"Why did you abort the baby?"
Jiang Xixi closed her eyes. Listening to the man's cold tone ringing in her ears, she twitched the corners of her lips and let out a laugh.
It seemed like a mockery of him and also a self - deprecation.
For a normal couple, when a wife silently aborts their baby, shouldn't the husband's first reaction be to care about her mental state instead of blaming her for the abortion?
Her intuition told Jiang Xixi that it wasn't the case.
With her eyes closed, her voice still hoarse from the ordeal, she said, "Lin Chuluo, I don't want this baby anymore."
Lin Chuluo's face suddenly darkened. "The baby doesn't belong to you alone. Can you just decide not to have it?"
Obviously, he was angry with her.
Jiang Xixi didn't answer his question immediately. She looked down at her flat abdomen, and a hint of melancholy finally showed in her eyes.
The once - swollen part had now disappeared. It didn't look like she had ever been pregnant.
But no one knew better than her that a lovely little angel had once been growing there.
She said softly, "When I was having the operation just now, I had a dream."
"I dreamed of a little baby. He was chubby and fair all over. His eyes were full of spirit, and he waved at me." A smile played on her lips. "I even kissed his little face, and he called me mommy."
Hearing this, Lin Chuluo's eyes paused.
There was a faint smile on her face, but there was also a sense of desolation lingering in her eyes, refusing to fade.
"You clearly liked this baby." Lin Chuluo's eyes were deep, and his voice was tinged with sorrow. "Even a vicious tiger won't eat its own cubs. How could you be so cruel!"
"The cruel one is not me. It's you." Jiang Xixi sat up slightly, leaning against the headboard. Her complexion was extremely poor, and there was not a trace of vitality on her face.
"You don't love this baby at all. Why did you let him come into this world to suffer?"
"How can you say I don't love..."
"What do you love about him? That he can help you stabilize your position in the Lin family? Or that he can please your father? Or that he's a boy, so he can satisfy your vanity of having an heir?"
She had little strength, and her words were light.
But every word was like a sharp sword, accurately and sharply piercing Lin Chuluo's heart.
In an instant, a heart that was already in pieces was now bleeding profusely.
He squinted his eyes, with a miserable smile on his face. "Jiang Xixi, you're really something."
"I knew before that love is nothing." He ran his fingers through his hair in annoyance, finding his previous thoughts ridiculous.
He had already started planning that as soon as Jiang Xixi's baby was born, he would take his wife and child to Guangcheng and live a peaceful life.
But he was still let down.
First, Shi Jun was arrested, cutting off his retreat. Then Zhou Si took over the Lin Corporation. And finally, the fatal blow - Jiang Xixi's abortion.
"Love? Do you know what love is?" Jiang Xixi suddenly spoke, her voice full of emotion. "You've never loved anyone. You only love yourself."
"Now the baby is gone. The doctor said I'll never be able to get pregnant again. I'm of no value to you anymore."
"Let's get a divorce, Lin Chuluo."
...
In the end, Lin Chuluo staggered out of the ward.
He looked up. Next to the gynecology department was the obstetrics department.
There were quite a few men and women standing in the obstetrics department. Most of them were couples coming for prenatal check - ups. Their happy smiles were blinding.
"Sir, could you please move aside?" A tall man came over, protecting a pregnant woman beside him. "My wife's number has been called. You're blocking the door."
Lin Chuluo was stunned.
He numbly stepped aside, his back hitting the wall. He stared blankly at the happy couple as they slowly walked into the examination room.
At that moment, he felt extremely lonely.
"Do you know what love is?"
Even after he walked out of the hospital and stood in front of the hospital gate, the calm face of Jiang Xixi and that question still lingered in his mind.
He reached out and touched his chest, feeling it was empty.
Not for any other reason, but because Jiang Xixi wanted to divorce him. From now on, that stupid woman who had only eyes for him would no longer belong to him.
Reality didn't give him much time to wallow in grief. His phone, which had been quiet for a long time in his pocket, suddenly vibrated.
"Is this Young Master Lin? Madam was overly excited and suddenly had a stroke. She fell off the wheelchair and was just sent to the emergency room. The doctor said there might be a risk of death. Could you please come and sign?"
Lin Chuluo dropped his phone. It hit the ground, and the screen shattered instantly, turning completely black.
It seemed that at this moment, all the malice in the world rushed towards him, mercilessly invading him and crushing him from the inside out.
---
Zhou Si was waiting outside the operating room, arms folded, waiting leisurely.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Lin Chuluo to rush over. His face still showed the shock of being hit, and his eyes had lost all their light.
That was the look of a person in utter despair.
His steps were messy. He took the operation notice from the nurse, scribbled his name on it, and held the nurse's hands tightly. "Please, you must save my mother."
The nurse nodded and walked into the emergency room with a serious face.
The corridor suddenly became much emptier and eerily quiet.
Lin Chuluo had seen Zhou Si just now, but he had lost all his strength to resist. He could only slump on the bench, closing his blood - shot eyes wearily.
"Tell me how you feel?" Zhou Si walked over, looking at him with a mocking look. "The feeling of despair, isn't it special?"
Lin Chuluo didn't open his eyes.
A person who had been repeatedly hit in a short period of time had his emotions shattered. He didn't even have the strength to struggle, let alone take a breath.
Zhou Si raised his eyebrows, seemingly a little surprised by his reaction. "Why aren't you angry? Don't you want to get rid of me now?"
"What's the point?" His voice was soft. "From now on, the Lin family will be yours. I've lost my wife and child. Now my family is ruined. And my mother is still in the operating room, her life in danger. Isn't this what you wanted to see?"
Zhou Si laughed. "You're right."
Everything that Lin Chuluo was going through now was what he had planned and wanted to see.
He had succeeded.
But Zhou Si was still a little dissatisfied.
It was Lin Chuluo's reaction.
There was no anger, no hatred, no great sorrow.
He was as calm as a stagnant pool of water, like a punch hitting cotton, giving no sense of accomplishment.
Zhou Si paused for a moment.
"According to seniority, I should call you younger brother." Zhou Si put away his mocking attitude and twitched the corner of his lips. "Younger brother, you don't have to think you're so miserable."
"Your elder brother here experienced the feeling of having everything taken away and the despair more than a decade ago."