Chapter 56
Shen Yan didn’t expect Su Yunzhe to suddenly appear here. But in this moment, feeling both angry and unwell, Su Yunzhe’s presence gave him a sense of relief.
Leaning into Su Yunzhe, he spoke in a low voice, “My stomach hurts. Duan Yang’s words made me sick. I feel like I’m going to throw up.”
“You’re talking nonsense. Haven’t you been feeling unwell these past few days? We should go to the hospital,” Su Yunzhe said, wrapping his arms around Shen Yan and preparing to leave.
Shen Yan quickly stopped him. “No, I still need to wait for Duan Yang to handle the divorce. I’ve already said everything I need to say; he definitely won’t try anything else.”
But just as Shen Yan finished speaking, Duan Yang’s voice rang out. “Yanyan, I’ve made up my mind. No matter what, I won’t agree to the divorce. Even if you really report me and send me to jail, I’ll accept it. I love you, no matter what…”
“Ugh…”
Shen Yan couldn’t hold it in anymore. He pushed Su Yunzhe away and rushed to the nearby trash can to dry-heave.
His stomach had been upset, and after drinking only some warm milk in the morning, his stomach was churning but nothing came up, just the overwhelming feeling of nausea.
Su Yunzhe gently patted his back, his brow furrowed with concern, though his voice remained soft, as if comforting a child. “Listen, let’s go to the hospital, okay?”
Ling Sicheng hurried into the civil affairs office to get a cup of hot water, handing it to Su Yunzhe so that Shen Yan could rinse his mouth.
Duan Yang, standing nearby, also looked concerned. “Yanyan, if you’re feeling unwell, you should go to the hospital. Did you catch a cold? Your stomach hurts? I know a doctor who specializes in stomach problems. I can contact him, and you can go see him right now.”
Shen Yan rinsed his mouth with the water Su Yunzhe handed him, and hearing these words only made his anger rise. He was about to snap, but Su Yunzhe stopped him.
Confused, Shen Yan glanced at Su Yunzhe. He felt like something was off. The Su Yunzhe he knew would have just taken action, but now he was being incredibly composed and calm.
Su Yunzhe, however, was only focused on Shen Yan’s discomfort. “Be a good boy and go to the hospital. We’ll deal with everything else later.”
“But…”
“If you don’t listen, I’ll just carry you there myself. You choose,” Su Yunzhe said, aware that Shen Yan didn’t like making a scene in public.
Sure enough, Shen Yan’s resistance faded, and he finally relented. “Fine, we’ll go to the hospital. Happy now?”
Duan Yang, seeing Shen Yan being led away by Su Yunzhe, called out dramatically, “Yanyan, make sure to take care of yourself at the hospital.”
After being ignored, Duan Yang turned to Su Yunzhe. “Su Yunzhe, do you really think Yanyan has fallen in love with you? He’s just seeking warmth from you because I hurt him so much. I’ll make him come back to me because I know he loves me so much that he could never love anyone else.”
Su Yunzhe didn’t respond. Shen Yan, unable to hold back any longer, turned to confront Duan Yang, but Su Yunzhe quickly swept him off his feet and carried him, saying, “Enough, let’s go to the hospital.”
With that, Su Yunzhe hastily took Shen Yan to the car and drove to the hospital.
Shen Yan was utterly confused. Had Su Yunzhe lost his mind? Duan Yang had openly said such things, and Su Yunzhe didn’t even react? This didn’t make sense!
Unable to hold back, he poked Ling Sicheng beside him, signaling toward Su Yunzhe, and quietly asked, “Is he acting strange today?”
Ling Sicheng chuckled, thinking, How should I know? I’m not close to him.
However, it was clear that Su Yunzhe was deeply concerned for Shen Yan.
“Your face looks terrible. Let’s go to the hospital first,” Ling Sicheng said.
Shen Yan touched his face. “Is it that bad? It’s just my stomach, and now that I’ve thrown up, I don’t feel as bad anymore.”
“You’ve had this problem with your stomach before? I didn’t see this happen when you stayed at my place the past few months,” Ling Sicheng said, still a little worried. The symptoms came on so suddenly. If this problem persisted over the past couple of days, it wouldn’t explain how pale Shen Yan looked.
Shen Yan shook his head. “Now that I think about it, I’ve never really had stomach problems. Well… maybe it’s normal. A lot of people have stomach issues these days. I guess it started when I was alone in B City before the New Year, eating irregularly. Maybe it’s just some leftover consequences of that. I’m feeling better now.”
He rubbed his stomach, feeling a bit reluctant to go to the hospital.
Su Yunzhe clearly knew what Shen Yan was thinking. He glanced at him through the rearview mirror but didn’t speak. Shen Yan immediately swallowed the words he was about to say, deciding instead to ask, “Hey, Su Yunzhe, how did you know I was going to get nauseous when I saw Duan Yang? You can’t possibly have predicted that, right?”
“Yeah,” Su Yunzhe said, noticing that Shen Yan seemed to be feeling okay, and teased, “It’s trending.”
“Huh?” Shen Yan widened his eyes in surprise. “Trending?”
But soon after, he realized it made sense. Of course, it would trend.
With Duan Yang causing such a scene outside the civil affairs office, and with the recent drama surrounding their relationship, it was inevitable that it would get picked up on social media.
No wonder Shen Jiaqi and Wang Li had shown up. They must have seen the trending video of Duan Yang kneeling and confessing to him and got triggered by it.
Duan Yang truly was a scumbag and a lunatic.
Shen Yan couldn’t understand why he would go this far today.
At that moment, Ling Sicheng had already opened Weibo, and the event was being live-streamed by netizens. Not only was the dramatic confession of Duan Yang captured, but everything that had happened afterward, including Shen Yan leaving the civil affairs office, had also been recorded and uploaded online. Some even included events after Shen Yan and Su Yunzhe left.
In the video, Shen Jiaqi, teary-eyed, asked Duan Yang if he was joking, to which Duan Yang, looking guilty, replied, “Jiaqi, I’m sorry, we’re done.”
Shen Jiaqi stared at him in disbelief. “What did you say? Yang Ge, are you… lying to me?”
Duan Yang shook his head. “No, I mean it. We’re done. I’m sorry, but I don’t want to deceive you. I fell in love with Yanyan, but I didn’t realize it until I saw him with someone else. That’s when I realized I’ve loved him all along. I was too foolish before. I couldn’t see how good he was when he was by my side. It wasn’t until I hurt him so much, and he sought warmth from someone else, that I realized how important he was to me. Jiaqi, I know it’s unfair to you, but love isn’t always fair. I love Yanyan, and I can’t live without him. I will make him come back to me.”
Shen Yan started feeling nauseous again. “What the hell is Duan Yang? He can’t be human, right? How could anyone have such a mindset?”
Shen Yan completely refused to believe Duan Yang’s so-called confession of love. Duan Yang couldn’t possibly love him!
But if he didn’t love him, why would he do something like this? What kind of person thought like that?
Shen Yan couldn’t make sense of it, and what made it worse was that the most-liked comments under the video included one that said, “I strangely want to see a ‘chasing wife’ scene.”
“To hell with your ‘chasing wife’ scene! I just want to see him in the crematorium!” Shen Yan thought angrily.
“Forget about it. Let’s just go to the hospital,” Su Yunzhe said.
The car had already stopped outside the hospital. Su Yunzhe opened the back door and helped Shen Yan out.
It felt like Su Yunzhe had turned into a saint overnight, completely ignoring Duan Yang’s actions. Wasn’t it strange?
However, now that they were at the hospital, they might as well go inside and get checked.
His stomach hurt again because of Duan Yang’s revolting actions, and Shen Yan started seriously doubting whether it was really just a stomach problem or if he had developed a condition where just seeing Duan Yang made him sick.
Su Yunzhe, who was well-acquainted with the hospital staff, had them skip the line and get him an experienced specialist.
The old expert examined him thoroughly, asking many questions, before taking off his reading glasses and handing Shen Yan the medical file. “Go to the obstetrics and gynecology department.”
“Huh?” Shen Yan thought he must have misheard. “What did you say?”
“Obstetrics and gynecology!” The old expert repeated loudly, even adding an explanation. “It’s the department for pregnancy and childbirth. This isn’t a stomach issue. It seems like morning sickness. You should go to obstetrics to confirm.”
Thud!
The medical file fell to the ground, and Shen Yan stood frozen for a moment before bending down to pick it up.
But Su Yunzhe quickly grabbed him and bent down to pick up the file instead. Seeing that Shen Yan was still in shock, Su Yunzhe communicated directly with the expert. “Doctor, are you sure? He… hasn’t undergone any fertility treatments. It’s impossible for him to be pregnant.”
The old expert was equally confused. “No fertility treatments? Then logically, he shouldn’t be pregnant.”
“Exactly! It’s a mistake. It’s definitely just a stomach issue,” Shen Yan said, finally snapping out of his daze. The moment he heard the expert, he felt a sense of relief.
He hadn’t undergone fertility treatment. How could he possibly be pregnant?
Besides, even if someone had undergone such treatment, it wasn’t easy for men to get pregnant, and he and Su Yunzhe had only slept together once—there was no way it would have worked on the first try!
It had to be a mistake. He was certain of it!
The expert clicked his tongue and shook his head. “No, from what I can see, it really looks like pregnancy-related symptoms. I’m not from obstetrics, but with years of experience, I can tell the difference between a stomach issue and pregnancy-related nausea. Why don’t you take my advice and go get checked? If you’re really pregnant, you can’t take any medication casually.”
“But that’s impossible!” Shen Yan was starting to panic. He knew that without fertility treatments, it was impossible for men to get pregnant. But the doctor had been practicing for years and couldn’t be mistaken about such a thing.
“It might be possible. Go check it out. If you’re not pregnant, then come back to me. I can’t prescribe any medication right now,” the doctor advised.
“But I don’t think it’s necessary. There’s no way I’m…”
“Yanyan!”
Shen Yan felt a bit anxious and desperate to clarify the situation. There was no way he could be pregnant, right? How could that even be possible?
At that moment, Su Yunzhe wrapped his arms around him from behind, trying to comfort him. “It’s fine. What’s the big deal? Just go get checked. You’ve never undergone fertility treatment, so you can’t possibly be pregnant.”
“Exactly!” Shen Yan felt that Su Yunzhe was the most reasonable person in this situation.
Su Yunzhe chuckled and continued, “So what are you worried about? Let’s just get the check, get the results, and have the doctor take a look. It’s part of their job, just to be on the safe side. Let’s not make it hard for the doctor, alright?”
After a while of being gently soothed by Su Yunzhe, Shen Yan began to feel like he had been overly anxious.
There was really no need to worry, right?
Just go get checked, and he still couldn’t believe that he could be pregnant!
So they went to the obstetrics department for an examination, and the result…
When Shen Yan saw the checkup result showing “pregnant for 2 weeks,” his vision blurred, and he nearly lost his balance.
“This… this has to be a mistake… I’ve never even had surgery. How could I be pregnant?”
The doctor, an obstetrics expert, looked at him with some surprise when he heard what Shen Yan said. “You’ve had surgery?”
“Huh?” Shen Yan, utterly shocked, couldn’t process it for a moment. He just stared blankly at the doctor. “I had fertility surgery?”
The doctor nodded. “Yes, you did! Right here at our hospital. I pulled up your previous medical records before your exam. Take a look here…”
The doctor kindly turned the computer screen to show him the records. “It was in mid-June of last year. You came to our hospital for it. How could you have forgotten about it?”
Staring at the medical record with his own name on it, Shen Yan suddenly realized that the original owner of this body must have undergone the surgery before marrying Duan Yang, without telling anyone.
Holy crap!
The original novel had never mentioned when the original owner had undergone the procedure, and Shen Yan had always assumed that it must have been after Duan Yang had hurt him, when he thought he could use a child to keep Duan Yang by his side.
Who knew the original owner had done it before the wedding?
Shen Yan nearly choked, feeling like he was being screwed over. If he had known the original owner had already undergone fertility treatment, there was no way he would have let Su Yunzhe take that risk with a condom.
Now look at what happened… he was pregnant!
Su Yunzhe, damn it! You managed to hit the jackpot with just one try? What kind of supernatural physique do you have?
