On the second floor of Yunting Group, with a "ding," the elevator doors opened, and Xia Yueqing's figure shot out like an arrow, striding quickly to her cousin Xia Yining's side.
"Yining, what's wrong? What happened?" Xia Yueqing asked anxiously.
Her cousin had sounded urgent on the phone earlier, so she hadn't hesitated and left work right away to come down.
"Sis, I..." Xia Yining's eyes were red, on the verge of tears, as she grabbed Xia Yueqing's hand and blurted out, "I'm... I'm pregnant."
"What? Pregnant?" Xia Yueqing thought she must have heard wrong. Her cousin, just a sophomore in college, how could she be pregnant?
Before she could process this shocking news, Xia Yining dropped another terrible truth.
"It's Brother Qingfeng's child. It's been two months, and now he wants to take me to the hospital to get rid of it," Xia Yining wept bitterly.
"Qingfeng's?" Xia Yueqing's voice was extremely stiff, repeating the three words like a puppet on strings.
