If You Could Hear My Heart

Chapter 722: Chapter 722: Can a Four-Month-Old Child be Aborted?

Indeed, Shen Chi had indulged her too much, spoiled her to the point where she didn’t know the first thing about courtesy!

Even if his interactions with her were minimal, he was still Shen Chi’s father, yet Xu Chaomu showed him not a shred of politeness!

At his roar, Xu Chaomu calmed down, she tried to steady her emotions, but no matter what, she couldn’t return to her normal state.

Her heart wouldn’t stop pounding; “thump, thump,” it seemed like it was about to leap out of her throat.

“Xu Chaomu, if you don’t do the blood test at night, do you plan to come during the day? Do you want the media to expose me, Shen Cexian?” said Shen Cexian coldly.

Xu Chaomu stopped talking. Yes, if not at night, then during the day?

But if she really were Shen Cexian’s daughter… No, it couldn’t be, it must not be…

She rushed to the doctor, grabbed the female doctor’s arm, and said anxiously, “Doctor, tell me, how long will the results take?”

The female doctor, her face expressionless beneath the mask, replied indifferently, “Twelve hours.”

“Then I’ll wait!” Xu Chaomu blurted out.

Just twelve hours, she could wait that long.

Shen Cexian, expressionless, said, “If you want to wait, then wait.”

He pushed his wheelchair and left the phlebotomy room. As he departed, two tall men left as well.

Only she and the female doctor remained.

The female doctor was busy with something, Xu Chaomu didn’t understand, but she just waited there.

“I suggest you go and rest early. When the results are out, I can inform you,” said the female doctor impassively. “After all, you’re a pregnant woman.”

Xu Chaomu didn’t speak, just stood there motionless.

“There are chairs outside, you can sit, but it gets quite cold at night,” the doctor continued.

“I advise you to go home.”

The female doctor said a lot, but Xu Chaomu couldn’t listen to any of it, she couldn’t possibly go home, she needed to see the results with her own eyes!

Stunned, Xu Chaomu stood there, her entire being in a state of detachment.

After a while, she raised her head and asked the doctor, “Can an over-four-month-old child still be aborted?”

Her voice was so faint that even in the quiet phlebotomy room it seemed incredibly small, quivering and lost…

Her eyes too were hazy, her face pale, her eyes devoid of sparkle.

The female doctor glanced at her, puzzled, yet objectively she said, “It’s possible, but if you want an abortion, it should be done soon. It gets very risky for your health the later it is.”

Xu Chaomu gave a start, then said faintly, “I understand.”

If the blood test result was what she feared most, then she would have no choice but…

She shook her head, afraid to even think about it.

Why had she never considered that Shen Cexian could be her father, truly never once thought about it.

She knew that Shen Cexian and Zhou Ran both knew her mother, but she had never ever considered it…

Was she just too oblivious?

She rested against the wall, wishing she could dig her fingers into it.

The blow was completely unexpected, she had not anticipated it at all.

She clutched at her chest, the pain there was excruciating, like a knife twisting over and over, the pain sharp and acute.

“I suggest you go back and sleep. If Mr. Shen wants to interfere, he can do so even if you’re watching, can’t he?” the female doctor saw right through her thoughts.

Xu Chaomu was stunned. Yes, if Shen Cexian wanted to interfere, it would be easy for him to avoid her eyes.

What use was there in her staying here?

“Okay… I’ll go back,” Xu Chaomu nodded weakly.

Just as she was about to leave, the female doctor pressed a button, and Xu Chaomu was taken aback.

A few minutes later, the two men came back down.

“Miss, we’ll take you back,” one of them said.

“No need,” Xu Chaomu refused.

She could easily take a taxi home, she didn’t want Shen Cexian’s insincerity here!

But Xu Chaomu’s refusal was futile. Without any discussion, one of them grabbed her arm and started dragging her out of the phlebotomy room.

“Let go of me, I can walk on my own,” Xu Chaomu said sternly.

“Sorry, Miss, Mr. Shen asked us to tell you that in the future, you should speak more politely to him,” the man warned Xu Chaomu expressionlessly.

“Polite? Why should I be polite to him?!” Xu Chaomu hissed through clenched teeth.

“In C City, if Director Shen wants to crush you, it’s as simple as crushing an ant,” the man continued to warn Xu Chaomu.

Xu Chaomu bit her lip, knowing full well that Shen Cexian had significant power in C City, and crushing her would indeed be as easy as flipping his hand.

She let out a cold laugh, her face showing profound sorrow and despair.

“You can tell him… to go ahead and crush me to death, that way… I’ll be relieved.”

At that moment, despair inundated her heart; she was truly desperate.

If she and Shen Cexian were indeed father and daughter, what should she do… what could she do…

Then, the two men “escorted” Xu Chaomu out of the corridor and took her to the outside of the hospital.

Outside the hospital, it was still very quiet, no sound to be heard anywhere, only the streetlights quietly lighting the ground.

No one was around outside anymore; the hospital itself was for both medical treatment and recuperation, therefore, it was very quiet at night.

“You can go back,” Xu Chaomu’s gaze was vacant as she stared ahead, “My words just now… tell him.”

After speaking, she walked away, leaving the hospital behind.

She flagged down a taxi and as she got in, her emotions still couldn’t calm down for a long time.

She leaned against the taxi window, her hand gently caressing her belly.

As she closed her eyes, slowly, tears began to fall.

No matter the result, she would wait for Shen Chi to return, she only feared not holding out until he came back.

That whole night, she didn’t sleep, unable to get a wink of rest.

She sat quietly on the bed, touching her belly, in a state of restlessness.

She could feel the joy and happiness this child brought her, feel its heartbeat, because a mother’s heart is connected to her child’s.

By her bedside was the nearly finished pink sweater, Shen Chi said she was carrying a son.

She didn’t like boys, they were naughty and mischievous, but as long as it was Shen Chi’s and her baby, she would like it very much indeed…

But what if the result was really that cruel?

She truly had never thought, never considered herself to be Shen Cexian’s daughter.

They said she was a bastard, her mother had never told her who her father was.

She couldn’t guess; she never even wanted to guess. After all, ‘father’ was just a dispensable term for her.

After so many years, why did it have to disrupt her peaceful life now…@@novelbin@@

She felt a bit of hatred towards Shen Cexian.

As she sat there quietly, she picked up Uncle Mo’s diary and flipped through it.

Unfortunately, the beginning was just some mundane daily life of the Mo Family; not a hint to be seen.

Flipping further, she suddenly saw something.