Chapter 166: There's no man in her heart, the future will surely be brighter and more splendid!

Women and Children's Hospital—

Zhang Xuemei could already get out of bed, and she couldn't help but marvel at the spiritual spring water her daughter gave her, which let her recover her body so quickly.

However, she didn't want to remove the bandages on her body, keeping them on; when someone was around she acted frail, and when the doctor examined she'd say this hurts, that hurts, anyway she was just pretending it was worse.

She originally lived a leisurely life, rarely getting a chance to rest and nurture the pregnancy, fantasizing that her daughter would strike it rich, gaining both fame and profit, and bring her to enjoy the good life.

Unexpectedly, her daughter came into the ward at noon with a grim face, added a bed beside her, and said last night she was kicked by her sister-in-law and miscarried.

How unreasonable! The Gu family's adopted daughter treating her daughter like this is turning heaven and earth upside down!

She originally wanted to ask the son-in-law, why not discipline and educate that adopted daughter?

As a result, she heard her daughter's heart‑chilling words:

"Gu Tingchen, he protects Gu Yinyin, because Gu Yinyin will soon obey his words, marry the foolish son of the Railway Bureau Chief, sacrificing her own marriage to pave the way for her sister, he has abandoned me and his offspring."

Instantly, Zhang Xuemei was speechless.

No wonder!

From this we can see, Gu Tingchen this man is unreliable!

"I have already emptied the Gu family; Gu Yinyin wants to splendidly marry the foolish son of Liu Bureau Chief?"

Hahaha, don't even think about it!

Zhang Xuemei's anger eased again.

She just said, her daughter is not some weakling to be bullied.

Her daughter doing this, she as a mother supports!

Now mother and daughter are both in dire straits, with no one to look after them; truly, it's heart‑chilling.

"Mom, it's fine, I've taken Gu Yinyin's dowry, now I have over two thousand eight hundred dollars in hand."

"Also there's Gu Tingchen's safe, with its cash and small yellow fish, enough for us mother and daughter to live well for a while."

When Lu Manman's mind is clear, she turns very quickly.

If love is a burden, a shackle, a chain, then she doesn't want this marriage.

Divorce isn't something shameful!

Anyway, she has nothing left to lose!

Had she known, she wouldn't have wasted effort to snatch this man, nor this marriage!

Such a low‑class man ought to have been Shen Man's!

And she might instead marry that officer on Sea Island and become an officer's wife!

Yeah, why does heaven favor Shen Man so much!

Then she made herself faint from anger.

Zhang Xuemei, this patient, uh, took care of her daughter, this new patient, for one afternoon until eight or nine at night, when Public Security knocked on the door to take their statements.

Only then did she wake her daughter, letting her deal with Public Security.

She then acted as an injured mother, knowing her daughter had been violently miscarried, and hysterically protested for her daughter!

But inside she was smirking, the Gu siblings deserved to have their whole house emptied by her daughter!

Public Security came quickly and left quickly.

It should be because on one hand they saw how pitiful the mother and daughter were, both being casualties, and on the other hand they went to find nurses and doctors to check whether the statements matched.

After everything settled, mother and daughter stared at each other in silence.

Lu Manman suddenly produced two cans of meat out of thin air, gesturing for her mother to open them.

They now need to replenish nutrition; there's plenty of good stuff in the space, so first eat their fill, gain strength, then think about the next step.

"Dear daughter, what now? What do you think? Do you want to keep living with your father‑in‑law, or......"

Zhang Xuemei treats her own biological daughter naturally with extra care, considering her daughter.

"No rush, I'll stay in the hospital a few days to recuperate; when I go back I'll surely harvest a batch of sympathetic glances......"

Lu Manman ate canned meat while plotting the next steps.

"Mom, tonight I need to make a trip to the black market; if a nurse does a room check, give me cover."

"Can't you go a few days later? You're in the postpartum period, you need to rest properly."

"No, it must be tonight; Public Security will soon act, tonight is my chance to fish in troubled waters, to go to the black market to sell stolen goods and buy that batch of treasures I've had my eye on—the best time!"

Lu Manman reasoned that if she missed tonight she'd need to lie low for months, couldn't expose a flaw, and it wouldn't be worth it!

"But,"

Zhang Xuemei still wanted to persuade, but was convinced by her daughter——

"Mom, I still have spiritual spring water; my body won't fail, don't worry. Our future good days depend on tonight."

Lu Manman said confidently, no one knows spiritual spring water better than she does.

Spiritual spring water cures all ailments, revives the dead, puts flesh on white bones!

In her previous life, she relied on spiritual spring water to reach the pinnacle of life!

In this life, she has cast aside petty love, there's no man in her heart, and the future will surely be brighter and more splendid!

What else could Zhang Xuemei say?

Naturally, she let her daughter have her way.

After 1 a. m., the whole hospital was eerily quiet.

No one knows the hospital's layout better than Lu Manman; she changed into black clothes, wore a homemade black mask, hid in the darkness, and quickly left the hospital......

The mother and child corpses in the Jade Token Space should also be chopped up and fed to the dogs.

Tonight, for the Gu siblings, is undoubtedly the hardest to endure.

May's weather, although the daytime is weirdly hot, but at night the temperature will drop!

The two of them didn't even have a single blanket; they could only lean on each other, encourage each other, and curse the thief who had ransacked their home, wishing his whole line be cut off, that he die without peace......

Gu Tingchen's drunkenness completely wore off, and he frantically calculated in his mind who he had offended.

The Lu family?

No way; that cheap father-in-law of his never cared for Lu Manman, his adopted daughter, at all.

Apart from that cheap father-in-law, who else could it be?

A rival!

Yes, a rival!

He's been in the limelight lately and has offended some people!

Who could it be?

To retaliate against him with such despicable methods, the perpetrator certainly isn't an ordinary nobody!

No matter how he thought, he never imagined it would be Lu Manman, whom he had looked down on and considered a discard, who did this......

Sleepless all night, he kept wondering who had done it.

He hadn't even thought of going to the hospital to visit his wife.

After waiting until dawn, Lu Manman returned from the black market with a full haul, smoothly went back to the hospital, and learned that the man hadn't come at all that night; she severed the last thread of feeling she had for him!

Since he's heartless, once the limelight dies down she'll look for a chance to serve him divorce papers.

Divorce!

She doesn't want a man like him!

Lu Manman deserves a better man!

"Young lady, did everything go smoothly?"

Zhang Xuemei had stayed up all night, worried sick for her daughter, her eyes bloodshot.

Seeing her mother like that, Lu Manman felt guilty and firmly told herself, 'Only a mother is good in this world; a child with a mother is a treasure.'......

Unfortunately, the child in her belly turned into a pool of blood, and they had no fate together.

"Mm, everything went fine, Mom. You get some rest first; I'll tell you more later."

Lu Manman nodded, soothing her mother as she lay down to rest.

From today onward, the old her is dead; the new her, with the help of the jade tablet space—a golden finger—will usher in a rebirth!