Chapter 15.2 (1/2)

Chapter Fifteen (Part 2)

Qin Yun’s painkillers helped him endure his pain post surgeries. The days that he was awake he got to play and eat together with Zhang Yu and appeared to be energetic. But as winter set in, it was harder for his body to cope despite eating nutritious food and resting often.

Han Ting Ting was expected to give birth on the second last day of December, it was less than a month away. Shun Shun was healthy and moved around a lot in her tummy. It was because Shun Shun had a healthy appet.i.te that caused her weight to balloon enough to make her dizzy. She freaked when she saw their combined body weight was seventy-five kilograms. Her baby b.u.mp was too big for her small frame and most days it was hard for her to stand straight on even ground.

The last semester of Ting Ting’s pregnancy was especially stressful for Qin Song.

When the first day of snow arrived, Qin Song was in no mood to build snow people as he did the previous year.

Qin Song returned home and stopped by his parents’ bedroom first. His dad was sleeping deeply. Under the warm lighting his dad’s face was still manly and handsome but his dad’s sunken cheeks caused his heart to wither. He softly closed his dad’s bedroom door and went to look for Ting Ting. He found her crying pitifully on the bed.

‘Honey, what’s wrong? You can’t fall asleep?’ Qin Song asked. He sat beside Ting Ting on the bed. He rubbed her plumper back. ‘Tell me where you feel uncomfortable?’

‘My whole body aches. Song Song, I think I’m about to die,’ Han Ting Ting said.

It took a lot of energy for Han Ting Ting to turn her body to sob on Song Song’s shoulder. She felt her body was heavy, she couldn’t stand properly or sleep. No matter what position she rolled herself on the bed, she couldn’t get into a comfortable sleeping position. It was worse when she woke up from a nap, her heavy body would ache more from tossing and turning during her nap.

Qin Song coaxed Ting Ting to go back to sleep. After a while she still had trouble sleeping, he lifted her into his arms and paced back and forth in their room.

Han Ting Ting stopped crying. She rested her head on Song Song’s shoulder and slowly became drowsy.

Outside Qin Song and Ting Ting’s room, it was snowing heavily and the winds were violent. He felt the same turmoil in his heart. He never felt as helpless as he did that night. When he was younger he thought he could control everything that happened in his life but recently he realised there were many things out of his control. He couldn’t give up his life for his dad and he couldn’t be the one suffering pregnancy pains instead of Ting Ting.

Qin Song felt that men truly matured after they started their own family.

‘You can put me down,’ Han Ting Ting said softly. ‘I’m ok. Song Song, have you eaten dinner?’

Qin Song boosted Ting Ting’s body in his arms and nodded his head. ‘I ate at a work banquet before.’

Qin Song gently hit Ting Ting’s bottom and he was in the mood to tease her. ‘Honey, stop thras.h.i.+ng about. Be careful or I’ll loosen my hold on you and you’ll fall.’

‘Then let me go,’ Han Ting Ting said. ‘Aren’t I heavy?’

Qin Song knew truthfully answering the princess’ sensitive question, who weighed more than seventy kilograms in his arms wasn’t going to earn him brownie points.

Qin Song secretly clenched his teeth and kept smiling. ‘However heavy my wife and son weighs I can still carry them.’

‘Um. I know it’s been tiring for you lately. I’m sorry I can’t help you and for being a burden to you,’ Han Ting Ting said softly and hid her distressed face on Song Song’s shoulder.

Qin Song tilted his head to kiss Ting Ting’s nose. ‘Honey, it’s been more tiring for you. Our son has been torturing you.’

‘But we love our son more each day,’ Han Ting Ting said. She wrapped her arms around Song Song’s neck. ‘Song Song, it’s rare for parents not to love their own child.’

‘I know,’ Qin Song said. ‘I love our son but it can’t compare to how much more my dad loves me. I get it now, I don’t have any regret left… I just don’t want to be separated from my dad.’

Han Ting Ting hugged Song Song. ‘You’ll still have me and our son with you.’

Before the official date Qin Song and Han Ting Ting’s son appeared in the world, Qin Shun Shun was a mighty baby. But Qin Shun Shun’s true mighty strength wasn’t revealed until he was born.

On the night of New Year’s Eve, during the New Year countdown on tv, Han Ting Ting felt a painful contraction. At midnight the fireworks blossomed in the night sky, she grabbed onto Song Song’s waist and moaned. ‘It hurts!’

Qin Song was giving out red packets to the little critters lined up in front of him when he froze for two seconds after hearing Ting Ting’s anguish voice. He lifted her in his arms and bolted to the car.

Han Ting Ting made it safely to the hospital operating room.

Qin Song was ready to punch one of the walls outside the operating room because his son was hurting his wife instead of him. But a moment later an obstetrician stepped out of the operating room. ‘Congratulations! Both mother and son are healthy.’

‘My daughter-in-law has given birth?’ Zhang Yu asked anxiously.

‘Um, everyone is good. It was a smooth delivery,’ the obstetrician said.

Everyone wanted to ask the obstetrician more questions when a nurse stepped outside. In the nurse’s arms was Qin Shun Shun wrapped in a blanket. Qin Shun Shun was holding his little hands together and crying louder than other newborns.

Qin Song finally got to see his precious son’s little wrinkled face and was choked with joy, he stumbled back a step.

Zhang Yu reacted differently, she rushed to carry her grandson and the happiness that shone in her eyes lit up the hospital.

Qin Shun Shun’s mum was wheeled out of the operating room toward the maternity ward. She looked worn out but her complexion was a healthy pink. Qin Song rushed to the gurney Ting Ting laid on, he held her sweaty face and in that moment he was able to process the exhilarating joy he felt. He leaned his forehead on her forehead and his eyes were more red and teary than hers.

‘Our son… Ting Bao, thank you,’ Qin Song said in a choked voice.

‘Waaa waaa…’ Qin Shun Shun cried.