One second before the pregnant woman jumped.
Su Mian thrust her mother's IV bottle into Duan Xuanyu's hand, flashed to the pregnant woman's side with a whoosh, threw an arm around her waist, and pulled her back!
Everyone watching was dumbstruck.
Gu Yuanqiu's eyes widened in disbelief. Was that a speed a human could achieve?
Gu Yichen's heart raced... If this pregnant woman really jumped, it would spell utter disaster for their hospital and his mother!
Thank goodness Su Mian was there!
Su Mian had saved not only this pregnant woman, but his mother too!
Su Qingyan was stunned as well... When had her daughter become so capable?
Only Duan Xuanyu's expression remained unchanged.
Back in Northern Liang, he had found the finest lightness skill master under heaven to teach Su Mian, so she could flee quickly when danger struck.
This speed was perfectly normal for her.
The pregnant woman was stunned with fright too. She sat on the ground, staring unblinkingly at Su Mian.
Exasperated at her failure to stand up for herself, Su Mian pointed at her. "If someone pisses you off, go after them! Why punish yourself? Even killing that mother and son would be better than dying such a spineless death! You... ugh!"
Considering that pregnancy hormones were ultimately behind the woman's unstable emotions, she had already gone very easy on her.
The pregnant woman's husband snapped out of his daze and immediately marched over, cursing as he scolded Su Mian. "What kind of way is that to talk? Don't teach my wife bad things!"
Then he turned to berate his wife. "You're being so unreasonable! My mom has had it so hard. What's wrong with her scolding you a little?"
The pregnant woman opened her mouth to speak, but her belly began hurting again. She frowned, unable to say anything.
With her fiery temper, Su Mian couldn't stand watching and cursed him on her behalf. "Every grievance has its culprit, every debt its debtor. If your mom had it hard, you make it up to her instead of taking those regrets to the grave! Go find your mom eight old men right now and have them chew her food up and feed it into her mouth! Wouldn't that make her life easy!"
The pregnant woman's husband was so angry he wanted to hit her.
But the surrounding onlookers were all condemning him.
A man like this in the modern age was simply unheard of.
Just then, the pregnant woman's mother-in-law, who had been hiding in the crowd for a long time, stepped forward too.
She held her son back and declared magnanimously, "It's fine. Just let your wife have a C-section. Stop making a fuss. Really, as long as you two are happy together, I don't mind suffering a little injustice."
This was Su Mian's first encounter with a green tea mother-in-law.
An amused smile appeared on her face as she looked the woman up and down. "What injustice are you suffering from them being happy together? Are you the other woman in their marriage?"
The mother-in-law's face went pale, as though she could already hear people mocking her!
But before she could think of how to keep defending herself, the pregnant woman was already in distress.
Fortunately, the orderlies finally arrived with a stretcher at that moment and hurriedly carried her back to the delivery room to continue giving birth.
Only then did this farce gradually draw to a close.
But the uproar online was only just beginning.
Onlookers uploaded footage of Su Mian flying out of the building to save the pregnant woman, then flying back.
[Oh my god, thank goodness Sister Mian was there, or two lives would've been lost!]
[Sister Mian! Our mighty queen!]
[Wait, she literally flew. Does nobody think that's unreasonable? Is this normal for a modern person? I seriously suspect she transmigrated from ancient times. She knows ancient lightness skills!]
Su Mian's follower count also surged by ten million.
At the hospital.
Earlier, while Su Mian was helping the pregnant woman argue, Su Qingyan had quietly struck up a conversation with Duan Xuanyu, who was holding her IV bottle.
She found this young man more handsome than Lu Zhou, and he looked more innocent than Lu Zhou too. Her first impression was fairly good.
Su Qingyan asked, "Are you my daughter's boyfriend?"
Duan Xuanyu had already asked his grandson what "boyfriend" meant, so he immediately nodded in acknowledgment. "Yes."
Su Qingyan earnestly instructed him, "You must never be like that sort of man!"
Duan Xuanyu said, "Don't worry. I certainly won't."
Su Qingyan said, "But the more I think about it, the angrier I get. That awful man hasn't received any punishment! Mianmian is still too kind. She only scolded them a little and didn't even hit them! I'm furious! Could you teach him a lesson?"
Naturally, Duan Xuanyu granted his mother-in-law's every request. "Of course."
Then, carrying Su Qingyan's IV bottle, Duan Xuanyu went downstairs with her.
He followed the man all the way into the men's restroom.
Su Qingyan waited outside.
Soon, she heard that scumbag begging for mercy inside the restroom:
"No... don't... hurry... stop... you can't... this is where people pee..."
Su Qingyan was horrified!
Good heavens, what outrageous words!
Was this handsome young man doing something that wouldn't pass censorship?
She hurriedly craned her neck to peek into the men's restroom.
There was Duan Xuanyu, holding the man's head down and shoving it into the toilet.
Su Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief.
Wonderful. He was a good boy with sound values!
Mianmian was blessed!
After teaching the scumbag a lesson, the two hurried back and acted as though nothing had happened.
Su Mian had originally intended to leave once she saw the pregnant woman onto the stretcher.
But the pregnant woman clung tightly to her hand, crying, "Please, please help me... Once you leave, I won't be able to win an argument against those two, and they'll make me so angry I'll jump off the building again..."
Su Mian simply decided to see her good deed through to the end and stayed with the pregnant woman throughout the birth.
After a series of procedures.
The baby was finally born safely.
The woman's hormone levels seemed to have subsided considerably too, and her head cleared.
She immediately asked a nurse for her phone and called her own parents, saying she wanted a divorce.
Su Mian breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that.
It was good that she had come to her senses.
Otherwise, saving her really would have been for nothing.
With nothing else to do, she left.
Gu Yichen suddenly caught up with her. "Su Mian."
Su Mian glanced back at him without stopping.
Gu Yichen looked at her with a smile. "Su Mian, thank you on behalf of my mom and our hospital."
Su Mian rubbed her thumb and index finger together, making a gesture for money. "Didn't I tell you? I want payment."
Gu Yichen asked, "How much do you want?"
Su Mian thought for a moment. "How about this? My mom, the patient in room 902, is being treated at this hospital too. Just cover her medical expenses."
Gu Yichen nodded and immediately made a call. "Move the patient in room 902 to a VIP room."
After giving those instructions, Gu Yichen hung up and asked Su Mian, "Do you love money so much because you need to pay for your mom's treatment?"
Su Mian scoffed. "Does it matter so much whether that's the reason? What if I don't have some hidden hardship? What if I don't have a family member whose life needs saving? Does a girl deserve to die just for openly loving money without stealing or robbing anyone? Does that mean she deserves to be deceived by you pretending to be poor, humiliated, and looked down on?"
After firing off those questions, Su Mian walked away without looking back.
Gu Yichen stood where he was, unable to quite figure it out.
At first, he had felt some disdain for Su Mian, who kept talking about marrying a rich man.
But he hadn't said it outright like Lin Xi had, had he?
How did Su Mian know what he was thinking?
Su Mian rounded the corner of the corridor and slapped her thigh in frustration!
She'd known saving someone would wipe out her progress!
But there was nothing she could do. Ultimately, these were two human lives, an adult and a baby, and the woman hadn't remained stubbornly deluded after coming to her senses.
So she didn't regret making that choice.
Oh, right. She had been gone so long without telling her mother.
Su Mian took out her phone, intending to ask her mother where her new VIP room was.
Just then, her mother called.
"Mianmian, have you finished what you were doing? Come over quickly. My boyfriend is here."