NCCnovel Chapter 937 Concern
Chapter 937 Concern
Lu Jingchen suddenly raised his head and glared at Su Mei, his eyes as sharp as a knife: "Shut up! Get out!"
Su Mei was unmoved, instead she laughed even more arrogantly: "Jingchen, why are you so nervous? Do you really think this child is yours? Don't be silly, you and she are father and daughter, what good can a child born of incest have?"
Lu Jingchen clenched his fists tightly, veins bulging, and he wished he could rush up and tear Su Mei's vicious face apart.
Doctors and nurses arrived quickly and sent Zhou Linlang to the emergency room. Lu Jingchen paced back and forth anxiously at the door of the operating room, his heart burning as if it were on fire.
He couldn't accept the fact that he and Zhou Linlang were actually father and daughter? How was this possible? He lost his parents when he was young, grew up in an orphanage, and was later adopted by the Lu family. He knew nothing about his life experience.
Could it be that Zhou Linlang's father is his biological father?
This thought was like a bolt of lightning, striking his brain and making him feel dizzy. If this was true, then he and Zhou Linlang...
He didn't dare to think about it anymore, he was afraid of this cruel reality.
A few hours later, the lights in the operating room finally went out. The doctor came out, took off his mask, and said tiredly: "The patient was in premature labor due to emotional excitement. The baby has been saved. It's a girl, but..."
Lu Jingchen's heart suddenly rose to his throat, "But what?"
The doctor sighed, "But the child is born with a defect, the situation is not optimistic, he needs to be kept in the incubator for a while."
Lu Jingchen felt like his world was collapsing. He leaned weakly against the wall, with darkness before his eyes.
Su Mei walked up to him and said with pretended concern: "Jingchen, don't be too sad. After all, this child..."
"Pa!" A loud slap interrupted Su Mei's words. Lu Jingchen's eyes were red, and he roared: "Get out! I don't want to see you again!"
Su Mei covered her face, her eyes filled with resentment, but she didn't dare to say anything else and left the hospital in shame.
Lu Jingchen walked into the ward and looked at Zhou Linlang lying weakly on the bed, feeling guilty and distressed. He walked to the baby incubator and looked at the small, fragile life inside, feeling mixed emotions.
Zhou Linlang slowly opened her eyes, saw Lu Jingchen, and smiled weakly: "Jingchen, child...are you okay?"
Lu Jingchen walked to the bed, held her hand, and said softly: "It's okay, Linlang, the child will be fine."
Zhou Linlang's tears flowed silently, and she held Lu Jingchen's hand tightly, as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw.
At this moment, the door of the ward was pushed open, and a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes walked in. He walked up to Lu Jingchen, looked him up and down, and then slowly said, "Are you Lu Jingchen?"
Lu Jingchen raised his head and looked at the strange man in front of him, with an ominous premonition in his heart, "Who are you?"
The man smiled, his tone meaningful, "I am Zhou Linlang's father, and also..." He paused, his eyes fell on the baby incubator, "and also the grandfather of this child."
Lu Jingchen's pupils suddenly contracted, and he felt that his breathing had stopped. He intuitively felt that the appearance of this man would completely change the fate of him and Zhou Linlang...
Lu Jingchen felt that the blood in his body had frozen. Zhou Linlang's father, the child's grandfather... these words hit his heart like a heavy hammer, making him almost unable to breathe. He looked at the little child in the incubator who was still fighting with death, and a strong sense of powerlessness surged in his heart.
The man - Zhou's father, named Zhou Zhengde, glanced back and forth between Lu Jingchen and Zhou Linlang with sharp eyes, and finally stopped on Lu Jingchen, "Are you Lu Jingchen? The man my daughter has been talking about." There was no joy or anger in his tone.
Lu Jingchen spoke with difficulty, "...Yes."
Zhou Zhengde snorted coldly, "Humph, you are so young, but you still don't know how to play with women! My daughter is innocent and kind, but you fooled her all the way. Now she has given birth to a child for you. How are you going to take responsibility?"
Zhou Linlang weakly pulled Zhou Zhengde's sleeve, "Dad, don't say that about Jingchen, it's not his fault..."
Zhou Zhengde shook off Zhou Linlang's hand and shouted angrily, "Shut up! You are still protecting him! Look at what you look like now, you are neither human nor ghost, it's all because of him!"
Lu Jingchen clenched his fists, his nails digging deeply into the flesh. He suppressed the anger in his heart. He knew that now was not the time to argue. Zhou Linlang was weak and could not withstand any stimulation.
"Mr. Zhou, I will be responsible for Linlang and the child." He said in a firm tone, leaving no room for doubt.
Zhou Zhengde smiled contemptuously, "Responsible? What can you be responsible for? Who do you think you are? Are you worthy of my daughter?"
Lu Jingchen took a deep breath and said, "I know I am not yet able to give Linlang the best life, but I will definitely work hard and let her and the child live a happy life."
"Happiness?" Zhou Zhengde seemed to have heard a joke. "Do you think happiness can be achieved by just talking? Do you think your empty words can make up for the harm my daughter has suffered?"
Lu Jingchen was silent. He knew that Zhou Zhengde was right. He really did not have the ability to give Zhou Linlang and the child a stable future.
At this time, Zhou Linlang struggled to sit up, her face pale, "Dad, don't say anymore, Jingchen and I are truly in love..."
"True love?" Zhou Zhengde interrupted her, "True love can lead to pregnancy before marriage? True love can lead to my daughter suffering like this?"
"Dad..." Zhou Linlang's tears flowed again. She knew that her father was doing this for her own good, but her feelings for Lu Jingchen were also sincere.
Zhou Zhengde sighed and softened his tone, "Linlang, Dad is not trying to stop you from being with him, it's just... Oh, forget it, what's the point of saying this now? The baby is already born." He walked to the incubator and looked at the tiny baby inside, with a hint of complicated emotions in his eyes, "This child... Oh..."
The ward fell into silence, and the atmosphere was so depressing that it made people feel breathless.
Suddenly, Zhou Zhengde turned around and said to Lu Jingchen, "Boy, I don't care who you are, I only have one request, you must marry my daughter!"
Lu Jingchen was stunned. He didn't expect Zhou Zhengde to make such a request. He looked at Zhou Linlang, and Zhou Linlang also looked at him in surprise.
"What? You don't want to?" Zhou Zhengde's tone became sharp again, "You played with my daughter, and now you want to be irresponsible?"
Lu Jingchen came back to his senses and said quickly: "No, I do! I will definitely marry Linlang!"
Zhou Zhengde nodded with satisfaction. "Okay, that sounds like a reasonable thing to say. But let me be frank. If you dare to treat my daughter badly, I will never let you go!"