The Baby Moved
It was not yet New Year’s Eve.
But with the holiday approaching, the atmosphere of the New Year was already spreading everywhere.
Someone outside had begun setting off fireworks.
While Mu Wan watched, another explosion sounded.
Her eyes slowly widened.
A beautiful firework burst across the sky.
“The fireworks are so pretty!”
Mu Wan was lying flat.
Getting up had become somewhat difficult.
Like a little turtle, she flailed her limbs, trying to sit up.
But her strength was clearly insufficient.
She did not manage it.
She looked toward Liu Qianxiu and stretched both arms toward him.
“Pull me up~”
Liu Qianxiu still had one hand on her abdomen.
He did not answer.
He simply stared at her.
There was something in his dark eyes that Mu Wan could not understand.
“What is it?”
Confused, Mu Wan lowered her gaze toward her stomach.
At that moment, another firework exploded outside.
Boom.
Multicolored light illuminated the entire sky.
Mu Wan stared blankly at her bare abdomen.
At the instant the firework burst, a tiny bump appeared beneath the skin.
Mu Wan’s eyes gradually widened.
The sensation was astonishing.
She had never experienced morning sickness.
Her body had never rejected the pregnancy.
In fact, apart from her stomach growing larger, almost nothing about her pregnancy had felt especially different.
This was the first time she had truly felt the baby’s presence.
A tingling sensation swept over Mu Wan’s skin.
A small sound escaped her throat, somewhere between confusion and shock.
She looked up at Liu Qianxiu.
He was watching her too.
“It just... moved?”
Mu Wan’s voice trembled.
Her eyes were excited but uncertain.
“Mm.”
The baby was reacting to sounds from the outside world.
Whenever the fireworks exploded, it moved inside her.
Liu Qianxiu had not only seen it just now.
He had felt it beneath his palm.
He lifted his hand from her abdomen and climbed onto the bed.
Sitting behind her, he drew Mu Wan into his arms.
Then he took her hand and placed it against her belly.
His own palm covered the back of hers.
Once they settled into position, the two seemed to share the same thought.
Together, they looked toward the window.
The sky had remained quiet for a moment.
Then another firework burst above them.
At the same instant, Mu Wan felt something gently tap against her palm through her abdomen.
Her entire body relaxed.
She leaned back against Liu Qianxiu.
Her heart was beating rapidly.
Her clear dark eyes gradually softened.
A quiet sigh escaped her.
She moved her lips, turned back toward Liu Qianxiu, and looked at him.
Now her eyes held nothing but joy.
Feeling the presence of this new little life filled her with excitement and happiness.
Watching her smile, Liu Qianxiu lowered his head and kissed her lips.
Mu Wan giggled.
She turned and wrapped both arms around his neck.
Meeting his kiss, she kissed him back.
Their kiss was lingering and tender.
Outside, fireworks continued blooming across the sky.
Their flashes illuminated the room again and again.
A quiet warmth seemed to fill everything.
Mu Wan leaned in his arms.
Together, she and Liu Qianxiu watched the fireworks outside.
Perhaps because they had suddenly acquired meaning, these fireworks seemed far more beautiful than any she had ever seen before.
“Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve.”
“And the day after that is the New Year.”
Mu Wan rested her head against Liu Qianxiu’s chest, murmuring while she watched the sky.
The little one inside her had already become accustomed to the outside noise and had stopped moving.
Liu Qianxiu pulled a soft blanket over her belly.
Then he lowered his head and kissed her forehead.
“Mm.”
“This will be my first New Year with you.”
Mu Wan laughed as his kiss tickled her.
She was truly, deeply happy.
Liu Qianxiu’s expression gradually softened.
A faint smile appeared as he watched her laugh.
Mu Wan’s eyes seemed filled with fireworks.
Looking out at the sky, she declared with complete conviction,
“We’re saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.”
“I’ll leave behind every unhappy thing from before.”
“My future is with you.”
“So from now on, there’ll only be happiness left.”
After saying it, Mu Wan giggled and hugged him tightly.
Her fluffy head rubbed against his chest.
Still acting spoiled, she murmured,
“Liu Qianxiu, I love you so much~”
He answered by carefully tightening his arms around her.
His chin rested against the top of her head.
He rubbed against her gently.
“I love you too.”
Mu Wan had been pregnant for more than five months when she first felt the baby move.
Not long afterward, Xu Xingkong gave birth.
However, she delivered in her hometown of Huai City.
After the birth, the baby was still too young to travel back and forth.
Huai Jing simply brought an entire postpartum-care team to Huai City.
Xu Xingkong remained there for over a month before finally returning to Xia City with the baby.
The moment Xu Xingkong returned, Mu Wan and Liu Qianxiu went to visit her.
They rang the doorbell.
Huai Jing came to open it.
Seeing them, he stepped aside and let them enter.
Mu Wan had called Xu Xingkong in advance to tell her they were coming.
Xu Xingkong was already waiting.
The moment she saw Mu Wan, she smiled happily.
“Mu Wan, you’re here.”
After giving birth, Xu Xingkong looked even gentler than before.
Her complexion was rosier.
Even her skin appeared softer and more delicate.
Mu Wan smiled as she approached.
“Where’s the baby?”
Xu Xingkong smiled and took her hand.
“Come on.”
“I’ll take you to see.”
The two women went upstairs together, laughing and chatting.
Huai Jing and Liu Qianxiu remained below the staircase, watching their wives disappear.
Once the two women entered the room upstairs, Huai Jing looked back at Liu Qianxiu.
“What are you here for?”
Mu Wan and Liu Qianxiu had brought gifts.
Liu Qianxiu handed the items to Huai Jing.
Then he answered calmly,
“To learn from experience.”
In three more months, they would also need to prepare themselves to become first-time parents.
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