Shuangling: Braving the Rapids

Time slipped by little by little, and the short-haired pregnant woman reappeared in Yue Chuan's sight.

She staggered along, then shook off her husband's outstretched hand. The man in the baseball cap stamped his feet in frustration, but only dared to hold an umbrella and his bag, standing half a step behind his wife to protect her.

When they were still a few dozen steps from the grave, the short-haired pregnant woman stopped and suddenly snatched the canvas bag from her husband's hand. The man was about to say something, but she scolded and forced him back, giving him a heavy shove on the shoulder.

What grudge the couple might have was of no concern to others, but the short-haired pregnant woman turned around and walked alone towards the wet grave in the rain.

"Aimin, I've come to see you..."

The short-haired woman, tears welling in her eyes, forced a smile and slowly pulled a bunch of lilies from her canvas bag. Yes, lilies, with red tassels adorning their green stems, were exactly the same as the Chinese knot on Aimin's keychain.

"After all these years, I wonder if you still like this..."

As she spoke, the short-haired pregnant woman bent down with difficulty and placed a lily with a red tassel on the grave.

Two scalding tears fell onto the muddy ground. At that moment, the pregnant woman seemed to feel fetal movement, and her delicate face...

It became painful and twisted.

The pregnant woman was in unbearable abdominal pain and was clearly exhausted. She stumbled and collapsed on the grave mound, her white clothes covered in red mud, making her look quite undignified.

But the pregnant woman didn't seem to care about any of that. She could no longer suppress her emotions, so she put her arms on the grave and burst into tears.

"I know it's too late to say anything now, but I still want to say 'I'm sorry,' I'm sorry... If only I had insisted just a little bit more back then..."

Compared to Chen Yun, who was sobbing with her face covered in front of the tombstone, this pregnant woman cried her heart out, her cries were so heart-wrenching that they made even the heavens weep.

The man in the baseball cap saw his wife kneeling in the dirty mud, crying her eyes out, and ultimately "disobeyed orders" and rushed over.

He shivered as he draped his jacket over his wife's shoulders. Before the umbrella could fully cover her, a loud shout rang in his ears: "Get out! You're not allowed near Aimin! You despicable, shameless scoundrel! You liar who talks a load of nonsense!"

Upon hearing this, a strange look appeared in Chen Yun's eyes, while Yue Chuan, who was about to rush over to help, froze on the spot.

What kind of wife talks to her husband like that? Isn't that going a bit too far?

"Baihe, I admit I used my cleverness to trick Aimin back then, but his accident has nothing to do with me!" The man hunched over like a shrimp caught in the rain. "If you don't think about me, you should at least think about the child in your belly! Can't we just live a good life together?"

The man's answer was so humble and shameless that it disgusted the woman.

"Shut up!" Li Baihe suddenly grabbed a handful of wet mud and threw it at him, the mud splattering on his chin. "Chen Tiansheng! You're a bastard! An executioner! It was you...it was you who ruined Aimin's future! Ruined us..."

"Baihe, please stop being so stubborn. I admit I made mistakes before, but I truly love you! I married you and treat you with all my heart, is that wrong?"

The man tried his best to defend himself, but in his wife's eyes, it was all just sophistry.

"I won't listen! Go away! Go away!" Li Baihe cried out, covering his ears, the mud on his hands now completely obscuring his fair face.

"What do you want from me to forgive me? Just because I reported him back then, you want a divorce? This...this is too absurd..." Chen Tian pounded his chest angrily, but he couldn't do anything about his wife. Clearly, the couple had argued about this topic countless times.

The man gritted his teeth, but dared not lash out at his pregnant wife. He glanced at Chen Yun in front of the tombstone, his eyes filled with a murderous glint. If it weren't for that bitch revealing the secret to Li Baihe, would he have ended up in such a state?

While the man was still pondering something, Li Baihe poked her husband with her finger, then pointed at the grave and roared, "You killed Aimin, you killed me! It's all your fault! You immediately kowtow to Aimin and apologize! Kneel down!"

In the past two days, Li Baihe learned a lot from her best friend. It turned out that Chen Tiansheng had instigated Aimin to post the proclamation and denounce him, which caused Aimin to lose his promising future.

In Li Baihe's view, if it weren't for Chen Tiansheng's interference, Aimin wouldn't have been punished by the school. If Aimin had graduated smoothly, if he had stayed in the provincial capital to work, if he hadn't broken up with her, if the two of them had gotten married, if everything had gone according to plan, would these subsequent events have happened?

The moment Li Baihe learned the truth, she was convinced that her marriage was a scam. She hated Chen Tiansheng and was prepared to divorce him as soon as the child was born. In addition, she wanted her husband to kneel before the dead.

At this moment, Chen Tiansheng stood there dumbfounded, never expecting that his wife would make him kneel down to her ex-boyfriend.

How ironic! He schemed and plotted, finally winning the heart of his beloved, and now that they've consummated their relationship, he's forced to kneel before his old rival—why should he? I, Chen Tiansheng, am the victor!

"Will you kneel or not?" Li Baihe roared resolutely again. "I'll ask you one more time, will you kneel or not!"

Before Chen Tiansheng could react, Li Baihe had already raised his fist high and then started pounding his lower abdomen like a madman.

What if I damage the seed inside its belly?

Chen Tiansheng had no time to think. He rushed forward and grabbed his wife's arm. Li Baihe was heartbroken. She struggled and wailed, "Get away from me! Get away from me! Don't bother Aimin and me anymore!"

"Okay, okay, I'll leave right away. You...you stop hurting yourself, don't hit the child..."

Chen Tiansheng was a scoundrel, but he appeared extremely submissive in front of Li Baihe. However, the more he tried to appease his wife, the more violently she resisted. To an outsider, it would seem as if the two were wrestling.

Seeing the two arguing more and more fiercely, Chen Yun couldn't bear it any longer. She wiped away her tears and stepped forward to break them up, but unexpectedly, Chen Tiansheng suddenly turned on her and lashed out:

"Chen Yunyun! Now you know how to play the good guy? If you hadn't exposed all that mess to Baihe, would she have wanted a divorce from me? Aimin is dead, so you're going to be a widow for him! Why are you causing trouble for us? You can't stand seeing others doing well, can you? Isn't that right!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Yun was furious, almost stabbing the man in the face with her finger. She cursed, "Chen Tiansheng, you bastard! You're just jealous of Aimin! He's more outstanding than you! More upright than you! More favored by Professor Meng than you! You're nothing but a parasite who lives off your parents! Bah! Bai He was blind to marry you!"

If Aimin hadn't died, Chen Yun would have kept these words to herself. Even if Chen Tiansheng was a despicable person, it was quite inappropriate for her, as Li Baihe's best friend, to criticize her husband to his face. No matter what the relationship between the couple was like in the future, she would not get any good results.

But things had already come to this point, and Chen Yun couldn't care less about anything else. She just wanted to humiliate the Chen family in front of Aimin's grave, since they had taken everything that should have belonged to Aimin.

These words completely enraged Chen Tiansheng. He waved his arms and roared, "You bitch! You're the same! They just broke up and you're already rushing back to him. If you miss him so much, why don't you go down and die with him?!"

At this moment, Chen Tiansheng had lost all semblance of his former refinement. He vented all the humiliation he had suffered at the hands of his wife on Chen Yun. The man finally dropped his pretense and was now barking and biting wildly like a mad dog, abandoning even the last shred of dignity.

In just over ten minutes, Yue Chuan couldn't figure out the grudges between the three. In order to prevent the three from disturbing Uncle Aimin's peace, the boy spoke up to stop them, but at that moment, Chen Tiansheng grinned ferociously and kicked Chen Yun hard.

Chen Yun was only two steps away from the man, with no time to dodge, and instinctively took half a step back. In a flash, Li Baihe, who was swaying as he rushed over, was already in front of her.

When Chen Yun came to her senses, Li Baihe, who had taken the kick for her, immediately fell into a mud pit.

"Baihe! Are you alright, Baihe?" Chen Yun rushed over to help, and in her haste, she suddenly touched something sticky. Upon closer inspection, she saw that her best friend's crotch was stained with a large amount of blood.

Chen Tiansheng was dumbfounded. He realized that he had kicked his wife squarely in the stomach!

The thought that his baby, only a few months old, had been kicked to death by him, the father, made Chen Tiansheng's face turn ashen; he probably felt like dying.

Li Baihe was curled up in the mud, gasping for breath in pain. Chen Tiansheng stood there as if struck by lightning, while Chen Yun was still somewhat conscious.

"Everyone, lend a hand! Quickly lift Baihe into the car, to...to the hospital!"

Chen Yun's voice cracked from shouting, which finally snapped everyone out of their panic. Chen Tiansheng scrambled to his wife's side, while Yue Chuan rushed forward to help. The three of them lifted her up and ran towards the SUV.

It was several hundred meters from the cemetery to the SUV. The three of them ran, panting heavily, and finally managed to settle Li Baihe in the back seat of the car.

Chen Yun tore off her clothes to stop Bai He's bleeding, Chen Tiansheng trembled as he started the car, and Yue Chuan bent over and pushed the car with all his might.

Fortunately, the car, which was stuck in the mud, roared out of the mud and sped down the mountain.

Who could have imagined that a sorrowful memorial service would end in an even more tragic way...