Christina walked out of the hospital gate angrily. She would rather take a taxi herself than share thesame car with Patrick. The driver asked, "Where are you going?" At that time, Christina held a strongimpulse to run away from home.

Patrick's car followed them all the way. The taxi driver looked back from time to time, feeling thatthey seemed to be followed. He was a little nervous and subconsciously drove faster.

“Lady, do you know the car behind us?" The driver asked doubtfully.

Christina kept a straight face and did not answer.

When the taxi stopped at the Hopkins family gate, Christina quickly got off and kicked the floor withobvious anger. The Hopkins family guard immediately opened the door for her respectfully, said,"Junior Mrs. Hopkins, you're back.”

Christina even did not give them a look and strode in with a dark face.

The guard was in a blank. Christina had never been so arrogant.

Then a car came back. It was their Young Master Hopkins's car.

"Mr. Hopkins, do you want to drive in?" The guard hurried over.

Patrick sat firmly in the driver's seat, looking at the distant back with deep eyes until it disappeared.Finally, Patrick backed the car, turned around, and drove out again.

The taxi driver, who was parked by the side, was gossiping in his heart. He looked up at the wall ofthe luxury villa and sighed, "What a real rich person...It turns out that a quarrel of a couple.” Hethought before that some bad guys were following him.

So it turned out rich couples would also fall into quarrels easily.

Christina returned to the Eastern Garden and went straight into the master bedroom, locking thedoor. She was so angry that she ignored everyone outside. Nanny Faang and the other maids wereworried and wondered whether to replace someone to pry into the door.

"How about call Young Master Hopkins?"

Nanny Faang looked at the locked door and thought for a while. "No, she's just in a bad mood. Lether calm down..."

During this period of time, Christina had a good relationship with Patrick. And it was Christina whohad more temper than Patrick in usual. Even if Patrick was angry, he rarely said anything harsh toher. Today, for some reason, he suddenly flew into a rage.

"Have you heard what happened?”

It happened suddenly while they were ready for dinner. So Nanny Faang and the others did notknow why Patrick was so angry once coming back.

A maid leaned closer to Nanny Faang's ear and said, "Young Master Hopkins was quite normal whenhe first came back this afternoon and went to the master bedroom in the Eastern Garden to look forthe Junior Mrs. Hopkins. But when he left the room, his expression became very terrible, holding apregnancy test stick..."

Nanny Faang frowned. “Is Junior Mrs. Hopkins pregnant?"

Why was there a pregnancy test stick in the bedroom? It would be a big deal if Christina waspregnant. She had to inform the Senior Mr. Hopkins first.

"I don't know why there is a pregnancy test stick in Junior Mrs. Hopkins's room, and it shows twored strips..."

Nanny Faang was astonished. "Is she really pregnant?”

Pregnancy was a good thing, but why did Patrick suddenly become so angry?

"According to Nancy, Young Master Hopkins angrily talked to the Junior Mrs. Hopkins privately...After a while, Young Master Hopkins looked very angry and insisted on dragging the Junior Mrs.Hopkins out.”

The maid happened to witness the process. She got a lingering fear. "I've been in the Hopkins familyfor so many years. It's the first time I've seen Young Master Hopkins so angry."

At that time, it was as if Christina had done something unforgivable.

"Usually, Junior Mrs. Hopkins loses her temper in front of Young Master Hopkins. Young MasterHopkins only frowns and doesn't want to scold her. This time...I really don't know what happened.”The maid felt that this matter was quite serious and looked at Nanny Faang. "Should we report it tothe Old Master?"

Nanny Faang thought for a while in a daze. Suddenly, her face changed as if she had understoodsomething.

Nanny Faang sternly ordered all the servants in the Eastern Garden, "Never mention this to the OldMaster!"

After thinking for a while, she added, "It's just a quarrel between couples. Don't bother the OldMaster with such a small matter. Have you heard it?"

The maids didn't dare to say anything. "Yes."

After the crowd dispersed, Nanny Faang looked meaningfully at the locked bedroom door.

"Is it what I thought?" Nanny Faang looked worried. "It's not appropriate to do this. The Old Masterwon't agree on it."

At night, the city was brightly lit and bustling with endless traffic.

The more bustling and prosperous the city, the more easily it was to make people feel empty andlonely at night. Outside the car was crowds and prosperity, but his eyes were cold and cheerless.Patrick drove the car to the city center and found a place to park. He didn't want to go anywhere.The first thought was that Christina definitely didn't want to see him now. So he didn't go back tothe Hopkins family for the time being.

He smoked a cigarette and propped up his right elbow against the window railing, looking at thecrowds through the street through the smoke. There were too many emotions in his deep eyes.

He took another puff of smoke as if he had breathed out his tense nerves.

"Mr. Hopkins, all the tests have been done... We are 100% sure that the Junior Mrs. Hopkins is notpregnant.” said by a call

"Besides, there's no problem with your ligation.”

In fact, the doctor found it very strange that rich people liked to have many children, but this youngmaster of Hopkins family secretly arranged a ligation operation for himself. If Senior Mr. Hopkinsknew about this, he would definitely not agree.

Maybe it was a personal question. Maybe Patrick really hated children. He was an outsider anddidn't dare to ask.

"Mr. Hopkins, if you really don't want Junior Mrs. Hopkins to have any chance of getting pregnant,we can arrange for her a ligation operation or inject with medicine. The new medicine is effectivenow..."

Before the doctor could finish his sentence, Patrick hung up expressionlessly.

He stubbed off his cigarette irritably with mind heavy.

Charles, a bachelor, was always lonely at night. Ever since Christina mocked him for being a playboy,he didn't replace new girlfriends anymore as if he was poisoned. After being a monk for a year, he hadto replace a bunch of friends to drink to idle away his time.

Usually, Patrick would not reply to Charles’ messages of gathering for fun. Charles did not expectthat he would really come to the bar tonight. Everyone present was quite surprised.

When men gathered together, the most frequent topic was women. "I heard that pregnancy is veryharmful to a woman's body."

One other man immediately looked angry. "My girlfriend told me that she would rather replace asurrogacy than have a baby herself."

"She said about her body being deformed. She wants to continue to be a model, but she can't walkon the runway if her body is out of shape..."

He yelled at other guys angrily, "I had a big fight with her that day. If it were not for the relationshipfor so many years, I broke up with her on the spot.”

The other men in the bar box immediately became indignant. "Yes, women nowadays are toocapricious. Are they still women if they don't have children? Otherwise, what's the use of marryingher?"

The men were naturally biased towards men. After making a scene, they raised their glasses anddrank to their heart's content.

Charles looked at them and suddenly interjected, "It is said that many of those women havepregnancy marks after they are pregnant and give birth. Their pelvis gets bigger, their stomachs getthinner, their backs get hunched, and some sneezes leak urine..."

The men turned to look at him in surprise. "Really?"

"It's too exaggerated. Just giving birth to a baby."

They all didn't believe it. "That's right. In the past, women had to work in the fields when they arepregnant. It's not like the women nowadays, who are so delicate..."

Charles shrugged. "When your wife gives birth to a child, ask her about it. It will be more obvious forsome women who are weak healthy."

"Charles, you Shepherd family also has four children, doesn't it? But Mrs. Shepherd is also veryhealthy now."

Speaking of Charles's pain, he said gloomily, "When you went to my house, You didn't see thatevery time my mom looked at me, she looked like she was looking at an enemy. My mother saidthat if she had known I wasn't a girl, she wouldn't have given birth to me.”

As the Shepherd family's youngest son, he had been sermoned by his mother since he was a child,saying that it was not easy to be a woman and to have children.

The most important thing was that his mother scolded to him that why it was so difficult for theShepherd family to have a daughter. She had risked her life to have four children, but she still didn'thave a daughter. Every time she saw Charles, she was very unreconciled.

These guys, many of them were dandies who grew up together since kindergarten. They knewCharle’s childhood shadows very well.

They burst into laughter.

One of the men realized his conscience and pondered, "I heard that miscarriages seem to be moreharmful to a woman.”

They sighed together. "Well, it's not easy to be a woman.”

"So, I used to buy whatever my girlfriends liked to her.” Charles was famous for being generous tohis girlfriend.

They chatted noisily. Patrick had not spoken a word since he entered the room and drank quietlyalone.

Charles looked around, feeling that he didn’t seem to be in a good mood tonight. He winked atthose noisy friends. No one dared to be too naughty.

"Patrick, do you want them to leave first?” Charles walked over and asked.

Usually, Patrick didn't attend their parties, and tonight they didn't know why he had the mood tocome over. But after he came, he ignored others and didn't say a word. It seemed that he wasthinking a lot. It would be terrible if something unpleasant happened because of him at the party.It was impossible to drive Patrick away, so he had to ask other friends to leave first.

Patrick turned to look at them without saying anything. He stood up and said in a deep voice, "Takeyour time.” Then he strode out of the room.

The rest of them looked at each other and then turned to Charles together. "We didn't say anythingwe shouldn't have said just now, did we?"

One of the slightly fat men immediately said, "Patrick is here. I've already restrained myself. I don'teven dare to speak something obscene.”

"Forget it. Patrick has always been like this. It's the same like when we were kids. No matter howlively the atmosphere is, he doesn't talk much..."

"He is the oldest grandson the Hopkins family, holding a honourable identity.” Someone saidjealously.

"But Patrick doesn't have as many women as we do. A man still has to know how to enjoy life. Hehas to follow the rules and work under pressure all day long, which seems that he never knows thesignificance of life.”

They quickly regained their high spirits and began to play again.

Charles was cautious and ran out. Seeing that Patrick was about to drive away, he moved closer andasked, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Go back to the Hopkins family," Patrick told him calmly.

According to what he said, it didn’t seem that Patrick have anything important to do.

Suddenly, he remembered the topic they were talking about in the room just now and said,"Christina is in good health and recovers quickly, but she has serious postpartum depression..."Charles muttered to himself, "Fortunately, she's not sensitive and soon forgot.”

"I'll go first.” Patrick was a little anxious, stepped on the accelerator, and sped away.

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