UM CH 28

Chapter 28

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In the end, between eating and sleeping, I chose eating. After all, I’m someone with a weak stomach—I’ve already had gastroenteritis twice. If it keeps developing, there might even be bleeding.

And now that I have a child, I have to think for the child’s sake.

My current life has left me with no choice but to place all my hope in this one life. I hope he can grow up in a healthy environment.

After taking a bath and discarding some of my worries, I felt a bit more refreshed. I turned on the kitchen light, went into the kitchen to take a look, and took out two eggs.

I turned on the stove, put the pan on, added a little oil. After beating the eggs, I poured them in, then added a bit of rice as well.

In just a few minutes, a bowl of rice was ready. I poured it into a bowl, and looking at this simple dinner, I couldn’t help but feel a bit of bitterness.

Back when I was at home, my stepmother would sometimes always call me to do these things. But since I started working, I’d always put work first and basically just ate fast food.

After finishing the meal, I tidied up a bit and prepared to put the leftover rice back into the refrigerator to keep it there.

After opening the fridge and putting the rice inside, I looked at the ingredients in the refrigerator and couldn’t help feeling a bit bitter.

Back when I was at the Yu family’s place, Yu Jin often accompanied me to buy groceries. At the time, I never thought that someone like Yu Jin—a man with such strong male chauvinism—would actually agree to such a willful request of mine and go with me to the wet market, even drawing comments from the aunties there telling him to keep an eye on his girlfriend.

Thinking about it now feels especially ridiculous. Sometimes, marriage is like a grave—everything before death is false, and only after death do you know how many people will come to pay their respects.

Now that I think about it, everything feels so absurd. I was nothing more than someone else’s plaything—when he was in a good mood, he could dote on you and spoil you to the heavens. Men, in the end, care about women’s bodies.

Just because I wasn’t a virgin, I ended up in this state. Feelings are truly nothing but mockery.

I gave a self-deprecating smile, closed the refrigerator door, and felt how ridiculous that sense of having a home had been back then. Sure enough, someone like that wasn’t someone I should have come into contact with. Once you take it seriously, you lose completely, ending up covered in wounds.

After a simple wash-up, I collapsed onto the bed. The bed wasn’t big, but it was comfortable enough—just like life itself. As long as you live comfortably, there’s really nothing wrong with it.

Thinking this way, I felt much lighter. As things stood now, my life had more or less reached a dead end. Next, perhaps, would just be waiting to divorce Yu Jin. The evidence in my hands was already enough for the child to stay with me.

But what would the days ahead be like? And when the child asks about his father in the future, how should I explain it to him?

I stretched lazily and decided not to think about it anymore. After all, life has never been kind to me, so I’ll just let the future take its course.

Closing my eyes, one hand resting on my slightly protruding belly, I soon lost consciousness.

“Ding…” The phone kept ringing in my bag, irritating me out of my sleep.

Could it be my younger brother or my stepmother from home again? Or had those two at home finished whatever they were doing and finally thought of me?

I wearily picked up the phone—it was… Tang Li.

“Hello! Tang Li.”

“Do you have time later? Let’s have a meal together, and I’ll continue telling you about what we didn’t finish talking about last time,” Tang Li said.

I hesitated for a few seconds, thought about it, then said bluntly, “Another day. Today probably won’t work—I have to go to the hospital for a prenatal checkup.”

After that, neither of us spoke. Time seemed to stop just like that.