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Chapter 220 The couple sleeps in separate rooms

His wife met Ting Nan, a shrewd man, and they became close friends after just a few interactions. She must have been living a very repressed life and rarely had someone to chat with, a woman who was confined at home.

Tian Song's wife was a very quiet and honest woman with a beautiful name—Ning Xueyan. Her parents were both low-level factory workers. She used to work at the supply and marketing cooperative, selling sugar at the counter. The job was easy because sugar was expensive back then and required ration coupons, so people only bought a few ounces when they had babies. Later, she became pregnant, but then miscarried and stayed home to rest.

"Xiao Gao, you might not believe it, but I've always found my miscarriage strange. I've always been very healthy, so how could I suddenly miscarry?" Ning Xueyan seemed to be talking to Ting Nan, but also to herself. Indeed, Xiao Gao was a pseudonym used by Ting Nan.

"Sister Ning, don't be too sad. I heard from the doctor that miscarriages are caused by some kind of natural selection, meaning the baby hasn't developed properly. If we force it to stay, it's actually not good," Ting Nan tried to comfort her.

"Really? Now that you say so, I feel much better."

"Yes, relax, you'll have other chances. But think about how you were feeling during that time? Did you eat anything wrong? Did you fall? So you can avoid that next time." Even if you haven't eaten pork, you've seen pigs run; Tingnan has heard plenty about miscarriages.

Ning Xueyan shook her head. "My mood? I was in a really bad mood before and after I got pregnant. Did that have any effect? ​​I stayed at my parents' house during that time. I didn't fall or eat anything unusual. My mother and sisters-in-law are very experienced."

"Your bad mood must have some influence. Why? Why did you go back to your parents' house? Where's your husband? Isn't he here?"

“Him! Sigh, I don’t know what he was thinking. We’ve been married for years and I haven’t gotten pregnant. I was very anxious, and my parents were anxious too, but he seemed like nothing was wrong. When I told him I was pregnant, he was very surprised, his face fell, and he didn’t say anything, which made me emotionally unstable, so I went back to my parents’ home to rest during my pregnancy. After I miscarried, he seemed to be relieved, and then… and then he never slept with me again.”

"Uh, Sister Ning, is he just worried about your health?"

"No, I took a long break to recover. We...we're together...no more than five times a year. In the summer he says it's hot, in the winter he says it's cold, and the rest of the time he makes excuses like he's tired from work or in a bad mood..."

Nan blushed a little, but fortunately Ning Xueyan was also a reserved and cultured person, and spoke subtly. However, this was indeed a problem.

"How did you meet your partner?"

"We were introduced by my dad's boss."

Have you ever been to his hometown? Do they speak the same language as us?

“I’ve never been there. He said his parents died early, and my dad’s boss was a distant relative of his. He’s a very smart man who can speak several languages. He’s an English teacher at the No. 1 Middle School in the city.”

"Oh my, being a teacher, that's really amazing! You're such a hardworking gardener. They say teachers are like the bright North Star, guiding children in the right direction..." Ting Nan pretended to have just heard the news and praised them highly.

"Yes, he's capable and highly educated, so he looks down on me and despises me. Xiao Gao, do you know? We sleep in separate rooms."

“This…” Ting Nan really didn’t care about these things and was about to change the subject.

Ning Xueyan said to herself, "Because he talks in his sleep, I asked him about it once, and then he asked to sleep separately. Isn't that infuriating? I didn't even complain that he woke me up."

Song Tingnan immediately chimed in, "That's right! On what grounds? Sister Ning, what did he say?"