The Delicate Darling with Her Rough Man

Chapter 74: Chapter 74: A Completely Ruined Impression

The room was filled with the thick scent of blood.

Gu Jiaojiao hurried forward and took her pulse. It was just as she had suspected on the way over.

She quickly handed Xu Chongshan several herbs meant to nourish the body, calm the nerves, and stabilize the pregnancy.

”Go to the kitchen and brew this into a remedy for her. Add two bowls of water and boil it down to one.”

Xu Chongshan didn’t say a word and immediately went to do it.

Weak and panicked, Yu Fangfang spoke, her face pale. ”Gu Zhiqing, my baby... am I going to lose it?”

Her eyes were bloodshot, her beautiful face streaked with tears of utter despair.

’It was all my fault.’

’I knew that bundle was heavy, but I just had to be stubborn. And now I’ve hurt my baby.’

’All I wanted was to get along with my sister-in-law.’

’But I never thought she would be so cold.’

’I heard what my husband said to Xu Wenwan outside earlier.’

’Back then, I thought... as long as Xu Wenwan admitted she was wrong, I would forgive her.’

’But I waited and waited, and she never even came in to check on me.’

At that moment, any good impression she’d had of her sister-in-law completely vanished.

Thinking that she was about to lose her baby, Yu Fangfang couldn’t stop the tears from streaming down her face.

Gu Jiaojiao grew a little flustered.

She quickly explained, ”Your baby is fine. As long as you rest properly, there shouldn’t be any major problems.”

’Thankfully, Yu Fangfang was far along in her pregnancy, and she had put the heavy object down the moment she felt discomfort. That’s why it was only spotting and not a major issue.’

’If she had been in her earlier stages, she definitely would have lost the baby.’

Yu Fangfang, who had been weeping in despair, suddenly stopped crying when she heard Gu Jiaojiao speak.

She stared at Gu Jiaojiao with wide, hopeful eyes. ”Really? My baby’s okay?”

Gu Jiaojiao nodded earnestly.

”Don’t worry. First, relax your body and take a deep breath.”

Gu Jiaojiao had learned this breathing technique from an old traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. It could improve circulation, help the body relax quickly, and was especially effective at relieving tension.

Chinese medicine teaches that the seven emotions can cause harm to the body, and this breathing technique was developed precisely to manage them.

Gu Jiaojiao herself practiced it often to manage her own emotions and found it extremely useful.

Sure enough,

after Yu Fangfang followed Gu Jiaojiao’s instructions for a short while, her body began to relax, and even the pain in her abdomen seemed to lessen.

Gu Jiaojiao started a conversation with Yu Fangfang. ”You were in real danger this time. It gave your husband a terrible scare. He was crying when he came to find me.”

Yu Fangfang, whose attention had been fixed on her belly, looked at Gu Jiaojiao in astonishment.

”That’s impossible! He actually cried?”

She’d been married to him for over ten years and had never once seen him cry.

He was, in a word, a man of iron—the type to bleed but never cry.

Gu Jiaojiao chuckled. ”Would I lie to you? When he comes back, take a close look. His eyes are all red.”

Yu Fangfang immediately recalled the frantic look on her husband’s face when he saw her bleeding, and a sweet warmth spread through her heart.

After all these years of marriage, her husband had always been truly good to her. He knew how to dote on her.

He knew how hard her pregnancy was, so he would often go to the river to catch fish to make nourishing meals for her.

Thinking about how terrified her husband must have been just now, her heart ached for him. ’That silly man.’

’What could happen to me? And look how panicked he got.’

As she thought this, her expression softened, and a faint smile touched her lips.

Gu Jiaojiao had only been trying to distract her. Seeing that it had worked, she continued the conversation.

”I’ve never seen a husband so worried about his wife. He had me sprinting the whole way here. My legs could barely keep up with him, and I nearly lost all the herbs to the wind.”

Imagining the scene, Yu Fangfang burst out laughing.

Her mirth turned to misery as the laughter sent sharp pangs through her abdomen, but she laughed so hard that tears welled up in her eyes anyway.

She could just imagine how comical the scene must have been, but she still didn’t forget to defend her husband.

”He was just so worried about me, that’s all. I’m really fine.”

Now, she herself felt like nothing was wrong. Her stomach didn’t even hurt anymore.