Bai Jingya was still standing there in a daze. Just like that, she was leaving?
She wasn’t going to abort the unwanted child after all?
The Xu Zhixia just now had felt so unfamiliar that Bai Jingya hadn’t even dared to breathe loudly. She could only watch as the clinic receded farther and farther behind them.
Afraid that delays might cause more trouble, she quickly called out:
“You’re not doing the surgery anymore? It won’t be easy to find another clinic for an abortion.”
Xu Zhixia touched her belly and frowned at her.
“What? You really want me to abort it? Or are you hoping to have my husband’s child instead?”
She didn’t have time to waste words on Bai Jingya. She needed to see that man.
If she remembered correctly, on this very day in her previous life, after she had the abortion and was lying in bed, she received the divorce agreement.
Until the very end, she never told him they had a child.
No two children.
When the embryos were removed, she had heard that woman mutter:
“Damn, so there were two. No wonder it took so long.”
Xu Zhixia’s thoughts drifted back to her past life.
Her marriage to Lu Xiuyuan had been arranged by her grandfather and the old master of the Lu family.
She had been pampered since childhood and liked scholarly, refined men. She never liked a rough man like him.
What’s more, on their wedding night, he had tormented her in bed the entire night.
She ran a fever for two days before she recovered.
That experience only made her more afraid of Lu Xiuyuan. From then on, she avoided him whenever she could.
Fortunately, he was a soldier and rarely stayed home he came back once a year, for one month at a time.
But every time he returned, the moment he saw her, he would drag her to bed.
They had been married four years and still had no children.
Maybe that was the reason.
This year, Lu Xiuyuan had clearly already come back once, yet he returned again.
It irritated her endlessly.
Bai Qingya was the daughter of her father’s benefactor and had lived with their family for several years. Not only had they supported her through high school, they had even pulled strings to get her a spot at a Worker-Peasant-Soldier University.
Her father told them to get along well.
He said Bai Qingya’s background was pitiful.
Out of sympathy, Xu Zhixia had shown her some kindness.
Bai Qingya was good at sweet talk. The two men in the family her brother and her father both liked Bai Jingya more.
Xu Zhixia instead became invisible at home.
Under Bai Jingya’s deliberate guidance, she grew to dislike Lu Xiuyuan more and more.
And in that regard, they were terribly mismatched.
He lasted too long, and she couldn’t fully accommodate him.
It felt completely incompatible simply painful torment.
Bai Jingya had also brainwashed her into thinking that Lu Xiuyuan only treated her as a tool.
She even came up with a “brilliant” idea.
She told Xu Zhixia to bring her to stay in the marital home.
With a third person in the house, surely the man wouldn’t do anything to her.
In her previous life, Xu Zhixia thought it was a good idea and brought her over while Lu Xiuyuan was on leave.
Sure enough, that time Lu Xiuyuan restrained himself quite a bit.
Then she listened to Bai Jingya again and spent her days going out with a male classmate.
But last night, who knew what got into him his eyes red, he came in and dragged her straight to bed.
They went at it until dawn.
Xu Zhixia woke up early in the morning with a miserable face. She hadn’t expected even this trick to fail!
Bai Qingya offered her another clever idea.
As long as she pretended to slit her wrist, Lu Xiuyuan would definitely agree.
Sure enough, she cut her wrist, and Lu Xiuyuan agreed to divorce.
When Bai Jingya came to comfort her, she suddenly faced another problem there was already a baby in her belly.
If she divorced, what about the child?
Bai Jingya immediately suggested taking her to get an abortion.
Before she knew it, they had already arrived at the marital home prepared for the two of them by the Lu family. It was a small, detached two-story house.
It wasn’t large, but it was easy to maintain.
Back then, just two days after the wedding, she had cried and demanded to move out of the Lu family’s old residence, and that was how they ended up here.
Standing there now, she felt dazed, even her movement to push open the door a beat too slow.
Beside her, Bai Jingya carefully tried to persuade her:
“It’s hard being a single mother. You don’t know what kind of pressure you’ll face. It’s better to abort the child.”
Xu Zhixia clenched her hands nervously. She didn’t know whether Lu Xiuyuan was home right now. She felt a little expectant and a little nervous.
Hearing that, she glanced at Bai Jingya.
“Who said I’m getting divorced? I want the child. I want the man too. From now on, we’ll live properly.”
In her previous life, when she married, she had never intended to divorce.
It was only after meeting Bai Jingya and being constantly brainwashed that she increasingly felt Lu Xiuyuan didn’t know how to cherish her that he only cared about his own release.
That was when she started thinking about divorce. But it had been her own decision. She could only blame herself for being foolish.
Bai Jingya shrieked:
“What did you say? You’re not divorcing?”
Xu Zhixia looked at her calmly and voiced her thoughts.
“What? Were you hoping we’d divorce?”
“No, no, I just think you’ve planned this for so long you even cut your wrist. It would be a pity not to go through with it.”
Bai Jingya had transmigrated five years ago. After much effort, she’d finally used connections to rise from a country girl to a formal employee in the capital, holding an iron rice bowl.
But she wasn’t satisfied. It was the perfect time for Reform and Opening Up, and she wanted to make a fortune.
In practice, she found it wasn’t that simple.
Without someone backing you in business, anyone could bully you.
Even sourcing goods from Yangcheng meant risking being robbed along the way.
Buying and selling property required waiting a while before making money.
And as an ordinary worker, buying a house was pure fantasy.
She had read the novel “Sweet Military Marriage in the Eighties” and knew that the Lu Xiuyuan Xu Zhixia married would have a brilliant future.
Xu Zhixia, foolish and brainless, only rose to prominence because she married the right man.
She eventually became one of the richest people in Huaguo.
How much of that was due to Lu Xiuyuan was obvious.
When Bai Jingya read the book, she especially liked this man.
Lu Xiuyuan was the type who guided you to become better without you realizing it. As long as she could snatch him away, wealth, glory, money, and power would all be hers.
As a regiment commander, if Lu Xiuyuan became her backing, wouldn’t business be a breeze?
While she was talking, Xu Zhixia had already pushed the door open.
In her previous life, she hadn’t been very attached to this place. Most of the things in the courtyard had been arranged by Lu Xiuyuan.
She hadn’t been satisfied with the marriage and hadn’t put much thought into it.
Even the vegetable patch in the yard was bare.
Inside, the house had only the simplest furniture.
As soon as she stepped into the bedroom, she saw the shocking bloodstains still lingering in the bathroom. Lu Xiuyuan was nowhere to be seen.
She let out a breath of relief. Good he hadn’t come back yet.
After running around outside for half the day, she was exhausted. And she was carrying two babies in her belly. She quickly sat down.
Seeing Bai Qingya standing beside her, she jerked her chin.
“If you’re not busy, go clean up the bathroom over there.”
Bai Qingya pointed at herself in disbelief.
“Me?”
“Of course.” Xu Zhixia lifted her wrist lazily. “Don’t tell me you expect a pregnant woman to do the cleaning?”