After a blind date, a wealthy heir asked me to marry him.

"Yaoyao, you're awake."

Lu Shiyi stood up excitedly, leaned down to her younger sister, and asked, "Yaoyao, how are you feeling? Is anything bothering you?"

Lu Shuyao shook her head, tears still streaming down her face.

She still remembers the sudden heavy bleeding she experienced during her cesarean section under local anesthesia, and the panicked look on the midwife's face.

She was already nervous, and at that moment she was even more terrified.

She kept asking the doctors beside her, "Am I going to die? Please, you must save me. I don't want my baby to be born without a mother..."

But no one had time to pay attention to her; the doctors were frantically dealing with the emergency because they didn't know the cause of the bleeding.

In the last few seconds before Lu Shuyao went into shock, the voice she vaguely heard was, 'We must find the cause of the bleeding as soon as possible, otherwise…'

At that moment, many images flashed through her mind: her parents, her sister, her husband, her in-laws, and the baby who was about to be born. She didn't want to leave this beautiful world yet.

However, she was powerless to do anything about it, and could only feel her consciousness gradually fading until she knew nothing at all.

……

Lu Shiyi, who was standing by the hospital bed with a worried expression, breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her sister shake her head. "It's good that you're not feeling unwell. Then why are you crying?"

With tears still clinging to the corners of her eyes, Lu Shuyao grinned and chuckled, her weak voice tinged with excitement, "Sister, I'm just happy. I thought I was going to die. Hehe, it seems God doesn't want to take me after all. It's so good to be alive!"

Looking at his sister, who was so weak that she could barely speak, Lu Shiyi said with a pained expression, "What do you mean by 'dying'? You're not allowed to mention that word again. You have to take good care of yourself from now on, no matter what happens."

Lu Shuyao smiled and nodded vigorously, "Sister, whatever you say goes, I'll listen to you!"

Then, she lifted her head slightly, looked around the ward, and when her gaze fell on Fu Cheng, who was sitting in a chair not far from the hospital bed, she politely greeted him, "Brother-in-law, you're here too."

Fu Cheng nodded in response.

After scanning the area, Lu Shuyao looked around in confusion. She turned back to Lu Shiyi and asked, "Sister, are Haokai and my in-laws still not answering their phones?"

"And where is my baby? I haven't seen him yet!"

A strange emotion flashed in Lu Shiyi's eyes, but it disappeared in an instant, and even Lu Shuyao, who was looking at her, did not notice it.

At this moment, Fu Cheng stood up and said, "You guys chat first, I'm going out to make a phone call."

After saying that, he strode out of the ward.

Actually, the phone call was just a pretext; it wasn't really appropriate for him to be there while the two sisters were talking.

Lu Shiyi also understood her husband's deliberate avoidance. She turned to look at Fu Cheng, and after a moment, she looked back at her sister, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.

In fact, before her younger sister woke up, she had imagined countless times in her mind what the consequences would be if she told her sister the truth now, and what the consequences would be if her sister found out after she had temporarily kept it a secret. She pondered repeatedly, but could not make a decision until the moment her sister woke up.

Because, no matter which path she chose, she couldn't escape the harsh reality she had to face, and she simply couldn't bear it.

Lu Shiyi lowered her head and unconsciously touched her earlobe. She really didn't know how to start the conversation.

This scene happened to be witnessed by Lu Shuyao, who was lying in the hospital bed.

Her heart skipped a beat, and the excitement she felt upon waking vanished.

Although Lu Shuyao was panicking inside, she forced herself to remain calm and tentatively asked, "Sister, is my baby not feeling well?"

Lu Shiyi looked up, "Yaoyao, actually, that..."

"Sister, do you know? From childhood to adulthood, whenever you're feeling conflicted or uneasy, you unconsciously touch your earlobe. The year I took my high school entrance exam, Dad was seriously injured in an accident and hospitalized. You were clearly worried sick, but to keep me from being scared, you kept telling me that Dad only had a minor injury and that it wasn't serious. In the end, I heard from someone else that Dad almost died..."

Lu Shuyao paused, took a breath, and continued, "Sister, thank you for always protecting me so well, but now, it's my turn to face things, and I don't want you to bear it for me anymore. Besides, I've already been through the gates of hell, what else can't I bear?"

Lu Shiyi looked at her younger sister with a meaningful gaze. It turned out that her younger sister, whom she had always thought of as a child, had actually grown up a long time ago.

She took her younger sister's hand, hesitated for a moment, and then said cautiously, "Yaoyao, our baby, our little princess, didn't make it to meet us. The doctor said she was severely suffocated and ultimately couldn't be saved."

Upon hearing this, Lu Shuyao burst into tears. Although she had prepared herself mentally, she never expected that there would be no way to salvage the situation.

Even during emergency treatment, even after being placed in an incubator, but now...

She buried her head in the pillow and cried, while Lu Shiyi silently stayed by her sister's side.

……

On their way back, Li's mother and her two companions stopped at a restaurant for lunch.

Moreover, the restaurant they went to was one that Li's mother had always wanted to go to, but was reluctant to go to.

They happened to be passing by, and since it was just the three of them, they went straight in to eat.

Moreover, Li Haokai felt that his parents had worked so hard to take care of his wife, but they hadn't even had a grandson yet. This must have been a huge blow to them, so as their son, he should do his best to meet their needs and make up for it.

After finishing his meal and returning home, Li Haokai comforted his parents for a while before getting up to go to the company.

He had just reached the door when his mother called out to him, "Kai, do you have your in-laws' phone numbers?"

Li Haokai asked, somewhat puzzled, "Why do you need their phone numbers?"

Li's mother said, "What else can we do? Tell them to come and take care of their daughter. Your father and I have been taking care of her for more than half a year. We can't expect them to take care of her for the next few days while she's in the hospital. Besides, Yao Yao hasn't even let your father and me hold her grandson. Is she a qualified daughter-in-law? We're not going to be taken advantage of like this, treating her like an ancestor every day, and going out of our way to take care of her."

After hearing this, Li Haokai felt even more guilty towards his parents. One of the important reasons he decided to marry Lu Shuyao, who was pregnant, was that he hoped his parents could hold their grandchild soon. Who would have thought that the result would be so disappointing?

After thinking for a moment, he turned and replied, "I'll send it to you on WeChat later." Then he went out.

Although my mother's words were a bit blunt, they were not without reason. Besides, after something like this happened, it was only right that my parents-in-law should be informed. There was nothing wrong with my mother making that call.

After receiving the phone number from her son, Li's mother dialed it immediately.

"Hello, mother-in-law, this is Kai's mom. How have you been lately?"

……