C7 He Is Making Things Difficult for You?

She thought about her marriage to Shao Yunchen. After being married for three years, their relationship had not altered in the slightest. They were two strangers tied together by a piece of paper. Two people who lived under the same roof... but only once a week.

How had she managed to spend three years tied to a man like Shao Yunchen, who was so unapproachable and cold to her?

At that moment, Lu Yao's lower abdomen throbbed in pain. Her face paled and her legs gave away. She almost fell to the ground.

Xiang Dongnan quickly caught her, his hand around her arm. Seeing her pale face, he asked with worry evident in his voice, "Are you feeling unwell? Do you want me to take you to a hospital?"

"I'm fine." Lu Yao waved her other hand dismissively. She escaped his grasp and stood up, a resentful smile on her face. "Actually, I'm rather envious of you. When your marriage went south, you easily asked for a divorce."

"You and Shao Yunchen …" Although Xiang Dongnan had been out of the country for a few years, he had still been in contact with Lu Yao's father from time to time. He knew that Lu Yao had married Shao Yunchen. It was said that the his family background was not so good. "Is he making things difficult for you?"

Lu Yao shook her head.

If Shao Yunchen really wished to make things difficult for her, he was welcome to mock her all day long. The problem was that he only returned once a week, with that aloof expression on his face. It was as if their 'home' did not exist for him.

Lu Yao opened her mouth to give an answer, but when she raised her head, she stopped short. She saw a group of people walking toward them.

It was a group of men in suits who seemed to be business elites. The man in front wore an iron gray suit and was all too familiar to her. It was her husband! His short black hair was meticulously combed back. His demeanor and magnetic presence made it impossible for others to ignore him.

Lu Yao's eyes went to the the slim figure next to him. The woman wore the same gray dress as him. She looked rather fetching. Her skin was white and soft-looking. A slight smile hovered on her lips.

Lu Yao's body froze in an instant. She had a feeling that the woman standing beside Shao Yunchen was the same woman who had spoken to her on the phone. It must be her! The assistant!

Shao Yunchen, who was in the middle of talking to the man next to him as they walked over, spotted Lu Yao too. His eyes locked with hers.

He stopped talking. As his gaze swept over to the man next to her, his brows furrowed slightly. There was a question on his face. The lady beside him had already opened the door to the private room they were headed to. "Mr. Shao, please come. Let's begin."

It was indeed the woman who had spoken to her on the phone, Lu Yao could confirm. Her voice sounded better in person.

Shao Yunchen turned to enter the room. Watching as he and his staff passed her by without saying a word, Lu Yao hung her head quietly. She pulled her coat tighter around her.

She also turned to leave, hoping that she looked calm and unaffected, very unlike the way she felt. However, it was at that moment that her lower abdomen throbbed again sharply. The piercing pain made her double over, causing her body to fall to the ground.

"Yao yao!"

Shao Yunchen was just entering the room when he heard Xiang Dongnan's anxious shouts. He looked in that direction and saw Lu Yao lying on the carpet, her face losing color. Alarmed, he pushed past the men behind him and strode over.

"Let go," Shao Yunchen said quickly, forcefully pushing Xiang Dongnan aside. He crouched on the ground and picked up Lu Yao with ease. Without another word, he walked down the corridor with her in his arms.

Xiang Dongnan's eyes flashed. He guessed who the man was and did not follow him.

Shao Yunchen drove them to the hospital. Once inside, he carried Lu Yao to the emergency ward.

Outside the ward, he called up Fu Xuezi to tell her to cancel tonight's negotiations.

After waiting for nearly ten minutes, the ward door finally opened.

The doctor took off his mask. "Are you her husband?" he asked Shao Yunchen at once.

Shao Yunchen nodded. "Yes."

"Take care of your wife. Don't let her drink and smoke again," the doctor chided him.

"She has a cold and is very weak. If she works for very long hours and wastes away her body like this, she might face trouble in having children in the future. I've prescribed a medicine for her. Please make sure she takes it on time."

"Thank you, Doctor."

As the doctor left, his words echoed in Shao Yunchen's mind. He rubbed the space between his brows, feeling a headache come on.

He married Lu Yao because his family had put pressure on him. He had been furious and asked that both of them sign a contract at the time of marriage. In the hopes that there would be no entanglement during their divorce, they lived two separate lives and barely shared anything.

However, tonight when he witnessed just how weak and ill Lu Yao was, his heart sank. She was only a girl in her twenties, no matter the relation between them. He ought to take better care of her.

Shao Yunchen shook away his thoughts. He went downstairs to the hospital cafeteria to get some hot porridge.

Later when he entered the emergency ward, he saw that Lu Yao was awake. She seemed to be struggling to sit up.

"What are you doing?" Shao Yunchen walked over and placed the porridge on the table. He grabbed a pillow and placed it at her back for her to lean comfortably. "Didn't you say before that smoking is just fun for you, that it's just a way to pass the time? Have you become addicted now?"

'He hasn't left yet?' Lu Yao wondered to herself.