Growing Fond of You, Mr Nian

Yan Su looked at her tiny room and felt chills run down her spine. “Calm down a little. Can you at least wait until I finish my competition?”

“Do you think I can calm down?” Mo Liuxi bellowed. “You dropped a bombshell on me–that I’m a father! If not for the fact that I just went to the bathroom, I would have peed in my pants!”

“…Um… if you don’t want the child… I won’t force you. Anyway, I was the one who decided to keep her.” Yan Su bit her lips in frustration. He was still so young, after all. It was understandable that he didn’t want to be a father yet.

“Shut up, what are you saying?” Mo Liuxi interrupted her rudely. “I will never let my child grow up the way I did. I won’t let her live with only one parent.”

“That’s why I told you the truth. And I’m trying to fix things.”

Mo Liuxi chortled. “Are you saying that you’re patching things up with me for the child’s sake?”

“If I were doing this for my baby’s sake, I wouldn’t have hidden things from you.” Yan Su was getting a headache now. “I think you need some time to calm down; you said so yourself…that you’re shell shocked.”

“How can I calm down? I need to see you right now. I’m going to eat you alive. I’m not going to let you get out of bed for at least three days and three nights.” Mo Liuxi pronounced each word deliberately and slowly.

He always thought they hadn’t done it before and that their first time was going to be special and treasured. Now he knew he was a complete fool. How could he hold himself back? He should have eaten her alive long before this.

Yan Su was trembling now. “Um… I have something on… I’m going to hang up first…”

“Where’s my child. Tell me…” Mo Liuxi yelled into the receiver.

“I told you that I would bring you to see her over the Lunar New Year,” Yan Su quickly interrupted and hung up.

When she put down her phone, she called Jiaojiao when she thought about Mo Liuxi. “I think I need to move out and stay somewhere else. Don’t tell anyone where I’m staying, not even Mo Liuxi… Yeah, I did something. He might beat me up. If you don’t want me to perform badly for the competition, you have to keep your lips sealed…”

Yan Su quickly packed up her things after talking to Jiaojiao. She had to evacuate the place within two hours, as fast as possible.

…

Mo Liuxi was standing in school along the tree-shaded pavement; he was still ln complete shock.

Although he was raving mad just a few minutes ago, now that he had regained his composure, he felt as if he was living in a dream.

Yan Su was the woman that night?

And she gave birth to their child?

Why did it seem like a fantasy ending to their story? It was perfect.

Just then, Zhang Hongchuan walked by and found him standing there, frozen and daydreaming. It had started to drizzle, and he quickly ran over to him with an umbrella. “What are you thinking about? It’s raining!”

Mo Liuxi looked at him for a split second and pinching Zhang Honghchuan’s arms hard. Zhang Hongchuan squealed in pain. He couldn’t even hold the umbrella properly. “Mo Liuxi, you can’t intimidate me like this just because you’ve become a famous director.”

“Does it hurt?” Mo Liuxi asked.

“Of course it does. Try it on yourself if you don’t believe me,” Zhang Hongchuan said through gritted teeth.

“So, I’m not dreaming, after all.” Mo Liuxi burst into laughter. He was elated. He bent forward so that the raindrops fell on his face. Zhang Hongchuan thought he looked like a raving lunatic.

“Do you want to go to the hospital to get it checked out…”

“I’m leaving.” Mo Liuxi grabbed the umbrella as he turned to walk away, with his hands in his pockets.

Zhang Hongchuan took a moment to react. “Hey, can you give me my umbrella back, at least?”

F*ck. What rotten luck he had to know someone so dreadful.