After the door closed, Jiaming looked through the peephole, spying on Xu Mo’s reactions outside. Then Yahan shoved him aside. She looked for a while. Finally, she sighed: “This is just great. You’ve ruined my reputation.”
“I beg your pardon. You ca here by yourself ok? It’s not as if I dragged you over.” Jiaming stared back at her. “Besides, you don’t need to worry about that.”
“Why?”
“Because you can’t ruin what was never there.”
“What was never there….” Yahan was baffled for a second, then laughed as she aid a kick. Jiaming promptly retreated to a safe distance: “Settle down, settle down, it’s so late already. What was your purpose in coming over?”
“Don’t say you can’t sleep, don’t say you can’t sleep, don’t say you can’t sleep……”, he beseeched silently as he invited Yahan to sit on the chair. Jiaming glimpsed the two malevolent glares coming from within the bathroom doorway so he quickly put back on his innocent face. Then Yahan gave another sigh: “I can’t sleep……”
“Uh, you can’t sleep……it’s not as if I can cure insomnia. I already told you guys not to watch horror movies……”
“Actually……I kept thinking about what you said earlier on the deck but I didn’t know how to ask.”
“On the deck?”
When the ship lost power, you said it was going to sink……”
“Ah, hehe……” Jiaming laughed, “That was purely joking, did you think it was for real?”
“But how can there be such a coincidence? One ntion from you and the power went off. Granted it’s a new ship, but sothing like that is still implausible. Also you……” Yahan can be considered soone who knew exactly what kind of person Jiaming was. Afraid that she was about to ask if there were so kind of sinister goings on happening behind the scenes, Jiaming hastily interrupted. He looked at her sincerely: “Of course it’s a coincidence, haha… really, there’s no mistake, believe .”
The back of the chair was obstructing Lingjing and Shasha’s view from the bathroom. Jiaming and Yahan faced each other for what seed like an eternity. Yahan hesitantly: “Your voice……there’s sothing odd……”
“Eh, what’s odd about it? Anyway, that was just running my mouth off. In any case……uh……”He gave a yawn, ”Don’t worry, how can there be such a coincidence? If I was that good at predictions, I would’ve beco a fortune teller long ago. Don’t think too much, go back and sleep. You just got spooked after watching that horror movie. I already told you not to watch……”
“……” Yahan stared at him for a while, then laughed, looking around. Lingjing and Shasha were scared into moving deeper into the bathroom. “You aren’t being honest ah, trying to chase out. Can it be you’re hiding a girl here? Lingjing or Shasha?”
Jiaming rolled his eyes: “It’s that Natalie, daughter of the Duke of Annis. I just picked her up. Right now, she’s sleeping inside. It’s fine if you want to look, but please don’t disturb her and wake her up. As you know, being a duke’s daughter, she’s likely sowhat temperantal. Of course, she wouldn’t dare act that way with , but as for you, I’m not able to say.”
“Tssk, keep on blowing hot air.” Yahan peered inside the bedroom, then took stock of Jiaming’s tired looking face. “Ok, you already said it’s going to be fine. I’m going, you rest well”.
“The way you say it, it seems if sothing does happen, it’ll be my responsibility.”
“If you don’t take responsibility, who will!” Yahan’s face turned a bit red for so reason. She looked outside through the peephole. Since she hadn’t been inside that long, she had to check that Xu Mo wasn’t still there. After a mont, she opened the door, said good bye and scurried out.
That was a close call. It was a good thing she didn’t let out anything about his unusual abilities and the activities he was involved in. Letting out a deep breath, he smiled and went over to the two girls inside: “Well? Now do you believe I’m innocent?”
“How are you innocent?” Lingjing laughed, returning with Shasha to the bed. “We heard everything. You’re hiding that girl called Natalie. Sister Yahan also wants you to take responsibility. Hmmph, how can you say you’re innocent!”
“That’s right.” Shasha had her body halfway out of the blanket. She was about to shake her fist when Jiaming charged into the bed. The two girls shrieked and dived like two ek little sheep inside the blanket. The sheets turned over and over, becoming a battlefield full of passion and warmth….
After the tempest ca darkness and tranquility……snuggled inside the blankets, the two girls, satiated, were lazing in the afterglow, rubbing their cheeks like puppies against Jiaming’s chest. Shasha murmured: ”Jiaming, don’t forget to bring us back so that sister Yahan doesn’t find out. Also, I want so seasickness dication tomorrow….”
Cuddled in Jiaming’s other arm, Lingjing blearily opened her eyes after hearing Shasha’s word: “Seasickness dicine? Shasha, you’re seasick?”
“Uh, yeah……feel like throwing up sotis, I……”
Following these words, Lingjing suddenly sat up. Jiaming also sensed sothing wrong, opening his mouth. Shasha, originally still a bit groggy, seeing Lingjing’s reaction, opened her eyes wide. All the sleepiness was gone. The three exchanged looks with each other. In the end it was Shasha who, hesitantly, spoke first: “No way, can it be……I’m pregnant?”
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The next morning, with big circles under their eyes, Lingjing and Shasha ca out of their respective rooms. Only Jiaming seed relatively normal. Last night, regarding the pregnancy, the three discussed it for half the night. Yes or no, if yes, keep it or not, the two girls were especially anxious about this matter. Even though it was still too early to know for sure, but it was sothing that they were always wary of. Now that there were slight symptoms, the two girls couldn’t help but feel that it was very likely.
As far as Jiaming was concerned, having any girl carrying his child was an unfathomable feeling. If it were his previous life, he probably wouldn’t give a damn. In order to avoid undue influence on himself because of sentint, he might even personally kill the woman. However, the situation was different now. He already had deep feelings towards Shasha.
Logically he knew that it was too early to jump to conclusions. However, he really liked this feeling, this warmth. He wanted to have this child. Consequently……he gave no outward indication of what he preferred. He felt it would be too selfish.
Of course, the easiest solution is to have an abortion. At their age, being pregnant was really rare, sothing usually seen only on remote villages. However, when Shasha ntioned it, Lingjing objected: “Let’s just leave this area.”
This idea was rather impetuous. Jiaming could cast away his background as a mber of the Huang family anyti, but how could Lingjing leave her parents? And even though Shasha did not spend that much ti with her father on a day to day basis, it was also impossible for her to just leave. After their discussion, Shasha cried while holding on to Jiaming. Eventually Lingjing started crying too. Jiaming could only try comforting them, saying, it’s nothing, or, it’s really just seasickness. However, it had no effect.
After the crying spell was over, the three huddled up in the blanket and started discussing the consequences of having a child. They imagined what it would be like as a small family, what roles each one would have, what to na the child, etc. This feeling of closeness was actually very heartwarming. However deep down they all understood that if Shasha was really pregnant, it would be the biggest test to date that the three of them would have to face.
The two exhausted girls finally fell asleep at around 3 am. Jiaming dressed them in their pajamas and brought them back to their rooms. He also felt troubled. This was the first ti in the past few years that he felt powerless. Even if this ti was a false alarm, he also knew that in life there were many things that one can only be helpless against. If there was a child, their best choice might still be to abort……
Hopefully it was only a simple case of seasickness……After having breakfast, he imdiately went to the ship’s clinic.
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