MY UNKNOWN HUSBAND, VOLUME 2 - Season 4 Episode 30

“With the amount of blood that she has lost, it’s highly probable that the fetus has been lost.”

“I think so, too.”

“It’s the fault of those two. They were walking very haphazardly—pushing and pulling each other, not caring whether they hit anyone. Of all the people they could have hit, it had to be a pregnant woman.”

“It’s not her fault. She didn’t expect it to happen. She didn’t mean it.”

“It’s her fault! If she hadn’t pushed her when she took a tumble, then the other woman wouldn’t have lost her baby.”

“If I had a miscarriage by accident, I would cry myself to death. I would never forgive the person even if she didn’t do it on purpose.”

Many people had flocked to the corridor to find out what was going on. Their eyes were fixed on John and Nina, and everyone was sighing, shaking their head, and even loudly expressing their condemnation.

Nina and John heard every single word. The middle-aged woman stood among the crowd and shot Nina a disdainful look. “That was a life. It’s a crime to end it like this.”

Nina stood there numbly, her bloody hands trembling slightly in the air. At that moment, John reached out and entwined his fingers with hers and took her in his arms.

John focused his deep, unfathomable stare at Vivian’s restless back, and a cold chill seemed to attack the woman from all directions.

Vivian felt a chill down her spine.

She looked out of the corner of her eye and tried to see where the cold resentment was coming from, but she did not dare to look back.

At this time, Vivian’s mother was lying on a stretcher. If she looked back, others would notice her.

John’s eyes could see through people’s hearts, and Nina was also good at observing people’s subtle expressions. She should not show any flaws.

Vivian thought that she had pulled off a flawless job and that no one was able to see through her trick. She only hoped that the two people she hired could follow her instructions and would never give her away.

One of them was the middle-aged woman. She was currently attracting everyone’s attention. “Young lady, do you know the mother and daughter just now? I heard you talking to each other. You know each other but were pretending not to. Do you have a grudge against them?”
The middle-aged woman was plainly dressed and unadorned, with prominent freckles of different sizes dotting her face. Her eyes were as shifty as a weasel’s, making her look like she was up to no good.

Although many people did not speak, they once again looked at Nina in unison, as if awaiting her answer.

With everyone’s attention focused on the drama, a hospital nurse came over with a wet mop and started clearing up the mess with soapy water. The evidence was destroyed in an instant.

Only water marks were left on the now clean floor.

This nurse was the other person whom Vivian had paid off. After she mopped the floor, she went straight into the bathroom. Nobody paid attention to a humble nurse who was just doing her job.

Nina and John did not answer the question thrown at them. The middle-aged woman said insistently, “You must have a bad relationship with them. Did you pretend to slip on purpose just now? I walked over this floor, too. Why didn’t I fall?”

A bystander nodded and said, “A lot of people passed there. No one else fell but her.”

Someone sighed. “It looks like she did it on purpose. The grudge you have against them must be pretty big.”

The middle-aged woman stopped speaking then.

The voices blaming Nina started to gain in strength. John picked up his phone to make a phone call, intending to ask people to drive these judgmental people out of Kanner Hospital.

Nina raised a hand to stop him. “It will be more difficult to explain if these people are driven away. Just ignore them.”

Nina had been subject to negative attention from the public and had long been immune to it. She did feel guilty for accidentally slipping and pushing the pregnant woman.

However, she refused to let anyone bully her.

Nina’s eyes fell on the middle-aged woman who caused the uproar. She smelled the smell of soapy water on her body.

It smelled exactly what she smelt when she slipped.

Under Nina’s unwavering scrutiny, the middle-aged woman fidgeted restlessly.
In a slightly raised voice, she bluffed, “Why are you looking at me? I was only telling the truth. Are you trying to threaten me?”

Her tone was belligerent and rude. John’s eyes sparked with anger—nobody had the right to speak to his wife in such a manner!

John’s face was a cold, impenetrable mask, and his gaze was as sharp as a steel knife.

That glare made the woman tremble in abject fear. John took a step forward, and his crew cut framed his stony face. A forceful aura seemed to radiate from his body, making the woman think that John was so close to tearing her apart.

Nina held John’s hand tightly, warning him against being too impulsive. She smiled lightly and asked, “Auntie, you seem to smell of soapy water. It was exactly what I smelled when my feet slipped just now. It’s a little strange.” “Strange? Why is it strange?” the middle-aged woman asked nervously.

“What’s so strange about smelling of soap?” a simply dressed bystander asked, looking at John and Nina.

“You two look like rich people. How can you know the life of poor people like us? We use soap to wash clothes. What’s so strange about our bodies smelling like soapy water?”

Enlightened by this speech, the middle-aged woman came up with the perfect alibi.

She was so scared for a moment that she almost forgot her job.

She ran a laundry shop. Most of the time, she used soap instead of laundry detergent.

The middle-aged woman became full of confidence again. “I’m wash clothes for others to make a living. It’s usual for me to smell of soapy water. I have a sick husband, and I have used these hands to support our family. You don’t understand at all.”

Tears welled up in the woman’s eyes. John raised narrowed eyes to meet the woman’s and said in a hard tone, “In that case, don’t spread rumors. You can’t afford to offend us.”

All of a sudden, the place became so quiet that one could hear a pin drop. The spectators shut their mouths and turned away to do their own things. Nobody dared to provoke the rich.

After all, money makes the mare go.

They didn’t dare to offend Nina or John. It was already difficult enough to have a sick family member to take care of—it would be even worse for them to get into trouble with rich people.

People left one by one, and the middle-aged woman returned to the ward in a sulk.

The moment she turned around, she breathed a sigh of relief.

‘I have completed my task, haven’t I?’

Nina saw that the woman’s tense body relaxed. There was something strange in her behavior.

However, her suspicions had been dismissed.

Nina really didn’t know that people who washed clothes with soap all year round would reek of soapy water.

That subject matter was one of her blind spots. She didn’t need to pay attention to such trifles since she was born.

Nina’s eyes darkened.

Maybe she did slip by accident.

Maybe she was wrong.

Nina cast down her eyes. Her eyelashes trembled, giving a clue to the massive guilt that she felt at that moment.

She might have unwittingly ended an innocent baby’s life.