Inside the premium VIP ward, sunlight poured in from the window, casting soft rays on the pristine white sheets. The woman sleeping peacefully on the bed suddenly twitched. Her long eyelashes, resembling butterfly wings, fluttered open to reveal eyes like tranquil pools, a slight mist coloring their clarity.
With a creak, the door to the ward swung open from the outside. Two nurses dressed in white, pushing a small cart, stepped in.
In the cart lay a delicate infant, deep in his slumber.
"Congratulations, Miss Gu. It's a boy," the nurse announced.
At this, the woman's eyes glistened, and she propped herself up against the bed, signaling the nurse to bring the baby to her. The little guy seemed to enjoy his mother's embrace. He adjusted himself against her, occasionally blowing tiny, glistening bubbles from his mouth.
"Miss Gu's baby is so cute; the father must be incredibly handsome too," the nurse blurted out without thinking.
The woman gently patted the infant's back and paused. The father? She hadn't even seen the face of the baby's father, let alone known how handsome he was.
As the heiress of the Gu Group, she, Gu Sheng Sheng, was betrayed by a childhood friend she deemed as close as a sister and had her innocence taken. And now...she had an additional little bundle of joy.
Suddenly, with a loud thud, the door violently swung open from the outside, and several men clad in suits and sunglasses entered the ward.
"Who are you?"
Instinctually, Gu Sheng Sheng held on tightly to the baby in her arms, scolding the group of men aggressively.
The nurses had already been scared off to the side.
Ignoring her question, the man leading the group approached her, "Miss Gu, please hand over the baby in your arms."
"Why should I? He's my son."
The near roar-like voice made her hold on the baby tighter.
"Miss Gu, you should understand that we are not negotiating with you, but giving you an order," the man spoke impassively.
As he finished, several men behind him rushed forward and pushed Gu Shengsheng onto the bed, taking the child from her arms.
"What are you doing? Stop! Call the police, call the police!"
The cry of the baby echoed in her ears. Gu Shengsheng frantically scrambled over to the bedside table, her fingers trembling as she accessed her phone.
The man held the crying baby, "Miss Gu, don't waste your energy resisting. If we dared to kidnap openly, we aren’t afraid of you calling the police."
She tapped the phone with trembling fingers. Instead of help, she was met with a busy signal.
With a "swish,” a check with his signature on it was flung onto Gu Shengsheng's face.
"Miss Gu, this is your payment for giving birth to this child."
Her slender fingers gripped the white sheets beneath her tightly, filled with despair and anger.
In the next second, she sprung up from the bed like a madwoman, digging her sharp nails into the face of the man holding the baby.
Hearing the pained grunt from the man, Gu Shengsheng felt a crazy thrill.
With a "bang," she was abruptly pushed away, the hot sting of a cut grazed her forehead, the painful sensation from the impact shaking her.
"Crazy woman."
The man sneered coldly, striding out of the sickroom with the now voiceless baby.
Gu Shengsheng sat weakly on the floor, picking up the check she had been given earlier, and watched as it crumbled into pieces in her hands.
Five million, huh, she, Gu Shengsheng was forced, made to bear someone else’s child, and only worth five million.
Her vision began to blur, and the piercing scream of two nurses filled her ears as a glaring stain of blood pooled on the floor.
