Rebirth: I Became Mr.President’s Beloved

Chapter 1209: He Ultimately Couldn’t Escape Convention

The sky gradually brightened, the morning light softly emerging.

The heavy curtains hung down, letting in just a sliver of hazy light.

Tang Li dozed off in a muddled state and woke up the same way. She reached out from under the covers, grabbed her cellphone and saw that she’d only slept for half an hour.

Just as Tang Li was about to lie back down, something poked the back of her neck. She reached under the pillow to feel for it.

Then, she pulled out a bottle.

It was one she had used.

Her face reddened slightly, and she decisively tossed it into the trash bin next to the bed.

Even though she deliberately moved quietly, she still woke the man behind her.

Tang Li immediately took two tissues from the bedside table and threw them into the trash bin as well. Just as she did that, Song Baiyan’s somewhat hoarse, deep voice came through: "Didn’t clean up just now?"

"..." Tang Li.

This topic was quite embarrassing.

Tang Li wrapped herself in the thin blanket, "I was blowing my nose."

Song Baiyan: "..."

No matter what was being wiped, in the end, it woke both of them up.

Tang Li wrapped herself up like a cocoon and ended up taking most of the blanket from Song Baiyan. Realizing what she did, she rolled over and gave the thin blanket back to him.

This time, Song Baiyan turned off the light.

Tang Li couldn’t sleep, as she remembered something: "I forgot about the ovulation period."

"Last night, it seemed like it wasn’t the ovulation day."

She calculated in her mind, "Today is."

Which meant that what they did last night was for nothing.

Song Baiyan obviously didn’t concern himself with such details. Tang Li heard him say he didn’t care about one or two days, and she didn’t retort because...after all, it’s easier to tire out a bull than spoil the land. She naturally wanted to get pregnant quickly, but she couldn’t ignore Song Baiyan’s health.

The Sea Dog Pills she bought hadn’t arrived yet.

What’s more, even with the Sea Dog Pills, they couldn’t be used excessively.

Song Baiyan didn’t know his little wife bought a bunch of supplements for him, and seeing her finally calm down, he reached over and pulled her close: "While it’s still not fully light, let’s get some more sleep."

The answer from the girl was a soft "Hmm."

Not long after, the person in his arms held onto his pajamas and fell asleep.

Yet, Song Baiyan couldn’t fall back asleep.

He was still affected by what Han Jifeng had said.

Otherwise, why would he agree to this suggestion?

Waiting a couple of years before having a child would be the best arrangement.

At least until after the surgery.

However, how many true saints are there in this world?

Love and possession are born together.

Song Baiyan lowered his left hand, laying it flat on the smooth belly of the girl—

Before his medical condition reached a final conclusion, letting Tang Li conceive a child of his was him being selfish, and quite a bit of selfishness at that.

Using a child to bind a woman, wasn’t that taking advantage of her?

He prided himself on being steady, but in the end, he couldn’t escape the norm.

A man of principle acts for others, a man of the mundane acts for himself.

Nevertheless, if Song Baiyan truly lived up to the reputation of a moral model, he wouldn’t have made it to where he was today, although he hadn’t expected that this kindness, which varied from person to person, would give rise to ulterior motives.

Perhaps because Song Baiyan had given prior instructions, Tang Li slept until noon, and no one came to wake her.

After waking up, Tang Li first changed the bedding.

She didn’t rush to call in the housekeeping staff to take it for cleaning, thinking she’d let it soak in the bathtub for a bit first.

The half-basket of used tissues, she mixed into the bathroom trash bin.

Having done this, Tang Li entered the shower room.

Although she had showered early in the morning, when she woke again, her body felt sticky.

Standing under the showerhead, Tang Li looked at her reflection in the wall mirror.

Her black wet hair clung to her neck, her young face showed no signs of fatigue, and the gurgling water gathered at the drain, washing away her body’s oils and some minor impurities.

After lunch, Tang Li went to the Second Hospital.

Last night, she had already reported to Song Baiyan.

Yuan Qin’s injury was related to her, so it wouldn’t be right if she didn’t visit. Plus, Yu Sui hadn’t replied to her messages or answered her voice calls.

He Wei was the one who sent Tang Li to the hospital.

As soon as she stepped out of the elevator in the inpatient department, Tang Li saw Yu Sui.

Behind the slightly ajar double doors at the emergency exit, Mother Yu was scolding her with iron-like determination: "I raised you this big, fed you the best, clothed you the best, just to have you become someone’s nanny?"

"Do you know what Cheng Feibai’s mom is saying about you now?! Saying you were involved with this driver long ago! Saying you were hell-bent on breaking up because of this driver! Do you know what those card-playing wives are saying about me? They say you’re so capable, I don’t even have to worry, and you’ve already found me a son-in-law!"

Holding a bedpan, Yu Sui’s eyebrows stood on end: "What do you mean I was hell-bent on breaking up? Clearly, it was Cheng Feibai who wanted to break up with me!"

She truly was boosting others’ morale while belittling her own!

The mother, furious, pointed a finger over: "He broke up with you, and you found some country bumpkin? I think you’re just trying to drive me and your father crazy!"

Saying that, she reached over and grabbed her daughter’s hand: "You’re coming home with me!"

"I’m not!" Yu Sui clung to the door frame, still holding the bedpan: "I promised Tang Li that I would take care of her driver. He can’t get out of bed yet. His family hasn’t come to the Capital, so what if something happens and I leave?"

"You think I didn’t see that nurse?" Mother Yu gritted her teeth in anger: "I see you just have no backbone! Worthless! Come home with me quickly!"

"I just won’t!" Yu Sui crouched down on the ground.

Tang Li: "..."

Mother Yu wasn’t backing down, fiercely pinching her daughter’s arm: "I can’t believe I gave birth to such a fool!"

While pinching, she brought up old grievances.

"Before the college entrance exam, I hired so many tutors for you, and you still got just over two hundred points! You said you wanted to be a star, fine, I found a way to get you into Capital Movie Academy; then what? You said after half a year that people there were ostracizing you, and I still spoiled you, let you transfer to your uncle’s school; you said you wanted to be an assistant and I didn’t stop you, and now you’ve taken a fancy to some penniless, car-less, unhandsome old bachelor!"

Tang Li: "......"

"How is twenty-six old?"

Yu Sui argued defensively: "Besides, we are perfectly innocent, stop spreading rumors."

"Innocent?" Mother Yu sneered: "He just left the bathroom, probably didn’t even have his pants on properly. If I hadn’t spoken up in time, your head would have been under his quilt!"

Yu Sui was about to retort when another female voice interjected—

"Crawling into a man’s bed, isn’t that being a female hooligan?"

Scolding her own daughter was one thing, but having someone else butt in was another.

Mother Yu turned her head, just about to say ’Who do you think you are?’, but when she met Tang Li’s eyes under the baseball cap: "..."

Tang Li ignored Mother Yu and only looked at Yu Sui: "Last time you harassed Yuan Qin in the corner after eating snail noodles, I warned you, now you’re using me as a stepping stone, I see you won’t cry until you see the coffin!"

With that, she took out her cellphone.

Mother Yu had a bad feeling: "What are you going to do?"

"Of course, call the police." Tang Li unlocked her cellphone: "According to what you just described, this is attempted molestation, or perhaps attempted rape!"

"W-what attempted rape?" Mother Yu was flustered.

"Whether it’s molestation or attempted rape, it needs investigation to determine."

As Tang Li spoke, she looked up: "But with you as a witness, it shouldn’t be hard to solve the case."

Mother Yu: "......"

She came here to take her daughter home, not to send her to jail.

Seeing Tang Li actually dial 110 on her phone, Mother Yu didn’t care about anything else, hurriedly grabbed her bag and fled down the safety passage as if chased by a beast.

Yu Sui couldn’t help but sigh: "So you’re the nemesis of my mom!"

She really had bad luck.

The day before yesterday, she went downstairs to pick up a takeaway and ran into Cheng Feibai’s mom.

"She must have followed me upstairs." Thinking of Mrs. Cheng tracking her and badmouthing her behind her back, Yu Sui was full of feelings: "I heard Cheng Feibai is dating his brother’s sister, the girl’s family is from the suburban area of Shangbu, his mom always looks down on larger families, it’s bound to be troublesome."

She felt uncomfortable and had to cause some trouble for them.

Just then, her phone rang.

Yu Sui switched hands with the bedpan, and took out her phone from her pocket.

The caller ID showed, Tang Li.

"..."

Tang Li understood: "So, you deliberately didn’t reply to my messages."

Yu Sui licked her lips, trying to justify herself: "Feng Qi said that when you come back, they want to change your assistant."

"..." Tang Li.

If she didn’t stay in contact, she wouldn’t be able to hand over the work.

If she didn’t hand over, she wouldn’t be unemployed.

Full of clever schemes.

Tang Li didn’t forget her main purpose for coming to the hospital.

Yu Sui noticed the fruit basket in her hand: "You’re here to see Yuan Qin?"

Saying that, she wanted to help: "Let me take it!"

"Have you washed your hands?" Tang Li stared at the bedpan in her hand.

Yu Sui: "..."

In the ward, Yuan Qin was resting.

Tang Li didn’t go in to disturb him, just looked at Yuan Qin through the glass, seeing that his condition was relatively stable, she turned to look at Yu Sui.

Yuan Qin was in a single ward with a separate caretaker space.

That space was now occupied by Yu Sui.

Tang Li asked: "Are you really not going home?"

Yu Sui sat at the edge of the steel wire bed, lips pressed together: "It’s not that I don’t want to go back, but my mom won’t let me."

Her mom said either go home or die in the hospital.

If she went home, she would never be able to come back here.

"There’s a caregiver here." Yuan Qin is a public employee, he wouldn’t be left unattended.

"There is a caregiver, but they might not take good care of him."

Yu Sui swung her legs a bit and continued: "Before in Chiang Mai Prefecture, the caregiver only cared about sleeping, didn’t care for him at all, didn’t even clean the bedpan after use. We are at least colleagues, we can’t watch him suffer while he’s sick."

There was no arguing with that.

Tang Li’s eyes drifted and noticed the digital drawing tablet on the bed.

"Are you drawing?"

"It’s because my mom stopped my allowance and it’s not payday yet." Yu Sui said, moving the tablet to her lap, "I thought to earn some extra money, not drawing anything serious, just making some emoticons and avatars for people."

Tang Li said: "If it’s nothing, then why are you hiding it."

"...I’m not hiding anything."

With that, a hand reached out in front of her: "Hand it over."

Yu Someone: "......"

Tang Li took the drawing tablet, and under Yu Sui’s hopeful gaze, pressed the power button, and then, the familiar art style reappeared.

"Ah Li, I’m sorry!"

Yu "Unreturned Fat Head Fish" quickly knelt.

Tears streaming down, she admitted: "I shouldn’t have drawn that 18+ with you and His Highness!"

Tang Li: "..."

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The second update combined, good night!