Chapter 225: Have A Baby! (2/2)

“No, no, no. But I really believe that you’re mentally ill now, because you’ve never spoken this politely to me before!”

“......”

Baldy wasn’t used to making Lu Chenzhou speechless, and the momentary elation made his courage blossomed. He chuckled and continued to say, “But I never feared you in the past, and I’m even less afraid of you now. We’re good brothers, aren’t we?” His voice was loud and rambunctious, but the emotions that he wanted to convey were sincere.

Lu Chenzhou’s gaze became warm.

Neither of them were particularly fond of idle chatter, and after Baldy confirmed that Lu Chenzhou was actually mentally ill, he instantly dropped the matter and pivoted to the subject of Donglai. “Are you really going to let it go just like that? It seems that Donglai hasn’t been doing so well lately.”

Lu Chenzhou’s tone was cold as he replied, “They can do whatever they want.”

Baldy sighed regretfully. “They’re all a bunch of dumbasses. They still think that this is a small incident, that it’s something that’ll just fade away if they bury their heads in the sand for a while and throw you out as a scapegoat. But they don’t realize just how heated the discussion surrounding this controversy is getting, do they? Vaccinations aren’t a small matter, and even if the average person forgets about this, the relevant governmental departments won’t. Honestly, I think that it’s a good thing that you ended up being cut off from that whole mess. This way, you won’t be wrapped up in all this when the matter inevitably blows up.”

As Baldy said all this, he felt that something seemed to be amiss. The main thing was that Lu Chenzhou’s timing for being fired couldn’t have been better: it was almost as if he had predicted that disaster was going to strike the company, as he had started loosening his reins and cutting ties to the company ever since the start of last year. Then, he had completely forsaken the company when Cheng Xi left, and now he’d been pushed out of the company as a scapegoat……

Baldy felt like he was missing a vital piece of the puzzle, but his intellect wasn’t sharp enough for him to make all the connections, and all he could make out was a faint sense of incongruity. He didn’t dare to ask about this—after all, Donglai was Lu Chenzhou’s business, and him knowing too much about it wouldn’t help him at all. After Baldy perfunctorily lambasted Donglai, he turned to ask Lu Chenzhou, “Dr. Cheng won’t be going back to Gansu after this, will she?”

He’d hit the heart of the matter, and Lu Chenzhou clutched his teacup without responding.

This sudden shift in pressure…… Baldy was overjoyed, but also afraid that his schadenfreude at Lu Chenzhou’s misfortune was too obvious. He quickly put on a sympathetic expression as he carelessly said, “What, she’s still about to leave? Then just think of a way to keep her here.”

Lu Chenzhou raised his head. “I can make her stay?”

His low E.Q. left Baldy’s teeth aching. “Of course you can! What’s good about that rundown old place? It’s not like you need her income, so why don’t you just take care of her and keep her at home?”

Lu Chenzhou stopped responding. Baldy might not know, but Lu Chenzhou knew full well just how passionate Cheng Xi was about her job. Although he hadn’t kept a close watch on what she was doing in Gansu, he still knew a little about her activities. In less than a year, she had already acclimated to the local areas, and she’d even built a charitable organization to help the mentally ill, a lifelong dream of hers.

At this point, if he asked her to stay here, even if Renyi was willing to transfer her back, she’d likely refuse the opportunity.

And so Baldy suggested, “Well then, just have a baby!” He glanced at the living room to check on the two females, and then leaned closer to Lu Chenzhou anyways. “While she’s here, sneak a baby into her. Gansu is so far away that if she gets pregnant, even if you were willing to let her go back, her parents certainly wouldn’t be! You know that the first three months of pregnancy are when women are the most likely to have a miscarriage, don’t you?”

Lu Chenzhou frowned, his tone cold as he succinctly replied, “I don’t like children.”

Cheng Xi was busy enough with work. If there was a child in the equation, Lu Chenzhou didn’t even have to think to know that it’d suck up most of her time and attention.

And he hated anything that dragged her attention away from him. Even now, after he retrieved some of his repressed memories and let go of a significant part of his burden, the behavior and instinct that had formed a core part of his past self wouldn’t be erased that easily.

He could barely tolerate her loving her work, but if another person got in the way and took away her time, dragged her down, and demanded her hugs, feeding, and coaxing…… Just thinking about it was hard to bear.

Baldy was speechless at his reaction. “You don’t want a child at all?”

“No.” Lu Chenzhou was very sure of this.

But right after he said this, he tasted the sensation of being wrong. Before a supposed child could get in the way of his relationship with Cheng Xi, a totally unexpected person suddenly appeared in his and Cheng Xi’s life.