Chapter 146 - Stay with Mommy

"Xiao Luan..." He caught his mouth saying, but he was unsure if he was using his mother's voice instead. His eyes closed, and he passed out from the pain.

Black.

In the next moment Li Feng woke up, he found himself in a VIP ward. The room was wide and spacious, but it was still equipped with the necessary machines for a patient. He turned to the side and saw Wang Yusheng sleeping against the edge of the bed. He wasn't wearing his doctor's coat, and he seemed to be there as a visitor only.

"Dr. Wang?" Li Feng reached out, but this time, he could clearly see that his hand was actually his mother's. Unlike earlier, the image before him reflected a different person. If he was merely reliving her memories, then it made sense. He reached out his hand, but he didn't touch the doctor's head. He was more fascinated by the fact that that hand was his mother's.

Soon, he looked down and realized that the ballooning belly was no more. He was shocked at first, but then, he was hit by multiple levels of pain. It was as if his c.h.e.s.t had caved in, and he couldn't do anything about it. A cry slipped out of his mouth, and he couldn't even breathe. A line of pain came physically from his navel area as if he was aggravating a stitch.

"Bingbing?" Wang Yusheng lifted his head, and his shock had jolted him awake. He combed his hair back with a hand and quickly sat on the edge of his bed. "Bingbing? You're awake. Does it hurt?" He then watched the woman hold onto her belly and realized that the inflation had gone. "...I couldn't save her. Her head..."

He reached out and combed through Mian Bingbing's hair. "Listen, I… I will take full responsibility. I already said that, didn't I? You don't have to be scared—"

Li Feng was only watching at this point. Unlike earlier, he felt his body moving without any of his commands. Mian Bingbing then grabbed Wang Yusheng's collar and shook him once. However, no word came out from her. She only cried into her hands. The doctor could only c.a.r.e.s.s her head as he listened to her loud sobbing.

…

"Bingbing, what took you so long? Aren't you just supposed to help Yusheng with a problem overseas?" Li Heilong's voice woke up Li Feng again. However, Mian Bingbing only turned away from Li Heilong. Her vision gave Li Feng the idea that they met at an airport, and it was probably when she finally returned home. The father spoke out of sight. "What kind of haunting investigation would take a year?"

"It doesn't matter. I'm already home." Mian Bingbing only glanced at his face once before moving on ahead. She then placed a pair of heavily-tinted aviators. She only walked without regarding Li Heilong again. However, she still looked for his car in the parking lot and waited for him to drive her back to the Li Family Estate.

'Daddy seems to be so obedient to Mommy. He managed to hold his questions for so long...' Li Feng sighed as he continued to watch things from his mother's perspective. However, he couldn't shake off the feeling that she looked so sad in the reflection. Moreover, she kept on feeling her belly as if missing something. 'I wonder what kind of responsibility did Dr. Wang take...'

Li Feng was shocked when the next moment Mian Bingbing blinked, he was already at a different place. It looked like his parents' bedroom, but the light was off so he couldn't see much. All he knew was that Mian Bingbing was lying on her side, her vision covered by someone's c.h.e.s.t. She then moved to roll on her other side—

"Ahh!" Mian Bingbing instantly jumped to her seat when she saw it right before her eyes. However, the moment she blinked, there was nothing there anymore. She then hugged herself and held onto her head in fear. The light from the other side of the bed turned on, and Li Heilong checked up on her.

"What's wrong? Did you see something?" Li Heilong did sound worried, but Mian Bingbing only brushed him off. However, she lied down in her previous position of almost shoving her face against her husband.

See something? Even Li Feng was horrified. He could see the things that she had, and he swore that it was a fetus that was laid in front of her. It looked similar to the ghost king they were fighting at the moment, but that was smaller and more human. Perhaps, she was haunted by Xiao Luan's loss that it had turned into a ghost king even.

More and more scenes played, and it was all Mian Bingbing being plunged into a haunting of her own child that she lost to a ghost. It came to a point that she didn't want to come home to Li Family Estate anymore. She broke into an argument with Li Xin, and she found her excuse to leave. One day, she just packed up and used the long-standing hatred of the Li family to escape the haunting of her lost daughter.

"...you were trying to divorce with Heilong?" Wang Yusheng hummed as he casually spoke while Mian Bingbing was sitting on her own at the lounge. He had a cup on hand and was browsing his phone when said so. The woman only eyed him before he continued, "Li Xin was rattling about it to me. It seemed like she wanted me to think that you two are splitting over nothing..."

"Those papers are from weeks ago..."

"Hm, then they'd still be valid. If Heilong signed those, wouldn't that be awkward?" Wang Yusheng eyed Mian Bingbing with eyes filled with anticipation and curiosity. "Haven't you thought about it?"

Mian Bingbing only huffed. "...I didn't expect that I will have the audacity to continue lying in the future. As long as we don't tell him about Xiao Luan, he probably wouldn't be rash." She then felt like a deflating balloon. "At least let me be the one telling him about her..."

The doctor only shrugged his shoulders. "You better be quick. Li Xin is slippery when she wants to. Moreover, Heilong is starting to act strange."

"...it'll be fine..."

That was what she said, but she kept on seeing that entity moving around. Within the shadows of the house and behind the curtains hid a figure of a baby. Mian Bingbing was doing her best to ignore it, but she couldn't keep on running away as long as Li Heilong was unwell.

Then, Mian Bingbing walked into the bathroom. When she moved the curtain, she saw it again. The baby with a holed head was occupying the entire tub and even lifted her eyes to stare deeply into Li Feng's eyes as if he was the one it was indeed looking at.

"They all just wanted to take me away from Mommy..." The baby spoke, and Li Feng jerked back. He then realized that the memory trip had stopped, and he was now conversing with the ghost king. When he turned back to the baby, it had already grown double the size he knew she had. The baby then grabbed him in a tight squeeze. "Why do you get to stay with Mommy while I can't? We're… the same. We're both her children!"