Chapter 455: Returning to Jiangzhou to Protect the Pregnancy

Shi Youxuan's small face was sallow.

Her complexion was particularly poor.

After vomiting, she rinsed her mouth, then calmed her mood, and asked Jian Yixin to bring the bird's nest for her to eat a few more bites!

"Forget it, don't eat anymore."

Jian Yixin turned her back and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her hand.

Shi Youxuan was suffering too much; watching her eat every day was also a living torment.

Clearly, she had no appetite at all, but in order to let the child absorb nutrients, she forced herself to swallow it, only to feel nauseated two minutes later and vomit it all up again.

After vomiting, she would rest and then eat again.

It was a repeating cycle.

But to ensure the child could absorb nutrients, she gave it her all.

Shi Youxuan smiled slightly, feigning ease: "Finding me troublesome? I told you long ago to go back to Jiangzhou; you don't need to worry about me, I can take good care of myself."

Jian Yixin glared at her fiercely, but still brought the warmed bird's nest and handed it to her: "You haven't gained any other skills, but your ability to strike at the heart is getting more and more formidable. When have I ever found you troublesome?"

"I just see that you are too exhausted and want you to rest." Eating and then vomiting, only to eat again—seeing this, Jian Yixin truly worried that her body could not take it.

Shi Youxuan shook her head: "It's fine, what is this little bit of hardship? Even if I have to risk my life, I must give birth to this child properly."

She ate mouthful after mouthful, swallowing the bird's nest along with her tears...

Jian Yixin turned away to wipe her tears, unable to bear watching any longer.

Amidst Shi Youxuan's almost self-abusive eating, the fetus grew steadily in her womb, but because her mood was poor, the fetus remained unstable; a week later, she still showed signs of a threatened miscarriage!

The conditions in L Country were too poor; even the best hospital in the country could not guarantee the safety of the fetus, so in the end, Shi Youxuan had no choice but to return to Jiangzhou to protect the pregnancy.

……

The private plane landed smoothly at Jiangzhou Airport.

As soon as Shi Youxuan got off the vehicle, she was rushed to the hospital by ambulance for an examination.

The best obstetricians in the country were invited to the hospital, and after examining her, the doctor said: "Mrs. Sheng, please rest assured, I am confident in protecting your fetus, but you must cooperate."

"Mm."

Shi Youxuan nodded: "I will definitely cooperate."

She had to stay in the hospital for half a month of bed rest to protect the pregnancy, and she only saw her daughter inside the hospital.

Her daughter, from whom she had been separated for many days, did not cry upon seeing her, nor did she ask a single word about her father; she only pressed her small face against her mother's belly to "feel" the other little life.

"Mom, is it a little brother or a little sister in your belly?"

Shi Youxuan gently stroked her daughter's head: "Does Ranran hope for a little brother or a little sister?"

"Either is fine."

The little girl said: "Whether it's a little brother or a little sister, I will love them, but I hope it's a little brother."

Shi Youxuan: "Why do you hope for a little brother? Is a little sister not good?"

Shi Ran said: "A little sister is of course good too, but if it's a little brother, he can support our family when he grows up; a family can't do without a man."

Shi Youxuan: ……

She felt a bit heartbroken; Shi Ran was only six years old.

At six years old, she should be at an age of acting spoiled and cute in front of her parents, innocent and naive.

But Shi Ran was already thinking about many years into the future.

Her daughter was afraid of making her sad, so she never mentioned her father, but not mentioning him didn't mean she didn't miss him.

Shi Youxuan said to her daughter: "There is a man in the family; Dad is just away for a while, he will definitely come back!"

"Even if Dad isn't here, Mom can take good care of you all."

The little girl nodded heavily: "Mm, Dad will definitely come back!"

She automatically ignored the second half of her mother's sentence.

……

Half a month passed.

Shi Youxuan was discharged and returned home; the fetus was saved.

But after returning home, she had to drink extremely bitter traditional Chinese medicine every day to protect the pregnancy, and she took it willingly!

When the bitter medicine was brought to her lips, she drank it all without even a frown.

Whenever Shi Ran was there, she would immediately put a honey-preserved dark plum into Shi Youxuan's mouth to take away the bitterness.

If her daughter was at school and not there, this "task" was completed by her aunt.

Her aunt moved into the Apartment to live with them, personally taking care of her body and serving her with the utmost care.

There was still no news of Sheng Hanyu.

This day, two uninvited guests came to the house—the Jin Family's old master and old mistress.

The elderly couple had accompanied their granddaughter, Jin Wan'er, from the United States.

The stated purpose of their visit was for the parents of both sides to meet and discuss the marriage of the two children.

This was because Lady Jian believed her son was no longer young, and since he had been getting along with Jin Wan'er for some time, it was time to put the marriage on the agenda.

Jian Yining was not very willing; his reluctance didn't mean Jin Wan'er wasn't good enough.

It was because he felt that Sheng Hanyu had not been found yet, and people were missing because of them; now that another family was suffering the separation of loved ones, it was inappropriate for him to be happily getting engaged and taking a wife.

Lady Jian argued forcefully: "That's right, everyone feels sad about Hanyu's disappearance, but one cannot stop living just because of sadness, right? You can't just wait until he is found to get married; who knows how long that would take."

"A year, two years, or a lifetime?"

"Hanyu disappeared at sea, which means he is gone; why are you all unwilling to accept this reality? It's true, Hanyu saved you, but then again, weren't you also kidnapped because you were saving Wan'er? Wan'er was targeted because she was mistaken for Shi Youxuan; in the end, this matter is their own family's affair, and you two were just scapegoats."

"There is no reason for scapegoats to carry a moral cross and be condemned..."

Lady Jian was being unreasonable, and Jian Yining was so angry he did not want to speak with his mother.

But no one expected that after hitting a wall with her son, she would actually go to Shi Youxuan to act as a lobbyist!

Lady Jian "accused" her son of being unfilial with tears and snot running down her face, hoping Shi Youxuan could persuade her son to get married as soon as possible.

Saying these things to Shi Youxuan at a time like this, wasn't that rubbing salt into her wounds?

Lady Jian even kept insisting that Sheng Hanyu would not be coming back...

Every single word was like a knife stabbing into the tip of Shi Youxuan's heart.

The aunt was so angry her face turned deathly pale, and Shi Youxuan did not indulge her bad behavior, directly kicking Lady Jian out of her home.

But afterward, she still called Jian Yining to urge him to get married quickly; the elderly had not had an easy life, so he should not let his parents worry.

Thus, the marriage between Jian Yining and Jin Wan'er was officially put on the agenda.

Although the two elders of the Jin Family came to Jiangzhou under the pretext of arranging their granddaughter's engagement, they brought many supplements to see Shi Youxuan.

Upon seeing Shi Youxuan, Jin Laofuren burst into tears before she could even speak.

"Child, you have suffered; how did you become so thin?"

Shi Youxuan was much thinner than when she had first met her, and she looked quite haggard as well.

Originally, the old lady thought Shi Youxuan had no one to take care of her and wanted to stay behind to look after her personally.

Later, seeing how the aunt and Fang Jie were taking meticulous care of Shi Youxuan, she realized she had misunderstood.

A sickness of the heart can only be cured by a medicine of the heart.

No matter how abundant the material wealth or how much others cared, nothing could replace the position Sheng Hanyu held in Shi Youxuan's heart!

Only during this period did Shi Youxuan deeply comprehend the series of crazy actions Sheng Hanyu had taken after her "plane crash and death" back then.

She also wanted to be that crazy, yet she could not.

Because she was not alone; she had her daughter Shi Ran, and the Erbao in her belly whose gender she did not yet know.

These two children were the crystallization of the love between her and Sheng Hanyu; they were her sustenance, their hope, and their responsibility!

Now this heavy responsibility rested entirely on her shoulders; she had to be strong, she had to shoulder this responsibility, and let that hope continue until Sheng Hanyu returned.