âShi Huan, you have an affair with an old man, and now youâre pregnant with his illegitimate child. How shameless are you?â
âYouâre only eighteen and youâre already pregnant. You have no decency! Itâs utterly disgraceful!â
âYou have disgraced the Shi Family!â
âYou should just die, stop shaming us Shi Family!â
âSo embarrassing!â
ââ¦â
The scene shifts, and she is lying on an operating table, covered in blood. Lights on the ceiling fly by swiftly as excruciating pain emanates from her abdomen, mingling with the cacophony of voices around her.
âWe may not be able to save the baby!â
âPrepare for surgery immediately!â
âThis is bad, the pregnant woman has lost a lot of blood, Doctor, Doctor!â
Shi Huan frowns deeply, her face ghostly pale. She gasps for breath continuously, her body trembles, as if immersed in extreme pain. This lasts until a voice, filled with anxiety, reaches her ears.
âHuanhuan, Huanhuan, Huanhuan!â
Shi Huan finally opens her eyes, discovering that sheâs covered in sweat, and a pair of small soft hands is gently shaking her shoulder, âHuanhuan, youâre finally awake, I was so scaredâ¦â
Shi Huan quickly sits up on the bed, âSorry, Luoluo. I was having a nightmare, did I scare you?â
âYes.â Answers little Luoluo honestly, her big beautiful eyes still teary, âHuanhuan, I was scared.â
âDonât be, itâs my fault.â Shi Huan takes the little girl into her arms, comforting her.
Itâs been a while since she dreamed about the past, why suddenlyâ¦
Is it because her little uncle is coming back?
A bad feeling gradually took hold in Shi Huanâs heart.
âHuanhuan?â Little Luoluo sniffs, asking her in a childish voice, âWere you dreaming about a bad person?â
Shi Huan forces a smile, âItâs alright now, Luoluo. Donât be scared.â
She checks the time. Itâs only seven oâclock in the morning.
She decides to get up and starts to dress the little girl.
Little Luoluo quickly calms down. She independently puts on her clothes and energetically announces, âHuanhuan, I want to go to the bathroom!â
âOkay, Iâll take you there.â
Shi Huan helps little Luoluo out of bed and opens the bedroom door.
Expecting to see a man on the living room couch, instead she finds a messy quilt pile on the couch with the man nowhere in sight.
âDid uncle leave?â Asks little Luoluo, her tiny face full of curiosity.
Shi Huan calls out hastily, âMr. Chu? Mr. Chu?â
Thereâs no response.
She goes into the bathroom and finds that the manâs clothes are gone.
**
Itâs not until she finishes making breakfast that Shi Huan finally receives a message from Chu Xiuhuang.
[Little Huanhuan, I had to leave due to an emergency. You donât have to come to the hospital to look after me for the next couple of days.]
Shi Huan quickly asks, [What happened?]
[My mom fell down the stairs and fractured her leg, she is in the hospital.]
Shi Huan: ââ¦â
Alright then.
**
In the following days, Shi Huan goes back to work at the company.
Being away for almost a month, she is extremely busy upon her return.
Nobody asks her anything. Shi Huanâs ability to work and handle tasks is outstanding, and she gets along well with her coworkers. Probably
because she is Chu Xiuhuangâs private secretary and holds a high position in the company, nobody dares to push their jokes too far or gossip too much about her personal life.
Sometimes, when a joke is casually made, Shi Huan shows no reaction, like sheâs immune to the toxicity. Over time, only a few subordinates in the secretarial department are close to her, while others hold her in high regard on the surface but talk behind her back in private.
Of course, Shi Huan doesnât care about all these.
Howeverâ¦
Over the past week, Chu Xiuhuang seems to have evaporated from the earth, not only did he not care about the companyâs affairs, he didnât even send any messages or calls.
By the weekend, Shi Huan makes a call to Nangong Chu.
She finds out that Chu Xiuhuang had been discharged from the hospital the day his mother was admitted.
No wonder he stopped bothering her.
It seems that he was just in a flight of fancy the night he confessed to her and asked for a chance.
Now that heâs recovered, he can resume his philandering habits, why would he still be interested in her?
Shi Huan shakes her head, thinking that some people really canât change their nature.
**
Certain someone, at this point, is boasting in a group chat.
The photos he took in Shi Huanâs bathroom that night, he has been posting them in the WJY WeChat group over several days, a photo a day.
At first, people were enthusiastic, expressing their surprise and envy.
But on the fifth day, when Chu Xiuhuang posted a photo of all his clothes thrown into the washing machine, no one replied for a long time.
He starts typing immediately, [My girlfriend volunteered to wash my clothes and trousers, do you guys have this kind of service too?]
Chu Xiuhuang: [Do you? Do you?]
Chu Xiuhuang: [Are you envious, jealous, and hateful?]
Chu Xiuhuang: [Are you? Are you?]
Chu Xiuhuang: [Where is everybody?]
Chu Xiuhuang: [Damn it!]
Chu Xiuhuang: [Youâre all pretending to be dead, arenât you?]
Chu Xiuhuang: [@everyone.]
Finally.
Nangong Ci: [Are you sure she helped you wash your trousers and didnât just dump them all in the trash bin?]
Chu Xiuhuang: ââ¦â
Damn it, the day he woke up, he indeed found all his underwear in the trash bin.
Thinking about Shi Huan, Chu Xiuhuangâs happy mood suddenly vanishes.
He is furious.
This damn woman, she hasnât contacted him for several days?
His motherâs hospitalization kept him busy for a few days, he intentionally wanted to ignore her, he didnât send any messages or make any calls, thinking that she would soon be restless and contact him on her own, since women usually say one thing and mean another. However, who could have expectedâ¦
This woman actually showed no reaction at all!
And according to the manager of the operations department, sheâs already back at work.
Damn it.
In a fit of anger, Chu Xiuhuang posts in the group chat, [Who wants to come to my house? There are some good-quality girls here lately, free of charge!]
Ming Jing: [Second brother, arenât you on a date with your girlfriend on the weekend?]
Chu Xiuhuang: [Stop talking, are you coming or not?]
Nangong Ci: [I have a surgery this afternoon, I canât get away!]
Ming Jing: [Thereâs a family dinner tonight, I canât get away!]
Lu Chenyu: [Me]
Nangong Ci: [I knew it, the second brother really loves the fourth brother.]
Lu Chenyu: [Not going.]
Chu Xiuhuang: [Damn it, canât you type your whole sentence in one go?]
Nangong Ci: [Hahahahaha!]