After taking it to the bathroom to wash and brush, he brought it out again and put it away. The anesthetic wore off, and the pain intensified. As Lin Yan helped Su Mojin change, the little girl kept hissing, drawing in cold breaths from the pain.
Although Lin Yan felt bad, he had no other options and could only try his best to distract his wife.
This was considered a better medical facility. For those wards without private bathrooms, he couldn't imagine the pain one would endure to go to the toilet or get out of bed.
Lin Yan lay on the bed next to her, accompanying Su Mojin, feeding her, and chatting with her until eleven o'clock at night, when Su Mojin finally managed to fall asleep.
After his wife was completely asleep, Lin Yan tiptoed to the next room to check on his son and daughter. Yu An and Yu Ning had only been brought to Su Mojin's room once for their first feeding. At other times, they were in the next room, cared for by Fu Qingyun and Zhang Yingrong.
It was unavoidable, as the pain experienced by mothers undergoing surgery for twins was simply too severe. Lin Yan, prioritizing his wife's health, had no choice but to do this.
Upon arriving next door, the two little ones, who had been crying all day, finally quieted down for the night. They lay in their little cribs, not crying or fussing, sleeping soundly.
The night shift was covered by a young nurse, along with Su Chen and Su Hongyun. Fu Qingyun and Zhang Yingrong were catching up on sleep on another bed. Lin Guoxiong had already gone home, as he had to go to the company the next day and couldn't stay any longer.
Lin Yan quietly greeted the two of them and then crept over to the cribs of his two precious babies.
Yu An and Yu Ning, the two little darlings, lay in two cribs enclosed by railings, swaddled and wearing bonnets, their bodies tightly wrapped, leaving only their delicate, porcelain-doll-like faces exposed.
Looking at the adorable appearance of his son and daughter in the dark, Lin Yan wanted to reach out and touch their little faces, but he withdrew his hand midway. He watched by the cribs for a long time until he felt sleepy. Lin Yan then returned to Su Mojin's room and fell asleep.
Before returning to the room to sleep, he didn't forget to place a divider between them, fearing he might bump into each other in his sleep.
The next morning, when Lin Yan woke up, Su Mojin had already been awake and was quietly watching him, tilting her head. Lin Yan rubbed his groggy eyes and got out of bed.
"Why are you awake so early?"
"I slept early, so I woke up early."
Su Mojin didn't tell Lin Yan that she had been woken up by pain in the middle of the night. With such a large incision on her abdomen, sleeping was uncomfortable, and she couldn't sleep at all. Lin Yan got up and tucked her in. They had naturally slept in their clothes at the hospital. After feeding Su Mojin breakfast, the two cribs were also brought in. Su Mojin's condition was better today. Although she was still in pain, she could now accompany her son and daughter.
"Husband, look, don't Yu An's eyes look like yours?"
Su Mojin turned sideways and placed Yu An between them, pointing at Lin Yu An's eyes and smiling at Lin Yan. Yu An was a boy, so Su Mojin thought he looked more like Lin Yan. Lin Yan smiled, thinking, "This silly girl, how can you tell anything from a newborn?"
"I was going to say Yu Ning misses you. Look at her little nose and eyes, she's as beautiful as her mother."
Lin Yan held his daughter next to him, gently holding her tiny hand. Newborns' hands are small and cute. According to the order in which the doctor brought them out of the delivery room, Yu An was the older brother, and Yu Ning was the younger sister. The sister's features were more defined than the brother's. Su Mojin recalled that Yu An's features were a bit wrinkled when he was first born.
"I heard Yu Ning drove my mom crazy yesterday."
Placing the two children in the middle of the bed, Lin Yan and Su Mojin lay back. It seemed she had pressed on her hair, and Su Mojin lifted her head to adjust it.
"Did you hear that? Your mother said you cried too much yesterday."
Lin Yan said with a smile, holding Lin Yu Ning's little hand. The little girl, having just been born, couldn't speak yet. She opened her big eyes and looked around, her hands flailing, looking incredibly cute. Lin Yan's heart melted.
Although the sister looked fair-skinned, her fighting power was considerable. She hadn't stopped crying for most of yesterday, driving the entire family next door crazy.
In contrast, Lin Yu An, the older brother, was much better. He was the same now, not flailing like his sister, but lying quietly in his little blanket, occasionally shifting. Sometimes he would even stick out a little finger and point at Lin Yan and Su Mojin, as if asking if they were his parents.
"You, twisting my words like that, aren't you afraid of corrupting the children?"
Su Mojin gave Lin Yan a glare, looking at Yu An and Yu Ning's eyes filled with maternal love. In the span of a year, she had become a mother. Time really flew by.
"What are you thinking about?"
Seeing that Su Mojin seemed to have something on her mind, Lin Yan fiddled with his daughter's little hand and asked.
"I was thinking, how long have we known each other, and you got me pregnant already."
As if a prophecy, Su Mojin's sudden remark left Lin Yan speechless, finding it both amusing and exasperating. His wife had truly changed. If it were before, she definitely wouldn't have been able to say this calmly.
Looking at Su Mojin's slightly resentful little eyes, Lin Yan touched his nose. He really had no grounds to refute this. In fact, they had calculated it, and by the time Su Mojin discovered she was pregnant, she was already two months along. It was likely conceived when Lin Guoxiong was urging them to get married.
At noon, Su Mojin breastfed the two children. After feeding them, Lin Yan fed Su Mojin.
"No, I'm much better now. I can do it myself."
"No, I must do it. You are currently in your confinement period. If I, as your husband, am not by your side to serve you, won't outsiders laugh at us?"
Lin Yan scooped a spoonful of rice from his bowl and also gestured with his eyes at the nurse on duty, implying that outsiders were present.
Seeing this blatant gesture, the nurse couldn't help but stifle a laugh, amused by Lin Yan.
They always said rich people were scum, but this one seemed different.
Su Mojin, with no other choice, opened her little mouth. The food was prepared by the chef from Jialin at Lin Yan's request and delivered while still hot. The deliveryman, Xu Guoqiang, was as swift as ever, so the food was still warm.
Paired with the braised pork, Su Mojin ate with great relish, waiting for Lin Yan to feed her bite by bite.
"Why are you kissing me? The children are still here."
"Seeing you eat made me hungry too. Want to taste it."
Su Mojin gave him a big eye-roll. He was so glib. She then shoveled another bite of braised pork and rice into her mouth. It seemed that sensing the delicious aroma in the air, the sister, who had been lying on the bed, suddenly crawled out from under the covers, staring intently at Lin Yan's hand.