Ling Yunshu stared blankly at Ling Chuxia, her eyes slightly widened in an uncontrollable display of surprise, even covering her lips with her hand for a long while. Her eyes began to redden and her voice even choked up with a sob, "Xiaxia, thank you."
Ling Chuxia shook her head, her voice was incredibly bitter, "It’s something I should have returned to you, it’s me..."
She was too greedy, and also too selfish.
Unable to continue, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, trying desperately to suppress all her bitterness.
However, Ling Yunshu shook her head too, sitting beside Ling Chuxia, she took her hands in hers and looked at her steadily, her eyes filled with excitement and gratitude, "Xiaxia, even though you have never talked to me about what happened these past three years, I know it must have been hard for you. Really, thank you."
Hearing Ling Yunshu’s grateful words, Ling Chuxia’s heart wrenched in pain once again.
Despite her decision to divorce Shi Che and set them free, the child... she genuinely couldn’t bring herself to abort it; in fact, she wanted to give birth to it.
Her hands gradually clenched tighter, her fingernails dug into her palms without her noticing. She didn’t dare to look up at Ling Yunshu, afraid that if she saw her eyes, she wouldn’t have the courage to say what came next.
Her gaze fixed on her own hands, she forced out each word, "It’s just... the child... I, I want to keep it."
The few short words seemed to drain all her energy.
The excitement and gratitude in Ling Yunshu’s eyes still lingered, but upon hearing Ling Chuxia’s words, her smile froze and her gaze darkened slightly, "You want to keep the child?"
Her voice, sharp with shock, made Ling Chuxia shiver uncontrollably. She knew that no woman could easily accept such a situation, let alone sisters. But she truly could not bring herself to abort the child.
Swallowing hard, Ling Chuxia struggled to speak, "Elder sister, I know me keeping the child is unfair to you. I’ve tried not to want this child, but... but I really can’t do it. It is a small life after all, it’s still so small, it knows nothing, I can’t just deprive it of its right to live. Elder sister, I really want to keep it."
She couldn’t tell her elder sister that it was because she had fallen in love with Shi Che that she couldn’t bear to part with their child. That this child was the only connection between them in this lifetime, which was why she could not go through with the abortion. She harbored a tiny bit of selfishness, not wanting this child to just disappear from the world, and not wanting her and Shi Che’s past to leave without a trace.
So she could only say it .
The light in Ling Yunshu’s eyes gradually dimmed, and her expression turned slightly grim.
She had thought that after Ling Chuxia found out about her depression and her past suicide attempts, out of guilt and debt, no matter how she felt about Shi Che, she would choose to step aside and let them be.
Indeed, as she expected, Ling Chuxia was divorcing Shi Che. But what she didn’t anticipate was that even if Ling Chuxia divorced Shi Che, she wasn’t willing to abort the child?