After being reborn, my sister insisted on marrying me.

Yanjing.

Light snow is falling.

As dusk settled, Wei Yi had just arrived at the Su family's residence.

This is Chaoyang Park.

The kitchen in Palm Springs was busier than during Chinese New Year.

Chen Xinyi started making arrangements in the afternoon.

She first asked Aunt Li to raise the floor heating on the first floor by two degrees, and then asked Aunt Zheng to prepare a few more light dishes that Zhang Kexin liked.

He then curled up on the living room sofa, combing Chen Xintong's hair into pigtails while making a phone call.

"Sister Kexin, come over for dinner tonight. My brother went to work. It's just the few of us women at home, it's so quiet."

Zhang Kexin on the other end of the phone clearly hesitated for a moment.

That afternoon, her parents gave her a long list of instructions, such as "drink more soup and move around less while you're pregnant."

Right now, I'm holed up in my apartment looking at recipes for pregnant women.

After receiving a call from Chen Xinyi, I was unsure whether I should go out.

Chen Xinyi added, "Tongtong is Chen Xintong, my brother's and my little cousin. She's on winter break and just arrived in Beijing today. She keeps saying she wants to meet 'Sister Kexin, who was pregnant with her brother's baby'."

Zhang Kexin exclaimed "Ah!" on the other end of the phone.

Then her voice became clearly panicked: "How...how did she know? No, sister, sister, you too..."

"You know how talkative my brother is, don't you? He came home and started bragging to me about how he's going to be a dad."

Chen Xinyi smiled and said, "Come on, I asked Aunt Zheng to make some soup. Even if you don't want to drink it, you have to drink some for the two little ones in your belly."

Zhang Kexin finally came.

She didn't dare to go empty-handed.

I specially bought two boxes of exquisite low-sugar pastries on the way.

I picked out another plush rabbit for Chen Xintong.

Before entering, she spent a long time tidying her scarf and hair in front of the full-length mirror in the elevator.

Kim Se-rin opened the door for her.

"Sister Kexin!" Jin Shilin spotted the two boxes of pastries in her hand at a glance, and took them with a smile. "You're here already, why did you bring anything? Come on in~"

Zhang Kexin changed into slippers and was pulled by Jin Shilin towards the living room.

She was tall, and Kim Se-rin linked arms with her; the two of them standing together looked like a pair of older and younger sisters who had just returned from shopping.

In the living room, Chen Xinyi was sitting on the sofa.

Chen Xintong nestled next to her, and the two of them put their heads together to look at their phones.

Hearing the noise, Chen Xinyi looked up, her eyes crinkling with a smile.

"Sister Kexin, come and sit down."

Before Zhang Kexin even got close, Chen Xintong had already jumped off the sofa, tilting her little face up and staring at her with bright eyes.

"Are you Sister Kexin?"

Zhang Kexin squatted down and looked her in the eye: "You must be Tongtong? Hello."

"You're so tall, sister!"

Chen Xintong stretched out her hand, comparing it to the top of her head and then to Zhang Kexin's waist, and said seriously, "He's taller than our class's PE teacher!"

Zhang Kexin was amused by her and took out a plush rabbit from the bag and handed it to her: "This is a gift from your older sister."

Chen Xintong took the rabbit, hugged it to her chest, and said in a clear voice, "Thank you, sister-in-law!"

Zhang Kexin blushed and her ears turned hot when she heard "sister-in-law".

Just then, Jin Shilin came out of the kitchen with fruit. Suppressing a laugh, she placed the fruit plate on the coffee table and winked at Zhang Kexin.

"Sister Kexin, don't listen to this girl's nonsense. She's a smooth talker and calls everyone 'sister-in-law'."

Chen Xintong objected: "No way! I only call my brother's wives 'sister-in-law'!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Kexin's smile visibly froze for a moment.

"Tongtong, your brother doesn't have any wives."

Chen Xinyi reached out and gently tapped Chen Xintong's forehead, her tone half-scolding and half-laughing, "Don't talk nonsense. Your brother only has one sister, Kexin."

Chen Xintong nodded as if she understood, hugged the plush rabbit tighter, and added softly, "Oh, so now there's only one sister-in-law."

Jin Shilin was trying not to laugh, and her shoulders were shaking from holding it in.

Zhang Kexin smiled and took a sip of the warm water on the coffee table.

The water was a little hot, and her lips were slightly pricked, but a very faint, strange feeling rose in her heart.

She told herself: It's just kids talking nonsense.

Dinner is served.

The long dining table was piled high with food.

Fish maw chicken soup, steamed sea fish, boiled shrimp, garlic bok choy, shrimp dumplings, radish cake, and a special dish for pregnant women: stir-fried asparagus with walnuts.

Chen Xinyi pulled Zhang Kexin to sit next to her.

Then Chen Xintong was made to sit on the other side of Zhang Kexin.

Jiang Wan is also on winter vacation and is going back to her hometown to spend a few days with her mother.

Lin Siyan didn't come down. She had been vomiting badly for the past few days and had just drunk half a bowl of bird's nest soup. She was resting in her room.

Zhang Kexin asked with concern, "How is Siyan? Should I go up and check on her?"

Chen Xinyi waved her hand: "It's nothing. She's been like this lately."

Zhang Kexin nodded: "It's normal for twin pregnancy symptoms to be more severe."

Chen Xintong sat beside her, tilting her head to look at her, and suddenly asked:

"Sister, is the baby in your belly also my brother's?"

The restaurant was silent for half a second.

Zhang Kexin's chopsticks stopped in mid-air; she had only picked up half a shrimp dumpling when the soup dripped down her chopsticks into the bowl.

She turned her head and met Chen Xintong's large, clear eyes.

It was spotless inside, without a trace of mockery, as natural as a child asking, "Why are there stars in the sky?"

"Yes," Zhang Kexin finally answered, her voice soft and slightly shy, "Your brother is the baby's father."

Chen Xintong tilted her head, looking very serious:

"That's wonderful! I want to have a baby for my brother too!"

Zhang Kexin's smile finally froze completely on her face.

She subconsciously looked at Chen Xinyi.

Chen Xinyi was just putting a piece of asparagus into her mouth when she heard this. She didn't even lift her eyelids, only giving a light, dismissive laugh.

"Don't take this kid's nonsense."

That tone was so natural.

It was so natural, as if what Chen Xintong just said was simply, "I want to get first place in the exam in the future."

But Zhang Kexin heard a "thump" in her heart.

Jin Shilin, who seemed to thrive on chaos, then added with a smile:

"Tongtong is actually not that young anymore."

Chen Xinyi glared at her.

Kim Se-rin immediately changed her tune, and even exaggeratedly raised her hand and fanned it in front of her mouth:

"So small, so very small!"

Chen Xintong was unconvinced. She hugged the plush rabbit and puffed out her still-developing chest:

"I'm not a kid anymore! I received the most love letters of all the girls in the whole school! But I burned them all on the school field!"

"Why burn the love letters?" Kim Se-rin suppressed a laugh.

"I like my brother. I don't want any other love letters except his!" Chen Xintong raised her chin.

Zhang Kexin felt that the smile on her face was about to burst.

She lowered her head, picked up the cold shrimp dumpling from the bowl, and ate it in small bites, but couldn't taste anything.

Chen Xinyi then slowly spoke up: "Alright, alright, we're eating. Tongtong, if you keep talking nonsense, I'll send you flying back to your hometown tomorrow!"

Chen Xintong immediately covered her mouth, leaving only her eyes rolling around, looking incredibly obedient.

Zhang Kexin smiled and said, "It's alright, children say the darndest things."

Chen Xinyi served her a bowl of fish maw and chicken soup, her tone gentle:

"Kexin, don't take it personally with a child. She's always been closer to her brother, so she speaks without thinking. You'll see when your own children are born that kids never say anything serious."

Zhang Kexin took the soup bowl and nodded.

The soup was very flavorful, and the fish maw was stewed until it was soft and tender, with a smooth texture.

But as she drank, Chen Xintong's words kept popping into her mind uncontrollably.

"I want to have a baby for my brother in the future."

Children speak without restraint...

Are children really so innocent and unafraid to speak their minds?