"Never hide things from hard-core thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."
Tough beta cop, Wang Yibo, wakes up one morning with a hangover and some very vague memories of the previous night. One o...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
ZHAN POV
"Did you do the dishes?"
I asked as I walked in after work one night and set two bags of groceries and Yibo's takeout on the kitchen island.
"Did you clean up in here today?"
"Yeah, I washed the dishes and mopped up a little," he said from the other side of the couch.
In these last few weeks of his pregnancy, he'd stopped getting up to greet me when I got home. Whenever he did get up off the couch, I had to pull him up with both hands. I wasn't sure if he could get up on his own at all at this point.
"Why? Did I miss something?"
I walked around to the other side of the kitchen island and stood at the end of the couch so I was facing Yibo. He was laying on his back watching something on a tablet he had propped up on top of his belly. It was so incredibly cute I almost started laughing.
"That's why we have a cleaning service. They come into this house, they clean, then they leave. That's what we pay them for. I don't want you on your feet all day, honey."
Yibo rolled his eyes, then looked over at me.
"I'm not disabled, Xiao Zhan. I can handle washing a couple of dishes. It wasn't a big deal, and at least I get to feel like I'm doing something other than lay around all day."
"You're already doing something," I said as I slid down onto the couch next to him.
"You're doing something really, really big. Something most people on this planet can't do. Do you understand that?"
"Yes, I understand. But I still don't want to lounge around on my back, eating bonbons and watching TV all day long. I need to do something, and, to be honest, cleaning is kinda fun." Yibo laughed and shook his head.
"What's so funny?"
"I can't believe those words came out of my mouth. I mean, you saw my apartment before I moved out. I wasn't exactly the most fastidious person back then, before I ... well, before I changed. That's certainly an improved feature to the old Wang yibo."
"I don't like the way you always say that you've changed. You haven't really changed, Yibo. All that really happened was you had some really great stuff added onto an already fabulous body. You're the same person, you know." I said, kissing his hand.
"You haven't turned into some other creature ... or a robot."
"That's funny cause that's kinda how I saw all this when it first started happening. I thought I was going to turn into a cleaning, birthing robot that had no personality. But that's not what happened."
"No, that's not what happened. You're still the man I fell in love with few years ago."
