Chapter 773: Chapter 471: She Doesn’t Want a Baby So Soon
Ivy Miller woke up to find herself in the hospital, and her mom was actually by her bedside keeping her company.
Seeing her awake, her mom’s face was full of anxiety: "Ivy, sweetheart, how are you feeling?"
"Mom? Why are you here, what’s going on?" She looked at her mom in confusion, utterly bewildered.
"What’s going on? It’s you, what were you thinking? Do you know you really scared me to death?" Ivy’s mom anxiously hugged her.
Ivy Miller thought back carefully, and only then did she remember the incident with Team Leader Liu at work.
The two had a fierce fight, but later her stomach started to hurt, and from there, she didn’t have much recollection.
"Mom, why am I in the hospital? How come you’re here too?"
"Your father-in-law called me, said you were hospitalized, and asked me to come take care of you.
After I came, he told me that you were pregnant and got into a fight, almost causing a miscarriage.
What were you thinking, girl...why are you so careless?
How could you fight when you’re pregnant?
Do you have any sense at all? Now we’re worried about sustaining the pregnancy and... I’m really angry with you.
Let me tell you, if anything happens to my grandchild, I won’t spare you, you silly girl."
"Pregnant? Who? Me?" Ivy Miller raised her hand to point at her own face, what an international joke, she didn’t even know she was pregnant.
Besides, she didn’t want to have a baby this early.
She felt she was still young, wanting to wait a few more years.
"Yeah, you didn’t know?"
Ivy Miller shook her head: "I... had no idea."
"You didn’t realize when your period didn’t come?"
"Don’t people sometimes have delayed periods due to stress?
Back in college, Qingqing was so worried about passing her English Level 4 exam she didn’t have her period for three months afterwards.
Then there’s Cutie too, her period always got delayed just because she was worried about something.
So yeah, I... didn’t pay much attention."
Hearing her explanation, her mom worriedly rubbed her head, this girl was still a child herself, how could she be a mother.
"Mom, why are you looking at me with that pitiful expression?
I... don’t look that pathetic, do I?"
"How could you not? Married at such a young age, and insisted on marrying a soldier.
You tell me, if you hadn’t listened to your dad, would you be in this situation now?
Pregnant and nobody at your in-law’s cares.
Just had a near-miscarriage and the husband wasn’t even by your side.
What kind of things are those?
Your dad’s confusion utterly ruined you."
Ivy Miller reached out to her mom, who held her hand tightly, and she smiled: "Mom, don’t blame Dad, or the Major.
The Major has no choice either, he’s someone who serves the country and its people.
How can we expect him to only care about me?
This is what it means to be a military wife, weren’t you a military wife too?
Back when you gave birth to me, you could bravely go into the delivery room alone, why can’t I?"
"Is it the same? You don’t know, I have two regrets in my life.
One is not being able to wear a wedding dress when I got married.
The other is when you were born, your dad wasn’t by my side.
I don’t care if life is rich or poor.
Anyway, I have a good job, I can support you.
But what I care about is whether that family, and the man I call my husband, loves me or not.
Your dad, his whole life... he knows it himself, he let me down, he said as a soldier, he had little time to accompany me, asked me to be considerate of him.
I’ve really been considerate of your dad my whole life.
So, I was particularly against you marrying a soldier at the time.
Yes, not all soldiers are like your dad, like Henry.
But, our mother-daughter fate is really astonishingly similar."
As her mom spoke, she lowered her eyes with a face full of sadness.
Ivy Miller acted spoiled: "Oh mom, don’t be so melodramatic about such a trivial thing.
Think positively, Henry Sullivan knows how to care.
As long as the two have a good relationship, everything will be fine, trust me."
"But the key is, do you and he have a good relationship? I haven’t seen any sign of it."
Her mother unhappily let go of her hand: "Tell me, what are you even after?
Forget it, I’m so angry with you.
I really don’t want to say more, just one thing, now that you’re pregnant, eight months later, you’ll become a mother too, you have to take good care of your body.
Once the baby is born... you’ll understand how I feel now."
Ivy Miller scrunched her nose at her mom: "Got it, I’ll take good care of myself.
I’m just a bit frustrated now, you tell me... how come I’m about to be a mom already."
"Didn’t want to be a mom, should have been more cautious," her mom sighed in frustration as she got up: "I’m going to get some water."
"Okay, sure."
Her mom reached the door with the kettle just as it was opened from the outside, and her mother-in-law came in.
Seeing the in-laws, Ivy’s mom didn’t look pleased: "Oh, mother-in-law’s here."
"Yes, in-law, heard Ivy’s okay, I’ve come to remind her to be careful.
She’s carrying the Sullivan family’s child, she needs to be careful."
Hearing this, Ivy’s mom was visibly displeased.
"Don’t worry, I know my daughter is just a reproductive tool in your family.
No matter whose child she’s carrying, I’ll remind her to be cautious.
These days, in-laws aren’t so easy to please."
Finished with her sarcastic remarks, Ivy’s mom left with a cold snort.
Her mother-in-law turned around to look at her and entered the hospital room: "Ivy Miller, what did your mom mean by that?"
Ivy Miller shrugged: "Doesn’t mean anything, right?"
"How can it mean nothing? I feel like she’s targeting me."
"Mom, isn’t it that you’re being too sensitive?
My mom is just worried I’ll be mistreated at the Sullivan’s.
It’s fine, even though something almost happened to me, you only came to see me after I woke up.
But I didn’t take it to heart, don’t worry too much, I know you don’t really care about the child I’m carrying either."
"Hiss, why are both you and your mom talking so sarcastically, what do you mean by that?
Do you both think our Sullivan family has mistreated you?" Ivy’s mother-in-law, already dissatisfied with Ivy, was even more irritated hearing her sarcastic tone.
"I never said that, mom, you’re being too sensitive, did you come today... to see me?"
"If I didn’t come to see you, would I have come to the hospital to make things difficult for myself?"
"Mom, you’ve had a busy day, you’re tired too, go home and rest early.
I’m fine, I can take care of myself, don’t worry."
"So you’re saying that the Sullivan family is incompetent, making you take care of yourself?"
Ivy Miller sighed to herself, this isn’t a visit to see her, it’s clearly to find fault.
But it’s okay, her mother-in-law has always been like this.
She doesn’t expect her mother-in-law to change because of her.
But this mother-in-law shouldn’t expect her to change under her influence either.
She is who she is, no one can change that.