Mr.President, Let's Get a Divorce
Chapter 357 - 359, if you’ve rested enough, then return to the ranks, Lieutenant Tang.

Chapter 357: 359, if you’ve rested enough, then return to the ranks, Lieutenant Tang.

Tang Xiaocao got up early and ran to the master bedroom. After knocking on the door without a response and seeing the door wasn’t locked, he pushed it open and entered.

"Sister?"

He called out softly.

Hearing the sound of water in the bathroom, he went over to find the door ajar and saw his sister leaning over the sink, vomiting. He immediately became worried, "Sister, are you okay?"

Tang Xiaohua’s right ear was without a hearing aid, and she was vomiting so hard with the water still running that Tang Xiaocao shouted several times without her hearing.

It wasn’t until the little guy walked over and looked up at her with a worried face that she noticed him.

Tang Xiaohua then turned off the faucet and looked at Tang Xiaocao in surprise.

"I... knocked, but you didn’t answer; I saw the door was open, so I came in by myself."

Tang Xiaocao explained honestly.

Tang Xiaohua rinsed her mouth and wiped it with a towel, then patted Tang Xiaocao’s head, "Why are you up so early?"

"I always have to get up this early for school. I’m used to it now, I can’t sleep in even if I want to."

"Have you had breakfast yet?"

"No, I wanted to come have breakfast with you, Sister. Brother Wen Nian is away on a business trip, right? So now you should be all mine, right?"

Tang Xiaocao said with a smile curving his lips, looking at Tang Xiaohua cheerfully.

Tang Xiaohua laughed, calling him a little devil in a child’s skin.

However, the smile on her pale face was far too forced.

"Sister, are you feeling unwell?"

"...Yes, a little."

"Do we need to call the doctor?"

Tang Xiaohua frowned slightly.

"Brother Wen Nian told me last night that he’ll be away for two days, and if anything happens during that time, we can ask Housekeeper Wei for help. If you feel unwell, let the housekeeper call the doctor."

"... Did he instruct you on anything else?"

"Well... quite a bit, I suppose. Of course, the most important thing is not to let you slip away before he comes back. He said even if an order comes through, you have to wait for him to return."

Tang Xiaocao was able to remember so much, which left Tang Xiaohua quite surprised.

"Sister, let’s ask Housekeeper Wei to call a doctor to take a look at you. You’re vomiting so severely."

Tang Xiaocao followed Tang Xiaohua to the bed. Tang Xiaohua leaned on the bed, her head tilted back slightly, feeling very dizzy...

That was how she felt when she was pregnant too; the response during pregnancy was severe. Before she reached three months, she would eat and then vomit, then eat again only to vomit once more. She easily caught fevers and colds, feeling weak all over, almost unable to do anything.

Wen Nian had the best people take care of her and tried to restore her health, but no matter what they did, her condition only got worse.

After struggling to the seventh month, during a prenatal checkup, the doctor couldn’t hear the baby’s heartbeat anymore.

She lost their first and only child, a boy.

"Sister... how about you lie down for a while, and I’ll call Housekeeper Wei? Then, what would you like to eat? I can go to the dining room and get it for you!"

Seeing Tang Xiaohua like this made Tang Xiaocao’s heart ache, and he didn’t know what to do.

Xiao Hua grasped Tang Xiaocao’s hand,

"Go to the dining room and bring me back some porridge. I feel like having some."

"Okay."

"It’s just some discomfort in my stomach. I just need to eat some porridge and rest a bit; we don’t need to trouble Housekeeper Wei to call the doctor."

"Sister, are you really okay?"

Tang Xiaohua smiled, "Has your sister, who’s been a soldier for so many years, gotten this weak?"

"..."

Tang Xiaocao touched his nose, thinking that made sense.

"Don’t say anything unnecessary to Housekeeper Wei, alright? To me, Housekeeper Wei is like a father, and I don’t want to worry him unnecessarily."

"Okay."

Tang Xiaocao nodded and tucked Tang Xiaohua in, "Then I’ll go get your breakfast!"

"Mhm."

Tang Xiaocao left the master bedroom.

She lifted her head slightly, gazing at the ceiling with a heavy feeling in her chest...

Yesterday afternoon, she distinctly felt a dragging pain in her lower abdomen and initially thought her period had come early. She was somewhat surprised, not expecting it to be so much ahead of schedule.

This morning, she felt nauseated and vomited.

Because she had experience, she was already seventy to eighty percent certain in her heart.

But still, she clung to that twenty to thirty percent hope.

After she got together with Wen Nian, she had always been very careful with birth control measures, never missing a day of birth control pills since the start.

Furrowing her brow, she pulled open the bedside table drawer and took out the box of birth control pills, carefully examining it inside and out, as if looking for a problem. With a success rate of over ninety-seven percent, had she really fallen into that three percent?

She tossed the pills back in the drawer.

Tang Xiaocao came in quickly with an insulated lunch box, "The kitchen packed it nicely for me, big sis, eat it while it’s hot. They also included several side dishes."

"You?"

"Hehe."

Xiaocao lifted the bread and milk in her own hand, "I’ve got mine ready too, I wanted to eat with you."

Tang Xiaohua got out of bed and carried the insulated lunch box to the sitting room adjacent to the master bedroom, sitting face to face with Tang Xiaocao to eat.

"Big sis, when are you leaving?"

"I’m still waiting for the notice, should be soon..."

Tang Xiaohua ate her porridge in small bites, the tasteless white rice porridge even made her feel uncomfortable, barely made palatable by mixing in a bit of side dish.

"When will you come back?"

"...I’ll come back for the New Year."

She murmured an answer to Tang Xiaocao’s question, head bowed...

"Big sis, don’t worry about me. I’ll take good care of myself and won’t let you and Brother Wen Nian down."

He said earnestly while munching on his bread.

Tang Xiaohua nodded, "I’m very confident in you, and I believe Brother Wen Nian will take good care of you."

"Then big sis... when will you and Brother Wen Nian finally start living together?"

He asked again.

Tang Xiaohua absently stirred the little bowl of porridge in front of her...

And didn’t respond for a long time.

Tang Xiaocao continued eating his bread, sensibly not pressing the question further.

"Do you have lessons this afternoon?"

"Yeah, from one to five."

Tang Xiaocao’s home tutoring began three days ago, taught by a master’s student from the number one ranked university in the country, G.

A very patient and methodical young master’s student.

"Brother Wen Nian is on a business trip today, what about you, big sis?"

"I want to go out for a bit, have some things to handle. I’ll be back before dinner."

"Oh, okay."

Tang Xiaohua replied.

After breakfast, she got dressed and checked in with Wei Yuandong before heading out.

She didn’t choose the nearby top-tier hospital but went to a district center hospital in another district, three districts away from the President Mansion, a standard second-tier hospital.

It took her two hours by subway.

By the time she arrived at the hospital, it was already past eleven o’clock. She registered and then waited outside the gynecology department.

Perhaps because it was Saturday, it was particularly crowded; just the number of people waiting ahead of her for a consultation was more than twenty...

Fortunately, she wasn’t in a hurry.

At noon, the doctors took a break, and the consultation room reopened at one-thirty.

She just sat in the waiting chair all the while, and coincidentally, Staff Officer Lu Tian personally called her during the lunch break.

"Had enough rest?"

"...Enough."

"Then return to your unit."