Most babies wouldn't look too nice when they were just born, only a very small number of newborns would come out as fair-skinned, chubby little dumplings. Most babies would look like the one that Ye Zhen was seeing: purplish red or dark red skin, a flat face, and wrinkled skin like a little old person.

Ye Zhen glanced at Lu Beichuan's handsome and strong facial features, then she looked at her fair-skinned wrist. She touched her face to check for her defined facial features. She almost couldn't believe that the baby in front of her with his purplish red skin and wrinkled skin was the son that she had arduously given birth to.

In her world view, newborn babies should be fair-skinned and chubby with a pair of beautiful big eyes.

Why had she given birth to such an ugly baby?

The discrepancy between reality and imagination was too big, so it was difficult for Ye Zhen to accept. Thus, she had burst into tears when she saw the baby.

Ye Zhen's sudden cry alarmed everyone in the hospital room.

"Zhenzhen, are you feeling unwell somewhere?"

Ever alert, Lu Beichuan stood up and headed out. "I'll go call the doctor over."

Ye Zhen hastily stopped him. "I'm fine."

"Why are you crying then?"

Ye Zhen tried to hold back her tears. "I gave birth to an ugly baby..."

When Mother Lu heard that, she laughed. "Is that why? I thought it was something serious. It's okay. It's your first time being a mom, so you don't have any experience. All babies look like this when they're newborn. He'll look better in time. The baby won't look like this forever. He'll look better and better."

"Really?"

"Would mom lie to you? When I gave birth to Beichuan, he looked like this too at first. His skin was wrinkled all over, and his head was elongated. He looked just like a little monkey. But look at how handsome Beichuan is now."

Lu Beichuan's expression was stiff, and he stubbornly didn't chime in with his mom's attempt to comfort Ye Zhen.

Perhaps, there was a link between mother and child. The baby had been quietly lying in Mother Lu's arms, but when he heard his mother crying, he scrunched up his eyes and bawled.

His piercing cries sounded as if they could resonate to the sky.

Mother Lu furrowed her brows in distress. Gently holding the baby, she tried to coax him. However, the baby had been asleep for most of the day and had recovered his energy. Even though Mother Lu coaxed him for a long time, she couldn't get him to stop crying.

Seeing that baby's face was flushed red from crying, as the grandmother, she felt her heart aching. "Zhenzhen ah, how about you hold the baby?"

Ye Zhen was caught off guard. When the small baby was presented to her, she was once again shocked by how small the baby was as he laid curled up in the swaddling clothes. Clearly, the baby was of a certain size, but why did he seem so small in comparison to her?

Ye Zhen carefully held the baby. Supporting the baby's soft, little head in her palm, she copied how Mother Lu had tried to coax the crying baby.

Strangely, the baby that had been bawling in Mother Lu's arms immediately stopped once he was deposited into Ye Zhen's arms.

The baby hadn't even opened his eyes yet, but he giggled and gurgled at Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen's heart melted into goo. She stretched out a forefinger to touch the baby's clenched fist. It was such a soft hand. It felt as if even the bones in his hand were soft too. She didn't dare to use too much strength in fear that she would hurt this fragile baby. She only gently tapped the back of the baby's hand.

"Sure enough, the baby likes his mom the best. The little fellow stopped crying as soon as you were the one holding him."

The little fellow in her arms kept giggling and blowing out bubbles. He looked so silly with his closed eyes and big smile.

Ye Zhen couldn't resist smiling too.

Ye Zhen found a transparent white jade tucked inside the baby's swaddling clothes. The jade had been carved into the shape of a traditional protection charm: a circle with a hole in the center. The surface was smooth and perfect. When she held it in her palm, it felt warm.

"Dad specially found a famous master carver in Myanmar to carve this. It's to ensure the baby's safety and well-being."

The jade was transparent and flawless, and the carving was meticulously done. Ye Zhen didn't know much about jade, but she knew that the value of any gift from Old Master Lu would be very high.

“Where’s grandpa?”

After she had teased and played with the baby for a little bit, Lu Beichuan wouldn't let her continue to hold the baby. He wanted her to lie down and rest.

Resigned, Ye Zhen could only reluctantly hand the baby back to Mother Lu.

As Lu Beichuan tucked in the corners of the blanket, he answered Ye Zhen's earlier question, "Grandpa watched over the baby for a long time. I finally convinced him to go to take a rest. Don't worry, the old butler is with him."

Old Master Lu was already at a ripe old age, but he still wouldn't accept it. He had stubbornly insisted on waiting to see his great-grandson. Once he was holding his great-grandson, he couldn't bear to tear himself away. It was only when his body couldn't take it anymore and protested that he allowed himself to be led away to rest.

Since the baby had woken up from his nap, Aunty Yue prepared the infant formula. Mother Lu held the baby in one hand while using the other hand to feed the baby formula milk. During this time, Mother Lu kept her son by her side while she went on and on about how to care for babies.

"The formula milk can't be too hot. Before feeding the formula milk to the baby, you should test the temperature each time. And, the bottle should be at this angle when you're feeding the baby..." Mother Lu trailed off and sighed. "Never mind, you're busy with work and not home most of the day. You won't be taking care of the baby past a few days anyways."

Her daughter-in-law might as well be a widow with the amount of childcare support her son would provide.

When she had given birth to Beichuan, she had been alone in caring for him. Lu Shaoren would leave early and come home late. He continued his philandering lifestyle without sparing an iota of care for his newborn son. Although there were dedicated nannies in the household, Mother Lu didn't feel secure leaving Lu Beichuan with them. She always carried little Beichuan around to personally care for him.

From Lu Beichuan's childhood to adulthood, Mother Lu had felt very sorry for him. He didn't have his father's care. She felt that it was the lack of fatherly love in his childhood that caused Lu Beichuan to become a cold and indifferent person.

She didn't want her newly born grandson to become like her son or to have to experience not having a father's presence and protection from a young age.

"Tell me more." Lu Beichuan glanced at Ye Zhen, who was lying down on the hospital bed. He quietly said, "I'll take good care of this baby."

Mother Lu paused before smiling.

In the end, he was the son that she, Lin Mei, had personally raised and taught. Luckily, he wasn't as selfish as Lu Shaoren.

The warm, golden sunlight shone through the curtains. On the windowsill, there were a few pots of lovely, verdant evergreen plants. Lu Beichuan's back was facing the windowsill. His gaze was serious and focused as he looked at the baby.

As Ye Zhen watched this heartwarming scene, her lips curved up into a satisfied smile. The more she looked at him, the more she felt that the sight of him listening to Mother Lu's lecture was charmingly ascetic.

It was actually pretty good being the nominal Mrs. Lu, huh?

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. A nurse pushed open the door and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Lu, there’s a couple at the nurses station. They said they're Mrs. Lu's parents, and they're here to see their daughter.

It was only now that Ye Zhen noticed that she hadn't seen the original owner's parents after coming to the hospital.

Lu Beichuan nodded. "They can come in."

The Lu's had reserved the first floor of this private hospital to ensure that Ye Zhen would be able to rest well. Lu Beichuan had ordered the hospital staff to not allow visitors in without his permission.

And so, when the Ye's had gotten the news about Ye Zhen's hospitalization and rushed to the hospital, they had been stopped at the nurses station.

Everyone in the coastal city had said that Ye Zhen's marriage to Lu Beichuan was the same as the Ye's successfully hugging onto the Lu's thigh. Thus, once people perceived that the Ye's had been taken under the Lu's protective wings, their status naturally rose up bit by bit. Outsiders expected that the Ye's would be awash with money.

Everyone had been smiling and congratulating Father Ye. Father Ye, who cared so much about how other people viewed him, could only smile and accept the congratulations, but he was agonizing on the inside.

He was the only one that knew the real truth. After Ye Zhen and Lu Beichuan got married, and Lu Beichuan had become his son-in-law, not only did the Lu's not help his business, Lu Beichuan wouldn't even meet him.

As Lu Corporation's CEO, if Lu Beichuan didn't want to meet someone, there would be bodyguards to stop that person from getting close. Even if Father Ye brought up Ye Zhen when, Lu Beichuan still wouldn't meet him.

Even more embarrassing was that when he tried to get a meeting with Lu Beichuan through Ye Zhen, she would repeatedly avoid seeing him by using her pregnancy as an excuse. He needed to talk to Lu Beichuan to ask for capital on his investment ventures.