Chapter 17

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Lu Anran remembered how she felt at the time: hopeless. Her father was in a coma, the Lu family went bankrupt, and her boyfriend betrayed her… All the pain and suffering seemed to have drained away with her tears the night when she lost her child.

He smoked cigarettes outside the door all night. Behind the same door, she prepared to appear cold-hearted the entire night. She told herself that even if she was dumped, she shouldn’t look too pitiful or sad.

After the procedure, her body was very weak. She leaned against the door frame with feigned coldness and said casually, “I aborted the child.”

Then she saw that she had succeeded in revenge. Gu Liangchen’s usually emotionless eyes were suddenly filled with hatred, as if he wanted to choke her to death.

He was furious. Staring at her like a coiling snake, he shouted, “That’s our baby! How could you be so cruel?”

She could see clearly that he was angry and grieving, but she simply found it ridiculous.

She believed that their relationship over those years was true, and she also knew that Gu Liangchen wasn’t without the slightest feelings for her. However, for an ambitious man, so-called love paled in comparison to power and money.

After all, marriage with the chief executive’s daughter could allow him to quickly rise up the ranks.

He chose to abandon her and her child for the sake of career prospects. Wanting to get back at him, she decided to end things with him the cruelest way possible without even telling him that it was actually a miscarriage induced by an accident.

No matter how much she hated him, she couldn’t bear to kill the little life that had been growing in her belly for three months…

Circumstances had changed with the passage of time, but the déjà vu scene felt ironic to her.

At the same time, she felt that she might have masochistic tendencies. She felt as if she scraped the wound in her heart again with a knife. After experiencing the pain, she calmed down, went back to the bed, closed her eyes, and fell asleep.

The car downstairs never left.

When Jing Cheng came back, he repeated Anran’s words and reported what he had seen. “Doctor Lu looked calm, and no sound was heard after opening the door, but Doctor Lu was blocking the door, so I couldn’t see inside.”

Sitting in the back seat, Gu Liangchen didn’t ask any further. He was somber and uncomfortable. Jing Cheng didn’t dare to call the shots without permission, so he sat in the car with him.

It wasn’t until the light in Lu Anran’s dormitory went out that Gu Liangchen suddenly pushed open the door and got out of the car.

However, he didn’t go upstairs. He just stood beside the car and smoked cigarettes. No one knew what he was thinking.

It wasn’t until late in the night that Jing Cheng couldn’t help but say, “If you are worried, go up and have a look, or shall I check for you?”

He shook his head. “She was angry, so she purposely brought that man back to the dormitory to provoke me. There will be nothing else… I know that she is stubborn.”

After seeing Cheng Zhi’s dirty deed firsthand, with her temperament, it would be impossible for her to have anything to do with him anymore.

Jing Cheng would like to ask but thought it best to bite his tongue, ‘If that was the case, what was he doing here?’

After two years working for Gu Liangchen, he still couldn’t figure out what was going on in his master’s mind.

He inadvertently glanced at the underground passage leading to the hospital, and he suddenly remembered what happened a few hours ago.

At that time, President Gu was about to sign a large contract worth more than a billion yuan. Everyone had already entered the hotel, but he suddenly received a call from Doctor Lu. Then, Mr. Gu stood his partner up and rushed there without hesitation.

When they arrived, they saw Cheng Zhi and Doctor Lu coming out of the passageway in an intimate manner. Not only was there the scene of kneeling in the street, but they also went upstairs together quite affectionately.