Ye Zhen quickly pushed Lu Beichuan aside and reached for her phone. It was already 10 AM.

  “It’s 10 already. Hurry and get up! I don’t want our child to see us like this.”


  Ye Zhen couldn’t help but blush when she recalled what had just happened a second ago. She gave Lu Beichuan a stare.

  It was broad daylight, and they were being impure.

  Caught unprepared, Lu Beichuan was pushed away cruelly by Ye Zhen. He closed his eyes and let out a very helpless sigh. Leaning against the headboard, he watched as Ye Zhen got dressed and out of the bed.

  Ye Zhen put her sleepwear back on, turned, and saw that Lu Beichuan was leaning up against the headboard. She quickly tossed the sleepwear onto Lu Beichuan. “Hurry up and put it on. You don’t want Zhouzhou to see you like that!”


  Lu Beichuan dilly-dallied as he put his clothes on. Only after that did Ye Zhen open up the door.

  “Good morning, Mommy!” Zhouzhou’s eyes beamed when he saw Ye Zhen. He held onto Ye Zhen and wouldn’t let go.

  “Zhouzhou is such a good boy today to come to wake Mommy up.”


  “Because I want to play with my little brother and sister!” Zhouzhou looked around her as though he was searching for something. He finally looked up dubiously, “Mommy, where are my little brother and sister?”


  Zhouzhou looked as though he had been wronged, “Didn’t you and Daddy make a little sister last night?”


  Ye Zhen’s face stiffened a little, but she still explained patiently, “Stop with the nonsense. What little sister?”


  “So it’s not a little sister but a little brother? Then… where is little brother? I want a little brother!”


  “No little brother either!”


  Zhouzhou felt that he had been cheated and wronged. He tugged onto Ye Zhen’s hand and whined for a little brother and sister. He lifted his head and shrieked. He looked as though he would not give up until Ye Zhen produced a younger sibling for him.

  “Mommy is a liar! You made a little brother or sister last night! I don’t care! I don’t care! I want to play with them!”


  Ye Zhen’s smile froze on her. The affection in her eyes began to fade slowly.

  “Who told you that?”


  “Grandma said so!” Zhouzhou looked at Ye Zhen with his clear eyes as though he had been wronged. He looked both simple and na?ve. “Grandma said you and Daddy are working on getting me a little brother or sister!”


  Lu Beichuan happened to hear that. “Lu Zhifei!”


  His stern voice worked better than anything else. Zhouzhou stopped talking immediately. Intimidated by the very stern-looking Lu Beichuan, he couldn’t help but reach his arms back to cover up his little bottom as he walked backward. He said, with a lack of confidence, “Daddy… no spanking… you promised you will not spank Zhouzhou again…”


  Ye Zhen pulled his little hand in front of him. “Daddy won’t, but… Mommy will!”


  Having said that, she smacked him a couple of times on his hand. Startled, Zhouzhou called out, “Grandma! Grandma! Help! Mommy is going to hit Zhouzhou!”


  “What is it? What’s going on?” Mother Lu came downstairs frantically and Zhouzhou threw himself into her arms as he complained to her about what had just happened. “Daddy spanked Zhouzhou and… Mommy… Mommy hit Zhouzhou too.”


  “What is wrong with the two of you? Are you just having fun hitting your child? He is just three years old. He doesn’t know any better. Why would you hit him?” Mother Lu put her arms around him and coaxed him. “Zhouzhou, good boy. Don’t cry. How about Grandma take you to the amusement park today?”


  Zhouzhou wiped away his tears and nodded. “Okay.”


  Mother Lu gave Lu Beichuan and Ye Zhen a stare before she walked downstairs with Zhouzhou.

  Ye Zhen gave Lu Beichuan a glare. She pulled up her collar to cover up the marks on her and walked inside of the bathroom, angered from embarrassment.

  After the fiasco, Lu Beichuan had lost interest as well. Leaning against the bathroom door, he said to Ye Zhen in a low voice, “You have more or less wrapped up matters regarding the movie. Have Qin Zhiyin take care of whatever else that may come up. You take a few days off and rest up at home before heading into the office again.”


  Ye Zhen’s fame had risen with that of the movie.

  All the fans had commented online that both the producer and the cast of Qinhuai’s Riverbank were unheard of. As such, the movie that they had produced would be awful. Ye Zhen had let them go on about it for months. And then, many had their faces slapped a few months later.

  Ye Zhen nodded.