Alan touched her little head. "You're so clever."
"Yeah, yeah!" Annie danced and cheered.
The news that Olive was pregnant has exploded at the Steele family.
"Is it true or false?" Chloe came up to look at her flat stomach and even held out her hand to touch it.
Olive's parents looked surprised, and then they looked happy as if they had just won a million dollars.
"You may as well have another child, as Annie will have a companion."
After the joy, Annie suddenly remembered something. "But Dad, didn't you say you didn't want Mommy to have to work hard to give birth to my baby brother or my baby sister? So why is Mommy pregnant again?"
The question the family wanted to ask was asked by Annie, so everyone looked at Alan, waiting for his answer.
"Your Mommy was disobedient, as she stole a baby from your Dad, so do you think I should spank her?" When Alan talked about this, he also felt a little helpless.
Annie nodded like a grown-up. "Mommy deserves to be spanked by you, but Dad, are you willing to spanking Mommy?"
What Annie said choked Alan, but it delighted the whole family.
Olive joined in, raising an eyebrow defiantly. "Yeah, are you willing to spank me?"
Of course, Alan couldn't bear to spank or scold Olive, so finally, he could only use his fingers to knock on her forehead helplessly. "I'll settle with you later."
Olive playfully stuck her tongue out at him, and then she grimaced because she's not afraid of what he said.
Olive's mother rushed to buy a lot of vegetables and meat, and then she made a lot of good dishes to fill the table.
Olive's bowl was overflowing, but someone kept pouring food into her bowl with chopsticks.
"Enough, enough." She was too busy trying to refuse, and when she couldn't refuse, she sent the bowl under the table, because if they put any more food in her bowl, she would eat too much even now that she was pregnant. "Please, don't be so nervous, because it's not my first pregnancy."
"When you were pregnant with Annie, your Dad was in the hospital, so you had to work day and night to support the family. I didn't take good care of you, while I made you suffer..."
Olive's mother felt a pang of pain at the mention of the past, and Alan was guilty of what she had said, as he still felt the throbbing of guilt at his heart.
"Mom, let bygones be bygones, and aren't we all right now?" Olive interrupted her mother. In the past, the conditions were so bad, but she was able to give birth to Annie, while now everything was OK, and the baby's father has been accompanied by her side, so they really didn't have to be so nervous.
She could see the care and anticipation of her family for her new baby.
In the evening, while Alan was playing chess with Olive's father, Olive's mother came to Olive's room. Although her son-in-law was kind to her daughter, Mrs. Hoyle refused to accept Olive. Now that the wedding was just around the corner, Olive's mother was a little worried about something going wrong.
"When you went to Jiangcheng to take photos, did you visit your mother-in-law? Did she treat you better?"
Olive sat down on the bed with her mother. "Mom, I was just going to tell you about this."
"The sun cannot rise in the west, but it is not out of the question if one wishes to have some change." Olive had a less pessimistic view, as she felt that while there were accidents in life, there were also pleasant surprises.
"She has been so wicked to you, so why should you be so kind in return? Good intentions go unrewarded, so you might as well save the effort." Chloe felt that if she were Olive, she'd be merciful if she didn't get Mrs. Hoyle, the old witch, into the hospital.
It's just that vengeance had a way of rebounding upon oneself, and Olive didn't want to be deadlocked with Mrs. Hoyle, so she patted Chloe on the shoulder, smiled, and said. "Don't forget, if you want to be with Aoba in the future, you're going to have to deal with Mrs. Hoyle, and it is better to be on good terms with her than on bad terms with her."
Chloe pursed her lips with disdain. "It's not that I want to be hostile to her, but that she doesn't want to be friendly with me. Even if I choose not to marry, I will not allow myself to be humiliated and be despised again."
Although the life experience made
Chloe no longer just choose to submit to humiliation, Chloe also thought that she wasn't a troublemaker. If someone was nice to her, she was willing to be nice to someone in return. But if someone has been treating her with disdain, she couldn't show excessive passion to someone cold.
Chloe's life in the Lynn family taught Chloe a lesson, while that was: you couldn't live if you sinned.
Olive's mother and Olive understood her feelings, and it was not easy for them to persuade her, because if they stand in her shoes, she's not wrong. People learned to protect themselves more after being hurt, and this was a kind of instinct.
As for all this talk about Mrs. Hoyle, they couldn't go on.
Coincidentally, Olive's father and Alan have also finished playing chess, as they both came in laughing. Olive's father looked radiant even when he lost at chess.
"I'm old, so my thinking can't keep up with young people like you. Ivy was here playing chess with me the other day, and I was badly beaten at chess with him, too."
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