Chapter 335: Chapter 333: Four Weeks Pregnant
Chu Yanhan’s face changed, Jiayi wasn’t joking about this.
Ya Chen too was moved, "Jiayi, don’t you remember me taking you to the airport?"
Jiayi shook her head: "I don’t remember."
Ya Chen had a premonition and tested, "Then the recent events and people, do you remember any of them?"
Jiayi’s head felt heavy, with a pout she held her temples, "Like what?"
Ya Chen took a deep breath, "For example, the things that happened after Xinyue pushed you down the mountain in China. Where have you been this past year? Who have you met?"
It was as if meridians in her head were being torn, flickering with countless residual images, yet frustratingly unclear; she gasped for air, "I don’t remember..." and uncontrollably hugged her knees.
Ya Chen’s shock was not minor, "Do you remember me? We’re engaged to be married, and in a few days, we were supposed to go to the church to get married. Your daddy, do you remember him? And Mrs. Chu, Chu Xinyu, Nie Yixiao? And your birth mother?"
Jiayi swallowed her saliva, "I remember them all."
So, the only thing she’d forgotten was the man she had met in China, the man who had broken her heart and spirit in recent days, along with all the events that had occurred with him!
Ya Chen took a sharp intake of cold breath.
This accident, whether a blessing or a curse, had hit her head, making her remember everything from before, but it had erased the memories of the past year from her mind.
The girl who had been crying in the rain by the chain-link fence of the airstrip in the morning, because of a man, a few hours later had completely forgotten him.
Ya Chen could feel her panic and, suppressing his thoughts, took her hand to signal, "Uncle Chu, why don’t you go ask the doctor what’s going on first? I’ll stay here with Jiayi."
Ya Chen was his future son-in-law, and Jiayi would be his little wife in a few days; Chu Yanhan had nothing to worry about and promptly stood up to leave.
Two minutes later, Chu Yanhan knocked on the office of the attending physician next door.
"Doctor, why does my daughter remember every single thing from before, but can’t remember much about the past year? Could there be any problems?" Chu Yanhan couldn’t help but ask as soon as he sat down.
The attending physician picked up Jiayi’s brain scan and after a while said, "Miss’s health is not a major concern. For amnesia patients, such partial memory loss is normal. The impact might have triggered past memories, allowing Miss to recall them, yet the recollection of recent events has been damaged, causing her to forget things from the past year. But, Mr. Chu, forgive me for being direct, to remember most of the past is already fortunate. Many amnesia patients might never remember for the rest of their lives."
Chu Yanhan fell silent, his earlier anxiety gradually fading.
Yes, the doctor was right.
Remembering most of the past was indeed fortunate.
What did it matter if she didn’t remember this past year? For Jiayi, it might even be a good thing, at least she could forget the experience in China, forget about Huo Shao.
After this incident, he certainly wouldn’t let Jiayi be bullied by others as before; he needed to take good care of his daughter.
Wasn’t it good for Jiayi to resume being a happy, carefree rich girl?
Was there a need to remember the experience of being held by a man for a year in China, helpless and alone?
He had heard from Ya Chen’s bodyguard that Jiayi had been crying for a long time at the airport, in the pouring rain.
This past year’s experience had made Jiayi develop special feelings for that man; but how could she know that the man’s unannounced departure already signified that he had only been toying with her?
For a young girl, it’s a scar that’s hard to forget for a lifetime.
Maybe the damage to her memory of the past year truly was a good thing, at least it could give back to Jiayi a peaceful and happy life.
With this in mind, Chu Yanhan’s Adam’s apple bobbed: "I understand. Thank you, Doctor."
As Chu Yanhan got to his feet to leave, the attending physician blurted out: "Wait a moment, Mr. Chu, there’s one more thing, I think it’s necessary to tell you."
Chu Yanhan, puzzled, halted his steps: "What is it, Doctor?"
The attending physician knew that the third Miss of the Chu Family was about to marry the Crown Prince. Considering the importance of this matter to the Chu Family, he did not dare to be rash and closed the office door before solemnly saying:
"During the examination of Miss Chu, we found that she is already four weeks pregnant."
This statement struck like a bolt from the blue! Chu Yanhan was speechless for a long time, before realizing seconds later whose child Jiayi was carrying in her womb.
His first reaction was that this child could not be kept; surgery had to be performed immediately to terminate the pregnancy!
However, Ya Chen and Jiayi’s wedding was imminent, and there simply was not enough time.
No, he could not let this child ruin Jiayi and Ya Chen’s wedding.
He quickly suppressed his shock: "Doctor, please, do not speak of this to anyone else. Pretend you don’t know anything."
This was a private aristocratic hospital, and the attending physician had dealt with many celebrities. He knew that prestigious families like these placed supreme importance on reputation and were often riddled with secret scandals, and he was used to keeping secrets for these powerful households.
Although the marriage between the Ya Family and the Chu Family was set, the fact that Miss Chu was pregnant before wedlock was not something to be flaunted. If the media got wind, it would lead to unpleasant gossip.
Why offend people unnecessarily?
Naturally, the doctor nodded intelligently: "Rest assured, I will pass on the instructions. No one will know."
Chu Yanhan breathed a sigh of relief.
——*——
Meanwhile, in the hospital room.
With Ya Chen’s comfort, Jiayi had long since calmed down.
After a quiet moment,
Jiayi cautiously raised her head to look at the man in the wheelchair, the man she was going to marry in a few days.
After her mother’s car accident, she was left with no one to rely on. It was Xuan Yu who brought her to the Chu Family in S Country, and then hired a teacher to instruct her in high society etiquette, all to prepare her to replace Chu Xinyu as the bride for this man someday.
She only remembered that she was soon to marry him in a church, but it felt like she was seeing him for the first time, so unfamiliar: "We have met before, haven’t we?"
Ya Chen spoke to her as one would to a young child, gently saying, "Yes, not long after you returned to S Country, you attended a banquet, and then I placed the Pigeon Blood Crown on your head at the banquet. In a few days, we will formally proceed to the church ceremony."
A slight frown formed on Jiayi’s delicate eyebrows: "Do you really like me? Are you truly... willing to marry me?"
Ya Chen smiled, it seemed he needed to repeat the words he had said in the garden that day. But what did it matter?
His patience was always unreservedly given to his future wife.
He said, "Jiayi, don’t you remember? In fact, we met three years ago. When you came to the Ya Family to learn court etiquette, I nearly drowned, and you jumped into the pool to save me."
Jiayi immediately shook her head: "You’re mistaken, I haven’t saved you."
