YOUNG MASTER GU, PLEASE BE GENTLE

The woman on the bed moved around with difficulty, she stretched one arm out and reached for the knife on the nightstand.

She placed a towel in her mouth and held the knife, making a deep incision on her tummy.

Blood.

It was all blood.

Blood stained the white sheets rapidly, her belly now had a deep incision on it, though it was previously smooth and there wasn’t even one stretch mark on it.

The maid went inside the room to check on her and shrieked, “Ah!”

The maid had fainted from the excessive shock. No one would have experience dealing with such a gruesome image, Lin Xuanji had reached for the knife and cut open her belly.

She threw the blood-stained knife on the carpeted ground and took the baby out.

It was a baby boy.

The baby’s skin was pinkish and wrinkly, but the baby didn’t cry.

The baby had opened his eyes, it was a pair of almond-shaped eyes.

The baby looked at her, he didn’t cry nor smile, she couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him. Was he intellectually disabled or what?

She had been forced to consume an abortion pill during her pregnancy, her child was bound to be intellectually disabled or a handicap.

Lin Xuanji’s face was pale and covered in sweat, the sweat just kept trickling down and she shivered because of the immense pain she was suffering from. She stretched her hand out, caressing the baby’s face. “Baby, why aren’t you… crying?”

The baby lay in his mother’s arms quietly, looking at her without making a sound.

Lin Xuanji held the baby in her arms, her voice hoarse and shaky as she said, “Baby, are you… not able to talk? I’m sorry, it’s my fault, Mom has done you wrong…”

She couldn’t stop saying sorry and feel guilty for the baby. She was feeble but she continued to lower her head, wanting to kowtow to her baby.

Tears couldn’t stop falling down her eyes. “Baby, I’m sorry. It’s all my fault. Mommy has done you wrong, you were innocent, I’m sorry…”

She then heard some footsteps, her baby had been taken away.

Her arms were empty and she lifted her head to look at the man beside her bed. The doctor and maid had arrived. The maid quickly pulled open the curtains and the sun rays shone down on the man’s handsome face.

With the baby in his arms, and the man lowered his head to take a look at it. He ran his calloused fingertips over the baby’s face.

“What are you doing? Return me my baby, return him to me!” She was agitated and wanted to climb down from the bed.

But a nurse had pressed her down and the doctor started to dress the wound on her belly. He would never allow for her to die, he was bent on continuing to torture her.

The man then handed the baby over to Butler Ye. “Throw him out on the streets, it’s up to fate whether he lives or dies.”

“Understood.” Butler Ye took the baby in his arms and turned around to leave.

Her baby was taken away.

Her baby was gone.

“Give me back my baby! Give him back to me!”

Her eyes were red and she went hysterical while still on the bed, she wanted to get up but all that struggle was of no use. Her body was already numb of all feeling because of the immense pain, she couldn’t even lift a finger even after gathering all of her strength.

The nurse pressed her down and the doctor gave her an injection to stop the bleeding and make her sleep.

Her vision went dark and she fainted.

Before she fainted, he walked beside her and smirked. “Xuanji, this is the consequence of you not behaving well. You have no choice but to accept my punishment for you.”

Those beautiful eyes fluttered shut and she fell unconscious.

But two streams of tears trickled down her cheeks.

It was the greatest pain one could ever suffer.

The baby who couldn’t speak, he became an unforgettable pain in Lin Xuanji’s heart. It was a nightmare Lin Xuanji couldn’t wake up from, she stayed in her own world of regret, torturing herself with an eternity’s suffering in order to punish herself.

Tik tok. Master Miao Gu closed his pocket watch and everyone escaped from Lin Xuanji’s dreamland.

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Tang Mo’er’s face blanched, she had seen for herself how her mother had grabbed a knife and made a deep incision on her own tummy to deliver her own baby. She broke out into perspiration and it covered her forehead, her legs went weak and she took a few steps backwards. Cold, she was so cold.

A muscular arm encircled her slim waist, someone had held onto her from behind.

Tang Mo’er turned back and realized it was Gu Mohan.

His gaze was on her, he felt bad for her.

Looking at her with a tender gaze, their bodies were separated by only a thin layer of clothing they wore. Like that, he shared his body warmth with her.

Tang Mo’er felt her heart pounding, she quickly turned her head around and avoided eye contact.

Jun Mosheng’s eyes were already red, he sent a punch in Lu Jinwen’s direction, aiming for his face.

Lu Jinwen didn’t avoid it, he was punched on the right side of his face and the corner of his lip was bleeding.

Jun Mosheng grabbed Lu Jinwen’s collar. “Lu Jinwen, you’re a devil! You didn’t get a doctor for Xuanji when she was in labor, you forced her to make an incision on her own stomach! If this is considered love, the person who you love must have been cursed in her previous lifetime!”

No one knew how it much it hurt.

Lu Jinwen was still expressionless and he lifted his hand and used the back of it to wipe the blood on the corner of his mouth away. He then said, “She was pregnant with your baby, why should I get a doctor for her?”

His words were callous and uncaring.

“You!” Jun Mosheng wanted to say something but he furrowed his rows and stopped himself.

Xuanji had endured through all the pain and chose not to mention about it, he couldn’t just divulge it like that. And it was even more so because he wasn’t qualified to talk about it.

It was the greatest punishment for a devil like Lu Jinwen, to not tell him the truth.

Lu Jinwen was living in hatred when he didn’t know the truth behind it. If he learned of the truth one day, the amount of pain and suffering he would have to suffer was unimaginable. He would suffer from karma!

But what about that child? He was innocent.

The previous generation’s relationship had ended up in broken pieces, they were both unwilling to back down and had to pay a great price for it.

Many years had passed already, it was no longer meaningful to talk about the past.

“Mr Lu, where is my younger brother? Is he really dead?” Tang Mo’er suddenly asked.

Jun Mosheng grabbed Lu Jinwen’s collar even more forcefully. “Where’s the child, where’s Xuanji’s son? Where did you leave him?”

Gu Mohan then spoke, “Lin Xuanji will only regain consciousness if we find that child. Uncle Jin, you also wish for Lin Xuanji to regain consciousness right?”

That child.

Everyone was asking about that child.

Lu Jinwen looked in Jun Mosheng’s eyes and enunciated each word clearly, “It’s useless to have any false hopes. That child is already… dead.”