minister of merit in the Lu family.”
Yue Wanqing’s heart was finally relieved when she heard this. She was afraid that her daughter would not be recognized by her mother-in-law and her husband’s family. Now it seemed that Qingqing was like a fish in water over there.
“Mrs. Lu, I would have liked to visit you earlier. Qingqing is due to give birth next month. Where is Qingqing going to stay during her confinement, and where does Little Master Lu feed? I want to discuss this with you.”
Yue Wanqing had mentioned the key point, and Song Yajing was also considering these issues. “Mrs. Ning, my family only has one son, Lu Shaoming, so after Little Master Lu is born, I will take care of the child full time. Qingqing shall just stay at the Lu family during her confinement period. The Lu family shall raise Little Master Lu until he is one year old.”
Yue Wanqing was reluctant to give up and very euphemistically, she said said, “Mrs. Lu, I also only have one daughter, Qingqing in my family. Qingqing can stay here with me during her confinement period.”
“This…” Song Yajing was in a dilemma.
At this time, Lu Shaoming, who had been silent, said, “Mom, you guys can stop arguing. Ning Qing and Little Master Lu are not going anywhere. They will go back to the Tea Pavilion Villa after they leave the hospital.”
The two mothers were stunned. Lu Dinghua laughed and said, “You two fight over Ning Qing without asking Shaoming for his opinion? Now, look at this, can you fight against the child’s father?”
Ning Zhenguo hastily said, “Qingqing, you guys are both our only child, so just give birth to a few more kids in the future. Once everyone has a kid, no one will fight over them again.”
Everyone laughed.
After an hour of chatting, Yue Wanqing got up and went to the kitchen. Song Yajing followed her. The two mothers talked and laughed harmoniously.
Ning Zhenguo went to answer the phone. Lu Dinghua stood up. He looked at Yue Wanqing in the kitchen and took a few more serious glances.
“Dad.” Lu Shaoming appeared. He put his hands in his pockets and drank water with a paper cup in his hand. “What are you looking at?”
Lu Dinghua glared at his son and asked, “What are you thinking?”
Lu Shaoming frowned. From entering the door, he found that his father’s gaze had traveled too much to Yue Wanqing.
“She’s Ning Qing’s mother.”
Lu Dinghua laughed lightly. “Do you need to bring this up again? I just think Ning Qing’s mother looks a little familiar.”
Lu Shaoming directly blocked Lu Dinghua’s gaze. Zhou Dayuan had said that his wife felt nice. Now his father had said that his mother-in-law looked very familiar.
Lu Dinghua looked scornfully at his son. “Why are you acting so nervous, boy? To quote you, I think your mother is very good. No one can replace her.”
Lu Dinghua turned and left.
Lu Shaoming: “…” Eavesdropping on others!
After the two families had dinner, Lu Dinghua, and Song Yajing bid farewell and left. Ning Qing remembered the mandala flower species cultivated on the balcony upstairs and hurried up there.
Over these four months, she had followed Yue Wanqing to learn how to grow flowers and brew wine. Sometimes she felt that she had a genetic talent for brewing red wine. She learned quickly.
In the villa, a special room was emptied for her to brew wine after she had entered the door and washed her hands. She put on her white coat and went to the balcony to retrieve the mandala flowers.
The mandala flowers had bloomed beautifully. She picked a petal and concentrated on grinding the juice.
She didn’t know when the man had arrived. She noticed when he fed a piece of dragonfruit to her. “Have some fruit, Wifey.”
She glanced sideways and saw that Lu Shaoming held a fruit tray with several kinds of cut fruits in it. He picked it up for her with a bamboo stick.
“Oh, thank you, Hubby.” Ning Qing ate it obediently.
“What kind of flower is this?” Lu Shaoming asked as he fed her.
“This is a purple mandala.”
“What kind of red wine do you want to make?”
“Hmm…” Ning Qing thought for a moment, then asked the man with raised delicate eyebrows, “Hubby, do you know the floriography of mandala?”
“… I don’t.”
Ning Qing looked at him and said, “My husband knows nothing about romance. Purple mandala’s floriography is — terrifying. So my red wine should be a strong and potent red wine, which can create a flavor explosion. Red wine is just like love, and each flower has a different floriography, representing a different kind of love, so when Little Master Lu is born, I want to create a Language of Flowers Series red wine.”
“The Language of Flowers Series Red Wine?”
“Yes,” Ning Qing nodded. “Even if it’s the chrysanthemum as tasteless as water, I can make a tasteless red wine too.”
Lu Shaoming was attracted by her bold and original ideas. He could not help but reach out to touch her little head. Sometimes, he wondered how could there be so many good ideas in her head.
He fed her another apple and praised her without hesitation. “You’re brilliant, Wifey.”
Ning Qing flashed a brilliant smile. “Although I’m still many steps away from opening a winery, you wait and see, Hubby. One day I will shine in the entire red wine industry.”
“That’s right!” Lu Shaoming bent down and kissed her little face.
After the kiss, Lu Shaoming frowned. “Ning Qing, I’m going to England for a business trip in two days.”
“Huh?” Ning Qing was surprised. She put down her petals and wrapped her arms around the man’s waist. “Hubby, didn’t you say that you would concentrate on accompanying me without going overseas for business? The end of this month is my expected due date; it’s my first time having a baby. I am afraid. I want you to accompany me, and after Little Master Lu is born, I want the first thing he sees to be his mom and dad.”
Lu Shaoming caressed her hair lovingly. “I’ll be back from England in two or three days. Important things are waiting for me to deal with. Be good and wait for me to come back, alright?”
Ning Qing pouted her pink lips and was unhappy. “Don’t go, please.”