Chapter 123 Abort the Child
After a long silence, Su Youling stood up, walked over to support Su Hong, and said in a hoarse voice, "Mom, I'm sorry."
Su Hong trembled. "Is it that person's?"
"yes."
Su Hong gritted her teeth and asked, "How many months?"
"It's been almost three months."
"Let's go to the hospital." Without thinking, Su Hong grabbed Su Youling's hand and said seriously, "We don't want this child. It's not too late."
"Mom!" Su Youling was worried that her voice would disturb Xiaolin, so she quickly stopped her. "Let's go inside and talk."
Su Hong was a very perceptive person. Upon hearing this, she subconsciously glanced at Xiao Lin's room and said, "Okay, let's talk in the room."
After closing the door, the mother and daughter remained silent for a moment, neither speaking first. An eerie silence filled the air, making it feel suffocating.
After a long while, Su Youling hugged Su Hong, took her hand and stroked her lower abdomen. "Mom, I want this child. I originally planned to wait until you were better before telling you, but I didn't want to keep it from you forever."
Su Hong's eyes reddened. "You child! It's been so long, why did you only tell me now? How hard it must have been for you to bear it all alone back then?"
The doctor warned that Su Hong's eyes could not withstand tears now.
Su Youling was startled and quickly reassured her, "Mom, it's okay. I didn't want this child out of necessity; I genuinely love it."
Su Hong is someone who has been through it all, someone who has been hurt in relationships and has carried a stigma for half her life, so she is particularly sensitive to this kind of thing.
"With this child, you're destined to be tied to him from now on. Is it worth it for that man?"
"Mom, I'm not doing this for anyone else, it's for myself." Seeing that she was about to lose control of her emotions again as she recalled the past, Su Youling quickly sat down on the edge of the bed and hugged her, saying gently, "You were hurt, and life was tough back then, but you still adopted me, didn't you?"
She deliberately made a witty remark, "So, you're having second thoughts now?"
Knowing that she was worried about her eyes, Su Hong covered her face and calmed down for a while. Her emotions gradually stabilized. "I don't regret it, but it's different. You have a child, so you're bound together and will be entangled for life."
"mom……"
“I once had a child, but…” Su Hong clenched her fists and gritted her teeth as if in great pain, “The child was cruelly taken away. I can’t forget the excruciating pain of lying on the operating table with the cold instruments scraping into my body! Because of that child, I completely severed my ties with that person and risked my life to leave that underground den.”
"Mom, stop talking." Su Youling was stunned and couldn't help but hug her mother's trembling body tightly, unable to suppress her heartache.
She knew from a very young age that her mother had worked in a profession that everyone hated. The neighbors treated her mother's painful history as a topic of gossip, and she often got into fights with adults and children because of it, which made her exceptionally feisty from a young age.
At that time, her mother applied medicine to her and said that she had just loved the wrong person and was sold to a brothel, where she was almost living a life worse than death, but she could not escape.
Later, she encountered another guest who thought he was her savior, and her hope was rekindled. She fell in love again and waited for her lover to rescue her from her predicament, but what she received in return was a fatal blow.
From a young age, her mother hoped that she would grow up clean and live an honest life, not easily falling into men's traps. She could pursue love, but she should not lose herself in love.
If it weren't for her mother's constant guidance from a young age, given Li Tingxi's irresistible charm, she would probably have been deeply entangled in him long ago.
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But she never expected that the truth was even crueler than she had heard since childhood—her mother had also conceived a baby that never had a chance to be born.
"Lingling, tomorrow morning, Mom will go with you to abort this child, okay?" Su Hong hugged Su Youling tightly. At this moment, she was glad that she couldn't see, otherwise she would definitely not have been able to resist the eyes of a woman who loved her child so much.
"Mom is doing this all for your own good."
"Mom..." Su Youling was hugged so tightly by her mother that she could hardly breathe.
His face was so pale he couldn't speak.
After a long while, she weakly embraced the thin, frail woman, tears streaming down her face, as if resigned to her fate...
In the early hours of the morning, Li Tingxi, who had been interrogating Manager Liu for most of the night, had only been asleep for a short while when he suddenly woke up in bed.
He was drenched in sweat and couldn't remember what nightmare he had, but he had a feeling that something very important was about to leave him.
Su Youling!
Li Tingxi glanced at the time, frowned and stood there for a long time. Suddenly, he threw off the covers, and without even changing his clothes, he hurriedly grabbed his car keys and left in his pajamas and slippers.
We headed straight for the Su family's courtyard.
When Li Tingxi arrived outside the courtyard, it was just beginning to get light.
The courtyard was completely silent; the people inside were probably still fast asleep.
Li Tingxi got out of the car, leaned against the hood, lit a cigarette, but didn't smoke it. He only realized where he was when the flame burned his fingertips.
It's like sleepwalking.
How did he end up here?
With Xiao Lin keeping an eye on Su Youling, it was impossible for her to run away quietly.
Why did he still feel this emptiness in his heart—the fear of losing something lingered in his mind and wouldn't go away?
Perhaps it was Lin Lexi's appearance last night that reminded him how terrible Su Youling had been in the past, and reminded him that he couldn't even give Su Youling a legitimate identity now...
That's probably why I feel so lost and disappointed.
Li Tingxi glanced around the quiet courtyard, recalling the layout of Su Youling's room when he entered it, then walked around to the north window and sat down on the ground.
In the quiet of the early morning when the first light of dawn appeared, it was as if you could hear Su Youling's heartbeat right next to you. He was tired and rubbed his temples. His head, which had only slept for two hours, was still groggy. He soon closed his eyes.
In a daze, it seemed as if the window above my head had opened.
The somber atmosphere inside the room blends with the fresh air outside the window, bringing a unique spiritual cleansing to both those inside and outside the room.
Su Youling leaned against the window, her eyes still slightly swollen.
After coaxing her mother to sleep last night, she herself felt unwell for most of the night and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.
She stared blankly at the faint morning light outside the window. Everything seemed so peaceful and beautiful, just like the baby in her womb. Although she couldn't feel the baby's movements yet, its very existence was a kind of beauty.
If Li Tingxi knew that this child had ever existed, would he regret refusing the arrival of this little life?
I don't think so!
Given Li Tingxi's personality, he would probably only care about the children he has with the person he loves.
Her child belongs only to her.
The mother was at least right about this point: these wealthy men don't lack children, and when necessary, they will even personally make children that shouldn't exist disappear completely.
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