Chapter 5 Pregnancy Checklists and Love Letters

  The place I live in is an old house left by my grandmother. A typical building from the early 90s. And it's not the whole building that belongs to my grandmother, just a small suite inside.

  That small suite is only over 30 square meters. These thirty-odd square meters also include a small balcony, a bathroom, a living room, a small kitchen and a bedroom. After such an allocation, the usable space in each area is very limited. When I moved in, I cleaned up the house inside and out and rearranged it. This way, the house looks habitable.

  Su Haicheng, with a height of nearly 1.9 meters and a sturdy body, walked into my small apartment, making the space feel cramped and the light blocked. He looked around discontentedly, furrowing his brow and muttering in a low voice: "How can you live in such a place? It's so small, how can people live here?"

  I replied in my heart, if you think it's too small and don't want to live here, then move out. Aren't you a soldier? You can just find a place outside, that's also a way to train your wilderness survival skills.

  I wouldn't dare say that in front of him. What I said to him was: "You can use the room, and I'll sleep on the sofa."

  He has already walked into the room, took a step back to the door and turned around to look at me who was still standing outside the door, saying: "I don't have the habit of bullying women. I'll just sleep on the sofa."

  What did he say? He said he doesn't have the habit of bullying women? Now he doesn't even know what I've become after being bullied by him, and he dares to say such a thing!

  I pouted, staring at him but didn't dare say a word. He walked over from the room, stood in front of me, and rarely curled up the corner of his mouth, just a little bit of an arc, which couldn't be seen if not paying attention. He said: "You're not afraid of me? Dare to stare at me like that!"

  I quickly lowered my head to avoid his gaze. Just then, my phone rang, and I hastily pulled it out, thinking that this was a good opportunity to slip away. The call was from Kakashi, who said over the phone, "Yonin-sister, how's it going on your end?"

  "It's nothing. He didn't do anything to me?" I said this only because he was standing right in front of me, staring at me intensely. "Has the boss arrived? Help me ask for leave, just say I have a boyfriend now."

  I originally wanted to let Kaka sense that there's something going on and danger over here through this conversation. Because he knows the person I like the most is our boss, it's impossible for me to have another boyfriend. But that brainless Kaka actually smiled at me and said: "Sister, isn't it that Sohaku? You're so cool, finding a dead person as your boyfriend. When are you going to bring him out to show us?"

  I guarantee that if Kakaxi were standing in front of me right now, I absolutely wouldn't kill him. Hurriedly said to him: "Remember to tell the boss." Then hung up, he himself is brain-dead, can't even hear the meaning behind my words, right?

  As soon as he hung up the phone, Su Haicheng said: "Give me your ID card."

  His words were basically an order to me. I quickly handed over my ID card. He flipped through the ID card and said, "Just turned twenty years old. Chen Siyi, what a strange name, who gave it to you?"

  "My dad. My mom was forty-one years old when she gave birth to me, and it was a difficult labor, after which she fell ill. Now her body is in poor condition. She gave me this name so that I would remember the hardships she endured giving birth to me. What do you want my ID for?"

  He put his ID card into his pocket and said, "I'll be back tonight to find you." As he walked away, he didn't even turn his head and said, "Don't call the police on me! And don't try any tricks!"

  As soon as he left, I collapsed onto the sofa. In my heart, I thought, if I wanted to report it to the police, would it be of any use? The police can't possibly follow me around all the time. If I told them that a dead person was looking for me and bothering me, wouldn't they send me to a mental hospital?

  But I didn't call the police, what else could I have done? Did I really give him a dead person as a girlfriend?

  No, I have to leave here and make him unable to find me. At that time in the village, when he asked me who I was, I should have randomly said a name, randomly said a school, so even if he came looking for me, he wouldn't be able to find me. Unfortunately, there's no regret medicine to take now.

  I hastily grabbed my wallet and keys, ready to leave, but as I reached the door, I thought again. This is my home, how can I just walk away? Wouldn't that be letting him off easy? But if I don't leave, am I really supposed to live with a dead person? Is he really dead after all? When we arrived at the village, the bodies were still under the rubble. From this, it can be inferred that we were among the first batch of people to enter after the fire. Since no one else entered, who spread the news that they had all been burned to death? Maybe the military investigation was sloppy and they just said they were all dead.

  And that day Su Haicheng should have followed those corpses together. Where did he follow the corpse to? The underworld? And then how did he come back?

  Sometimes, when a person's mind is in disarray, they can't feel the passage of time. Like now, my head has been a jumble of thoughts, and it wasn't until I realized that the sky was already darkening and the time had reached 7 o'clock at night that I became aware that I had been stuck here for a long time.

  When I thought of leaving again and couldn't live with that dead man, he came back. We met at the door. At that time, I was holding my wallet, carrying a small bag with a day's change of clothes, thinking of going to a friend's house for a few days, when he blocked me in front of the door upstairs.

  My heart suddenly accelerated. If he knew my purpose, would he be very angry?

  His gaze swept over me like a scanning device, then he said: "What I just said, you didn't hear clearly!"

  When he finished speaking, he reached out and pulled my hand, pulling me back into the small living room, throwing me directly onto the sofa, closing the door, then tossing a few pieces of paper in front of me, saying: "I think I need to change the way I communicate with you."

  "No need, no need, I just want to go out and eat."

  "Why carry such a big bag when going out for dinner?"

  I hadn't even responded to him, when I first saw the few sheets of paper he had thrown over, with printed receipts on them. To my surprise, it was a B-ultrasound examination report for a fetus! And the name on it was actually mine, Chen Siyi! My mouth was agape in shock. After a while, I hastily glanced at the next few sheets of paper. Handwritten, on letterhead. Who still writes by hand these days... love letters?

  I saw the sentence on it "April Fool's, I really miss you. Sorry, I can't be with you often. But next month I have two days off, wait for me."

  "April Fool's, I received your gift. My comrades don't know that I have such a good girlfriend like you. I've kept it safe and didn't let them see it. Also, last time when I went to find you, it was really my fault, I got drunk, that's why I treated you like that. I promise I will marry you. Right now I can't be by your side, if you get pregnant, please tell me. That would be our child."

  "This... I'm at a loss for words."

  Su Haicheng handed me my ID card and said, "Let's go out for dinner. I'll talk to you more about going to A city tomorrow and what you need to do."

  "What's going on here? How can I swallow my food like this?" Oh my god! I'm a 20-year-old girl, and I just had a crush on our boss in my heart, not even holding hands with him before. But now...now it's such a big deal! Now whoever wants me to leave, I won't leave! I want to stay and see what he's playing at. And I absolutely don't allow these things to be seen by others.

  I put down my backpack. He folded all of these into my small backpack. He also said on the side, "Fold them, make them a little wrinkled to look real."

  Half an hour later, we sat in the chain fast food restaurant I often go to. Here, there are clean and colorful tables and chairs, as well as cheap meals. And now it's already eight o'clock, at this time, there are only five or six people eating. The store space is large, everyone's position is quite far away, I guess others can't hear us talking either.

  We had just sat down when we heard three girls at a nearby table looking over and whispering to each other, saying that Su Haicheng is so handsome.

  Indeed, men with such eyebrows and eyes all look handsome. Their eyes are very intimidating to people. But I was poking at the rice with my chopsticks, not in the mood to eat.