Paranoid Doctor Only Loves Me
Chapter 343 - 312 I didn’t blame her (2 updates)_1

Chapter 343: 312 I didn’t blame her (2 updates)_1

Seeing that Lu Zhu still wanted to say something, Bai Wei interjected first, "Enough, this matter can’t be blamed on Tang Su. She had no idea about it, she’d always been defending Lu Han. It’s just that we didn’t hear or see it."

"I’m not blaming her. I just feel, she should have figured out a way to prevent such things from happening."

"How could she prevent it? She’s still a child. Her grandmother knew that woman, and she heard quite a bit of bad mouthing about me and your dad from her. The fact that person didn’t chase us down to our home to scold us is already very decent of her."

"During these days, Tang Su didn’t reveal a single word to Lu Han. I believe that girl has exhausted all means to protect Lu Han. It’s just that sometimes, you should know, not everything we work hard to protect can achieve the result we want."

"Just like in the past. In others’ eyes, your father seemed very outstanding, very heroic. Your mother isn’t stupid, so there’s no way she should have been played by a woman like that."

"But we are human, and being human means we have things and people we care about. Do you understand?"

Lu Zhu nodded; of course, she understood these principles.

"Alright, when are you and Mingxiu planning to have kids? My princess, when can I, your mother, become a grandmother?" Bai Wei switched the topic.

To divert Lu Zhu’s attention from Lu Han and Tang Su, she needed to find something else for her to do.

Like urging her to have children.

"What? Did Mingxiu or his mother gossip to you again?" Hearing the topic of having kids, Lu Zhu showed an unhappy face.

Lu Zhu’s reluctance to have children stemmed from a traumatic fear of childbirth.

She had a close friend who died giving birth, and the child, deprived of their birth mother, was now living with their father and stepmother, which you could imagine was not ideal.

In the past, Lu Zhu only saw the cuteness and beauty of children and she quite liked them.

But how could she have known that someone close to her would die from giving birth? Now, all she felt towards childbirth was fear and terror.

Song Mingxiu was a good man, but he wasn’t good enough for her to risk her life giving birth to a child for the Song Family.

"What do you mean ’his mother’? Mingxiu’s mother is your mother-in-law; what kind of tone is that?" In Bai Wei’s eyes, Mrs. Song was quite learned and graceful, and treated Lu Zhu well.

It was precisely because Mrs. Song kept urging them to have children that Lu Zhu’s disdain for her mother-in-law grew day by day.

"I know she’s my mother-in-law, a highly educated person, yet her mindset is still so traditional. She always thinks I should bear children to continue the Song Family lineage."

"Is the value of a woman’s life just to continue the family line?" Lu Zhu truly couldn’t understand and was unable to compromise and accept it.

"Is not having children so unacceptable? When Song Mingxiu proposed to me, I spoke to him clearly and explicitly. It was only after he agreed that I was willing to marry him."

"What happened then? After marrying me, every year he devises new ways to pressure me to have children. If he was unwilling, why did he marry me in the first place? He could’ve married someone willing to bear children for the Song Family."

As she spoke, Lu Zhu’s voice grew louder.

So loud, in fact, that the two sitting in the living room turned their heads.

Seeing her daughter so repelled by the idea of having children, Bai Wei also didn’t expect such a strong reaction. Why was she reacting so intensely?

After all, Lu Zhu hadn’t grown up by her side, and since there had been disharmony between mother and daughter, they weren’t like those mothers and daughters with strong bonds, who could talk about everything.

She wanted to care for her daughter, yet there was a high wall in her daughter’s heart, one she couldn’t climb over.

She of course understood that a woman’s value in life naturally wasn’t just to continue the family line, yet the value of having a child wasn’t limited to that alone.

Wasn’t it?

Lu Zhu hadn’t spoken to anyone about her close friend dying during childbirth, including Song Mingxiu. He didn’t know the true reason she didn’t want to have children.

He thought she simply didn’t like children.

What she disliked, he disliked too.

He didn’t mind at all that she didn’t want to have children.

If she wanted to be DINK (dual income, no kids), he would be right there with her.

When Song Mingxiu had resolved to marry Lu Zhu, he had already made it clear to his family, but he hadn’t expected that at the time, his family thought they were just young and didn’t want to have kids so soon.

Now, seeing that Lu Zhu was thirty and they still had no thoughts of preparing for pregnancy, the Song Family started to panic.

For the past two years, they had been constantly urging them to have a child.

The previously good mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship had also developed a rift because of Mrs. Song’s insistence on having grandchildren.

In the past, Lu Zhu would make time once or twice a month to have dinner at the Song Family, but now, she hadn’t joined them for a meal in over half a year.

Unless it was an unavoidable holiday.

"What? Xiaozhu still doesn’t want to prepare for pregnancy?" Lu Maoyan had also heard what Lu Zhu said and asked Song Mingxiu.

"We don’t plan to have children," Song Mingxiu said.

"What? Not planning to have children, how can that be? When did you two have this idea? Was it your decision, or hers?"

Lu Maoyan was also loud.

Lu Zhu, hearing her father’s questions, came out from the dining area and answered her dad, "Dad, it was my idea, but I discussed it with your son-in-law, and he agreed. So, it was a decision we made together."

Lu Zhu had never imagined that her father would react so strongly.

Not having children, were they committing some heinous transgression in the eyes of their elders?

"Why not have children? Some people don’t have kids because they can’t afford to raise them, the economic pressure is too great, and it’s already hard enough to take care of themselves, so choosing not to have children is to spare the children suffering. But you and Mingxiu, you two don’t have this worry at all."

Lu Maoyan was equally surprised that his daughter would refuse to have children.

Why, when children are so adorable.

If everyone thought like them, those who could afford it refusing to have children, and those who couldn’t afford it too scared to have children, how much longer could humanity last?

Wouldn’t extinction come quickly?

Procreating wasn’t just about continuing the family line, but about contributing to the propagation of the human race.

If you can’t have them, that’s one thing, but if you can, why wouldn’t you?

If you have the money to raise them, why not have children?

Lu Maoyan simply couldn’t understand it; he wasn’t an old-fashioned father, but he couldn’t comprehend Lu Zhu’s way of thinking.

What exactly was the reason that made her so resistant to becoming a mother?

If it was because she thought raising children was a hassle and tiring, there were plenty of solutions to that problem.

"I just don’t want to. I don’t like little kids, I don’t want to be a mother, I don’t want to sacrifice myself because of a blood relation, is that okay?"

"Of course, it’s not okay. How could a child of the Lu Family speak such irresponsible words? That’s not a reason for not having children. Come up with another one, convince me, and only then will I agree for you not to have them."

"Otherwise, you need to properly prepare for pregnancy, otherwise it’ll really be too late," Lu Maoyan was also very assertive on this matter.

In his view, the reasons Lu Zhu gave were not valid for not having children.

Lu Zhu: "..."