Never Meeting Again In Our Next Life (Living Life Over) - Volume 2 (27)
Chapter 27 Bloodline
When Zhou Shuo returned to the living room with a bowl of sobering tea, he saw Xia Liang lying on the sofa, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
If he hadn’t seen the stars in Xia Liang’s eyes in the dim night, he would have almost thought that Xia Liang had fallen asleep.
Xia Liang, who was so blank and silent, made him feel a little strange.
He walked quietly to Xia Liang, placed the soup bowl on the coffee table, then half-knelt down, leaned close to Xia Liang’s ear and whispered, “Brother Liang, do you want some water?”
After a while, Xia Liang suddenly came back to his senses, rolled his eyes, looked sideways at Zhou Shuo, and looked at him with unclear meaning.
Zhou Shuo was a little embarrassed by the sight, but considering that Xia Liang was quite drunk at the moment, he suppressed his doubts and asked again in a low voice: “Brother Liang, do you want some water?”
Xia Liang still didn’t answer him. He slowly sat up on the sofa, lowered his eyes and thought for a long time, and suddenly said: “Is there any way to remove the fetus without anyone noticing?”
”What?” Zhou Shuo didn’t understand for a while.
”I mean,” Xia Liang patiently organized her sentences, “If I am really pregnant with the child, is there any way… to remove the child without alerting anyone?”
Zhou Shuo struggled to digest it for a moment before he truly realized what Xia Liang was talking about. Then he lowered his gaze and fixed it on Xia Liang’s belly, and said in surprise: “Brother Liang, you…are you pregnant?”
”What are you looking at?” Xia Liang suddenly became angry and raised his hand to push Zhou Shuo’s head away, as if it would be a great shame for him to see his belly.
Then he tried to cover up the truth and said: “I mean, what if, what if, what if, don’t you understand?”
Zhou Shuo did not argue with him on this issue.
He knew that with Xia Liang’s extremely pragmatic style of dealing with things, he would never waste his time on some flighty assumptions.
Recalling Xia Liang’s sudden decrease in drinking capacity and his endless vomiting… Zhou Shuo became more and more certain that Xia Liang might really be pregnant.
At this moment, an indescribable joy suddenly appeared in his heart, as if a soft little hand gently scratched the tip of his heart. It was a little itchy, so itchy that he couldn’t help but raise the corners of his mouth, but he couldn’t help but die. He was so tense that he didn’t dare to let Xia Liang see him.
He never thought that one day he and Xia Liang would conceive a child together – more than a month ago, this was a complete fantasy in his mind.
However, today, this little life suddenly broke into his and Xia Liang’s lives without any warning, which caught him off guard, but made him want to cry with happiness in his heart.
He has been without a father or mother since he was a child. From the time he can remember, there is no one around him that he can call a “relative”.
Even though he was later adopted by the Xia family, and even though Xia Liang repeatedly stressed that he treated him like a younger brother, Zhou Shuo still could not truly understand the feeling of a relative.
Until this moment, when he knew that Xia Liang might be pregnant with his child, he suddenly experienced the feeling of kinship without any guidance, as if there was a tentacle originating from the bloodline, silently But it penetrated his body with incomparable tenacity and blocked his internal organs and meridians.
He couldn’t bear it anymore and raised the back of his hand to wipe the hot corners of his eyes.
Xia Liang looked at him with a strange look on his face: “Let me ask you something, why are you crying?”
”No, I didn’t cry,” Zhou Shuo lied a little embarrassedly, “It’s just that… my eyes suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.”
Xia Liang didn’t pay attention and continued the topic just now, muttering to himself: “Of course, you can’t believe everything Du Lanze said. You have to confirm whether you are really pregnant before you can think about the next countermeasures.”
Zhou Shuo calmed down his excited mood and looked up at Xia Liang’s profile, which was so calm that it was almost cold. The happiness in his heart gradually faded away.
He clearly realized that the little life that was an unexpected joy to him was completely a burden that Xia Liang wanted to get rid of as soon as possible. I am afraid no one will welcome its arrival except myself.
He pursed his lips and said nothing. He just lowered his eyes and stared at Xia Liang’s belly sadly, looking reluctantly at the little life that was about to be forcibly sent away not long after he arrived.
Xia Liang saw that Zhou Shuo, a boring gourd, had no intention of participating in the discussion, and did not expect him to be of any help at the critical moment, so he simply took out his mobile phone and went to Baidu online.
But the paralysis caused by drunkenness tortured his retinas. Xia Liang squinted uncomfortably and stared at the screen on his phone for a few minutes, then threw the phone on the sofa almost out of self-indulgence.
”Go buy some pregnancy test papers for me tomorrow.” He ordered Zhou Shuo, and then murmured to himself, “But I don’t know if pregnancy test papers are useful for people with ABO physiques. . How about you go to the hospital to get some abortion pills? If the doctor doesn’t give them to you, ask Song Yan for help. He should have local channels.”
The reason why he asked Zhou Shuo to do these things was because the last time he went out alone to buy contraceptive pills was not a pleasant memory, and he didn’t want to experience a similar embarrassing experience again.
Zhou Shuo slowly retracted his gaze fixed on his lower abdomen, raised his eyes and looked at him, not knowing how much he had taken in what he just said.
Xia Liang thought he didn’t understand, and warned: “Buy the good quality pregnancy test paper and buy more.”
After thinking about it, he still felt uneasy about Zhou Shuo’s honest and dull character, so he added: “If someone is too nosy and asks you who you bought it for, just say you bought it for your girlfriend.”
