"Hey? Why aren't you holding your baby, family member?"
The nurse was still waiting for the family member to take the baby so she could go back to push the new mother out.
Yet this family member was just standing there leaning against the wall, smiling blankly??
Meeting the nurse's puzzled gaze, Lin Feng snapped back to reality and nervously rubbed his hands against his thighs.
"H-Hold the baby? Oh, right, right..."
Yet his hands stopped midway in the air. Two babies—which one should he hold?? The next instant, Lin Feng felt both of his arms sink.
The young nurse couldn't wait any longer and shoved the babies right into his arms.
"The one on the left is the older brother, five jin and one tael."
"The one on the right is the younger sister, four jin and five taels."
Lin Feng looked down at the two flushed, wrinkled little pink bundles in his arms, and his expression instantly froze.
"Nurse, could you check if my holding posture is correct?"
"I—I feel like they're so soft, is that normal?"
Seeing Lin Feng's stiff limbs and clumsy look, the nurse chuckled, "You don't need to be so nervous. Babies aren't as delicate as we imagine—just make sure you don't drop them."
"Oh..."
Lin Feng's slightly trembling hands instantly stopped shaking.
After a brief pause, Lin Feng remembered something: "Nurse, where is the mother of the babies?"
"Don't rush, I'm going to wheel her out right now. One by one, you know."
With that, the nurse turned around and walked back into the delivery room.
Before long, a pale-faced Lu Qingxue was wheeled out, seated in a wheelchair.
Fatigued yet still possessing her peerless beauty, she looked around the moment she stepped out.
Upon seeing Lin Feng, she paused.
She bit her bloodless lips and was just about to say something when Lin Feng blurted out first:
"You've had a hard time. Let's head back to the ward first, I'll take care of the rest."
For a split second, Lu Qingxue's expression turned complicated. "...Alright."
With the nurse's help, Lin Feng brought the babies and Lu Qingxue back to the ward together.
The moment she touched the bed and hit the pillow, Lu Qingxue fell into a deep sleep.
Lin Feng carefully placed the babies beside her, and before he could even let out a sigh of relief, the nurse doing the rounds instructed him:
"Next, the mother needs to discharge lochia. Go buy some medical nursing pads for her—get the large size."
"If the new mother experiences abdominal pain or bleeding, you must notify us immediately."
"Also, why haven't the baby clothes, diapers, feeding bottles, and formula been prepared?"
"You need to get all these things sorted out quickly."
Listening to the nurse's rapid-fire instructions, Lin Feng was dumbfounded.
He looked at Lu Qingxue and the babies sleeping soundly on the bed, and then looked at the open ward door.
Even though he knew public safety was very good these days, Lin Feng couldn't help but worry—what if someone stole the babies while he was gone??
After thinking it over, Lin Feng took out his phone and called Zhou Cheng.
"Dachengyu, your buddy needs your help."
On the other end of the line, Zhou Cheng was buried in organizing registration materials for various girls. Hearing this, he raised an eyebrow knowingly:
"Did you even need to ask? Don't worry, I've organized all the materials. There are a few I think are genuinely great..."
"Ahem..."
Lin Feng's face inexplicably flushed red. "That's not what I'm talking about. I need your help buying some baby supplies and bringing them to the Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Jingkai District."
"Huh?! Baby supplies? The Maternal and Child Health Hospital?"
Zhou Cheng's heart skipped a beat with a bad premonition: "Bro, what did you do?"
Lin Feng looked at the silhouettes of one adult and two little ones on the bed and rubbed his nose:
"I've become a dad..."
"Holy crap! You son of a b*tch! When the hell did this happen?!"
Zhou Cheng was so terrified he dropped a stream of curses:
"Who the hell is the mother of the baby?!"
After a brief pause, before Lin Feng could even answer, Zhou Cheng looked at the dense sea of girls' profiles on his computer and had a mental breakdown.
In his mind, an imaginary scene flashed of himself being hunted down by these girls: *'Ahhh—Zhou Cheng, I'm going to kill you, give me back my Lin Feng—'* Then, he shivered in terror and grabbed his head with both hands! Wait, no, the romantic debt Lin Feng stirred up had nothing to do with him, Zhou Cheng, right??
Lin Feng had no idea that in just a brief second, so many thoughts could race through Zhou Cheng's mind, so he said helplessly, "Can you not be so overly excited?"
"How can I not be excited? Do you know how many young girls are currently lined up?"
Looking at the computer screen, Zhou Cheng said with a dazed expression:
"They all added my WeChat, which means I'm the front line facing all the questioning."
Lin Feng: "..."
He had been too excited and completely forgot about this detail.
Hearing silence from the other end, Zhou Cheng pressed on:
"Hey, you still haven't told me, who is the mother of the baby?"
Looking at Lu Qingxue's pale yet stunning sleeping face, Lin Feng hesitated and said, "Things between the baby's mother and me are a bit complicated. So, I'm telling you, but don't go spreading it."
Zhou Cheng rolled his eyes. "Spit it out!"
"Lu Qingxue."
Just three simple words, and Zhou Cheng was struck dumb as if hit by lightning! "L-Lu Qingxue... Isn't this our school belle, for crying out loud???"
Zhou Cheng slammed his hand onto the desk. "Why the hell shouldn't this be spread? If that bitch Liu Ruyan finds out, her face will twist in anger!"
"What's a department belle worth? In front of the school belle Lu Qingxue, she gets instantly reduced to scum!"
Hearing this, Lin Feng instantly felt a massive headache coming on:
"No, no, no, we haven't even properly talked things through yet, and now is not the time to make it public. Don't go stirring up extra trouble!"
"Sigh, I gotta hang up, the baby is crying... Oh oh, don't cry, don't cry..."
"If you consider me a brother, get over here and help out right now."
Hearing the kitten-like cries of the baby coming from the other end of the line, Zhou Cheng turned to stone.
Why did everything happening today feel so surreal?!
Meanwhile, on Lin Feng's end, the moment he hastily hung up the phone, he wanted to reach out and pick up the crying baby.
However, the moment his hand touched the swaddling blanket, it felt as though it had lost the ability to move.
"Why is this baby so soft... How do you hold them again??"
Watching Lin Feng look both anxious and bewildered, the nurse who had come to take Lu Qingxue's temperature noticed: "Afraid to hold the baby? Is this your firstborn?"
"Come, come, come, I'll teach you. A newborn's most vulnerable part is their neck and head, support the head first..."
Under the guidance of the attending nurse, Lin Feng successfully picked up the baby and gently rocked it:
"There, there, good baby, don't cry, Daddy's here."
The moment Lu Qingxue opened her eyes, what she saw was Lin Feng's clumsy figure trying to soothe the baby.
Stunned for a moment, the frost in her eyes melted away slightly.
This guy Lin Feng seemed to actually like babies quite a bit?
As Lin Feng was coaxing the baby, he turned his head and saw Lu Qingxue staring right at him, instantly feeling a bit awkward: "Uh... You're awake? Do you want to eat something?"
Lu Qingxue nodded. "Mmm."
Lin Feng hurriedly poured a cup of warm water, brought over some chocolate, and explained:
"You and the babies were both asleep just now, and you looked completely defenseless, so I didn't dare leave the room."
"That's why a lot of things haven't been prepared yet."
"Just make do with these for now. If you need anything, make a list and I'll have someone bring it over."
Lu Qingxue leisurely swallowed the chocolate in her mouth, feeling a sliver of strength return to her body, before speaking softly: "You just accepted this like that? Aren't you going to ask me anything?"
Lin Feng paused, remembering that he had many things he hadn't cleared up with Lu Qingxue yet.
Yet for a moment, he wasn't even sure where to begin asking.
It was Lu Qingxue who, after taking a sip of water to moisten her throat, took the initiative to confess:
"That day... three months later, I discovered I had conceived a child..."
Lin Feng was astonished. "You only found out after three months?!"
Didn't women have that visitor every month? How oblivious must someone be to drag it out for three months?
Lu Qingxue bit her lip and explained:
"My cycle has always been a bit irregular, and it's quite normal for it to come every month or two."
"Plus, around that time, our head tutor took leave and asked me to be a teaching assistant. I was busy out of my mind, so I paid even less attention."
"By the time I realized something was wrong and went to the hospital for a checkup, the doctor told me I was pregnant."
With a complicated expression, Lin Feng couldn't help asking: "Then why did you decide to give birth to the child?"