Chapter 111

Jiang Zhinian was being watched, feeling nervous, but his face remained calm. "You said I was with you because you were divorced, but you lied to me. You already have a wife and children. If you're like this, what's the point of me living? I'd rather die with my children."

She usually likes to watch some melodramatic dramas when she has nothing to do, and apply what she has learned to her own advantage by combining the stories of Wen Heqing and others.

She pretended to be desperate and walked towards the woman.

The woman looked at her warily: "Don't come over here."

Jiang Zhinian pretended to be angry and said, "Why, you are allowed to jump off the building, but I am not allowed to?"

She said this, but her steps actually stopped. She remembered what she had promised Shi Ye, that she would not get too close, for fear of being caught by that woman and falling down together.

The woman looked at Jiang Zhinian in a daze: "No, you are here to take me back..."

At this time, the firefighters and police who came to rescue arrived. Jiang Zhinian saw Shi Ye gesture to her out of the corner of her eye, asking her to go back.

She took a deep breath and ignored the woman's questioning. Instead, she said loudly, "Anyway, I'm an orphan. My mother left me when I was born. I didn't want to live anymore. Do you know how a child without a mother grows up?"

"Child...child..." The woman was a little dazed, as if she remembered her own child.

On the other side, several firefighters approached the woman from behind, hugged her tightly, and brought her back to the low wall.

At the same time, two men rushed out at the same time, one hugged the woman on the ground, and the other hugged Jiang Zhinian.

Jiang Zhinian's palms were sweaty, and when Shi Ye hugged her, her legs and feet became weak and powerless.

She didn't expect that she could really hold that woman back.

…

The matter came to an end, and Shi Ye took Jiang Zhinian back to continue drawing blood for prenatal check-up. While waiting in line, Shi Ye kept moving his fingers and asked Zheng Chengfei what was going on.

"This patient gave birth to a baby in our hospital's VIP delivery room ten days ago. She should have been discharged within three days of giving birth, but she kept complaining of discomfort and body aches. We've gone through several rounds of tests but haven't found the cause, so she's been delayed."

"I heard she deliberately sent the bedside attendant away this afternoon, and then disappeared. When you sent the message in the group chat, the nurses were frantically looking for her."

Shi Ye asked him after reading the message.

“Didn’t you take the postpartum depression assessment?”

According to the formal process, all mothers must undergo this assessment after giving birth so as to detect postpartum depression caused by the sharp drop in hormones after delivery as early as possible.

"I took the test, and the score is very high. I don't have postpartum depression."

Shi Ye didn't believe it. The woman's behavior on the rooftop clearly showed that she was suffering from severe postpartum depression.

If there is no problem with the evaluation form, then there is only one possibility: she lied during the evaluation.

In fact, this is a very common problem. It is not uncommon for people to lie when facing others, but some people, because of some unusual psychological reasons, also lie when facing themselves.

They cannot accept that there are any problems with themselves, so when faced with an obviously biased answer, they will deliberately avoid this option to create the illusion that there is nothing wrong with them and everything is fine.

It would be too hasty to simply judge whether a patient has postpartum depression based on a piece of assessment paper, but there is no other way. An obstetrics department has to deal with too many pregnant women every day.

It is impossible to provide one-on-one specialized psychological counseling and testing like foreign or private hospitals.

Even the issue of postpartum depression has only received public attention in recent years and has been included in hospital standardization regulations. However, compared with life-threatening emergencies such as amniotic fluid embolism and placental abruption, the invisible knife of postpartum depression has attracted too little attention from doctors and nurses.

…

After Jiang Zhinian had her blood drawn, she followed Shi Ye to the cafeteria for dinner, and sure enough, she ran into Zheng Chengfei who was waiting for her.

"I've had a psychiatric evaluation done, and they've found she has severe postpartum depression." Zheng Chengfei shook his head, holding the spareribs in his mouth. "Why would she be depressed? Her husband is rich and treats her well, and the baby has been cared for by a confinement nanny since birth. She doesn't even need to be fed at night..."

"Zheng Chengfei, how did you pass the obstetrics theory exam?"

Zheng Chengfei uttered an "Ah" in bewilderment: "Wasn't that the key point you highlighted for me?"

Shi Ye put down his chopsticks and said, "Postpartum depression is a physiological phenomenon. It has nothing to do with whether the mother has experienced any distress. Generally, it will naturally improve after two to three months after delivery, when hormone levels return to normal. However, some mothers do become depressed because they don't have the care and support of their family."

Therefore, after giving birth, a woman or a mother is at her most vulnerable and helpless. They will face great challenges both physically and mentally. At this time, if the family also holds the thought of "what is it about us that makes you dissatisfied", it will cause great harm to the woman who is a new mother.

Zheng Chengfei knew he had hit a wall, and he quickly bowed to Shi Ye: "I was wrong. I'll go back and read the basic obstetrics theory again, no, twice."

…

In the afternoon, Jiang Zhinian returned to school and met Teacher Li who had already returned to class.

"Xiao Jiang, have some oranges." She came back to class and bought some oranges to share with everyone in the office.

"Teacher Li, you look good."

Teacher Li sighed and said, "I'm finally divorced, and I've kept my property and child. What else can I be dissatisfied with?"

At first she thought that everyone would laugh at her after the news of her divorce got out, but she didn't expect that society is much more open-minded now and no one looks at divorced women with tinted glasses anymore.

She looked around, then leaned in front of Jiang Zhinian and whispered, "Teacher Qian has decided to divorce her husband."

I didn't expect Teacher Qian to decide to divorce so quickly, and I was a little surprised: "Did something happen..."

"It's all because of that child who wanted to be adopted. Teacher Qian hasn't even agreed yet, but that family has already come to live with them, all packed up and stuff, under the pretext of letting the child develop a relationship with them. Then, they're using the excuse that the child isn't used to it at first and needs to stay with them for a few days, openly interfering with Teacher Qian's life."

When they saw the skin care products on Teacher Qian's dressing table, they openly or secretly said that Teacher Qian was spending money recklessly. Anyway, what they meant was that Teacher Qian's money was their son's money, and every penny Teacher Qian spent was one penny less for their son to inherit.

"How can parents be so selfish? They have to think about their children. Even if you eat porridge yourself, you have to let your children eat meat, right? If you don't save money now, your children will grow up and need to buy a house and get married. Everything will cost money."