Please confess to me [rebirth] 57

Extra (5)

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The divorced Su Hang body swapped to the married Su Hang (2)



Su Hang used his chopsticks to pick up a dumpling, his eyes unblinking as he stared at the three people opposite him.

Towards Shen Xi, who had a big belly and a constant smile on her face, and at the two identical boys on either side of her.

The older boy named ZuoZuo didn't seem to like eating leeks. Every time he placed one in his mouth, his little face screwed up, and it was only Shen Xi's gaze that made him swallow. The other boy, YouYou, eats everything, but he liked to act coquettish. Every time he took two bites of a dumpling, he would turn towards Shen Xi, asking for praise.

Don't ask how Su Hang could differentiate the twins apart. Even he found this strange.

These days, Shen Xi has been taking care of the two children by herself. There was no other way. Who made the relationship between Su Hang and his sons strained? It took a while for Shen Xi to settle the kids down, and when she finally managed to look towards the other end of the table, she found Su Hang at a daze and the dumplings on his plate cold. "Why aren't you eating?"


"Oh...ah." Su Hang hurriedly swallowed a few dumplings after hearing Shen Xi's question.


"Wait, those are already cold." Shen Xi tried to stop him, but Su Hang ate them all.

"It's fine." Was Shen Xi worried about him? Did she care about him? Su Hang's face remained cold, but his heart was beating out of control.

"What's wrong with you today?" Shen Xi asked. "Did I talk in my sleep and quarrel with you last night? Why didn't you wake me up?"

"Ah." Su Hang absently nodded, then realized what Shen Xi was saying. He hurriedly shook his head and explained: "No...I just didn't sleep well last night. You didn't do anything."

Shen Xi blinked. She felt that there was something strange with her husband today. It was as if they had returned to the first few months of their marriage.

"Mom, don't talk to the big devil." ZuoZuo saw his mother paying attention to the big devil and stealthily replaced a few of his leek dumplings with some egg stuffed ones.

"Mom, mom, didn't you say we belong in one nation?" YouYou added.

(T/N: We're on the same side.) 

"Alright, alright, I'll ignore your dad." Shen Xi helplessly replied. This was all Su Hang's fault, ah, always saying that their daughter was going to be a hundred times better than their sons. After ZuoZuo and YouYou overheard him, it led to this father-son feud.

"It's not dad; it's the big devil." ZuoZuo corrected.

"Big devil," YouYou mumbled, his cheeks bulging with food.

"Alright. We don't care about the big devil." Shen Xi softly smiled towards the two children, then gently wiped the corners of their mouths.

He suddenly had two sons. Even in this fantastical dream, Su Hang couldn't help but feel emotional. He didn't know how, but between his first awkward encounter with the two children and now, when he was simply watching them eat, Su Hang's heart had softened. These two boys were his' and Shen Xi's children.

But even if his children ignored him, he couldn't just let Shen Xi ignore him, ah.

Su Hang stretched out his hand and silently placed the leek dumplings ZuoZuo had moved back into the young boy's plate. He looked at ZuoZuo's horrified expression and said: "Don't be a picky eater."

ZuoZuo turned towards his mother with an aggrieved expression, but Shen Xi simply raised a brow and repeated: "Don't be a picky eater."

"Humph!" ZuoZuo glared at the big devil, then frowned at his plate.

Su Hang then turned towards his next target: YouYou. He said: "Don't talk while eating. Concentrate on your food, and don't move around."

YouYou refused. "I won't."

This stinky child is long-due a good spanking, ah. Su Hang was halfway up his chair, but a single look from Shen Xi prompted him to sit back down immediately.

"Hehe..." Feeling victorious, YouYou smiled.

"YouYou." Shen Xi put down her chopsticks, then turned to her son. "Listen to your dad."

YouYou immediately lowered his head and made a small noise indicating acquiescence. He understood that while their mother was usually on their side, she will always stand by their father whenever their father educated them.

Listen to dad? Dad? This word circled Su Hang's head and his heart filled with sweetness.

"Are you just going to sit there?" Seeing that Su Hang wasn't eating, the corners of Shen Xi's mouth turned down. This small action immediately stabbed into Su Hang's soul.

"No, no.." Su Hang's facial paralysis had reappeared as he solemnly began eating his food.

"Mom, mom, are you not gonna want us anymore after you give birth to a little sister?" YouYou suddenly asked.

"Of course not." Shen Xi denied.

"But the big devil called Uncle Li and was going to give us away." ZuoZuo told her.

Shen Xi turned towards Su Hang. Su Hang coughed nervously, looking everywhere but her. He abruptly hiccuped, and his ears turned red in embarrassment.

Wow. Shen Xi hadn't seen Su Hang this embarrassed since before ZuoZuo and YouYou's birth. She asked him: "You were going to give them away to Li QingYuan?"

What to do? How does he answer? He thought that the two boys belonged to Li QingYuan's relatives, ah. He couldn't say that he forgot his own children! And what's up with these two babies? How can they have such good memory, ah?

"I...I was just scaring them." Su Hang didn't dare raise his head, his guilty heart weighing him down.

"You hear that? ZuoZuo, YouYou, your dad was just trying to scare you." Shen Xi explained to her two sons.

"Then...after our younger sister is born, will dad like her more?" ZuoZuo took this opportunity to ask this important question.

Shen Xi couldn't answer this, so she simply threw the question towards the man trying to melt onto the floor. "The kids are asking."

Su Hang raised his gaze and saw his wife and his two children staring at him. The two little boys were getting a sister, which meant that he was getting a daughter. A daughter with Shen Xi. A little girl who was going to look like her mother.

"Yes." After some careful consideration, Su Hang solemnly nodded.

"...I hate dad!" ZuoZuo and YouYou ran out of the kitchen, with Chu Wu following behind.

Su Hang watched the children run away without any sort of remorse, but when his eyes met Shen Xi's, his heart couldn't help but wither.

"Didn't we already discuss this last night?" Shen Xi angrily said. "ZuoZuo and YouYou are only a little over three years old, ah! A child's heart is very sensitive. How can you say that to their faces?"

"I..." Shen Xi was angry with him? She's never spoken to him like this before. What to do, what to do?
When the thought of admitting his mistake entered his mind, Su Hang's mouth automatically opened. 

"I was wrong."

His body had reacted before his brain could process things.

"..." Shen Xi frowned, and the strange feeling she was experiencing this entire time grew stronger. Su Hang was avoiding her eyes all morning. Shen Xi stood up, placed a hand on the table, and leaned across towards the other side. She touched Su Hang's forehead to see if he was sick.

"You don't have a fever..." Shen Xi felt even more confused. She turned to Su Hang, about to ask him what was going on, but she saw the man clutching at his chopsticks, staring at her stomach. Slightly bewildered, she asked: "What are you looking at?"

"You belly...it's big." Su Hang actually wanted to ask how far along she was, but as the father of this child, how could he ask such a thing? How could he not know how far along his wife was? Su Hang was afraid that such an illogical question would shatter this wonderful dream.

"What nonsense are you spouting? I'm going to give birth soon, of course I have a big belly." Shen Xi huffed. "Don't change the subject, ah. What happened to you today?"

Give birth; give birth soon! She was going to give birth soon!!!

Su Hang's chopsticks clattered onto the dining table, and he nervously stared at Shen Xi's belly. His wife was about to give birth, ah. What should he do? He had no experience! Wait, no, he should have experience. After all, he had two children. Well, no matter what, he had to call an ambulance first.
Seeing Su Hang's panicked face, Shen Xi's expression changed. She was just about to ask him what was wrong, when she saw Su Hang dial a number and shout: "Hello, 120? My wife is about to give birth."

"Su Hang, what are you doing?!" Shen Xi didn't know whether she should laugh or cry. "Hang up the phone, ah."

"You're giving birth soon, so you should be in a hospital." Su Hang nervously fidgeted.

"Why are you asking like this again, ah?" During her first pregnancy, Su Hang acted the exact same way. He had tried to send her to the hospital a few days before her delivery, but Shen Xi didn't really like staying in hospitals, so she refused. "My expected delivery date is in three days. We'll go to the hospital tomorrow, alright?"

"Three days?" After Su Hang heard that there were only three days left, he became even more nervous. He was about to say something to Shen Xi, when he heard what the person said on the other end of the call. Su Hang was immediately incensed, and he said: "How can you have no beds available? What do you mean you're sending us to another hospital? Aren't pregnant ladies considered a priority? You..."

Shen Xi's expression instantly sank. As she quietly watched Su Hang argue on the phone, she became more and more aghast. There were too many changes in Su Hang today.

There was no rose when she woke up. He always avoided her eyes whenever they spoke to each other. His expression was cold. He looked at ZuoZuo and YouYou strangely. He seemed nervous whenever he looked at her stomach. And...he didn't know that they had booked a bed in a private hospital over a month ago. How could he forget such a thing and call 120?

"Su Hang?" Shen Xi suddenly shouted.

"Huh?" Su Hang paused and turned towards her.

"What's the date today?" Shen Xi asked.

"October 31st." Su Hang replied.

"What year?" Shen Xi gripped the table tightly.

"2022."

"You...you..." Shen Xi looked at him in total disbelief. "Is there a divorce agreement hidden in your study?"

Clatter!

Su Hang's face paled, and the phone in his hand fell onto the ground. He blankly stared at Shen Xi and kept asking himself: Wasn't this a dream? How did Shen Xi know that he was planning on divorcing her? Couldn't he at least finish this beautiful dream?

Shen Xi looked at the pale man who looked deathly afraid. Her hands shook, and her lips trembled. 

How can this be? How can this be? He was...he was Su Hang.

The Su Hang in her last life.

"Shen..." Seeing Shen Xi look so shaken, Su Hang panicked and wanted to explain things. But he didn't know how to explain things. Forget it, ah. Su Hang closed his eyes in despair. Dreaming meant he was always going to have to wake up in the end.

"Su Hang...Su Hang..." Shen Xi's voice was filled with pain.

Su Hang kept his eyes closed as if he could forcibly stay in this dream if he only kept his eyes shut.

"Su Hang, open your eyes, ah!" Shen Xi couldn't help but yell.

Su Hang opened his eyes and saw Shen Xi's sweaty face and trembling body.

"Why...what's the matter?" Su Hang hurried over to help support her.

"I'm going to...I'm giving birth." Shen Xi had been too agitated after her revelation, and her water broke.

What? Su Hang looked at Shen Xi's tense expression, and his brain turned to mush.

"Send me...send me to...the hospital." Shen Xi saw Su Hang's terrified expression and couldn't help but yell a few expletives in her mind. Why was Su Hang like this, ah? He was no good during their first pregnancy, and he's still like this in their second.

Su Hang finally reacted and immediately carried Shen Xi and ran outside. As he walked out of the house, he bumped into Li QingYuan, who had just arrived by car. Li QingYuan saw Su Hang carrying Shen Xi and couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"

"I'm in labor." Su Hang ignored Li QingYuan's question, so Shen Xi was forced to answer.
"Labor?" Li QingYuan's yelled.

Su Hang carefully put Shen Xi into the back seat of Li QingYuan's car, then turned around and shouted into the house. "Mrs. Zhang, Mrs. Zhang."

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly ran out of the house, and after she saw Shen Xi's harried face, she got in the car with her without question. She planned on taking care of Shen Xi right until she got to the hospital.

"Why did she suddenly go into labor?" Li QingYuan stammered.

"Move!" The anxious Su Hang shoved Li QingYuan away, opened the door to the driver's seat, started the car, and drove away. But immediately after, the car screeched to a halt.

Just as Li QingYuan wondered what had happened, he saw Mrs. Zhang poke her head out the window. She shouted: "Mr. Li, please take care of the young masters."

"..." Li QingYuan turned his head and looked at the poor and forgotten brothers.

 

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