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Did he want something from her? She naively thought as though she was the husband in this marriage and Yang was the wife who is too shy to say his wishes.

Approaching his seated self, she let him take her in his arms shyly. Her eyes clashed with his kohled eyes and none of them tried to break the contact.

Noticing a bird's small feather on his wife's hair, Yang subconsciously removed it and pulled his wife closer, so much closer that now their foreheads touched.

The silence was almost seductively provoking and the man gave up after seeing no way out.

"What do you want, darling?" He was at his wits end at this point. "Please say something. Please demand something from me." His low whispers couldn't hide the helplessness he felt inside his heart. "What can I give to you?"

He was dying to spoil her rotten and he'd every means to. However, the actual problem relies within his obedient wife who is too pleased with her simple life.

Fei was quietly listening to him speak and she soon realized what her husband had been so troubled about.

She wanted to say that she'd everything but chose to sensibly swallow down her words, in case she hurt his feelings.

Sensing her silence, Yang feverishly trailed his nose on her skin and took a whiff of her feminine scent with an aching heart.

"Why do you have to be like that?"

His heart hurts the more he thinks about her and he knew that her existence had a great impact on him.

When he watches her, his heart softens and aches. What is this ache? All he wants to do is to keep her to himself but he also wants to give her the whole world.

His heart aches whenever he sees how pleased she gets with just a mere gesture of affection from his side.

How she smiles at him with so much love without wanting anything in return. Instead of pleasure, all he feels is pain for her.

Yang's lips trembled and his voice wavered as he decided to speak after a long silence.

"I love.. you so much that I can hardly breathe." Burrowing his head deeper in her blossoms, he continued to speak in a helpless tone. "It hurts so much I could die."

Pulling her much closer, he flushed her body against his before confessing every single word his aching heart spoke.

Fei could feel his desperation and she lovingly smiled before lifting her hands to caress his head while his face stayed buried on her chest.

"I feel so helpless, darling. Please tell me what I can give you to make you the happiest woman in the world."

Her eyes lost their focus and she contemplated whether giving a response to his earnest request. Right now, all she could hear was the sounds of the birds chirping in the background.

A long and deep silence with a feel of harmony and contentment filled the air.

The cool breeze passing now and then made rustling sounds in the small backyard because of the fallen leaves of the tree.

The air was clean and fresh because it was the season of autumn. Although the temperature was cooling, the heat of their close bodies was enough to provide them enough warmth.

Fei closed her eyes as she continued to caress the man's head in her warm embrace.

Having such a loving husband, she had everything a woman could ask for, that's what she used to think.

However, this morning when she saw the bird nest, it occurred to her that what follows after a happy marriage is the blessing of being a parent.

A woman is truly happy when she gets to be a mother. Her eyes teared up, remembering those words from that old lady with the foresight.

Fei wasn't that clueless. She knew that the old lady wasn't lying to her when she told her that she'd a weak womb.

At that time, Fei was afraid to worry her husband, so she followed along and chose to be sensible.

She was aware that if she were to fall pregnant, it'd have happened long ago. But because she'd a weak womb, the thought of the number of no possibilities scared her.

She knew what she wanted but she was afraid to know that she was unable to conceive in the end.

She was so selfish to hide this from her husband, who seemed to regard her as 'selfless'. If only he knew, so she wouldn't have to feel so guilty about deceiving him in this manner.

"What do you want, wife?"

She heard him ask again and had no power to hide her true wish any longer as she answered him truthfully, also feeling how his body stiffened when those words left her mouth.

"I want to give birth to our child, husband."

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