Chapter 293: Liang banquet (6)

After Liang Shin slowly regained consciousness post his surgery, Liang Zou immediately went to his side.

“Shin. How are you, son?”

Liang, Shin slowly nodded. “It still hurts a little, Dad.”

He patted his head. “You are a strong boy. You will be fine in no time.”

Then he excitedly showed him his baby sister, who he held in his arms.

“Look, Shin. She is your sister.”

Liang Shin’s gaze brightened upon seeing the little girl.

“My sister!”

Liang Zou chuckled. “Yes, she is your sister.”

Shin softly poked her cheek, and baby Nana stared at him with her big, brown eyes. She giggled as she saw her big brother.

Six years old Liang Shin felt as if he was in heaven.

After they played with her for a while, the nurse kept baby Nana back in the crib beside Liang Xiao Dan.

Xiao Fan quietly gauged the situation. One nurse was out to get some medical supplies from the storage room. Nurse Kim and the doctor, along with Liang Zou, were in Liang Shin’s ward.

The third nurse was in Xiao Dan’s ward. Xiao Fan was waiting for a chance. And luckily for her, it came. The doctor paged the nurse to come to Liang Shin’s ward.

The nurse checked Xiao Dan and baby Nana one last time when she left.

Xiao Fan hid aside. When the ward was empty, Xiao Fan quietly entered.

She stared at her unconscious sister. Baby Nana was asleep in the crib.

Xiao Dan, I have no enmity with you. But your husband forced me to take this step. I said nothing when I lost him to you, but I won’t stay quiet now when I have lost my daughter.

She gasped as she cried.

My daughter didn’t even get to see this world. Even if you were hurt, it didn’t give him any right to use his power and influence for leaving my daughters and me stranded like that.

So if he can use his power, then I can play that card as well. Just like how iron cuts iron, so will power cut power.

Liang Zou is arrogant because he is so powerful, right? Now he will understand what it means to be helpless.

Xiao Fan didn’t waste any more time, and she picked Nana from her crib.

She quickly went out and found Huo Shen waiting for her in front of the hospital. She had already placed her twin daughters in his car.

“Xiao Fan…”

“Shen, please don’t ask me anything. If you…help me with this, then I am ready to marry you. I will do as Grandma says.”

Huo Shen was quietly staring at her. Suddenly, he got a call an hour back from her. Xiao Fan cried and told him everything that happened. And she asked for his help.

Huo Shen was stunned. Even he couldn’t believe that Liang Zou could so something like that. He understood his plight, but Liang Zou shouldn’t have used his influence like that.

He saved his family, but somebody else lost hers, and now, because of that single action, he was going to lose his daughter.

Huo, Shen nodded. “Let’s go.”

They went to the nearest orphanage – Sunshine orphanage and handed Nana over to the Tao Yang. He tried hard to make her change her mind.

But why would she? She was not the birth mother. And she wanted revenge.

At first, Xiao Fan was really angry, looking at Nana. Here she was smiling and giggling, and there Xiao Fan had a dead daughter inside.

But no matter how much she was burning in hatred, she couldn’t kill her. For a moment, she thought to do that. She wanted her dead just as her daughter was. But she couldn’t. She couldn’t bring herself to be that cruel.

Otherwise, what was the difference left between Liang Zou and her? So, she decided to hand Nana in an orphanage. She will be alive yet separated from them.

After they left, Xiao Fan said, “Shen, do everything you can to hide Nana from them. At no cost should Zou be able to find her.”

Huo Shen was also a businessman just as successful as Liang Zou. He held as much power and influence as Liang Zou did. So he used his connections to destroy all the traces that lead to Nana.

Huo Shen and Xiao Fan then gave a proper burial to the second twin daughter. She broke down in tears once again.

She whispered. “I took my revenge, my child. The man who snatched your life, I snatched his happiness away from him. Now you can finally rest in peace.”

*Flashback ends*

As Huo Xiao Fan told everything, everybody in the room turned completely silent. Nobody knew from where to begin.

The most dreadful state was of none other than Liang Zou. Shock and horror couldn’t even describe his current state of mind.

“You…you were that patient that night…”

Huo Xiao Fan mocked. “So, Mr. Liang Zou. Didn’t I tell you that it would be you begging me for forgiveness?”

Liang Xiao Dan and Liang Shin looked at him, dumbfounded.

“Zou…”

Liang Xiao Dan was stupefied. She had no idea that Huo Xiao Fan loved Liang Zou, and that was the reason why she left the country.

And then what happened in hospital…No wonder Huo Xiao Fan did that. Because honestly, even Liang Xiao Dan didn’t know what she would have done had she been in her place.

The baby, a woman, carries for nine months in her belly, waiting patiently for her arrival, and she dies in your arms just like that as soon as she is born…all because somebody else hampered her treatment.

She could have been saved. And that was what made everything more horrifying.

Liang Zou was still unable to believe that Huo Xiao Fan lost her child because of him. He was the cause of her baby’s death.

At least Nana was alive. But Huo Xiao Fan lost her daughter forever.

As a parent, he understood how precious his children were to him, so why wouldn’t it be for her?

If Liang Xiao Dan had suffered a similar fate, then he wouldn’t have kept quiet either. He would have destroyed that culprit’s entire generations.

Nana’s condition wasn’t also much better. Now she understood why Huo Xiao Fan hated her to this extent. It wasn’t only because she misunderstood her for Yu Tengfei’s death, but somewhere in her heart, she reminded her of her dead twin daughter.

Huo Xiao Fan’s lips trembled as she spoke, “My daughter…She wasn’t born dead. She was weak but alive. She could have been saved if she had gotten treatment at the proper time. But the great Liang Zou’s orders were to treat his family on priority.”

Every word stabbed his chest like a sharp dagger.

“So how does it feel, Liang Zou? Not only are you guilty for killing my child, but you are the reason why Nana was separated from your family.”

Tears rolled down his cheeks as he realized his blasphemy.

How could he ever forgive himself for the cause of a baby’s death? And it wasn’t any stranger. Huo Xiao Fan was his good friend. Even he was shocked to learn her feelings for him.

“I…I am…” He wanted to say something, but even he knew the futility of it.

“Sorry?”

Huo Xiao Fan laughed with tears in her eyes. “You are too late, Liang Zou. You were already too late that night when my daughter breathed her last.”

“I never blamed you for getting worried about your family or wanting them to be safe. But wasn’t someone else’s life just as important? I knew things were difficult. But perhaps, we could have still managed it. But you ruined everything, Liang Zou. I felt so foolish for falling in love with you.”

She sneered. “So we were even. I lost my daughter. And I made you lose yours. Congratulations, Mr. Liang Zou. You got your daughter back. Now you can stay happily ever after with your complete family.”

Liang Zou clenched his fingers into a fist. Liang Xiao Dan broke down in tears.

Huo Xiao Fan then turned and looked at Nana. “I only came here to confess everything to compensate what wrong I did to you for misunderstanding you behind Yu Tengfei’s death and trying to separate you from Liu Jinhai. I hurt you by planting Serena to your side, so I ask one thing from you.”

Nana silently listened.

“If possible, I ask you to please forgive Zhilan. She did everything because I told her to do that. She never wanted to do it, and I already understood that. But I still forced her. She was desperate for a mother’s love and attention, which unfortunately I couldn’t give her. I take all the blame. I let her be your side as your best friend. I told her to use Chen Jianyu to make you suffer. She wanted to stop, but I didn’t let her.

Blame me for everything. But please forgive Zhilan.”