Chapter 1 Difficult Labor (Part One)

"She is going to go into labor very soon!"

"The patient's suffering a massive haemorrhage!"

"She is badly in need of blood transfusion. Does anyone here share her blood type?"

The Central Hospital of G City had a large maternity ward. Inside, Yuliana Ye, who was about to give birth, was sweating all over. She was exhausted. Much of her physical strength had been consumed due to the difficult labor she was in, and as a result, her vision was blurred. She could only hear the noise and footsteps around her and then they gradually disappeared far away.

"Help me..." Yuliana Ye felt a wave of cold coming over her, and despair rose from the bottom of her heart.

She knew that her family was outside the delivery room right now. But she was so weak that she couldn't call out to them. And the heavy door isolated her from the outside world.

"Sister." She suddenly heard a familiar voice. It belonged to her cousin Brenna Bai, and Yuliana Ye's dark eyes lit up when she heard her voice. A glimmer of hope rose from her desperate heart.

"Help me..." Full of hope, Yuliana Ye raised her bloody hand. It took all the strength she could muster just to do that.

She had always treated Brenna Bai as her own sister. And furthermore, after her cousin's parents had died, Yuliana Ye's father had felt sorry for the little girl and taken her in as his own daughter.

Yuliana Ye sincerely believed that the reason Brenna Bai had appeared now was to save her. However, she was so wrong!

With her long hair rolled up, Brenna Bai told her with a ferocious look, "Sister, you are so naive."

At the sight of Yuliana Ye's swollen belly, the resentment in Brenna Bai's eyes increased several folds, which gave Yuliana Ye a bad feeling. She subconsciously tried to protect her belly.

"Only I can have Tyler's child!" With a frightening look, Brenna suddenly held Yuliana's belly with her slender fingers and out of the blue, began to press it down hard. Pain and panic rushed into her heart with every single moment. Her eyes began to water.

"How dare you!" The sharp and resentful voice of Brenna came once again.

"No!" Feeling the threat to her belly and the life inside it, Yuliana struggled desperately, but she was too weak now. All her struggles were in vain.

"Help! Help me!" Tears streamed down Yuliana's cheeks and she croaked in a painful voice. The pitiful look on her face only made Brenna even more jealous.

Actually, it was because of Yuliana's beautiful face that Brenna was determined to destroy everything the former had.

"Stop yelling. It's useless, my dear sister!" Brenna's cold voice reached her ears with a trace of irony. "Tyler and I have already bribed the doctors and nurses. No one is going to be allowed to enter this room! At this moment, you can only see us!"

With an indifferent expression on his face, Tyler Xin was standing at the door. He was just standing there and watching coldly as Brenna bullied Yuliana.

"Tyler!" With tears in her eyes, Yuliana reached out a hand to him for help.

Tyler Xin had always taken good care of her. What was more, as the father of the child, he wouldn't sit by and do nothing!

"Save our child," she called out!

But the expressions on his face were also of irony. The only gentle gaze he sent was to Brenna. "There is no need for you to hold back!"

It broke her to see that Tyler Xin wasn't even looking at her while he was talking to Brenna.

It looked like Yuliana was just an irrelevant outsider in this scenario.

Her heart had gotten a glimmer of hope just now, but it was all gone. And she was desperate again.

She felt like she had fallen into an ice cellar, watching her husband and cousin who were affectionately looking at each other in front of her.

Theoretically, they should be the most trusted and loving people in her life, but they were the ones who were cutting Yuliana's heart one by one.

"You..." The love she could see in Brenna and Tyler's eyes for each other killed Yuliana. It was painful and heartbreaking and impossible to stop!

"Why did you steal my husband?" Piercing pain brought by the betrayal overwhelmed Yuliana. Her cousin was stealing her husband from her, and she had never known anything about it.

"Your husband?" Brenna sneered. "Tyler is my boyfriend. You were only ever a means to an end! Tyler was only with you because you could help him gain a firm foothold in the Hua Feng Company and grab its major shares!"

Yuliana felt an endless darkness spiraling in front of her. She had been used! So it was only because of her identity as the chairman's daughter of the Hua Feng Company that Tyler Xin had been good to her?

"I'm the one that Tyler really likes in his heart! I have always been the one! Yuliana, you have been the wife of the CEO for so many years. It's time for you to give it up."

Brenna's hatred of Yuliana was obvious in her eyes.

However, Yuliana still was in denial. "Why did you do this to me?" She didn't even have the strength to cry anymore. She was just lying there, weak and hopeless and alone on the bed in the delivery room.

"Why?" Brenna's eyes opened wide with fury! She sneered and pinched Yuliana's arm with her long nails. "I'm also the daughter of the Ye family. Why do outsiders think you are the sole noble daughter? But they only regard me as an adopted child. Why does everyone else treat me so differently?" Brenna knew clearly that Tyler's mother won't allow the two of them to get married because she wasn't actually an offspring of Hunter Ye. So she had to give Tyler over to Yuliana, even though she loved him.

And now, Yuliana was going to experience the same pain she had gone through!

Yuliana was shocked. How could Brenna think such a thing? Her father had taken Brenna in as his own child!

Wasn't that enough for Brenna?

"You don't know it yet, do you? My 'dear' sister." Brenna was satisfied with Yuliana's astonishment.

"You could have a C-section, but if so, our plan would fail! Which means, we need to do something about it!"

Looking at Yuliana's bulging belly, Brenna continued, "You are going to go into a bad labor now!"

With an innocent look in her eyes, she then told her, "Bad labor can kill people."

Brenna raised her wrist and looked at her watch nonchalantly.

"Marco has probably got wind of your labor. So I am sure he is driving here by now." There was a bloodthirsty joy in her eyes as she raised her hand and pinched Yuliana's chin, forcing the latter to look into her eyes. "But, do you think your dear brother will be able to arrive here safely and see you one last time?"

Like a bolt from the blue, Yuliana felt the news hit her. She stared at Brenna in disbelief. "You..."

Although Marco Ye was not very close to Brenna, he was not mean to her and he was still her family.

Yuliana hadn't expected that Brenna would do something to Marco Ye too.

"All right. It's late!" Tyler seemed to be getting impatient upon seeing Yuliana. He walked forwards, gently wrapped his arms around Brenna's waist and then said, "Don't talk to her. We've already told her so much about the impending doom. I am sure she will die in peace now."

With a proud smile, Brenna said, "Tyler..."

He immediately understood what she wanted. Then he slowly lifted his hand, pressing on Yuliana's belly.

The two people closest to her had betrayed her badly. All she had left was this child. No matter what, she couldn't let anything happen to the child.

However, Yuliana had run out of all her strength, owing to her labor, and she couldn't fight against Tyler. She just kept begging, "Look. You can do anything you want. Please don't hurt the child. Have some mercy. He is your child!"

Yuliana was hoping that Tyler would have some conscience and let go of the unborn baby which was his own.

However, the corners of his mouth merely curved into a cruel smile, and he tightened his grip.

"My child? Do you take me for a fool? Do you think I don't know that Malik likes you? I know that you begged Malik to not compete with me for the position of CEO. I may not have been there but I am sure I can figure out what happened that made him give up!"