Chapter 2: Chu Li, didn't you hear? He just cursed your child to die

Chu Li did not hear Qin Xingwan's painful murmurs; he lowered his head and gently tucked the blanket in for his wife, "You get some good rest, I will come to see you again in a while."

He did not want to argue with his wife, who was letting her imagination run wild.

"Qin Xingwan, you are bullying Yun Shu again." The stern questioning, accompanied by the "bang" of the hospital room door slamming against the wall, was exceptionally grating.

A tall, slender man strode in, his face, which bore an eighty-percent resemblance to Qin Xingwan's, full of rage. His gaze faltered slightly when it landed on Qin Xingwan's pale face, but it was immediately followed by even more intense questioning.

"You know full well that today is Yun Shu's birthday, yet you are still putting people through this in the middle of the night. Who are you trying to disgust?" Qin Shen stared fixedly at Qin Xingwan on the hospital bed, his fury burning, "Are you only happy when you've made the whole family restless?"

He was convinced that Qin Xingwan was faking illness on purpose to ruin Qin Yunshu's birthday banquet.

Qin Xingwan clenched her fingers; she lay on the hospital bed, her whole body aching as if she were dying, yet her good brother was full of questions about why she was sick and why she had come to the Yiyuan.

The desolation in her heart surged like a stormy sea.

"Do you think one can pick the day to get sick?" She retorted coldly, her hoarse voice filled with sarcasm.

Qin Shen's eyes were full of disgust and impatience: "Fine, I won't talk about you being sick, but I'm asking you, Yun Shu kindly came to see you, why did you make her cry?"

Just now outside, he had clearly seen Qin Yunshu wiping away tears.

There was no need to ask; it must have been Qin Xingwan who bullied her.

She had always been like this, her words laced with thorns, as if everyone in the world had wronged her.

Qin Xingwan looked behind Qin Shen, where Qin Yunshu was shedding tears with red-rimmed eyes, looking soft and timid.

"Big Brother, it's not Sister's fault, it's just... it's just that I got sand in my eyes."

Such an explanation was undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire.

Sure enough, Qin Shen frowned tightly: "Qin Xingwan, put away those sordid thoughts of yours. Let me tell you, the Qin Family owes you nothing, and Yun Shu owes you even less."

"Big Brother, stop it, Sister is still pregnant." Qin Yunshu tugged at Qin Shen's arm, "Besides, it's my fault too. I knew Sister was pregnant, yet I insisted on dragging A Li to celebrate my birthday with me, which led to Sister being hospitalized."

As she spoke, teardrops as large as beans rolled down her cheeks again.

Qin Xingwan pinched her palm, forcing down the foul air in her chest.

She did not want to quarrel; after all, she would only be the one getting angry in the end.

But Qin Shen was relentless, "There are plenty of people who get pregnant; is she the only one who is so precious?"

"Stop it." Chu Li frowned; although he also believed in his heart that Qin Xingwan was being unreasonable, Qin Shen's words had gone too far.

Qin Shen clearly harbored great resentment; after a cold snort, he said viciously: "Faking illness now, who knows what you might do using the child later on."

"With a mother who is so difficult and unreasonable, the child in her belly is the one to be pitied."

If Chu Li's suspicion was a knife stabbing into Qin Xingwan's heart, then Qin Shen's words were like ten thousand arrows piercing it.

Qin Xingwan trembled all over with rage; she grabbed a pillow and threw it hard at Qin Shen, shouting at the top of her lungs: "Get out!"

In her desperate and wounded eyes, tears could not stop falling.

She had never expected Qin Shen to be a good brother, but he shouldn't have said such things.

Qin Shen knocked the pillow away, dizzy with anger, and spoke even more recklessly: "Am I wrong? The child hasn't even been born yet, and you're already using him to fake illness. Aren't you afraid he'll actually die in your belly?"

The words that followed were truly venomous.

"Enough." Chu Li frowned and gave Qin Shen a deep look.

Although he was also angry at Qin Xingwan for being unreasonable, he could not tolerate Qin Shen speaking about his wife and child this way.

"I said, get out." Qin Xingwan's eyes were bloodshot; she got up from the bed and grabbed whatever she could reach, throwing it hard at Qin Shen as if looking at an enemy.

Chu Li moved with lightning speed to grab her wrist and pull her to his side, his tightly furrowed brows revealing his current dissatisfaction, "Qin Xingwan, have you made enough of a scene?"

Qin Xingwan suddenly went quiet, tears sliding down her pale cheeks, her red-rimmed eyes filled with a hatred that was chilling to behold.

"You get out too."

Her pale lips parted slightly, full of mockery.

"Qin Xingwan." Chu Li was angry, his tone exceptionally heavy.

"Sister, don't get agitated, watch out for the child." Qin Yunshu came over, attempting to support Qin Xingwan, her beautiful eyes filled with worry.

"Get lost." Qin Xingwan suddenly pulled her wrist from Chu Li's grasp and waved her hand to block Qin Yunshu's approach; the movement was too wide, and her palm landed directly on the back of Qin Yunshu's hand.

Qin Yunshu let out an "ah" while clutching the back of her hand.

"Qin Xingwan." Qin Shen spoke with sharp, stern words, his face looking as if he wished he could swallow Qin Xingwan whole, "Yun Shu is concerned about you, and you still lay a hand on her."

"Apologize to Yun Shu."

A tearing pain surged from deep within her body; Qin Xingwan's body trembled slightly, and sweat seeped out on her forehead.

She bit her lip tightly so as not to cry out in pain.

"It's not Sister's fault, it was my carelessness." Qin Yunshu's eyes were filled with tears as she explained, looking as if she might collapse at any moment.

"A Li, are you just going to watch?" Seeing that Qin Xingwan did not move, Qin Shen turned his gaze directly to Chu Li.

Qin Xingwan also looked at Chu Li; even though she knew very well what kind of person her husband was, under the intense pain and mental confusion at this moment, she still held a sliver of hope.

In her current state, if Chu Li had the heart to observe, he would surely be able to discover that something was wrong with her.

"Qin Xingwan, Yun Shu has good intentions; you have gone too far." Chu Li lowered his eyes, his tone cold.

Qin Xingwan forced herself to stand straight, her long hair disheveled over her shoulders, her already thin face flushed with an unnatural pallor.

Her black-and-white eyes stared at Chu Li, her tone cold and indifferent: "Chu Li, didn't you hear? He just cursed your child to die."

She lay on the hospital bed, her complexion so pale and ghastly; Chu Li thought she was faking illness, Qin Shen cursed her child to die and he remained indifferent, yet because she merely refused Qin Yunshu's approach and accidentally hit the back of her hand, he said she had gone too far.

Open and blatant favoritism.

At this moment, Qin Xingwan felt that she was truly pitiful.

She could not get her husband's love, nor could she get the affection of her family.

All she received was endless suspicion and harm.

She truly did not know what kind of low position she, as a wife, held in Chu Li's heart.

"Big Brother didn't mean it." Qin Yunshu apologized on behalf of Qin Shen, "He was only worried about me, which is why he said such things. Sister, I apologize to you for Big Brother."

Qin Shen looked at her with gratitude, feeling a few more points of affection for this younger sister in his heart, and correspondingly, he naturally felt even more loathing for Qin Xingwan.

"Everyone out," Chu Li said slowly, frowning as he looked at Qin Xingwan, "If you keep making a scene like this, it is not good for the child."

Qin Xingwan gritted her teeth, but the pain in her lower abdomen grew more intense with each wave; her vision went black, and unable to hold on any longer, she fell to the ground with a "thud."