In the howling snow wind, Song Qiuyu was rushed to the delivery room by the doctors and nurses as fast as possible.
“I’m fine, Jiang Xiao, don’t worry about me! Both the baby and I will be okay!”
Song Qiuyu looked at Jiang Xiao, who could only stop outside the delivery room, and shouted with all her might, trying to use a voice that could best steady his heart.
Facing his wife’s loud call, Jiang Xiao was a bit stunned, and an extremely complex emotion surged from the depths of his heart.
He had originally taken two quick steps forward, wanting to grab her small hand and say something, but then he thought better of it and stopped, not chasing after the surgical gurney.
At this time, outside the delivery room, there were many patients, their families, and medical staff coming and going.
These people stared blankly at the girl on the stretcher, their eyes showing a hint of curiosity, as if the scene was too rare.
It was the first time they had seen such a lively pregnant woman.
Was she even cheering on her husband outside?
Wasn’t that backwards?
Shouldn’t the husband be cheering on the pregnant woman, telling her to hold on?
Hey, wait, didn’t this family look familiar…
Wow! Wasn’t this Song Qiuyu and Jiang Xiao!
More than one person picked up their phone and opened the camera.
Under the lens.
Song Qiuyu seemed to have noticed that they were secretly filming. Even though she was so weak, she actually made a heart with her hands toward them?
The people secretly filming started sweating.
Did she expect them to do this all along?
Then, Jiang Xiao still stepped forward two paces, but only cupped his hands around his mouth like a megaphone: “Xi’er, I’m waiting for you and the baby to come out!!”
“Jiang Xiao, wait for me…”
Before Song Qiuyu could finish, she was pushed into the delivery room.
The door of the delivery room closed.
“Xi’er…” Jiang Xiao clenched his hands, staring at the closed door, frowning.
Even though he was still a bit worried, he could only choose to trust now.
“Bro, want to sit and wait?”
Jiang Yu looked at the empty chair beside him and said to Jiang Xiao.
“Yeah.”
Jiang Xiao sat down on the chair, his hands tightly clasped.
Beside him, Jiang’s mother and Grandma Jiang were also frowning deeply. Since they had been through it themselves, they knew very well that a woman giving birth was like walking through the gates of hell, extremely dangerous.
If the baby came out smoothly, it would be fine, but if there was a difficult labor or heavy bleeding…
Then the situation would become troublesome.
After that, Jiang’s mother also called Jiang’s father, who was at work, and notified the two in-laws—Song Qiuyu’s father and mother.
After calling everyone who needed to be contacted, she breathed a slight sigh of relief, but once she sat down again, her heart lifted once more.
Time passed as they waited.
Soon, Jiang Xiao couldn’t sit still anymore.
Over the past ten months, the pressure that had been building up, the helplessness of watching his wife grow more and more exhausted while he could only accompany her and take care of her, slowly made him feel suffocated.
If only he could be the one in the delivery room right now.
But thinking about it further, that wouldn’t work either, because Xi’er would probably be just like him now, wanting to take his place.
And things like today would repeat four more times in the future.
He turned his head, frowned, and stared at the closed door of the delivery room.
Then he firmly prayed to all the gods and Buddhas, saying he would do anything as long as Xi’er and the baby were safe!
But shortening his lifespan probably wasn’t a good idea. It wasn’t that he was afraid of death, but he didn’t want to leave Xi’er before her, leaving her alone.
So he could give up everything except his lifespan and health!
He clenched his hands tightly, imagining his wife lying on the delivery bed struggling to give birth, his frown deepening.
Once Xi’er came out, he would rush up to her first and hold her hands.
Loudly praise her, loudly acknowledge her.
Thinking of this, he also thought of something he could do now, and looked at the family beside him.
The support and warmth Xi’er needed shouldn’t only come from him.
The more people who gave it, the better.
Xi’er deserved to be treated gently by the whole world.
At that moment in the delivery room, Song Qiuyu was trying her best to cooperate with the doctors and nurses. But human strength was always limited. After cooperating for a while, her body was almost out of strength.
“Push!”
“Mm…”
“Push harder!”
“Mm…”
“We can see the baby’s head! Hurry!”
“Oh no, the pregnant woman seems to be about to faint!”
“…”
The voices of the doctors and nurses faded away. Song Qiuyu’s eyes slowly closed, her consciousness becoming blurry, and in an instant she was nearly asleep.
Half-asleep and half-awake, she felt as if she had arrived at a point in time in a parallel world.
At that time, she was still a boy, her parents hadn’t come back, and she didn’t have many close friends.
Moreover, the dream-chasing journey had ended early due to the pressure of reality, and she had just become an ordinary worker.
One snowy night, she had worked overtime until midnight, then rode a shared bicycle from near the company, slowly heading toward home.
Halfway there, she suddenly noticed a dark, lumpy thing squirming under a tree.
With a bold heart, she walked over, picked up a straight stick as a defensive weapon, and then quickly approached.
Getting closer, she saw that it was a ball, more precisely a black slime. It had eyes and a mouth, but no ears or nose.
At that moment, keeping a certain distance, she poked it with the stick.
Then it squirmed its watery, bouncy body and made a sound: “The you in another parallel world is in danger, about to die. Are you willing to make a deal with me to save her?”
To this, she just sneered, didn’t take it seriously at all, and turned to leave.
The slime spoke again: “The you in that world is very happy. As a girl, she has someone she likes and is about to have her own child. If she can survive, in the near future, she will also succeed in chasing her dream and become a great director!”
Upon hearing this, she was silent for a moment, and then somehow asked about the content of the deal.
“The deal is very simple. As the price for saving her, I will turn you into a girl. If you can’t find someone you like within the next year, you will—die in her place!”
The slime said so.
This deal was extremely unfair to her, who was just a parallel world version of herself.
Yet she still agreed.
Because her own life was already terrible enough. Even if it got worse, it couldn’t get much worse.
Was mere death so scary?
So the alternate world version also became a girl.
“The pregnant woman is awake!!”
“Huh…”
With the delighted voices of the doctors and nurses, Song Qiuyu opened her eyes groggily, bit her teeth one by one, and used every ounce of strength in her body.
A moment later.
Two cries of infants rang out from the delivery room.