Once Upon A One Night Stand

Shu Tian raised her head to kiss him, with tears welling up in her eyes. She hated God for being so unfair to let lovers torture each other in this way.

Li Han couldn't imagine how heartbroken she had been when he had asked her to plead guilty.

Shu Tian took a deep breath, raised her hand, and pushed him away. The armed police on both sides looked away. After a while, she gazed at the man's eyebrows and said in a choked voice, "Bye." A breeze swept past them. It was early spring, but there was a bleakness like that in late autumn.

Shu Tian was heartbroken, unable to bear the sad scene. She turned around and followed the armed police to return to her room, feeling the keen eyes on her back. Then, she looked up at the pale glow on both sides of the corridor. At this time, she did not expect that the real storm had just come.

[...]

A single room was available, which had certainly been arranged in advance by Li Han. Unlike the police station, the jail contained people who did different wrongful conduct, including theft, assault, and even murder. Putting a weak person like Shu Tian in jail was like putting a lamb into a pack of wolves, where would be a dangerous position for Shu Tian.

Shu Tian looked around after entering the single room. The room was pretty small with no windows. Without a table, there was only one bed in it. There was a small-size urinal instead of a toilet. Moreover, the room was humid, even with moss in the corner. It was because the room lacks sunshine all year round, making it smelly as well.

Shu Tian had thought she could endure hardship, but she couldn't help itching all over in such a terrible environment.

"This is your room. Call the prison guard outside if you have any problems. Don't make any noise if there is nothing." The staff was much more serious than the ones in the police station, expressionless when speaking.

After all, working in such a depressing environment for a long time would make people who had been easy-going colder.

Without feeling offended, Shu Tian nodded politely. "Okay, thank you."

The officer glanced at her and silently turned around to leave with the door closed.

Shu Tian was alone in the room. It was late at night and the light was dim, somehow revealing a sense of horror.

She walked to the bedside and sat down, and the thin mattress creaked. Helpless, she slowly sat on the side with her knees in her arms without lying on the bed.

"Are you done? I'm going to turn off the light." A woman's coarse voice came from outside.

Shu Tian cleared her throat. "Okay, turn it off."

As soon as Shu Tian finished speaking, the light bulb in the room was off and the darkness came. Without adapting to the environment, Shu Tian could see nothing in the darkness. She couldn't help hugging her body tightly to protect her stomach. Feeling guilty, she kept muttering, "Don't be afraid, my baby."

Shu Tian really cared about the kid. Although it didn't come at an appropriate time, she could feel her motherly love for the child when thinking that Li Han was the child's father.

Shu Tian forced herself to eat something even if she had no appetite. In addition, she would be careful whenever she stood up and sat down. Her behavior apparent showed that she wanted to give birth to the child. Although this idea was unrealistic, she indeed wished to make it come true.

She was not afraid of living in a harsh environment, but she was worried that the child would be unhealthy.

But...

Looking around at the darkness, she suddenly felt a little scared. She might not be able to protect this child at all in such a horrible environment!

Discombobulated, she leaned against the wall and fell asleep. The bed was too wet to sleep on it, so Shu Tian simply sat on it.

Perhaps it was because the room was sombre and dark, and Shu Tian didn't cover herself with the quilt, the woman was frozen up in the middle of the night. She opened her eyes with a cold shiver, vaguely seeing a few glimmers of light coming from the bottom crack of the door.

What time was it now?

Shu Tian had no idea, nor did she know how long she had slept. It should not be past six o'clock when she had to get up.

Shu Tian crossed her arms, trying to relieve the coldness, but it was like a drop in the bucket. In the end, she had no choice but to grab the quilt aside and place a corner of it on her knees. The stink of damp caused by the proliferation of bacteria rushed into her nose in an instant.

Nauseous, Shu Tian finally couldn't put up with the smell, got out of bed, and took the urinal to retch. "Oh..."

At first, Shu Tian didn't make a loud noise, but she gradually felt worse after retching more times. Moreover, the smell was terribly disgusting.

When the prison guard outside heard the noise, she knocked on her door heavily, her voice tinged with the impatience of being woken up. "What's going on?"

"No, no, oh..." Before she could finish her sentence, Shu Tian vomited again. She was worried that her pregnancy would be known, but the pregnancy reaction was much more violent than she had imagined.

Afraid of an accident, the guard opened the door and came in. She turned on the light, looked at Shu Tian's pale face in the corner, frowned, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Nothing serious!" Shu Tian quickly replied. "I've been having a stomachache because of eating bad food these days. I might just feel worse in a new place. It's not a big problem."

"Shall I ask the doctor to come over and have a check?"

"Please not. Never mind. I'll get better after vomiting." Shu Tian resisted the churning feeling in her stomach and forced out a pale smile. "Trust me. It doesn't matter."

The guard was relieved. After all, it was better to do less than to do more. It would be troublesome to call the doctor now. "Okay, then you should be careful. Call me if you need anything." "Okay." Before the staff was leaving, Shu Tian asked in a hurry, "By the way, could you tell me what time it is now?"

"Four thirty."

It would be dawn in an hour and a half.

Shu Tian heaved a sigh of relief. "Thank you."

The door closed again, and even the bright light disappeared. Shu Tian stood there as if she was soaking in the cold winter water. Her throat seemed to be blocked by the salty seawater, and even breathing cost a lot of strength.

Li Han had promised her before he had left that it would only take a few days.

She had thought that she could have endured it. After all, she had endured it for such a long time? But it was not until this moment that she realized that she could not bear it at all. It was really a minute of suffering. She could even feel her mental and physical strength slowly slipping away.

The impact of the environment on a person was too great, and she had no idea who long her weak body could endure it.

Li Han would never know how hard Shu Tian's life had been when she was waiting for the result. She was still waiting for the miraculous result.

She just hoped that Li Han wouldn't let her down.