Chapter 123: Caesarean section
The next day, after get off work, Xu Ge declined Zhou Zimo's invitation to go home together, saying that she had an appointment with Gu Wushuang and would be back later.
She arrived at the apartment, and Qin Lei opened the door and looked at her. "What did you buy?"
"Three lobsters. Go to the kitchen and cook them."
Qin Lei raised his handsome eyebrows, "Hey, why are you so generous today?"
Xu Ge changed into slippers and rolled his eyes at him. "When have I ever been ungenerous?"
"Where's Linda?"
"In the room."
Xu Ge nodded. Ding Lili came out of the bedroom when she heard the sound. She looked at her carefully for a moment before speaking.
"You look good. Have you been sleeping well lately?"
Xu Ge nodded, "Yeah, it's okay, I'll go in and see her."
She came to the bedroom and knocked on the door, "Linda, I'm Xu Ge."
The next second the door was opened, and Linda stared at her with a pale face and red eyes.
"Xu Ge, you're here..."
Xu Ge frowned at her ugly face and asked, "Didn't you get enough rest?"
Linda shook her head. "I, I can't sleep."
Xu Ge was silent for a moment before he said, "In your current state, I'm afraid that knowing some of the facts will make you even more..."
Linda shook her head and held her hand tightly. "You must tell me, otherwise I won't be able to sleep well."
Especially since there was always someone watching her and wanting to harm her at any time, that creepy feeling was really unsettling, and she couldn't eat or sleep well.
"Okay, let's go talk on the sofa."
Linda nodded, like a puppet, "Okay..."
Ding Lili handed her the information, then sat down next to Xu Ge and heated a cup of milk for Linda.
"Thank you..." Linda picked up the milk and drank half of it. Although she couldn't finish it, she had to drink it for the sake of the baby in her belly.
Xu Ge placed some photos on the coffee table only after he saw her put down the cup.
Linda's face changed after just one look, and she immediately started to feel nauseous.
"vomit……"
She covered her mouth and stared at the horrific photos with horror, then spoke tremblingly with obvious shaking.
"W-what is this..."
Xu Ge picked up a photo of Yao Mengfan. "Her name is Yao Mengfan, she's nineteen years old, and she's Zhou Zimo's ex-girlfriend."
"W-what?" Linda was obviously shocked and looked completely surprised.
When Xu Ge saw her like this, he knew that she knew nothing.
Linda couldn't bear to look directly at him and looked away. She could only stare at Xu Ge's calm face weakly, "Then, then she, how, how..."
Xu Ge curled his lips, as if mockingly, "She and Zhou Zimo broke up after dating for two months."
Linda was a little dazed and clutched her clothes tightly. "He is that kind of person..."
The reason why she was able to stay with Zhou Zimo for two years was simply because she had both outstanding appearance and outstanding abilities, so she was able to maintain a long-term lover relationship with Zhou Zimo.
She also knew that she was not his only lover, but she never expected that he would actually attack a girl who was less than twenty years old.
"She died a horrible death."
Linda looked up blankly and saw Xu Ge clearly take out a photo of Yao Mengfan's pregnancy. She seemed to think of something terrible and shrank into the sofa with a scream, her face pale and bloodless.
"She, she, she is pregnant too?"
Hearing the word "also", the sneer on Xu Ge's lips disappeared, and his eyes became calm yet sharp.
"That's right. She was over eight months pregnant when she died. She was due to give birth in another month, but she died in a foreign country..."
Linda asked in a trembling voice, holding her rapidly beating heart with one hand and her aching lower abdomen with the other.
"She, how did she die?"
Having said that, Xu Ge's indifferent face slowly became gloomy, but his tone remained very calm.
"He was cut open to remove the baby and died from excessive blood loss."
Linda's mind seemed to be able to imagine the terrifying and desperate scene at that time. She couldn't help but scream and hugged her head.
Seeing her so scared, Xu Ge glanced at Ding Lili, and Ding Lili put all the photos away.
Linda's head was buzzing, "She, why did she die..."
Xu Ge sneered, "What do you think?"
Linda suddenly looked up at her and saw her say word by word: "The Zhou family will not allow such a scandal as having a child out of wedlock to occur."
The tense muscle in Linda's head completely broke, her face turned as pale as a piece of paper, and her expression was desperate and terrified.
"Yes, did he do it?"
"There's no evidence to prove anything yet, but there are numerous suspicions. She died so tragically, yet the local police closed the case as a homeless pervert robbing someone to take revenge on society. Yet Zhou Zimo appeared in Paris three days prior to the incident. And now, you're also pregnant with her child, and there's a suspicious person secretly following you. Furthermore, two accidents occurred within a single day. Do you think this was just a simple accident?"
Linda's mind was confused and dazed. "Twice?"
Qin Lei leaned against the kitchen door and said calmly, "The first time it was a small truck, and I stopped it."
Linda's face suddenly changed, and she bit her lip tightly. Yes, she had a car accident on the way back from the market. When she heard the sound and turned around, she was shocked.
No, because the car accident was too close to her.
"So, you were the one in the white car? It wasn't an accident, it was the pickup truck that was going to hit me?"
Qin Lei nodded, "That's right, but we didn't expect those people to try a second time if they failed the first time."
Ding Lili also spoke up at this time: "The second time was on a motorcycle. Given your physical condition, you probably fell hard and the baby in your belly was gone."
After hearing this, Linda began to tremble all over. She felt cold all over, as if she had fallen into an ice cave. She hugged herself tightly.
"Linda..."
Linda looked at her with red eyes, biting her lip and asking, "Aren't you the Zhou family's adopted daughter? Aren't you his girlfriend? Didn't you grow up together? Why are you..."
"I did grow up in the Zhou family, and we grew up together, but that's not a reason for me to protect him. Besides, my job is to find out the truth for the victim."
"Your job? What exactly do you do?"
Ding Lili said, "We're working as private detectives in Country M. We returned to Hong Kong this time because we took on the Yao family case."
Linda raised her hand to wipe away her tears and tightly protected her lower abdomen. "So, he won't let me give birth to this child, right?"
Xu Ge nodded and said calmly, "Yes."
Linda burst into tears, "But what can I do? I don't want to, but this is the only chance I have. I can't bear it, I really can't bear it..."
The next day, after get off work, Xu Ge declined Zhou Zimo's invitation to go home together, saying that she had an appointment with Gu Wushuang and would be back later.
She arrived at the apartment, and Qin Lei opened the door and looked at her. "What did you buy?"
"Three lobsters. Go to the kitchen and cook them."
Qin Lei raised his handsome eyebrows, "Hey, why are you so generous today?"
Xu Ge changed into slippers and rolled his eyes at him. "When have I ever been ungenerous?"
"Where's Linda?"
"In the room."
Xu Ge nodded. Ding Lili came out of the bedroom when she heard the sound. She looked at her carefully for a moment before speaking.
"You look good. Have you been sleeping well lately?"
Xu Ge nodded, "Yeah, it's okay, I'll go in and see her."
She came to the bedroom and knocked on the door, "Linda, I'm Xu Ge."
The next second the door was opened, and Linda stared at her with a pale face and red eyes.
"Xu Ge, you're here..."
Xu Ge frowned at her ugly face and asked, "Didn't you get enough rest?"
Linda shook her head. "I, I can't sleep."
Xu Ge was silent for a moment before he said, "In your current state, I'm afraid that knowing some of the facts will make you even more..."
Linda shook her head and held her hand tightly. "You must tell me, otherwise I won't be able to sleep well."
Especially since there was always someone watching her and wanting to harm her at any time, that creepy feeling was really unsettling, and she couldn't eat or sleep well.
"Okay, let's go talk on the sofa."
Linda nodded, like a puppet, "Okay..."
Ding Lili handed her the information, then sat down next to Xu Ge and heated a cup of milk for Linda.
"Thank you..." Linda picked up the milk and drank half of it. Although she couldn't finish it, she had to drink it for the sake of the baby in her belly.
Xu Ge placed some photos on the coffee table only after he saw her put down the cup.
Linda's face changed after just one look, and she immediately started to feel nauseous.
"vomit……"
She covered her mouth and stared at the horrific photos with horror, then spoke tremblingly with obvious shaking.
"W-what is this..."
Xu Ge picked up a photo of Yao Mengfan. "Her name is Yao Mengfan, she's nineteen years old, and she's Zhou Zimo's ex-girlfriend."
"W-what?" Linda was obviously shocked and looked completely surprised.
When Xu Ge saw her like this, he knew that she knew nothing.
Linda couldn't bear to look directly at him and looked away. She could only stare at Xu Ge's calm face weakly, "Then, then she, how, how..."
Xu Ge curled his lips, as if mockingly, "She and Zhou Zimo broke up after dating for two months."
Linda was a little dazed and clutched her clothes tightly. "He is that kind of person..."
The reason why she was able to stay with Zhou Zimo for two years was simply because she had both outstanding appearance and outstanding abilities, so she was able to maintain a long-term lover relationship with Zhou Zimo.
She also knew that she was not his only lover, but she never expected that he would actually attack a girl who was less than twenty years old.
"She died a horrible death."
Linda looked up blankly and saw Xu Ge clearly take out a photo of Yao Mengfan's pregnancy. She seemed to think of something terrible and shrank into the sofa with a scream, her face pale and bloodless.
"She, she, she is pregnant too?"
Hearing the word "also", the sneer on Xu Ge's lips disappeared, and his eyes became calm yet sharp.
"That's right. She was over eight months pregnant when she died. She was due to give birth in another month, but she died in a foreign country..."
Linda asked in a trembling voice, holding her rapidly beating heart with one hand and her aching lower abdomen with the other.
"she
, how did she die?"
Having said that, Xu Ge's indifferent face slowly became gloomy, but his tone remained very calm.
"He was cut open to remove the baby and died from excessive blood loss."
Linda's mind seemed to be able to imagine the terrifying and desperate scene at that time. She couldn't help but scream and hugged her head.
Seeing her so scared, Xu Ge glanced at Ding Lili, and Ding Lili put all the photos away.
Linda's head was buzzing, "She, why did she die..."
Xu Ge sneered, "What do you think?"
Linda suddenly looked up at her and saw her say word by word: "The Zhou family will not allow such a scandal as having a child out of wedlock to occur."
The tense muscle in Linda's head completely broke, her face turned as pale as a piece of paper, and her expression was desperate and terrified.
"Yes, did he do it?"
"There's no evidence to prove anything yet, but there are numerous suspicions. She died so tragically, yet the local police closed the case as a homeless pervert robbing someone to take revenge on society. Yet Zhou Zimo appeared in Paris three days prior to the incident. And now, you're also pregnant with her child, and there's a suspicious person secretly following you. Furthermore, two accidents occurred within a single day. Do you think this was just a simple accident?"
Linda's mind was confused and dazed. "Twice?"
Qin Lei leaned against the kitchen door and said calmly, "The first time it was a small truck, and I stopped it."
Linda's face suddenly changed and she bit her lip tightly. Yes, there was indeed a car accident on her way back from the market. When she heard the sound and turned around to look, she was shocked because the car accident was too close to her.
"So, you were the one in the white car? It wasn't an accident, it was the pickup truck that was going to hit me?"
Qin Lei nodded, "That's right, but we didn't expect those people to try a second time if they failed the first time."
Ding Lili also spoke up at this time: "The second time was on a motorcycle. Given your physical condition, you probably fell hard and the baby in your belly was gone."
After hearing this, Linda began to tremble all over. She felt cold all over, as if she had fallen into an ice cave. She hugged herself tightly.
"Linda..."
Linda looked at her with red eyes, biting her lip and asking, "Aren't you the Zhou family's adopted daughter? Aren't you his girlfriend? Didn't you grow up together? Why are you..."
"I did grow up in the Zhou family, and we grew up together, but that's not a reason for me to protect him. Besides, my job is to find out the truth for the victim."
"Your job? What exactly do you do?"
Ding Lili said, "We're working as private detectives in Country M. We returned to Hong Kong this time because we took on the Yao family case."
Linda raised her hand to wipe away her tears and tightly protected her lower abdomen. "So, he won't let me give birth to this child, right?"
Xu Ge nodded and said calmly, "Yes."
Linda burst into tears, "But what can I do? I don't want to, but this is the only chance I have. I can't bear it, I really can't bear it..."
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