Chapter 421: Chapter 421: I Will Be the Future Matriarch of the Huo Family!
Huo Tingdong: “Schizophrenia?”
Doctor: “Sometimes, she’s completely normal, able to communicate and interact like anyone else. Other times, she’s like this—erratic and deranged!”
At first, Song Shuyan’s case wasn’t progressing well.
She was pregnant, released on bail pending trial, but later, her baby mysteriously miscarried. Overnight, she lost her sanity. East City Women’s Prison couldn’t take her, so she was sent to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. The diagnosis came back as schizophrenia, and she was immediately transferred to the Psychiatric Hospital.
Huo Tingdong asked: “Can this type of illness be cured?”
Doctor: “As far as we can tell, her condition is quite severe.”
Huo Tingdong: “How severe?”
Doctor: “During an episode, she completely loses her basic cognitive abilities. Even when she’s not having an episode, her behavior is erratic and repetitive, making normal interactions impossible. The hospital has only had her for a few days, but she was already in terrible mental shape when she arrived. Within days, she turned into this—utterly unhinged.”
Huo Tingdong: “She’s gone mad?”
Doctor: “Yes, completely mad.”
Huo Tingdong: “Truly mad?”
The doctor smiled: “Truly… mad.”
Initially, Huo Tingdong suspected that Song Shuyan might be feigning madness to escape punishment, but it didn’t seem like it.
As he nurtured this suspicion, the conversation outside unexpectedly startled Song Shuyan.
She suddenly raised her head. Upon seeing Huo Tingdong, she froze momentarily, then abruptly straightened her body and sat upright!
Her mouth froze, unable to utter a sound. Her hollow gaze gradually regained focus, and like a snake flicking its venomous tongue, her eyes locked onto him with deadly precision!
Huo Tingdong frowned slightly: “Song Shuyan?”
Song Shuyan shot up!
After hiding in a corner for so long, her sudden movement caused her to stagger and fall onto the floor. Yet, she clumsily scrambled back to her feet, bumping her head against the wall without even flinching in pain. Crawling frantically, she rushed in front of him and clutched the protective railing tightly, her gaze fixed on him!
Mo Ke instinctively stepped in front of Huo Tingdong.
After all, a madwoman in a frenzy could hurt someone. It wasn’t impossible.
However, Huo Tingdong lightly pushed Mo Ke’s hand away and looked directly at Song Shuyan.
The two stared at each other for a long time.
Huo Tingdong scrutinized her carefully. Suddenly, Song Shuyan tilted her head, let out a silly grin, and shrank back slightly as though intimidated by his gaze. Yet she still managed to muster her courage and stammer: “Ting… Tingdong! Are you… are you here to take me home?”
She actually still recognized him.
Huo Tingdong found it utterly incredulous.
He said coldly: “I know you’re not mad. Stop putting on this act of insanity.”
It seemed like he was deliberately testing her.
“Huh?”
Song Shuyan, however, appeared unable to comprehend his words, clumsily processing them one syllable at a time. Then, like a dim-witted child, she asked, “Have you… seen my baby?”
Huo Tingdong: “Your baby?”
“Ah! I know! I know…” She suddenly began mumbling deliriously, “You must have hidden my baby, right? Right?!”
Mo Ke said: “Mr. Huo, you absolutely shouldn’t get too close. A nurse was hurt by her earlier. After her miscarriage, the emotional trauma caused significant mental disturbances.”
In short, she’d completely lost her mind.
Little did they know, the word “miscarriage” immediately triggered her!
Song Shuyan let out an inhuman scream!
“Ahhhh! Ahhh—!”
Her chilling cries echoed through the corridor.
Suddenly, she stretched out her rigid arms toward him.
Huo Tingdong didn’t back away. Her hands were barely an inch from him, yet they couldn’t reach him.
He looked at her.
She, in turn, cried and screamed hysterically: “Tingdong, Tingdong!! Save my baby! Save our baby!”
She clung to the protective railing desperately, shaking it with fierce intensity, as if trying to tear it apart and throw herself at him.
“Tingdong, take me away, please!? Boo hoo hoo… Everyone here is so scary! They want to hurt me, kill my baby!”
“Clang clang clang!”
She kept rattling the railing, producing ear-piercing noises.
Huo Tingdong’s brow furrowed even deeper.
“Song Shuyan, enough already.”
Song Shuyan burst into grotesque laughter again, alternating between crying, laughing, grief, and madness.
“Hahaha! Tingdong has come to take me home!! Once I give birth to his baby, he’ll marry me and make me Mrs. Huo!”
Her laughter was shrill and deafening. Her eyes, wide and menacing, resembled a vengeful ghost clawing its way out of hell—terrifying and ghastly.
“Tingdong, Tingdong… I’ve been waiting for you for so long! Finally, you’re here! You’ve come to take me home!! Hahaha, you’re taking me home!!”
Before Huo Tingdong could respond, she abruptly started crying: “I’ve been waiting for you for so long, waiting has been so painful! This place is too frightening. Take me away, take me away…”
The doctor shouted sternly: “Song Shuyan! Stop it!”
Song Shuyan was immediately startled and curled up into a ball!
She gripped the railing and sank down: “Demons… you’re all demons! You’ve been torturing me, trying to kill my baby. Let me warn you! The baby I’m carrying is Huace’s future heir! When Tingdong takes me home, I won’t forgive any of you! Once I become Mrs. Huo, just you wait, hahaha! Do you even know who my husband is? He’s the heir of the Huo Family, and he’s the god of China! His name is Huo Tingdong!”
Huo Tingdong remained silent.
“Oh, wait!”
Song Shuyan suddenly stood up again, speaking to Huo Tingdong with intense excitement: “Tingdong, I have good news for you! I have good news!”
Huo Tingdong: “What?”
“I’m going to give birth! I’m going to give you two sons, smarter than the ones that woman has!” she exclaimed with delight.
Then she glanced around, lowered her voice, and said, “Both your sons are inside my belly, so you see, my belly is so big…”
As she spoke, she lowered her head to touch her belly, “Look, my belly is so big, so big…”
Halfway through, when she felt her flat stomach, her expression collapsed instantly, “My belly… my belly is gone…”
From start to finish, Huo Tingdong observed her coldly.
Song Shuyan began pacing frantically in confusion, “Where’s my belly? Where’s my baby?? It’s gone? How is it gone? Where’s my baby? Where’s my baby? That’s the baby I had with Tingdong, my ticket to marrying into the Huo Family! My sons, they would’ve been Huace’s future heirs! Then, I’d have risen through the ranks and become Matriarch of the Huo Family! Hahaha!”
She alternated between crying and laughing: “But… but where’s my baby? How could my baby be gone?! Where’s my baby?!”
Huo Tingdong calmly said: “Song Shuyan, that’s your baby, not mine.”
“No!” Song Shuyan shouted as if furious, “It’s your baby! It’s yours!! That baby belongs to you! To you!! You can’t disown your sons! They’re ours! They’re ours!!”