Ye Moxuan remained silent upon hearing that. What’s on her mind that she can’t tell me directly?
Seeing Ye Moxuan frown while looking deep in thought, Song An decided to remind her nephew, “Use your analytical thinking in business to ponder on Han Muzi’s situation right now or try to think in her shoes. You’ll probably know why.”
Again, Ye Moxuan remained silent upon hearing that.
“Okay, my task is completed now. I’ll be going to meet the old man back home since he just texted me.”
Silence fell in the room at night as the husband and wife lay on the bed quietly; Han Muzi had her back facing Ye Moxuan, who sighed internally as he looked at the woman in front of him. Although she had allowed him to enter the room, it was pitch dark as soon as Ye Moxuan entered. The lamp was not switched on and even the curtains were closed, causing him to see nothing at all.
Ye Moxuan asked in a low voice without moving, “Why didn’t you switch on some lights?”
Han Muzi immediately replied, “It won’t hurt my eyes with all of the lights switched off.” In fact, it was just an excuse that she used. She never had the habit of switching off the lights while sleeping as she woke up in the middle of the night to go to the washroom, so it was quite necessary for it to be switched on.
Song An gave Han Muzi a lot of advice, and even though the latter had listened to them, the mental block she experienced never completely disintegrated.
In the end, Ye Moxuan found his way to the bed without uttering another word. Han Muzi wasn’t asleep yet as she felt a little sorry for Ye Moxuan. After all, he did nothing wrong yet she often threw temper tantrums at him. As she bit her lips, a warm body closed in on her. His breath huffed on her neck immediately, making her feel slightly itchy and she cowered subconsciously.
“What’s wrong?” A low and hoarse voice rang from behind her. Han Muzi cowered again and moved away from him a little yet he leaned into her once more effortlessly. “Have I done something wrong? You were just fine two days ago, weren’t you?”
Although Song An asked Ye Moxuan to think about what might have happened, he had no clue on what he did to infuriate Han Muzi. The only possibility was that he neglected her and focused too much on his company. “Is it because of the company? The meeting last week was extremely important, so I left for a while. As soon as the meeting ended, I immediately returned. If you aren’t comfortable with that, I will cancel all meetings at the company for this period to accompany you whole-heartedly.”
The more considerate he was, the more Han Muzi felt distressed because Ye Moxuan treated her well enough yet she was as willful as a child. By looking into the mirror, she realized how ugly she looked and she didn’t want to face him because of that. Before this, she already heard that pregnant women would become more emotional, but she refused to believe that. Now, it completely came true. She had always thought that she was quite confident, but, in the end, she still… “It’s not because of that.” Han Muzi denied that while shaking her head.
In order to keep her company, Ye Moxuan had already canceled most of the meetings—apart from the very important ones. Apart from that, he never participated in any other events. Ye Moxuan initially wanted to hold the wedding, but Han Muzi was unwilling to wear the wedding dress with a big belly. However, she never expected that she would gain more weight after that.
“So, what is going on? Can you tell me?” Seeing that she had finally spoken, Ye Moxuan asked in one go. He inched forward toward her and leaned on her back while caressing her belly gently with his huge hand. “I’m your husband—the closest person to you. If you can’t even confide in me, who else can you talk to?” he coaxed her patiently in a gentle voice. With Song An’s earlier advice and Ye Moxuan’s words, the mental barricade in Han Muzi’s mind slowly disintegrated. Then, she apologized to Ye Moxuan in a low voice.
He froze for a while before laughing out loud. “You don’t have anything to apologize for. You never have to apologize to me.”
“Actually…” Han Muzi hesitated for a while, thinking on how to phrase her sentence before opening her mouth again. “A few days ago, when I looked at myself in the mirror, I realized that my figure had gone out of shape…”
“Yeah?” As a straight man, Ye Moxuan never found anything wrong with her sentence. He had no idea how much women cared about their figures and he never knew that most of them were constantly on diet all year long just to look good. Although many people never succeed in doing that, it never affected their endurance as they would start over again and again.
“Do you think that I’ll lose my figure after delivering the baby and be ugly forever?”
“How could that be? You managed to maintain your figure after you had Little Bean, didn’t you?” At that time, Ye Moxuan had no clue that she bore his son as he couldn’t tell that she had delivered a child just by her looks.
Although he never knew what changed in a woman who gave birth, Han Muzi felt like the way she used to be in the past. “You wouldn’t understand.” Han Muzi sounded slightly frustrated. “When I had Little Bean, I didn’t look like this at all.”
At that time, her limbs weren’t as thick as they were right now. Her belly was just a tad bit bigger and she was only slightly rounder. After the delivery, she also returned to her normal figure pretty quickly. However, seeing how she turned out right now, she had no idea whether she could return to her previous figure. “What if I continued to remain this way after childbirth?” Han Muzi was immensely worried about that. “By then, how am I going to wear the wedding dress and how are we going to hold a wedding? More importantly, after I become ugly, everyone will definitely laugh at me when I stand next to you…”
Ye Moxuan remained silent upon hearing that. It never occurred to him that she had so many worries in her mind. If she didn’t tell him now, he never knew that she worried about this. Initially Ye Moxuan never could understand her fears, but after he thought about it in her perspective, he finally understood why she cared a lot. If he himself had become less than what he had expected of himself, he definitely would have such thoughts when he stood next to her as well.
After hearing Han Muzi’s thoughts, Ye Moxuan felt that he understood what went on. “Who will laugh at you? If they do so, they are deliberately going against me and I won’t let them have a good life,” Ye Moxuan responded in a firm tone that was quite protective of Han Muzi. “If this is not good enough, how about me accompanying you?”
Han Muzi didn’t understand his words in that instant. “What do you mean?”
“If you think that you have become uglier, I shall follow suit so that we’ll be ugly together.”
Han Muzi was speechless when she heard that. Although she never wanted to drag him down, she couldn’t help but ask curiously, “But how will you do that? You can’t have babies…”
Ye Moxuan smiled. “It’s simple—I’ll just disfigure myself or I gain a lot of weight with you.”
When he spoke about disfiguring himself, Han Muzi was shocked beyond belief. Moreover, he said in a nonchalant way as if he never cared about all that. Just the thought of it infuriated Han Muzi. She scolded him immediately, “What nonsense are you talking about? Disfiguring yourself? What are you going to do to your face?”
