Tan Linyuan kept a cold face and didn't say a word.
His eyes on Nan Yu were as cold as frost. He reached out and pinched her chin. "What did you just say? Say it again."
"I said, do you really want this child to become a new sin?"
Nan Yu raised her chin and looked directly into his eyes without any evasion.
Her eyes were clear, looking straight at him.
Her lips trembled. "Since you don't love me, could you please let me go?"
Tears rolled down her cheeks and landed on the back of his hand.
The hot and sticky feeling forced him to let go.
Tan Linyuan withdrew his hand and said two words coldly: "Get out of the car."
...
After Nan Yu left, a call came in later.
Tan Linyuan glanced at the caller ID and answered it indifferently.
"Linyuan, I've done everything you told me. You promised to protect me!"
On the other end of the phone was an urgent cry for help. "It was such a mess today. Shen Suhai will definitely not let me go!"
The caller was the eldest sister-in-law who had wailed and incited emotions at Uncle Shen's funeral.
"Don't worry, since you've helped me, I won't let you suffer."
He lowered his eyes to check the time and said in a gentle tone, "Someone will pick you up later. There's a flight at 11:30 tonight. I've arranged a place for you abroad. It's a bit remote, so bear with it."
The woman on the phone thanked him again and again. "Thank you, Linyuan! If it weren't for you, I might have been skinned alive by the Shen family..."
Having been with Uncle Shen for so long, she knew quite a lot.
Now that Uncle Shen was gone, a woman like her who was of no importance would surely not live long.
The woman hesitated for a moment and then gritted her teeth and said, "They're all a bunch of beasts! I wish you could uproot the Shen family as soon as possible!"
Tan Linyuan hung up the phone without blinking an eye.
After dealing with these trivial matters, the car fell silent again.
The quieter it was, the more irritable Tan Linyuan felt.
Of course, he wasn't so impulsive as to really let Nan Yu get pregnant with his child.
Moreover, he didn't think it was necessary to pass on his bloodline.
Even if Nan Yu hadn't said those harsh words, he would have sent the contraceptive pill to her later.
He was a completely rational person.
However, he couldn't deny that when Nan Yu said she might get pregnant with his child, he had a momentary longing and a fleeting fantasy.
It was a happiness he would never have.
---
When Nan Yu got out of the car, she had already wiped away the tears on her face and left expressionlessly.
She wasn't sure if Tan Linyuan would buy the contraceptive pill for her. So, under the pressure of being discovered, she walked around the neighborhood.
Maybe it was because it had rained too heavily the day before. The only pharmacy was closed.
She had no choice but to go back, praying in the hope that she wouldn't get pregnant.
When she returned to the Shen family, she learned that Shen Yanche had left for Jiangcheng by car because of an urgent matter.
The servant told Nan Yu that a car would come to pick her up later and asked her to wait at the Shen family for a while.
Nan Yu calculated the time. If she took the pill before 11 o'clock tonight, it should still be in time, as it was still within the 24 - hour emergency contraceptive period.
Just then, a strange man walked over and introduced himself as a bodyguard of the Shen family.
He stood in front of Nan Yu respectfully and said politely, "Miss Nan, did you lose a pair of earrings?"
Nan Yu instinctively touched her earlobes and remembered that she hadn't worn any jewelry when she came. "No."
The man frowned and thought for a moment. Then he still smiled and said, "These earrings should be yours. Please take them."
With that, before Nan Yu could wave her hand to deny it, he stuffed a jewelry box into her hand and left quickly.
Nan Yu felt quite confused. She opened the box.
Inside the box, besides a pair of ordinary earrings, there was also an emergency contraceptive pill.
Nan Yu looked up at the man's back and guessed that he was sent by Tan Linyuan.
She calmly took out the pill, put it in her mouth, and swallowed it with water.
---
After returning from the Shen family's ancestral home, Shen Yanche didn't contact Nan Yu again.
For Nan Yu, it was a relief. She guessed that the fact that she had slept with Tan Linyuan had dealt a great blow to Shen Yanche.
Nan Yu even optimistically thought that one day she might suddenly receive a notice from the Shen family to cancel the engagement.
Of course, it wasn't that simple.
To cancel the engagement with Shen Yanche, she first needed to offer a more valuable bargaining chip.
She had learned this from Tan Linyuan.
The person who might be valuable to Shen Yanche... Nan Yu immediately thought of Wen Ying.
But Shen Yanche had hidden Wen Ying very well. Nan Yu didn't have her contact information and didn't know which hospital she was in for the delivery.
Asking directly would arouse Shen Yanche's suspicion.
So, this thought only lingered in her mind for a moment and was quickly forgotten.
...
Maybe it was because of the pill she had taken last time. Since she came back, Nan Yu had been feeling unwell. She had a headache and a fever for several days, and her nose was severely blocked.
She went to the clinic to get some medicine, but it only provided temporary relief. As soon as the medicine was finished, she started to have a runny nose again. She was so uncomfortable that she couldn't focus on her work.
Finally, Sister Min hinted indirectly that if she couldn't get better, she could go to a traditional Chinese medicine doctor.
Afraid of affecting the work progress, Nan Yu had to take a half - day leave to go to the hospital for an examination.
She got an expert's appointment. The traditional Chinese medicine doctor felt her pulse and then tactfully told her that she had internal heat and an endocrine disorder.
The doctor also asked if she had taken any medicine recently. She hesitated and said that she had taken a contraceptive pill a few days ago.
Now she understood why she had an endocrine disorder. The emergency contraceptive pill could affect the body's hormones. No wonder she had been feeling so uncomfortable these days.
It seemed that the contraceptive pill couldn't be taken casually.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but curse Tan Linyuan in her heart.
Finally, the doctor said it wasn't a big deal and just prescribed some prescriptions to reduce the internal heat.
Nan Yu came out of the pharmacy with the medicine in her hand and saw two familiar people coming towards her.
Nan Yu instinctively lowered her head, trying to make herself as unnoticeable as possible so as not to be discovered.
"Yuyu!" A surprised cry made Nan Yu's body stiffen.
She should have known she couldn't escape.
Seeing Nan Yu here, Qu Jiaran was obviously overjoyed. She pulled Qi Zhu towards Nan Yu and said, "Yuyu, why are you here?"
Nan Yu even wanted to ask why they were here.
Nan Yu ignored Qu Jiaran's excitement. She just took a step to avoid her, nodded slightly at Qi Zhu, and was about to leave.
"Yuyu!" Qu Jiaran was unhappy. She grabbed Nan Yu's wrist and said angrily, "Why do you greet Qi Zhu but ignore me?"
Nan Yu said expressionlessly, "Let go."
"Then promise me you won't ignore me."
Nan Yu still repeated the same two words: "Let go."
"Okay, okay, I'll let go. Yuyu, don't be angry with me."
Qu Jiaran had no choice but to slowly let go of Nan Yu's wrist, but there was still reluctance in her eyes. "Are you feeling unwell? Did you come to the hospital to see a doctor?"