I'm Done with the Elite Marriage - Chapter 80
After staying in the hospital for a few days, Zhou Youling went to the postpartum confinement center for her postpartum confinement.
This postpartum confinement center was arranged by Rong Huiying during Zhou Youling’s hospital stay. The place chosen was quite professional and greatly reduced the burden on the Zhou Family. With the professional staff at the postpartum confinement center taking care of things, the whole family was finally able to relax.
Everything was arranged perfectly, except for one problem: Zhou Youling didn’t have much breast milk. For a long time afterward, Zhou Youling was constantly struggling with breastfeeding. She really wanted to breastfeed, believing that breastfed babies would have much better resistance and overall health than those fed with formula. But unfortunately, she had almost no breast milk.
After some effort during her days in the hospital, Zhou Youling finally managed to produce a little breast milk, but it was only a tiny bit, far from enough for the baby. So now, she could only do mixed feeding.
Because of this, Zhou Youling felt quite upset.
Rong Huiying comforted Zhou Youling, “Don’t blame yourself too much. Even though everyone is promoting breastfeeding these days, if you don’t have breast milk, you shouldn’t put so much psychological pressure on yourself.”
Rong Duanjing also said to Zhou Youling, “My husband’s elder sister never had any breast milk either, but she raised her baby on formula, and now the baby is chubby and healthy, with no problems at all.”
Even the staff at the postpartum confinement center came to comfort Zhou Youling: “Don’t put too much psychological burden on yourself. It doesn’t matter whether you can exclusively breastfeed or not–the key is for mom to have a good mindset. If mom isn’t happy, the breast milk she gives the baby will make the baby unhappy too.”
Although Zhou Youling knew her own limitations, she couldn’t force it and could only slowly accept reality.
As for the naming issue that had been troubling everyone, in the end, Zhou Zhishan made the final decision: the baby would be called Zhou Ran. Because the little one was lacking fire in his fate, this name was the most suitable for him according to his birth chart.
Zhou Youling didn’t have any strong opinions about this. To her, a name was just a code.
With the baby having a formal name, the next step was to choose a nickname.
Zhou Zhishan left the task of picking a nickname to Zhou Youling. After thinking for a while, she decided to call the little one Mumu.
Zhou Zhishan asked, “Why call him Mumu?”
Zhou Youling replied, “Just thought of it randomly.”
But when she was thinking of this name, Fu Xunzhou’s figure popped into her mind.
During this period, Fu Xunzhou had been almost constantly by her side. Once, when Zhou Youling used the excuse of going to the bathroom to sneak a glance at him, she saw him sitting outside like a block of wood. Now that she was at the postpartum confinement center, Fu Xunzhou was still almost always waiting outside.
Taking advantage of Rong Huiying’s absence, Zhou Zhishan asked Zhou Youling, “Lingling, I’ve noticed Xunzhou has been outside all this time. Why not let him come in and sit for a while?”
Zhou Youling glanced at her dad but didn’t respond.
Zhou Zhishan said, “I just think that we’ve all seen what Xunzhou has done during this time. He’s not a bad person at heart.”
Speaking of his true nature, how could Zhou Youling not know what kind of person Fu Xunzhou was?
During their years of marriage, apart from being busy with work and unable to take care of the family and her, Fu Xunzhou had always been quite decent.
It’s just that Zhou Youling had been crushed by this marriage and knew that the kind of marriage she wanted wasn’t like this.
Seeing Zhou Youling waver, Zhou Zhishan said, “Just treat him as a friend. Letting him come in to see the child is fine. Besides, Mumu is awake right now.”
Before Zhou Youling could say anything, Zhou Zhishan had already gone outside to “invite” Fu Xunzhou in.
Soon, Zhou Youling saw Fu Xunzhou enter the room.
Meeting again, both of them couldn’t help but let their gazes linger on each other for a moment.
Compared to a few days ago, Zhou Youling looked much better, while Fu Xunzhou seemed a bit haggard.
Fu Xunzhou had been keeping watch outside these days, even sleeping at night sitting on a stool. That was why Zhou Zhishan couldn’t stand it anymore. Several times, Zhou Zhishan had come to persuade Fu Xunzhou not to keep watch like this, telling him that they were there. But Fu Xunzhou just wouldn’t listen.
Fu Xunzhou didn’t feel he was suffering at all, mainly because he was used to it. When he first took over the Fu Group, he was busy like this almost every day, with no rest at all, spending nearly twenty-four hours a day working in a chair. But now it was much better–at least he could close his eyes and rest while sitting in a chair.
Many times after the divorce, when Fu Xunzhou thought back to that period, the first thing he remembered wasn’t his own hardship, but how he had let Zhou Youling down. He was always busy and paid her very little attention. Sometimes, when he was too tired, he didn’t want to talk at all when he got home, so he couldn’t even force a fake smile in response to her attempts to please him.
Fu Xunzhou entered the room, his steps slow and deliberate. He was actually a bit worried, afraid that Zhou Youling would reject him. But he wanted so much to see her and the child, so he mustered up his courage.
Little did he know, at the moment Zhou Youling saw Fu Xunzhou, the same emotion welled up in her heart.
To suppress her feelings, Zhou Youling deliberately lowered her head to look at her phone.
Zhou Zhishan greeted Fu Xunzhou, saying, “Take a look at Mumu, this is the nickname Lingling just gave the little one.”
“Mumu.” Fu Xunzhou repeated the nickname over and over, thinking it sounded really nice.
Zhou Youling also noticed that when Fu Xunzhou’s deep, magnetic voice pronounced “Mumu,” it seemed especially pleasant.
Zhou Zhishan said to Fu Xunzhou, “The little one changes every day, who do you think he looks like?”
Fu Xunzhou replied calmly, “Like Youling.”
Zhou Zhishan said, “I think he looks more like you. Look at this nose, it’s exactly the same as yours.”
Sitting on the bed with her phone in hand, Zhou Youling couldn’t help but complain in her heart, “How is it exactly the same? That’s just nonsense.”
She simply stopped listening and started scrolling through Weibo on her phone.
During this period, Zhou Youling had been cooped up in her room, with almost no contact with the outside world, but thankfully she still had her phone.
Opening Weibo, Zhou Youling unintentionally discovered that Xu Jiaze was trending again.
Xu Jiaze’s agent had recently landed him the lead role in a movie, which brought a lot of attention. Naturally, fans were looking forward to their idol’s work, but Xu Jiaze’s acting skills were also widely questioned by netizens. Clearly, the investors were drawn to Xu Jiaze’s top-tier popularity, regardless of how the final product would turn out.
This matter had been brewing for a while, and today Xu Jiaze finally responded officially on Weibo. He posted a short message: [Doing my best.]
Underneath this Weibo post, countless fans instantly flooded in to cheer for Xu Jiaze.
After browsing Weibo, Zhou Youling replied to a short message from Huo Lianghan.
Huo Lianghan had already learned that Zhou Youling had given birth and was preparing to start filming food videos as soon as Zhou Youling finished her postpartum confinement. The initial plan was to shoot all twelve episodes’ material as quickly as possible. The subsequent video editing and related post-production would be handled by Huo Lianghan alone.
Since Zhou Youling had agreed to Huo Lianghan’s invitation during her pregnancy, she naturally wouldn’t break her promise. She was just worried she might be too fat right after postpartum confinement.
During her ten months of pregnancy, Zhou Youling’s highest weight was 125 jin. Now her weight had returned to 100 jin, but there was still a slight gap compared to her usual 90 jin. Yesterday, after receiving Huo Lianghan’s message, Zhou Youling impulsively decided to weigh herself, and to her surprise, she was already 95 jin–she hadn’t expected to lose weight so quickly.
Just as she was feeling happy, Zhou Youling suddenly heard Fu Xunzhou beside her say, “You’re too thin.”
Zhou Youling looked up at his words.
Fu Xunzhou was standing right in front of Zhou Youling. Although he had lost some weight recently, he was still tall and upright.
Zhou Youling instinctively glanced around the room and found that her dad had already disappeared.
Clearly, Zhou Zhishan was once again creating opportunities for the two of them.
For a moment, Zhou Youling didn’t know what to say. She just felt a headache and her whole body a bit groggy. She wasn’t sure if it was from lying in bed too long or something else, but she just felt weak.
Fu Xunzhou noticed Zhou Youling’s cheeks were unusually flushed and asked her softly, “What’s wrong?”
Zhou Youling pulled up the covers, lay flat, and said, “I’m sleepy.”
Fu Xunzhou, however, seemed a bit “persistent,” and continued to ask, “Are you just sleepy? Is there anywhere else you feel uncomfortable?”
Zhou Youling curled up under the covers, still feeling a bit cold. She thought, maybe it was just that the temperature was low today?
Fu Xunzhou walked over to Zhou Youling and said, “Do you mind if I touch you?”
Zhou Youling immediately became alert: “Fu Xunzhou! What exactly are you trying to do?”
Fu Xunzhou cleared his throat a little awkwardly and said, “Don’t misunderstand, I want to feel your forehead. I think you might have a fever.”
“Fever?” Zhou Youling thought it was impossible. Why would she have a fever for no reason? But her body did feel a bit uncomfortable.
Seeing that Zhou Youling didn’t resist strongly, Fu Xunzhou reached out and touched her forehead, then said with certainty, “You have a fever.”
Hearing this, Zhou Youling touched her own body and indeed felt hotter than usual. When she looked up, she saw Fu Xunzhou already making a phone call: “Doctor Gu? It’s me.”
In that instant, Zhou Youling felt an overwhelming sense of reassurance.
