Translator: Mogumoguchan
Editor: Sarcasm
When the first ginkgo leaf turned yellow, Yan Qiu, accompanied by Ji Xinglan, was admitted to the VIP room of the hospital.
Three days later; the twins arrived.
Yan Qiu slept for a few hours before he woke up, feeling groggy and drained.
He opened his eyes blearily and saw the blue sky and the swaying ginkgo leaves outside.
The walls, sheets, blankets, and the table around him were all a terrifying shade of pale white. Yan Qiu wanted to turn his head to look, but all his strength seemed to have been siphoned off him, so he could only stare at the scenery outside the window and the white ceiling.
For some reason, loneliness and fear filled his heart. Yan Qiu had never felt so lonely before.
The strange sense of emptiness and alarm as well as the smell of disinfectant in the hospital made him remember the accident that happened more than a year ago.
Those were memories that he thought he had long forgotten.
His heart raced and his ears rang. He heard the doctors nearby saying something.
Then, the door opened.
He smelled a familiar scent.
It was as fierce as the chilled mountain wind that bites as it blows, but undetected underneath the snow-covered ground, flows burning lava.
It was his alpha’s scent – Ji Xinglan had come.
When Ji Xinglan entered the room, the nurse wanted to bring the babies over to let him see them, but Ji Xinglan just nodded and did not pay too much attention to them. He strode over to the bed where Yan Qiu was.
He slowly crouched down beside Yan Qiu’s bed. The others sensibly left the room as well as shut the door behind them.
Ji Xinglan leaned toward Yan Qiu.
He saw his lover lying quietly in bed. His face was bloodless and his black hair was in stark contrast against the white pillow.
As he stared into Yan Qiu’s eyes, for some reason, he became teary-eyed.
He would never forget the day, more than a year ago, when he had held a bloody Yan Qiu’s hand and watched as his heart stopped beating.
That was the first time he found out just how fragile human life was and how powerless he was.
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Ji Xinglan sighed and tucked Yan Qiu’s hair behind his ears.
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However, this beautiful and fragile body contained a firmly beating heart.
In the past, Yan Qiu always energetically claimed himself to be a mighty alpha. This was a rare moment where he appeared weak, making Ji Xinglan’s heart clench when he saw it.
Since last night, he had been waiting outside without sleep. That’s why, at the moment, his eyes were bloodshot.
Yan Qiu smiled and moved his numb fingers and raised his hand to touch Ji Xinglan’s face.
He knew that Ji Xinglan loved him and did not want him to worry about him.
Ji Xinglan did not move away and just let Yan Qiu touch his face. He covered the warm palm with his own hand and held it on his cheek.
The golden sunlight shining through the glass was just right. It not only brightened Ji Xinglan’s eyes, it also illuminated the moisture in there.
Ji Xinglan smiled at Yan Qiu and gently pulled his hand to his lips to plant a light kiss on his white knuckles.
Ji Xinglan could sense his panic so he touched his face to calm him down. “You’ve worked hard. You’re fine now.”
Those words were not just for Yan Qiu but also for himself.
Yan Qiu said nothing. He leaned against Ji Xinglan and simply looked at him. He soaked in the warmth from the palm that touched his face, as if it could stop all the hurt and wipe all the scars in his heart.
There was nothing more calming than his beloved alpha’s pheromones. All the unease in his heart was slowly soothed by love. The panic in his eyes disappeared, leaving only calmness and gentleness. He gradually relaxed and smiled at Ji Xinglan.
“Let me see the babies,” Yan Qiu rasped.
Ji Xinglan brought a pillow over and put it behind his back so that Yan Qiu could sit up. He took the babies from the nurse and brought them to Yan Qiu.
Their skin was wrinkly and had a pinkish hue to it. They looked tiny wrapped in their blankets.
“…They look kinda ugly.” Yan Qiu frowned a little and puffed out his cheeks, feeling a little displeased. His words expressed his disappointment.
They were far different from the beautiful mixed-blood babies he dreamt of. Both of them had crinkly faces. One of them had a little hair, but due to it being blond, it looked like he had hardly any hair, and the other was simply bald.
“That’s how newborns look. They’ll look good once they grow up,” Ji Xinglan said.
Mrs.Ji knocked thrice on the door before she came in carrying a thermos with her. She first put the flask on Yan Qiu’s bedside then asked him with great concern, “How are you feeling darling?”
Getting Yan Qiu’s positive affirmation, she nodded, feeling at ease. She opened the thermos and poured the soup out for Yan Qiu to drink.
“The baby looks just like you.” With great seriousness Mrs. Ji pointed at the bald, pink baby and smiled at Ji Xinglan and said, “When Lan Lan was just born, he looked just like this and had no hair.
“The other babies had hair, but you didn’t Lan Lan.”
Yan Qiu snickered. He looked at Ji Xinglan, then at the bald, pink baby, and he could not resist giggling like an idiot.
He could not quite imagine how Ji Xinglan looked when he was a baby.
Judging from Mrs. Ji’s descriptions, Lan Lan was aloof since he was young, but what did he look like without hair? Perhaps not an abstinent young master, but an abstinent monk?
Mrs. Ji continued making sarcastic quips. “…I kept wondering what was wrong with you. You didn’t grow any hair even after you were six months old. Your grandfather was balding but I had never heard of anyone becoming bald when they’re a baby.”
That period of his dark history was already twenty years old, yet his mother still brought it up in front of his wife. Embarrassed, Ji Xinglan tried his best to defend himself by saying, “Not everyone is born with hair.”
Besides, he clearly has a lot of hair now, and the quality is also very good. He did not have any hair when he was born simply because he was absorbing nutrients so that his hair could grow well!
Yan Qiu watched them and smiled, but soon, his smile dipped. He did not know what he looked like when he was born because there was no one who could tell him.
But when he heard the laughter in the room, he smiled a little.
It was fine. He had a family now.
Ji Xinglan, his parents, and the two babies are now his family.
……
The twin boy babies were taken for secondary gender examination.
The results showed that the elder one was an alpha, while the younger brother was an omega.
Over the past few days, Ji Xinglan stayed in the hospital to keep him company.
Mrs. Ji got up early every day to make him all sorts of soup. The nourishing soup was then brought to the hospital in a huge thermos. The quantity was so much that Yan Qiu could not finish it and Ji Xinglan had to drink the leftover soup.
Field Marshal Ji was an army man who did not know much about anything else. Even so, he still awkwardly held the babies.
He was an upright and straightforward man who could not act in a pleasant manner even in front of the prime minister. But currently, he was nervously trying to coax the two babies to sleep.
Yan Qiu was amused. He opened his mouth to drink the soup Ji Xinglan fed him while laughing.
Because Lan Lan was aloof since he was young and did not allow anyone to tease him, Field Marshal Ji and Mrs. Ji had been suppressing their desires to play with a baby for a long time. And now that they had another chance, they were playing with the twins tentatively.
Ji Xinglan had originally wanted Yan Qiu to stay in the hospital for a bit longer so that he could nourish his body properly. But since Yan Qiu was young and healthy, he recovered fast. Soon, he was as energetic as in the past and constantly pestered Ji Xinglan to get him discharged.
He did not want to stay in the hospital. They just made him feel suffocated. It would be the same even if he went home to rest.
But due to Ji Xinglan’s persistence, Yan Qiu was forced to stay for a full week. Ji Xinglan stayed with him during the entire duration, he even got Field Marshal Ji to play cards with them.
On the day he was discharged, Ji Xinglan held Yan Qiu’s hand while his parents carried the two babies. They went home with the setting sun.
On their way back home, Ji Xinglan asked about the names for the babies.
After a long period of fruitless discussion, Field Marshal Ji and Mrs. Ji gave up and let the two of them decide.
“We were really conflicted when we had to give you a name. I don’t want to go through that again.” Mrs. Ji stared at the two babies and shook her head. “This time, the difficulty has doubled.”
Ji Xinglan insisted on giving his sons pet names; Xingxing and Qiuqiu.
They both fought a really fierce intergalactic war, but since Yan Qiu could not think of better names, he could only agree to it in the end.
In any case, Xingxing and Qiuqiu sounded cute. Giving them casual baby names was fine. They could give them proper names when they went to kindergarten later. They were not in a hurry.
……
Yan Qiu rested for three full months at home.
In the morning, Ji Xinglan went to work in the military department, and in the evening, he went home to accompany Yan Qiu and take care of the babies.
For the sake of letting Yan Qiu sleep a little longer, Ji Xinglan had to shoulder the responsibility of waking up early in the morning to feed the babies, taking up the role of both a father and a mother. Fortunately, the twins did not cause too much ruckus and usually slept for more than fifteen hours a day.
On this particular day, Yan Qiu was on his way out. When he turned around to wave goodbye, he immediately flew into a rage.
Before, Yan Qiu had been playing with the babies on the bed. When Ji Xinglan came back, he handed over the babies to him so that he could go out for a while.
At that moment, Ji Xinglan was scooping the baby powder to make milk for the babies. He did not notice Xingxing rolling off the bed behind him.
Fortunately, the carpet was quite thick and he was not injured. Instead, he was drooling happily on the carpet. Lan Lan, the cat, drew closer to curiously sniff his feet and to lick his face.
Even though the black hair and shiny black eyed Xingxing was just a baby, he was also an alpha. He was fierce and as all newborn alphas are, he was also fearless.
So he swung his arm and grabbed the cat’s fur before opening his mouth, wanting to bite its head, scaring the cat so much that it ran.
“Ji Xinglan!” Yan Qiu yelled angrily.
Mogumoguchan: Pets should not be allowed in nurseries, right?
Sarcasm: They are only legally adults ~
Hahaha my hamster name is Xingxing too.. Such a cute pet name.. Thank you for the update
Both of them remembering Yan Qiu dying is so sad, but then Yan Qiu giggling at Ji Xinglan being a bald baby was hilarious!
That was nice in spite of the initial sadness. Thanks for the chapter.
Nice chapter! Thanks for the update! 🤣❤️
Thanks for the chapter
Xingxing and Qiuqiu 😍😍
Bald babies are really funny…..