1 Pregnant With Your Child

It was a rainy evening, and the cold wind swept the fallen leaves across the city. Le Yao and I stood at the entrance of the city's Women and Children's Hospital with an umbrella. In the crowd, she looked at me with a pale face.

"Zhao Yang, I'm pregnant."

I was stunned for a moment before I glared at him and said, "Go find the person who made you pregnant. Why did you call and ask me out?"

"You're the only man I've had this year. Who else can I find if not you?"

"Would you believe me if I told you that you're my only woman this year?"

"Zhao Yang, are you a man?"

"We're all doing it for fun. Don't blame me for this. If you want me to take responsibility, then show me something practical. Don't play with me without any evidence."

Le Yao was silent for a while before saying, "The child has already been aborted. There's no proof."

"Do you think I look like a rich guy? Your child was aborted, and then..." I raised my hand and said speechlessly, "Then you tell me that the child is mine. Are you pretending to be naive or am I foolish? Le Yao, we're all adults now, can't we do something decent?"

Le Yao bit her lips and looked at me for a while before saying, "You don't want to take responsibility, right? I'll go to your company tomorrow..."

"F*ck… Do you have to do this!" I said angrily.

Le Yao bit her lips tightly and looked at me. I simply thought she was a good actress. I met her at a bar and had sex with her. A woman who often went to bars said she only had sex with one man in a year. I would be an idiot if I believed her.

I didn't want to be entangled with her anymore. I took out my wallet and handed her all the 100 yuan bills, "Don't you just want money? Take it and don't bother me in the future!"

Le Yao didn't say anything and didn't continue to tangle with me. She nodded and turned around to walk into the hospital with an umbrella as if she still had some fees that she owed…

Looking at her lonely back in the rain, I suddenly had an indescribable emotion in my heart. Although I didn't believe that the child in her stomach was mine, and although I hated her, I felt her life must be not too good now. Otherwise, she wouldn't have blackmailed me like this.

I was silent for a while before I finally called out to her, "Wait…"

Le Yao turned around and looked at me.

I took out a bank card from my wallet and handed it to her, "You can use the money inside this card. You just finished your surgery, so buy something to nourish your body."

Le Yao didn't take it, "... It's fine. Seeing you're willing to take responsibility is my goal. I'm looking for you because I don't want to get pregnant after sleeping with someone carelessly!"

...

In the bar, I drank to my heart's content while waiting for my only friend and colleague in the city, Fang Yuan.

From the first day I came to this bar, I've seen too many lonely women and vain men drinking all kinds of alcohol here. They were either silent or their eyes were filled with desire as they searched for something called "drunken life".

In fact, when we abandon our bodies during the day and let our souls get lost in this debauchery, we were already drunk.

I forgot which night I started to treat this place as a place to settle down. I liked the women who swayed their waists here, the swaying lights, the various colors of alcohol, the smell of perfume mixed with tobacco, and the drunkenness here. Then, in my drunkenness, I carved my messy past into a tombstone.

I lit a cigarette and took off the film on the cigarette box. I covered my eyes and looked at the swaying light. My body swayed as well. In the light refracted by the film, I seemed to see a kind of corruption that was muddling along! I couldn't help but be entranced!

...

Fang Yuan removed the thing from my hand, and my world suddenly became clear again.

"Why are you looking for me in such a hurry?" Fang Yuan put down the briefcase in his hand and took out a cigarette from my cigarette case to light it for himself.

"Lend me some money. I've been f*cking scammed!"

"Did you make the girl's belly bigger?" Fang Yuan said as if he was not surprised.

"Your grandpa, what again! I've really been scammed this time…"

"Who blackmailed you this time?"

"Why are you asking so much nonsense?"

"Every time I lend you a few thousand or a few thousand, at least let me know who the f*ck extorted your money, right?"

"Le Yao." I lit a cigarette and said angrily.

"That model?"

"Isn't it just her? The rich circle is a mess. She said that she slept with only one man in a year. Do you believe it? Fang Yuan, would you believe it if this were you?" I was so excited that I knocked my fingers on the table.

"This kind of thing will never happen to me. Besides, she wouldn't scam you for a few thousand yuan, right? She was the one who took all the posters for our department store last month. Just the remuneration alone is more than ten thousand yuan…"

I snorted and interrupted Fang Yuan, "Don't you know how she spends her money? Can ten thousand yuan last her for a month? Now that she's in trouble with someone else, she doesn't have the money to deal with the aftermath, and she thinks of me... I shouldn't have introduced her to our company out of kindness back then. I didn't give her less money, and now she's trying to scam me. Does she still have any conscience in the industry?"

Fang Yuan ignored my anger and asked me in a low voice, "Did you bring that thing with you when you slept with her?"

I thought for a long time and only remembered that I was almost drunk at that time. I really couldn't remember. After a while, I said, "Yes... Or is it that I've really been scammed!"

Fang Yuan looked at me suspiciously. After a long time, she sighed and said to me, "Zhao Yang, we've been friends for almost ten years. Sometimes, I really want to persuade you. I know that Jian Wei's breakup with you was a huge blow to you, but it's already been two years. You really don't have to humiliate yourself like this… Youth doesn't wait for people. Find a girlfriend and settle down, okay?"

When the name Jian Wei was mentioned again, I subconsciously froze for a moment before saying, "Don't worry about my free time. This Bro is doing well!"

"No lack of worries! Isn't that right?"

...

Fang Yuan enlightened me for a long time, and I responded impatiently for a long time. In the end, he left with a sentence, "You're as useful as a chocolate teapot." He left with dissatisfaction, forgetting that I had wanted to borrow money from him.

Fortunately, I had been in the bar for two years and often brought some friends to the bar to spend money. I was quite familiar with the bar owner, so I temporarily recorded the consumption of this drink.

Walking out of the bar, I held an umbrella and walked on the rain-drenched street. I truly understood what it meant to be alone. I had struggled in this city for two years, but what I gained was endless emptiness and loneliness. In order to get rid of this poisonous emptiness and loneliness, I had no choice but to wear a mask to hide my shame. With this mask, I could live freely.

But no matter how much I struggle to stand on the edge of pain, she will never come back!

...

Alone, I walked a few stops in disappointment before returning to my neighborhood. It was an old neighborhood, so old there wasn't even a property management company. In my first year here, I heard from the aunties in the neighborhood that this neighborhood was built in the early 1990s. Under the erosion of the long years, every building in the neighborhood looked so dilapidated, but they were close to each other as if they were afraid of being lonely. In the dead of the night, they would whisper a few words to relieve the loneliness of decades.

With a cigarette in my mouth, I took out the key from my pocket and walked towards the building I lived in. This building was the only building in the neighborhood that had ivy. Every summer, the south-facing wall would be very green. If these buildings were divided into genders, then this building was undoubtedly a woman, a cold woman.

She often made people feel sad for her!

...

What surprised me was that there was a red Audi Q7 parked downstairs in this dilapidated building. In my memory, in the two years I lived here, there was never a car with a price of more than 500,000 yuan in this neighborhood.

I didn't think much about it. I whistled and walked along the corridor to my room. When I reached the top floor, I was surprised to find that the door was ajar. I remembered that I had locked the door when I left. I subconsciously thought there was a thief in my house. After calming myself down, I remembered I hadn't paid my landlord, Old Li, for two months of rent. It was most likely Old Li who had come to urge me to pay.

Pushing open the door, the landlord, Old Li, was sitting on the sofa with an unfamiliar woman. There was a bunch of Audi Q7 keys on the coffee table. There was no doubt that the Q7 parked downstairs belonged to this unfamiliar woman.

A question flashed through my mind. What kind of supernatural power did Old Li, an ordinary man, have? He actually brought such a noble and inviolable girl like a white lily to this simple and crude house. This really puzzled me!..