When Fu Shinian pushed her away, Su Mu's shin unexpectedly hit the leg of the coffee table, a piercing pain surged through her, but she did not show it and struggled to get up from the ground.
Only after making sure the keychain was not damaged did Fu Shinian realize what he had done. Seeing Su Mu's forced support, he bent down intending to help her up, but Su Mu refused:
"No need, I can manage on my own."
Fu Shinian looked at her, remained silent, and did not insist.
When Jiang Bei entered the room, he saw exactly this scene and hurriedly ran over to help Su Mu back to the bed. Seeing her pale face and the sweat beads on her forehead due to the pain, Jiang Bei's temper flared like ignited dynamite:
"Fu Shinian, I don't expect you to be a good man, but at least be a human. Do you think Su Mu hasn't been hurt enough that you have to come here and bully her like this?!"
Fu Shinian was familiar with Jiang Bei, but he was not in the mood to argue with her nor did he deign to explain anything, merely saying lightly:
"I have something to discuss alone with Su Mu, please, Miss Jiang, leave."
"You think I'll leave just because you say so? Who do you think you are? This is a hospital, my turf!"
"If I remember correctly, the hospital where Miss Jiang is currently located is also under Fu Corporation's name. Miss Jiang, when did you purchase the ownership? I wasn't aware."
Jiang Bei was stunned and just about to retort when Su Mu spoke:
"Xiaobei, go tend to your duties."
"Su Mu..."
"I'm fine. He won't do anything to me."
After Jiang Bei left, there was a moment of silence in the ward. Su Mu lay quietly on the bed, gazing at the scenery outside the window. Her eyes, which used to be lively and passionate, were now as still as dead water, and no one knew what she was thinking until Fu Shinian, sitting on a chair by the bed, broke the silence.
"When did it happen?"
Su Mu blinked:
"Probably on the way back from the old mansion that time."
The specific details she could no longer recall clearly, it seemed like she had said something that angered him, so much so that he had stopped the car on the roadside and took advantage of her. Afterwards, she had to go on a sudden business trip and forgot to take her medicine.
"Didn't you know you were pregnant? Or did you know and still didn't plan to keep it? Did you calculate it well to use this method to make me feel guilty?"
Su Mu looked at him, disbelief filling her eyes.
"What are you planning to do next? Are you going to call Grandma and let her know you lost the child because of me, to make her pity you more and secure an additional safeguard in the Fu family?"
"In your eyes, am I just a woman who would unscrupulously use her own child as a bargaining chip?"
"Otherwise?" Fu Shinian scoffed lightly, "What methods did you use to become Mrs. Fu to begin with? Do I need to remind you again?"
Back then? Su Mu did not need Fu Shinian to remind her, she remembered it all too clearly.
Back then, Fu Shinian and Qin Nianwan were a couple everyone envied. It was she who used saving his grandmother's condition as leverage to force them to break up and marry her. Although the agreement was ultimately not executed—his grandmother had found a matching kidney donor—by that time, Fu Shinian and Qin Nianwan had already broken up, and they had also registered their marriage. Su Mu thought he would divorce, and had prepared accordingly, but he did not.
Thus, the marriage she had schemed to enter had already lasted for two long years, but whether these two years were bitter or sweet, only she knew.