In the fifth year of their marriage, Linwood Christen led a team to Antarctica for Scientific Research, but accidentally fell into the sea and his body was never found.
On the day the relics were sent back to Melton, I fainted from crying in the mourning hall with my eight-month pregnant belly.
Excessive grief led to premature birth and after the caesarean section, I ignored everyone's advice.
I insisted on leaving the child to my eldest uncle and aunt who had come from abroad to attend the funeral and went to Antarctica alone.
In order to find Linwood's body, I jumped into the freezing cold sea again and again.
Three months later, I returned home due to serious injuries and was horrified to find that my son's body was covered with needle holes.
I was holding him and preparing to rush to the hospital, I unexpectedly overheard the conversation between my mother-in-law and my eldest uncle.
“You faked your own death to deceive Jacquelyn for a female pirate and now you want to drain your own son's blood for her child. That's your own flesh and blood. Are you crazy?”
Linwood sighed.
“Ruth was defiled because of me. Even if it means sacrificing my own flesh and blood, I will save her child!”
“After the child recovers, I will send Ruth away. As for Jacquelyn, I will let her adopt the child as a way to make up for her pain of losing her child!”
I looked at my dying son trembling all over, tears falling uncontrollably.
It turned out that my husband was not dead and all this was deliberately done by him to plot against me and my child.
In this case, I would return him a fake death.
From that moment on, we were so far apart that we would never see each other again in this life!
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I held the baby tightly in my arms and stumbled back to the nursery.
After closing the door, my legs went weak and I fell to the ground.
The emotions that I had been holding on to for months completely collapsed at this moment.
My fingertips trembled as they moved across my scarred body and I covered my mouth and cried out in pain.
In order to find Linwood's body, I jumped into the sea full of floating ice regardless of the danger.
Every time, I would wait until the oxygen was completely exhausted before leaving.
Every inch of his skin was scratched by the broken ice and was bleeding and even his lungs were severely injured.
After jumping into the sea for the 99th time, I was in a coma for three whole days and the blood I vomited dyed the entire bed sheet red.
When I was forced to return home, I grabbed the doctor with resentment in my eyes and begged him to let me try again.
But it was not until that day that I realized that it was not because I was useless that I could not find the body, but that my husband was not dead at all!
He just faked his death to deceive me for another woman.
All the hardships I had endured were nothing but a joke in his eyes and our child had become tools from the moment he was born.
In a trance, I recalled that when I had just found out about my pregnancy, he also knelt in front of me with eyes full of longing.
He solemnly promised to protect us mother and son for the rest of our lives.
But I could never have imagined that he would be so cruel as to let his three-month-old child serve as a blood bag.
Looking at my son's bloodless face, I felt as if I was pierced by thousands of arrows and was in extreme pain.
I felt sharp pain in my lungs and I could not hold it back, so I vomited a mouthful of blood.
When I was in a state of confusion, the door was suddenly pushed open.
Standing outside the door was my uncle, a man with a worried look on his face.
To be more precise, it was Linwood who pretended to be my uncle.
After seeing my mouth full of blood, he hurriedly looked for a tissue.
He squatted in front of me and wiped the blood off my face bit by bit without any disgust.
There was also unconcealable heartache in his tone. “Jacquelyn, the doctor told you to stay in bed and rest, why are you so disobedient and secretly crying until you vomit blood?
“I know that you cannot accept Linwood's death for the time being, but he will surely be heartbroken if you don’t take care of your body.”
