Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“Wake up, mom is calling you to help in the kitchen, why don’t you get up?” A familiar voice sounded in his ears. Admiral Gu opened his eyes. He didn’t want to listen to the husband scolding him, so he got up dizzily. When he walked out of the room, he saw his mother-in-law coming out of the kitchen.
“Oh, our young lady finally got up?” The NPC said sarcastically, “I thought you needed me to help you get up.”
Admiral Gu did not speak. He was very tired and did not even have the strength to stand, so he didn’t want to waste any energy on this NPC.
He calmly threw out his ultimate move amidst the NPC’s constant scolding: “I’m pregnant.”
From the information revealed by the NPC in the previous game, this body had a low status in the family because she was unable to give birth. Then he just needed to tell the NPC the news of his pregnancy, and the other party should be quiet.
The mother-in-law was indeed very surprised, “Have you checked with a pregnancy test stick?”
Admiral Gu: “Not yet, but I have experience.” Another experience from the last game.
“That’s right. You looked bad these past few days and slept a lot. I felt something was wrong with you and thought you were sick. It turns out you are pregnant!” Mother-in-law took out a pregnancy test stick and gave it to Admiral Gu. “Hurry up and test it. Go test it!”
Admiral Gu took the pregnancy test stick and went to the bathroom. He looked at himself in the mirror. He saw a very thin female beta with a delicate appearance and a pale face. She was so haggard that her cheeks seemed to be sunken.
But considering the environment she was in, this seemed normal.
This family was really awful to their daughter-in-law. The mother-in-law’s words just now clearly showed that she knew her daughter-in-law was unwell, but she still asked her to cook for her son who was as healthy as a cow…
After a moment’s pause, Admiral Gu suddenly felt that this scene seemed familiar.
He had also once asked Li Songyun, who had a fever, to cook for Gu Mian.
No, no, no, this was different. He gave Li Songyun the opportunity to choose. If Li Songyun really refused to do it, he would not force Li Songyun.
Admiral Gu handed the pregnancy test stick to his mother-in-law. Looking at the two bars on the test stick, his mother-in-law was so happy that she couldn’t stop smiling. “I have been looking forward to it for a long time, and finally our Gu family’s darling grandson is coming!”
“Hao Hao, you’re going to be a father!” She ran to tell her son in the room the good news, and kept praising her son for his ability, treating Admiral Gu, her “daughter-in-law”, as an outsider the whole time.
However, Admiral Gu did not consider himself a member of this family. He found a chair in the kitchen and sat down to take a rest. The faint greasy smell coming from the table made his stomach churn. Admiral Gu, who had already vomited once, with experience, he immediately found a trash can and vomited into it while holding it.
“Hiss…” The mother-in-law smelled the odor as she came out of the room. So, she complained, “Why didn’t you vomit before, but you vomited as soon as you found out you were pregnant? I’m telling you, don’t think you can stop doing housework just because you’re pregnant.”
After finally finishing vomiting, Admiral Gu opened his eyes in disbelief, “I’m pregnant, I need to rest.”
“What’s wrong with being pregnant? It’s not a big deal, everyone has gone through this, you are the only one who is delicate, look at you being so hypocritical.” The mother-in-law pinched her nose with one hand and fanned herself with the other hand and said, “You can empty the trash can for me later, and then come back and help me make the New Year’s Eve dinner…”
Admiral Gu’s fist clenched.
Gu Huazhang had never wasted time on these meaningless housework chores since he was born. It was impossible for him to do these!
[You helped prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner, physical strength -1, you cleaned the Gu family, physical strength -1, you washed the dirty clothes, physical strength -1]
Admiral Gu chose a tactical compromise because his “husband” had a tendency towards domestic violence, if he really had a conflict with that NPC, his losses would be much greater than doing housework.
There was no shame in temporarily bowing your head; the result was everything.
When his stamina was only 2, Admiral Gu could finally take a rest. He seldom did housework, and when he did, his mother-in-law always complained about him here and there, saying things like “You’re working yourself to death doing housework just to show off to others”. “Are you pretending to be clumsy just because you’re pregnant?”
In the past, Admiral Gu never felt that housework was tiring. He thought that the ones who were really tired were him and Gu Mian who went out to work, while Li Songyun was at home all day long enjoying a good life, but now Admiral Gu’s frail body was almost broken by housework.
If he did one more chore, his stamina would drop to 1. If his stamina was 1, he would fall into a coma and his stress would increase by 1. His current stress was 8. If he did another chore, his stamina would drop to 1 … The game would be over again.
While he was working so hard on the housework, the husband was lying on the bed, enjoying the fruit plate delivered to his bedside, as if he was the one who was pregnant.
If he didn’t know that this was just a bunch of data, Admiral Gu would really want to question whether the other party was still human.
The game character went to bed and fell asleep. The process of falling asleep was fast-forwarded by the game. In just one second, the moon outside the house turned into the sun. Admiral Gu opened and closed his eyes and saw that his physical strength had recovered from 2 to 5.
He was then woken up by his mother-in-law and made breakfast for the family. His strength dropped to 4 again. Then his husband accompanied him to the hospital for a prenatal check-up.
The husband was of no help throughout the whole process, as if he was dead, and could only rely on Gu Shang to do the work by himself, so his physical strength was deducted by another 1 point.
“You have been pregnant for a month. The fetal sac and fetal bud are in good condition, but you are anemic and slightly malnourished…” The doctor prescribed a lot of medicine for Admiral Gu, and told him to take care of his body, eat more and exercise more.
No wonder this body’s health was only 5.
Admiral Gu decided to exercise more when he returned. With his many years of training experience and taking medicine according to the doctor’s orders, it should be no problem to raise the health of this body to level 8.
When Admiral Gu had endured the pain of motion sickness, the first thing he did was lie down on the bed to rest.
The mother-in-law read the pregnancy test report again and again, with a bright smile on her face, “Good, good, good! As long as the baby is fine! Xiao Gu, you have to eat more. If you don’t have enough nutrition, my grandson will also lack nutrition. He can’t keep up.”
When she mentioned the word grandson, the smile on her face became even brighter, “Oh, let grandma touch my good grandson~” The hands that always had the lingering smell of raw pork touched Admiral Gu’s lower abdomen, giving him goose bumps as he closed his eyes to rest. He took a deep breath to suppress the nausea in his stomach.
Admiral Gu was so exhausted that he felt sore all over his body, even his chest was sore and painful. Now he just wanted to take a nap to replenish his energy and just hope that the NPC would leave as soon as possible after the quarrel. Such an attitude was almost impossible to appear on Admiral Gu in real life.
However, the NPC in nightmare mode still refused to let him go.
The hands pulled Admiral Gu out of bed and said, “Xiao Gu, don’t sleep anymore. Come with me to the temple today to fulfill a vow. You should know that your pregnancy is all thanks to my sincere prayers to the Buddha for so many years!”
Admiral Gu, who was about to explode, opened his eyes coldly and said, “I’m tired. I’ll take a nap before I go.”
“Look at what time it is. It will be dark when you wake up!” The mother-in-law seemed to hear but didn’t understand what people were saying and insisted on dragging Admiral Gu out of bed.
How can this be true! Unreasonable! This is too much!
As a general of a country, was he really going to allow himself to be manipulated by such a crazy woman?!
[You accompany your mother-in-law to the mountain to fulfill her wish, your physical strength -1]
Admiral Gu decided to consider the overall situation and held on a little longer. On the way back, Admiral Gu opened the attribute box and added his last two points of physical strength in blue.
At night he had to at least cook dinner, clean the house and do laundry, but he only had the energy to do two of these things. If he overdrew his energy, he would fall into a coma.
Admiral Gu didn’t want to, nor would he put himself in this situation, so he chose to… add sleeping pills to the Gu family’s meals.
He bought the medicine when he went to the hospital today. The husband didn’t pay attention to what he bought from beginning to end, but he ate the most at the meal.
Admiral Gu watched the family faint at the dinner table with cold eyes. To be on the safe side, he tied up the hands and feet of all the people and locked them in the bathroom. Then Admiral Gu used special means to transfer the money in their accounts to his card, disguised himself and left the house quickly.
Gu Huazhang would never serve the scum of this family! Anyway, the game only required the player to survive before giving birth to the child. Wouldn’t it be happy for him to take the money and the child and move to another place to continue living?!
When Admiral Gu got into the car, he smiled for the first time since playing the game. He felt relaxed for a rare moment when he suddenly realized that the expression of “himself” in the car window was very similar to that of Li Songyun at the beginning, or in other words, they were exactly the same, both of them had escaped from the lightness of the day and the disgust for the past without any lingering feelings.
So the smile that finally appeared on Admiral Gu’s face suddenly froze.
When he looked at things from Li Songyun’s perspective, even though he didn’t want to admit it, he had to admit that the role he played in Li Songyun’s marriage life was that of the evil mother-in-law he hated the most and was the most disgusting in this game.
He only spent less than a day in the real world with this character.
But Li Songyun faced him for a full twenty-six years.
….
In the nine days that passed in the real world, Admiral Gu experienced nine months in the game world.
He chose to raise his baby in the slums and suffered from various pregnancy reactions every day. The first was morning sickness. His body was very sick. He wanted to vomit when he was hungry, when he ate, and even when he was full. He would vomit from any taste. Everything he ate aroused his urge to vomit. He would vomit when walking or lying down. He would still be awakened by the urge to vomit in the middle of his sleep, and sleep at this time would not replenish his energy.
This body was calcium deficient, so cramps occurred frequently during pregnancy. No one could help Admiral Gu pinch the cramped part, so he could only pull the cramped part back to its original position by himself.
He moved into the green street of the slums and insisted on exercising and relaxing every day. As he wished, he raised his health value to 8 and reduced his stress value to 3. He must take good care of his body, otherwise he would be alone at home without a strong body. At that time, one body and two lives would be no joke.
When he was six or seven months pregnant, the fetus in Admiral Gu’s body had not entered the pelvis. The fetus’s feet pressed against his stomach, making his stomach uncomfortable all the time. At this time, playing games was a torture every moment, boring and painful, there was no fun at all. As long as you get off the game, doing nothing in real life was much more comfortable than playing the game.
But Admiral Gu still spent four or five hours every day to experience the game. The original intention of his insistence on playing the game was just to have a common language with the children. But an unnamed sense of guilt now weighed heavily on his heart.
He thought of Li Songyun, who had gone through four pregnancies, and the daughter-in-law who had never received much care and concern from the Gu family.
That child really had a hard life… but why did he never care about that child before?
On the eighth day of the game, Admiral Gu’s body had been having trouble falling asleep for two months. The presence of the child prevented him from falling into a deep sleep. Normally, sleeping in the game would increase his physical strength by 3 points. He was eight days pregnant. In the month, his game character could only increase 2 points of physical strength each time he rested.
Finally, the due date arrived, and Admiral Gu found a black market doctor to help him deliver the baby. Before the epidural, he experienced the legendary labor pains. It felt like a blender was working madly in his stomach, and it felt like thousands of nails were piercing his stomach. His bones and blood were pulled out with blood dripping down his cheeks, leaving every cell in his body howling in agony.
Admiral Gu considered himself an alpha with a strong pain tolerance. He led his troops to fight with blood and sweat but no tears. But he didn’t know if it was because the pregnancy was too painful or because this body was prone to pain, Admiral Gu was in so much pain that his mind was in a mess, and when he was about to collapse mentally, the epidural was finally injected into his body.
At this moment, he seemed to see heaven and hear sacred music——
[Congratulations to the player “Mrs. Gu” for completing the game! You are a brave person, congratulations on overcoming the pain of pregnancy in the game! But if it is in reality, this journey is not over yet.
Pregnancy is a very difficult thing. Pregnant women not only have to endure the pain of pregnancy and childbirth for ten months, but also have to go through the longer and more torturous postpartum pain: postpartum uterine contractions, incontinence, lochia, back pain, physiological milk swelling, postpartum depression…
So please love your mother (little father), love your wife, they are so great, and they need love and to be loved so much]
….
This was the game made by Tang Bai. When the game was officially released, there was a bloody discussion in the game’s promotional comment section.
Some people applauded and hoped that the game could be promoted nationwide so that sisters could see the other person’s ranking in the game when going on blind dates, or it could be a must-experience game before marriage so that the other party could better understand their partner’s future contributions.
Some people thought that this game was meaningless, and that letting alpha or male beta experience pregnancy was childish, boring, and a waste of time and resources, and that they should not bear this pain.
Many more people said that only fools and masochists would play this game, and that this game would become the worst-selling, most ignored garbage game in history.
Then when Tang Bai announced that he would provide tailor-made rewards of low-level mecha, medium-level mecha, and high-level mecha for the first player to clear the easy mode, hard mode, and nightmare mode, the number of downloads of this game exceeded tens of millions in 10 minutes, and the number of downloads was growing crazily every minute.
Countless alpha mothers came online, shouting “No a mother, no a mother” while saying “Mom loves you” to the babies in the game.
The configuration of the simple mode was a good husband, a good father-in-law, a good mother-in-law, a good father, a good mother… All the NPCs you met were good people. When you went out and take a bus, someone will give up their seat. The most difficult thing to endure during pregnancy are minor problems like morning sickness, back pain, cramps, etc. during the three months, but the biggest suffering was the pain of childbirth.
The difficulty configuration was related to various factors. For example, when the player chose the gender as omega, in the difficult mode, the husband may not be around, and the partner cannot comfort and inject pheromones during pregnancy. You may also encounter an extremely bad in-law family or original family. If the player chose the gender as beta, they needed to go to work when they are pregnant, and will be treated badly in the workplace, etc. But no matter whether the player chooses omega or beta, their various discomfort reactions during pregnancy will be twice as strong as those in the easy mode.
When it came to the nightmare mode, everyone said that it was impossible for anyone to complete it. One player who was closest to victory had to go into the delivery room. He thought he could be relieved if he endured it for another day, but his husband didn’t want to give him an epidural injection.
In the end, the player opened the window and jumped out when he only needed to hold on for another half an hour to pass the level.
In response to this, Tang Bai stated that an internal test player had completed the nightmare mode, and the internal test player’s walkthrough would be released after the nightmare mode was truly completed.
The players were clamoring to know who the beta tester was. They sincerely praised the beta tester who cleared the nightmare mode for how amazing it was and how difficult it was. They also said how great it was for the first player to clear the easy mode. It was powerful until this moment, when someone said weakly: “But this is the pain that almost every omega and female beta who has given birth to a child has to go through.”
Then those flattering comments suddenly fell into deathly silence.
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