On the night Zhou You was on duty, when the patient chatted with him again, his condition was noticeably exhausted. His mind kept drifting despite himself and his thoughts inevitably wandered to the vomiting episodes he had been experiencing recently.
More importantly, this time the vomiting was accompanied by cravings for sour food, excessive sleepiness and an appetite that fluctuated unpredictably, sometimes nonexistent, sometimes so intense that he would desperately crave a specific food and feel restless until he ate it.
Although he was a transmigrator, in the six years since arriving in this world, he had already thoroughly familiarized himself with all the knowledge related to the various genders here.
The Alpha gender did not inherently possess direct reproductive capabilities. However, depending on the development and degree of regression of the reproductive cavity, combined with certain medical technologies or sustained external stimulation, a very small fraction of alphas were capable of becoming pregnant and giving birth.
The probability was extremely low. Even so, based on his recent reactions and the known symptoms of alpha pregnancy, Zhou You found himself unable to stop his thoughts from drifting in that direction.
At a certain moment, he realized just how absurd it felt, after transmigrating here, almost as if his mind had gone a little unhinged, he was actually considering the possibility that he might be pregnant.
Yet once Zhou You developed a doubt, he felt compelled to uncover the truth. Otherwise, endlessly speculating like this gave him the unsettling sensation of scrolling through search results online before his transmigration, convincing himself he was terminally ill.
Even as a doctor, Zhou You couldn’t be certain whether these symptoms pointed to an illness or to pregnancy. After all, he wasn’t originally from this world.
If he went to the hospital for an examination, then at the very moment he underwent the checkup, Xing Hui would be informed.
Likewise, whether he went to a pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test or ordered one online, Xing Hui would find out immediately.
That man was watching him far too closely.
Which meant Zhou You had no chance to secretly buy a pregnancy test or quietly get examined at the hospital.
As midnight approached, Zhou You ultimately chose to go to the 24-hour pharmacy across from the hospital and bought a box of pregnancy test kits.
Zhou You slipped the pregnancy test kits into the pocket of his white coat. After entering the staff lounge, he took off the coat. Xing Hui didn’t notice the box of test kits and Zhou You didn’t mention it either. The next day, before heading home, he very naturally transferred the pregnancy test kits into the jacket he wore inside the air-conditioned room.
On the way back, Zhou You couldn’t help feeling uneasy. After all, an entire night had passed without any reaction from Xing Hui. It seemed that the people Xing Hui had stationed around him hadn’t discovered that he’d bought pregnancy tests.
Did that mean that if he went to the hospital for an examination, he might not be discovered either?
After all, as a doctor, he could casually find an excuse to enter an examination room. Those people wouldn’t be able to follow him inside.
Zhou You felt that this was feasible, though he hadn’t fully made up his mind yet when Xing Hui received a phone call and said he needed to make a trip to Senator Song’s house.
Senator Song?
Was it the Senator Song that Xing Mingyuan had mentioned, the one whose family had a son whose pheromone compatibility with Xing Hui was as high as 95 percent?
Zhou You spaced out for a moment, then took the pregnancy test kits and went into the bathroom.
Staring at the two lines on the test stick, Zhou You froze for quite a while before picking up another one.
There were still two lines.
Then he took out the third one.
Still two lines.
His mind felt as though it had suddenly rusted over, completely incapable of normal thought. The stiffness even spread to his limbs, leaving him standing there, unable to move.
After who knew how long, he slowly lowered his gaze to his abdomen.
So… was he really pregnant?
His emotions seemed to have rusted along with his thoughts. There was no joy, no fear, no particularly intense emotion at all, just a blank, muddled daze.
After another unknown stretch of time, he let out a sigh. To his own surprise, as a transmigrator, as a straight man, when faced with something as shocking and surreal as his own pregnancy, something on the level of a bizarre horror film, he found that he could actually accept it.
He even calmly put the pregnancy test sticks away, thinking that he would throw them out when he took the dog for a walk.
Just throw away the used pregnancy tests?
What about the child in his belly?
How was he supposed to deal with that?
These two questions flashed through Zhou You’s mind yet he was unable to make a decision about terminating the pregnancy in such a short period of time.
After all, most pregnancy test kits on the market were designed specifically for omegas. For an alpha to confirm pregnancy, the best option was still to go to the hospital for a series of examinations in order to obtain an accurate result.
What if it wasn’t pregnancy?
Zhou You thought again.
Then leaving would involve nothing to worry about, nothing to linger over.
The moment this thought surfaced, Zhou You was briefly taken aback. So what his mind was implying was that if he really were pregnant, then this child would become his concern, his attachment.
Zhou You suddenly let out a short laugh.
It was fleeting and carried an indistinct, hard to define meaning.
The butler checked the schedule. Zhou You had been in the bathroom for quite a long time. These past days, Zhou You had been spending longer in the restroom than before. On several occasions, he had faintly heard the sound of retching yet whenever he asked about it, he was always met with denial.
Aside from the vomiting, he had also noticed that Zhou You’s appetite had been inconsistent lately, sometimes good, sometimes poor. During the half month he’d been staying at home, his sleeping hours had noticeably increased and he had developed a fondness for sour foods.
Liao An hadn’t failed to suspect something. He had even considered sending his speculation to Xing Hui via phone but after thinking it over, he didn’t dare to be a hundred percent certain about alpha pregnancy. Besides, Xing Hui was on the battlefield, best not to distract him.
Now that Xing Hui had returned home, it was time to bring this matter up.
But for the moment, the most important thing was for Zhou You to answer Xing Hui’s call.
“Young Master’s been calling nonstop and he’s sent messages too,” Liao An said, standing outside the bathroom door.
Zhou You put away the pregnancy tests, opened the door and answered the call.
Xing Hui spoke in a reporting tone as he explained, “I have a younger brother who’s been abroad for many years. He’s just come back and I haven’t seen him in ages. We’re having dinner together tonight to catch up, so I won’t be able to accompany you.”
Younger brother?
That omega with the extremely high pheromone compatibility?
Zhou You pressed his lips together and quickly replied, “Okay.”
Hearing the downturn in his tone, Xing Hui asked, “Are you feeling down because I said I won’t be coming home to have dinner with you?”
Zhou You found it a little funny. Xing Hui always said things like this, completely unfounded. Clearly, Zhou You found him irritating to an extreme degree, something even Xing Hui himself knew.
“How about I come pick you up? He didn’t come back from overseas when we got married. Now that there’s a chance, you could meet him, your sister-in-”
“Xing Hui, I’m not interested in attending your social gatherings,” Zhou You interrupted. After a brief pause, as if hesitating, he still asked, “Then… about what time will you be home?”
That question stirred something faintly in Xing Hui’s heart. He asked in return, “What time do you want me to come back?”
Zhou You lowered his gaze and remained silent.
“If you want me to come back right now, I’ll head home immediately,” Xing Hui added.
Zhou You was still silent, as though thinking. After about ten seconds, he said, “Come back now.” He hung up the phone immediately, not giving Xing Hui a chance to speak.
As if only now registering it, Xing Hui stared at the disconnected call, stunned for a moment. Zhou You had just told him to come home right now, he hadn’t misheard, had he?
Xing Hui was practically overwhelmed with joy, so happy he didn’t know what to do with himself. After being with Zhou You for so long, when had that man ever told him to come home early? No matter how late his social engagements ran in the past, Zhou You had never once called or messaged him to urge him home.
“Uncle Song! Song Chi! Sorry about this, my wife just called and told me to come home right now. I need to go back and check on him. He must be missing me!”
Xing Hui was grinning from ear to ear as he hurriedly stood up from the sofa, tossing out another line, “Song Chi, your sister in law can’t stand being away from me for even a moment!”
He left the Song residence with a spring in his step, unable to suppress the smile tugging at his lips.
Though his heart was already flying home, Xing Hui still stopped by a flower shop and bought a bouquet.
Giving flowers was a habit he’d kept for many years. As long as he was coming home, he would always bring a bouquet for Zhou You.
His pheromones smelled like roses, so naturally, roses were always his first choice when it came to flowers.
However, Zhou You truly disliked roses. He’d even had all the roses in the garden pulled out and replaced with fruits and vegetables.
“Forget it, no roses. Let’s switch to lilies instead,” Xing Hui changed his mind. “Ice Beauty double-petaled lilies.”
The moment he entered the house with the lilies in hand, Xing Hui called out for his wife.
Zhou You seemed to be waiting for him, sitting on the sofa. He wasn’t playing with Dog Jun, nor was he watching television.
Xing Hui walked over and held the lilies out to him. “I originally wanted to buy roses but since I know you don’t like them, I got flowers that match your pheromones instead. Do you like them?”
Zhou You glanced at him, then at the flowers. As for the flowers, he couldn’t really say whether he liked them or not, he felt indifferent.
In his understanding, people who received flowers were usually women yet here, he, a man, had received countless bouquets from another man.
“I don’t like them” Zhou You said.
At such close proximity, there was the faint fragrance of lilies, mixed with a trace of a sweet jujube-like scent. His senses picked it up keenly.
Was that omega’s pheromones?
Sweet and rather pleasant.
Despite saying he didn’t like them, Zhou You still took the bouquet and had a servant arrange them in a vase.
Xing Hui’s good mood remained unaffected. He pulled Zhou You into his arms and rubbed his cheek against his. “You have no idea how happy I was when you told me to come home on the phone.” As he spoke, he pecked Zhou You’s cheek, then cupped his face and kissed his lips.
Zhou You frowned slightly and tried to dodge but didn’t manage to avoid it.
He had no intention of attending the banquet the next day. Lying on the bed, he told Xing Hui about it.
“Why?” Xing Hui looked at him. “Are you feeling unwell again or do you just not want to go?”
“Just don’t want to,” Zhou You answered bluntly.
Xing Hui fell silent for a moment, then leaned in and kissed Zhou You’s cheek. “Then I won’t go either. I’ll stay home with you.”
Hearing this, Zhou You didn’t feel particularly happy. Instead, he said, “No need.”
He planned to take advantage of Xing Hui attending the banquet to go to the hospital for an examination. Xing Hui didn’t know yet about the pregnancy test kits. If that was the case, then perhaps going to the hospital for a checkup wouldn’t be discovered either.
Zhou You needed to determine whether it was truly pregnancy or something else.
Only after confirming the result would he decide on the next step.
For now, he had no intention of telling Xing Hui.
After all, Zhou You still intended to leave.
This decision had been replayed in his mind thousands of times over the past five years, without the slightest wavering and that remained true even now.
“But I need you,” Xing Hui looked at him. “We’re married. If you don’t go, what’s the point of me going alone? And who knows what the media will think.”
Zhou You didn’t care at all. Let the media think whatever they wanted. At most, they could only speculate. The Xing family had already used their authority to issue warnings, no media outlet would dare write nonsense.
Zhou You lifted his gaze to meet Xing Hui’s eyes. He couldn’t see what emotions lay beneath them and only said, “You should go. Don’t you have an omega friend? You didn’t get to catch up yesterday, today’s just right.”
Xing Hui frowned. Why bring up an outsider? He was about to say something when Dog Jun, without permission, ran into the bedroom with something in his mouth, whimpering softly as he stopped by the bed.
“You silly dog, what have you dragged in this time?”
As Xing Hui spoke, Dog Jun reached them. Xing Hui saw it clearly.
It was a pregnancy test.
And it had two lines.
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Vynellia
[Translator]
☕ A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR THE TRANSLATOR
You read the chapter. They wrestled with the words. Seems fair, no? (￣▽￣)
☕ BUY THEM A COFFEE →
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ChaptersChapter 1 · You can’t tag meChapter 2 · Give it to me, I want itChapter 3 · Yes, but only my wife can give birth to it.Chapter 4 · Find me a little Omega dadChapter 5 · We are legalChapter 6 · I want to divorce him and leave this placeChapter 7 · 3 million compensationChapter 8 · Enemies from a past lifeChapter 9 · My wife’s leftovers, so fragrant.Chapter 10 · Did you ever like me?Chapter 11 · Is he pregnant?Chapter 12 · Still two linesChapter 13 · Ultrasound resultsChapter 14 · False pregnancy reactionChapter 15 · A person changes after just one night’s sleep?Chapter 16 · I have to take responsibilityChapter 17 · Of course we’re arresting youChapter 18 · Lie on the bedChapter 19 · It felt like a fire was burning inside my bodyChapter 20 · Disgusting pervertChapter 21 · Did you force him?Chapter 22 · Do you expect me to feed you with my mouth?Chapter 23 · Let’s add each other. It’ll be easier to stay in touchChapter 24 · What are you looking at so intently?Chapter 25 · You lawless monster!Chapter 26 · What a coincidenceChapter 27 · So happy?Chapter 28 · You really don’t want to be with me?Chapter 29 · You’re living inside?Chapter 30 · I don’t want to be a bed partnerChapter 31 · Divorce after marriageChapter 32 · Welcome HomeChapter 33 · You’re hurt?Chapter 34 · Don’t disgust me!Chapter 35 · The first year after marriageChapter 36 · Xiaoyou ran away again?Chapter 37 · If killing me will calm you down, then do whatever you wantChapter 38 · If only he were an omegaChapter 39 · Xiaoyou: It’s not a kiss, it’s artificial respirationChapter 40 · Xiaoyou called him “husband” for the first timeChapter 41 · Choose one: call me ‘husband’ or…..Chapter 42 · They didn’t argue on their second wedding anniversaryChapter 43 · In the third year of their marriage, everything seemed perfectChapter 44 · Xiaoyou was actually on the verge of collapse.Chapter 45 · Would Xing Hui even listen?Chapter 46 · You’re nothing but a hooligan and a scoundrelChapter 47 · I’M A MANChapter 48 · Why is it that every single time I see you, you’re fighting?Chapter 49 · You’re the heavens. You’re the lawChapter 50 · Have You ever love me?Chapter 51 · What makes them any different from the couples on the street?Chapter 52 · You Actually Dare to Hit Him?!Chapter 53 · I don’t want you anymoreChapter 54 · Taking advantage of Xing Hui’s love?Chapter 55 · Who is Zhou You?Chapter 56 · It’s not good for you to be pregnant without your partner by your sideChapter 57 · Haven’t we met somewhere before?Chapter 58 · Zhou You?…. Yu Miao?Chapter 59 · He’s called Miao You nowChapter 60 · Are you about to give birth?Chapter 61 · Xing Hui: Wife, you are my attending physicianChapter 62 · Am I treating you better than before?Chapter 63 · You Miao, can I pursue you?Chapter 64 Part 1 · Memory recovery countdown…Chapter 64 Part 2 · Memory recovery countdown…Chapter 65 Part 1 · After five years of marriage, what is Xing Hui’s greatest advantage?Chapter 65 Part 2 · After five years of marriage, what is Xing Hui’s greatest advantage?Chapter 66 · You Miao suddenly found himself unable to resistChapter 67 · Yes, the incredibly soft-hearted You Miao loves him.Chapter 68 Part 1 · Is he about to give Birth?Chapter 68 Part 2 · Is he about to give birth?Chapter 69 · The baby has been born safely!Chapter 70 · Baby’s name revealedChapter 71 · Can you promise me that?Chapter 72 · AphrodisiacChapter 73 · Are you willing to marry me again?Chapter 74 · If I push my luck, I’ll force you into marriageChapter 75 Part 1 · Has this person traveled back in time?Chapter 75 Part 2 · Has this person traveled back in time?Chapter 76 Part 1 · Wishing the young couple a long and happy lifeChapter 76 Part 2 · Wishing the young couple a long and happy lifeChapter 77 · Finding the Diamond RingChapter 78 Part 1 · Put It on MeChapter 78 Part 2 · Put It on MeChapter 79 · My Future HusbandChapter 80 · IF route side story (1)Chapter 81 · If Route Side Story (2)Chapter 82 Part 1 · If route Side Story (3)Chapter 82 Part 2 · If route Side Story (3)Chapter 83 · If route Side Story (4)Chapter 84 Part 1 · IF route side story (5)Chapter 84 Part 2 · IF route side story (5)Chapter 85 Part 1 · IF route side story (6)Chapter 85 Part 2 · IF route side story (6)Chapter 86 · If route side story (7)Chapter 87 Part 1 · I’ve been thinking about itChapter 87 Part 2 · I’ve been thinking about itChapter 88 Part 1 · Happy Qixi FestivalChapter 88 Part 2 · Happy Qixi FestivalChapter 89 · You Miao’s Pregnancy SicknessChapter 90 Part 1 · Xinghui’s Pregnancy NauseaChapter 90 Part 2 · Xinghui’s Pregnancy NauseaChapter 91 Part 1 · The wedding is setChapter 91 Part 2 · The wedding is set