The Baby I Lost Is Actually with My Ex-Husband!-Chapter 854: Aren’t You Unwilling to Let Go?

Chapter 854: Chapter 854: Aren’t You Unwilling to Let Go?

The men who were teasing scattered in all directions.

The sound of a slap echoed.

Chu Yunhang couldn’t avoid it in time and ended up being collateral damage, forcibly taking the slap.

The wine glass in Chu Yunhang’s hand spilled onto himself.

He looked up, seeing Rong Xiaoyi’s flushed face.

Under the blinding and flickering disco lights.

Rong Xiaoyi couldn’t make out who had broken her strap, and seeing Chu Yunhang’s shocked face, she paused, realizing she had slapped the wrong person.

However, Chu Yunhang laughed, "Miss, calm down."

Rong Xiaoyi clenched her fists, unable to apologize in time, and turned to run.

Chu Yunhang touched his swollen face, thinking, this little girl really doesn’t hold back.

Nonetheless, he remembered her face because of it.

It wasn’t difficult to find out which school she attended.

The study-abroad circle in Missouri wasn’t very large; soon, Chu Yunhang found the school Rong Xiaoyi attended.

That day, after university classes were let out.

Rong Xiaoyi had just reached the school gate when she saw a Porsche parked at the entrance.

Chu Yunhang leaned against the car door, and when he saw her, he stood up: "Hey, um... ’Miss Slap’."

Rong Xiaoyi didn’t recognize him, frowning slightly.

Chu Yunhang walked up to her, slightly bending down, "The other day, you slapped me, do you remember?"

Rong Xiaoyi’s first impression of him wasn’t good.

After all, he mingled with those people, frequently visiting those smoky, chaotic places; he couldn’t possibly be a decent person.

Chu Yunhang said, "No need to be so tense. I just wanted to ask if you think you should apologize for slapping the wrong person?"

...

Huo Zijin: "So, that’s how you two met?"

Chu Yunhang nodded.

Huo Zijin: "Were you pursuing her?"

Chu Yunhang: "She was quite hard to pursue."

She said she didn’t like guys who went to bars.

He promised her he wouldn’t go anymore.

She said she didn’t like guys who drank alcohol.

He also promised her he wouldn’t drink anymore.

She also said...she hated people with tattoos.

He endured the pain and had the tattoos removed.

Later, on Christmas, she finally agreed to his pursuit.

They were together.

They were together for five years.

He never expected to realize that he was actually such a "devoted" person.

Ye Ling: "Did you two get married?"

Chu Yunhang shook his head.

Ye Ling couldn’t help but take a sharp breath: "Then how did you end up having a child?"

Chu Yunhang suddenly fell silent.

Huo Zijin stared intently into his eyes.

He said irritably, "I wasn’t careful enough."

A simple sentence covered it all; it was clear he didn’t want to discuss the origin of the child.

He also couldn’t mention it.

He didn’t deny being a scoundrel, but he wasn’t so scoundrelly as to let a woman he loved have a child out of wedlock.

But as for the origin of that child, he could never tell anyone.

In fact—

In the second year of their relationship.

Rong Xiaoyi suddenly brought up breaking up with him.

During that time, she was acting strange, rarely returning his calls, rarely contacting him on her own.

She even rarely hugged him, kissed him, and resisted his touch.

He thought she had cheated and fallen for another guy, so he wanted to confront her.

That night, he went to her apartment, pushed the door open, and saw her lying on the bed, wrapped tightly in a quilt, as if she had a fever, delirious.

He walked over, and when she saw him coming, she became tense, holding the quilt tightly.

He noticed something was amiss and lifted the quilt—revealing her body covered in dense bruises and scars.

Some were pinch marks, some were bite marks.

And on the bedside table, there was a hidden ultrasound report.

His English proficiency was limited; basic communication was fine, but he couldn’t understand the professional terms, yet he could understand—she was pregnant.

But the child wasn’t his.

Four months.

She was so thin that even at four and a half months pregnant, he hadn’t noticed any abnormalities.

It was also that night that he learned the truth: Rong Xiaoyi had been assaulted by her university tutor.

He didn’t dare ask how it happened.

Because of this, she developed severe PTSD.

He thought about how to handle this child.

Rong Xiaoyi wanted to have an abortion, but there were no doctors licensed to perform the procedure in Missouri.

Going to another state for an abortion involved many complicated procedures.

In short...

Due to various complex circumstances, the child had to be born.

Chu Yunhang promised her that he would acknowledge the child and accept her.

She said she was dirty.

She said the child was dirty too.

He comforted her, saying she wasn’t dirty, nor was the child.

She was his.

The child was his too.

He liked the child, just like he liked her.

Three and a half years.

He stood by her through the most difficult three and a half years.

In those three and a half years, he had to take care of her and the child.

Even if the child’s background wasn’t honorable, he couldn’t abandon it.

Abandonment would be a grave crime—besides,

He didn’t believe a child was born with original sin.

So, he secretly placed the child in another apartment, hired a nanny, and took care of it carefully.

And his entire focus was on her.

Until now, she finally gradually emerged from the shadow.

Like self-hypnosis, she really believed that the child was hers and Chu Yunhang’s, and under this self-deception, she slowly became more optimistic, more cheerful, willing to embrace the child, play and talk with it.

Chu Yunhang snapped back from his chaotic thoughts and looked at Huo Zijin, "I’ve decided to break up with her."

He thought it over carefully for a whole night.

Breaking up might not be a bad thing.

At least for her.

She could return home, forget about him, and all the bleak memories abroad.

And the secret about this child would be buried deep in his heart.

He wouldn’t tell anyone.

Until she completely forgot that nightmare.

When she becomes her clean self again while finding a man who loves her and then they would marry, start their own family, and eventually, have a child brought into the world from love and joy, not from hatred and violence.

Huo Zijin saw through his lie but didn’t expose him.

Maybe everyone has a secret they don’t want to reveal.

But she was certain, this Chu Yunhang, actually loved Rong Xiaoyi quite deeply, not the "scoundrel" her brother claimed he was.

Chu Yunhang said, "I don’t want to talk about these things anymore. After some time, I’ll return to the United States. I hope she can forget me and that child."

Huo Zijin said, "Probably! After all, anyone can live well without someone. I believe if it wasn’t for you, she would fare well too."

Chu Yunhang suddenly fell silent again.

Huo Zijin said, "But, don’t you feel unwilling? You two have been together for so long, if it were me, I would certainly be reluctant. I would never give up on someone I love, and who loves me."