The bombshell Bai Xiaoche had dropped left the entire Bai Family uneasy throughout the New Year. They even canceled their visits to relatives and friends.
Now that Bai Xiaoche had laid everything out in the open, there was no point in hiding anything. She simply asked her advisor for an extended leave and stayed home to rest and take care of her pregnancy.
She had finished the experiment her advisor had assigned her long ago. It had originally been expected to take a year of work, so no one had expected Bai Xiaoche to complete it so early. That was why she could rest easy during her pregnancy.
Lately, what Bai Xiaoche had been busy with was the soilless cultivation technology Wang Yue had once mentioned.
But when Wang Yue had talked with her about it, he had mostly expanded on the experiments she was already conducting at the time. He hadn't had a chance to explain many of the finer details of soilless cultivation, so Bai Xiaoche's progress afterward had been extremely slow.
Fortunately, Professor Liang wasn't in a hurry. She had seen Bai Xiaoche working on the experiment for more than half a year, so when Bai Xiaoche asked for leave, she agreed without a second thought.
After the New Year, Bai Erru decisively contacted Wang Yue. The day he chose happened to be Valentine's Day.
Although Wang Yue wasn't very willing to meet, he still went after receiving Bai Erru's call. Just as he'd expected, Bai Erru was waiting for him with a gloomy expression.
Seeing Wang Yue as calm and unruffled as he had been when they first met, Bai Erru frowned and asked, "Wang Yue, what do you plan to do about things between you and Xiaoche?"
Looking at Bai Erru, Wang Yue replied with