"Pregnant? You... you haven't even found a man yet, you're not going to look for Lin Jingzhen, are you?" Lin Xibai felt angry just thinking about that man. "If you go looking for him again, I'm cutting ties with you!"
"How could I? He's already a thing of the past." Although it felt good to curse Su Tingyan out, a person's heart is made of flesh, and Lin Jingzhen, who secretly took food from home for her, soothed her to sleep, discussed everything under the sun, and joined her in cursing others... eventually belonged to someone else.
It's laughable, really. She once naively thought that no matter how long she was away, there would always be someone waiting for her here.
Reality had slapped her hard in the face. After returning, everything in City B had changed. Yet, they all insisted, pointing their fingers at her and claiming that it was she who had changed...
"Then how did you get pregnant?"
"I found another man."
"What? Su Tingyan, you..."
"Okay, okay, we both study medicine, we should understand, it's just having a child, nurturing a life, no big deal, like a chemistry experiment."
"..." Although that's what she said, was it really not important?
"Is it really that hard for me, Su Tingyan, to find a man?" she said nonchalantly, playing with the water in the bathtub.
"You... have a point, only someone blind like Lin Jingzhen, who got engaged to you but then got seduced away by Su Qingqing. By the way, are you going to Su Qi Hospital?"
"I'm not."
"Then what are you going to do?" Lin Xibai asked.
"If possible, I want to try out at another hospital first."
"Really? That's great, I'll ask our hospital, they'd be thrilled to have such a big shot with us."
"No, let's not make a big fuss. It's better if not too many people know about it."
Lin Xibai thought for a moment and agreed, "Right, if the Su Family found out, they might stop you. It'd be a shame to waste your talent; they'd be furious if they knew your capabilities."
"But I didn't graduate from a prestigious school, I doubt your hospital would want me."
Lin Xibai said, "Your school might not be the best, but it's still a medical college."
"Your hospital is a top public hospital; they have very high standards for doctors. Someone with no experience and not such high qualifications like me, it'd be hard to get in."
Lin Xibai felt even more regretful, "It's a pity we can't tell the chief who your master is..."
Su Tingyan hung up the phone.
Leaning in the bathtub, she seemed to momentarily forget the many troubles plaguing her.
But thinking that Lin Jingzhen might soon get engaged to Su Qingqing, the pain clutching at her heart was troublesome...
...
Outside, Zhou Ding followed to the door, nearly driven to madness by the place's shabbiness.
Having grown up with a silver spoon, always the favored child of fortune and status, when had he ever set foot in such a shabby corner?
He looked at Lin Xu, "Sir, are you really going to stay here?"
"It's our wedding night, I can't just leave my bride and go, can I?" Lin Xu surveyed the simplicity outside and somehow began to laugh.
"..."
Zhou Ding was almost in tears.
"You really got married like this... If the old madam at home finds out, I'll surely be kicked out of the country, thrown straight into the Pacific Ocean to sink..."
"You talk too much," Lin Xu simply glanced at him.
Zhou Ding, tearfully helpless, said, "But, sir, I really don't understand, why... it's Su Tingyan, after all."
"That Lin Family boy, he's been betrothed to her since they were kids, don't you think it's strange? The families aren't even closely matched, yet, I heard, it was his grandfather who arranged their marriage when these kids were just five."
Zhou Ding had also remembered that many found it incredible at the time.
"Plus, I'm quite curious to see the look on the Lin Family's faces when they find out I'm the one she ends up marrying."
Zhou Ding thought, that would certainly be earth-shattering news.
This Su Tingyan, this Su Tingyan, he didn't care for her at all, but alas, he couldn't stop Lin Xu's decisions, he could only say that Su Tingyan really had unimaginable good luck to land such a great advantage.
From inside, a faint sound came; Su Tingyan had come out of the bathroom.