Chapter 244: Crying Her Heart Out

Shen Xun was stunned.

Only when the people who had gathered after hearing the commotion reminded him did he react: "She's having a miscarriage? This is a hospital — hurry, carry her to find a doctor!"

Shen Xun snapped back to his senses and hastily scooped up the blood-covered Lin Shutong to find a doctor.

Lin Shutong was in so much pain that cold sweat poured from her. As she was wheeled into the operating room, she looked at Shen Xun, face streaming with tears, and said, "A-Xun, did you really... not want this child that much?"

The doctors and nurses nearby had no time for gossip, but they still heard it, and a wave of shock struck their hearts.

Shen Xun stood at the door of the operating room, both hands covered in blood, his clothes and pants stained with blood as well.

His raised hands were trembling, and he could not bring himself to lower them for a long time.

Shen Xun truly did not want this child, but he had never imagined Lin Shutong would miscarry in this way.

As soon as the doctor examined her, she knew the pregnant woman's miscarriage had been caused by medication combined with external force. Coupled with what she had just heard the pregnant woman say about the man not wanting the child, she asked the nurse what exactly had happened.

"It seems the pregnant woman kissed the baby's father on the escalator, and the baby's father accidentally pushed her down."

The doctor frowned, looking at the pregnant woman who was barely clinging to life from the pain. The pregnant woman grabbed her hand and asked, "Doctor, the child, my child..."

The doctor asked Lin Shutong, "Did you eat anything today?"

Lin Shutong's eyes flickered slightly: "I ate and drank as usual, nothing else."

The doctor looked at her with a furrowed face.

Having taken miscarriage medication and then fallen, the child was definitely gone.

Not only was it gone, but the damage to the pregnant woman's body was severe.

Lin Shutong passed out from the pain and did not know what happened afterward.

When she opened her eyes, her parents were keeping watch by her hospital bed.

Lin Mu's eyes were red-rimmed. Seeing her daughter wake up, she immediately stepped forward to comfort her, but then her expression turned hesitant.

Lin Shutong said weakly, "Mom, was my child saved?"

Lin Mu lowered her eyes and wiped away tears: "It's gone. Not only is the child gone, the doctor also said, also said..."

A flash of panic crossed Lin Shutong's heart, and she pressed: "Said what else?"

Lin Mu turned her head away, not daring to say.

Lin Fu said in a muffled voice: "It will be very difficult for you to have children again."

"What..." Lin Shutong's voice caught, her pupils trembled, and both hands grabbed her mother's arms. This time she finally cried out: "What did the doctor say? What do you mean it'll be difficult to have my own children again? What do you mean it'll be difficult to have my own children again!"

She just could not have this child right now — it did not mean she never wanted children for the rest of her life.

Lin Mu held her trembling daughter: "Don't get worked up, don't get worked up. Your body hasn't recovered yet, and there's still a risk of major hemorrhage at any time. Shutong, it's Mom's fault, Mom was wrong. I should have dragged you to the hospital to terminate the pregnancy back then."

Lin Fu, on the other hand, felt that he and his wife's biggest mistake was not forcibly keeping their daughter by their side back then. It was a moment of soft-heartedness that left their daughter in A City. They had not raised her properly, and a chain reaction of consequences had led to today's outcome.

"Mom!" Lin Shutong held her mother, crying her heart out.

She truly was crying her heart out.

Shen Xun stood at the door of the hospital room, listening. His eyes reddened again and again, his lips paled again and again.

He raised his hand to knock and enter, but before he could speak his apology, Lin Fu drove him out.

Then Lin Mu came out and demanded of him: "Why did you push her? Do you know that not only did she lose the child, she will most likely never have children again? Do you know how painful that is for a woman? Whether to have a child and whether you can have a child are two entirely different things!"

Shen Xun hung his head.

"I didn't mean it. It was an accident."

Lin Mu: "Who knows if it was a real accident or a fake one. You never wanted this child. Even when she was pregnant, you never thought about marrying her. Can a child be conceived by one person alone?"

Shen Xun was scolded into silence.

After thinking it over and over, he had only one thing to say: "I will make it up to her."

"Make it up with what?" Lin Mu rebuked. "Get out, get as far away from me as you can!"

Shen Xun was driven away. From this hospital room, he had to rush to another.

Before he even reached his mother's hospital room, under the weight of multiple pressures, Shen Xun's head felt like it was splitting, and he passed out.

"Brother!" Shen Xi, who happened to be coming out of the hospital room, saw him.

Shen Xi rushed forward, but found she could not support her unconscious brother no matter what, and cried out in desperation.

"Brother, what's wrong? Nurse! Doctor! Doctor!"

She shouted loudly.

Their father, who heard the commotion, came out, and the nurse rushed over too. Only then did everyone together help Shen Xun onto a hospital bed.

After a preliminary examination, there were no organic lesions; it was suspected to be overexhaustion and excessive mental stress.

With Shen Xun's collapse, the one who cried the most sorrowfully was Shen Xi.

It was as if the family's pillar had fallen.

Shen Xi was both worried that something would happen to her brother and felt panic.

Lately, the words "misfortunes never come singly" were no longer enough to describe the Shen Family. It was simply one disaster after another, adding insult to injury.

Shen Xun developed a high fever.

In his fever, he called out for the child one moment, said sorry the next, and then called out Jiang Lai's name.

In the end, only Jiang Lai's name remained.

Shen Xi wiped her tears and once again forced her way into Nanshan Shu Jiuhao. When the dog barked, she cried even harder.

"Jiang Lai! Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law!"

"Can you go see my brother?"

She kept shouting those two sentences, so much so that even as security dragged her away, she persisted in shouting.

There was no one at Nanshan Shu Jiuhao.

Jiang Lai and Mo Yi were both at Ke Zhongyu's Yi Hao Bie Shu.

The bodyguard of Villa No. 9 called over and told them that Shen Xi had just come by.

「It must be that something happened to the Shen family; Shen Xi is calling Miss Shen over to check on her brother. 」

Ke Zhongyu hung up the phone.

Jiang Lai wondered: "I'm not a doctor."

What's the point of looking for her?

Ke Zhongyu made another call and finally figured out what was going on.

「This noon, Shen Xun accidentally pushed Lin Shutong down the hospital's escalator, causing Lin Shutong to miscarry. 」

Jiang Lai froze.

Mo Yi walked over and said: "Such a miscarriage plot shouldn't happen to the mistress and the wife, right? How did it happen to the mistress and the male lead?"

Jiang Lai looked at Mo Yi.

What does that mean?

Does this involve her as well?

Mo Yi explained from the domineering CEO novel's angle the plot where the mistress's miscarriage frames the heroine: each time, the male lead just happens to see the mistress fall and the heroine nearby, then immediately misunderstands and blames the heroine.

Jiang Lai: "……"

Ke Zhongyu: "……"

However, Jiang Lai recalled the initial brown sugar water incident, which was exactly this plot.

「This time, it's actually the Shen family who accidentally caused the mistress to miscarry, warding off disaster, warding off disaster! 」 Mo Yi added, 「But this plot is quite novel; I don't know if it's really an accident or a setup. 」

Although Mo Yi had heard many domineering CEO novels, she still couldn't quite grasp this novel plot.

「If it was an accident, then both of them really got what they deserved. 」

「If it was a setup, then the Shen family is in for a tough time; indeed, the old saying holds true: the one you love most often hurts you the most. 」 Mo Yi clicked her tongue repeatedly.