I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

Does this mean that I didn't say anything at all?

After spending more than 20 hours without sleep in the hospital, the couple belatedly felt exhausted after the initial joy of the baby's birth, given their advanced age.

But knowing how hard childbirth is, after looking at the baby and chatting with his daughter-in-law for a while, and seeing that there were no problems, he didn't stay any longer and urged them to rest quickly. He told them to go back and catch up on their sleep first, and then come back to visit again.

After the elderly couple left, Bai Xiaoqi finally complained, feeling wronged: "You lied to me again... You clearly said that you would give me anesthesia, that I wouldn't feel any pain after the anesthesia, and that the baby would be born when I woke up."

"You're lying! You didn't use any anesthesia at all. It hurt so much, I thought I was going to die!"

This guy made it sound so convincing back then, saying things like how advanced medicine is, how they can use anesthesia, and how you can wake up and the baby will be born. What a load of bull, it's all a lie.

"I'm not lying to you, but the kind of delivery that uses anesthesia is a C-section, and this is a natural birth, so it's different."

“…”

Bai Xiaoqi closed her eyes and ignored him. This guy only knew how to lie to her. She would never believe his nonsense again.

After waiting for a while, seeing that Chen Shuo had stopped moving, she opened her eyes and saw that Chen Shuo was already leaning over to look at the two babies.

Newborn babies are definitely not good-looking, let alone cute... With sparse hair on their heads and wrinkled, bright red faces, they look rather ugly, even a bit strange, like two little old men.

But now, whether it was because he had gotten used to it or because of his fatherly love, Chen Shuo suddenly felt that the two children were actually quite cute, and his eyes softened.

And as my mom just said, the uglier you are now, the prettier you'll be later.

According to this logic, one must have been extremely ugly when they were born.

Does your hand hurt?

Hearing the sound, Chen Shuo turned around to look at her, then glanced at his own hand. His right hand was wrapped in gauze; he had been bitten by Xiao A Miao and bled while accompanying her during childbirth, and only got a simple bandage after giving birth.

"It doesn't hurt. I'm used to you biting me. You know that. But you, I thought you were asleep. Why aren't you asleep yet? Go to sleep."

"I can't sleep."

Bai Xiaoqi felt very tired and exhausted, but she couldn't sleep. After giving birth, her belly felt empty, which made her feel relaxed but also a little unaccustomed to it.

"You have to sleep even if you can't. You need to replenish your energy right after giving birth. Or tell me what you want to eat. I remember there are some things that you can eat right after giving birth. I have them written in my phone's notes. Wait for me to find them."

Chen Shuo took out his phone to browse, but Bai Xiaoqi shook her head and refused. She didn't want to eat or sleep; she just wanted to lie down.

"You must be exhausted too, come up and sleep with me." She glanced at the undisguised fatigue on Chen Shuo's face, struggled to move to the side, and patted the bed.

"I'm not the one giving birth, why should I be tired? Hurry up, close your eyes and go to sleep. I'll stay here and watch over you."

Seeing her staring at him with her big eyes wide open, Chen Shuo had no choice but to use his husbandly authority to force her to sleep and rest. Only after she closed her eyes did he sit down on the ground.

Looking at his wife on the bed, Chen Shuo gently held her soft little hand, then glanced at his two children. His life was complete; this was the most beautiful moment of his life.

Chen Shuo couldn't tell which one was the older sister and which one was the younger brother, but it didn't matter. As the saying goes, the older sister is next to the younger brother, and the younger brother is next to the older sister.

.......

When Bai Xiaoqi woke up, it was already afternoon. When she opened her eyes, Chen Jianwen and Wu Yulan were there, and Chen Shuo was also beside her. The three of them were talking.

"The girl weighs five pounds and one ounce, the boy weighs four pounds and nine ounces, together they weigh exactly ten pounds, perfect... You're awake?"

"Um..."

Bai Xiaoqi was still a little dazed. She mumbled a response and then fell silent.

Chen Shuo asked, "We're talking about naming things. What name do you think would be good?"

With her head still foggy from just waking up, Bai Xiaoqi was still dizzy. She thought about the question for a moment but couldn't come up with a name. Remembering what Chen Shuo had just said about perfection, she simply said, "The boy's name is Chen Shiquan, and the girl's name is Chen Shimei."

"..."

Chen Shuo fell silent, unsure how to comment on the two names. Chen Shiquan was one thing, but it was just a bit unpleasant to hear. The real issue was Chen Shimei.

Chen Shimei: Doctor, I've always felt a chill in my neck since birth, and I always dream about a guillotine and a big, fat, black man. Is this an illness?

"..."

"Actually, I've already thought of names. For a boy, we'll name him Chen Qi'an, and for a girl, we'll name her Chen Qinghan. What do you think?"

Chen Shuo squatted by the bed and said the two names he had come up with. Chen Jianwen stood beside him, studying two pieces of paper. He had come up with too many names and didn't know which one to choose.

Seeing that the boy had settled on a name in no time, he moved his lips a couple of times, wanting to say something but unable to. After a while, he finally said, "A name is a big deal. It has to be meaningful and carefully chosen."

“My two names also have meanings, and they are quite particular. The boy’s name is Qiqi, which means ‘seven’. The word ‘An’ in the end means ‘to hope for a peaceful and safe life.’ The girl’s name, Qinghan, is even more particular. ‘Han’ means lotus flower. ‘Only green lotus and red lotus buds, unfolding and closing as innocent as nature.’”

"Qi'an, Qinghan? Both of these names are nice, they sound good and..." Wu Yulan, who didn't study much back then, thought these two names were quite nice, easy to pronounce and pleasant to hear.

I wanted to say something nice, but I'm at a loss for words right now. I've been trying to come up with something for a while, but I still don't know what to say next.

"And there's the artistic conception."

Chen Shuo couldn't help but chime in, then said to the old man, "Dad, stop worrying about those two pieces of paper. Just use these two names: Chen Qi'an and Chen Qinghan."

"Qi'an, Qinghan..."

Chen Jianwen muttered it to himself several times, and it was indeed acceptable, but...

He looked down at the two pieces of paper in his hand. The names on them represented the culmination of his months of hard work, but none of them were used.

Then all my hard work these past few months has been for nothing. What does this mean?

Participation is the most important thing?

Chapter 304 If you get too close, they become disrespectful; if you stay too far away, they become resent

November arrived in the blink of an eye, and the weather gradually turned cold.

Bai Xiaoqi recovered very well after giving birth. In just over three months, her belly regained its former firmness and tenderness, without stretch marks or pigmentation. It was fair and smooth, and there was no trace of childbirth at all.

I gained weight during my postpartum period, but I've lost it all back now, and my weight has dropped back to around 90 pounds.

Premature birth also has its advantages. The two Leo babies, born in August, are great; they avoided the risk of discrimination.

And just as Wu Yulan said, the uglier they are when they are born, the more beautiful they become later. They are only a hundred days old and they no longer have the wrinkled and ugly appearance they used to have. They are all more cute and beautiful than the last one.

Her little face was rosy and her two eyes were big, bright, and dark, making her look adorable.

The older sister's name is Chen Qinghan, and the younger brother's name is Chen Qi'an. These are their formal names. Their nicknames were given by Bai Xiaoqi, and they are simple and straightforward: Da Bao and Xiao Bao.

To be honest, it's pretty tacky.

Moreover, if someone who plays the card game "Three Kingdoms Kill" heard this, they would definitely think of that underworld general who guarded the territory of Wu. He was the one who shouted that if anyone dared to invade, he would make sure they were utterly defeated, carrying an ancient sword, and could send you to the next game with a single "drinking kill".

But Chen Shuo thought it was actually alright; a rustic name would make it easier to raise the child.

Having just fed the two babies, Bai Xiaoqi went downstairs to buy groceries, leaving Chen Shuo at home to look after the children.

The two little ones were lying in the crib, babbling and cooing. Chen Shuo thought they might be communicating, using baby talk.

He couldn't understand what was being said. He had passed the CET-4 and CET-6 exams in English, but not in baby talk.

I leaned over the edge of the crib for a while and saw that there was no sign of crying, and the two babies seemed quite happy.

Chen Shuo felt relieved and was about to go to the restroom when he heard wailing cries behind him. It sounded like Da Bao's voice, and then Xiao Bao started crying too, with the cries rising and falling.

"Oh, oh, oh, Da Bao, don't cry, don't cry..."

Chen Shuo quickly ran over, picked up one and shook it a couple of times, then picked up the other and tried to comfort it, but to little avail.

These two babies have a really annoying trait: if one of them cries, the other will definitely cry too, and they'll both cry louder than the other, like they're having a competition. It's really irritating.

He tried to comfort one and hug the other, but to no avail. He had no choice but to take out his phone and dial, "Come back quickly, they've started crying again, and I can't soothe them."

Bai Xiaoqi, who had just reached the entrance of the residential area, hung up the phone and quickly turned around to go home.

"See, it takes Mom to coax the child. You can take care of the child from now on, but I can handle things like going out to buy groceries."

Chen Shuo couldn't soothe his two children no matter what he tried, but Bai Xiaoqi held them and comforted them for a few moments before they stopped crying. He felt that he finally had some peace and quiet and didn't want to be alone with his children anymore.

He was very anxious taking care of two babies by himself. The two little ones didn't recognize anyone and would only care about whoever fed them. He didn't have any breast milk and didn't know how to soothe them when they cried. Patting their backs didn't help.

"Does that mean I'll have to stay home every day from now on?" Bai Xiaoqi asked in surprise. Having a child means losing freedom. She wished she hadn't had the baby.

"Let's leave it at that for now. It will be easier to take care of her when she gets a little older. This is the most troublesome stage right now."

With his wife back, Chen Shuo was finally free. He handed the two children to her and went downstairs to buy groceries.

Raising children is truly a torturous task. Not to mention the daytime, at night both babies have a sleep like infants, sleeping for a while and then crying for a while.

Chen Shuo suspects that having and raising children is actually a trap, a perfectly closed loop scheme.

The cubs are both troublesome and vulnerable, especially in ancient times when they ate raw meat and drank blood, wore grass skirts, sharpened any piece of wood they could find, and used it as a spear, howling and swarming at their prey.

It sounds impressive, but back then, humans were at most in the middle of the food chain, and any large predator could wipe them out.

Raising a child is an incredibly difficult task, so God gave humans the pleasure of creating children, which allowed humanity to continue to thrive.

If people didn't enjoy life, who would have children? They would have all gone extinct long ago.

When I got home after buying groceries, Anya had arrived sometime earlier and was standing by the crib playing with the baby.

"Come here, let your big sister hold you, oh my, so good..." Anya picked up the baby from the crib. The little rascal didn't cry or fuss, and even stretched out his little hands to grab things. He was all for milk, which made Anya giggle.

Seeing the little hand that kept flailing around, Chen Shuo's expression was subtle. This kid, Xiao Bao, has been promising since he was little.

It's so young, yet it's already so impressive. I wonder who it's been with.

I'm clearly a decent person.

As for Anya's self-reference, he wasn't surprised. Women are all like that; they always want to be younger, and they don't care about being of a different generation.

If it's a man, then it has to be his grandfather who holds him.

"Come here, let your big brother give Da Bao another hug."

Anya hugged this baby and that baby by the crib, while Walnut circled around her feet, occasionally meowing.

She looked down at the big, fat cat at her feet. "You want to see the baby too?"

"It wants you to see it; it feels neglected by you," Chen Shuo said leisurely.

"Neglected?"

Anya looked down and saw Walnut squatting at her feet, meowing at her with a mournful tone.

She handed Da Bao to Bai Xiaoqi, bent down and picked up Walnut. Unlike before, when Anya used to chase after it and hug it tightly, the orange cat was now incredibly docile. After being petted a couple of times, it even made a happy purring sound.

"I still prefer your old, unruly self. Try to get back to that."

“…”