The story goes back five minutes ago.
The second child rubbed against the arms of her good friend, acting as if this was her real mother. Lu Yinbing's self-esteem was hurt, and she glanced at Xia Yitong, hoping to get some comfort from her, but Xia Yitong was so focused on the second child who had just calmed down that she didn't care about her at all.
Sure enough, after having a child, the attention I receive will be greatly reduced.
Lu Yinbing then left the room while no one was paying attention.
It wasn't far to go, just to the next room, which was the study room, separated from the bedroom by only one wall. After Lu Yinbing entered the study room, she closed the door and sat on the bay window to digest this somewhat uncomfortable reality for her.
Since her own daughter didn't like her, Xia Yitong divided half, no, most of the energy that originally belonged to her between her two children.
I can't hear any sound from next door. The child must be asleep. She falls asleep as soon as I'm not around.
Lu Yinbing felt only a little uncomfortable at first, but as she thought about it, the feeling became stronger and stronger, and finally her eyes turned red.
You are so pretentious.
She cursed herself in her heart, and then said to herself: I will just be pretentious for a while, and when I calm down and go back, I will be a good mother and lover who is immune to all poisons again.
Lu Yinbing went out, and Xia Yitong could probably guess the reason. Although Lu Yinbing looked carefree and could take anything lightly, it didn't mean that she wouldn't be sensitive and fragile sometimes.
She asked others to look after the child and she opened the door and went out to look for someone.
I went to the gym downstairs first, but it was empty. I searched the rooms, balconies, and gardens on the first floor, then went back upstairs and found my way into the study.
But when he pushed the door open, the scene that came into view made Xia Yitong's heart tighten.
Lu Yinbing took off her shoes and sat barefoot on the bay window, her arms wrapped around her knees, her face buried deep in them, revealing a sense of hurt from a distance. She had been with Lu Yinbing for so many years, and she had never seen him so vulnerable and helpless.
Even when he was suffering from depression in the past, Lu Yinbing was still fighting with himself most of the time, not like now.
Feeling bitter in his heart, Xia Yitong walked over quietly and hugged her shoulders from the side. The hug was so broad that it almost covered Lu Yinbing's entire body.
"Eh?" Lu Yinbing raised his head. "Why are you here?"
Xia Yitong spoke softly, stroking her hair with her hand, and said, "I came to see you."
Lu Yinbing: "Where's the child?"
Xia Yitong: "They are watching."
Lu Yinbing raised an eyebrow: "So you came to see me?"
Xia Yitong subconsciously wanted to answer yes, but the alarm bells in her brain made her words slow down in her throat. She looked carefully and saw that although Lu Yinbing's eyebrows were frivolous, there was a gloomy color under his eyebrows. She thought quietly and said, "Why? I came here because I wanted to see you. I missed you when I didn't see you, and I came here because I missed you."
Lu Yinbing let out a loud click of his tongue.
She knew how smart Xia Yitong was, and she could tell that he knew what she was thinking, but her mood was like a bird flying through the forest, which became excited after being touched.
Xia Yitong was spouting sweet nothings as if she didn't care about money. After pulling Lu Yinbing back from the bottom of her heart, Xia Yitong cleverly asked at this time: "Why did you suddenly come out?"
Although Lu Yinbing was no longer sad, she still felt awkward, so she whined, "Why am I standing there like an idiot if I don't come out? My daughter doesn't like me, and my wife doesn't even look at me."
So that's how it is. Xia Yitong confirmed her guess again.
She didn't rush to persuade him, but instead said in a roundabout way: "When you woke the child up, you shouted 'I know'. I wanted to ask you just now, but Erbao was crying so hard that I forgot about it. What did you know?"
Lu Yinbing: “Ah?”
Lu Yinbing's memory was not as good as before, and she could not remember what she had just said. Xia Yitong helped her recall: "Didn't I ask you to feed Dabao? While you were feeding her, you suddenly shouted 'I know'..."
"Oh, you mean that." When Lu Yinbing recalled this incident, she thought of her second daughter who treated her like the murderer of her father. Even though it was a discovery that made her very excited, she just narrated it calmly without much emotion, "I found a good way to distinguish them. The one who drinks milk obediently is the first one, and the second one cries when she sees me."
Xia Yitong said: "This is a good idea."
Lu Yinbing was dejected: "What's good about that? My child cries every time he sees me. What's the matter?" The younger the child is, the more he sleeps. When he was abroad before, everything was just a coincidence. Erbao rarely saw Lu Yinbing when he was awake. Occasionally, he cried twice, which was also within the reasonable range. It is normal for children to cry. Parents would be surprised if they didn't cry at all. Crying is their only way of expression. They cry when they are hungry, when they wake up, when they are not held, and when they are not rocked in the cradle. Crying represents vitality.
But never had she cried as heart-wrenchingly as she did today. Whenever Lu Yinbing closed her eyes, she would hear the extremely desperate cry of Lao Er in her arms after a moment of silence.
Lu Yinbing began to reflect on himself.
"Is it because I'm not good-looking?"
"..." Xia Yitong comforted her, "No way, you are very beautiful, the most beautiful person in the world is you."
Lu Yinbing sneered without even thinking: "Nonsense, of course you would say that if you like me."
Xia Yitong: “…”
She didn't speak for a long time, and Lu Yinbing raised his eyes in surprise.
"You were always happy when I said that before." Xia Yitong took two steps away from her and looked at her resentfully. She felt the same way now. Lu Yinbing put his mind on the child and actually said that the sweet words he said to her were nonsense.
nonsense
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Xia Yitong: “…”
The two of them were silent.
Lu Yinbing opened his arms. Xia Yitong took a look at their current situation and took off her shoes, stepped onto the bay window, and leaned her back into Lu Yinbing's arms. Lu Yinbing hugged her from behind, with her back against the wall.
Lu Yinbing sighed first: "It seems that both of us have to get used to life with children."
"Yes, yes." Xia Yitong agreed deeply.
Otherwise, you might end up getting jealous of each other's children every time.
Lu Yinbing pondered for a while and said, "Why did we both want to have a child in the first place?"
Xia Yitong: “!!!”
She said, “Do you regret it?”
Lu Yinbing: "No, this is a rhetorical question. I haven't given the answer yet."
"What's the answer?"
"I just thought about it, and then I did it," Lu Yinbing said. "That's why we are in this situation now. It turns out that we didn't predict the future well enough."
Xia Yitong thought she would have some insightful opinions, but after Lu Yinbing talked for a while, they returned to the original question: "Why did Erbao cry when he saw me? Since you said there is no possibility that I am ugly."
Xia Yitong: "...Maybe you don't meet her aesthetic standards?"
"Then how does it fit her sister's aesthetic?"
"You'll have to ask her sister herself."
Lu Yinbing said sadly: "What if she never likes me?"
"No." Xia Yitong comforted, but she was not Erbao himself, so her comfort was just verbal comfort.
Lu Yinbing sighed heavily, turned his face to the window and stopped talking.
Xia Yitong felt bad for her. She felt pain in her heart when she thought about how her child, who she had carried for ten months in her womb, was so cold to her. Why did this child have such a bad temper
Bad temper? Xia Yitong's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said happily: "Teacher Lu!"
"Hmm?" Lu Yinbing was still looking at the garden with a melancholy look, and replied listlessly, "What?"
"Which of us do you think these two children look more like?"
Lu Yinbing was a very honest person. Based on her ability to judge people, she couldn't tell which was which of the twins. She couldn't come up with any nice words to please the host. She still said dejectedly, "The hair hasn't even grown out yet. I can't tell."
"I'm not talking about appearance, I'm talking about personality." Xia Yitong had a brilliant idea and was guiding Lu Yinbing to think in that direction step by step.
"Personality?" Lu Yinbing asked.
What kind of personalities can these two children have at such a young age
"Who of us looks like?" Xia Yitong continued to guide.
"Both of us?" Lu Yinbing's thoughts, which were about to diverge in an unknown direction, were framed by this limitation. She frowned and thought. If she had to say something, the eldest child was quiet and silent most of the time when he was awake, and occasionally smiled. He should be more like Xia Yitong, although she was also quite quiet sometimes. As for the second child? He was a thorny person, crying all day long, as if everyone owed her a million or eight hundred thousand. He treated Lu Yinbing as the murderer of his father. He was a little better when he saw Xia Yitong, but not very good either. It was hard to tell who he resembled.
Wait, since Xia Yitong asked this, there must be an answer. If the eldest child looks like her, then the second child must look like me, right
Lu Yinbing's expression became even uglier.
Xia Yitong said: "Don't you think Erbao's fearless spirit is very similar to you?" Xia Yitong did not mention that Dabao was similar to herself, as it might seem like she was bragging. Instead, the main point was to comfort the second child to Lu Yinbing, so it was better not to mention it.
Lu Yinbing: "No way, I have a reason to lose my temper!"
"What's the reason?" Xia Yitong turned the tables.
"I won't offend others unless they offend me." Lu Yinbing moved his mouth for a long time before uttering a sentence.
This just happened to fall into Xia Yitong's trap, and Xia Yitong immediately responded: "You just violated her."
"When did I—"
"You woke her up." Xia Yitong reacted quickly and righteously, "Are you in a bad mood when you wake up? When we were filming together on the set, we just met and lived together. I woke you up in the morning and you told me to get out."
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Xia Yitong: "Is this true?"
She refused to give in, and Lu Yinbing went from being in the wrong to being angry and ashamed: "So what? I worked so hard to film a movie and I only sleep so little a day, and I'm not allowed to be grumpy when I wake up?"
Lu Yinbing's remarks were pure distortion of right and wrong. No matter how long she slept, she would lose her temper if someone woke her up. It didn't matter how long she slept. But it didn't matter. Xia Yitong didn't bother to refute her because her argument was clear: "Erbao is just as grumpy as you are. You woke her up and she cried at you. There's nothing wrong with that."
Lu Yinbing: "How can this be the same?"
"Why is it different?"
"I'm so old." Lu Yinbing struggled.
"So how old were you when you started to get grumpy when you woke up?"
"Ten years old!" Lu Yinbing's voice suddenly rose and she continued to struggle, but the raised voice only exposed her guilty conscience.
"How old are you?" Xia Yitong said in a gentle manner.
"Well, ever since I can remember, I've always been grumpy when I wake up."
Xia Yitong snapped her fingers and said, "Is it possible? I mean it's possible. When you and Erbao were your age, you were already grumpy when you woke up."
Lu Yinbing frowned and said, "Just barely enough."
Xia Yitong let out a long sigh and made a closing statement: "In summary, Erbao not only has a bad temper, but also has a strong tendency to get mad when she wakes up. She is exactly like you. The reason why she doesn't like you is most likely because people of the same sex repel each other."
"Sex of gender?"
"The sex of character."
"She can sense my personality at such a young age?"
"That's something she'll have to ask herself."
Lu Yinbing muttered something in a low voice, but Xia Yitong didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"
"nothing."
What Lu Yinbing said was: If I were really like this when I was a kid, it would be so annoying.
The two of them had a long talk in the study. The child was still in the next room, being looked after by the godmother. It was time to go back. The two of them returned to their room. There were only two people left in the bedroom, Laiying and four friends.
Lu Yinbing was jealous of her friend No. 4. Her eyes had been glued to her face since she entered the room, as if she wanted to see a flower on her face. Seeing that the situation was not good, her friend No. 4 ran downstairs.
Laiying said, "Everyone saw that the baby had fallen asleep, so they went downstairs to talk in fear of disturbing them."
She looked at Lu Yinbing, and was having a hard time deciding between taking advantage of her situation and letting it go or comforting her. Finally, she felt guilty and patted Lu Yinbing on the shoulder: "This is how you raise children. Don't take it to heart if you owe them something in your previous life."
Lu Yinbing: "Well, I'll scout the way for you first, and I can give you some guidance when you have children in the future."
Laiying looked at her sympathetically: "No need, my child won't be so desperate for me."
Lu Yinbing: "...Go away."
"Hahaha." Laiying rolled away happily.
Lu Yinbing stood still and looked into the cradle from above. The one with more hair and less eyebrows was Dabao. She stared at his light eyebrows and remembered the description of Lin Daiyu in Dream of the Red Chamber as "brows that seemed to be frowned but not frowned". He will definitely be a beauty when he grows up. The one with less hair and more eyebrows was Erbao. She stared at his hair and remembered Xue Yao's receding hairline. If this child's hair doesn't grow well, he will become a bald man in the future.
The oldest child was the one who was obedient and didn't cry, while the second child cried when he saw her. This was a dynamic judgment method. After Lu Yinbing mastered this method as if by divine help, she suddenly had an epiphany. She magically discovered that the two children were fundamentally different in her eyes. The oldest child was much more beautiful than the second child. Look at the thick hair, the light yellow eyebrows, the slightly open mouth, the quiet sleeping face, no matter how you look at it, it was beautiful. The second child... forget it, I don't want to say more.
This time it was Xia Yitong's turn to be surprised. She didn't realize that the eldest was prettier than the second. If she had to compare, the second child's eyebrows were dark in color, almost black, but had a nice shape. His little appearance revealed refinement and elegance at an early age. Moreover, he was particularly lively and active when awake, and had a hint of cunning. She actually preferred the second child more.
Love the house and love the dog.
The two of them thought of this word at the same time.
The two of them have two children, and they can treat them equally in terms of basic conditions, but deep down, favoritism is unavoidable. Fortunately, this way, they complement each other.
The two of them sat hand in hand by the bed, looking at the two sleeping babies, their hearts were more peaceful than ever before. They looked at each other and smiled together.
"I just had a flash of inspiration and thought of names for the two babies." Lu Yinbing said.
As for the baby's name, the two of them put a lot of thought into it. They carefully looked up dictionaries and searched for Tang and Song poems a long time ago. Lu's parents and the director of Xia Yitong's orphanage all contributed. Afterwards, they picked out seventeen or eighteen names, but were not very satisfied with any of them. There was also the issue of what surname to choose, and the matter was put on hold.
The child is still young, so call him baby first, and then choose one when you think of a suitable one.
"What's your name?" Xia Yitong asked.
Lu Yinbing smiled and pointed at her eldest daughter who looked so beautiful that she almost glowed. She said, "This one looks like you, so she should have the surname Xia and be called Xia Lu. The other annoying little girl should have the surname Lu and be called Lu Xia. This way, people will know that you are sisters when they hear you."
"They look so alike, no one would suspect that they are not sisters, right?"
Lu Yinbing was startled, then he frowned and said seriously: "Don't worry about these details!"
"Okay, okay, let's call it this name." Xia Yitong agreed with a smile.
Thus, the names that would accompany the two children throughout their lives were hastily decided.