Chapter 10 (1/2)
Black-Bellied Dad Chapter 10
News of Xu He Jun and Huang Shang Rong’s marriage quickly spreads. Originally Huang Shang Rong had only wanted to hold a small ceremony with their close friends and co-workers. But if Xu He Jun’s parents appear everything would be exposed.
So they could only spend a lot of effort to hold two ceremonies. One in Taiwan, where they invited all their colleagues and supervisors at the company, while using their honeymoon to hold a grand ceremony in England, which all the relatives and close friends of the Xu family, as well as the company’s major shareholders and senior staff attended.
Now it didn’t matter who was first or second, they were already husband and wife. Their dominant woman-submissive man pairing was praised throughout the company for a period. Everyone was saying that since marrying, Huang Shang Rong’s bearing and temper had improved immensely, while Xu He Jun was working harder than ever, with his weak and overly affectionate personality became more mature as he aged. But he still hadn’t changed his devious nature. No matter where he went, he would quickly grasp everyone’s weak points.
Aside from that agreeable personality of his, there’s still that awe inspiring —- no no no, that’s to say that respectable other half of his – general manager Huang Shang Rong. Even after marriage, Huang Shang Rong’s fierce style hadn’t changed. Whether it’s a man or a woman, as long as they made a mistake, they’ll be indiscriminately smeared.
The contrast between the two of them, one firm and one flexible, one hard and one soft, some people can’t help but admire Xu He Jun’s soft approach, while others thought he had truly profited the most! Some people even think, with Huang Shang Rong’s abilities, she could easily find a good man. Being with Xu He Jun, and the fact that he even has a kid, is truly too unfortunate for her!
“A better man wouldn’t necessary suit me more.” At the time when her close friends tried to warn her that Xu He Jun wasn’t a good marriage candidate, Huang Shang Rong merely replied like this.
To think so many people have to consider a man’s background as one of the criteria for marriage. Sometimes, she can’t help but think how fortunate she is that she can support herself and easily live on her own. Otherwise, if she didn’t have the skills but still fell for a poor brat, and was determined to be with him, they wouldn’t be able to persist for long. Being together, they’d have to endure a lot of suffering.
Less than half a year into their marriage, her stomach starts to swell. Originally this was a joyous occasion, only they hadn’t expected that it would become something that caused everyone to gawk——
Right after Huang Shang Rong shared her news, it’s strange how the president always comes to the 10th floor for inspection. And even the president’s wife who rarely visits, often runs into the general manager’s office, sometimes with nutritious tonics and sometimes with bird’s nest soup, so Huang Shang Rong always has a lot of unfinished nouris.h.i.+ng products beside her. While even the high ranking executives and large shareholders occasionally enquire after her.
The entire company starts to speculate over her affairs. This whole time they hadn’t planned to proceed with the child care plan, but ever since Huang Shang Rong became pregnant, neither she nor Xu He Jun needed to mention it, when the president and several major shareholders took the initiative to pa.s.s the plan, letting them draw their own conclusions.
Although everyone had strong suspicions that Huang Shang Rong had a strong benefactor, their thoughts were really too overboard. So in the end no one really knew what was going on, not to mention these types of things, if no one explicitly reveals anything, people normally wouldn’t know what was going on.
It’s fine like this too, since their marriage is already official. Anyway they should just strive to climb higher.
The day of their wedding anniversary, Xu He Jun mysteriously takes half the day off, telling her he’ll be waiting for her at home.
Huang Shang Rong had already expected that he was up to something, yet once she enters the door, she realizes nothing is out of place. Only, Xu He Jun had gone out of his way to prepare a few of her favourite dishes and had also cleaned up their home —– to her, this is already the best gift.
After they’re full, Xu He Jun suddenly runs back into their room in a secretive manner, before coming out with his hand behind his back.
“Darling, this is my gift to you. I had wanted to give it to you earlier, but since I had it ordered overseas, it took 2 months to arrive.”
“You bought something useless again?”
“No no no, this time I didn’t buy random things,” he pulls her into a hug, the palm of his hand placed against her stomach. “This is something I had made especially for you and the little baby.”
“What did you buy? A baby’s walker?” Huang Shang Rong asks with a smile. “It’s fine if we just let her use Hao Hao’s. We don’t need to keep buying them, even though we have money we shouldn’t waste it like this.”
“It’s not a baby’s walker,” He takes out a key from his pocket. “It’s a foreign sedan.”
A black coloured key with four circles imprinted on its head[1].
“Where did you get so much money? Those cost at least 2 million[2]!”
“From my past savings!”
“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t touch those?”
“I said I wouldn’t use it! But I can definitely use it to buy something for you.”
Hateful, he really knows how to twist his words!
“I don’t want it, you’re being too wasteful! My own car is still relatively new, it’s fine if I just exchange it later on.”
“If you think it’s a pity, I’ll drive yours and you can take this one.”
“It’s too expensive!”
“But this has high cla.s.s imported steel plating, it’s really st.u.r.dy!” He raises his thumb. “I wanted both mother and child to stay safe!”
This brat, saying these types of things without even blus.h.i.+ng or faltering!
“It’s fine like this. We should live in a way that matches our background.”