章節 289: Work Harder

"W-what?" Lu Xinyi thought it was funny how her husband stuttered like this, but it wasn't the right time to tease him. 

"I said, I thought I was pregnant," she repeated, "but all the tests came out negative. I just feel…" She let out a dejected sigh, not understanding why she was upset in the first place. 

"Disappointed that you are not?" Shen Yi continued for her. She nodded in response. 

"I remember Grandma Lu telling me when I was younger that the women from the Sun families have a weird curse on them." 

"Curse? What curse?" Shen Yi furrowed his brows. People still believe in curses?

"Yes," Lu Xinyi avoided his questioning gaze, but Shen Yi tilted her chin up to make her look at him.

"She said that women from the Sun family had difficulty in having a child, and if they bear once, it's always another girl and never a boy. Even Uncle He told me that my parents lost a child before having me. " 

"And this worries you because?"