Xiao Fan hugged her second dead twin daughter in her arms. Streams of tears continuously stained her cheeks wet.
No, this cannot be true.
“Baby…My daughter…Please, please…Look, your Mommy and sister both want you to live. We are waiting for you, dear. Please don’t leave us…”
Baby Serena was also wailing loudly to convey her feelings the same as her mother.
But the second twin daughter was already no more. With her body not moving at all and looking at her closed eyes, Xiao Fan was badly trembling. She felt a big lump in her throat as she choked on her sobs.
“Please help! Somebody, please help…My daughter…”
She cried and cried, but there was complete silence. She desperately looked outside the door, but there was nobody.
N-no no…she is just unconscious. She cannot be dead. T-this is impossible. I have to do something…
Xiao Fan wiped her tears.
She carefully placed her twins on the bed and tried to get up. But it was too painful. She was feeling weak and dizzy. She stumbled as soon as she stood, but her daughter’s condition gave her the strength not to give up.
Xiao Fan slowly made her way outside.
“Help…My daughter is suffering…Please help us.”
Suddenly, she saw Nurse Kim rushing.
“Nurse!” Xiao Fan’s gaze brightened.
Nurse Kim was shocked to look her roaming outside in such a condition. She was hardly able to stand straight.
“Nurse, my daughter-“
But Nurse Kim interrupted. “I’m sorry, mam, but I got no time. We have got three emergency cases.”
“No, please!” Xiao Fan begged her. “My daughter is unconscious. She is in pain. Please help her. S-she is not opening her eyes. S-she is having trouble breathing…Please, she is so small…She won’t be able to bear it. Please help me…”
Nurse Kim saw her desperation and hesitated.
“Okay, but I cannot stay for much longer.”
They quickly went inside, and Nurse Kim checked on the second twin.
She froze.
Xiao Fan hopefully asked, “She will be fine, right? Please treat her immediately. Look, she is not responding to me.”
Nurse Kim didn’t know how to break it to her. If she hadn’t left her, then perhaps the second daughter could have been saved.
But now it was too late.
“Mam…”
“What is it? Why aren’t you doing anything! Please don’t waste any more time. If something happened to her, then I won’t be able to live anymore…”
Nurse Kim was now more in a dilemma.
“Mam…I’m really sorry, but she is no more.”
Xiao Fan stood rooted. She blankly stared at the nurse.
“No… she was breathing until now. She is just unconscious.”
Nurse Kim said, “No, mam. She was born very weak. She is also too underweight. So, she couldn’t…”
Nurse Kim felt utterly guilty. If she had been immediately given treatment, then there might have been a chance to save her.
Xiao Fan collapsed on her knees.
My daughter is…dead…?
She looked at the unmoving body of her daughter.
Nurse Kim couldn’t stay there any longer.
“We are really sorry, mam. But in front of that powerful man, we couldn’t do anything. He threatened to ruin this hospital and our careers. We also got orders from above to treat the family on priority.”
Saying this, she quickly left the ward.
Xiao Fan felt as if everything went dead silent.
One daughter has gone just like that…I lost my baby…
Yu Tengfei and my children…I couldn’t protect them. I failed.
She sat there in a daze, vacantly staring at the air for a while. Serena was crying loudly, but it was of she could hear nothing.
She saw her one daughter dying right in front of her eyes. She stopped breathing right in her arms.
My baby…. she didn’t even get to see this world. Nine months…she was in me for nine months, and now she is no more…
‘In front of that powerful man, we couldn’t do anything.’
Xiao Fan’s gaze turned cold. Her blood was boiling in hatred and fury. She tightly clenched the sheet in between her fingers. Her eyes were tired and red from shedding tears, but they still didn’t stop.
Who was that man who thought that he could anything he want? Who was he to tell the staff to leave me alone all by myself?
Who was he to take my daughter’s life?
Xiao Fan slowly got up once again. She placed her two daughters in the crib. With the burning intent to kill that man, she went outside.
Xiao Fan heard some noise coming from above.
She slowly climbed the steps. There she saw that the outside corridor was empty. But she could hear voices from inside the wards.
She wanted answers and confront the man.
When Xiao Fan reached the ward, she heard a woman crying in pain.
“Ahhhhh….!!”
When she got closer, she froze as she recognized the woman.
X-Xiao Dan…?
She rapidly blinked her eyes. Xiao Dan was also pregnant and in labor. She was injured and bleeding too.
And she saw Liang Zou. He was also hurt, his shirt was bloody, but he was sitting by her side, holding her hand. His face was marred with an expression of anxiety and fear. His gaze was worried and panicked.
The two nurses were helping her with the delivery.
Liang Zou?
Then she heard some murmurs. In the other ward adjacent to where Xiao Dan was, there was the doctor and Nurse Kim. They were doing surgery on a little boy.
He…is their son?
She felt as if everything was a big joke.
How could it be Liang Zou and Xiao Dan? How could Liang Zou say something like that?
Xiao Dan was screaming in pain.
“Xiao Dan, stay strong. For me, for Shin and our child, please don’t give up.”
He glared at the nurses. “Do something! Just look at how much she is hurting. I don’t need to remind you what I am capable of if anything happened to my wife and children!”
The nurses looked terrified. They were already under such great pressure, and Liang Zou was constantly reminding them if the threat.
When Xiao Fan heard it herself, the whole earth shook beneath her feet. She couldn’t believe that Liang Zou said that. She couldn’t believe that she lost her daughter because he was the one who silenced the staff with his power.
Liang Zou…the man she fell in love with, the man who she sacrificed for her sister, the man for whom she quietly left their lives not to be a hindrance…
He was the one who snatched her daughter’s life?
She could still see that arrogance in his gaze, which was the same when they were in high school and university. But now it was laced with utter selfishness only to save his family at any cost while disregarding anything else.
This was the man I loved? This was the man for whom I suffered heartbreak and depression for so long? Was this the man with whom I once dreamt of living my whole life with? My daughter died because HE stopped them?
Her trance broke when Xiao Dan gave another scream, and she heard a baby crying in the ward.
“Congratulations, Mr. Liang. It’s a girl.”
The two nurses were relieved that the mother and daughter were both safe.
Liang Zou broke down in tears when he held his baby daughter. Xiao Dan was heaving breathlessly, but she soon got unconscious.
“Xiao Dan, What happened to her?” He anxiously looked at the two nurses.
“Don’t worry, Mr. Liang. She has passed out because of exhaustion. She will be fine once she regains her consciousness.”
“Are you sure? She is not in any danger, right?”
“No, Mr. Liang. The doctor has already treated her injuries. She is just too tired now.”
Liang Zou finally felt relieved.
“And Shin? My son?”
“He is in the operation theatre. The doctor and Nurse Kim are doing their best.”
“I want results! I don’t want them just to try!”
The nurses stepped back in fear.
Xiao Fan looked at him, happy and smiling, holding his daughter. She saw the baby girl, and the image of her own daughter dying in her arms flashed past her mind.
The moment she stopped breathing, the moment she closed her eyes, and the moment she stopped moving were etched onto her mind.
Xiao Fan slowly walked away. She went into the ward where she saw her twins. She stood there, expressionless.
She picked up her phone and tried Yu Tengfei’s number. But once again, it was out of reach.
She shut her eyes in despair.
But then she couldn’t just leave it at that. She wanted revenge.
Yes. She wanted Liang Zou to suffer the same pain.
What would happen even if I confront him? He will apologize. He will beg me to forgive him.
But what will that give me? Will his repentance give my daughter back to me?
No. He will ask for forgiveness. He will blame himself for a long time. But what after that? He will go back to live his happy life with Xiao Dan and his children and while I am left with a dead daughter.
No. I will never let you be happy, Liang Zou. You will pay for your sin. Just like how I lost my daughter, you will lose your daughter too.
She picked up her phone and dialed a number.
“Shen, I need your help.”
