My Lady, To Defeat Scumbags You Must Start Early

Chapter 675: Extra 088 Just Used to Him (Second update)

In the hospital room.

Mu Cidian whispering a name.

Xin Zaozao does not respond.

Mu Cidian asks, “Is it okay?”

After a long silence, Xin Zaozao nods, “Mm.”

With his back to Xin Zaozao, a beautiful smile clearly graces Mu Cidian’s face.

He says, “Let’s call her Wanwan.”

As he speaks, he leans in a bit closer to their daughter, tenderly calling, “Wanwan.”

Wanwan is sound asleep at this moment.

In that moment, it wasn’t clear whether she heard her father’s voice or not, but she suddenly smiled.

Mu Cidian feels a flutter in his heart.

He was truly touched by his daughter’s smile.

Excited, he turns to Xin Zaozao, and says, “She just smiled.”

Xin Zaozao looks over.

The little baby is still sound asleep at this moment, expressionless.

“She really did smile just now,” Mu Cidian insists. “She must like the name I’ve given her.”

Xin Zaozao doesn’t react.

But deep down, she agrees with what the nurse said when she came out of the delivery room, that new fathers tend to be quite childish.

Seeing that Xin Zaozao isn’t responding or showing any discomfort, Mu Cidian leans down to gently kiss his daughter, then turns to Xin Zaozao, and says, “Let me help you clean up.”

“The maternity nurse can help me…”

Mu Cidian is already preparing hot water for her in the bathroom.

Xin Zaozao swallows her refusal.

After giving her body a thorough cleanup and changing her into a fresh set of hospital attire, Mu Cidian asks, “Do you want to walk around a bit?”n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

You’ve been lying down for quite a while, your body must be feeling a little numb.

“Mm.” Xin Zaozao nods.

She manages to get out of bed with Mu Cidian’s support.

Mu Cidian carefully holds onto her shoulders.

Xin Zaozao carefully walks forward.

In fact, recovery from a natural delivery is pretty fast. She doesn’t know whether it’s psychological, but she still carefully takes every step.

“I want to take a walk outside the ward,” Xin Zaozao says.

“Let me help you put on a hat.”

“No need.”

“Behave,” Mu Cidian’s gentle voice comes with a non-negotiable tone.

Mu Cidian gets a confinement hat for Xin Zaozao.

As he puts the pink wool hat on Xin Zaozao, his eyes obviously linger for a moment.

For a moment, he seems to see Xin Zaozao from when she was small.

When she was little, she had a similar hat…

His kiss suddenly lands on her forehead.

Xin Zaozao can feel Mu Cidian’s soft lips pressing against her forehead.

A warm sense of affection spreads slightly within her heart.

After a while.

He lets her go.

Even though Xin Zaozao didn’t know why there were so many emotions in his eyes, she knew that Mu Cidian always digested them himself, always endured on his own without anyone’s knowledge.

They leave the ward.

Outside the ward, because this is a VIP suite, there are very few people, only a few rooms on the entire floor and mostly common entertaining areas.

Mu Cidian helps Xin Zaozao walk through each area, pausing occasionally.

Xin Zaozao wants to visit the Sky Garden outside.

Mu Cidian immediately holds her back, “You can’t go.”

“Why?” Xin Zaozao is annoyed.

“You can’t catch the wind during the confinement period.”

“…”

“It’s bad for your health,” Mu Cidian explains.

Xin Zaozao bites her lip.

“We can sit here where we can get some sunlight,” Mu Cidian takes Xin Zaozao by the hand and has her sit down on a leisure chair by the floor-to-ceiling windows.

The sunlight at this moment is just right.

The sunlight is warm on their bodies.

Xin Zaozao leaning back in the chair, looking at the clear blue sky outside and the dazzling sunlight.

For the first time, it seems everything is calm and peaceful…

Until.

“Cidian.” A soft and weak voice sounds next to them.

Mu Cidian lifts his head.

Xin Zaozao also follows the voice and looks over.

They see Lei Qian, standing not far from them, holding a basket of fruit.

“Cidian, I just called you, but you didn’t pick up, I also sent you a message…” Lei Qian says softly.

The throat of Mu Cidian moves slightly.

“I just came to present my own gift.” As she speaks, Lei Qian carefully puts down the fruit basket in her hand and takes out a red envelope with the words “Grow healthy, be smart” written on it. She hands it to Mu Cidian, “I don’t know what the baby needs, so I prepared a red envelope, it’s just a small token of appreciation. I hope you can accept.”

Mu Cidian looks at the red envelope.

Xin Zaozao suddenly stands up.

Mu Cidian holds her.

Xin Zaozao says, “I’m tired.”

She removes Mu Cidian’s hand.

Mu Cidian sets his lips, watching Xin Zaozao walk away.

Looking at Xin Zaozao’s retreating figure, Lei Qian says apologetically, “Did I upset Xin Zaozao?”

Xin Zaozao does not walk far.

Her body at this moment doesn’t allow her to walk away quickly.

So she hears clearly the soft voice of Lei Qian.

Without hearing a response from Mu Cidian, Lei Qian continues to say, “I’m really grateful to you for agreeing to help me today. I really wanted to thank you but didn’t know how to do so. Therefore, I want to express a bit of my gratitude. I’m sorry if I’ve caused any trouble. I’ll leave first.”

Having said that, Lei Qian puts the red envelope on the fruit basket and quickly walks away.

The way she leaves, it seems like she is genuinely afraid of disturbing them.

Looking at the retreating figure of Lei Qian, Mu Cidian glances down at the fruit basket in front of him and the red envelope on top of it.

He picks up his lips, lifts the fruit basket, and returns to the ward.

Back in the ward, Xin Zaozao’s has already returned to her hospital bed.

At that moment, when she sees Mu Cidian return, and sees the fruit basket and red envelope in his hands…

Mu Cidian puts the fruit and red envelope in a corner of the ward, sits on the sofa, and speaks, “About the issue with the Lei village, there’s a big problem with Lei Qiang. Lei Qian hopes that I can help her, lighten her father’s guilt. I agreed.”

“That’s your problem, you don’t have to tell me specifically,” Xin Zaozao responds.

“What happened between me and Lei Qian…” Mu Cidian looked at Xin Zaozao, “Believe it or not, I’ve never laid a hand on her.”

Xin Zaozao’s eyes shifted slightly.

“I’ve been with only two women in my life, the first one was you, the second was Wu Qianyuan,” explained Mu Cidian.

Xin Zaozao didn’t understand why Mu Cidian would suddenly say these things.

Luckily, the nanny was dozing off beside her, the nanny wasn’t there, and the baby was asleep.

“I was with Wu Qianyuan only because I thought I could never be with you again in my life, so… I had a relationship with her,” said Mu Cidian. “But later, I came to regret it greatly.”

Xin Zaozao looked at him.

“I didn’t like her from the start, but I used her for some business advantages, and to completely give up on you.”

“You should be saying these things to Wu Qianyuan, not me,” Xin Zaozao replied coldly.

He should be confessing to Wu Qianyuan, not feeding her all these principlies and lofty sentiments.

“I’m not confessing, I’m not that kind-hearted. From the moment I saw my father jump from a building in suicide, I knew I wouldn’t be a good person in the future. So, I won’t blame myself or feel guilty for hurting a woman… I’m telling you all this because I hope you don’t reject me,” Mu Cidian said as he looked at her, his gaze fixed straight on her.

Xin Zaozao’s eyes shifted again, avoiding his gaze.

“What I regret most is, why didn’t I keep myself pure for you,” voiced Mu Cidian, pausing after each word.

He finished speaking, seemingly not expecting any response from Xin Zaozao.

Suddenly, he got up, picked up the fruit basket Lei Qian had sent to the ward, and left the room.

Xin Zaozao watched his movements with a frown.

She saw him return soon after he left.

The fruit and red envelope were gone when he returned.

Xin Zaozao looked at him.

“Anything my wife dislikes, I will throw away,” stated Mu Cidian.

Xin Zaozao’s eyes shifted slightly.

How could he say ‘wife’ so matter-of-factly?

She asked, “You threw the red envelope away too?”

“I checked, it was only 2000 yuan,” explained Mu Cidian.

He meant that the money wasn’t much, so she shouldn’t care too much.

Xin Zaozao was somewhat speechless.

She didn’t like Lei Qian’s things, but… she didn’t say she didn’t like money.

Even a mosquito is flesh after all.

It seemed that Mu Cidian had seen through Xin Zaozao’s thoughts, he said, “Then I will go pick it up.”

“Forget it, if you’ve thrown it, it’s gone,” Xin Zaozao didn’t want to say more.

Mu Cidian suddenly laughed.

Xin Zaozao frowned, “What are you laughing at?”

“I knew you wouldn’t want to throw the money away, so I threw the red envelope away but kept the money,” Mu Cidian said straightforwardly.

Xin Zaozao felt a little exasperated.

What a sly old fox Mu Cidian was!

…

Xin Zaozao stayed in the hospital for a week before returning home.

The doctor recommended that she go to a postnatal care center, but Xin Zaozao refused; she was accustomed to living at home.

The nanny followed them back to Xin Zaozao’s home.

Mu Cidian naturally moved in as well.

They also hired a nutritionist from the postnatal care center to prepare their meals for them.

Xin Zaozao’s house was big, but there were only two rooms designed.

The guest room, in Xin Zaozao’s opinion, was mostly for show. However, in accordance with tradition, they kept one extra room. That extra room had now been turned into a baby room by Mu Cidian. In the baby room, a simple futon bed had been made for the nanny to sleep next to the baby.

The nutritionist had to go home every day, so that left Mu Cidian without a place to sleep.

Mu Cidian did not ask to sleep with Xin Zaozao, but he brought some luggage with him and placed it in a small corner of Xin Zaozao’s cloakroom, occupying about a tenth of the space.

The first thing Xin Zaozao did when she got home was take a shower.

Although she had taken a shower in the hospital, it was still more convenient at home.

When she got out of the shower in her bathrobe, she saw Mu Cidian in her bedroom, seemingly waiting for her.

Xin Zaozao couldn’t help but look down at her own attire.

She used a towel to dry her hair and pulled her robe closer with her other hand.

Mu Cidian stepped forward and said, “You lie down on the bed, I’ll dry your hair for you. You should be careful not to catch a cold after taking a bath during the postnatal period.”

Xin Zaozao hesitated for a moment but didn’t refuse.

She sat on the bed while Mu Cidian stood beside it, helping her dry her hair until it was thoroughly dry.

After he finished drying her hair,

Mu Cidian put down the hairdryer and left to get Xin Zaozao a set of home clothes, even preparing her underwear for her.

He said, “You should put these on. The bathrobe is drafty and you might catch a cold.”

“Okay.” Xin Zaozao nodded.

Mu Cidian turned around and walked out.

Xin Zaozao looked at the closed bedroom door.

Sometimes, she really didn’t understand Mu Cidian.

For instance,

He chose to sleep on the couch on his own accord.

Just like in the hospital.

Every night, he slept on the couch and never overstepped his boundaries.

He would willingly approach her, but he would never cross a certain line. They maintained a certain distance from each other.

It felt like there was a distance, but she also felt that Mu Cidian was always close to her.

The weather was good that day.

The nanny was holding the baby by the floor-to-ceiling window, basking in the sun.

Since Xin Zaozao had to get up at night to feed the baby, she would try to catch up on sleep during the day.

When she woke up fully rested, she saw that only the nanny and the baby were there. Mu Cidian wasn’t there.

She looked around.

The nanny quickly said, “Are you looking for the master, madam?”

Xin Zaozao paused.

“Every time the madam wakes up, the first thing she does is always looking for the master,” the nanny said, giggling.

Was she?

No, she wasn’t.

“The madam’s expression doesn’t lie,” continued the nanny. “You and the master clearly have a good relationship, why do you still choose to sleep in separate rooms? Sleeping on the couch must be uncomfortable.”

“Where has he gone?” Xin Zaozao didn’t answer the nanny’s questions, instead, she changed the subject.

“The master had to go out; he said he had some matters to take care of and asked us not to wait for him for lunch. He’ll come back as soon as he’s done,” replied the nanny.

“Okay,” Xin Zaozao nodded.

This was probably the first time since their baby was born ten days ago that Mu Cidian had been absent.

“The master also said that if the madam misses him, she can call him, he won’t turn off his phone,” added the nanny.

“I don’t miss him,” Xin Zaozao replied bluntly.

She was just a bit… accustomed to him, that’s all.