Gu Wenze's brows drew together almost instantly. His face tightened, but he said nothing.
Qiao Hua watched his face intently, waiting for his answer.
Only after a moment did Gu Wenze force the words out. "Nothing will happen to our baby."
"What if something really does happen to him?"
Gu Wenze's gaze sharpened, and he spoke through gritted teeth. "Qiao Hua, do you want something to happen to our baby that badly?"
Qiao Hua sighed. "I'm just asking in advance."
Of course she didn't want anything to happen to the baby. No one knew the pain of pregnancy better than she did.
But she still couldn't rest easy. Even the doctors couldn't guarantee that the baby would survive.
If something really happened to this baby, who knew whether Gu Wenze would lose his mind again and make her have another one?
She wasn't a baby-making machine.
Gu Wenze repeated the same words. "Nothing will happen to our baby."
When Gu Wenze still refused to answer her question directly, Qiao Hua could already guess his answer. She gave a self-mocking smile and stopped asking.
A heavy, stifling silence settled over the small hospital room. Neither of them spoke again.
An unknown amount of time passed, so long it felt like a century, before Gu Wenze suddenly spoke without warning. "No one can replace this baby."
"Even if we had another one, it wouldn't be him."
Something seemed to jolt inside Qiao Hua's chest. She looked up at Gu Wenze in a daze.
What did Gu Wenze mean by that?
Gu Wenze was looking at her too, his tone utterly solemn. "So, Qiao Hua, nothing will happen to our baby. You have to believe that. It's the only thing you can believe."
At that moment, Qiao Hua felt she might have underestimated