Chapter 140: After all, she still could not bring herself to stand by and watch someone die!

Hanging up the phone, Xiao Xuezheng drove with one hand while his long fingers swiped across the screen of his phone to dial another number.

"Yunan, get out here right now. Follow Director Zhang and intercept my Maserati by the side of the road. Yes, she's driving my car. She knows everything, she's broken down, and she has a knife in her hand—something terrible is going to happen to her! Yunan, no matter what it takes, you must stop her!"

In the deep of the night, the rain poured down heavier and heavier.

Shi Runrun wept bitterly as she gripped the steering wheel tightly, her foot pressing hard down on the accelerator.

She paid no attention to how fast she was driving because she simply didn't care anymore. No matter what she crashed into, whether she got into a car accident or even died instantly, she had no attachment to this world left.

With a heart so pure and innocent, she had poured her entire sincerity into loving such a man, only to be played with and deceived to this extent.

Covered in scars... even if she survived, she would never smile again for the rest of her life...

Besides, in this world, there was truly no one who genuinely cared about her or treated her with sincerity.

Not a single one...

No one cared about her, no one cherished her, and no one gave a damn whether she cried or laughed...

Shi Runrun truly felt that living like this was a ridiculous tragedy.

Therefore, it would be better to die...

With this thought of seeking death gripping her mind, she kept her foot pressed on the accelerator, pushing the speed higher and higher as her Maserati hurtled wildly down the dim, dark road!

Just as she embraced this desperate thought of inevitable death, a sudden, sharp pain flared up in her lower abdomen!

Shi Runrun abruptly opened her tear-reddened eyes, her foot instinctively releasing the heavy pressure on the accelerator.

Why would her stomach hurt at the very final, crucial moment when she wanted to die?!

Could it be that the babies were pleading with her, urging her to be strong and to fight hard to live on...

Shi Runrun smiled a desolate, sorrowful smile, and in the end, she abandoned the thought of death.

Because inside her belly, there were still three tiny lives, and they were innocent...

Having been cast into her womb, they were already deeply unfortunate; she could not let them be denied a healthy entry into this world simply because of her own selfishness...

They hadn't even had a chance to catch a single glance of this world...

Moreover, back then, she had sworn an oath to them that she would protect them with her life.

She could not break her promise.

In the end, Shi Runrun brought the car to a halt.

By the side of the road, she abandoned the vehicle, stepped out into the rainy night, and began to walk along the pavement.

She knew that his luxury car was dangerous; with such a conspicuous license plate, coupled with his towering influence, it wouldn't take long for him to track her down.

Therefore, she could no longer drive his car.

Yet... where should she go from here?!

As Shi Runrun walked, her entire body was soaked through by the rain, and the streaks running down her pale, delicate face were a mixture of tears and rainwater.

At this moment, her body was completely devoid of a soul.

She wandered along the roadside like a drifting, ethereal ghost...

It seemed as though, truly, once she left him, the road ahead of her was pitch black...

Vast as the earth and sky were, there was not a single place that could offer her shelter.

She found the corner of a roof overhang, crouched down, and sat there for a while.

Wrapping her arms around her knees, she recalled every single detail from the moment she met him until now.

To this day, she could hardly believe that all of this was a carefully orchestrated deception by him, yet just moments ago, when she cornered him with her questions, he had admitted to everything.

Pool Wanwan was right; she was simply too cheap and too foolish to keep falling into his gentle traps over and over again.

She deserved to be played with like this...

Time ticked away drop by drop, and a sudden thought struck her, prompting her to make a silent decision in her heart.

She stood up from beneath the eaves and plunged back into the rainy night, remembering that not far away was the hospital where her grandfather was staying...

At one o'clock in the morning, a thoroughly drenched Shi Runrun walked into the hospital.

Yet even at this hour, the hospital was brightly lit.

She walked through the long corridor, reached the inpatient department, and took the elevator all the way up to the VIP ward area where her grandfather resided.

Stepping out of the elevator, Shi Runrun maintained a blank expression and headed straight for her grandfather's room.

Looking through the glass pane from outside the ward, she saw that the room was pitch black, illuminated only by the faint glow of operating medical equipment.

Grandmother was not inside; only Grandfather lay alone on the hospital bed.

Shi Runrun stood outside the door, standing there for a long, long time...

Leaning against the wall, she wept softly, and as she cried, a desolate, bitter smile tugged at her lips.

Even though Xiao Xuezheng had treated her this way, even though both her grandfather and grandmother had deceived her, and even though everyone wished her ill...

Yet, ultimately...

Ultimately, she could not bear to watch Grandfather die just like that...

Before coming upstairs, she had overheard a few doctors discussing Grandfather's condition.

They said he wouldn't last these past two days; without a suitable heart match, his heart failure had left him on the brink of death...

Even though everyone in the world was hurting her, she simply couldn't harden her heart enough...

Thinking this, Shi Runrun shed a tear while offering a bitter, wry smile.

She was simply too kind-hearted, which was why she allowed herself to be hurt over and over again by Xiao Xuezheng...

Yet at the very end, she was still willing to donate a portion of her own heart to save her grandfather...

With this thought, she drew a deep breath, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and pushed open the ward door to enter.

The sound of the door opening startled the old man, whose sleep on the bed had already been restless.

Elder Xiao opened his eyes. Upon seeing Shi Runrun, disheveled and drenched to the bone, he was momentarily stunned. Then, with a look of utter astonishment, he raised a trembling hand, removed the oxygen mask from his face just a fraction, and spoke softly to her: "Run, my girl?"

It was a struggle for Elder Xiao to speak; those three short words seemed to cost him the strength of a lifetime.

Shi Runrun looked at him, gazing at his aged face and the tubes running all over his body, feeling a sudden surge of pity in her heart.

However, the moment she thought of Xiao Xuezheng...

Her heart hardened once again.

Despite having steeled herself outside the door and deciding that she would still save her grandfather, she ultimately could not stop herself from venting her grievances to him.

If she didn't let these words out, she felt she would suffocate.

"Elder Xiao, coming here in the dead of night, there are a few things I want to make clear to you."

Hearing the formal title "Elder Xiao," the old man's brow immediately furrowed tightly...

"Run, my child... you... what did you... call me... cough, cough..."

Shi Runrun stepped a little closer and let out a light, cynical laugh: "Elder Xiao, haven't you always wanted me to divorce Xiao Xuezheng? Now your wish has been granted—I've divorced him, and he doesn't want the child in my belly either. Good, a child not loved by its father wouldn't be happy in this world anyway! I will donate a part of my heart to save you, which will repay the kindness you and Grandmother Xiao showed me ever since I married into the Xiao family! But you and Grandmother knew all along that I was a match who could save you, yet you still put on such a performance in front of me! It's utterly disgusting! Once the transplant surgery is over, I will have no further relation with your Xiao family! From now on, whether I, Shi Runrun, live or die, it will have nothing to do with any of you!"