In her lifetime, the person she least wanted to hurt was her elder sister, yet now, the cruel hurt was also caused by her. Ling Chuxia bit her lower lip nearly to the point of drawing blood, "I’m sorry, elder sister, I really am sorry..."
"Why, Xiaxia, why?" Ling Yunshu suddenly reached out and grasped Ling Chuxia’s shoulders, her grip unconsciously strong as she squeezed her shoulders, her voice rising involuntarily, "Tell me, why? We had an agreement. When I returned, you were supposed to divorce the young master, how could you...how could you...?" She couldn’t even finish her sentence.
A profound sense of guilt gnawed fiercely at Ling Chuxia’s heart, twisting it into a tight knot, and with difficulty, she opened her mouth to speak, "Because... Madam demanded that I get pregnant within three months, or else she would have me and Shi Che divorce. But you hadn’t returned yet, and I...I just had to get pregnant."
At that time, she had no choice, if she didn’t get pregnant she would have had to divorce Shi Che, but no one expected that once she got pregnant, she would return.
If only...if only she had returned a bit earlier, perhaps none of this would have happened. But how could reality always fulfill one’s desires?
Ling Yunshu never imagined it would turn out . She thought that as long as Ling Chuxia didn’t love Shi Che, she wouldn’t intentionally get close to him, let alone conceive his child, knowing that one day, she was supposed to give back her position to her.
But she had overlooked Mrs. Shi in this respect and hadn’t anticipated that Ling Chuxia was indeed so inflexible...
Ling Yunshu’s hands slowly clenched tighter and tighter, and for a long time, she couldn’t speak. Finally, she lifted her eyes to look at Ling Chuxia, a slow determination and darkness sliding through her gaze as she softly spoke, "Xiaxia, the baby, you should abort it."
She had worked so hard, waited so long to return; she had to take back what originally belonged to her, nothing and no one could stop her.
Although those were such simple words, they carried immense destructiveness yet came out so easily from Ling Yunshu’s mouth. Ling Chuxia’s body shook violently, and she stared blankly at Ling Yunshu.
Ling Yunshu did not avoid her gaze, instead meeting it directly, looking into the depths of her eyes with vulnerability and despair, "Xiaxia, you know, Shi Che loves me, and I love him too, that has never changed. If it wasn’t for Madam, we would never have been separated. Now that I’m back, we should be together, shouldn’t we?"
Shi Che loved her elder sister, and her elder sister loved Shi Che. She had always been aware of this and had been very clear about it, so she had been very diligent and restrained, never daring to harbor any other feelings towards Shi Che.
So, if it had been before, she would have unhesitatingly agreed to her elder sister’s request, would have stepped aside, would have let them be together.
But now...she really couldn’t agree to her, because she had also fallen in love with Shi Che, and she was also carrying Shi Che’s child. Whether for the sake of the child or for herself, she wanted to fight for herself.
Ling Chuxia clenched her hands tightly, squeezing out each word, "Elder sister...I’m sorry, I...I don’t want to..."
Her voice was very low, almost inaudible, yet Ling Yunshu clearly heard her refusal.