Chapter 21
When Ling Yichen held Lu Wanqiu back, he looked at Xia Mao. Her appearance was too appalling, and the blood stains on her lower body were even more shocking to the eyes.
He opened his mouth, but could not make a sound.
Trembling, he let go of Lu Wanqiu, he was about to run towards the woman, but Lu Wanqiu pulled his sleeve and sat down along the staircase handrail, covering her stomach, white face, crying and screaming, "Yichen, Yichen, my stomach ...... hurts, our baby ......"
Ling Yichen's liver and guts split as he looked at the two women, a tangle flashed in his eyes, but finally, with a grit of his teeth, he picked up Lu Wanqiu and ran up the steps, his voice harsh as he shouted, "Doctor-"
Xia Mao looked at the man's distant back, and the woman's smug grin from the man's shoulder, and she laughed in despair.
Raising her hand to touch her stomach, Xia Mao shed tears of pain and said in an inaudible whisper to her child, "I'm sorry!"
With her eyes closed, she collapsed to the ground and completely fainted ......
The news of Lu Wanqiu's return to China, followed by Lu Wanru, arrived at the hospital a little late.
Hearing Ling Yichen's screams from upstairs, she was startled and ran upstairs with Wu's mother and saw Xia Mao, who had fallen in a pool of blood, just around the corner.
"Call the doctor, quick!" Lu Wanru's heart was in her throat all of a sudden, pushing at Wu Ma who was dumbfounded next to her.
"Hey!" Wu Ma shot up and turned her head to run upstairs, just three steps up, when she saw Ling Yichen rushing out from the security door, followed by a few doctors with stretchers.
Ling Yichen's eyes were bloodshot and he jumped in front of Xia Mao in a few steps, without even looking at Lu Wanru, he pushed her to the side and sat her down on the ground, reaching out to hold the woman on the ground.
"Sir, it's better to let us do it!" A slightly older doctor reached out to stop him, "Mind causing secondary injuries to the patient."
Ling Yichen was busy obeying and stepped back, watching them carry the woman onto the stretcher and followed in a hurry up the stairs, not even looking at Lu Wanru from beginning to end.
"Madam." Wu Ma walked around the large bloodstain on the floor and went to Lu Wanru's side, holding her arm and saying in a trembling voice, "What should we do?"
"Go and take a look first!" Lu Wanru held Wu's hand tightly and the two of them went to the operating room together.
Ling Yichen stood outside the operating theatre, his hands in his trousers, his gaze glaring at the closed iron door.
Lu Wanru walked up to him and asked, "What happened? How did she fall down the stairs?"
Ling Yichen looked at her, pursed his lips and didn't say anything.
Lu Wanru's heart grew annoyed, but looking at his cold and stern look, she held back and didn't say anything more.
"Yichen ......" a soft voice rang out from the next corridor, the weak Lu Wanqiu was supported by two nurses and slowly walked over, "Sister-"
Lu Wanru's pupils shrank, then looked at her coldly.
"How is she ...... doing?" Lu Wanqiu did not even have a trace of blood on her lips, the pearly appearance, I saw a lot of pity, slowly walked to the two people, "I did not mean to ......"
"It was you who made it?" As soon as Lu Wanru heard her words, she became agitated, "You did it on purpose!"
"No!" Lu Wanqiu cried and shook her head, breaking away from the two nurses, she pulled on Lu Wanru's arm, "I really didn't mean to do it, sister, you have to believe me."
As soon as her hand was on Lu Wanru's arm, Lu Wanru swung out violently and Lu Wanqiu stumbled and fell to the side, Ling Yichen reached out and wrapped his arms around her.
"Yichen -" Lu Wanqiu turned around and jumped into the man's arms with tears in her eyes, "I really didn't mean to do that."
Ling Yichen didn't move.
The lights in the operating room suddenly dimmed with a beep, and Ling Yichen pushed Lu Wanqiu out of his arms and hurriedly walked towards the door of the operating room.
Lu Wanru and Wu's mother were also busy following behind him. Lu Wanqiu skimmed the corners of her mouth behind her, glaring at the nurse next to her, and followed weakly up to the front.
"It's a boy." A nurse came in first, holding the baby in her arms.
Ling Yichen and Lu Wanru looked at the child together, his black hair was long past his ears, his face was pink and puffy, his big eyes were dripping straight, Ling Yichen couldn't help but shudder in his heart as he watched.
"How is the adult?" Ling Yichen asked in a deep voice.
Lu Wanru hesitated for a moment and heartily reached out to receive the child into her arms, while Wu Ma heartily nursed her at the side.
"The adult has lost too much blood, but it's not life-threatening, it will take a little while longer to come out." The nurse looked to Lu Wanru, "The baby was born prematurely and needs to be sent to the intensive care unit!"
"Okay, good." Lu Wanru smiled lightly and said to Ling Yichen, "Wu Ma and I will take the baby back first."
Ling Yichen's eyes looked at the baby twice more before he nodded, "Let the hearts dot take care of it."
"Mm, I know, you wait here for her again." Lu Wanru's face was full of unconcealed joy as she hugged the child and left with Wu Ma.
Ling Yichen glanced at Lu Wanqiu who was not far away, frowned lightly and said, "You should go back and rest first too!"
"Yichen ......" Lu Wanqiu stood there aggressively and softly called out.
"Go back ......" Ling Yichen was halfway through his sentence when he saw the door to the operating room open again and was busy welcoming it.
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you're doing.
Ling Yichen raised his hand to cover his heart. He felt as if his heart was being tightly grasped, and he actually felt an immense heartache.
He could still vividly recall her lying in a pool of blood. He reached out and tucked a stroke of hair that was stained on her face behind her ear before asking the doctor who came out immediately after him, "How is she?"
"The patient had a caesarean operation, plus she lost too much blood, she needs to recuperate ......" Ling Yichen listened carefully to the doctor's instructions, and kept following the hospital bed to the ward where the person was taken back.
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After everyone in the ward had gone out, Ling Yichen washed a hot towel and wiped the blood stains from the woman's hands, then lifted the covers and cleaned the blood stains on her legs one by one, his heart ached more with each wipe.
It was only when he had cleaned the woman's body that he sat down on the chair beside the bed and looked at her in awe.
The woman's eyebrows were very delicate, like a ceramic doll, and he could still recall the vivid expressions of the woman's sometimes zingy nose and sometimes glaring eyes, and wondered when she would wake up?
The door to the room was gently pushed open and Lu Wanru gently walked in, looking at the man sitting there in a daze, and asked in a soft voice, "She hasn't woken up yet?"
Chapter 22
"No," Ling Yichen returned in the same soft voice: "Who is watching the baby?"
"I've asked Wu to take Li and Feng to watch her," Lu Wanru walked to the bedside, looked at Xia Mao and said with some pity, "It's a good thing she's alive."
Ling Yichen's eyes sank for a moment, and only after half a day did he say, "How do you want to put her?"
Lu Wanru's eyes flashed as she said in a warm voice, "As she wishes."
"If she agrees, just leave her in that courtyard!" Ling Yichen looked at Lu Wanru and said seriously, "This child is yours, and if another child is born, it will be hers."
Lu Wanru's eyebrows raised slightly, half a day before she said, "When I first found her, all I told her was to give birth to a child in my place, as for the rest, it is her freedom, I have no right to care, nor can I care. "
She looked at Ling Yichen and frowned, so she continued, "I bought a year of her life, not her whole life, she was already scarred for her family, I couldn't possibly force her to do anything else."
Ling Yichen's heart still agreed with Lu Wanru's words, so he said, "Then let's wait until she wakes up!"
Lu Wanru nodded, "You should go and see Lu Wanqiu first, it's not convenient for everyone to live here together after all, it's best to send her away!"
Ling Yichen knew that Lu Wanru didn't treat Lu Wanqiu well, and also didn't want to talk to Lu Wanru about Lu Wanqiu's pregnancy now, so he nodded and agreed to send Lu Wanqiu away.
"I'll be here to keep watch." Lu Wanru looked at him as his gaze swept back to the hospital bed and said, "The child's side is being watched by intensive care for now, no one is needed, Cui and Feng Ma will come over here later."
"Take good care of her!" Ling Yichen walked to the door and still couldn't resist saying another word.
"I know." Lu Wanru promised behind him in a gentle and virtuous manner.
Not five minutes after Ling Yichen walked out, Wu's mother pushed the door and walked in.
"Who's watching the baby?" Lu Wanru asked.
"Yu Hong came just now, I asked her to keep watch there with Li Ma and Feng Ma." Yu Hong was Wu Ma's daughter, "Mister took second sister away just now."
"A thousand precautions, but I still couldn't prevent it, I let her get pregnant after all!" Lu Wanru's face was cold, "Luckily we were a step ahead, if she had gotten pregnant first, then we would have been out of the picture!"
"What about Xia Mao?" Wu's mother looked at the still unconscious woman on the bed, "I see that Mr. seems to have his heart set on her too."
"More than that?" Lu Wanru thought of Ling Yichen's words just now and suddenly reached out and took Wu's hand, "But we can't let Xia Mao stay with Mr., if the child finds out the truth, he'll be separated from me! He's my whole hope, I can't be separated from him, his mother can only be me, only then can I keep my position in the Ling family!"
"I know, I know all that," Wu Ma was startled when she saw how agitated she had become, and was busy soothing her, "What do you want to do? Wu Ma will listen to you, and Yu Hong's husband is here, waiting outside the hospital with his men."
"I've already informed Bowen's side, tell Yu Hong's husband to bring someone to put her on the plane! Get on the plane from L City, Bowen is waiting there." Lu Wanru calmed down a bit and arranged methodically, "Don't forget to have them leave overnight, and don't forget to change your car and license plate on the way."
"Send her away now?" Wu's mother looked at the woman on the bed with reluctance.
"Lu Wanqiu will definitely try to keep Mr., tomorrow morning Mr. will come, and it will be a struggle to get out of D City before then." Lu Wanru also looked at Xia Mao and sighed, "She must not stay with Mr. and the child, even if she is innocent and harmless now, who knows what she will be like in the future? Sir told me that she can remain at the Home if she wishes, and that the new baby will belong to her."
Wu's mother's face paled; was Sir taking her as his second wife?
"Will there still be a place for me then?" Lu Wanru knew that Wu Ma had understood her words and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "And now that she's gone, sir will be able to treat the child better by remembering her goodness."
"Good, I'll let my son-in-law come now!" With a nod of her heart, Wu's mother walked out quickly.
"I can afford it. Once you leave here and forget all this, you will be reborn." Lu Wanru stood by the bed and murmured, "I will treat the child as if it were my own, as long as there is a breath in me, I will not let him suffer a bit!"
Ling Yichen put Lu Wanqiu in a hotel not far from this private hospital, and then wanted to leave.
"Yichen, are you blaming me?" Lu Wanqiu pitifully took Ling Yichen's hand, "Whether I had sex with you or got pregnant with a child, I don't regret it, and I don't really want to rely on you with this, much less go and ...... fight with my sister for anything ...... Can you not be angry?"
Ling Yichen looked at the woman in front of him, whom he had genuinely liked, and had mixed feelings in his heart, she had conceived while deliberately intoxicating herself, which made him uncomfortable, always feeling that he had been set up, but thinking of all these years, her persistence, her aggravation, he had no way to blame her.
"Wanqiu," Ling Yichen withdrew his hand from hers and sat down opposite her, looking at her with a sullen gaze, "We are not going to have a result, your sister and I will never divorce in our lifetime. About the child, I hope you think about it again, according to my opinion, this child or ...... don't want it!"
Lu Wanqiu's tears immediately flowed down again, looking at him sadly, "How can you bear to say that? He is not only mine, but also your child! How can you say that you don't want him? How could you be so cruel?"
"I was doing it for your own good!" He took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and fiddled with it twice in his hand, not lighting it, "Even if you gave birth to this child, I can't admit him publicly, nor will I admit to him that I am his father! It's not fair to him, or to you."
Lu Wanqiu just bowed her head and wailed, sadness and grief overflowing.
But in her heart, she thought, "Such a calm and sober man, who had just lost control of himself in the hospital and shouted "Doctor", could ignore everything around him at the entrance of the operating room and just stare at that one woman?
"I'll go first!" Ling Yichen felt his heart panicking more and more, thinking of the woman who hadn't woken up in the hospital, he stood up violently, "Have someone call me if something happens."
"Yichen!" Lu Wanqiu stood up from the bed and softly called out, but it didn't stop him, she could only watch as he walked out of the room and let the two caretakers at the door in.
Lu Wanqiu sat down on the bed in a fit of anger and slammed it down hard before cursing in a hateful voice, "Damn it!"
She could guess that he was definitely in a hurry to get to the hospital!
He had just stayed in that woman's ward, keeping watch over her all by himself, what did he mean by that? Is he telling everyone that he likes that woman and cares for her?
Chapter 23
Ling Yichen hurried back to the hospital, only to find that the woman's ward was empty!
He hurriedly ran out and found Lu Wanru outside the baby care room, "Where is she?"
Lu Wanru didn't expect him to come back so early, her heart tightened as she wondered if they had dragged Xia Mao out of the city yet.
"I asked you where is she?" Ling Yichen saw that Lu Wanru did not respond at all and asked again in an urgent voice: "Where did she go?"
"She woke up just now and told me that her mission was finished and she wanted to leave, begging me to send her away." Lu Wanru said in a light voice, "I said I would let her stay or go as she wished."
Ling Yichen's eyebrows rose and his eyes changed slightly as he looked at Lu Wanru, "Can't you wait until I return? You sent her away just after her operation? Do you know that a woman in labour should not be exposed to the wind? Where did you send her?"
"I promised her I wouldn't tell anyone!" Lu Wanru raised her head slightly and looked at him undaunted, "That was her only request, I promised her that she would choose her own route in the future."
Ling Yichen looked at her for half a minute before turning around and striding away, punching the phone as he walked, "Check all the vehicles that left the hospital within forty minutes, check all the vehicles and people that entered and left the entrance, make sure you find out where they are now!"
"Ling Yichen!" Lu Wanru shouted from behind him, "We agreed at the beginning that you would not interfere or ask questions about finding people!"
"I just want to make sure the woman who gave birth to my child is well!" Ling Yichen said and walked away with hasty steps.
Lu Wanru stood in the same place and let out a soft "hum" as she said to Wu's mother who had come up to her, "Is he worried about me killing Xia Mao?"
She couldn't tell what was going on in his mind, she couldn't guess, and she didn't dare to guess.
Ling Yichen did not find Xia Mao, nor did he have the time to do so personally, because he had just left the hospital that night when he received a call from someone close to Lu Wanqiu, who had committed suicide!
So before he had time to set up his staff to look for Xia Mao, who had already left downtown D, he ran to the hotel again and took Lu Wanqiu to the hospital for resuscitation.
After tossing and turning for most of the night, he finally brought Lu Wanqiu back to life before he remembered the missing woman. By the time he sent his men to look for her again, Xia Mao had already sunk into the sea, without a trace of news ......
Two months later, Lu Wanru took the child back to the Ling residence and found four maids to take turns taking care of him day and night, and she and Wu's mother were even more hands-on in not leaving the child halfway.
She knew that Ling Yichen was still sending people to look for Xia Mao, but she also knew that he would not be able to find him.
Ling Yichen, who had just come back from outside, sat on the sofa and looked at the child lying on all fours on the sofa.
This child was so beautiful, picking out the best in both her and himself.
Thick eyebrows, phoenix eyes, a high nose, pink and chubby, indescribably cute.
"Two months and you still can't tell me where she is?" Ling Yichen suddenly spoke up.
Lu Wanru, who was sitting next to him watching the child, the smile on her lips froze, "She left alone after the full moon, and now, I don't know where she is."
Ling Yichen looked up at Lu Wanru, who also looked up at him with frank eyes, "I really don't know, do you think I would lie to you?"
Ling Yichen lowered his head again and looked at the child who was smiling happily.
When he smiled, there was a wine swirl at the corner of his lips, exactly like hers, with a hint of quirkiness.
"Lu Wanqiu is more than three months pregnant, right?" Lu Wanqiu said flatly as if she was talking about the weather outside, "You should name the baby, when he's a hundred days old, I'm going to have a big event."
"Ling Yuanqi." This name, he had thought of long ago, when the woman was seven months pregnant, he thought, if it was a boy called Yuan Qi, if it was a girl called Yuan Qi, both were his Ling Yichen's first baby.
"Yuan Qi, Ling Yuan Qi." Lu Wanru read it twice before smiling, "That's a really nice name."
Neither of them mentioned Xia Mo again, nor did they mention Lu Wanqiu again.
But Lu Wanru knew that he hadn't stopped looking for Xia Mao, and she also knew that Lu Wanqiu had been sent away to raise her baby, not knowing whether it was because she had to be protected against her, or whether the place was just more suitable for raising a baby.
Ling Yichen would not go there even once a month, and even if he went there once in a while, he would not live there.
Whenever Lu Wanru thought about this, she could wake up laughing in her dreams.
She could never have imagined that after she got pregnant, Ling Yichen would not only not dote on him more and more, but also become more distant from her.
This is a great blessing!
A year later, Ling Yichen was in the meeting room of the Ling Group, giving a meeting to the senior management of the group, when suddenly his phone vibrated on the table, he glanced at it and stood up at once.
The manager of the planning department who was speaking was startled and the eyes of the crowd were fixed on him.
"That's enough of the meeting for today!" He picked up the phone on the table and hurriedly walked out, leaving the crowd staring at each other.
It was only half a day later that they stood up and left in droves.
His men had actually found out the entry information of that woman called Xia Mao!
It had been a year, she had gone into hiding for a year, not showing herself for a whole year, not contacting her mother, not contacting her friend Mona, but now she had suddenly appeared!
Ling Yichen's heart was agitated, he didn't know why he was so excited, but he was, and he couldn't wait to see her right away.
He was curious, when she saw herself, what kind of expression would she have?
What should he tell her if she asked about the baby? Should he show her a picture of the child on his phone, or just tell her that the child had nothing to do with her, but if she had another child, then the child could call her mother?
"Drive faster!" He urged the driver who was driving.
When he reached the airport, he realised that he had to wait two more hours for her plane to arrive.
As he sat in the car, he wondered where she had been this year. Did she ever think about him?
He was like a boy in love, excited and nervous, forcing himself not to look in the mirror to see if his hair was messy and his beard was clean-shaven.
For the first time he realised that two hours were so long, longer than two days.
When the time was up, he stepped out of the car and strode to the exit with his hands in his pockets, striding to stand directly opposite it.
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you're getting into.