Chapter 1 Chu Li, the child is gone

Cloud City.

Eight o'clock in the evening.

Lightning flashed across the dark night sky and heavy rain fell.

Qin Xingwan curled up on the cold ground, and the blood under her body was washed away by the rain.

His fingers, whitened by rain, stroked the phone, clicked on the names in the address book, and dialed them one by one.

The mechanical female voice sounded over and over again in the rain.

"Sorry, the call you dialed is currently unavailable."

In the end, the light on the phone screen went out in the heavy rain and could not be turned on no matter how hard I pressed it.

…

Nine o'clock.

Yuncheng People's Hospital.

The doctor's anxious footsteps broke the silence of the night.

"The patient had a miscarriage. Have the family members been notified?"

"I have informed you, but..." The nurse hesitated to speak.

"Just what?" The doctor's voice was filled with anxiety.

"The patient's family said they were celebrating their birthday and didn't have time..."

…

11:30.

Qin Xingwan looked at the pale light above her head and the dripping bottle of transparent liquid.

I heard the sound of the ward door opening, followed by a slightly tired voice.

"Xingwan."

An hour ago, she came out of the operating room, and then, under the nurse's pitying gaze, she borrowed a cell phone and sent a message to Chu Li, asking him to come and pay her medical bills when he was free.

At this time, her husband arrived late.

Chu Li was wearing a white shirt, his handsome features were firm, and there was a hint of fatigue in his eyes.

She tilted her head, tears welling in the corners of her eyes.

"Are you feeling unwell?" Chu Li sat on the edge of the bed, his expression as cold as ever.

He rushed over after seeing the message, not knowing how cruel things had happened to Qin Xingwan.

Qin Xingwan's heart suddenly ached to the extreme. If she had not seen with her own eyes how gentle he was to others, if she had not almost died in the rainy night, she might have thought that he was born with such a cold personality.

Qin Xingwan smelled the alcohol on him and felt nauseous.

"My cell phone is broken. Please help me pay the medical bills." Qin Xingwan's voice was hoarse and she was very tired.

As for other things, she would talk to him after she recovered from the pain.

Chu Li heard a hint of restrained disgust in his wife's tone.

He raised his eyebrows slightly and explained to her: "Today is Yunshu's birthday, you know."

Qin Xingwan looked at the ceiling. She knew that today was Qin Yunshu's birthday, and she also knew that they had held an exceptionally grand birthday party for her.

Her family and husband spent almost the entire night celebrating her birthday there.

So much so that she couldn't contact them when she was in excruciating pain.

"Yes, I know." Qin Xingwan spoke softly, calmly.

Chu Li, however, was not very happy, and his tone was a little irritated: "Yun Shu invited you to her birthday party, but you didn't go. What are you making a fuss about now?"

Make trouble?

The questioning words were like a knife stabbing Qin Xingwan, causing him to bleed profusely.

He knows nothing.

He had no idea she had been kidnapped, or that their child was gone.

The resentment in my chest reached its peak.

"Chu Li, do you mean that I was hospitalized on purpose?"

The long silence was suffocating, and Chu Li's eyes were dark and unfathomable.

Qin Xingwan easily saw the agreement in his eyes.

She felt very empty inside and curled the corners of her lips in self-mockery.

After three years of marriage, it turns out that in his eyes, she is this kind of person.

Chu Li probably knew that if he continued talking, he would end up arguing, so he stood up and said, "I'll go pay the bill. You should have a good rest. Doctor Tang is on his way."

Dr. Tang is an obstetrician and gynecologist. Since Qin Xingwan became pregnant, Dr. Tang has been in charge of her.

"Chu Li, do you know..." Qin Xingwan suddenly wanted to talk about the child.

"Sister." A sweet voice came along with the sound of the door opening, interrupting Qin Xingwan's words.

Qin Yunshu was wearing a pink long dress, with her long black hair tied up and a dazzling diamond crown on her head. She was beautiful, gentle, and charming.

"Sister, are you okay?" She walked forward.

Qin Xingwan swallowed back the words that were on the tip of her tongue. When she saw Qin Yunshu at this moment, she would think of the countless calls she had made that no one answered, and the feeling of being on the verge of death on the cold rainy night.

An uncontrollable surge of hatred rose up from deep within my bones.

"Not dead yet." Her voice was cold.

Qin Yunshu's eyes were red, filled with guilt. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have invited Ali to the birthday party."

Qin Xingwan closed her eyes. Her body ached and her heart was tired.

"Yun Shu, this has nothing to do with you." Chu Li frowned, feeling dissatisfied with Qin Xingwan's tone.

He believed that Qin Xingwan was being unreasonable.

After all, Qin Xingwan never liked the Qin family, and was even more resistant to Qin Yunshu who had just returned to China.

A month after Qin Yunshu returned to China, they had several arguments.

Qin Yunshu continued timidly, "Sister, the child is important. Don't be unhappy. I will keep my distance from A Li in the future."

"So you knew I was pregnant." Qin Xingwan's face was full of sarcasm.

In the month since Qin Yunshu returned to China, she would call her husband away every now and then.

Qin Yunshu's eyes were red, her eyes were wide open, tears welled up in them, and the corners of her lips were pursed with a look of grievance.

"Yunshu, go out for a moment. I'll talk to her." Chu Li comforted Qin Yunshu and coaxed her out.

Qin Yunshu bit her lip and whispered, "Then don't quarrel with your sister. She is still pregnant."

She walked out, looking back every few steps.

Qin Xingwan looked up at her husband with a cold and sad look in her eyes.

She was lying on the hospital bed, and her husband looked at her coldly, maliciously speculating that she was using dirty thoughts to ruin Qin Yunshu's birthday party, and in the end he needed another woman to persuade him not to quarrel.

Chu Li's gentle expression towards Qin Yunshu gradually turned colder: "Qin Xingwan, don't involve Yunshu in our affairs. She has done nothing wrong to you."

That defensive tone made Qin Xingwan feel as if the pain in her heart was surging like a sea.

She and Chu Li had been married for three years. From being an agreement couple at the beginning to actually being together in the end, she poured her love into this marriage.

She once thought Chu Li was the same.

It was not until Qin Yunshu returned to China that she realized that Chu Li had not developed any feelings for her during their three years of marriage.

He left all his tenderness to Qin Yunshu.

For three years, she naively thought that she could wait until the clouds cleared and the moon appeared, but the facts proved that she had never warmed that heart.

"Chu Li, let's get a divorce." Qin Xingwan stared at the IV drip. The words in her mouth were light and weightless, but they revealed her extremely determined heart.

In fact, she had been thinking about divorce since Qin Yunshu came back, but she couldn't bear to give up this relationship and had delusions.

Chu Li's indifferent expression softened a little, not knowing what he was thinking. "I know pregnant women are emotionally unstable and prone to overthinking, but Xingwan, Yunshu is your sister, and there's nothing wrong between her and me."

Qin Xingwan tilted her head, tears falling from the corners of her eyes, and her palm gently stroked her lower abdomen.

"No more." She whispered softly.

Chu Li, the child is gone.