His Rui

"Chunxiu is a maid's daughter with whom Xi Ling had been playing with for a year now."

Li Rui told Xi Ying when she saw that he looked confused.

Xi Ying nodded his head but felt a little ashamed. He, who had raised Xi Ling for three years didn't even know about this but Li Rui who had only been there for a few months with Xi Ling knew everything about him.

One part of his heart was happy that she had mixed herself in their son's life so easily while the other was a little sad that he couldn't do the same.

He couldn't make the same place in Li Rui's life as well.   

"Oh…"

Xi Ling whispered and nodded his head as if indicating that he had understood what his mother was saying.

A moment later, he looked at his mother's stomach with bright eyes and said

"Then Xi Ling will really have a small sibling like Chunxiu's brother."

Li Rui nodded her head softly and felt happy seeing Xi Ling's bright eyes. She had actually been afraid that Xi Ling would feel sad when he will come to know about this because whenever she spent some more time with Xi Ying before, he didn't use to like it.

So she had thought that he will feel insecure when he will come to know about this new sibling of his. Although she had already thought of ways to make him feel secure in such circumstances, she was more relieved to see that her son didn't have any such thought from the beginning itself.

Xi Ling was now very excited …so excited that he couldn't wait to get down from his father's lap and go close to his mother. So he struggled to get down from Xi Ying's lap.

With a sigh, Xi Ying put down his son on the ground and saw him going close to Li Rui. He put his small hand on his mother's stomach as he asked

"Mother, is it a brother or a sister?"

Li Rui chuckled on hearing the question. She was about to speak when Xi Ling spoke before her.

"Actually it doesn't matter. Whether it a brother or a sister, Xi Ling will love both of them equally."

Li Rui's heart melted in a soft puddle of pool after she heard these cute words from Xi Ling while Xi Ying shook his head bitterly.

It was so easy for his son to win his wife's heart with only a few words. He suddenly wished to replace his own son.

On the other hand, the excited Xi Ying was now asking Li Rui one question after the other without giving his mother any chance to answer even a single question of his.

"Mother, will my brother or sister be small like Chunxiu's brother?"

"Mother, will he or she also not speak?"

"Mother, then how will I talk to him or her?"

"Mother, will my brother or sister also make bubbles from mouth? But mother that is so dirty."

Xi Ling make a disgusted face and then composed his face with very difficulty and corrected himself.

"I will still love him but I will teach him not to do dirty things."

"Mother…"

"Shut your mouth."

A cold voice interrupted Xi Ling's umpteenth question.

Xi Ling turned to look at his father with a pout on his face while Xi Ying also looked at his son with a frown on his face.

"When did you become such a chatterbox?"

Xi Ling's eyes went teary when he saw his father's cold face and heard his scoldings.

"You are scary, Father."

He said and then turned to hide in his mother's embrace hurriedly.

Li Rui also didn't like to see her son's tears and looked at Xi Ying with a small frown on his forehead. She didn't know if it was because of pregnancy hormones but she couldn't stop himself from saying to her husband

"Why are you scolding him? It is not his fault that he is like this. I have noticed that he had many habits from you. You must be like this during your childhood. So don't blame my son for anything."

Saying this, she made Xi Ling sit in her lap and then gently coaxed him.

On the other hand, Xi Ying's mouth was parted after he registered his wife's words in his mind. He was not like this at all.

In fact, he was the most sensible and hard-working child. He never spoke more than needed. 

He looked at the duo of mother and son and said to his wife

"It is not me from who he had gained this habit. It is from you."

Li Rui's attention was now diverted from coaxing Xi Ling when she heard Xi Ying's words. She looked at him with a frown on her forehead and was about to say something when Xi Ying said before her.

"I know how you were in your childhood. General Li had told me everything. You even used to sneak out of the manor and then General Li used to spank you after you used to get caught by him. Not only that but…"

"Just shut your mouth."

Xi Ying was startled when he sensed the fierceness in Li Rui's voice.

Only when he saw Li Rui's red cheek, not because of shyness this time but because of anger, did he come to know what huge mistake he seemed to have committed in his foolishness.

"Rui…I …"

He wanted to say something to reduce his sin but Xi Ling's voice interrupted him.

"Mother also used to get spanked by her father."

Xi Ling looked at his mother with wide eyes full of curiosity. Li Rui was angrier after she heard this question. She looked at Xi Ying again and then after putting Xi Ling to the ground, she left the dining room silently.

Xi Ying immediately stood up from the chair and followed her out of the room.

"Rui...forgive me, I was not thinking straight."

Left alone in the dining room, Xi Ling laughed mischievously while covering his mouth as he glanced at his father's disappearing back.

A small revenge for spanking him earlier.