We Are Destined to Meet

20. The Sun in the Winter

Translator: Iris Guo

My heart trembled, and my mind went blank.

Ling Mubai fucked me every night. How could he sleep with his mistress? Was he a perpetual motion machine in his previous life?

I soothed my aching heart and said coldly, “I didn’t fuck you. Don’t say it’s my child!”

Mei’s face showed a look of indignation and anxiousness. Her eyes were red. She stared at me, “Huansheng, you have been smart and capable since you were a child. You can overcome all difficulties. You can live without Mubai. But I’m different. He means everything to me. Please leave Mubai. Please!”

I laughed, ‘Who knelt down and begged me not to divorce Ling Mubai in the café shop?’

Her tears were about to stream down her face. Apathetically, I put on my clothes and got out of the bed. “If you can take him away from me, I will thank you from the bottom of my heart!”

I didn’t go to sleep until 3 a.m. because of Ling Mubai. There was a sore in my body. My feet trembled when I walked. I didn’t want to quarrel with her.

Suddenly, Mei clasped my leg and started to cry. I didn’t know whether she did this on purpose or not. I stumbled and crashed into a closet.

Li shouted, “Be careful!” She ran toward me, but it was too late.

The closet tilted. It was about to fall down on Mei’s head. Subconsciously, I rushed to Mei and protected her with my own body.

The closet hit my back instead. Everything went dark. I collapsed.

When I opened my eyes, I was lying on a sickbed in the hospital. The ward was filled with the smell of disinfectant.

I noticed Ling Mubai’s gloomy face as soon as I came to my senses.

Seeing the chilling look in his eyes, I went frozen with terror.

My heart was pounding. I thought, ‘Fuck! Mei must be hurt! Ling Mubai’s going to blame me.’

I cringed and used the bed sheet as my shield. “Ling Mubai, I won’t take responsibility for Mei’s injury. You can ask Li. She witnessed all these! If you are a man, don’t beat a woman in the hospital!” I was a little scared and anxious.

But God always pulled my leg. Things were out of control.

When I was ready for being beaten up, Ling Mubai scolded me stiffly, “Are you really a woman? Don’t you know you are pregnant?”

I opened my eyes wide.

‘What? Pregnant? Bullshit! Mei’s pregnant! Not me!’

I was scared to death, and almost rolled down the bed. Thank God! Ling Mubai stood close to me, and got me immediately.

He glared at me. It seemed that he was trying to suppress his anger. “Be careful. If you hurt my child, I will beat you to death!” He gnashed his teeth and said.

His voice was as merciless as before, but I could discern worry and care from his eyes. There was no detestation in his eyes.

My brain went blank for a while. After I gathered my thoughts, I put my hands on my belly and didn’t say a word. I was like an idiot.

“You mean, I… I’m pregnant?”

Ling Mubai nodded, “Yes, we have a child.” His voice was stiff, but I could sense a tinge of softness.

‘There’s a baby inside me. It belongs to me and Ling Mubai.’

Tears suddenly streamed down my face. I didn’t know whether I was happy or sad. When our relationship was about to cease, a baby arrived.

I had my own child. I was going to be a mother. From now on, I had a family!

Somehow, I burst out laughing.

I jumped off the bed and yelled, “I have a baby… I have a baby…” I smirked.

I didn’t know how to express my feeling, but I just couldn’t stay still. Running out of the ward like a psychopath, I shouted at everyone I met, “I have a baby!” Ling Mubai followed me and his face turned pale.

God might notice my miserable life and finally show his mercy.

There was a baby in my belly, and its family name should be Ling. That was the reason that a bunch of people flooded into my room and greeted me, which really flattered me.

Mrs. Ling had changed her attitude. She took care of me and sent invigorators to me. I was about to throw up for having too many restoratives.

I heard that Mei had lost her child.

I was confused. Why did she suffer miscarriage? I was the one who was hit by the closet. Was it my fault that I treated her like a delicate flower? Was that the reason that her body became so weak?

Mei was in the same hospital. I often noticed she stood outside my ward. Through the window, she fixed her eyes on my belly. Remaining still, she was like a walking corpse.

I took a sip of the chicken soup brought by Li. Glancing at the slender figure outside the window, I shivered. Mei really crept me out.

I always thought that Ling Mubai and Mei loved each other. But Li said that Ling Mubai had never stepped into Mei’s ward from the day she was in hospital.

I felt dejected. Mei was so miserable, which made me painful.

This was life. No one could figure out what would happen.

A child had changed my life.

A child had also changed Mei’s life.

Sometimes, a baby could determine a woman’s fate.

Ling Mubai showed up on time after work. Because I was pregnant, he no longer entered my body fiercely.

He just looked at me when I fell asleep. Sometimes, he would take me out of the ward for a walk when I woke up.

My abdomen grew day by day. The baby was like the sun, thawing my frozen heart and bringing warm breeze.

Here came the winter. The weather became colder. Finally, snowflakes covered the town.

Ling Mubai called me. He said he would hang out with me.

With the phone in my hand, I was in a daze. Not until my phone slipped down did I get my thoughts together.

I jumped to my feet and put on perfect makeup in front of the mirror. I was like a teenage girl who fell in love with a boy for the first time. My heart was pounding and I blushed.