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Over the past six months, he exhausted a great deal of energy in his search for Mai Xiaomai, and he had been sick with longing, sleeping poorly and eating worse, his body not as robust as before, having grown much thinner.
The blood draw made his head spin.
But there was no choice.
A human life was at stake.
Lin Na was not some unrelated stranger.
She was giving birth to his child.
After the blood was drawn, he had just taken a moment to rest when he heard a loud cry from the delivery room, the sound of a newborn baby's cry.
Zhang Ma, who had been accompanying the birth in the delivery room, came out and said to Qiao Chutian, "Congratulations, young master, you have a baby boy."
Qiao Chutian did not show any joy, but instead asked with a slight sigh of relief, "Nana is not in any life-threatening danger, is she?"
"The doctor says she has passed through safely."