WHV | Chapter 21

“He dared to fantasize about you. I only hit him twice, that was already being generous.” Yu Song was still full of resentment when he brought it up again.

“You only hit Shi Ci Yan twice?” Yu Wei still felt something was off. He remembered Shi Ci Yan had stayed in the hospital for more than half a month. “Wasn’t he hospitalized?”

Yu Song said, “What hospitalization? He probably went home to get through his heat.”

After Yu Wei heard that, he fell silent for a long while. He clearly remembered Shi Ci Yan being in the hospital. Back then, he had even worried that Yu Song had beaten someone into internal injuries. Why would someone just entering a heat be hospitalized?

Was he too lazy to go to class, so he faked being sick?

Yu Wei sighed. If Yu Song really had fought because of him, yet he blamed Yu Song for it, that would truly have been wrong of him.

“Yu Song, I want to apologize to you for what happened last time.” Yu Wei looked into his eyes, his tone serious. “I shouldn’t have blamed you without knowing the whole story and made you apologize. I let you suffer an injustice. I’m sorry.”

Yu Song was stunned when he suddenly heard him apologize. His mouth opened, but no words came out. His brother didn’t know the truth, so he had never blamed Yu Wei. It was just that he couldn’t help feeling sad, sad that his brother hadn’t stood on his side unconditionally. He harbored resentment, but he also resented those obnoxious Alphas, which was why he still had no kind face for Shi Ci Yan and Lin Yuchi even now.

More than three months had passed since then. It had been fine if Yu Wei hadn’t asked, but once he did, Yu Song’s nose stung, his eyes burned, and for no reason at all, he felt like crying. He took a deep breath, steadied himself, and then said, “Brother, you don’t need to apologize to me.”

Hearing the tearful edge in his voice, Yu Wei paused and tilted his head to look at him. “Crying?”

Yu Song immediately denied it. “I’m not.”

Yu Wei took a tissue and handed it to him. “I know you were wronged. If you want to cry, then cry.”

As soon as he said that, tears spilled from Yu Song like a broken string of pearls, rolling down his cheeks in big drops. While wiping at them, he muttered quietly, “It’s all your fault for suddenly bringing up what happened before.”

“Alright, alright, it’s my fault. Forgive your brother, okay? I was the one who was wrong before.”

When Yu Song had first arrived, in his heart he had been the vicious supporting character his coworkers had described, the kind of bad person who did all sorts of awful things and made people grit their teeth in hatred. So when Yu Wei learned that he had fought, more accurately, when he saw Yu Song beating Lin Yuchi unilaterally, he had subconsciously assumed Yu Song was the one at fault and had been wronged.

But now that he knew the beginning and end of it, Yu Wei instead felt that the two protagonists’ characters were only average. Especially Lin Yuchi. Just because of that bit of pheromone, he had spat filthy words left and right. Truly living up to the Lin surname, just like Lin Zerui.

As for Shi Ci Yan, that Omega pheromone probably got on him when he was helping him put on the duvet cover. That night, Shi Ci Yan was triggered into heat by his pheromones. It looked like their pheromone compatibility was high. No wonder every time he got close to Shi Ci Yan, he found that faint green apple scent on him pleasant.

“Isn’t your final exam in early January?” Yu Wei thought it over and still reminded him, “There are only two weeks left. After you finish your exams and start winter break, next semester you’ll live outside, so you won’t have to stay in the dorm and suffer. For the time being, just bear with it and ignore Shi Ci Yan and Lin Yuchi.”

As long as nothing unexpected happened, after Yu Song finished his exams he would move straight out of the dorm. In the future, aside from class time, he wouldn’t run into Shi Ci Yan and Lin Yuchi again.

Yu Song had already been comforted by him. “Okay, I don’t want to talk to either of them anyway.”

Yu Wei nodded. Next semester, Yu Song would move out and stay away from the protagonists. He would get rid of the child. He would solve the two things weighing on his heart.

Next year would be a good year.

…

In his last life, Yu Wei had been alone in a rental room that cost eight hundred yuan a month. When he looked out the window at the fireworks flashing briefly in the night, he had only felt bored. He had said “Happy New Year,” then pulled up the blanket and gone to sleep.

But this time was different. There were “family” beside him, and even the fleeting fireworks looked especially dazzling.

Yu Song went back to school on the third. Yu Wei stayed an extra day with Bai Sijia, and on the afternoon of the fourth, Bai Sijia saw him off with reluctance all the way back to the suburban villa.

In truth, as soon as Yu Wei left the Yu house, he headed straight to the hospital.

The child in his belly had already been there for more than three months, and his stomach was slightly protruding. He was afraid of being discovered, so he had been wearing loose tops lately.

He first registered, then went for the preoperative checkup before consulting the doctor.

The doctor glanced at his examination report, looking like he wanted to say something but held back.

“You’ve already passed three months. The fetus’s bones have already formed. Are you sure you want to terminate the pregnancy?”

“Yes.” Yu Wei insisted on it and did not hesitate.

Even if men in this world could give birth, Yu Wei’s long-held ideas couldn’t change overnight.

“Given your current condition, if you terminate the pregnancy, the best case is a medical induction. If that doesn’t work, you’ll only be able to do forceps curettage, which would be too harmful to your body and could damage the reproductive cavity. You might have a hard time getting pregnant in the future.”

Hearing the doctor’s words, Yu Wei almost laughed out loud. Would he still be afraid of not being able to get pregnant in the future? If he had to fear anything, it would only be that he could still have children. If it really damaged the reproductive cavity and left him unable to get pregnant, he would absolutely send a huge red packet to thank the doctor who performed the induction.

“Doctor, I’m not afraid.”

The doctor fell silent for a moment, then pushed up the glasses hanging on the bridge of his nose. “The fetus is developing very well right now. Are you sure you don’t want to think about it a little more? Termination will be very painful.”

“Doctor, there’s no point saying more. I have to get rid of this child.” Yu Wei asked, “Just tell me what day to come. I’ll be on time.”

“A week from now. Think it over carefully this week. If you don’t want to go through with it, you don’t need to come to the hospital.”

Yu Wei hesitated a little. “Do I have to wait that long?” The fetus was already 13 weeks along. It was hard enough to terminate as it was, and this doctor still wanted him to wait a week. Yu Wei couldn’t help feeling there was something fishy about it.

The doctor nodded without changing expression.

“Fine, I’ll come again next Tuesday.”

After Yu Wei left the hospital, he thought about it and drove to another hospital. The procedures were basically the same, the reports couldn’t be reused, and he went through the preoperative items from scratch. The answer he got was not much different.

He could only wait a week.

Early Tuesday morning, Yu Wei packed his things and went to the hospital to complete the admission procedures.

He stayed in the hospital eating and drinking well for another four or five days. Every day, besides a nurse taking him to check the fetus’s development, it made it seem less like he had come to terminate a pregnancy and more like he had come to preserve one.

The longer it dragged on, the more visibly Yu Wei’s belly grew. Every day when he woke up, it seemed bigger than the day before.

A week later, Yu Wei finally couldn’t hold back and asked the nurse during rounds, “Nurse, when can I have the surgery?”

Could they really keep him hanging here forever?

“I don’t know.”

Yu Wei: “…”

After the nurse left, Yu Wei lay on the hospital bed for a while, one hand on his obviously protruding stomach.

He couldn’t just sit and wait. He had to find the doctor.

As a result, after the doctor glanced at him, he said that all his physical indicators did not meet the requirements for induction. He told him to go back and rest.

Yu Wei no longer wanted to wait.

The longer it dragged on by even a day, the more uneasy he felt.

“I’m doing it today. I’ll bear all the risks myself.”

Doctor: “…”

“Doctor, please give me an exact time.”

Yu Wei pestered him in the office for half an hour before the doctor reluctantly relented. “Go back first. I’ll give you news this afternoon. I’ll discuss it with the other doctors.”

Only then was Yu Wei satisfied and went back the way he came.

Sure enough, just after Yu Wei finished lunch, his attending doctor and several nurses came in with great fanfare.

“The induction surgery is scheduled for tonight. No food for six hours before the operation.”

Yu Wei was delighted. That entire afternoon, he didn’t even drink a mouthful of water. At eight-thirty that night, it wasn’t until he was pushed into the operating room that the knot he’d had in his chest for days finally loosened.

The surgery required an injection of anesthesia. Before long, the anesthesia took effect, and Yu Wei gradually lost his senses. He couldn’t make out the faces of the doctors surrounding him, and the light above him was painfully bright. Lying on the cold operating table, Yu Wei’s consciousness drifted until it was completely gone.

No one knew how long had passed before Yu Wei vaguely sensed everything around him, though he couldn’t see clearly. Everything seemed to be covered by a thin veil, making it impossible to distinguish properly.

He vaguely heard someone speaking beside him. “It’s been an hour. Why hasn’t he woken up yet? What kind of anesthetic did you use? As a doctor, don’t you know there’s still a child in his belly?”

He didn’t know what the other side said, but the person beside him didn’t speak again. After a while, Yu Wei’s bed suddenly dipped a little. That person sat beside his bed and then fell silent again.

When Yu Wei opened his eyes completely again, the light in his vision was no longer the hospital operating room lamps. There was no hospital disinfectant smell in the air either, and the bed beneath him was a hundred times softer than a hospital bed.

Yu Wei stared into the darkness at the empty space for a long time.

Where am I?

Yu Wei lay on the bed and did not dare to move rashly. The heaviness of his heartbeat was enough to prove how unsettled he was at that moment. Because four months ago, he had also experienced something similar.

He remembered that at two in the morning four months ago, he had been at work, frantically checking the amounts and original vouchers to find the missing penny. But he had been too hungry that night and ordered takeout.

He only remembered the delivery man calling him and saying he couldn’t get through security and that Yu Wei should come downstairs to get it himself. Yu Wei agreed, and after hanging up, he got up. Then his vision went black and he collapsed.

That fall left him unable to get back up. When he opened his eyes again, he was in the Yu house. The next second, Yu Song suddenly appeared in front of him and called him Brother, scaring Yu Wei so badly that he fainted on the spot. When he woke again, a group of doctors were gathered around the bed, while Bai Sijia and Yu Song sat anxiously by his side. Yu Wei had been glad that when his coworker told him a story, he had casually asked about the name of the supporting-character younger brother. Otherwise, he would not have realized so quickly that he had transmigrated into a novel.

But now he was in another unfamiliar environment, and Yu Wei had to suspect that he had transmigrated again.

Don’t panic, don’t panic.

At least this was the modern world. If they gave him an apocalypse or an immortal cultivation world, he’d be out in minutes.

Besides, judging from the furnishings in this room, this person didn’t seem ordinary. It looked like he was rich.

But other than the novel his coworker had told him about, he hadn’t read any other novels himself.

Yu Wei sat up. He was wearing loose light-blue pajamas with little bears on them. He wasn’t wearing slippers. Carefully, he walked to the door and quietly opened it a crack to peek outside. The living room outside had warm lighting on, but not a single person was visible.

No one?

Yu Wei breathed a sigh of relief, straightened up, and opened the door to step out.

Suddenly, the door on the left also opened. “You’re awake?”