"Ugh..." Lu Ran was in extreme pain, her head drenched in sweat, gripping tightly the sheets beneath her.
Her petite face turned utterly distorted as she endured the pain.
"I'm going to destroy the bastard in your belly today!" Su Xuanyuan's sharp fingernails dug into Lu Ran's swollen belly, a vile gleam flickering in her eyes.
Lu Ran gasped in fear, her voice filled with caution, "Please...don't harm my child...I beg you..."
As she spoke, her eyes never left the hands on her belly, as if Su Xuanyuan's fingers were not tipped with nails, but a sharp blade ready to pierce her skin.
"Hao Sen... Hao Sen..." Lu Ran could only think of her boyfriend now.
If only he were here, he would surely protect her.
Five months ago, he had gone abroad on a business trip.
Before he left, he had said that when he returned, he would marry her.
He promised to give her and their child a home.
This child was her first one with Lin Hao Sen, she desperately wanted to protect it!
The smile on Su Xuanyuan's face deepened as she stepped in her red high heels towards Lu Ran's bedside, "Did you think that Hao Sen would come to save you? Do you know that he can't wait for you to die!"
Her shrill laughter hurt Lu Ran's eardrums, "What...what nonsense are you saying!"
"Hmph! Did you really think that the child in your belly was Hao Sen’s?" Su Xuanyuan pressed hard on her protruding belly, causing Lu Ran to scream in pain.
Su Xuanyuan's smile widened, as though the more pain the woman on the bed experienced, the more excited she became.
"Back then, I slipped some drugs into your drink and arranged for two brawny men to enter your room... but you, you ran off to the room next door, I have no idea with which stray man you got involved with."
Lu Ran froze, her mind went blank.
"Hao Sen took pity on you and claimed this child as his own. Surprisingly, you took it for real! You probably never imagined that while you were daydreaming of being Mrs. Lin, I was the one always by Hao Sen's side, day and night, abroad. We are the ones who share true love!"
"You..."
Su Xuan Yuan seemed to want to add more, but the corner of her eye caught a familiar figure at the door. Her sharp gaze just now softened into feigned innocence instantly.
"Hao Sen, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have provoked sister and made her tumble down the stairs..." She started to break into sobs and leaned into the man next to her.
"This is not your fault!" Lin Hao Sen's eyes were filled with sympathy, but all of it was for the woman in his arms.
Lu Ran lay on the bed, suffering greatly, but she didn't receive an iota of compassion.
At this moment, how much she wished everything in front of her was fake, but it was all too real right in front of her, she had to believe it.
"Heh... so, you two have been together behind my back all this time!" she sniffed, her shoulders shuddering with impending collapse.
Lin Hao Sen protected Su Xuan Yuan behind him, "Lu Ran, I am sorry, I can't marry you... the one I truly love is Xuan Yuan. I know you've been good to me, but..."
Lin Hao Sen's voice started to trail off, and in the end, he couldn't even finish his sentence.
"Tell me honestly! Did you know all along that Su Xuan Yuan drugged me? Did you?"
Facing Lu Ran's accusation, Lin Hao Sen didn't deny it, he just lowered his head and kept saying "I am sorry!"
Lu Ran felt like she was now the biggest joke in the world.
For Lin Haosen, she gave up her most beloved city, followed him all the way to his side, and she didn't even get to see her father for the last time.
She tried her utmost to please this man...
In the end, all she got was an, "I'm sorry!"
Su Xuanyuan took away her home, took away all the wealth of the Lu family. Now... she had even taken away the man she loved!
Could the words "I'm sorry" make up for all this hurt?
"Ah--" Lu Ran could only feel her lower abdomen contracting at an accelerating speed, she was almost in too much pain to stay conscious.
She could hear Lin Haosen yelling, "Doctor... Doctor..."
Followed by a hurried rush of footsteps.
After that, she completely lost consciousness...
When she awoke again, she was no longer in the hospital but in a strange, dark little room.
Su Xuanyuan looked at her with a vicious expression, "My dear sister, congratulations, you've given birth to a beautiful stillborn..."