Chapter 99: One Betrayal, Never Forgiven

He found it shameful!

Chen Shuo followed all the way to the hospital room door, carefully identifying the guy inside.

Damn it! Who else could it be but his student who claimed to have an iron will?

Right now, he was being taken care of by the capitalist's daughter like a little kitten.

Uh.

Director Chen pushed the door open and saw Jiang Cheng lying on the bed, being fed water by Si Rong from a tin mug.

"Director Chen is here?"

Si Rong remembered this director, so she moved over two stools.

Just then, a nurse called out the bed number outside, "Director Chen, Mrs. Chen, you two sit first, I'll go out for a moment."

As soon as Si Rong went out, Chen Shuo sneered and flipped back the corner of Jiang Cheng's blanket.

His hometown dialect even slipped out.

"What kind of ridiculous scene are you putting on?"

Jiang Cheng:...

Concise and to the point, "I'm sick."

He even coughed twice, feeling guilty.

"I thought you'd been blown up by an atomic bomb!"

Director Chen said irritably, "You've become like this before you're even married, just engaged to the capitalist's daughter! It's truly an eyesore! I almost didn't dare to recognize you outside the door just now."

Despite him saying so much, Jiang Cheng remained indifferent.

At the end of his long-winded speech, he added, "Are you done? Hurry up and leave, I still need to get my IV."

Director Chen:...

Hmph!

Fine, I'll leave!

As if he liked staying here that much.

Walking out the door, Mrs. Chen patted Chen Shuo's arm, "Why are you so angry? Little Jiang is finally getting married, do you want him to be a bachelor for the rest of his life?"

"I just can't stand him like that! He acts all high and mighty in front of me, but in front of Sister Rongrong, he's just..."

When he said this, Mrs. Chen understood; he was jealous.

"Alright, alright, you're like an old child. Come on, I'll take you to eat that buffet young people like. Didn't you say Little Jiang bragged to you about it before? Let's go too!"

Mrs. Chen pulled the old man's hand, finally coaxing him into a better mood.

Inside the room, Jiang Cheng had returned to his pitiful, sickly appearance.

"Sleep for a while if you're tired, I'll watch the medicine bottle for you."

Si Rong said gently.

Jiang Cheng wasn't tired, but he enjoyed the way Si Rong had her heart set entirely on him.

He had to receive three bottles of medicine, so it would probably be midnight by the time he finished.

There was a spare folding cot in the corner of the room, likely prepared specifically for family members staying overnight.

Si Rong took it out, unfolded it, and placed it next to the bed.

It was almost time to change the medicine, so she went to the nurse's station, but there was no one there; she only saw the nurses gathered around a farce unfolding not far away.

"If you dare to force me again, I'll die!"

Shen Yuan clawed at the operating room door and roared.

"Help! You are committing a crime! Why are you forcing me to have an abortion!"

Li Xuan looked at this scene with a headache; she had used too little of the sleeping pills, and Shen Yuan had woken up as soon as she arrived at the hospital and was laid on the operating table.

Then she started resisting like a madwoman.

It left Li Xuan and Shen Lan completely helpless.

"Drag her in!"

Shen Chi was simply exasperated; his mother really had something wrong with her brain, he felt like she couldn't do anything right.

If she had used a higher dosage, wouldn't all these troubles have been avoided by now?

Just then, he saw Si Rong.

He was stunned at first, then quickly understood; although Si Rong pretended to be indifferent toward her younger sister, she surely couldn't let go in her heart, which was why she came to the hospital so late.

It seemed Si Rong had finally figured things out.

He stood there without moving, his attitude indifferent, waiting for Si Rong to speak to him first, so that Si Rong would know he had a temper too.

Shen Lan also saw Si Rong, feeling some comfort in his heart.

Xiao Yuan had always been willing to listen to her; if Si Rong were here, things certainly wouldn't have developed to this point.

Li Xuan was, after all, inferior to Si Rong.

This thought popped into his mind once again.

This thought hadn't just appeared recently; it had been hidden deep in his heart all along.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed to Li Xuan's idea back then after only seeing Si Rong once.

Although he, Shen Lan, was from a poor family, his ambitions were not poor; he wasn't willing to settle for just any woman.

For instance, if it had been a woman like Ming Zi who only had money in her eyes, he would never have agreed.

Li Xuan, seeing Si Rong's arrival, was full of hostility.

"What are you here for? To watch our family's joke?"

You pretend to be so elegant on weekdays, but in reality, you're quite concerned about our family, otherwise why would you have rushed over so quickly?

Was she trying to show off by using Shen Yuan's situation in front of Shen Lan?

Si Rong did not hit her today.

Because she had no one to back her up today, and if this whole family ganged up on her, she would be the one at a disadvantage.

"How truly self-indulgent!" she retorted indifferently, "Is this trashy joke of your family even worth my time?"

She said to the head nurse who was maintaining order, "Hello, please help my husband change his dressing."

"Alright."

The patient was more important, so the head nurse turned and returned to the nurse station.

Li Xuan and the others were all stunned.

Changing her husband's dressing?

Si Rong didn't come to the hospital for their family's business?

At this moment, Shen Yuan, who was clinging to the ward door, also saw Si Rong, and she shouted hoarsely, "Si Rong! You stop right there!"

Although she hated Si Rong to death in her heart, right now, perhaps only she could help her.

After all, in the past, she had been obedient to her in every single way.

Si Rong did not stop, Shen Yuan trotted to chase after her, and Shen Lan and the others chased after Shen Yuan.

The scene suddenly became even more ridiculous.

The whole family followed Si Rong all the way to the door of the ward where Jiang Cheng was, and Si Rong watched the nurse finish changing the medicine before closing the door.

She looked at Shen Yuan quietly.

It had only been a few months, but the appearance of the little girl she had once held in her arms and raised had changed drastically.

Her pure face was now stained with a hint of flirtatiousness.

Her mouth was noticeably upturned, likely caused by her rhinitis not being well-controlled during this period, leading her to breathe through her mouth while sleeping.

In short, looking at this child now, there was no longer any affection in her heart.

"Mom, can I come with you?" Shen Yuan said, "They don't want the child in my belly, let's have it!"

If Si Rong agreed, then she was willing to let Si Rong help her take care of the child in the future.

This way, she could still continue to take the College Entrance Examination and go to university.

It could be considered the best of both worlds.

"When you told outsiders about the birthmark on my chest, you should have understood that I would never forgive you in this lifetime."

She could not tolerate any sand in her eyes.

Once betrayed, never forgiven.

No matter if that person was Shen Lan or Shen Yuan, it was no exception.

"Just because of that?" Although Shen Yuan knew she had done wrong, she was only a child after all.

She quickly admitted her mistake, "I know I was wrong, I won't do it again in the future, just forgive me, okay Mom?"

Li Xuan felt a tightness in her chest.

Her own biological daughter was calling someone else Mom right in front of her; was she, the biological mother, really such a failure?

"Li Xuan, control your daughter," Si Rong looked at Li Xuan with a mocking expression, "Don't let her call every woman she sees 'Mom'!"

Li Xuan gritted her teeth in distress, but she could not find any words to refute.

She could only go to coax Shen Yuan, "Good child, in this world, only your real mother—me—is truly looking out for your best interests. You are still a child now; when you grow up, fall in love, and get married, you can still have children if you want them!"

"No! No! I don't want to!"

Seeing that Si Rong also refused to help her, Shen Yuan began to go crazy again, rushed into the nurse station, grabbed a pair of scissors, and aimed them at her own heart, "Whoever dares to force me again, I will die right now!"

Everyone was instantly frightened by her and did not dare to move.