Wife, I’ve Been Reborn (GL) - Chapter 44
Chapter 44
Xu Liangchen returned home to find Ye Jin tidying up. She shuddered when she heard footsteps, then quickly turned around. She quietly let out a sigh of relief when she saw it was Xu Liangchen.
“Chenchen, you’re back.”
Xu Liangchen felt a little heartache at how nervous she was. She walked to Ye Jin’s side. “Mom, let’s get a divorce.”
Ye Jin had not thought about divorce.
Actually, she had thought about it many times.
She and Xu An’s marriage was arranged by their parents. It was okay at first. Xu An wasn’t so addicted to gambling and would still be considerate of her family.
Later, when he brought her to A City, he completely revealed his true nature, spending every day lingering in small gambling dens. In fact, she couldn’t stand it for a long time.
But then there was Chenchen.
She didn’t want Chenchen to bear the burden of being from a single-parent family, so she had to continue living with Xu An. Later, her parents passed away one after another, and she didn’t have much contact with her brother, so there was even less support for her.
She not only made herself so miserable.
She also harmed Chenchen…
Ye Jin felt a little guilty when she thought of this and nodded. “Okay.”
Xu Liangchen knew that divorcing someone like Xu An was not an easy thing. Although he had no affection for this family, he would come back to cause trouble whenever he was out of money.
This was the only place where he could find a little bit of his dignity as a man, so how could he easily agree to a divorce?
But how would they know if it wasn’t possible if they didn’t try?
Moreover, moving so often was not a long-term solution. They still needed to find a way to eliminate future troubles.
Ye Jin made a bowl of noodles for Xu Liangchen and brought it into her room. Xu Liangchen had already washed up and was lying in bed. After she finished the noodles, Ye Jin said, “Chenchen, how about we move first, and we can talk about the divorce later…”
In fact, Ye Jin wanted to wait until after Xu Liangchen’s college entrance exams to talk about the divorce.
At this critical time, she didn’t want her to be distracted.
Xu Liangchen shook her head. “Let’s deal with the divorce first.”
“Moving…”
“No rush.”
Ye Jin nodded, took the bowl and chopsticks, and left the room. Xu Liangchen took out her pencil case from her backpack, took out a pen, carefully untangled the hair wrapped around it, and then put it on her ring finger.
The black hair wrapped around her fair, slender finger was particularly striking.
Xu Liangchen looked at her finger for a long time, sighed, took some medicine, and went to sleep.
The weather on Saturday was not good. There was a light rain.
In this cold winter, the raindrops on her face felt like ice cubes, a bone-chilling cold.
Mu Nan was still waiting at the front door early. When she saw Xu Liangchen coming, she quickly went over with an umbrella.
She wrapped her cotton jacket tightly around herself and was still shivering as she spoke. “Are you cold? I brought you a hand warmer.”
She placed the hand warmer she was holding in her arms in Xu Liangchen’s hand. A warm current flowed from Xu Liangchen’s hand into her heart. She held the hand warmer without saying a word.
There was no one at school yet. Mu Nan was a little unhappy looking at the light rain outside. She kept sighing. Xu Liangchen asked her what was wrong.
Mu Nan didn’t answer. She was afraid it would still be raining after school.
This would ruin their plan for a date.
The weather was getting colder, and the rain outside was getting heavier. At noon, Xu Liangchen and Mu Nan didn’t go home for lunch and quickly ate at the cafeteria.
More students were not going home for lunch at noon. Even if Mu Nan had something to say to Xu Liangchen, she felt it was inappropriate, so she buried her head in her homework.
She was more self-disciplined now. In the past, she would only write when Xu Liangchen pushed her to. Now, she would take the initiative to do it herself and ask Xu Liangchen questions about the problems she didn’t understand.
Although she still needed to be taught two or three times to understand, her attitude was much more earnest than before.
Even Xiaoxin was amazed by her change.
In class, she quietly asked her deskmate if sitting next to a top student would make her unconsciously get inspired?
Her deskmate replied unhappily, “What inspiration? With your level of understanding, let alone a top student, even if the dean of students sat next to you, you wouldn’t get inspired.”
“Your enlightenment is lacking!”
Xiaoxin gritted her teeth and bickered back and forth with her deskmate. In front of her, Mu Nan was concentrating on her test paper, while Xu Liangchen’s gaze was on the rain outside.
She hoped it would rain less when school ended.
The heavens did not hear her prayer. The rain was falling even faster when school ended. As soon as the bell rang, Mu Nan was the first to stand up, holding her umbrella, and stood smiling at the door, waiting for Xu Liangchen.
Xu Liangchen simply packed her backpack and followed Mu Nan with her head bowed.
Mu Nan’s eyes were smiling. “Where are we going?”
Xu Liangchen looked at her expression. Her slender fingers took the handle of the umbrella from her hand. “I’ll take you somewhere.”
Mu Nan followed behind Xu Liangchen.
Ten minutes later, the two of them were standing at the edge of South Lake. Mu Nan kept breathing on her hands. “What are we doing here?”
Xu Liangchen glanced at the time on her electronic watch. It was five minutes to five. Song Bei was always punctual.
Mu Nan was still wondering why Xu Liangchen had brought her here, when a child suddenly ran over and charged straight at Xu Liangchen.
Xu Liangchen couldn’t get out of the way in time. Mu Nan wanted to push Xu Liangchen away, but she didn’t expect Xu Liangchen to be standing at the edge of South Lake. Xu Liangchen fell backward, and then there was a plop as she fell into the water!
“F*ck!”
Xu Liangchen didn’t expect to be the one to fall in. This was completely different from what she had imagined. She no longer cared about her manners and cursed at herself.
Mu Nan was very anxious when she saw her fall. She wanted to jump in after her. The child who caused the trouble looked at the fallen Xu Liangchen with a pale face. His parents ran over from behind.
The mother saw someone had fallen in and shouted at the man next to her, “Quickly, go down and save her!”
Mu Nan felt a little relieved when she saw a man also jump into the river.
She actually didn’t know how to swim at all. If she had jumped in just now, she might have become a burden to them.
After cursing, Xu Liangchen felt that something was wrong. She had just been immersed in the water. Because she hadn’t exercised before, her calf cramped!
This was terrible!
She thrashed in the water, but still felt her body sinking. Not only was there a bone-chilling pain in her calf, but the wound on her abdomen also seemed to have split open. The cold water felt like a snake drilling in, irritating her and making her unable to resist opening her mouth.
Then she choked on a mouthful of water.
In her line of sight, a person threw away their umbrella and swam toward her!
Even if that person was turned to dust, she wouldn’t mistake them!
It was Song Bei!
Fck!*
Xu Liangchen cursed herself again in her heart and then completely fainted.
Mu Nan saw that the man was about to save Xu Liangchen when a black figure also jumped in. She swam very fast, went straight to Xu Liangchen’s side, and used her arm to support her and swim toward the shore.
The man also helped to bring Xu Liangchen’s body toward the shore.
Mu Nan’s gaze was on the woman. Her short hair was stuck to her face, and the small suit she was wearing was completely wet. She wasn’t far away, and she could feel the woman exuding an aura of sharpness.
It was very similar to how she felt the first time she saw Xu Liangchen.
And this woman.
Xu Liangchen knew her.
It was Song Bei.
She had seen her in a picture.
Song Bei placed Xu Liangchen on the shore. A group of men in black suits immediately followed. The couple who had caused the trouble quickly left with their child when they saw the scene.
Only Mu Nan was left standing there, all alone.
Mu Nan walked a few steps toward Xu Liangchen and saw Song Bei giving her first aid. She took off Xu Liangchen’s cotton jacket, unbuttoned the shirt underneath to above her chest, revealing a large area of skin, and then pried open her mouth and listened for a while.
Mu Nan subconsciously stood on the side of her that was facing away from Song Bei. Song Bei’s gaze swept over her, but she didn’t tell her to leave.
Song Bei then began to give Xu Liangchen chest compressions. When she didn’t see any results, she pinched Xu Liangchen’s nose and lowered her head. Mu Nan immediately covered Xu Liangchen’s mouth and looked at Song Bei with a little anger. “What are you doing?”
Song Bei took Mu Nan’s arm away. “Giving her mouth-to-mouth.”
“What’s wrong? Do you know how?”
Mu Nan bit her lip. She had learned a little, but she had never practiced on a living person, and this wasn’t just practice…
But she just didn’t want Xu Liangchen and Song Bei to have this kind of contact!
As the two of them were in a stalemate, Xu Liangchen suddenly coughed lightly. Water flowed out of the corners of her mouth, and she looked distressed.
Song Bei helped Xu Liangchen turn to one side, then gently patted her back a few times, helping her catch her breath. The words she said were almost gritted. “This is a very unique welcome gift.”
Xu Liangchen ignored her.
She felt like the injured area had torn open from all the thrashing she had been doing underwater. Her fingers touched her lower abdomen, and there was a streak of red bl00d. Only then did Mu Nan follow her hand and see the red spot on her lower abdomen. “Are you hurt?”
Then Song Bei suddenly turned Xu Liangchen’s body over. Xu Liangchen felt the world spinning. Song Bei’s gaze also landed on the spot that was stained red.
She had never thought the wound would reopen before.
Song Bei stood up, her tone hurried. “What are you waiting for?! Bring the car over!”
The man heard Song Bei’s command and ran off, disappearing in an instant. In less than two minutes, the car arrived. Song Bei picked up Xu Liangchen and got into the car. Mu Nan also followed closely behind. Song Bei subconsciously frowned. “Classmate…”
Mu Nan walked past her, opened the car door, and got in. “I have to go with her.”
Song Bei glanced at Xu Liangchen’s expression, didn’t say anything, and tacitly agreed.
The few of them arrived at the hospital.
It was the same doctor as last time. He just shook his head when he saw Xu Liangchen being brought in. Was this girl’s fate a bad one this year? Why was she always getting hurt?
He simply treated her wound, hung up two bottles of IV fluids next to Xu Liangchen’s bed, and then left with a grimace, seeing a student standing on her left and Song Bei on her right.
The room door was closed with a click. The three people in the room all had their own thoughts.
Xu Liangchen never imagined that she would be the one sent to the hospital.
She realized that her plan.
Had completely gone awry.
For the first time, she had the illusion that fate was deliberately working against her.
Mu Nan and Song Bei looked at each other, and then Mu Nan leaned on the edge of Xu Liangchen’s bed. “Are you okay?”
Xu Liangchen nodded. It wasn’t that big of a deal.
She said to Mu Nan, “Go help me get some water.”
Mu Nan nodded, picked up a paper cup, and left the room.
Xu Liangchen looked at Song Bei, feeling a little amused. How did things end up like this?
“That was Mu Nan.”
She’s the one… you should like.
Song Bei hummed. The young girl who was all teeth and claws, had no presence, and still wanted to show her defiance.
Her voice was calm. “You should rest. I’ll pick you up from your house tomorrow morning.”
Xu Liangchen sighed. “Do you… have any thoughts about Mu Nan?”
Song Bei looked at her expression and scrutinized her carefully for a long time. “No thoughts. You kept saying you wanted to introduce me to someone. Was it her?”
“Is there anything special about her?”
Xu Liangchen lowered her eyelids.
She really wasn’t anything special.
But she was the one who captured your heart.
When Mu Nan came in, both of them were silent. Song Bei saw her come in, turned around, and left the room. Uncle Chen immediately handed her a jacket. “Why are you all wet? You didn’t even change your clothes. What if you catch a cold in this winter?!”
His tone was nagging.
Song Bei looked down at her drenched self, a little amused.
She had actually forgotten that she was the most afraid of the cold.