CHAPTER 103: CHAPTER 103: SLAPPING THE FAKE RICH GIRL 4

Anning was actually conscious.

She carefully calculated the time and place to slice her wrists; she chose a spot that bleeds a lot but is easily stopped.

Song Ruyi’s bodyguards have basic first aid knowledge, and someone quickly helped Anning stop the bleeding, and another bodyguard called for emergency services.

When Song Ruyi shouted, it shocked Mr. Liu and Mrs. Liu who were outside talking to the driver and searching for keys inside the house.

They thought something happened and hurried over.

By the time they saw the room restored to its original state, the torn and tattered clothes on Anning, and the fresh blood covering her, they were both stunned.

Immediately after, they were overwhelmed with rage.

Had Song Ruyi not been standing nearby, it’s uncertain whether Mr. Liu and Mrs. Liu might have physically attacked Anning regardless of gender.

Anning was fully aware of everything happening around her.

However, her acting was so good, pretending to be unconscious; nobody, not even Song Ruyi’s bodyguards, could tell there was anything off.

"What’s going on here?"

After her anger and shock subsided, Mrs. Liu quickly recovered.

She eagerly searched for an excuse: "Could it be that she was bullied at school? Ningning never mentioned anything, I have to go ask her teachers."

Song Ruyi swept a sharp gaze, silencing Mrs. Liu with her icy stare.

Song Ruyi handed her bag to a bodyguard, then squatted down and softly called Anning’s name.

She just knelt there calling, not daring to touch Anning.

Looking at Anning’s thin, palm-sized face and the scars peeking out from the torn collar, Song Ruyi couldn’t help but start crying.

Although Anning was Song Ruyi’s biological daughter, she hadn’t raised her and they didn’t really have any emotional connection.

Song Ruyi had actually planned to take Anning back to the Zhao Family and then properly nurture their mother-daughter relationship, treating her well over time to develop their bond.

To be honest, when Song Ruyi arrived at the Liu Family home, she didn’t have much knowledge about Anning; apart from the blood relation, she was almost a stranger.

However, when she pushed open the door and saw her daughter lying in a pool of blood, seeing how pitiful the frail child looked, her heart was in agony.

Only at that moment did she realize this was her daughter, her own flesh and blood, born after ten months of pregnancy, a relative connected by an inseparable blood bond.

Realizing this, Song Ruyi felt even more heartbroken.

At this time, she felt a mother’s sadness and anger.

Sadness for her child’s suffering, anger that her child was not treated well by the Liu couple as they claimed, but instead forced to confine herself in a small storage room to commit suicide.

Thinking of Zhao Mingzhu, who had been pampered and adored from childhood, Song Ruyi suddenly felt a deep sense of injustice.

Why?

Why does the Liu’s daughter grow up adored in the Zhao Family, while her own daughter is mistreated?

Seeing both new and old wounds on her child, Song Ruyi knew this mistreatment wasn’t just a day or two.

Fortunately, the Liu home wasn’t far from the hospital, and it wasn’t peak hour, so the ambulance arrived quickly.

Song Ruyi, ignoring the frantic Liu couple, directed the bodyguards to help the nurses lift Anning into the ambulance.

She followed into the ambulance.

Once inside, the emergency doctor checked all of Anning’s vital signs and re-bandaged her wounds.

After bandaging the wounds, the doctor, looking displeased, scolded Song Ruyi:"What kind of parents are you? You’ve driven your child to this state?"

Seeing Song Ruyi dressed in designer clothes, whereas Anning was dressed like a beggar, the doctor felt even more displeased: "If you have a child, take proper care of her, otherwise don’t have one at all."

Song Ruyi, confused, took an unearned scolding, and her resentment towards Mr. and Mrs. Liu deepened.

"Yes, what you said is correct, but... I only found my daughter today."

Song Ruyi waited for the doctor’s emotions to settle before explaining, "My daughter was swapped at birth, and I never imagined she was living like this."

The doctors and nurses began to imagine a melodramatic tale.

When they arrived at the hospital, Anning was rushed into the emergency room.

Song Ruyi, accompanied by her bodyguard and driver, anxiously waited outside.

The Liu couple also felt that they couldn’t explain themselves well and followed, intending to clear things up with Song Ruyi.

Mrs. Liu kept circling Song Ruyi, saying, "Sister Song, we honestly did not mistreat Anning. I don’t know what’s wrong with the child; she’s so stubborn, never speaks up even when bullied outside... This..."

She spoke while wiping away tears.

Song Ruyi, however, kept a cold face and did not respond to Mrs. Liu.

After about half an hour, the door to the emergency room opened, and a nurse came out.

Song Ruyi hurriedly grabbed the nurse’s hand, anxiously asking, "How’s my daughter? Is she alright?"

The young nurse, with a stern face, said, "The patient is not in life-threatening condition, but... "

"But what?" Song Ruyi, heart racing with fear, was terrified of hearing anything bad about Anning from the nurse.

The nurse, holding a medical report and speaking angrily, said, "What are you parents doing? The child is covered in injuries, old and new. Were you not aware? Bruises, pinch marks, needle pricks, burns from cigarettes... Moreover, she’s severely malnourished; if she doesn’t receive proper care soon, she may not survive long."

"What?"

Song Ruyi nearly collapsed.

Her bodyguard supported her; she steadied herself and urgently asked, "What’s going on? How could my daughter be malnourished?"

Then, turning angrily towards Mrs. Liu, she exclaimed, "Tell me, how could my daughter be malnourished? How could she be starving? And what about these injuries on her body? With so many old and new injuries; doctors said they can’t tell for how many years she’s been abused. You tell me that you treated my daughter well, is this your definition of good treatment?"

As Song Ruyi spoke, she grew increasingly angrier and more heartbroken for Anning, and couldn’t hold back slapping Mrs. Liu across the face.

Mrs. Liu, angry as well, screamed and was about to fight back.

The Zhao family’s bodyguards, who were not to be trifled with, promptly intervened to hold back Mrs. Liu.

Song Ruyi took a deep breath and slowly said, "I don’t want to see them, throw them out."

Several bodyguards then escorted Mr. and Mrs. Liu out of the hospital.

Meanwhile, inside the emergency room, Anning slowly opened her eyes.

She saw a face, enlarged and smiling kindly.

"Are you awake?"

A middle-aged female doctor smiled at Anning, her voice particularly gentle.

Anning, looking at the doctor, let her tears fall in strings: "Did you save me? Why did you save me? I would rather be dead."

Most people regret attempting suicide after being saved, and hardly seek to end their lives again.

But Anning, after being rescued, felt no relief; instead, her eyes carried a deep pain and a sense of despair that touched the female doctor.

The female doctor, a kind-hearted person, particularly felt sympathy, as her own daughter was about the same age as Anning; she felt extra compassion and patience for girls of this age.

"How could you say that? Life is beautiful, and there are many wonderful things to experience only if you are alive."

Anning turned her face away, letting her tears fall: "But I’ve never experienced anything beautiful in my life. My parents... never loved me at all. I’m just in the eighth grade, and they were already planning to sell me..."

Anning struggled to breathe as she continued, "I’m not afraid of being beaten, I can work from dawn till dusk, I don’t even need to go to school, but... how could they sell me, especially to an old man."

The female doctor, moved to tears, touched Anning’s head: "Don’t think too much about it, try to be alright, you won’t be sold."