He snorted coldly, his attitude arrogant, "I, Chen Lin, have never done anything I regret in my life, not now, and not in the future."
"Really? But I think you'll regret it." She looked at him and smiled.
Shen Lin, you used to be so kind to me that you couldn't bear to hurt me even a little. During the time we spent together, you risked your life to save me and treated me as your one and only.
If you never want to remember this in your life, that's fine. But if you do remember, the pain you'll feel will be no less than what I'm experiencing right now.
Shen Lin's deep eyes were fixed on Ye Xinning's face. Her smile was so striking, as if she was affirming the future with an extremely confident attitude.
For some reason, when he saw the light in her eyes, he suddenly felt a strange sense of doubt.
Are you hiding something from me?
"Um."
"explain?"
"I was the one who saved you back then."
Shen Lin suddenly increased the pressure on her shoulder, his expression sinister. "Ye Xinning, I told you not to use this matter to scheme against me."
Ye Xinning tilted her head slightly, a faint smile on her pale face. "You see, you're the one who asked me to say it, and you're still the one who doesn't believe me."
"My incident happened five years ago. You weren't even in Nancheng five years ago. How could it be you, Ye Xinning? Do you really think I'm a liar?"
Ye Xinning clenched her hands, thinking of the past five years, and closed her eyes.
Shen Lin released her and said coldly, "Stop playing the divorce trick. Do you think I don't know what you're thinking? On the surface, you're making a fuss about divorce, but in reality, you're just trying to escalate the situation and get my dad to take charge and put pressure on me. Such a clumsy tactic only makes you look naive."
On the surface, they're getting a divorce? Ye Xinning had no idea where Shen Lin got his confidence from.
“Come back with me.” He bent down and forcefully pulled her up from the recliner.
Ye Xinning almost lost her balance when he pulled her.
"I'm not going back." She shook off his hand, but because she was too weak, she fell backward and bumped into the chair behind her.
Her mind was foggy, and all she wanted to do was sleep; she didn't want to linger with Chen Lin for even a second longer.
Seeing her like this, Shen Lin thought she was faking it, "Hypocritical, pretentious, and calculating."
Ye Xinning kept her eyes closed and did not react.
Shen Lin frowned. He walked over and was startled by the burning heat emanating from Ye Xinning as soon as he touched her.
"Ye Xinning, what's wrong?"
"..."
The woman didn't react, and a sense of panic rose in Shen Lin's heart that he himself didn't even notice.
He bent down, picked the person up, and walked outside, his steps much faster than usual.
...
At the hospital.
Shen Lin stood in front of the hospital bed, facing Dr. Shen Nanxing, Shen Lin's cousin.
"I'm not saying this to be rude, but you're really something, managing to put someone in this state."
As Shen Nanxing examined Ye Xinning, he kept clicking his tongue in amazement.
Shen Lin's gaze fell on Ye Xinning's face, his tone stiff, "I didn't do anything to her, she made herself sick."
"If you weren't so unrestrained and didn't know how to care for others, would someone be lying here? Honestly, you're wrong, so why try to justify it?"
"Can you even take a proper look at me? If not, we'll get another doctor," Shen Lin threatened.
Shen Nanxing, "..."
After examining Ye Xinning and giving her an IV drip, Shen Nanxing finally looked up at Shen Lin.
"I heard I'm going to be an aunt?"
Shen Lin glanced at her.
"Let me make this clear first: apart from my sister-in-law's nephews and nieces, I will not acknowledge any other children born to mistresses."
"What's so good about her?"
"What?"
"Why do you all side with a woman who's full of scheming?"
"You keep saying she schemed against you. Think about it carefully. What did she scheme against? When you first got married, she put aside her work and left work on time every day to cook for you. She would prepare gifts for you on holidays and even on ordinary weekends. She did her best to treat you well. She never wronged you."
"That was just a clumsy trick she used to win people over."
"She's genuinely good to you, can't you see that?"
"If you truly care about me, why would you be so insistent on getting a divorce?"
"Please, brother, you've already gotten that other woman pregnant. It's perfectly reasonable for her to divorce you, okay?"
"Shen Nanxing, how can you, a girl, speak so sharply?"
Shen Nanxing rolled her eyes speechlessly. How could this man be so stubborn?
"Forget it, all this talk is pointless. But don't blame me for not reminding you, think carefully about what you're doing now, don't wait until it's too late to undo it, then you'll really regret it."
Shen Nanxing gave some basic instructions and then went to attend to other matters.
Shen Lin stood in front of the bed, looking at the pale-faced woman lying on the hospital bed, his eyes dark and unfathomable.
...
Ye Xinning had a dream. In the dream, it was a dark room, a small space, with only her. Every day, someone would bring her food at regular intervals, and there was someone who would come to see her every day.
She begged him to let her out, but he ignored her pleas. Then one day, he brought a doctor...
He held her hand down...
On the hospital bed, Ye Xinning clenched her fists, frowned, and opened her eyes with a pained expression.
The white ceiling and the pungent smell of disinfectant made her instinctively raise her hand, and she felt a sharp pain.
She lowered her head, still receiving an IV drip, and as she thought about the scenes in her dream, she felt utterly exhausted and resistant.
There was no one in the ward. Just as she was about to take out her phone to check the time, the ward door was pushed open from the outside.
It is Ye Rouxin.
"Why did you end up in the hospital when you were perfectly fine?" Ye Rouxin asked, frowning.
"It's just a minor cold."
Seeing her like this, Ye Rouxin started scolding her again, "If you ask me, you brought this on yourself. Why did you leave the Shen family and stay in a hotel so late at night? What were you doing causing trouble for no reason?"
"What a waste of time?" Ye Xinning was too exhausted to be angry, but she still laughed in anger. Even after all this, Ye Rouxin still misinterpreted her. Did Ye Rouxin think that everything she was going to do now was deserved from the day she proposed to divorce Shen Lin?
"Did Mom come all this way just to tell me not to mess around?"
"Isn't that right? You were the one who chose to marry Shen Lin out of so many people, and now you're the one who wants a divorce. Isn't this just acting recklessly and without considering the consequences?"
"But Mom never considered that I didn't want an arranged marriage at all. If you hadn't forced me back then, why would I have come back to Nancheng?"
"You are the eldest daughter of the Ye family, that is your responsibility," Ye Rouxin said forcefully.
Miss Ye? Ye Xinning said with a self-deprecating smile, "If I could have another chance, I would rather not be Miss Ye, but just an ordinary person."
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