Chapter 422: Chapter 422: Devote My Life to Her
Huo Tingdong’s face was cold and expressionless, unmoved.
The girl he once cherished deeply in his heart had turned into this.
He only felt it was pathetic.
Song Shuyan continued her incoherent pleas: “Tingdong, are you angry with me? Don’t be angry, I was wrong, I know I was wrong… But, the child is really yours, it truly is yours…”
She clutched the protective railing tightly, her eyes wide open: “When I give birth to the child, you’ll marry me, won’t you? You’ll marry me, won’t you!?”
Huo Tingdong remained silent.
Song Shuyan became even more frantic, struggling to reach out from behind the railing, desperately trying to grab him: “Tingdong! Tingdong, take me away, please! Take me away…”
Mo Ke immediately stepped in front of Huo Tingdong, creating a safe distance between him and Song Shuyan: “Mr. Huo, be careful she might hurt you.”
Fearful that Huo Tingdong would turn and leave, Song Shuyan violently shook the railing: “Tingdong, save me… Take me away, take me away…”
Huo Tingdong’s thin lips finally parted, his words cold and cutting: “I will not take you away. I am already married. My wife’s name is Lin Qi. It was her in the past, it is her now, and in the future, it will only ever be her.”
He finally became certain—Song Shuyan was likely truly mad.
He had observed for a long time and believed the possibility of her feigning madness was slim.
But even if she was insane, he had to personally deliver such a cruel truth: “From now on, I, Huo Tingdong, will only love her. She is my wife, and I have already decided to devote my entire life to her.”
Song Shuyan’s eyes suddenly widened, as though exposed to her fatal weakness!
Huo Tingdong smirked coldly: “I will never betray her.”
With that, he turned away coldly and prepared to leave.
Song Shuyan completely broke down!
“Crash! Crash!”
The protective railing echoed with deafening, frantic shaking!
Everyone around her stepped back several paces, shaken by her outburst: “Madwoman, this is truly a madwoman…”
Song Shuyan screamed recklessly, her voice piercing: “Tingdong, don’t leave me!!”
The heart-wrenching cries reverberated through the long corridor.
As Mo Ke shielded Huo Tingdong while walking away, Song Shuyan’s shouts nearly pierced their eardrums. Furious, Mo Ke cursed: “Crazy woman!”
Already mad—after madness, she had completely become a rabid dog.
Huo Tingdong’s pace, however, did not falter as he descended the steps.
Song Shuyan stared helplessly as his figure disappeared at the end of the hallway!
“Tingdong doesn’t want me anymore, and now, I’ve lost my child too…”
She started wailing: “My child! Give me back my child! Give me my child back!!”
A nurse on duty hurried over, instructing others to step back, then slipped a pillow through the protective railing: “Your child is here!”
Seeing the pillow, Song Shuyan hesitantly accepted it: “Child…? My child?”
The nurse said gently: “Song Shuyan, look, isn’t this your child? Look at him.”
Song Shuyan’s mind regained a modicum of clarity.
She stared vacantly at the pillow. It was stark white and soft.
Her pupils suddenly dilated, and she embraced the pillow tightly, overjoyed: “Baby, my baby, don’t cry, don’t cry…”
Holding the pillow calmed her significantly, even a trace of humanity flickered in her eyes.
“Baby, don’t cry. Mommy will feed you, Mommy will feed you…”
As she muttered, she raised her clothes.
Outside the ward stood numerous male doctors, none of whom chose to avert their eyes.
Taking advantage of Song Shuyan’s distraction with the pillow, the nurse immediately unlocked the railing, entered, and forcefully injected her with a sedative.
The sedative dose was heavy.
Song Shuyan trembled violently, rolled her eyes upward, and promptly collapsed to the floor.
Several other nurses rushed in, strapped her into a restraint jacket, and lifted her onto the bed.
Under the sedative’s effects, Song Shuyan lay obediently on the bed, staring at the ceiling, her eyes utterly lifeless.
One of the doctors suddenly remarked: “Mr. Huo asked me if she might just be pretending to be insane.”
Another doctor scoffed: “Even if she were pretending, what would it gain her? Being transferred from the women’s prison to here—it’s just a change of scenery while continuing her sentence! This place is much harsher than prison; a normal person locked in an environment like this for a year or two would go mad anyway.
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Returning home.
The evening had already descended.
Today was the Lantern Festival.
Momo personally wrapped dumplings and prepared tangyuan.
When Lin Qi saw Huo Tingdong, she immediately said, “Hubby! Han said that after dinner, he wants to visit the lantern festival.”
On the Lantern Festival, many parks hold lantern festivals.
Han had never been to a lantern festival before. Momo had told him that every Lantern Festival, her Mommy would take her to visit one, making him long for the experience.
Huo Tingdong smiled faintly: “Alright!”
Lin Qi noticed something unusual about his expression and asked, “By the way… I saw you went out today. Where did you go?”
Huo Tingdong said: “I went to the Psychiatric Hospital.”
Lin Qi was momentarily stunned: “Why did you go to the Psychiatric Hospital?”
Huo Tingdong said: “Mo Ke told me that Song Shuyan was transferred to the Psychiatric Hospital. Recently, around the time of the Lunar New Year, she had a miscarriage. After that, her mental state deteriorated, so she was sent to the Psychiatric Hospital.”
Momo asked skeptically: “She went crazy?”
Huo Tingdong said: “That’s what they say.”
Lin Qi: “So did she really go crazy?”
Huo Tingdong said: “She appears truly insane.”
Lin Qi: “Appears?”
His use of the word “appears” suggested that he suspected she might be feigning madness.
Huo Tingdong said: “They all claim she’s insane. I suspected she might be pretending, but I went and saw her—I can’t be sure.”
He had never experienced madness himself, nor encountered someone truly insane, so he couldn’t confirm whether Song Shuyan was genuinely mad.
But he didn’t care.
It didn’t matter to him whether she was pretending or truly mad.
That afternoon, when he saw the raving Song Shuyan at the Psychiatric Hospital, there was a fleeting moment where he felt possessed by the thought that she best disappear from this world.
Even if he had to do it himself.
If she were freed, he too would be liberated.
Snapping out of his thoughts, he realized how terrifying and ruthless his impulse had been.
Momo declared: “That kind of woman should be directly executed; otherwise, after being released from prison, she’ll harm society again.”
Lin Qi said: “Modern law is very cautious with death penalty verdicts. It’s not like before; now they emphasize particularly heinous circumstances. She committed attempted murder, but not actual murder, so her crimes aren’t severe enough for a death sentence.”
Even in ancient times, there was a principle of life for a life.
Momo said: “If she’s sentenced to life imprisonment, by the time she’s released, both Han and I will already be grown!”
Thinking this through, he suddenly smiled: “Then I’m not afraid!”
By then, Han and he would both be grown up, and they’d surely be able to protect Mommy well!
If that wicked woman ever sought to retaliate against Mommy again, he’d stop at nothing to keep her from laying a finger on her!