He actually had no awareness of what he had just said; he was subconsciously trying to say something to keep her from leaving.
They had a child together; how could they get divorced? Even if the child’s arrival was scandalous, it had already come, already entered their lives.
He would accept this child, would love this child, because it was her child. They would be a complete family of three, so how could they get divorced?
When Chuxia brought up divorce, Shi Che remained silent for a long time. Was he worried about the child all this time? Worried that the child was still there, right? Worried that the child would hinder their divorce, right?
Ling Chuxia clenched her fists tightly, struggling mightily to hold back her tears because it wasn’t worth it. But... when she heard the word "child," the tears simply wouldn’t stop, trickling down from the corners of her eyes.
Her head hung even lower, her long hair falling down and covering her cheeks. She took deep breaths and forcefully swallowed, suppressing the urge to sob, and spoke word by word, "Don’t worry, the child... is no longer here... There won’t be any ties between us anymore."
The child... was gone?
Shi Che hadn’t come to his senses from the shock of Ling Chuxia suggesting divorce, and now her words hit him like a hammer to his head, almost making him lose his balance.
Their child... how could it be gone? How could it...
"So, we can get divorced now." Ling Chuxia’s hands tightly gripped the divorce papers, which wrinkled bit by bit in her hands, "You, just sign it, and it will be over."
Just sign it... and it will be over.
The child was gone, and she, utterly unaware, simply asked him to sign the divorce papers nonchalantly?
He looked at the divorce agreement, his entire body shaking violently, feeling dizzy and disoriented.
Was he still not sober? Was he still drunk? But the heart-wrenching pain was so clear, the agony as if someone had carved a piece out of his chest so intense, how could he still be drunk?
His child... the child he had with Chuxia, he didn’t even have the chance to feel what it was like to be a father, and now... it was gone?
Why did Ling Chuxia go to such lengths to get pregnant, only to casually abort it? And even wanting to divorce him?
Shi Che clenched his fists tightly, the veins on the backs of his hands standing out one by one. His dark eyes were utterly profound, unable to hide his pain and sorrow in his usual prideful demeanor.
A sour taste rushed up his throat, and his eyes involuntarily glistened. He opened his mouth, barely able to speak, "Why... why?"
Yet his voice was too deep, too suppressed, and Ling Chuxia couldn’t hear what he was saying. She just tried hard to control her own grief, to keep herself from bursting into tears and making her final departure an utter mess.
Ling Chuxia didn’t respond, just kept her head down, sitting there quietly, stubbornly holding up the divorce agreement as if she was indifferent to all else, needing only his signature for the divorce.
When grief reached its extreme, a grim fury slowly welled up in Shi Che’s eyes. She had taken away their child; how could she be so calm, so indifferent?
His dark eyes turned utterly somber, anger spreading, he was about to confront her when the door to the ward was pushed open.