Luo Bei’s marriage life is very happy. Her Grandma lives with them, and Grandma gets along well with the aunties who come to help with the household chores. They have hot and delicious meals waiting for them every day when they come back home. Although Luo Bei and Gu Qianyan are busy with work, they still manage to have dinner together at home almost every evening. Grandpa Gu also frequently comes over for dinner, even though he doesn’t live there. Luo Bei and Gu Qianyan would also go back to Gu’s old house to spend a couple of days with him each month.
Father Gu and Mother are still the same as before. They are not around often, sometimes not even for a month. However, when they do appear, they would bring a lot of gifts back with them. Even Luo Bei talked to Gu Qianyan that his parents are the true winners in life, as they have always been carefree and happy. They could go wherever they want, and still have their own personal space…
Of course, Luo Bei and Gu Qianyan have been married for a year, but no one is pressuring her to have children yet, which is what makes her the most comfortable.
The Gu family truly respects them. Of course, that is also due to Gu Qianyan’s previously dominant personality. Everyone was afraid of him, so no one dared to bring up the topic of having children, as no one wanted to be labeled as breeding cancer.
This year, Luo Bei’s career has progressed a lot. The car beauty shop is about to open its third branch. She has hired someone to manage the unmanned store and online store, so she doesn’t need to devote too much attention to it. The hotels’ disposable supplies business is also moving towards a different model. Now, half of the hotels require guests to bring their own toiletries, while the other half still provide them, so the profit is just average. But, Luo Bei sees it as earning some extra pocket money. As for the tea business, from making a few ten thousand yuan a year at the beginning, she now makes over 100,000 yuan annually. Luo Bei didn’t expect to get rich from this, but she didn’t want to put all her eggs in one basket either.
Of course, after discussing with Grandpa Gu and Gu Qianyan, Luo Bei is also preparing for a transformation. She has developed a strong interest in the hotel business and plans to study and improve her skills before opening a unique high-end hotel. This investment is substantial, but it has also become her goal. She is now twenty-six years old and has set a goal for herself to open a hotel and a trading company before she turns thirty.
Starting a company is an idea that Luo Bei had for a long time ago, but she also knows that her current qualifications are not enough. As Gu Qianyan said, doing business requires both imaginative ideas and down-to-earth actions. You cannot be impatient and must take it step by step. Only when the foundation is solid can you have a future.
However, Grandpa Gu is very supportive of her. For him, cultivating two outstanding talents in his limited lifetime is already very exciting, even just thinking about it.
Luo Bei did a calculation and found out that with all her income included, her monthly income is almost 400,000 yuan. She took nearly three years to increase her income from 100,000 to over 300,000 yuan.
Her first house has been decorated according to her preferences. Sometimes when she feels depressed, she would come there and stay overnight alone. The next day, she would be completely rejuvenated.
Gu Qianyan and Luo Bei were intentionally using contraception. During the first year of their marriage, they strictly used contraception, and nothing unexpected happened. However, in the second year, they tacitly relaxed their guard and there were always one or two times out of five when they did not follow the standard for contraception.
Less than three months later, Luo Bei sensitively detected changes in her body, although her menstrual period had not arrived yet.
She found that her body temperature had risen, and she would wake up feeling hot in the middle of the night when she slept with Gu Qianyan. Of course, she also experienced implantation bleeding1. The most important thing was her own intuition. She bought a pregnancy test stick to test herself, and because it was not yet time for her period, the color on the stick was very faint, called “mother gray,” which means that only a mother can see the faint gray bar.
Luo Bei tested herself every morning and watched the color gradually turn into pale pink. On the day of her expected period, naturally her period didn’t come, so Luo Bei drove to the hospital to check her blood. When she received the test results, although she had guessed it early on, she couldn’t help but feel excited when she thought of the small life growing inside her.
The first thing she did was pick up her phone and send a WeChat message to Gu Qianyan, and also let her Grandma and Grandpa Gu know. Of course, Father Gu and Mother Gu who were on vacation abroad did not see this good news right away because of the time difference.
Grandpa Gu was originally leisurely watching TV. When he received Luo Bei’s call, he didn’t come back to his senses for a long time. Finally, he said, “Take care of yourself and don’t overwork yourself. The first three months are very important.”
Don’t be fooled by his calm tone. In fact, after hanging up the phone, this healthy old man directly walked around the room twice, looking ecstatic.
It’s impossible for him to not care about whether his grandson and granddaughter-in-law have a child. He is not as generous as Father Gu and Mother Gu. However, he also knows that this kind of thing cannot be rushed. It mainly depends on how the young couple communicate with each other. As a Grandpa, it is not appropriate for him to stare at his granddaughter-in-law’s belly.
Gu Qianyan is currently in a meeting that lasts two to three hours, so naturally he doesn’t have time to look at his phone. So, if you really think about it, this father-to-be wasn’t the first to know about the baby’s existence.
Looking at the pregnant women with big bellies in the hospital, Luo Bei suddenly felt very proud of herself!
She’s going to be a mom!
Although others say there are still many challenges ahead, such as NT screening, Tang screening, four-dimensional testing… But those aren’t things she needs to worry about right now!
Coincidentally, today is Mother’s Day. Shouldn’t she buy herself a gift, too? After all, she’s going to be a great mom.
With this in mind, Luo Bei quickly decided to go to the 4S shop. She didn’t have much interest in cars, and even though she married Gu Qianyan and there are several cars parked in the Gu family’s garage, she’s still used to driving her own Volkswagen that costs just over a hundred thousand yuan. But today, she wants to buy herself a car as a gift. At first, she thought that as long as she likes it, even if the car costs one million yuan, she would grit her teeth and buy it.
However, when she arrived at the place where most of the 4S dealerships are located, her legs were very honest and brought her to the Volkswagen 4S dealership.
Luo Bei sighed. She was still the same person, thinking that there’s no need to buy an expensive car. As long as it’s comfortable to drive, it’s good enough. She wouldn’t even want to spend several hundred thousand yuan, let alone nearly a million yuan, to buy a car right now.
After the meeting, Gu Qianyan saw the WeChat message sent by Luo Bei and burst into laughter in the office, leaving his assistant and secretary puzzled about what was going on with their boss…
He calmed down after a while before reading her message from an hour ago: “I’m going to buy a car for myself as a Mother’s Day gift! How about a Mercedes? I’ve decided to spend one million yuan on a car for myself!”
Just as Gu Qianyan was about to reply, he received another message from her: “…Cough cough, I picked up the car, and it’s a Volkswagen Tiguan L…I realized that I couldn’t bring myself to spend one million yuan on a car, or I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.”
After thinking for a moment, he patiently replied, “The Tiguan L is great, with high cost performance. Mrs. Gu is truly diligent and thrifty, and has good financial management skills. You deserve praise, so here’s a red envelope of 200 yuan as a reward.”
Luo Bei accepted the red envelope, “But I still feel a little heartbroken. My car cost more than 300,000 yuan, and my old car is still drivable. Why did I have to buy a new one?”
“Buying things is the motivation to make money,” Gu Qianyan replied. “Think about it, don’t you want to work harder to make more money?”
“It seems like that…”
“Then that’s it. You got a great deal on this car, but CEO Bei, can you come pick me up in your new car? I want to touch it, and then we can go home together as a couple.”
Being pregnant wasn’t too hard for Luo Bei. She always felt like her baby was taking care of her. She didn’t have morning sickness in the early stages, and her appetite was the same as before. She could eat, drink, and sleep normally and had a lot of energy. She didn’t find her work tiring at all, and every prenatal checkup went smoothly.
Of course, what surprised Luo Bei the most was that since she became pregnant, the profits of her business almost doubled without any warning, even Grandpa Gu thought it was miraculous.
Luo Bei whispered to Gu Qianyan, “I was born with a life of wealth and prosperity. Will my baby also be blessed with a double dose of wealth and prosperity? That’s why it’s multiplied?”
Gu Qianyan had never believed in this kind of thing before, but with Luo Bei, many things seemed to be explainable only by her good luck and fate. Hearing this, he was also half-believing, “Really?”
“I think so. Since I got pregnant, my luck has been better than before, and my business has been better than before. Everything is the same…” Luo Bei looked confident, “But whether it’s a natural life of wealth and prosperity doesn’t matter. I just want the baby to grow up healthy and happy.”
Luo Bei found that her baby was really considerate. She had no morning sickness or insomnia during pregnancy, and when she gave birth, it was smooth because it was relatively quick. She didn’t suffer too much pain, and even the doctor said it was too fast.
The baby wasn’t big, weighing only six pounds and three ounces. She had double eyelids and thick hair, and looked especially cute with her eyes closed.
Mother Gu was even more excited than Luo Bei. The clothes she bought for the baby were enough for her to change every hour.
Father Gu didn’t want to lose to his scheming wife. He bought all the baby products, whether they were useful or not. In short, the baby room couldn’t contain them all.
In another room in a small county town, Fang Jingzhou was now ten years old.
He sat at his desk, sitting up straight, and was writing his diary earnestly.
Although he was still young, his handwriting was beautiful and neat. He wore his pajamas and looked out the window, writing slowly, “Today, a girl who is even cuter than Beibei in this world was born.”
- Implantation bleeding is a type of bleeding that can occur during early pregnancy when a fertilized egg implants itself into the lining of the uterus. This bleeding is often light and occurs around the time that a woman would normally expect to have her period, which can make it difficult to distinguish from menstrual bleeding. ↩︎
😭😭😭 I want JSH to fall for another girl and get a happy small family of his own. Brother Liu is too much for suspecting him of… You know. 😭😂😭😂 I also want that for FJZ. But, he’s still a bean sprout now. He’s too young and I’m afraid we don’t have enough chapter to reach his love story. 😂😅😂😅🤭🥲
Ugh, my heart! You know their children will be the cutest!!!