"Sigh, if only it was six months. The miscarriage happened four months into the pregnancy."
"Fourth month? How did your belly look so large?"
"Twin pregnancy, okay?"
"Okay..." Ye Mei let out a sigh of sympathy. "Don't be so sad. You can still have children!"
"Don't you worry even if you can't conceive…"
"Look at how advanced science is. Sterility isn't even considered an illness nowadays!"
"Yeah, it is your mother who is sterile", Shen Chen scoffed quietly in her mind.
"Besides, there is IVF—In Vitro Fertilization. You can even fertilize four to five eggs at the same time…"
Quintuple pregnancy? Do you think I am a pig?
Ye Mei started to babble with the help from the alcohol.
"Let me tell you something, one of my classmates had a miscarriage because she was beaten by her husband's mistress and could not conceive even after three years. Do you know how she got pregnant at last?"
"She took a folk prescription!"
"Do you know what the prescription was? It was rats!"
Liquor spurted out of Shen Chen's mouth elegantly.
Lucky for the bartender; he dodged it just in time to avoid the alcoholic sprinkle.
Ye Mei chivalrously patted her on the shoulder. "Miscarriage is no big deal. In this day and age, you wouldn't call yourself in without having miscarriage before. If you really can't conceive, let me know and I will help you with some folk prescriptions!"
The bartender felt too embarrassed even to listen to their conversation. Let alone chipping in.
"Oh, yeah…" Feeling lightheaded, Ye Mei shook her head. "Didn't you just have a miscarriage? Why are you drinking?"
Don't most people take at least half a month to recuperate?
Shen Chen kept her head low. When she finally looked up, her eyes had reddened.
Ye Mei immediately figured something out. "Don't tell me your mother-in-law has kicked you out of the house because of the miscarriage!"
These were the words she had been waiting for.
Shen Chen quickly nodded. Her acting skill could not have been better.
Ye Mei saw that and sympathized with her. "His bloodline deserves to die out…"
Just when Shen Chen had built up her emotions, she stopped tearing because of what Ye Mei said.
Heck!
Who had she cursed, in fact?
She just wanted to enjoy her drink here. Ye Mei was really a buzz killer.
Shen Chen was afraid that she would lose control of herself and beat her up. So she might as well ignore her from now on.
Half-drunk, Ye Mei's voice became louder and louder. Even the music on the dance floor could not drown her high-pitched voice.
Shen Chen was fiddling with the dice at the bar counter, just drinking quietly.
Not long after, some men approached her, trying to chat her up.
Probably because she had one too many, Ye Mei, who had always been aloof, started to have a few conversations with those men.
As for Shen Chen; she was simply too uninterested.
She had scared away several men in under half an hour.
Feeling her stomach content surging, Ye Mei got up abruptly.
She covered her mouth and mimed a sorry at Shen Chen, then scurried into the washroom.
The bartender saw Ye Mei going to the washroom and thought of striking up a conversation with Shen Chen.
Little did he know, Shen Chen who was sitting at the bar counter was jerked backward.
She lost her balance and fell backward. A big hand wrapped around her waist, stopping her from a free fall just in time.