Chapter 5: Caught In The Act During A Prenatal Check-up
Liancheng couldn’t help but speculate.
Was he probing?
Or, did he intend to end this forbidden relationship?
Her joy had just surfaced when she suddenly remembered that Liang Chaosu never spoke useless nonsense. Every word he uttered must have a purpose.
He asked about marriage in the future.
This indicated that he had at least considered her marriage.
Liancheng shivered. “Who am I marrying?”
“Who do you want to marry?” Liang Chaosu lifted her face. “Feifei is getting married, and Mother will consider you next.”
Liancheng genuinely asked, “Then what about you?”
Regardless of age or importance, as the eldest son and heir, Liang Chaosu’s marriage was an urgent and paramount matter.
Liang Chaosu stroked her hair, tucking it behind her ear. Her pale face was reflected in his pupils, and a small mole on the tip of her nose. “I’m looking.”
Liancheng gasped.
She was going crazy.
Good things don’t come in pairs, and misfortunes never come singly; all the bad things had piled up.
She not only had to deal with the medical examination and her pregnancy, but also prevent herself from becoming a mistress.
“You don’t want me to get married?” The man stared at her, his eyes deep and dark, full of inquiry.
Liancheng didn’t understand what there was to inquire about.
Whether he got married or not was the least important opinion for her.
Could it be that, like Liang Wenfei, he was afraid she would disrupt the marriage?
Liancheng cautiously asked, “Who have you set your sights on?”
He stared at her, repeating the same phrase, “I’m looking.”
Liancheng had a clear understanding; this was his way of preventing something for her in advance.
However, he was overthinking it; she wished she could get away from him as far as possible and wanted nothing to do with him more than anyone else.
“Then, should we—” Liancheng probed, “end it?”
“You want to end it?” Liang Chaosu stroked her hair, his expression unreadable.
Liancheng was unsure of his attitude, suppressing her joy. “You have a wife, and I will absolutely not be an eyesore or cause trouble.”
She still kept something to herself and didn’t reveal her full intentions.
Liang Chaosu had a dominant and proud personality; he liked to be in charge and hated being criticized or rejected the most.
Liang Chaosu gazed at her for a long while again, his eyes becoming more inscrutable, his face darkening.
The executioner’s axe, hung high, gleamed with sharpness.
All of Liancheng’s joy vanished, and she nervously mumbled in a small voice, “My identification documents.”
She regretted it deeply; she should have asked for them directly after the kiss when she was still catching her breath.
This delay would only make it more difficult.
As expected, when she looked up again, the man was even colder, as if covered in a layer of ice, but inside an invisible, boiling inferno raged.
Liancheng trembled, no longer daring to mention it.
She was afraid that if the ice outside broke, he would burn her to death right there in the car.
As soon as they reached the company building, she immediately got out of the car and fled.
“Liancheng.”
Her colleague, carrying a bag, caught up from another direction. “Weren’t you taking leave today? Why are you here at work?”
Liancheng’s scalp tingled, and she instinctively looked behind her; the car had already driven away.
Liang Chaosu hadn’t heard that she had taken leave.
She breathed a sigh of relief. “I was just passing by after handling something nearby.”
“What kind of business brought you here during rush hour so early in the morning?”
Liancheng’s heart settled back into her chest.
Since joining this company, she had never mentioned her relationship with the Liang family. Usually, the driver would drop her off a kilometer away at the entrance of an alley, and she would go to work alone, for fear of being discovered.
Her relationship hadn’t been exposed, and a smile appeared on Liancheng’s face. “A friend asked me to meet here.”
As she spoke, she waved to the side of the road.
Her colleague watched as she got into a black Mercedes sports coupe, which quickly disappeared into the traffic.
The colleague couldn’t help but murmur, “Isn’t Liancheng quite aloof? When did she hook up with such a rich-looking boyfriend?”
Bai Ying, who was mistaken for having a rich boyfriend, parked the car at the entrance of a private hospital.
She leaned over and unbuckled Liancheng’s seatbelt. “I’m helping you so much, but you’re really not going to tell me who that irresponsible scumbag is?”
Liancheng put on her hat and mask, opened the door, and got out. “Just a low-class scumbag, don’t mention him and ruin my mood.”
Bai Ying slung an arm around her shoulder. “Scumbag? Shen Lichuan?”
Liancheng choked unexpectedly, puzzled. “Do I look that heartbroken over the past? Why does everyone think I’m desperately pursuing him?”
Bai Ying smiled without speaking. Liancheng might not be, but Shen Lichuan was definitely still harboring intentions.
Bai Ying was Liancheng’s best friend from high school. She had gone abroad for further studies in medicine, and the private hospital was her family’s business.
Liancheng didn’t have her identification documents and relied entirely on Bai Ying’s young lady status.
The initial blood draw preparation went very smoothly, but it got stuck at the last hurdle.
The doctor stared at the B-scan, his attitude solemn. “Have you had a check-up before? Your uterus has congenital conditions, and if you miscarry this child, you will likely not be able to conceive again in the future.”
Bai Ying frowned, leaned over to re-examine, her expression growing increasingly grave.
Liancheng’s heart sank. “Can surgery still be performed?”
Bai Ying signaled the doctor to leave, locked the door, and said, “It’s not recommended.”
She used an analogy. “Many people are short of money and go crazy wanting to win the lottery, but there’s only one lottery ticket, only one chance. If you miss it, you’ll be lonely for the rest of your life and regret it later.”
Liancheng remained silent.
She couldn’t worry about whether she would be lonely in the future; if she couldn’t get past this hurdle, she would die immediately.
“Furthermore,” Bai Ying also found it tricky, “a normal miscarriage is a minor surgery, and the doctor I found is sufficiently reliable. Your uterine condition is complex, and based on the imaging, the surgery carries extremely high risks and would at least require a senior doctor.”
Liancheng understood. If it were a minor surgery, Bai Ying could cover it up for her.
If a senior doctor was involved, Bai Ying wouldn’t be able to hide it from the Liang family.
“Then who is that scumbag?” Bai Ying couldn’t help but press. “I know about your relationship with the Liang family, but now that it’s resulted in a life, if the scumbag can take responsibility, you should aim for marriage. With Liang Wenfei’s case of pre-marital pregnancy as a precedent, the Liang family won’t do anything to you.”
“Liang Wenfei is Liang Wenfei, and I am me; we can’t be compared.”
Liancheng got out of bed and stumbled violently.
Bai Ying quickly helped her up, noticing her trembling limbs, and couldn’t help but frown. “What’s wrong?”
Liancheng’s face was as pale as paper, and she didn’t answer. “I’ll consider the matter of the child again. Thank you for your help today, and please, I beg you, keep this a secret.”
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Meanwhile, Liang Chaosu pressed the elevator button on the first floor of the hospital.
When Liancheng got out of the car that morning, he had received a call from Mother Liang. Liang Wenfei was emotionally stimulated and experiencing persistent lower abdominal pain. She was already having a precarious pregnancy, so Liang Chaosu naturally took it seriously.
Therefore, he didn’t go to the company and immediately returned home to specially take her to the hospital.
The obstetrics and gynecology department at Bai Family Private Hospital was well-known in upper-class circles and highly acclaimed.
After Liang Wenfei became pregnant, the Bai family specially arranged for the chief director to personally be in charge.
After the examination, Liang Wenfei went to the restroom.
By coincidence, as she came out, she ran into Liancheng standing at the elevator entrance.
Carrying her bag, she was focused on the broadcast of pregnancy knowledge on the display screen next to her. In the video, the pregnant woman gently stroked her lower abdomen, and Liancheng also raised her hand.
Seeing Liancheng gently stroking her lower abdomen, Liang Wenfei’s heart was instantly thrown into chaos. She took a few steps forward, grabbed Liancheng’s hair, and demanded, “What are you doing here? Are you pregnant too?”
She attacked from behind, catching Liancheng off guard. Pulled by her hair, Liancheng was dragged to the ground.
“Whose child are you carrying?” Liang Wenfei, filled with hatred and fear, grabbed her and pressed her for an answer. “Is it Lichuan’s?”
Liancheng reacted and struggled to turn over. “Are you crazy? What child?”
Liang Wenfei’s eyes turned bloodshot. “You dare say there’s no child? If you’re not pregnant, why are you in the obstetrics department?”
Bai Family was a private hospital that valued service and client privacy. Gynecology and obstetrics were separate: obstetrics on the third floor and gynecology on the second.
If one wasn’t pregnant, ordinary people wouldn’t typically be on the third floor.
Liancheng was choked for words.
