Chapter 337: Chapter 337: Domestic Abuser!
After a pause, Lin Qi turned her head with a meaningful look and said, “You didn’t see me the entire afternoon; didn’t you think to call the police?”
Han Na was stunned, at a loss for words for a moment.
Lin Qi frowned and said, “Aren’t you afraid something happened to me?”
Han Na replied without hesitation, “Of course I’m afraid! We’re good friends, aren’t we!”
Lin Qi smiled, “Good friends are not just for saying. If you were the one in trouble, I would definitely have called the police. I didn’t expect that you wouldn’t even dare to call the police after my incident.”
Having said this, she turned her gaze back to the computer screen and continued processing data.
Han Na felt extremely guilty, and said somewhat resentfully, “Lin Qi, I’m sorry… It’s my fault… My courage is just too small…”
Lin Qi said, “No need to apologize. Anyway, I’ve already handled it.”
Han Na, still somewhat shaken, asked, “What exactly happened? Does that driver have a deep grudge against you?”
Lin Qi replied, “I don’t know, but it’s been taken care of.”
How exactly she handled it, she couldn’t be bothered to explain too much to Han Na.
After all, money makes the world go round.
Any problem that can be solved with money is no problem at all.
The only thing gained from this incident was that she saw Han Na’s true colors.
Noon, lunchtime.
Lin Qi, holding her elevator card as usual, went to President Huo Tingdong’s office to have lunch with him.
At the door, Mo Ke just came out of the president’s office, still holding a stack of documents.
Upon seeing Lin Qi, he seemed surprised, “Madam?”
Lin Qi asked, “Where’s my husband?”
After formalizing their marriage, calling him “husband” came more and more naturally to her.
Mo Ke, somewhat astonished, replied, “Didn’t Mr. Huo tell you that he had something to do this noon and wouldn’t be in the company?”
Lin Qi shook her head, “No, he didn’t.”
Mo Ke said, “Oh, he’s not in the office. Have you eaten? Let’s eat together!”
Lin Qi furrowed her brows, a bit puzzled, “Where did he go if he’s not in the company this noon?”
Mo Ke replied, “He seems to have gone to deal with Miss Song’s issue.”
Hospital.
Huo Tingdong sat on a bench in the corridor; his secretary, having found Song Shuyan’s hospital admittance information at the information desk, quickly returned: “Mr. Huo, I’ve found Miss Song’s ward.”
He casually closed his PDA, raised his head, and asked indifferently, “Is she in the ward now?”
The secretary shook his head: “The nurse said she left after the room check this morning, and hasn’t come back yet. However, her documents and luggage are still there.”
Huo Tingdong slowly stood up: “Let’s wait for her in her ward.”
“Yes.”
Song Shuyan came back from the pharmacy. She was not satisfied with the antiabortifacient prescribed by the hospital, so she had a few doses of Chinese medicine made at the pharmacy. Just as she arrived at the door of her ward, she saw the door wide open and felt suspicious.
She slowed her steps, and just as she reached the door, she unexpectedly saw Huo Tingdong sitting on an armchair. He had already heard her footsteps returning and lifted his head coldly, his gaze falling on her, “You’re back?”
Song Shuyan felt a sudden pang in her heart.
She turned abruptly to run.
Huo Tingdong had already anticipated her escape, lifted his hand, and curled his finger slightly, triggering two bodyguards to rush out immediately, catch up to her, and grabbed her arms, one on each side, and escorted her back to the ward.
“Let go!”
Song Shuyan struggled frantically, shouting, “What are you doing! What is this, this is a hospital!”
Huo Tingdong uncrossed his legs, stood up, and walked up to her, looking down at her with dominance: “Song Shuyan, without the protection of the Huo Family, where do you think you can escape to? I heard that my father has blocked your travel documents; you can’t even leave this city.”
Song Shuyan began to tremble in fear.
She lifted her head, tears in her eyes, and questioned him, “So, you deliberately said those words in front of your father and stepmother yesterday, with the intention of having them drive me out of the Huo Family! That way, you could target me, no… your child! You still want to force me to abort the child!”
Huo Tingdong said, “I’ve told you, I won’t acknowledge the child in your belly. Today, we’ll get the surgery done.”
Song Shuyan’s tears cascaded down.
An unprecedented panic enveloped her.
She began to sob and scream, “Huo Tingdong! Don’t do this… you can’t do this to me… Help! Someone help… Is anybody there?”
In the narrow, dimly lit corridor, soon, the relatives and patients from a few neighboring wards heard Song Shuyan’s desperate cries for help, and they all came out, gathering at the entrance of the ward.
Song Shuyan sobbed, “My husband is keeping a mistress outside, and now he’s forcing me to abort our child! Is there anyone kind enough to call the police! Please, someone call the police for me!”
Her statement was like a bolt from the blue.
The crowd was taken aback and began to gesture and mutter disapprovingly at Huo Tingdong.
“This man is so ruthless he’s willing to go to great lengths against his own flesh and blood!”
“He keeps a mistress and forces his wife to abort the child! Is he even human?”
“He has the looks of a gentleman but does things that are even worse than beasts.”
Huo Tingdong’s eyes narrowed as he stepped past Song Shuyan and walked out of the ward, coldly saying, “Scram!”
He had never expected Song Shuyan to fabricate such outrageous lies!
Seeing his aggressiveness, more of the relatives of the patients were convinced he was the scum of a man, as described by Song Shuyan!
Song Shuyan continued to cry and create a scene behind Huo Tingdong: “Husband! You can’t be so heartless to me! I agree to the divorce, I don’t want a cent of the property, I am willing to leave with nothing! Please, don’t force me to abort the child! You have no right to force me to abort! Forcing me to abort the child is illegal!”
Huo Tingdong swallowed his anger, turned around, and glared at her fiercely, “Song Shuyan, you’re playing this game with me?”
Her despicable tactics always exceeded his imagination!
He had anticipated her resistance, her struggle, but he never expected she would fabricate such a shameless lie and gather public sympathy, all the while presenting herself convincingly as a wronged woman driven to a dead end by her husband’s infidelity and his mistress!
A few passers-by, relatives of other patients, began persuading and advising Huo Tingdong: “Come on… at least be a man, and do what a man should do! Take the responsibility a man should take! She is your wife, you had the affair, you were wrong first! But it’s invaluable for a prodigal to return to righteousness! Even if you must divorce her, you shouldn’t force her to abort the child!”
“Indeed! How can you be so cruel? After all, she is your legitimate wife!”
“That’s too much!”
In the crowd, a few burly men who couldn’t stand it anymore said, “Are you even a man? To get physical with your own wife! I despise men who abuse their family!”
Without expression, Huo Tingdong warned, “I advise you not to meddle in other people’s affairs.”
His hand, which was previously in his trouser pocket, slowly came out and clenched into a fist, “Otherwise, don’t blame me if you get hurt!”