Chapter 4: He Said He’s Pregnant

Why was it hard to believe?

And aggrieved?

Wang Zhao frowned, her temples throbbing, feeling that perhaps her judgment of the relationship between the original body and Li Zhenguan was not quite accurate.

Perhaps the relationship between the two was a little closer?

The original body had already made a promise to him?

She had no way of knowing, but the young man’s expression at this moment was undoubtedly like someone who had been abandoned after being led on.

The atmosphere between the two fell silent, and neither spoke again.

Li Zhenguan lowered his head, and Wang Zhao could seemingly see the back of his neck exposed as he lowered his head, the snow-white skin catching her eye. The rounded vertebrae made the young man’s thin spine even more slender.

She thought absently that the men in this world seemed to be quite thin, with aesthetics somewhat like the pale, thin, and young aesthetic of her previous life.

Invisible shackles were placed on another gender in another form.

When it was time for dinner, Li Zhenguan was naturally kept to eat together.

The meal was eaten very quietly. Even Wang’s parents noticed that something was not quite right between the two of them, glancing from time to time at Wang Zhao, who was eating calmly. The smile on Zhenguan’s face had faded a bit, and his whole person seemed listless.

But Wang Zhao acted as if she didn’t notice anything, eating with an unchanged expression, as if she didn’t see the person beside her looking dejected at all.

Mother Wang remained reticent and silent as she ate, while Father Wang tried to maintain the atmosphere at the dining table, occasionally saying a few words to Zhenguan and using the serving chopsticks to help dish out food, telling him not to stand on ceremony.

Dinner ended in a strange atmosphere, with perhaps only Wang Zhao and Mother Wang completely unaffected.

After eating half full, Mother Wang went out for a walk, and Wang Zhao helped Father Wang clear the dishes and put them in the dishwasher before being shooed out by him.

“How can you let Zhenguan, a guest, wait outside? Go out and talk to him,” Father Wang said, clearly not giving up yet. “Zhenguan is such a well-behaved and obedient child, and his appearance is not bad either. I don’t know what you’re dissatisfied with?”

Hearing this, it seemed that the original body didn’t like this blind date partner either. Then why did Li Zhenguan look like he had been abandoned after she said that?

Wang Zhao felt a little headache. She didn’t understand why the original body had to go on blind dates at only around twenty-five or twenty-six years old. And Father Wang acted as if his daughter would be single for life if she missed this shop.

Under Father Wang’s pushing, she had no choice but to leave the kitchen. As soon as she came out, she met Li Zhenguan’s gaze. Obviously, he had been watching this side the whole time after being shooed out of the kitchen by Father Wang.

Meeting her gaze, he immediately averted his eyes as if burned, sitting on the sofa in a flustered manner.

Neither of them spoke. Wang Zhao walked a few steps closer to him, looking at the man’s soft top of the head, and sighed. In her heart, she felt a little softer. Compared to her actual age, the twenty-year-old Li Zhenguan was still a child, five or six years younger than her.

“Come on, I’ll take you home,” she said.

Li Zhenguan looked up at her.

His eyes were very bright, and his pale white skin looked like it would leave a red mark if pinched.

A child raised in a wealthy family.

After several seconds, he finally stood up. He was not short, still considered tall in this world, with a slender figure. Under Wang Zhao’s gaze, he slowly made an “en” sound.

Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief. In her eyes, Li Zhenguan was a time bomb. Who knew when he would explode? She had to send him out quickly to feel at ease.

After telling Father Wang in the kitchen, Wang Zhao took him out.

After dinner, it was already dark outside. Their area was an old district, with very old houses and no elevators installed, only stairs to walk.

In such decades-old old buildings, the stairwells were very dark, with dim yellow lighting that sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. Some corners were pitch black, with the light unable to reach them at all. And when going down the stairs with your back to the light, the position under your feet was all dark, and you couldn’t see clearly at all.

The stairwell was narrow. Wang Zhao took out her phone, turned on the flashlight, and led the young man downstairs.

“Our side is the old district. This light hasn’t been changed for a long time. Be careful when going downstairs, and watch your step so you don’t miss a step,” Wang Zhao spoke up to remind him as they went downstairs.

A light “en” sound came from beside her, and then she felt a light tug on her sleeve.

Wang Zhao glanced at it but didn’t refuse, continuing to go downstairs.

At this time, there was no one in the stairwell, and it was very quiet, a suitable place for a conversation.

So she opened her mouth with a little hesitation but some determination, “Li…”

“Li Zhenguan, I don’t think we’re very suitable to develop a relationship beyond blind date partners.” She thought about it and had to directly call his name.

Somehow, she just felt that the title “Mr. Li” didn’t quite suit that face that seemed too young. She stopped in her steps and looked at the person beside her.

“You understand what I mean, right? If possible, we can get along as friends in the future.”

Li Zhenguan didn’t make a sound. He seemed to fall completely silent, lowering his head again, his face completely hidden in the flickering light, like the darkness permeating the stairwell.

Wang Zhao felt that she had made it very clear by saying this much, so she didn’t speak again.

Who would have thought that when she stepped down onto a step, Li Zhenguan suddenly grabbed her sleeve and took the lead in showing weakness, “Sister, what happened three months ago was my fault. I shouldn’t have done that. I won’t do that again in the future. Can you forgive me this once?”

His voice was very soft, with a bit of hoarseness, as if he was crying.

Wang Zhao was not good at handling such situations. A man crying and begging her for forgiveness, she couldn’t quite describe the feeling. Goosebumps rose all over her body, and she couldn’t say a word. At this moment, she was like a scumbag woman who had abandoned him after leading him on.

Moreover, she was not very clear about what had happened three months ago. Who knew what sins the original body had committed that she now had to bear?

She kept silent, and Li Zhenguan’s crying gradually subsided, his voice also getting smaller. His heart sank deeper and deeper, and his eyes grew darker and darker.

Wang Zhao thought the person in front of her had finished crying and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. She was about to go downstairs and send him away to be done with it, but suddenly she was hugged by the person.

And the person hugging her spoke at this moment. Because the stairwell was very quiet, even though the man’s voice was small, it still reached her ears.

“Wang Zhao, I’m pregnant. It’s been three months.” One of her hands was also led by him to be placed on his flat abdomen.

It was as if a thunderclap exploded beside her ear with a boom.

In the flickering light of the stairwell, Wang Zhao’s gaze passed over the shoulder of the person in her arms and landed on a spot at the bottom of the stairs.

A familiar face was revealed in the dim yellow light.

It was none other than Mother Wang, who had finished her walk and was about to return home. At this moment, she was glaring at her with an angry expression.

She felt her head starting to hurt again.

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