Actually, I like you too! ——by Gu Zhihan
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Hospital in City A.
At 5:20 this morning, a baby boy and a baby girl were born from their respective mothers' wombs.
That is, the legendary born on the same year, same month, same day, and at the same time... envy-inducing!
Even more coincidentally, the two mothers were classmates, best friends, and neighbors living in the same big courtyard!
"Wow, look at this, it's just like a TV drama, the two kids were actually born at exactly the same time, not even a second off, it's so melodramatic!" Luo Mengmeng's mother couldn't help but complain to her best friend lying on the next bed.
"Isn't it just!" Gu Zhihan's mom nodded in agreement, looking at the two little babies sleeping in the same crib, then suddenly said with a mysterious air, "Mengmeng's mom, how about we make their lives even more melodramatic?"
"???"
Upon hearing this, Mengmeng's mom's face was immediately filled with question marks, not quite understanding what she meant.
"Let's arrange a marriage for them while they're still babies!" Gu Zhihan's mom said with stars in her eyes.
"This... really takes melodrama to the extreme, I wouldn't even dare to write it like this in my screenplays!" Mengmeng's mom's face was covered with black lines, and just when Gu Zhihan's mom thought she would refuse this outdated proposition, who knew, the next second she actually slapped her thigh, excitedly nodding her head, "However, I approve with both hands and feet!"
Who'd blame her, with her daughter being so ugly, she had been worried that she wouldn't be able to find someone to marry her daughter off to, and now someone delivered themselves to her door, ready to be the sucker!
"You're saying this out loud, ha!" Gu Zhihan's mom, fearing her best friend might change her mind and that her son-in-law would slip through her fingers, quickly directed her husband who was looking at the children, "Old Gu, quick, go buy twenty pounds of pork to give to our future in-laws, as a gift for arranging the baby marriage!"
"Alright, alright, I'm on it!" Gu Zhihan's father, who was also the director of this hospital, hurriedly nodded in agreement, his face beaming with joy.
His son had just been born less than half an hour ago and he already had a daughter-in-law, how could he not be happy!
On the baby crib, the two little babies with their heads nestled together still had no idea they'd been tricked by their unscrupulous parents.
Years later, Gu Zhihan couldn't help but tease his little wife every time he thought of this incident, that she was exchanged for twenty pounds of pork...
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As time passed, in the blink of an eye, a year had passed.
The then-simultaneously born Mengmeng and Gu Zhihan had turned one year old.
Following the customs and traditions of China, a child's first birthday includes a destiny-grabbing ceremony to predict the baby's future; in reality, it's just a way to celebrate the birthday for fun.
"Hanhan, come on, let's go destiny-grabbing with your wife." Early in the morning, Gu Zhihan's mom led the stumbling little Gu Zhihan to the Luo Family's home.
"No... don't wanna..."
The exquisite little boy could barely talk at this point and could only pout to express his reluctance.
Heaven knows, how much he detested the girl next door!
"No can do!" Gu Zhihan's mom scowled, forcefully dragging him away.
Next door, at the Luo Family's.
One-year-old Luo Meng, dressed in a pink puffball dress, with delicate white skin, had clear eyes like a pool of unpolluted water, a pert little nose, cherry blossom-colored lips slightly puckered, and a little crown on her head, looking like a little princess.
At the moment, she was sitting amidst a dazzling array of destiny-grabbing items, biting her fingertip, her big eyes looking at all these things around her, not sure which one to grab, and while she was struggling to choose, she also drooled shiny droplets of saliva.