Is My Wife Pregnant Today? [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 31.2

Fu Ling tilted his head.

Is it this tight?

Zhou Xinghui completed his resignation procedures at the construction site. On his way back, he was cut off by a black Maserati.

Looking up, Li Ye was sitting in the driver’s seat, dangling a cigarette. He jerked his chin in a gesture that said: “Get in.”

He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Zhou Xinghui felt Li Ye’s gaze was ten times more haggard than before, like an old fisherman who had weathered countless storms at sea.

Zhou Xinghui pretended not to see him and tried to walk past, but Li Ye suddenly took the cigarette out of his mouth and said, “If you don’t get in, I’ll tell the one at your house that you’re pregnant. He doesn’t know yet, does he?”

“…”

Zhou Xinghui’s expression sharpened instantly, his aura becoming like an enraged lion.

Li Ye looked at him without a shred of fear, though the dark circles under his eyes made him look much easier to talk to than his previous cold-blooded elite capitalist persona. Zhou Xinghui hesitated for a moment before getting into the passenger seat.

The car made a turn and drove toward the seaside.

Neither of them was the talkative type, and the atmosphere inside the car was silent. After a while, Li Ye spoke first, but his first sentence was: “Are you a fox spirit?”

“…” Zhou Xinghui replied, “Do I look like one to you?”

Li Ye shook his head: “No.”

Suddenly, he slammed his hand against the steering wheel and cursed.

“Dammit, I was tricked. Tricked by a fox spirit!”

The car jerked for an instant, and Zhou Xinghui’s heart jerked along with it.

“Fox spirit…?” He looked at Li Ye, “What happened? What did the fox spirit trick you out of?”

Li Ye gave a cold laugh: “I knew I wasn’t wrong. If I hadn’t experienced it personally, I fucking wouldn’t believe it. Did a fox spirit trick you too, and even get you pregnant?”

“…” Zhou Xinghui’s lips instantly lost all color. He stared fixedly at Li Ye. “What do you mean.”

A normal person couldn’t possibly know that fox spirits existed in this world, so there was a high probability that Li Ye had seen a real one.

“What do I mean? What do I mean?”

Li Ye turned to look at him in disbelief, “Are there really that many fox spirits in the world? I saw him with my own eyes transform into your likeness right in front of me, and he kept claiming he could make human men pregnant. Originally, I was curious who that person beside you was, what kind of ability he had to make you fall for him… Heh, I didn’t expect… a fox spirit, it was actually a fox spirit…”

President Li was also on the verge of breaking. He originally thought he was miserable enough, but he didn’t expect that after hearing this, Zhou Xinghui’s taciturn face would instantly turn as pale as a sheet of paper.

“…Impossible. How could that be? You’re lying to me.”

“What would I gain by lying to you!” Li Ye shouted, “I just want to fucking know who that goddamn fox spirit is!”

“Wait a minute.” A spark of insight flashed through Zhou Xinghui’s mind, and he quickly calmed down: “That fox spirit you mentioned, what color was its fur?”

“What color could it be? Yellow! Like a yellow weasel!” Li Ye parked the car by the sea and fished out another cigarette to smoke. Thinking about it, he added irritably, “Actually, it was gold… but what’s the difference between the two?”

Zhou Xinghui let out a long breath of relief. As he relaxed, he realized he was covered in a cold sweat.

“The one at my house is white.” he said. “Yours is a different fox spirit. Stop accusing the wrong person.”

“Can that even be considered a person! You’re actually speaking up for a fox?!” Li Ye acted out for a long time before slowly calming down under Zhou Xinghui’s gaze, which treated him like an idiot.

“There can’t be only one fox spirit, they have family relationships too.” Seeing how pitiful he was, Zhou Xinghui reminded him, “Maybe the yellow-haired one is the white-haired one’s brother.”

“…Really?” Li Ye suddenly grabbed Zhou Xinghui’s hand. “You have to help me. I have to catch that yellow-haired fox spirit.”

Zhou Xinghui forcefully pulled his hand back and used a tissue from the car to wipe it. “I won’t help.”

“You have to help me! This is now a racial conflict.”

Li Ye said fiercely, “If the older yellow-haired brother dares to trick me now, the younger white-haired brother will dare to trick you later. I was just slept with, I’ll treat it as being bitten. You, on the other hand, are already pregnant. Who knows if the thing in your belly is a monster or not? Right now, only I, as a fellow victim, can stand together with you.”

Zhou Xinghui remained unmoved.

“Fine, let me tell you one more thing. Guess what other identity that little fox spirit named Fu Ling by your side has?” Li Ye lowered his voice, “Did he lie to you and say he has no family and is dirt poor?”

Li Ye guessed the truth from Zhou Xinghui’s expression. He snorted and continued: “It was all an act. I didn’t know until I checked, but it gave me a shock. He’s actually my distant cousin. His parents are dead, and he has a house, money, and plenty of spare cash. Isn’t that a coincidence?”

Zhou Xinghui couldn’t listen anymore and opened the car door to get out.

“You think I’ll believe your one-sided story?”

“You know in your heart whether to believe it or not.” Li Ye didn’t stop him. “I’m going to track down that yellow-haired one’s whereabouts now. The Li family has stood in G City for so many years. Naturally, we have some unconventional methods. During this time, you’d better keep an eye on that white-haired one in your house. Don’t let him run into the line of fire.”

He gave Zhou Xinghui a deep look. In those eyes, there was no longer the heat of past pursuit, only a lingering resentment.

Fu Ling was at home watching TV. Recently, he had followed this melodramatic palace struggle drama all the way to the grand finale. At this moment, he was watching a concubine give birth with great interest.

“Hurry up and give birth!” He clenched his fists, getting excited along with the plot: “Once the child is born, your position will be stable, and you’ll be the Empress!”

The concubine wailed in pain. The child had been being born for ten minutes, and half a tub of blood had been shed, but the birth wasn’t over. Fu Ling watched with equal agony. At that moment, his phone rang.

Incoming call—Fu Rong.

He grabbed a handful of melon seeds and threw them into his mouth, slowly answering the phone. He heard Fu Rong wailing: “It’s over, it’s over.”

Fu Ling: “…You sound quite happy about it.”

Fu Rong: “Hey, I’m serious. It’s over. The game is completely up.”

Fu Ling didn’t even peel the shells, chewing the seeds together with the shells. His sharp teeth ground all the food into dregs, completely unlike his usual appearance of needing Zhou Xinghui to peel peanuts and feed them to him.

“What does it being over for you have to do with me? I’m watching TV, and I have to go pick up Zhou Xinghui from work in a bit.” Fu Ling was a bit impatient. “Hanging up.”

But Fu Rong’s next sentence successfully made him stop.

“Guess why I’m calling you? Because it’s over for you too.”

“What?” Fu Ling instantly had a bad premonition.

“Didn’t I go deal with Li Ye last time? Who knew his family was so rich? They actually contacted a spirit medium and filed a complaint with your Father King, saying they wanted to skin me and turn my fox fur into a scarf. The group of elders in the Fox Clan is now demanding I redeem myself by bringing you home immediately.”

“What, what?! Hey, why should I bear the consequences for the mistake you made!”

However, Fu Ling’s anxious cries were of no use. Almost instantly, the birth scene on the TV froze. The space in front of him distorted slightly, and Fu Rong appeared before him.

“Little brother, am I inviting you, or are you coming with me yourself?”

Fu Rong bowed slightly, performing a courtier’s salute to him.

The moment he appeared, Fu Ling knew he had no choice but to return home this time.

Even if he fought Fu Rong and won now, it wouldn’t help—his Father King was surely determined to catch him and bring him back now.

He gritted his teeth. “You have to at least let me leave a word for Zhou Xinghui.”

Fu Rong sighed as if remembering something: “Sigh, fine. I’ll give you thirty seconds to send him one last message.”

Fu Ling immediately pulled out his phone. The page still showed a breakdown of the melodramatic drama he had shared with Zhou Xinghui an hour and a half ago. Zhou Xinghui had replied: “Mm, it’s good.”

Only then did Fu Ling realize that although they had only known each other for a few short months, their message history was bottomless, and they had no intention of getting bored.

“…I don’t want to go.” He didn’t type on the keyboard, instead, he looked at Fu Rong, his eyes turning into icy vertical pupils.

“You want to give me a beating?” Fu Rong saw through his killing intent at a glance. “It’s useless. If you kill me, others will come for you. Are you going to hide for the rest of your life? If you really like Zhou Xinghui, shouldn’t you strive to get Uncle’s approval? What’s the point of hiding like this?”

Fu Ling’s killing intent vanished instantly. He lowered his head dejectedly. “You don’t know… actually, I’m a scumbag.”

“Huh?” Fu Rong was stunned.

Fu Ling sniffled: “I’m a scumbag, so I can’t be with Zhou Xinghui.”

Wait, isn’t this order of cause and effect mixed up?

Fu Rong looked sympathetically at his brother, who didn’t seem very bright. He patted his fox head. “It’s fine, tell Zhou Xinghui first.”

Fu Ling thought for a bit and sent it to Zhou Xinghui.

“Zhou Xinghui, actually I’m a scumbag ^^ The scumbag has to leave for a while now, take good care of yourself.”

After a minute, he pressed the send button again.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry that I’m a scumbag. But the scumbag loves you. Waaaah.”

Zhou Xinghui had a B-scan ultrasound at the hospital.

When the results came out, the whole hospital became tense.

“There’s a fetal heartbeat!” the doctor examining him cried out. “There are three of them!!”

Zhou Xinghui was stunned.

Th… three?

So it’s actually a litter of foxes?

He looked back and found the doctors had already started fighting over the first-author spot for an SCI paper.

“This is absolutely an unprecedented medical case! A male giving birth! And it’s triplets!”

“Our hospital is going to become famous this time!”

“Mr. Zhou, you don’t need to worry. If you are willing, we will cover all the subsequent examination costs…”

Zhou Xinghui could barely hear them. There were too many things packed into his mind today. One moment he thought of Li Ye, the next he thought of the nasty things Li Ye said about Fu Ling, and finally, he focused on the triplets found in the exam.

With so many, they must be foxes… he hoped the doctors wouldn’t notice anything wrong for the time being.

Zhou Xinghui sat alone on the side. The excitement belonged to the hospital; he, the pregnant man, had nothing. After a long while, he finally made up his mind and decided to explain the situation to Fu Ling.

He opened his phone, only to see the messages Fu Ling had sent.

“Scumbag…?”

Zhou Xinghui felt like he had been struck by lightning.

He stood up abruptly from his chair.

What does this mean?

In the air-conditioned room, Zhou Xinghui felt an unprecedented cold and anxiety. He put on his coat and strode out of the hospital. The doctors and nurses behind him shouted:

“Take care of your health, handsome!”

Zhou Xinghui heard none of it. He crumpled the examination report into a ball and stuffed it into his pocket. There was only one desperate thought in his mind.

Fu Ling, Fu Ling…

He was pregnant with the fox spirit’s cubs, even going against his own will as a man to want to give birth, but now the fox spirit had patted his ass and just left?!

How could this be?

If he had known, if he had known, if he had known, he should have told Fu Ling earlier…

Zhou Xinghui clutched his abdomen and crouched on the ground in pain. The dark thoughts in his heart couldn’t be stopped.

At the very least… he could still use the children to tie him down.

As soon as Fu Ling returned to the mountain, he was forced to stand before the Fox King.

“Wicked child, do you know your mistake?”

Fu Ling was defiant: “What wrong have I done?”

“Not only did you disobey orders and leave the mountain without permission, but you also got involved in a messy relationship with a human. Is this all you gained from your trip out?”

Fu Ling pointed at Fu Rong, “You should say that to him! I only sucked a normal person’s Yang energy. He scumbagged a human with overwhelming power!”

Seeing the Fox King’s sharp gaze shift to him, Fu Rong slid into a kowtow with a thud: “Uncle, please look into this. Wasn’t I doing it for Fu Ling? He fell for a human, so I helped him deal with a clown who didn’t know his place. I should be dealt with leniently.”

“You slept with him, and you call him a clown.” Fu Ling said. “I think you should be dealt with severely!”

“Enough!” The Fox King had a headache from their back-and-forth bickering. “All of you, go into solitary confinement to reflect. You are not allowed out without permission!”

“No!” Fu Ling immediately knelt with a thud. “The human is still waiting for me! Father King, he is the partner who accompanied me through my courtship period. I beg of you!”

Fu Rong: “Oh, one moment you call yourself a scumbag, and the next you say a human is waiting for you.”

Fox King: “You shut up too!”

Both foxes had indignant faces, but they stopped talking.

During the days he was locked up, Fu Ling thought about Zhou Xinghui every moment.

One moment he wondered if he had found a new job, the next if the roses at home had withered, and the next if Zhou Xinghui hated him.

Waaaah.

He knew that the human must hate him for scumbagging him.

But what choice did Fu Ling have?

He was just a supporting character in a story. The system wouldn’t even let him sit at the table to eat, fearing that if Zhou Xinghui really had something with him, it would interfere with the order of this world.

The white-haired fox curled up listlessly in the magnificent large bed and slowly fell asleep under the moonlight.

The flow of time in the demon realm and the human realm was different. Only three days had passed for Fu Ling, but more than a month had passed for Zhou Xinghui.

During this month, he never gave up searching for Fu Ling.

Moreover, not only him, but Li Ye was also searching for his yellow-haired one, saying he had to see that fox with his own eyes and then skin it.

“The medium says we can go to the demon realm tomorrow.” Li Ye said over the phone. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you; that place isn’t somewhere normal people can go. You’re still pregnant, if you’re accidentally caught and eaten by a great demon, there’s nothing I can do.”

“I know.”

The two talked for a bit before hanging up.

Zhou Xinghui touched his already slightly protruding abdomen and stood up in silence to change the water for the roses at home.

Fu Ling was not here, so no one bought new flowers for the house. It always felt like something was missing.

A few days after he left, Zhou Xinghui looked at the withered flowers at home and ordered new ones to put in the jar, as if he were still there.

There are many beautiful legends about foxes and roses.

As long as the roses are there, the fox will come back sooner or later.

But Zhou Xinghui didn’t have that much patience, he couldn’t wait anymore.

By now, it was basically certain that the ones in his belly were fox cubs, and the gestation period was around six months.

Fearing the hospital would discover the anomaly, Zhou Xinghui didn’t dare go for check-ups, afraid others would find the little monsters in his belly. He even pretended not to hear when the doctor called him.

But things couldn’t go on like this.

Not only did the cubs need care, but even he… had become very strange recently.

Zhou Xinghui gritted his teeth and slowly put the egg Fu Ling had given him earlier inside.

With a series of buzzes, he thought of Fu Ling, his fingers moving unpracticed.

His heavy breathing paused as Zhou Xinghui saw a familiar item out of the corner of his eye. He reached over and took it.

It was a pink-blue collar.

Initially, it had been hidden deep in the cabinet by Fu Ling, until Zhou Xinghui finally couldn’t endure it and searched the entire house for items related to the fox spirit.

It had Zhou Xinghui’s name and number written on it.

Just thinking about how Fu Ling used to transform into his original form and wander around wearing this every day, and how he would proactively call him “Master” in bed… Zhou Xinghui couldn’t help but tilt his head back and breathe heavily.

“Save me…”

He said with a sob.

“Fu Ling, save me…”

He was going to break.