Outside the window, thunder rumbled and a bolt of lightning split the night sky. Tao Youling propped her heavy body up to close the window, and just as she took a few steps, the wind blew in and the curtains flew up.

She used her elbow to close the window, and the heavy rain poured down at this moment.

Her stomach started to ache. Tao Youling held her stomach and walked to the side of the bed. Sweat seeped out of her hairline and flowed down her temples.

"Dong!"

The sound of someone entering the living room could be heard, followed by Luo Fei's shout, "Where is he? Get me a set of clean clothes, I still have to leave immediately."

Tao Youling took a set of clothes to the living room, and Luo Fei immediately changed on the sofa.

Tao Youling stood there like a servant, picking up his changed clothes from the ground and hugging them to her chest. She said in a low voice, "The air conditioning at home is bad."

Luo Fei did not look at her. After changing his clothes, he went to the bathroom to shave. Tao Youling carried her clothes and followed him.

"My stomach hurts today. Can you not leave? I'm afraid I'm going to give birth."

Luo Fei looked at her in the mirror, "When is the due date?"

When was the due date? Her husband didn't know.

Tao Youling did not complain. She lowered her head, "There are still two months left."

Luo Fei threw the razor on the water table. His dirty beard fell into the washbasin, and he did not clean it up. He rubbed Tao Youling's shoulder and walked out of the bathroom, saying indifferently, " It's still too early. How could it happen? If it hurts, just lie down. Ask the doctor tomorrow."

"Where are you going?"

"When are you coming back this time?"

"Cold air..."

Luo Fei looked up at her impatiently in his shoes. Then he took out a few bills from his pocket and threw them on the shoe cabinet. "Where can I go? Get up early and crawl out in the middle of the night to make money. Don't give me any trouble!"

He looked at her with disdain and slammed the door.

That night.

In a daze, he did not know what time it was.

The window was raining and the room was so dark that he couldn't breathe.

Tao Youling was lying on the bed, her hands tightly gripping the bedsheet. She could hear the rain while she was sleeping, but she couldn't open her eyes. Sweat soaked her pajamas, and her hair stuck to her face.

"It hurts... I'm in so much pain, Luo Fei."

She heard her voice trembling and knew that it might be tonight. She wouldn't be able to wait until dawn.

Tao Youling fumbled for her phone in bed. Her phone, which hadn't rung for days, was nowhere to be found. Unable to touch it, Tao Youling wanted to sit up.

With a slight raise of her body, a warm current flowed out from between her legs.

It was as if she had poured a basin of water. The room was instantly filled with the smell of blood.

It was not amniotic fluid. Was it blood?

What happened to her?

Tao Youling was scared to tears by herself.

"Baby, don't be afraid. It's fine."

She touched her stomach in panic, as if there was still fetal movement. Then, she grabbed the sheet to block the bleeding place. The bedsheet was thrown to the floor. She climbed out of bed to get the phone...

Luo Fei: No one answered the phone you called.

Grandma: You're so careless! Take a taxi to the hospital first. It'll take time for me to get there too!

Mom: The number you dialed is empty.

Tao Youling held her phone and started to cry. Half a year ago, her mother had left, and now she missed her mother so much. If she had known this would happen, she would have listened to her mother.

For the last call, Tao Youling dialed 120.

...

"Where's her husband? Who are you to her? Can you sign?"

"Get out of the way!"

At 3: 27 in the morning, Tao Youling was pushed into the operating room.

"Doctor Lin, the situation is very bad. What did the family say?"

"Don't listen to the nonsense of the people outside. There's no hope for the child. The mother has lost too much blood. Protect her with all your might!"

What time was it now?

The digital clock hanging on the wall was blocked by a few doctors in green surgical gowns. Tao Youling really wanted to look at the time. So, she sat up on the operating table, barefooted, and passed through the doctors' bodies to finally see the time.

3: 50.

"Ding..." A long and clear sound rang in the operating theater.

Tao Youling turned around and saw a straight line extending infinitely on the heart monitor.

Another crisp sound.

The hemostatic forceps in Doctor Lin's hand fell to the ground. He stared at the body on the operating table and slowly wiped the sweat off his temples with his arm.

"Cardiac resuscitation! Quick!"

The assistant beside him was stunned and quickly ran away.

Tao Youling walked over to Dr. Lin. She looked at herself on the operating table and said, "I don't want to wake up. Don't save me."

In the distance, the doctor's assistant who had run away ran back.

Tao Youling anxiously grabbed Doctor Lin's arm, but she could only pierce through his body, not hold him.

Tears flowed down and floated in the air around them.

Tao Youling's voice was very, very soft. "If the baby is still here, I'm willing to hold on. The baby is gone."

After bowing deeply to Doctor Lin, Tao Youling walked away barefooted and went out of the operating room.

In the corridor outside the operating room.

Luo Fei walked over with unsteady steps. His face was red and his eyes were a little dull.

Luo Yan's mother went over and pulled her son back, asking in a low voice, "Where did you go? Did you drink?"

"What did the doctor say? Is the child okay?" Luo Fei wiped his forehead.

"I only took a glance when I came here. I'm afraid Tao Youling won't make it, but I told the doctor to keep the child no matter what."

"Ah..." Luo Fei looked at the door of the operating room in front of him and was stunned.

As Tao Youling walked past them, a faint smile appeared on her pale face.

Actually, she knew everything.

Luo Fei was willing to marry her because his mother had a good piece of land that was about to move. Now that he had the land, he should have divorced her, but Tao Youling found out that she was pregnant.

He had no feelings for her, it was just Tao Youling's wishful thinking.

His work wasn't busy, and he wasn't as hardworking as he said. It was just that there were people outside.

Tao Youling didn't know how many other women in this world were like her, making a hopeless marriage for their children.

However, this was the best result.

Luo Fei did not abandon his wife because she was dead. Tao Youling was also freed from this, and it was a win-win situation.

At four o'clock in the morning in Qin Xia, the sky had already lit up.

Tao Youling felt her body becoming lighter and lighter, so light that she could float in the air, and she could float out of the hospital corridor window.

The morning after the heavy rain, the air was fresh.

It turned out that death was not scary at all. After death, one could hug the entire sky.

In the distance, who was talking?

"Tao Youling, look here, look here."

Tao Youling looked over and saw a white-haired old man waving at her in the air. He said, "Fly over there. That's the Bridge of Helplessness."