"Sit down first. I'll pour you a glass of water," Bai Rongran said, then turned around and walked towards the kitchen.
Rong Lan squinted her eyes. Bai Rongran was in a terrible state. She walked like a walking corpse that couldn't touch the ground. Moreover... the causal lines on Bai Rongran...
Bai Rongran came out with a glass of warm water. Rong Lan had already taken off her trench coat and sat down on the sofa, playing with a baby toy in her hand.
She placed the water glass on the coffee table in front of Rong Lan and sat down next to her. "How did you manage to get here so quickly?"
Hearing Bai Rongran's hoarse voice, Rong Lan thought Bai Rongran needed this glass of water more than she did. But when she turned her head, she saw Bai Rongran staring blankly at the baby toy in her hand. The look in her eyes was so empty that it was heart - wrenching. "I borrowed a private jet from someone."
After answering Bai Rongran's question, Rong Lan let out a sigh. "Ranmaran, where's my little nephew or niece?"
Hearing this, Bai Rongran instinctively touched her belly. Her eye sockets were red, and tears welled up in the corners of her eyes again. "It's gone."
"You valued that child so much. You must not have given it up voluntarily. Did... Chu Chuan do something to you? Or did someone bully you?" Rong Lan thought it was unlikely that Chu Chuan had done it himself. After all, she knew that Chu Chuan had been in the country recently.
Bai Rongran lowered her head. The veins on the back of her hand that was clutching the clothes on her belly were bulging. Tears dropped one by one onto the back of her hand. "Chu Chuan... The people he sent bullied me..."
Rong Lan threw the baby toy aside and gently patted Bai Rongran on the back to comfort her. "Don't cry, don't cry. What did they do to you? Tell me! I'll avenge you!"
"Rong Lan."
"Hmm?"
"If only I had listened to you back then."
Rong Lan fell silent, not knowing how to respond. She was sure that even if it happened all over again, Bai Rongran wouldn't have listened to her at that time. Because at that time, Bai Rongran was completely infatuated with Chu Chuan. She only saw how good Chu Chuan was and couldn't see all the bad things he had done.
She sighed and said softly, "It's not too late for you to listen to me now."
Bai Rongran took two or three deep breaths. Her emotions calmed down a bit, and her sobbing stopped. But the hatred in her voice became even stronger. "Rong Lan, can you believe it? I was living here peacefully. Late at night, three or four disgusting men used the key to open the door and directly broke into my room. They covered my mouth with something, raped me, and also..."
Rong Lan didn't ask Bai Rongran why she hadn't locked the door when she was alone at home. She could guess what Bai Rongran was thinking. Bai Rongran probably thought that Chu Chuan might come at any time, so she had to leave the door unlocked for him.
She never thought that Chu Chuan could be so heartless as to give the key to others.
"I could understand what they were saying. The key was given to them by Chu Chuan. They were here because Chu Chuan had ordered them to get rid of the baby in my belly by any means. They thought I couldn't understand their language, but I heard it all clearly. And the means they used were... were..."
Bai Rongran tried twice to tell the whole story, but a certain word seemed to be stuck in her throat, and she just couldn't say it.
By observing the causal lines on Bai Rongran, Rong Lan could roughly tell what had happened to her. Seeing Bai Rongran's face turn red with effort, she let out a sigh in her heart. Her eyes were cold. "Okay, okay, I know. You don't need to say it. Have you been to the hospital to see a doctor?"
"I went." How could she not go? After those men left, she was still bleeding from below. She knew her baby was gone, but she still wanted to live. She wanted to live well and tear those scumbags apart.
"The doctor told me how my baby died. I was alone in the hospital for the operation to remove the dead fetus from my body. I thought I could handle it alone, but when I came back here after the operation at night, I was scared. I didn't dare to go upstairs or go back to my room. I had no choice but to call you..." Only a few people knew that she was pregnant. If she hadn't been desperate, she wouldn't have asked Rong Lan for help.
Rong Lan took Bai Rongran's hand and forced her fingers apart. Her fingertips brushed over the bleeding palm that had been pinched. "If you had told me earlier, maybe I could have accompanied you through all this." Although it wasn't too late now.
Bai Rongran gave a faint smile, looking dejected. "I thought you wouldn't care about me." She was also very scared in the hospital. Especially when the doctor confirmed three times that she had no family members with her, she really wanted to call Rong Lan at that time, but she held back.
It was only when she got back here from the hospital that her emotions completely broke down. She cried so hard that she couldn't catch her breath. She didn't care about anything and just wanted someone to accompany her.
She gave herself three chances. She had silently told herself that if Rong Lan still didn't answer the phone on the third call, she wouldn't bother her again. But she didn't expect that Rong Lan, who should have been sleeping, answered the phone on the first call.
Rong Lan sighed. "Ranmaran, do you still love Chu Chuan now?"
"Am I crazy?" Bai Rongran looked up at Rong Lan. Her eyes were shining with tears, but her expression was firm. "How could I still love him? I wish I could grind his bones to dust!"
"That's good." As long as she didn't love Chu Chuan anymore, Rong Lan wasn't afraid of anything else. She was just afraid that Bai Rongran would be infatuated. "When we go back home, I'll help you grind him to dust."
Although with Bai Rongran's means, she might not need her help. In the past life she dreamed of, after Bai Rongran returned to the country full of hatred, not only Bai Ronglan but also Chu Chuan had suffered a great deal.
"I guess you don't want to stay here anymore. How about I take you to a hotel to stay for a while?" Rong Lan suggested. "We won't go back to the country for now. Wait until I find those scumbags who bullied you and make them repent for what they've done, and then we'll go back."
Bai Rongran nodded. "Okay... I'll take a shower first and tidy myself up a bit." She knew she looked terrible now and wasn't suitable to go out.
Seeing that Bai Rongran's emotions had calmed down, Rong Lan let out a sigh of relief. "Go ahead. I'll wait for you."
Bai Rongran still didn't dare to go upstairs and went into the bathroom on the first floor.
When the sound of water in the bathroom started, Rong Lan got up and walked towards the second floor.
There were two rooms on the second floor. As soon as Rong Lan got to the second floor, she could tell which one was the master bedroom at a glance, because there were all kinds of disgusting things lying at the door of the master bedroom.
She stepped over those things and walked into the room. The first thing she saw was the bedsheet on the bed. The originally warm - yellow bedsheet was covered with coagulated and blackened blood. The smell of blood was so strong that she couldn't help covering her nose and mouth. And not only on the bedsheet, there was also blood on the floor of the room. There was also a torn maternity nightgown scattered on the floor, which was unbearable to look at.