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Xue is a woman who is gentle on the outside but strong inside, able to quickly recover from setbacks. Yet he doesn't want her to get hurt, especially when she's wounded by him.

Now that Xiao Nian is like this too, there's already snow and frost in her heart; he can't add salt to it anymore.

"Tang Shuwen, say what you just said again. What did you just say" Zhao Yuning shouted angrily, eyes filled with hatred. She really couldn't believe that Tang Shuwen would ask her to abort the baby.

Tang Shuwen looked at her calmly and said sternly, "Abort the child!"

"You..." Zhao Yuning raised a hand to hit Tang Shuwen's face but was intercepted by him mid-way. He tightly grabbed her wrist; Zhao Yuning stared at him in shock as Tang Shuwen's face turned dark like water.

Under the night sky, they stood there confronting each other coldly. Zhao Yuning's tears fell like raindrops, each one a wound of pain.

How could he be so cruel

Tang Shuwen let go of her hand and softened his voice, "Yuning, let it go."

"Shuwen, when you were pursuing me in high school, you said that you would love only me for a lifetime. You promised not to do anything to hurt me," Zhao Yuning tried to hold onto him by invoking their past.

It's been just a month, yet everything has changed.

Tang Shuwen looked at the woman he once loved. "I used to like lilies, but now I prefer roses. Rainning, the seventeen or eighteen-year-old me is different from who I am today. You've been in America for seven years and you're no longer the girl I remember. We have both changed. But stubbornly, I clung onto that past memory, refusing to let go, and remained stuck in it, thinking that I still love you, but time has eroded our memories of love, leaving only strangeness behind. You feel strange towards me, and vice versa. This time when you came back, my willingness to reconcile with you wasn't because of love; it was merely an attempt to preserve the past beauty. Now I've realized that once something is gone, it's truly gone. Some people you let go of in your youth should be let go for life. I hope you can understand this and not waste time on me anymore. No matter what happens, we cannot return to how we were before. Back then, I hated Xueru because, apart from the events in America, it was more important that my eagerness to marry you suggested our past happiness still existed, but she shattered it. Just like she ruined a very beautiful dream of mine. But now I should thank Xueru; if not for her, I wouldn't have realized that some people are your lifelong companions while others are mere passersby in life. Gu Rui was just a passerby to Xueru, but I am her entire life. Just as you were my past, she is my present."

He figured all of this out through his experiences with Xueru. She taught him what fleeting life means and how to cherish the people around him.

He thought he might fall deeply in love with Xueru.

Or perhaps, he already has, but just hasn't realized it yet.

No matter what, he doesn't want to lose Xueru.

This feeling came suddenly, yet felt incredibly real.

In that moment when he shielded Xiaoni from the bullet, his mind was clear: if Xiaoni were gone, Xueru wouldn't survive either. Not because he didn't love Xiaoni; rather, it was out of sympathy for Xueru that he cherished Xiaoni so much.

Even though he kept telling himself it was all because of Xiaoni that he married Xueru.

"Your life..." she couldn't stop crying. Shuwen actually said Chen Xueru is his whole life, and she's just a passerby, a mere passerby; Zhao Yurning wept as she said, "Tang Shuwen, you've changed your mind, yet you find such lofty reasons to convince me and yourself. If you simply told me that you fell in love with Chen Xueru and have changed your feelings for me, I would find it easier to accept."

It was better than him saying that Chen Xueru is his life, which would have made her heart ache even more.

The pain of love is unbearable.

Tang Shuwen frowned and then smiled. "If you can truly accept this, I wouldn't mind. Since we've reached this point, just think of me as someone who has changed his mind. Rainy, thank you for the happy times you gave me, but I cannot accompany you in your future life. You are still young; find a man suitable for you and don't waste your thoughts on me—it's not worth it."

Zhao Yuning looked at him with cold eyes and laughed self-mockingly. "So this is how you treat the woman who carries your child"

"Apart from Chen Xueru, I never intended to cause any other unexpected pregnancies. As for you..." Tang Shuwen paused as Zhao Yuning's face turned pale with anger. He smiled lightly and said, "Perhaps there truly is nothing in this world that one can control entirely; accidents always happen, which makes life full of right and wrong, ups and downs."

"What if I insist on keeping this child" asked Zhao Yuning seriously.

In the night, Tang Shuwen's face had a tinge of coldness, as though covered by a thin layer of ice. His gaze was calm but also somewhat icy-cold; Zhao Yuning had never seen this side of Tang Shuwen before and felt fear in her heart.

Tang Shuwen said, "Yuning, I only recognize Xiaoni as my child. If you insist on keeping this child, I will treat it as if it doesn't exist at all. The future fate and life of the child are none of my concern. Why do you insist on bringing pain to your child Have you considered how people might look down upon him or her once born You yourself said that the Zhao family is a prestigious household; how will this child fit in"

"Now, it's you who has forced us mother and son into this situation. Tang Shuwen, don't try to shift all the blame onto me. Are you without fault as well" asked Zhao Yuning sharply. Tang Shuwen paused for a moment; indeed, her criticism was correct—he too had made a mistake, one of excessive confidence that led to the unexpected pregnancy.

However, terminating the pregnancy seemed like the best way to handle this situation.

A sentence from Snow Like flashed through her mind: Every child is a blessing from the heavens to their parents.

Snow Like was always so kind and wise.

Children are blessings, but if the parents make mistakes, it shouldn't be the children who suffer for them. If this child were born, it would be a shock to both families, whether it's the Zhao family or the Tang family.

His future won’t be easy either, so why should he allow this child to come into existence

"If you insist on keeping the baby, there’s no point in me trying to stop you. However, Rainy, are you sure you truly love this child Perhaps the child is merely a tool for you to achieve your goal. I don’t love this child, and neither do you; if both parents don't care about him, what's the meaning of his birth I know that it would be cruel for you to abort the baby, but what can we do" Tang Shuwen said sincerely.

If he didn’t want this child to be born, there were plenty of ways to get rid of it. The reason why he endured talking to Zhao Rainy for so long was just to make her understand the consequences.

It would be much better if she made the decision herself rather than him forcing a solution.

"I must give birth to this child," Zhao Rainy said firmly, her eyes filled with hatred.

Tang Shuwen sighed. This usually meek woman finally hated him., but after hearing her address at home, Cai frowned; that place was run-down and old-fashioned, so Cai didn't let Warmth continue living there. She told Warmth that recently she has been helping find...