Chapter 972: Back to That Hospital

After all, Baili Xia was now the Mu family’s Miss Sun, while Ning Anran felt herself to still be nothing but a penniless nobody.

What was she still hoping for?

What friendship could withstand the tests of money and social status?

Xiaxia was doing well now, even became the class monitor, and it was natural for her not to pay attention to her.

A trace of bitterness crossed Ning Anran’s eyes, yet she kept fiddling aimlessly with her ballpoint pen, without uttering another word.

…

After the fifteen-minute class meeting ended, everyone followed the instructor’s directions and headed towards the playground.

Ning Anran just glanced at Baili Xia, then stood up and left by herself.

By the time Baili Xia snapped out of her own thoughts, she found herself alone in the classroom.

Ning Anran had left on her own…

She had been thinking up excuses to decline walking together with her.

It turned out, there was no need for her to refuse at all.

How quickly things change; they used to be inseparable best friends, with more than a decade of friendship, and now, how did it come to this?

Slipping her bag over her shoulder, she walked out of the classroom, but instead of heading to the playground, she went in the opposite direction towards the school gates.

Her heart was really in a panic, uncertain if she should really go through with this.

If she delayed any longer, there would eventually come a day when the truth would come to light.

When that moment arrived, the pressure from all sides would surely be more than she could bear.

After exiting the school gates, even though the car Mu Xiaoyao had bought for her was right there in the school, she didn’t drive it.

She hailed a taxi and once again arrived at that small hospital.

But after getting out of the taxi and seeing the hospital’s unassuming sign, she hesitated again.

Was this really the right thing to do?

Yet, the child was a part of her flesh, and to wrench a piece of flesh from her body…

Her nose was so sore, her heart so sore, and she felt such panic…

She lingered at the entrance of the hospital for a long time, ultimately lacking the courage to step inside.

Afraid of being seen, she found a corner outside the hospital, crouched behind the flower bushes, and couldn’t bring herself to stand up.

She didn’t want to get up; getting up meant facing too many things.

She couldn’t bear it alone.

So afraid, so anxious…

Suddenly, the ringtone of the cell phone in her bag jolted her.

Just a slight sound, yet it nearly made her scream out loud.

The phone had been smashed by Uncle the day before and nearly became unusable.

Luckily, after reinserting the battery, it still worked…

She took out the phone and hesitated once more at the caller ID.

Jin…

his calling at this time made her feel very guilty.

He had repeatedly instructed her the day before that no matter what her decision was, whatever she ended up doing, she had to tell him.

But she hadn’t uttered a word to him and ran here on her own; if he found out, would he be very angry?

Yet now, even if he were angry, she couldn’t concern herself with that…

The ringtone finally stopped on its own, but she still didn’t pick up the call.

Soon, the ringtone sounded a second time.

She still didn’t answer, not knowing how to face him, preferring to avoid it altogether.

She knew she was being an ostrich at this moment, but she was just that ostrich-like, allowing herself to be weak for a moment, just a moment.

Currently, she really didn’t want any contact, with anyone at all.

The third ringtone began, then the fourth…

Dongfang Jin seemed to be determined to make her pick up the phone.

But Baili Xia had already silenced the phone and put it back in her bag, no longer paying any attention to it.