Chapter 228: Chapter 78 Production_3
It’s just someone giving birth, after all. Doctor Mo is there to accompany, the director promised to be present, and Ke Lian going in is merely to suffer through it with her.
Ke Lian gave Du Xixi an unremarkable glance, not expecting her to be thinking about this. He helplessly poked Du Xixi’s forehead, softly saying, "No matter what, in my eyes, you are always the most beautiful."
A woman dresses up for herself, but it’s true that lovers see their beloved as the most beautiful.
Du Xixi went through such great pain to give him a child, and even if she looked terrifying during childbirth, in Ke Lian’s eyes, she was lovely.
He loves Du Xixi’s beautiful face, but he loves even more her devotion to him, her company day and night, and her sincere love for him.
"Xixi, I want to stay with you..."
Another contraction arrived, and Du Xixi bit her lower lip trying to endure it, but was moved to tears by Ke Lian’s words. She didn’t care how Ke Xing and the others beside her were looking at her messy face; she just wiped her tears, choking up as she hugged Ke Lian.
"Ke Lian..."
"I’m here."
"You can’t dislike me..."
"I won’t."
Du Xixi laughed, cried while laughing. She closed her eyes, bracing the intense pain of the contractions, but with her lover, brother, and family by her side, she suddenly felt there was nothing to fear.
It’s just pain, it will be over after these dozen hours.
It’s okay...
She’s so strong, it’s okay!
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"She’s dilated ten centimeters!"
"Delivery room ready! The mother can enter!"
"Family, please wait outside!"
"Husband, come this way!"
"Bang!"
...
The delivery room door shut, Ke Xing and Chen Yin couldn’t accompany Du Xixi inside as Ke Lian could, so they had to sit on the bench outside with other family members waiting for the mother and baby, waiting slowly.
"Brother, you’re here waiting for your sister, right?" A man sitting next to Chen Yin, seeing him with his head down in silence, occasionally glancing at the mother, asked this question.
Chen Yin, wearing a mask and hat, sat quietly on the bench without revealing his true identity. He nodded and politely said to the stranger, "Yes, my sister is inside. Are you also waiting for a family member?"
Chen Yin casually asked, not expecting that the seemingly honest stranger beside him would say something so disgusting.
He said, "What family? Just a girlfriend. Got pregnant by accident, refused to abort, so I let her give birth. If it’s a boy, I’ll take him home for my parents, if it’s a girl, she can take care of her herself, I’ll just give her some money."
With these words, nearly everyone nearby frowned, and Ke Xing sitting on Chen Yin’s other side gave him a cold look, while Chen Yin looked at the man for a long time before thoughtfully looking away.
"You... don’t like girls?" Chen Yin quietly asked another question, although his head was down and his expression was unclear, he was already disgustedly curling his lip under the mask.
On Blue Star, many incidents of male preference existed, and Chen Yin had witnessed many, so upon returning to the Blue Star Empire, he had been fighting against such ideas.
He didn’t expect it. The reports below looked so glamorous, but here at the military hospital accompanying his sister’s childbirth, he’d personally encountered a "fish that slipped through the net."
Moreover, this is a military hospital, and most people coming here to give birth are military personnel and their families. If even the Empire’s directly supported military department has people like this, how many ordinary citizens think this way?
Are boys really more important than girls?
But this man seemed unaware of the disdain and distance in everyone’s gaze. He laughed indifferently and slapped his thigh, saying, "What’s so good about girls? In our place, no girl has a good outcome."
"I’m the third in the family, with two older sisters." The man continued, without any change in expression, but everyone could feel his inner helplessness and pain through his words. "The capable eldest sister was sold by our parents to build a house. The pretty second sister was taken by a nobleman and committed suicide in less than half a year."
"What’s so good about girls? If I take her back, can she survive?"
Disdain, disgust, distance... all the malice toward the man dissipated in the eyes and hearts of everyone at this moment. They initially thought he favored males over females, but it turned out he was only thinking for his child’s well-being!
If it were a boy, he could naturally take him back to be looked after by his family, but if it were a girl, she might not live many years. Either die or be sold, what good end could there be?
Rather than taking a girl back and ruining her life, it’s better to give his girlfriend a sum of money and let her take good care of the child.
At least she can live.