CBL – 1.

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“Yibo, let’s get married.”

Zhan was standing in cold wind, gazing at this man anxiously. He was nervous and expecting something.

However, Wang Yibo opened his door half and looked at Zhan, slightly stunned. Perhaps, he never thought that Zhan would talk about this.

“I’m pregnant.” Xiao Zhan was holding the angle of his clothes tight with his slim and long fingers. He was not sure whether this news was good news to Yibo.

Wang Yibo frowned and paused, saying with no hesitation, “Abort the child.”

These three word were sharp like arrows piercing Zhan’s heart.

Xiao Zhan blinked to clear the tears in his eyes, trying not to cry, saying, “The doctor said if I abort the child again, I may never be able to get pregnant. Yibo, I want this child.”

Being together for five years, Zhan had the abortion for three times and he badly suffered every times, but he compromised every times because he loved that man in front of him.

But this time was different.

Thinking about he wouldn’t be able to get pregnant again, thinking about how he could never have a child of him.

Xiao Zhan was extremely sad. He couldn’t accept a truth like that.

“Xiao Zhan.” Wang Yibo was a little bit upset and irritated, saying with no mercy, “I won’t marry you. That child is an encumbrance to us and you don’t want your child to be an illegitimate child who will have no identity.”

Xiao Zhan couldn’t help but smile ironically. Yibo had a point, but he was still upset and hurt.

“It’s because of her, right?”

Zhan’s voice was low and he was staring at the deep eyes of the man. He found that he didn’t dare to even say a word.

Zhan knew that Yibo was still obsessed with that woman this whole time.

But that woman was no longer here, why didn’t he pay more attention to me?

Zhan thought that his waiting could end well, but five years had gone, and disappointment came again.

Wang Yibo looked at this man with a serious face, and he got a little bit irritated, saying, “Stop it, Xiao Zhan.”

Stop?

He just wanted to have the last baby of their own. Was he being unreasonable to him?

“Wang Yibo, you never loved me.” Xiao Zhan laughed at himself by saying, “You are now being with me just because I look like her. In fact, I’m just a comfort product to you when she is not here. She is the only one that you love this whole time.”

“Xiao Zhan!”

Zhan was totally stunned by Yibo’s shouting. His body trembled for a moment, and he was clenching his lips tightly, making his lips bleed.

Wang Yibo’s rage was aroused, and he tried hard for a minute to control his anger, saying coldly, “The operation will be arranged soon.”

“Is there no room for discussion?”

Zhan’s words were not finished, then he already heard the door was closed, and a car disappeared in front of him.

He stood in the cold. He knew that was the answer.

Wang Yibo, you were so cruel…

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The abortion surgery was arranged on the next day.

This was not the first time Xiao Zhan came here. He was standing outside the operating room, trembling.

Everything he had been through before flashed through his mind. He was terrified and stepped back a little.

He didn’t sleep all night, calling Wang Yibo a thousand times, sending him thousands of messages, but Yibo never changed his mind.

“Do you still insist on the abortion surgery?”

They were familiar with the doctor because he was in charge of Zhan every operation. It was quite obvious that he asked.

Because once they made a decision, they could no longer regret.

“Yes.” Wang Yibo answered with certainty.

“This operation may make you no longer able to get pregnant, do you need to consider a third time?”

Xiao Zhan grabbed one of Wang Yibo’s sleeve, begging humbly, “Please don’t do this, Yibo. Let’s keep this child, OK? Please…”

“Xiao Zhan.” Wang Yibo pulled off his hands, pushing Zhan toward the operating room, and his eyes were full of indifference.

Xiao Zhan was shocked, and heard Yibo saying, “Listen to me. Go to have the surgery. I’ll be outside waiting for you.”

Tears burst out violently from his eyes, and finally Xiao Zhan cried out, “Please don’t do this to me. Wang Yibo, you can’t do this to me!”

Looking at this man’s face which was full of sadness and hopelessness, Wang Yibo felt sorry. But this child could not be born.

Yibo looked away and frowned, seeming impatient, “Get in.”

Hearing this, Xiao Zhan stopped his sound of weep, but tears just kept welling up from his eyes, blurring her whole face.

Zhan stood in front of him stiffly, but he felt that this man was so far away from him.

“I’m not asking you to marry me. I’m just asking you to keep this child. Why don’t you let me?”

Xiao Zhan wiped out tears and tried to negotiate a compromise. He looked at the man with his red and turgid eyes, hoping to get mercy from him. But what Wang Yibo said made Zhan hurt and hopeless again.

“Xiao Zhan, I won’t keep this child no matter what.”

His face was so sullen. Yibo gazed at him and said those words coldly, without mercy, like a cold-blooded demon.

“Really?” Xiao Zhan smiled bitterly, murmuring soullessly, “This would our last child. We can no longer have child….

Wang Yibo looked at the hopeless back of the man, and followed him a few steps subconsciously. He was going to reach for him, but then, his phone rang.

He picked up the phone absent-mindedly, hearing the door of the operating room closed. He was extremely agitated and upset.

But he was stunned the moment he heard the news from the other side, shocked and then surprised, “Are you telling me that Qiu Zixuan is still alive?”

***

Xiao Zhan didn’t know how he walked in the operating room.

He was lying on the operating table, staring at the dazzling lights.

Everything flashed through his mind was like deadly poisoning arrows, stabbing his heart arrow after arrow.

The happiness he had been through now became a nightmare.

Five years ago, Zhan came across Wang Yibo at his father’s company and fell in love with at first sight.

Zhan was young and full of passion. Despite others’ disagreement, he followed Wang Yibo everywhere.

Zhan thought that maybe it was his persistence that touched Yibo, so he wantonly enjoyed that sweetness Yibo gave him.

Zhan once was sad and quarreled with him after he knew about Qiu Zixuan, but at last, he would be jollied in to obedience.

He could not fairly compete with a person who passed away. But Zhan loved Yibo so much that he made compromises over and over again.

At that time, Xiao Zhan thought that he can give up on marriage and on having a child. All he wanted was to be with him.

So, he made the break with his family and gave up on his scholarship. Then he lived humbly as dust, but he lost himself in his world…

This would be the worst…

The surgery was a fast one.

Then he came out from the operating room with a pale face. He searched, but couldn’t get any sight of Wang Yibo.

He laughed ironically, Yibo said that he would wait outside, but he could not even do that.

Zhan was extremely weak. He walked ahead with his hands on the wall.

“He was so pity. He was here having a abortion while his boyfriend went out because his loved one came back, leaving him here alone.”

Then, Zhan heard those put-down words. He was stunned and then looked at them, saying, “What are you talking about? Who is back?

His eyes widened in shock, it seemed that a bad feeling devoured all his strength.

A nurse said with contempt, “Qiu Zixuan, everyone knew she is the woman that Mr. Wang loves!”

“Qiu Zixuan? Was she… already dead?”

“Uh, You wish. But she is still alive and she’s back now.”

Xiao Zhan was violently astonished by her words, standing, with trembling lips. His hands covering his abdomen were more and more tightly clenched….

Qiu Zixuan was back…..

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