Blood?
Zhou Suisui’s brows furrowed into a deep crease, and she slowly turned around.
The color gradually drained from her face, replaced by panic.
No, no… She didn’t want to die yet…
There weren’t many customers in the shop at that hour. The proprietress had noticed that the two of them were unusually good-looking, so she had been sitting nearby watching melodramatic short videos while listening to their conversation.
She seemed to have discovered something huge!
Just now, the girl had demanded to know whether the man was still planning to meet some “Su Wan.” She had even asked to see his phone.
The proprietress guessed that the two were probably boyfriend and girlfriend.
They even looked rather like a married couple.
The girl was clearly young and inexperienced.
Seeing her panic-stricken and helpless expression, the proprietress instinctively cried out a reminder.
“Oh, young man, what are you waiting for? Hurry and get her to the hospital! It could be a miscarriage!”
There was far more blood than a normal period would involve.
“What?!”
“A miscarriage?!”
“Jiang Zongyan’s?!!”
The siblings were both stunned.
The moment their eyes met, one looked as though the sky had collapsed, while the other was frantic and at a loss.
“No, no, no! Brother, that’s really not it!”
Zhou Suisui looked as though she were about to cry.
She stood there without daring to move, afraid that any movement would make the bleeding worse.
At the same time, a sharp, stabbing pain began radiating through her lower abdomen, scrambling her thoughts.
Her little face, flushed red from anger only moments ago, had now turned visibly pale.
“Zhou! Sui! Sui!”
The veins on the side of the man’s neck bulged. With his teeth clenched, he looked as though he could devour someone alive.
Yet his actions were even faster. He took off his jacket and wrapped it around her.
“It’s all right. Your brother’s here!”
Zhou Sui'an picked her up and rushed outside, his long legs pounding against the ground.
After his mind went blank for a moment, he had completely come to his senses—and was now thoroughly panicked.
On one hand, the thing he had been worrying about and desperately trying to prevent had happened after all.
On the other hand, he must have made his sister so angry just now that she had been thrown into premature labor.
His mind was filled with only two questions: Was his sister all right? Was the baby all right?
If anything happened to his sister, he would never forgive himself for the rest of his life!
“Suisui, hold on. I’ll get you to the hospital right away.”
“You’ll be fine!”
“Your brother’s here. I’ll stay right here with you.”
Large beads of sweat rolled down Zhou Sui'an’s handsome, unruly face.
Looking at how anxious her brother was, something suddenly flashed through Zhou Suisui’s mind.
She seemed to have forgotten something vitally important.
That’s right!
She had been reborn a year ago.
At this time the previous year, her periods had been extremely irregular.
Whenever she got her period, she suffered such excruciating pain that she could barely survive without painkillers.
Because of this, her brother had sought out every renowned doctor he could find. He had even personally gone to medicinal-herb farmers in the southwest to purchase several rare ingredients, suffering plenty of hardship in the process.
After half a year of treatment and recuperation, her menstrual cycle had finally returned to normal.
So… this wasn’t some fatal illness. Her period had simply arrived.
She had been so agitated just now that a large amount of blood had suddenly gushed out.
She already suffered from severe menstrual cramps, and she had barely slept the previous night. That was why the pain was especially intense now.
What a massive misunderstanding.
Zhou Suisui was both amused and exasperated.
Zhou Sui'an flagged down a car by the roadside while carrying her.
After they got in, he still couldn’t bear to put his sister down.
He kept her seated on his lap, the sweat on his forehead dampening the loose strands of hair above his brow. He looked utterly disheveled.
The phone in his pocket kept ringing.
Zhou Sui'an took it out, didn’t even glance at the screen, and turned it off directly.
…
Curled up in her brother’s arms, Zhou Suisui secretly studied him from the corner of her eye, her pupils darting rapidly.
If she told her brother now that she had only gotten her period… would he hit her?
And besides… what exactly had Su Wan sent him just now?
What had made him so anxious?
If he found out she was fine, would he immediately abandon her and rush back to Tang City to look for Su Wan?
But if she didn’t explain herself—
Could she really pin something as serious as a pregnancy on Jiang Zongyan?
Using him as an excuse to get him to accompany her for a meal or two was one thing, but putting a pregnancy on his head…?
Jiang Zongyan would probably kill her outright!
But under the circumstances, she couldn’t worry about that anymore.
Brother Yan, I’m really sorry!
Seeing that she had gone silent and was quietly nestled in his arms, Zhou Sui'an looked at her anxiously with his dark eyes.
“Why aren’t you saying anything? Is it hurting more?”
“…”
“Say something. Don’t scare me.”
Zhou Sui'an thought she was in so much pain that she couldn’t speak.
Gripping his sleeve with her small hand, Zhou Suisui asked hesitantly, “Brother, are you… are you still going to look for Su Wan?”
“I’m not going!”
“Never again!”
“Your brother isn’t going anywhere. I’ll stay right here with you!”
Zhou Sui'an raised a hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, his voice choked and trembling.
His sister was already in this state. How could he go anywhere?
He wasn’t going anywhere. He would stay right here and watch over her.
It was all his fault for failing to take proper care of her, allowing his little sister to suffer such an “unforeseen disaster” at only nineteen.
“…”
Zhou Suisui could feel her brother’s arms trembling.
He was clearly worried to the extreme.
Had she taken this a little too far?
Zhou Suisui’s heart waged an intense battle.
Should she send Jiang Zongyan a message in advance and beg him to help her put on an act?
No, no, no.
She didn’t want to die that quickly!
If she did that, there would be no way to hide the fact that she had deliberately approached him, deliberately flirted with him, and taken advantage of him.
To Jiang Zongyan, deception was the one thing he could never tolerate.
“Brother, I don’t want to go to the hospital…”
“No!”
“…”
“Then don’t tell Brother Yan… okay?”
Zhou Suisui gripped her brother’s fingers tightly, her heart in a complete panic.
Look what a mess she had made of things… She had no idea how to resolve it now.
Zhou Sui'an was utterly speechless. He clenched his hand into a fist, his knuckles cracking loudly.
“You’re finally admitting it? The baby is his!”
“…”
Zhou Suisui felt as though she had two heads and six arms.
Was that really the important part?
When he refused to agree, Zhou Suisui had no choice but to use her ultimate weapon.
She pouted, her eyes reddening, and pleaded shamelessly, “Brother, please just agree, will you? You don’t want this getting out and becoming the talk of the town, do you? Besides, aren’t you always saying that Brother Yan has bad intentions? What if he finds out and turns around to laugh at you? What will you do then?”
“…”
Zhou Sui'an’s heart jolted violently. He almost ground his teeth to pieces.
That bastard Jiang Zongyan!
If he found out about this, he would definitely be gloating inwardly.
