Zhang Xiaoya listlessly returned to her room, assuming that Huang Lixin had already gone to rest.
To her surprise, he was actually leaning against the headboard, smoking and deep in thought. "Why have you started smoking again?"
Zhang Xiaoya said irritably as she approached him and took the cigarette from his mouth, "You know full well Xiao Lei is pregnant."
"Don't you know it's bad for the child?" Zhang Xiaoya snuffed out the cigarette.
She then opened a crack in the window, "What's gotten into you today? You even scared Xiao Lei."
Scared Huang Lei? Huang Lixin chuckled, "Don't worry, even if I scare myself into something serious, she won't be frightened."
"For her, as long as she has a house, after having one child and raising the eldest, she can then have a second child. By the time the second child grows up, she would've been out of the workforce for over a decade."
"We would've retired early too, and even if we wanted to help her find a job, we'd be powerless."
