Feeling stuffy at night, he opened the window but forgot to close it.

The evening breeze knocked over the candlestick, and the falling incense ignited the curtains.

The fire spread quickly, burning all the flammable furniture in the room. The thick smoke was choking, and Shen Jinmo coughed violently a few times, his voice hoarse from the smoke, unable to speak.

He covered his mouth and nose and rolled out of bed.

The wheelchair was placed by the window and tangled with the curtains, burning hot.

Shen Jinmo had difficulty walking, and everything he could help with was scorching hot.

The distance to the restroom and the room door is only five meters.

But he couldn't get over it.

Shen Jinmo, frozen in place, covered his face and laughed.

Did he do something that would be condemned by heaven, so that even God doesn't want him to live?

Holding his phone, Shen Jinmo slowly sat down against the edge of the bed. In that instant, he seemed to have the thought that he no longer wanted to fight against fate.

After his father's death, he took on the heavy responsibility of the Shen family, fighting against people and against fate, never compromising with reality.

But this time, he seemed tired.

The fire came too suddenly, and it happened in the middle of the night when everyone in the old house was asleep. The fire was discovered by the housekeeper who got up to use the toilet in the side courtyard. He glimpsed thick smoke billowing from the bedroom on the second floor of the main building, with flames shooting into the sky.

They immediately called for several servants to rush upstairs with fire extinguishers, but they couldn't break down the door for a long time.

Upon hearing that her son's bedroom was on fire, Jiang Jingyu, without even putting on slippers, rushed upstairs in a panic.

Seeing that the room door was still closed and that Shen Jinmo might be burned alive inside, he grabbed a few useless servants and yelled, "Hurry up and figure out a way to open this door! If anything happens to my son, I'll make you all pay with your lives!"

"Madam, this door is too sturdy, we can't break it open. We'll have to use a ladder downstairs to break through the window and get in."

"Hurry up! Has the fire department responded yet?" Jiang Jingyu was so anxious she was jumping up and down.

There was chaos outside the master bedroom door on the second floor.

Xia Wanying stood in the courtyard wearing a cotton nightgown, her eyes fixed on the firelight coming out of the window.

A familiar sense of fear lingered in her mind; her hands trembled slightly as she gripped her skirt tightly and bit her lip.

She wanted to rush up and save her brother Chen. If she could save him, he would surely forgive her for deceiving him before.

But... she was afraid.

Fear ultimately triumphed over her feelings for Shen Jinmo.

She took steps backward, then turned and ran out of the courtyard.

He was running too fast and bumped into Shen Jiarui head-on.

She stumbled and fell.

Shen Jiarui immediately helped her up, "Xia Wanying, my brother is almost burned to death, why are you running away?"

Xia Wanying pretended to be quite agitated by the fire, covered her ears, and continued running outside.

The fire seemed poised to completely engulf Shen Jinmo.

A sudden message notification on his phone snapped him out of his daze.

He thought it was Lu Zhiwei replying to his WeChat message, so he quickly opened his phone.

It was a text message from a stranger.

[Shen Jinmo, this is Lu Jingyao, Lu Zhiwei's older sister. My sister had an accident; she was suddenly taken to the hospital by ambulance in the middle of the night. If you still have feelings for her, please come to the Lu family's private hospital to see her as soon as possible.]

Lu Jingyao approached Shen Jinmo with a try-it-out attitude.

Rather than watching Lu Zhiwei marry Zhou Yan as she pleased and take over the Lu Group in the future, making Lu Yunsheng like her even more, she would rather bring Shen Jinmo back together with her. At that time, there would be no way Lu Yunsheng would hand over the Lu Group to Lu Zhiwei.

This text message was like a knife slicing through the curtain of night.

He put away his phone, struggled to his feet, his deep eyes turning sharp and sinister, but he no longer seemed lost.

He lifted his leg, which was throbbing with pain, and walked step by step toward the most intense part of the fire.

...

Lu Family Hospital.

Lu Zhiwei lay on the emergency room bed, cooperating with the doctor to undergo a series of examinations.

Lu Yunsheng paced anxiously outside the emergency room.

Lu Zhiwei, on the contrary, remained calm.

She had just taken a shower and gone to bed when a sharp pain in her lower abdomen caused her whole body to spasm. When her fingers touched the sheets, she found them damp.

When she got up and turned on the light, she saw...

Blood seeped from her pajama bottoms and stained the bed. She struggled to get up and went to the bathroom to clean herself up.

After a while, the pain intensified, so they called 120 (emergency services) and had an ambulance take her to the hospital.

Upon arrival at the hospital, the nurse first drew several vials of blood from her.

The doctor is performing an abdominal ultrasound on her uterus right now.

"Ms. Lu, how long has it been since you had your period?" The doctor who performed the ultrasound was very meticulous and gentle, slowly sliding the probe across every part of her lower abdomen while asking her some basic questions.

"I came last week," Lu Zhiwei answered truthfully.

Are you sure it's your period? Is the flow heavy?

"Not much, very little. My uterus was injured before, so the amount and frequency of my periods have always been unstable. Maybe it was because my period was light last time, and this time it was a massive hemorrhage," Lu Zhiwei joked.

When she arrived at the hospital, her pain subsided, and her pale face regained some color.

After listening, the doctor smiled, put down the ultrasound probe, and handed her some rough paper: "Wipe off the coupling gel on your body."

After wiping her lower abdomen, Lu Zhiwei sat up and put on her pants.

"The ultrasound report and blood test results will be sent to the gynecological emergency doctor. Ms. Lu, please go to the examination room to see the doctor first."

"good."

After sitting down in the consultation room, the doctor who saw her was the most authoritative head of obstetrics and gynecology at Lu's Hospital. She held her test report in her hand and looked at it for a long time before finally putting it down and solemnly saying to Lu Zhiwei, "Congratulations, Ms. Lu, you are pregnant."

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