Song Xingwang's body jolted, and he began to slur his words. He looked at the phone and asked haltingly, "Live...live stream?"
Ruan Chen finally pulled her attention away from the mobile game, looked at the police, and politely replied, "Okay, thank you—by the way, you can take this phone back."
As a witness, Ruan Yunhan also had to go to the police station to give a statement.
Before she left the house, she glanced back at Ruan Chen, and their eyes met.
"Um..." If possible, Ruan Chen didn't want to say a word to Ruan Yunhan, but she couldn't resist Su Jin's repeated pleas.
Ruan Yunhan stopped, looked at Ruan Chen, and waited for her to say what she was going to say next.
"Your boyfriend is picking you up later. He asked me to tell you not to be afraid. Also, he's not abandoning you; he has other plans." Ruan Chen felt goosebumps all over her body. The saccharine smell of being in love made her want to vomit.
Ruan Yunhan's face didn't seem to show any surprise, but rather a "I knew it" expression. She nodded and said, "I understand."
Late at night, after finishing the last line of code, Ruan Chen glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the screen and wondered whether to go to sleep or finish the homework he had planned to catch up on during the morning reading session.
Then Su Jin called.
The man on the other end of the phone sounded very humble, and Ruan Chen couldn't understand why Su Jin was being so polite with her.
"Ms. Ruan, is it convenient for you there?"
"What's up?"
"I just picked up Yunhan. It's a bit inconvenient at my home right now. Yunhan doesn't seem to be feeling well, and I don't feel comfortable taking her to a hotel..." Su Jin stammered for a long time.
But Ruan Chen understood.
"Come on." She didn't care why Su Jin couldn't bring Ruan Yunhan back to his home. She just lazily said, "I'll send you the address. There's a guest room. Don't make too much noise."
Su Jin arrived quickly. Ruan Chen opened the door for him with a cold face, glancing at Ruan Yunhan, who was slumped in Su Jin's arms.
Ruan Yunhan's face looked even worse than before, a sallow yellow. No wonder Su Jin was worried about taking her to a hotel.
"Have you been to the hospital?" Ruan Chen asked, not wanting to get into trouble.
“Yunhan isn’t going. Let’s talk about it during the day,” Su Jin quickly explained. “Miss Ruan, don’t worry, I’ll take full responsibility if there are any problems.”
Ruan Chen was extremely sleepy at the moment. She rubbed her eyes and hummed in response. Before entering the bedroom, she remembered that there was something important she had forgotten to ask.
What's the current situation with the Ruan family?
Su Jin replied, "The police have already taken Ruan Zhengde back for questioning. They took him directly from the Ruan Group headquarters. At the time, the Ruan Group and the Song Group were trending at number one and number two on the hot search list, and they were having a public relations meeting."
Su Jin said this with a hint of schadenfreude.
Ruan Chen hummed in agreement and went back to her room.
But she didn't sleep well that night.
Just as dawn was breaking, there was a loud knocking on the guest room door.
Su Jin took care of Ruan Yunhan all night and didn't get much sleep. When he heard a knock on the door, he knew it was Ruan Chen, so he quickly tidied his hair and clothes and got up to open the door for her.
Sure enough, Ruan Chen, looking irritable and with dark circles under her eyes, was standing at the door.
Su Jin apologized, "I'm sorry, Miss Ruan, did I disturb you tonight? Yunhan just fell asleep, I'll take her to the hospital in a bit."
After listening to him finish speaking, Ruan Chen threw a black plastic bag into his arms.
The bag was very large. Therefore, the contents inside appeared extremely small and lightweight.
Ruan Chen raised her chin, suppressing her morning grumpiness from not sleeping well, and tried her best to keep her tone calm, "Don't go to the hospital, let's get her tested."
She was woken up eleven times throughout the night by the noise of people coming and going from the guest room.
Each time was accompanied by the sound of Ruan Yunhan vomiting as if her lungs were about to burst.
So at six o'clock, as soon as the pharmacy downstairs opened, Ruan Chen went down in her pajamas and slippers to buy test strips.
Su Jin took the black bag, opened it, glanced at it, and her face flushed deliberately. She looked at Ruan Chen with a slightly evasive gaze. "Um... thank you, but no need. It shouldn't be. She probably just fell yesterday and has a concussion."
Ruan Chen's eyes swept over Su Jin from head to toe several times with suspicion, lingering deliberately on a certain spot for a moment, as if questioning Su Jin's abilities in certain aspects.
In Ruan Chen's eyes, putting aside his opinion on Ruan Yunhan's character, Ruan Yunhan herself is a woman that any man would find it hard not to linger his gaze on.
She couldn't believe that nothing had happened between Su Jin and her after all this time.
Su Jin understood what Ruan Chen was questioning, his face flushed even more, and he glanced at the sleeping Ruan Yunhan, explaining, "It wasn't me, it was Yunhan... She took a knife for me before, it was in a rather awkward spot, the doctor said..."
The scene of seeing that report flashed through Su Jin's mind—he had been to the hospital once when Ruan Yunhan was in a coma and had talked to the doctor about Ruan Yunhan's condition. He couldn't quite remember what the doctor said, but he clearly remembered how he felt when he took that diagnosis certificate and left the hospital almost in a panic.
Su Jin felt a strong bitter taste rise in his mouth, and his voice was so low that it was almost inaudible, "Yunhan will never be able to be a mother again."
Ruan Chen didn't speak, but looked up at Su Jin's back.
Su Jin turned around subconsciously and saw Ruan Yunhan sitting blankly on the bed. It seemed that she hadn't fallen asleep at all.
“Yunhan... I didn’t mean to hide it from you…” Su Jin tried to explain.
Ruan Yunhan got out of bed, barefoot, and staggered to Ruan Chen. She snatched the black plastic bag from him, gave Su Jin a deep look, and went into the bathroom.
After they went in, they slammed the door shut with a loud bang, so hard that the windows shook.
Ruan Chen didn't care about the commotion at Su Jin's place. She washed her hands, brushed her teeth, and sat down at the table to eat the breakfast she had bought on her way downstairs.
She only bought one serving of steamed buns and soy milk.
Su Jin sat on the other side, watching Ruan Chen eat.
After Ruan Chen finished her first steamed bun, Ruan Yunhan came out and threw the test strip on the table in front of Su Jin.
Even though Ruan Chen had been indifferent, she quietly sat up straight and glanced at the test strip.
To be honest, although Ruan Chen was mentally prepared, she still felt a little complicated when she saw the two bright red lines.
At the very least, this means that for some time to come, Ruan Yunhan might still act like a jerk in front of him as before, but he can't really ruin her life.
Su Jin's face showed a mix of emotions, but overall, one could still see joy and anticipation.
He told Ruan Yunhan on the plane that he didn't like children, but that was pure nonsense; he just wanted to keep it a secret.
He never expected that what the doctor said about "the chances of conceiving being almost zero, but not impossible" would actually come true.
However, Ruan Yunhan, who had just become a mother, showed no joy on her face. Her hand was unconsciously placed on her lower abdomen, where there was a horrifying scar.
She asked, "Su Jin, so all this time you've been so obedient to me, all this kindness you've shown me, it all stemmed from guilt, right?"
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