Return to the Day When My Pregnant Wife Jumped Off the Building-Chapter 438: You’re Not Allowed to Get into Trouble_1

Chapter 438: Chapter 438: You’re Not Allowed to Get into Trouble_1

The sudden smile on his wife’s face left Xiao Ming clueless and instinctively afraid.

"Xue’er, why don’t you slap me a few times to cool my anger, and then we can continue our talk?

Your demeanor really leaves me uneasy!"

"What a character!"

Jiang Xue gave him a cold look. "When you flirt with other women, you seem to have all the confidence in the world, don’t you?"

At this moment, of course, a husband must concede to whatever his wife says. Xiao Ming nodded like a pecking chick. "I was wrong, I won’t dare to do it again. Can you please not be like this, my dear wife? I’m truly scared!"

Jiang Xue sighed and laid back down into his embrace.

"Actually, I’ve been afraid ever since Ding Jianwei left.

To be precise, from the day you suddenly promised to turn over a new leaf, my heart has never really been at ease.

I don’t know why, but even though you seem to have changed for the better, and surprisingly so, I still feel like you’re not the same person anymore, at least not the husband I remember.

You’ve changed too much, as if you’ve exchanged your soul overnight. While you love me more than before, it has also become harder for me to see through your heart and keep up with your pace.

I’m scared that as you become more outstanding, you might one day notice my mediocrity, and I’m even more afraid of the increasing number of exceptional women around you.

I know it’s not your intention, but it’s a natural law in the animal kingdom that strong males are more likely to attract females; it’s written in our genes.

Since returning from Lingnan, you’ve told me everything that happened but clearly glossed over the serious part.

Not until my talk with Ding Jianwei today did I fully grasp the danger and understand what you’re facing every day.

Clearly, whether it’s from a professional perspective or in terms of personal skills, she is more suited to be by your side than I am.

At the very least, she wouldn’t become your concern or burden.

But... but the mere thought of leaving you ties my heart up with thin threads of pain.

So I’ve decided to play the ostrich. As long as you’re still willing to come home and continue to love me and our child, I’ll pretend nothing ever happened.

After all, Ding Jianwei has said she won’t interfere with our life, and today might be the only time we ever meet.

Who would have thought that you’re different from those other men, didn’t even plan to hide it from me.

Do you know? In the kitchen, I was so terrified my heart nearly jumped out. If not for my pride, I might even have run back to my father’s house to cry."

After hearing all this, Xiao Ming finally came to a realization.

It turned out Jiang Xue shared the same fear as him: the fear of separation.

But their reasons for fearing separation were not because of infidelity or a third party, but because she didn’t want to be his burden anymore.

Both were willing to shackle themselves layer by layer for the other’s sake.

And yet, one was willing to bear the pain alone for the other’s freedom.

"Now I’m sure, I’m not only a jerk, but also a brainless, self-considered smart jerk," Xiao Ming self-deprecatingly said as he embraced his wife tightly.

"You really are quite the jerk," Jiang Xue smirked. "Because your feelings for Ding Jianwei aren’t simply affection.

Or to put it another way, the special treatment she received, which Hanqng, Yu, and Qingyuan all longed for, is because you need her more.

Your relationship with her is laced with self-interest."

"Uh... let’s not bring up Qingyuan and the others, I really have no such intentions for them."

"Turns out Zhou Qingyuan is the most special one," Jiang Xue said with a half-smile. "Of all the women around you, she’s the one who defies you the most.

If you could split the favoritism and indulgence you have for her in half for Hanqng, that woman would be over the moon with joy!"

Xiao Ming scratched his head. "Anyway, I just want to maintain a friendship with them and have no intention of going any further."

"What if I agree?"

"Huh? Xue’er, did you get too angry to think straight? Why are you talking nonsense?"

"Don’t you believe I can be that generous?"

"It’s not a matter of belief. Even if you were truly broad-minded, you would still be unhappy, and that’s the last thing I want to see."

"Hmm, correct answer."

Jiang Xue patted Xiao Ming’s face and sighed deeply. "Regarding Ding Jianwei, the complications between you two can’t be crudely summarized as ’infidelity,’ so for the time being, I can turn a blind eye.

But there’s a condition—you must promise me."

"What is it?"

Sitting up, Jiang Xue looked at him with an extremely serious gaze and said, "Don’t take my sacrifice for granted.

No matter what you’re about to do, successful or not, always place accompanying me and our child for a lifetime at the top of your heart’s priorities.

I won’t allow you to get into trouble!

I want you to return home safely every time you leave the house!"

Xiao Ming was stunned, filled with a mixture of emotion and guilt, at a loss for how to respond.

Objectively speaking, his relationship with Ding Jianwei was indeed the result of a series of mishaps, and there was a solution, but there was only one.

He would have to forcefully suppress the ambitions and desires fostered in his past life, give up all his grand dreams, forget his mother’s family vendetta, take Jiang Xue away to a distant place for a new start, far from everything.

He wouldn’t miss much; memories from his previous life gave him the confidence to rise quickly anywhere.

But he would be left with regret, feeling an indelible knot in his heart that wouldn’t unravel even until death.

But then again, compared to his wife’s feelings, are these really that important?