Chapter 64: Chapter 63: His Trust Shattered in Her Eyes
Ren Yixuan’s heart was panicking, he vaguely sensed something...
"I don’t care if you did it on purpose, from now on, stop saying you like her, and don’t talk about protecting her since childhood. When it mattered most, you failed to protect her, that means you’re useless! You’re not worthy to say the word love!"
Yin Meng’s words pierced the heart, leaving Ren Yixuan speechless.
He saw Su Xiaomeng’s trust in him slowly crumble in those tear-filled eyes.
Yin Meng pulled Su Xiaomeng and walked past him.
Ren Yixuan took out his phone, logged onto the forum, and read through the post...
He stood there, his hands almost turning to ice, yet it couldn’t compare to the throbbing pain in his heart...
After Su Xiaomeng returned to her dormitory, she didn’t speak again. Through the wall, she seemed to hear people’s gossip, experiencing for the first time the saying that the words from the mouths of others can be terrifying.
Yin Meng comforted her for a long time, but it couldn’t change Su Xiaomeng’s current situation.
The post could be deleted, but people can’t be silenced...
Escalating to this point, soon the school would know, and next... would be the parents.
Su Xiaomeng hid under the covers, not daring to think about what would happen once her parents in Sichuan found out...
Even though she wasn’t an exceptional daughter, she had never brought shame to her parents, but now?
Tossing and turning the whole night, she couldn’t fall asleep.
Early the next morning, as soon as Yin Meng left, she got dressed, took money and documents, and went out.
If she’d been a bit braver, less afraid, even if her physical indicators weren’t qualified, she could have risked it and finished the surgery earlier and wouldn’t have ended up like this.
Even if there were some aftereffects, it was better than being a joke to others, better than her parents being hurt and criticized...
She arrived at the hospital, begged the doctor repeatedly, and finally arranged the surgery for this afternoon. The nurse assigned her a bed and asked her to wait in the hospital room before the surgery.
Su Xiaomeng sat by the bed, thought for a moment, and sent Yin Meng a text to prevent her from worrying.
Yin Meng received Su Xiaomeng’s text while she was in Yin Shixiu’s car.
Today, the second uncle returned from abroad, and grandfather asked everyone to come back to the old house for lunch.
Yin Meng originally planned to return immediately after lunch to handle Su Xiaomeng’s matter, but didn’t expect Su Xiaomeng to have already gone to the hospital...
She couldn’t help but worry, so she called Su Xiaomeng.
"Xiaomeng, change it to tomorrow, tomorrow I’ll accompany... I’ll come over after lunch... Don’t talk nonsense! Don’t think too much, okay? ...Okay, hanging up."
Yin Meng hung up, her beautiful eyebrows knit together.
Yin Shixiu glanced at her and casually asked, "What’s wrong with that girl?"
"Little Uncle... Do you think there are too many scumbag men in this world?"
Yin Shixiu cleared his throat, indicating that he, too, was a man driving.
"I didn’t mean you, Uncle, but it’s undeniable there are too many scumbags! I must find a way to catch that bastard and castrate him without hesitation, then cripple him!"
Yin Meng said it with such indignation, her eyes filled with redness.
Yin Shixiu didn’t seem to care much, chuckling lightly, teasingly asked, "Why? Did someone bully you or Su Xiaomeng? So bold?"
Yin Meng sighed lightly, "Who dares to bully me?"
"Then... someone bullied that girl?" Yin Shixiu asked, his eyes squinting under the sunglasses.
"Little Uncle..."
"Hm?"
"Actually... Xiaomeng is pregnant."
The car jolted!
Yin Meng had casually dropped a bombshell.
Yin Shixiu turned the steering wheel with one hand and abruptly slammed the brakes to the floor, the car stopping stably by the roadside.
Yin Meng was startled, holding tight to the seatbelt, looking at Yin Shixiu in confusion, "Little Uncle?"
His brows furrowed, "What did you just say... what happened to Su Xiaomeng?"
"Xiaomeng... she’s three months pregnant."
Time ticked by.
Su Xiaomeng sat by the bed, outside the window stood a very tall tree, its barren trunk conveying the bleakness of winter.
She curiously discovered that there were actually a few scattered leaves hanging on those bare branches, swaying back and forth yet never falling off.
The inpatient ward was more peaceful than the outpatient area, but the noisy voices still lingered, causing some irritability.
This was close to the obstetrics and gynecology department; Su Xiaomeng had intermittently come by several times.
Three months ago, she never would have thought at nineteen she’d be sitting in a hospital bed, waiting for a terrifying abortion surgery.
She sighed heavily.
Dong! Dong! Dong...
Across from the hospital was a large cathedral, at this moment the church bells rang...
Twelve chimes, she counted them all.
Soon after, the nurse came in, "Is it Su Xiaomeng?"
Su Xiaomeng’s heart tightened, she hastily stood up and responded, "Yes, I am."
The nurse was very pretty, but her expression was indifferent. Holding something like a registration form, after hearing her response, she made a mark and then said, "Don’t move anymore, you’ll soon be up for surgery."
"...Okay."
Su Xiaomeng replied, took a deep breath, and tried to appear less nervous.
However, such deep breathing didn’t seem to have any effect.
The nurse glanced at her, "You’re still young, it’s not a big deal, just stay calm."
"...Thank you."
The nurse looked at Su Xiaomeng, said nothing more, and walked out, closing the door.
The noise from the outside world was instantly cut off, and Su Xiaomeng could hear the fast and fierce beating of her own heart in her chest, as if it would explode if she couldn’t control it!
Thump thump thump...
Yin Shixiu arrived at the hospital at one-thirty in the afternoon.
Like a madman, he ran into the obstetrics and gynecology building, asking several people before confirming the location of the operating room.
He stood in front of the operating room, panting heavily, unable to remember how long it had been since he had run like this.
As he aged, youthful impulsiveness gradually faded away, and fewer and fewer things could stir up his emotions...
Calm and steady had always been his traits...
But at this moment, the man reflected in the operating room door had a half-pulled tie, wrinkled clothes, messy hair, a forehead full of sweat, and a look of anxiety and unease.
The door of the operating room was pulled open, and Yin Shixiu quickly grabbed the doctor, "Excuse me... is the person inside undergoing surgery named... Su Xiaomeng?"
Yin Shixiu had a faint hope in his heart, hoping he wasn’t too late!
"No. Is Zhang Yu’s family here?"
Yin Shixiu let out a long sigh of relief.
At this moment, a few people who had already been standing behind Yin Shixiu came up, "Doctor, how did the surgery go? Was it smooth?"
"The child has been removed, and the adult is safe."
"That’s good..."
That’s good... as long as it wasn’t Su Xiaomeng, it should still be in time—
"Are you looking for Su Xiaomeng?"
A nurse walked up to Yin Shixiu and asked.
Yin Shixiu quickly answered, "I want to know, which ward is she in? Also! She’s not going through with the induced labor surgery."
The nurse glanced at the form in her hand, raised an eyebrow, and then looked at Yin Shixiu, "But Su Xiaomeng’s induced labor surgery is already done."
The nurse looked at the registration sheet in her hand again and then confirmed, "That little girl came early in the morning, repeatedly requested to have the surgery arranged for today, so hers was the first surgery in the afternoon. But it was handled by another doctor."
The breath Yin Shixiu had just let out got stuck back in his chest, stifling him a bit and causing a tingling pain.
"You can go check in the operating room upstairs, the surgery started at twelve fifteen, and it should have just ended not long ago."
The nurse finished speaking and walked away.
Yin Shixiu stood still for a long time, as many scenes flashed through his mind...
"Don’t move! Don’t move..."
"Me? My name is Su, Xia, Meng! Su as in that Su! Xiao as in little! Meng as in adorable cute Meng! Cute cute Meng!"
"Uncle, what do you want to eat? Fried chicken, barbecue, noodles with topping, spicy hotpot, oh, there’s a lucky wonton shop ahead, that shop’s wonton soup is particularly good!"
"Me? Seduce you?! Even if I wanted to seduce, it would be someone around my age! You’re so much older; why would I seduce you?!"
"Cute?! Just because I’m cute, you get to rob the cradle! You get to be overbearing! You get to forcefully do...whatever to me?!"
"Huh? You’re not really planning to marry me, are you? No way, no way, Uncle, you’re too old! You’re a whole cycle older than me! And you’re not even my type!"
"Su Xiaomeng, why are you running!"
"Why are you chasing then!"
"If you didn’t run, would I need to chase?"
"Would I run if you weren’t chasing me?!"
"Otherwise, I’ll tell Meng Meng about how you harm the young sprouts of our country, and expose it on the internet, report it on radio and TV, make it known nationwide, and won’t stop until you’re ruined!"
"I’ve thought it over, if you really want to do something to me, I can’t resist at all, but if I die, Uncle, you don’t think you’ll live either!"
"I want to eat... spicy hotpot!"
"Okay then, clear broth hotpot it is!"
"Uncle, buy more fish balls, also shrimp paste and octopus!"
"... Two boxes of beef..."
"Uncle, did you remember all that?"
Yin Shixiu stood at the staircase, recalling bits and pieces of knowing Su Xiaomeng, sometimes laughing out loud like a fool, but the more he laughed, the more pain rose with it.
That day, when he went to buy hotpot ingredients for her, she stood at the door putting on a fawning face, waving at him, "Uncle... you have to come back quickly!"
That scene, that smiling face, the voice that caused a strong tremor in his heart... made him feel an impulse for the first time to hurry and come back sooner.
Because someone was waiting, because he couldn’t bear to make that person wait.
And it was until this moment that Yin Shixiu suddenly remembered the little episode he had ignored...
When she was startled awake by a nightmare, she shouted... "Who wants to give birth?!"
Thinking back now, it’s really quite piercing.
He always thought of her as a cute, interesting yet harmless little woman, with a pair of mischief-filled eyes.
But this girl, she’s not as clever as he imagined...
If her pregnancy hadn’t been exposed online, if Yin Xiangmeng hadn’t asked him for help... would he have ever known that Su Xiaomeng once had his child?