702 A Pawn (1/2)
Xin Zemin didn't want to talk to whoever was on the other side of the phone, so he hung up in frustration. However, his words left Destiny in shock. She was reeling in disbelief from what she heard.
”Carina... Surrogate...” These words kept repeating in her head like alarm bells. As an outlandish idea formed in her head, she instantly shook her head to deny it.
She looked back at Xin Zemin and found him on another call as he was instructing someone, ”Help me find the details about Wen Ai's friend Carina Novell and her daughter.” After he hung up, he looked even more distressed. Standing before the door of the operating room, he was saying, ”Huanhuan, how nice it would have been if our daughter didn't die... We never even got to see her.”
Destiny felt her body shaking. She leaned against the wall as Carina Novell's last words rang in her mind, 'Family... Look... For... Your... Family...' After that, she never spoke as she never woke up from the coma.
At that time, Destiny might not have understood her words but now, everything seemed very clear to her. She waited in the hospital until the doctors said that Zhao Huan's condition was stable but she was unconscious. But hearing them say that Zhao Huan might never wake up again, made her heart sink.
Disguising herself as a nurse, she entered Zhao Huan's room in the middle of the night. She found Xin Zemin sitting on the bedside with his hand holding Zhao Huan's. He kissed her hand as he said, ”Please wake up, okay? I only have you... Even though everyone says I have the world, only you know that I only have you. So don't you dare leave me alone.”
Seeing him crying like this Destiny didn't dare look up. She slowly took Zhao Huan's blood without any hitch. First, her disguise was pretty good. Second, Xin Zemin wasn't mentally in the state to notice anything odd. Especially when all she did was take a little blood.
The next few hours that Destiny spent in the lab waiting for the paternity test result had to be the worst of her life. If her conjectures turned out to be true... She didn't know how she'd be able to face anyone.
And when she did receive the paternity test report, she finally felt like someone pulled the earth right from underneath her feet. Or maybe it was the sky crushing her down. Whatever it was, it didn't feel good.
She slumped down in the hospital corridor without any care. She had finally lost. She actually tried to kill her own mother. Her heart felt like it was being squeezed. It was painful and suffocating and yet she couldn't scream out her pain. She brought it all on her own.
She ran back toward Zhao Huan's room. Since she was still wearing the nurse's uniform, the bodyguards didn't stop her. Xin Zemin wasn't inside when she came. Walking up to her bedside, Destiny looked at Zhao Huan's pale face. She lifted her hand to touch her face but her fingers trembled.