The sun was setting, and the sky outside the window was dyed red. Ye Huanyan sat up with the help of Lingling. There were two thick pillows behind her, and the nourishing food and soup that Lingling brought from home were on the small table.
She ate two mouthfuls, but felt that there was no taste in her mouth. She couldn't eat anymore.
"Even if it's for the child, you should eat more."
Ling Ling was a little anxious. Ye Huanyan was so thin that she was almost out of shape. She was originally a great beauty, but now she looked like a child from a poor family who lacked food and drink.
Ye Huanyan frowned. "Leave it for now. I'll eat when I'm hungry."
She also wanted to eat more, but after what happened last night, she felt more and more uneasy. She felt that as long as Ling Han didn't untie the knot in his heart, the child in her belly wouldn't be able to safely wait until the day of birth.
She couldn't eat, but she couldn't think of any other way.
Seeing that she couldn't persuade her, Ling Ling could only sigh. She took the hot water bottle and walked out of the ward.
"Why are you sighing?" A cold voice sounded from above her head.
Ling Ling's hand trembled and almost dropped the bottle. She looked up and saw Ling Han's expressionless face.
"Young Master …"
"How is she?" Ling Han asked.
Seeing his concerned expression, Ling Ling was delighted and hurriedly said, "She's awake, but she won't eat. She said she can't eat. Young Master, do you want to go take a look?"
Hearing this, Ling Han frowned and went directly into the ward.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Ye Huanyan staring at the opposite window in a daze. There was no trace of relaxation on her pale face, which made his heart tighten.
Ling Han felt a lot of regret. After the incident, he had been absent-minded all day. He blamed himself, or else he wouldn't have come to see her.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, Ye Huanyan slowly turned her head. The moment she saw Ling Han, her expression clearly tensed. Her eyes revealed a look of fear, and her shoulders trembled. She gripped the blanket tightly and looked at him vigilantly.
Ling Han's footsteps paused. He was shocked by her fully armed expression.
He had really scared her yesterday.
His gaze was hesitant as he glanced at the food on the small table from the corner of his eyes. Only then did he open his mouth.
"Lingling said you don't eat, right?"
Ye Huanyan's face stiffened. After a while, she said in a hoarse voice, "I'll eat later."
"The food will be cold soon." Ling Han frowned. Regardless of whether she was afraid or not, he sat directly by the bed. Probably because he touched her, he only felt her body tremble, and the whole bed trembled.
He pretended not to see it. Holding the thermos flask and a spoon, he looked up at her. "Open your mouth."
Ye Huanyan was stunned.
"It's not poisonous." Ling Han looked at her coldly. He didn't know why, but when the words of concern reached his mouth, they always had a different taste.
Ye Huanyan was afraid that he would be angry, so after hesitating for a while, she finally opened her mouth. The spoon touched her chapped lips. The warm bone broth was very fragrant. Sip after sip, her cold limbs gradually found some warmth.
She didn't know why Ling Han suddenly changed his attitude towards her.
It seemed like it was always like this. He could always switch between being warm and cold, and she couldn't cooperate with him to make any preparations.
When the bowl of soup was finished, Ling Han put down the thermos flask and wiped his hands with a paper towel. Ye Huanyan seemed to catch a sigh of relief in his eyes.
She wasn't sure if she had seen wrongly.
"Ye Huanyan." He wiped his hands and suddenly called her name.
"Mm …" She was startled and replied in a daze.
"You must hate me for treating you like this, right?"
"…" Ye Huanyan stared at him blankly.
Hate? Maybe that should be the case. Maybe she should have hated him long ago.
From the moment he humiliated her in every way, from the moment he believed Sheng Anran and let her go to prison, from the moment he said that the child in her belly was a bastard, from the moment the old lady died, he mocked her hypocrisy, from the moment he said that she stayed with him for another purpose.
The more you love, the more you hate.
But she couldn't hate him. She had countless reasons to hate him, but now there was a reason that she couldn't abandon to hate him.
She gripped the corner of the blanket, her eyes full of sadness. "I don't hate you. You are the father of my child. Whether you believe it or not, no matter what kind of woman you think I am, no one knows better than me who this child is."
Time tore open the wound again and again. After so many times, it could make people numb.
When she said this, she didn't expect Ling Han to change his mind at all. He was so determined and unwilling to admit that this child was his.
Sometimes, she even wondered if he was sure that this child wasn't his, or if he didn't want this child to be his at all.
Just because she was Jiang Meilan's daughter, just because she had Jiang Meilan's blood in her body, and the child in her belly also had it.
However, Ling Han's question was not part of her thoughts.
He stared at her for a long time. His tone was calm and unusually rational.
"You're still by my side now just because of this child?"
Ye Huanyan's heart tightened.
"Yes."
When she said this word, it was as if a big hole had been dug out of her heart and something had been dug out of her skin and flesh.
She denied all of her love and longing for him, and placed all of her chips on the child in her stomach. She bet that her desperate gamble would make Ling Han believe the importance of this child, and also bet that he would believe that this child was his because of her attitude.
Ling Han's expression softened a little, and he didn't get angry at the mention of this child in the past.
When Lingling came back, she happened to see him leaving.
Her footsteps were hurried.
She had never seen him like this before.
When he got into the driver's seat, his hands on the steering wheel trembled slightly.
Was this child really his? Ye Huanyan's confident attitude made him hesitate.
Ye Huanyan didn't go out alone many times. If she didn't return home all night, it would be the night before the annual meeting. Even if something really happened between her and Su Nianhua, compared to the frequency of her sleeping with him almost every night for more than a year, how likely was it that the child was someone else's?
He couldn't remember when he didn't use safety measures, but this didn't mean that he didn't. After all, who could remember clearly when he was drunk?
He panicked and looked at the dashboard with a stiff expression.
If it was really his, then what had he done all these days?
If it was really his, then there were several times when he almost killed his own child with his own hands.
"Beep …"
The loud sound of the horn scared the passersby, and a few of them almost dropped the things in their hands. The passersby were all pointing at the black car.
The handsome man in the driver's seat clenched his hands into fists and slammed them on the steering wheel.
The pain in his eyes was obvious.
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