Chapter 18
Looking at the braised hairtail dish, Yu Li felt inexplicably afraid.
He normally did not find the fishy smell intolerable, but now he always felt the flavor was too intense, and he even dared not to breathe.
Did the chef not handle it well today?
“Yu Li, are you okay?” Yan Sui looked at Yu Li’s rapidly paling face with concern.
“I’m fine.” Yu Li covered his mouth, looked at his three roommates, and stood up. “I’ll go downstairs to buy some medicine, you guys eat first.”
Without caring about their reaction, Yu Li hurriedly fled the dormitory.
There was a pharmacy downstairs, and Yu Li bought some gastrointestinal medication. As he walked out, he saw a certain brand of plum juice in the convenience store’s refrigerator.
He often ordered this plum juice when dining out with his roommates for hotpot or barbecue – it was quite expensive, 10 yuan per cup, but the sour-sweet taste was refreshing and could help with the greasy feeling.
Recalling the smell, Yu Li couldn’t help but walk into the convenience store and buy a cup.
Sitting on a bench by the tree-lined avenue, Yu Li took a big sip of the plum juice, and the urge to feel nauseous and sick seemed to be suppressed a bit.
But it was only a little, and soon he still felt nauseous and weak, his body also breaking out in cold sweat.
Yu Li sighed lightly, leaning back on the bench and looking up at the leaves overhead.
The scenery on the tree-lined avenue was nice, with tall camphor trees on both sides, the foliage dense enough to block the glaring sun at noon.
With his eyes closed, Yu Li endured the discomfort, his body slightly trembling.
In a daze, he heard the sound of a car stopping, then felt someone walking in front of him.
Yu Li slightly opened his eyes, first seeing the person’s black custom-made suit, then looking up to see Yan Shiting standing against the light.
That handsome face was without a single expression, the brows furrowed, the thin lips pressed tight.
Yu Li was not sure why Yan Shiting was here, and with such a cold demeanor.
He bit his lip, lowered his gaze, and wanted to get up and leave with his medicine and plum juice.
However, as soon as he moved, the nausea hit him again.
Yu Li had to run to the nearby trash can, bending over to vomit a few mouthfuls of gastric juice.
This morning, he had only drank a bowl of millet porridge, and now aside from gastric juice and bile, he couldn’t vomit anything else.
Yu Li couldn’t control the tears flowing down his face.
He bit his lip, silently crying, when suddenly someone handed him a bottle of water and a pack of tissues.
He didn’t need to think to know who it was.
“I’ll take you to the hospital.” Yan Shiting’s voice was icy cold.
Yu Li didn’t want to have any more contact with him.
He straightened up, wiped his tears with the back of his hand, and said, “It’s not necessary, it’s just a gastrointestinal issue, I’ll go to the infirmary.”
He turned to leave, but the next second, Yan Shiting grabbed his arm, then reached under his knees and lifted him up in a bridal carry.
Yu Li had no strength in his body, and before he could resist, he was carried by Yan Shiting towards the Bentley parked by the road.
Yu Li was completely stunned.
When he was placed in the backseat, he saw Yan Shiting getting in, and tightening his fist, asked in bewilderment, “Didn’t you promise me…?”
Yan Shiting raised the partition between the driver’s seat, and replied, “I did promise you that nothing happened that night.”
Yan Shiting gave him a cursory glance, his voice still low, “But I didn’t promise to not care about you.”
Yu Li didn’t understand.
Care about him in what capacity?
Apparently sensing Yu Li’s inner thoughts, Yan Shiting averted his gaze and said, “Because you are Yan Sui’s good friend, since he said so, I won’t ignore you.”
Yu Li pressed his lips, “Yan Sui asked you to come?”
Yan Shiting hummed in affirmation, turning his head without further comment.
Although Yan Sui had only asked the butler to send over a meal.
But he was still worried.
Yu Li also didn’t say anything else.
Yan Sui didn’t know what happened between him and his brother, so he was just being kind.
The car had already left the Y University campus.
Yu Li was already nauseous, and the swaying of the car made him feel even worse.
He leaned against the car window, dozing off. After a while, he felt the car slowing down and driving steadily.
Yu Li sighed in relief, lightly drifting off to sleep. When he woke up, the car had stopped in front of a hospital.
He followed behind Yan Shiting and entered an office, where he saw the person sitting inside and slightly hesitated, “Doctor Xu?”
Why was he seeing Doctor Xu, the Yan family’s family doctor, here?
Doctor Xu adjusted his glasses and smiled, “Young master.”
Yan Shiting closed the office door and said, “He’s having gastrointestinal discomfort, do a checkup for him.”
“What kind of discomfort?” Doctor Xu gestured for Yu Li to sit down.
Yu Li looked at the standing Yan Shiting, then described his symptoms.
“Sounds like gastroenteritis, let’s do an ultrasound check.”
Doctor Xu wrote a requisition form, then got up and led Yu Li to the adjacent ultrasound room.
As he guided Yu Li to lie on the examination bed, he said, “This ultrasound room is specially set up for the Yan family members, after all, it’s a hospital under the Yan Group.”
“You can do the examination here, I’m sure the Young Master won’t mind.”
Yu Li listened quietly, then lifted the hem of his T-shirt, seeing Doctor Xu take out the coupling agent and transducer, and was surprised again.
“Doctor Xu, you can do this too?”
Doctor Xu smiled proudly, “Humbly, I am a master of all medical fields.”
No wonder he was qualified to be the Yan family’s specially hired family doctor, with such a high salary.
Yu Li couldn’t help but chuckle a little, his tense and nervous mood gradually relaxing.
Doctor Xu applied the coupling agent to the transducer and began the examination.
However, as time passed, the previously proud and self-assured Doctor Xu’s expression gradually became one of confusion, his brow furrowed as he remained silent.
When the report was printed, Doctor Xu was still frowning and did not speak.
Yu Li looked at him like this, his heart also starting to feel afraid.
As the saying goes, it’s not doctors joking with you that’s scary, it’s when they frown and shake their heads in front of you.
Could it be that he had some kind of terminal illness?
Could it be cancer? If, if it really was… then what should he do? What about his mother and sister?
Yu Li gripped the hem of his T-shirt tightly, not daring to speak, anxiously following Doctor Xu back to the office.
Yan Shiting was still waiting in the office, seeing their strange expressions, his brow furrowed.
“What’s wrong?”
Doctor Xu, ignoring him, walked to the desk and sat down with the ultrasound report.
Yan Shiting looked at the pale-lipped Yu Li standing at the door, and went forward to guide him to the sofa.
Then his icy gaze fell on Doctor Xu, calling his name, “Doctor Xu.”
Doctor Xu finally snapped out of it.
He looked at Yan Shiting, then at Yu Li, hesitating, “Young Master, you’d better call in a trusted obstetrician.”
Obstetrician? Why call an obstetrician?
Yu Li was completely confused, his expression becoming dull.
Yan Shiting was also somewhat puzzled.
But as he lowered his eyes to look at Yu Li, a shocking idea flashed through his mind.
The hand on Yu Li’s shoulder slightly stiffened, his heart beating rapidly.
He didn’t speak, afraid of startling the current Yu Li, then walked out of the office to make a phone call.
Soon, a female doctor in her fifties came to Doctor Xu’s office.
The female doctor had her hands in the pockets of her white coat, standing next to Doctor Xu to look at the ultrasound report.
“The fetal heart, fetal bud are quite clear…”
“Early stage… maybe do another one…”
The two lowered their discussion voices, so Yu Li couldn’t hear clearly.
He felt like a long, long time had passed, until he heard the female doctor’s gentle voice:
“Let’s do another ultrasound check later, in the meantime, drink more water, having a full bladder will make the examination clearer.”
Yu Li was still somewhat confused about the situation.
His heart was in turmoil, instinctively looking for the most familiar person – Yan Shiting.
“What’s wrong with me?” Yu Li’s eyes were red, his lips trembling.
“It’s nothing, wait a moment.” Yan Shiting’s low voice comforted him, leaving the office to buy a bottle of pure water from the vending machine around the corner.
As he crouched down to take the water bottle, Yan Shiting saw his own hands slightly trembling.
Yan Shiting took a deep breath.
He already understood.
Yu Li was not suffering from gastrointestinal illness, not gastroenteritis.
He was pregnant.
If someone else had told him that a man could get pregnant, he would have just brushed it off as the person being crazy.
But now…
He was so shocked, how would Yu Li accept this?
Yan Shiting lowered his gaze, gritting his teeth, the corners of his mouth tightly drawn.
After a while, Yan Shiting took a few deep breaths, then returned with the water, his expression calm.
Yu Li was still oblivious to the situation, but hearing that the doctor told him to drink more water, he obediently drank one sip after another.
After a while, the female doctor kindly called his name and took him for another ultrasound.
After the ultrasound report was printed, Yu Li sat in front of Doctor Xu’s desk, hearing the female doctor say with a smile, “You’re pregnant.”
Pregnant? He’s pregnant?
But he’s a man!
“Me?!” Yu Li’s eyes widened, shaking his head in disbelief, then turning to look at Yan Shiting.
Yan Shiting was quietly watching him.
Yu Li was dumbfounded: O.O
“Yes, the gestational sac, embryo, and fetal heart are all there. The fetus is two months old, your nausea and vomiting are pregnancy symptoms.”
Two months old, so the child’s other father is…
Doctor Xu’s gaze fell on Yan Shiting.
Indeed, it had been nearly two months since that night he made a house call.
The female doctor looked at the seemingly calm Yan Shiting, then at the stunned Yu Li.
She cleared her throat and said, “Actually, when I was abroad, I’ve seen cases of men getting pregnant and giving birth. This similar organ to the uterus – let’s call it a ‘gestation pouch’, that’s what the professor overseas named it.”
“This gestation pouch will certainly bring some trouble, there was even a case abroad where a man’s gestation pouch complication led to death. So it’s best to remove it at the time of cesarean delivery when the fetus is full-term.”
“Of course,” the female doctor paused, “if you don’t want to give birth to this child, after the fetus is formed and the gestation pouch is a bit bigger, it can also be removed.”
“You are the child’s father, you consider whether to give birth to it.”
Yu Li was already in a state of shock from the news of the pregnancy.
So the later things the female doctor said, although he heard them, he couldn’t really comprehend the meaning.
The female doctor and Doctor Xu exchanged a look, then quietly got up and prepared to leave the office.
Just as they were about to leave, Yan Shiting looked at the female doctor, pressing his lips, “Thank you, Aunt.”
The female doctor – Yan Shiting’s aunt, smiled gently and shook her head, indicating it was nothing.
The office fell silent.
Yan Shiting helped Yu Li sit on the sofa against the wall, sitting with him, waiting for him to recover.
The wall clock ticked away.
Yu Li’s complexion was still very pale, he tightly gripped the hem of Yan Shiting’s coat, lowering his gaze to look at his own abdomen, really unable to believe that there was a… fetus inside.
He thought he had a tumor, not expecting to have grown this mysteriously strange gestation pouch, with a child inside.
Yu Li didn’t know for a moment whether having a tumor or being pregnant was the bad news for him.
He bit his lip, his eyes gradually turning red.
Why, why was he pregnant?
Yu Li trembled his lips, trying to find a reason: “That night, why didn’t you wear…”
He had wanted to ask Yan Shiting why he didn’t wear protection that night.
Even if he didn’t know he could get pregnant, for health and safety considerations, when men did that, didn’t they have to wear protection?
But as soon as Yu Li asked, he realized that what happened that night was sudden, and there was no condom in his room, so how could Yan Shiting have worn one.
What a stupid question he asked.
He regretfully closed his mouth.
However, just as Yu Li thought Yan Shiting would blame him, Yan Shiting’s low voice said:
“I’m sorry, Yu Li.”
He paused, lowering his eyes, “I didn’t know, at that time, what I should have paid attention to.”
Yu Li: “…”
Yan Shiting didn’t know?
He turned his head, looking at Yan Shiting with unbelieving eyes.
Yan Shiting was ten years older than him, and was already thirty-one this year, as the Yan family patriarch, hadn’t he had any lovers before?
Maybe he just hadn’t had a male lover before.
That’s right, he hadn’t forgotten, when he liked Yan Sui, Yan Shiting’s disliked attitude.
Yu Li’s gaze darkened, taking a few deep breaths.
He released the crumpled coat hem, turning his head and murmuring, “I’m sorry.”
His voice trembled, blinking, his eyelashes wet with tears.
“It’s just that I don’t really want to see you right now.”
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