WHV | Chapter 30

Little Bean

A few months later, he heard about Lin Zerui again. Bai Sijia said he had gone insane, gone mad. After that, he vanished without a trace, no news ever came out about him again, and he gradually faded from Yu Wei’s memory too.

After Yu Wei found a place to live, his daily mission was simple: sleep enough, eat enough, drink enough, and rest easy while he carried the baby. Once the fetus was four months along, it developed fast. His weight shot up, his belly grew obviously larger, and he had to start wearing maternity clothes for expectant fathers.

Every time Bai Sijia video-called him, she couldn’t help sighing about whether he really didn’t get along with the local environment back in the country. He had been so thin in China that only a skeleton was left, and less than two months after arriving in Germany, Yu Wei had already fattened himself up, soft and fair.

Bai Sijia wanted to see his full body, but Yu Wei refused no matter what.

He had dragged out telling them about the pregnancy again and again. Even now, he still did not dare say it out loud. After thinking about it for a long time, Yu Wei finally decided to make the decision first and explain later. After he gave birth, he would tell Bai Sijia clearly.

At six or seven months, Yu Wei rarely video-called anymore. By eight months, he gradually became inconvenient to move around, so he found a live-in auntie.

With a live-in auntie around, Ling Heyu no longer had to worry when he went out, but for prenatal checkups, he still insisted on accompanying him even if it meant taking time off.

Luckily, everything went smoothly. His prenatal checkups showed no problems at all.

In September, he could not stay still at home. Whenever he had free time, he would go to the mall with the auntie, and every time he came back loaded down with bags.

When he renovated the room, he had left one room for the baby. Every day after shopping, he would lock himself in the nursery and decorate the room to pass the time.

In October, with the due date approaching, Ling Heyu was even more panicked than the person actually giving birth. He was busy with school and could not stay by Yu Wei’s side all the time, so he had no choice but to call every half hour to check on him, terrified that Yu Wei might slip or bump into something and the auntie would not notice.

On the night of July 13, Yu Wei was woken by pain in the middle of the night. In the early hours, the fetus moved frequently, with very large movements, completely different from before.

Yu Wei immediately reached for the phone on the bedside table and called Ling Heyu.

After only two rings, someone pushed open his bedroom door. His due date was approaching, and for convenience, Ling Heyu had already moved into the room next door for almost a week.

“I’m turning on the light,” Ling Heyu reminded him as he came into the room, then switched it on. Yu Wei closed his eyes and let them adjust for a moment.

Ling Heyu had already come over and pulled back the blanket to take a look. “Your water broke. I’ll call an ambulance. Lie still and don’t move.”

He took a pillow and propped it under him.

The ambulance arrived quickly. At the hospital, it was confirmed that his water had broken, and it was only after 28 hours that he finally gave birth.

Throughout the whole process, Yu Wei was in so much pain his mind had gone fuzzy. All he could take in were short, clear instructions. When the doctor told him to push, he pushed. Seven or eight times, Ling Heyu paced anxiously beside his bed.

Only after hearing the baby’s loud cry did Yu Wei’s foggy mind gradually clear.

“Yu Wei, Yu Wei…” Ling Heyu wiped the sweat from his face while calling his name softly.

“Where’s the baby? Bring him over and let me see.” Yu Wei lifted his heavy eyelids, his voice weak.

“Listen to how loud he’s crying. He’s very healthy,” Ling Heyu said, carrying over the wrinkled little bundle for him to see. “It’s a boy, and he’s as good-looking as you.”

Yu Wei closed his eyes, trying to see the words “good-looking” on the little bundle held in Ling Heyu’s hands.

Uh… he tried several times, but failed each one. He really could not see where the good looks were.

The child had soft hair plastered close to his skin, tightly shut eyes, a tiny nose, a tiny mouth, and reddened skin… and he was crying his heart out…

“He’s good-looking?” Yu Wei stared for a long while before asking the soul-searching question.

Ling Heyu nodded without changing expression. “Very good-looking.”

Yu Wei: “…”

Fine, if he said the baby was good-looking, then he was good-looking.

His delivery had gone unusually smoothly, and by the afternoon he was able to transfer to a regular ward. The auntie at home cooked and brought food over. After Yu Wei finished eating, he closed his eyes and dozed for a while.

The baby was taken out by Ling Heyu for an examination, and only came back after half an hour.

“Let me hold him.” Yu Wei had been lying in bed sleeping after every meal, and now that he was awake, he could not help wanting to hold the baby.

He still could not see what was so good-looking about the child, but after all, he was his son, and he still had to be raised.

At his words, Ling Heyu carefully placed the baby on the bed. Yu Wei lay on his side and looked at him for a while longer.

Now that the baby’s eyes were open, Yu Wei found him even more mismatched.

The little bundle had a tiny face, about the size of his fist. Having fully formed features packed onto such a small face looked a bit cramped. And at first glance, the most noticeable thing on that tiny face was those huge eyes.

“Ling Heyu, look at him. Aren’t his eyes a little too big? At first glance he looks like an alien. On his face, the eyes take up the biggest share.”

“Big eyes are prettier,” Ling Heyu said. He had somehow found a small stool and was sitting on it. His finger lightly touched the little face of the swaddled bundle. “He’ll look fine once he grows a bit. How big his eyes are now is how big they’ll be when he grows up. They won’t change just because he grows. If his eyes were small right now, then that would really be bad.”

Yu Wei seemed to have heard that this really was a thing. After looking a few more times, he actually managed to find the baby pleasing to the eye. Looking at the baby’s black pupils, his heart softened. He scratched the little bundle’s pink, chubby palm.

Ling Heyu blew a few whistles, teasing the baby as he said, “Do you think we should give him a nickname?”

“Little Bean,” Yu Wei blurted out.

“Nice, Little Bean sounds good.” Ling Heyu looked up and asked curiously, “Does the name Little Bean mean something?”

It did not really have any special meaning. When Yu Wei first saw Little Bean, he had been all red, tiny, about the size of one of Yu Wei’s arms, little and red, and for some reason that made Yu Wei think of red beans.

Ling Heyu froze after hearing that, then two seconds later he leaned over the edge of the bed and burst out laughing. “Why didn’t you just call him Little Red?”

Yu Wei answered seriously, “A little tacky.”

Ling Heyu said, “You’re too much.”

“Stop laughing. Don’t scare Little Bean into crying.”

Ling Heyu closed his mouth, but the smile on his face did not fade at all.

In the afternoon, Yu Wei lay in bed and spent half an hour preparing a mental script. Just as it was almost time for his usual call home, his heartbeat kept picking up faster and faster.

He had not called them for an entire day.

Yu Wei took a deep breath, asked Ling Heyu to help him sit up a little, leaned against the headboard, and started a video call.

No matter what, they would find out someday.

He had hidden it for too long.

When the other side picked up, Yu Wei immediately turned off his own camera.

“Mommy can’t see you?” Bai Sijia’s face appeared on the phone screen. “Did you turn off the camera?”

Yu Wei coughed lightly and cleared his throat. “Mom, I need to tell you something. Don’t get mad, okay?”

Bai Sijia did not care at all. “Just say it.”

Yu Wei hesitated, too afraid to speak. “Then promise me you won’t get mad, and you won’t scold me.”

Her own son had somehow gotten pregnant, and now the baby had already been born. Yu Wei was not sure whether Bai Sijia could accept that.

“What did you do?” Bai Sijia keenly sensed that something was off. “You didn’t break the law, did you?”

“No, I didn’t,” Yu Wei said softly.

“Good, as long as it’s not illegal, everything else can be talked through.” Bai Sijia let out a breath of relief. “Hurry up and say it, stop keeping me in suspense. And turn the camera back on. I haven’t seen you in so long, I want to see your face.”

Yu Wei took a deep breath and turned the camera on.

On the phone screen, he was wearing a hospital gown, with no color left in his face.

Bai Sijia frowned. “What’s wrong with you? Are you sick? Is it serious? You…”

“Mom, don’t worry. I’m not sick. I just had a baby.” Yu Wei finished in one breath and did not dare look at the screen.

“You’re not sick, good. I thought… what!” Bai Sijia shot up suddenly, her voice rising sharply. “Had a baby? What baby? What are you talking about?”

Yu Wei did not dare speak. He turned on the rear camera and pointed it at the crib.

Just when Yu Wei thought Bai Sijia was about to scold him, the call disconnected.

Bai Sijia had been so angry she hung up directly.

Yu Wei glanced at Little Bean sleeping soundly in the crib and sighed.

Bai Sijia did not seem to like him very much.

Given this situation, if it were their carefully raised little girl suddenly getting pregnant and giving birth, who would not be devastated? It was just that he was a man, though he was also an Omega. The original host had also been raised by Bai Sijia and Yu Cheng with care and affection. After he came here, he had suddenly gone abroad, then gotten pregnant and given birth, and had not even gotten married. It made sense that Bai Sijia could not accept it.

Because he was afraid of exactly this, Yu Wei had delayed telling them for so long.

Half an hour later, Bai Sijia called him again on video.

Yu Wei answered and called out carefully, “Mom.”

“Weiwei, your dad is back too.” Bai Sijia’s voice sounded fairly normal. “I didn’t understand what you said earlier. Let’s talk properly.”

Yu Wei heard Bai Sijia take a deep breath. Two seconds later, she asked, “Weiwei, are you saying you gave birth?”

Yu Wei nodded obediently.

On the screen, Bai Sijia pinched the space between her brows and forced herself to stay calm. “Whose child is it?”

Yu Wei said, “Mine.”

Bai Sijia: “…”

Yu Wei mumbled quietly, “Mom, Dad, do you believe me if I say I can reproduce asexually?”

“Do you think we believe that?” Bai Sijia said through gritted teeth. “Tell me clearly whose child it is. I just calculated the timing. You only missed one call in the past few days, yesterday. I’m guessing you gave birth yesterday, so I went back and calculated the dates. You must have gotten pregnant before you went abroad, right? Say it. Whose child is it?”

“It’s my child. No one else’s.” Yu Wei was tight-lipped, and Bai Sijia could not pry it out of him, so she started guessing herself.

“Don’t tell me the child is Lin Zerui’s.”

Bai Sijia was already at the edge of her temper, ready to explode the moment she heard the answer she did not want to hear.

“Mom, why are you bringing him up? Bad luck. My son has nothing to do with him. Not even a shred.”

Bai Sijia stared at him intently. “You’re sure it’s not his?”

Hearing Yu Wei’s definite answer, the weight on Bai Sijia’s chest finally lifted.

Thank goodness.

Who knew, when she had calculated the timing and found that Yu Wei might have gotten pregnant in September last year, she had been scared out of her mind.

As long as the child was not that scumbag Lin Zerui’s, everything else could be discussed.

But the child’s father, they still had to know. Otherwise they would never be at ease.

The problem was, how were they supposed to ask when Yu Wei would not say a word about the father?

Neither of them slept that night. They discussed it all night and decided to go find Yu Wei first thing the next morning.

Leaving aside whose child this was, Yu Wei was still their child. He had just given birth and was alone in a foreign country, so they could not rest easy.

They did not tell Yu Wei in advance. They flew directly to Germany. Only after landing did they call Ling Heyu to ask which hospital Yu Wei was in.

When Ling Heyu heard they were coming, he set aside the work he had been busy with and drove to the airport to pick them up.

Along the way, Bai Sijia and Yu Cheng tried to probe about the child’s father, but Ling Heyu said he did not know either.

They had arrived far too suddenly, and Yu Wei knew nothing about it. Yu Wei’s body was recovering well, and the next day he could already get out of bed and walk without anyone supporting him.

When Bai Sijia and Yu Cheng arrived at the hospital, Yu Wei was sitting on the bed with Little Bean in his arms, feeding him formula.

“Yu Wei…”