Chapter 4 Taking Two Lives at Once

Miao Xiaobei froze and looked at Miao Wanwan in disbelief. Miao Wanwan raised her delicate brows and continued to provoke her. "Didn't Ling tell you? If it wasn't to save our child, do you really think he would have gotten you pregnant? "If it wasn't to save our child, do you think Ling would even allow your child to be born?" Miao Xiaobei was utterly dazed. She felt like she had just slipped from a precipice into a cavern of ice, freezing her to the core. "No, it can't be. This is also his child..." Before too long, the sun set and the darkness of the night fell over the house. Miao Xiaobei staggered to her feet, clutching her lower abdomen, which had yet to swell to any obvious degree. She took a deep breath and walked towards the study. Looking at the light and seeing the familiar silhouette inside, she reached out her slender fingers to slowly push the door of the study open. "Yes?" Gazing upon his handsome face, a glimmer of hope flashed in Miao Xiaobei's heart. "I have something to ask you." Murong Ling's gaze flicked up at her. He put down the document in his hand, leaned back against his chair, and motioned for Miao Xiaobei to continue. "The child in Miao Wanwan's abdomen is sick and needs a new heart, so you got me pregnant in order to trade the life of my child for that of hers, am I right?" There was a tremor and an undercurrent of fear in her otherwise calm voice. She was afraid to hear an answer like Miao Wanwan's. "Yes." She stepped back in disbelief. "Why? He's also your child and he's still so young! How could you!?" Miao Xiaobei rushed to Murong Ling in agony and grabbed at his sleeves, her eyes bloodshot. "Why would you do this to him! If you despise him, why would you create him in the first place! Murong Ling, do you even have a heart?!" Murong Ling sneered in reply and looked coldly at Miao Xiaobei. "You owe this to Wanwan." "Owe?" "Haha, hahaha!" Miao Xiaobei laughed hysterically, tears streaming down her face as her head shook. "In your dreams! I will never let my child save hers. Never!" Murong Ling bent down and clutched Miao Xiaobei's chin in his hand. "Listen, if you obey me and give birth to this child, I'll forget everything that happened in the past. "But if you dare to hurt Wanwan or her child, I will make your life a living hell!" "Murong Ling! You bastard!" Her loud cry of anguish echoed through the villa hauntingly. Miao Xiaobei lay on the ground. She did not want to do it, she couldn't do it, and she would never submit! "Baby, Mommy will protect you..." Miao Xiaobei quickly got up and dialed Lanlan's number. Miao Xiaobei did not sleep a wink the entire night. When she got up from bed in the morning, the first thing she saw was Murong Ling walking into her room and opening his mouth to say, "Let's go." Miao Xiaobei moved her lips a few times, but said nothing in the end. They arrived at the hospital not long after. Making her way through one doctor's consultation after another, Miao Xiaobei stayed completely silent. The sight of Miao Xiaobei going through the motions like some lifeless puppet greatly annoyed Murong Ling. "From this day on, you will stay in the hospital. I will ask Maid Zhang to deliver some toiletries to you." After saying that, Murong Ling left straight away. Miao Xiaobei smiled bitterly. This was simply a house arrest in disguise. But what could she do? As time went by, Miao Xiaobei's stomach increased in size, and Miao Wanwan’s baby was finally due. It was clear that this night would be a sleepless one. Miao Xiaobei was awakened from her sleep and then taken to an operating table, still in a bleary stupor. "The mother lost a lot of blood in labor, and unfortunately the hospital's blood bank is undergoing a shortage..." Miao Xiaobei chuckled humorlessly. "I'm pregnant myself and you're asking me to donate my blood to Miao Wanwan? How cruel of you, Murong Ling." Then, without another word, she rolled up her sleeves and watched as a needle sunk into the flesh of her arm and pierced its way into her veins. Miao Xiaobei's eyes then moved to Murong Ling and stayed there. This was the man she had loved for ten years! But now he was hurting both her and her child, all for some other woman! Miao Xiaobei was shaking with rage as she walked towards the door of the operating theatre after having watched Murong Ling leave. A cold smile slowly spread over her face. "Miao Wanwan, this is your retribution." "You can't leave." Murong Ling suddenly strode back, looking at her with his profound eyes. "Wanwan is still in danger and could need more blood at any time. You must stay here." Hearing him, Miao Xiaobei's face turned even paler. She swiped a scalpel from the operating room cart beside her and pointed it at her stomach. "Murong Ling, I won't be able to survive either if I lose too much blood. If you keep pushing me, I will cut out this baby right here and now. Do you want to take two lives at once?"