Chu Qingmeng tried to sit up and get out of bed, but she still felt a sharp ache in her waist. Suddenly, she remembered seeing blood just before she passed out from the pain. "A-Jin, what's wrong with me?"
Mo Liujin's hands tightened instinctively. He wanted to lie and brush it off, but he simply couldn't force the words out. Before he even opened his mouth, tears began to stream down his face. "Our child... is gone."
Chu Qingmeng froze in place as if struck by lightning. She had not the slightest inkling that she was pregnant; ever since she arrived here, her periods had been irregular, sometimes coming every month or two, sometimes every three or four, so it had never crossed her mind that she might be expecting. Upon learning that the child was gone, Chu Qingmeng felt every ounce of strength drained from her body. She stood there blankly, collapsed against Mo Liujin's chest, forgetting even to breathe.
Chapter 43