Chapter 501: Because of Envy, Therefore Willful

Lady Jian suddenly raised her voice: "What nonsense are you spouting? Our marriage is perfectly fine, there isn't the slightest problem..."

Speaking up to this point, she finally realized.

She had fallen for this dead woman's trap.

Shi Youxuan had always been full of tricks, and she had never once gained the upper hand when bickering with her.

Her eyeballs rolled around "clack-clack," wanting to win back a round.

Shi Youxuan, however, ignored her completely; she placed the food container on the bedside table and asked Jian Yixin: "Guess what I brought?"

Jian Yixin was very grateful.

She knew Shi Youxuan was not the type to fear trouble; in fact, she was even a bit of a troublemaker who thought the bigger the mess, the better, since in any case, the one losing face in the end would definitely not be her!

But Shi Youxuan did not hold onto the issue this time, choosing instead to let it go; she was giving her face, and she knew it in her heart.

"Pork rib and lotus root soup, not made by you, but by Auntie." Jian Yixin guessed it right away.

Shi Youxuan widened her eyes exaggeratedly, feigning calmness: "Impressive, how did you guess that?"

Jian Yixin chuckled: "I smelled it."

Jian Yixin used the excuse of wanting to chat with Shi Youxuan, saying it was inconvenient with an elder present, and urged her mother to leave: "Mom, you go back. Xuanxuan and I have private things to say, it's inconvenient for you to be here."

"I won't get in your way, I'll just sit to the side." Lady Jian did not want to leave.

Her daughter sank her face: "If you don't leave, we won't talk. Ouch... my stomach hurts, my head hurts too!"

"I'm going, I'm going right now. Xuanxuan, you sit down, keep Yixin company for a while."

Lady Jian went out.

Once her mother was gone, she apologized to Shi Youxuan: "I'm sorry, my mom is just... really!"

She knew her mother was in the wrong, and she reckoned Shi Youxuan had heard everything her mother said just now; if she hadn't heard it, she wouldn't have said those things.

But Jian Yixin was a daughter; even knowing her mother was wrong, she couldn't rebuke her in front of Shi Youxuan.

"It's fine, Auntie is probably going through menopause." Shi Youxuan said lightly.

"Yes, yes, yes, it's just menopause. My mom wasn't like this before, it's just these past few years she's become increasingly unreasonable." Jian Yixin looked at Shi Youxuan gratefully, thankful for her magnanimity and reasonableness.

Shi Youxuan had come this time to deliver soup as a secondary matter; her main goal was to persuade Jian Yixin to abandon the idea of wanting the child at the cost of her own life.

After Jian Yixin drank the soup, the two chatted idly.

As soon as Shi Youxuan started the topic, she retreated back into her quilt, covering her head: "Not listening, not listening, the tortoise is chanting scriptures."

Shi Youxuan:...

She thought to herself, I haven't even started yet, and you're already not listening?

Not listening won't do; she must listen.

She forcefully pulled the quilt off Jian Yixin's head and sternly rebuked her: "Jian Yixin, can you be more mature? You're not young anymore, how can you still be so childish and irresponsible? I don't know who you learned this from..."

"Whoosh—"

Jian Yixin sat up abruptly from the hospital bed, glaring with her beautiful big eyes as she retorted: "Learned it from you."

Shi Youxuan:...

She thought about it carefully—that made sense.

"Shi Youxuan, let me tell you, anyone else can lecture me with grand principles, but you can't. You never play by the rules, you never live for the eyes of others, yet you live more vibrantly and meaningfully than anyone else. Do you know how much I envy you..."

That day in the Hospital Ward, the two talked for a long, long time.

This was probably the first time Jian Yixin had completely opened her heart to Shi Youxuan, expressing her true thoughts about her.

Deep down, she actually envied Shi Youxuan very much—envied her positive and optimistic personality, and her attitude of living life according to her own ideas.

Since childhood, Jian Yixin had been the "child of other people" in everyone's eyes, excellent in everything.

Excellent grades, excellent athletic performance, beautiful appearance, and polite...

Moreover, she was gentle and empathetic.

From childhood to adulthood, she had never been rebellious during the age when one should be mischievous; such a child was considered perfect in the eyes of parents!

But sometimes, she felt tired of living.

However, she was used to it; among her friends, the excellent ones were basically all like this.

Jian Yixin was living life by the book, never stepping out of line, and never feeling that there was anything wrong with it.

But after meeting Shi Youxuan, she realized there was another way to live.

Shi Youxuan's circumstances were not as good as her own, but she was confident, optimistic, sunny, positive, and even a little cunning.

She never let herself be taken advantage of.

She didn't provoke others, but she didn't fear trouble either; she would consider others without losing herself.

Jian Yixin felt this was also the life she wanted.

She tried to live according to Shi Youxuan's way; her personality was no longer gentle and soft, becoming increasingly bold and decisive.

It felt pretty good; it was like discovering a new world!

It was just that such days didn't last long before she found out she had a terminal illness.

Jian Yixin thought about a lot, and in the end, she decided to be willful one more time—to keep this child!

Shi Youxuan was dumbfounded after hearing the reason.

"Hey, if it were me, I would absolutely protect myself. As long as the green hills remain, there's no need to worry about firewood; I have everything only if I am here. If I'm gone, how can I still be willful?"

She felt that Jian Yixin was still the same Jian Yixin.

She said she wanted to learn from her, but she only learned the surface; the things in her bones hadn't changed.

"I won't."

The woman on the hospital bed was very certain; she touched her still-flat lower abdomen: "The feeling of being a mother is just different. I can give up everything for my son, even my own life."

"Xuanxuan, others may not understand me, but you will definitely understand me, right? Because you are also a mother; you can understand a mother's feelings for her child..."

Shi Youxuan poured cold water on her: "The one in my belly is what you call a child; the one in yours can only be called an embryo. The uncertain factors are too great, and it is not worth it for you to trade your life for it now."

Jian Yixin had only been pregnant for a little over a month, and the embryo had not yet formed.

Shi Youxuan tried to persuade her for a long time, saying everything that should and shouldn't be said, both pleasant and unpleasant, but this woman was dead set on not changing her mind.

She came out of the Hospital Ward and called Jian Yining: "Come over, make a final effort. If you also fail, we will have to use the second plan. The sooner the better; this kind of illness should be discovered and treated early."

……

Jian Yining took over the relay, but still returned in defeat.

The next morning, after Jian Yixin drank a glass of milk, she started having diarrhea, running to the restroom all day long; she ran dozens of times in just over half a day, feeling as if there was nothing left in her stomach and intestines.

Her stomach and intestines were empty and she was very hungry, but Lady Jian would not let her eat anything.

She said the doctor had instructed that this was a gastrointestinal flu, and she could not eat anything right now, so she had to stay hungry.

By evening, Jian Yixin was lying on the hospital bed without any strength, and a nurse came over to start an IV drip!

"What is this?" Jian Yixin was very alert.

She was pregnant now, so she could not use any medication; it would be bad for Baobao.

The nurse said: "Glucose and nutrient solution. You haven't eaten all day; if you don't get an IV, I'm afraid your body won't be able to hold up."

"Let me see."

She took the liquid and saw that it was indeed labeled as glucose and human protein, so she felt relieved and let the nurse start the IV.

As the cool liquid slid into her body through her veins, Jian Yixin suddenly felt her eyelids were as heavy as a thousand catties, and no matter what, she could not lift them.

"Something is wrong, you are playing tricks..."

Before she could finish her sentence, she fell asleep.