Can We Say No to Divorce?
Chapter 124 - 87: Gu Qingchen, Someone Gave Birth to a Pair of Children for You!

Chapter 124: Chapter 87: Gu Qingchen, Someone Gave Birth to a Pair of Children for You!

By the seaside, on the beach.

Gu Qingchen stood alone by the sea, watching the turbulent waves, his gaze fixed on the distant waters.

At sunset, the beach was crowded with people!

They were all playing, faces lit with the brightest smiles, sharing the beauty of the sea and sky merging as one.

Some were in the water, others on the sand, fully enjoying the beauties of life.

Gu Qingchen lit a cigarette, watching the weary birds return to their nests.

In the past, whenever he came home each day, what awaited him was Bei Ran’s radiant smile, whether genuine or false, it had embedded itself in his heart.

Fang Zimo walked up beside him; the two were medical school classmates who, after graduation, took different paths. Gu Qingchen worked at a public hospital in City A, while Fang Zimo opened his practice at a private clinic.

"Troubled?" Fang Zimo glanced at him.

Gu Qingchen looked indifferently at Fang Zimo and then said nothing.

Fang Zimo said, "Old Gu, you really are merciless, solely devoted to your medical career, could you refuse a woman’s plea?"

"You think I’m wrong too?" Gu Qingchen took a deep drag of his cigarette, "Don’t forget, you’re a doctor yourself!"

Fang Zimo nodded, "From a doctor’s perspective, you did nothing wrong; Gao Yang had a higher chance of survival than Zong Zheng, it was right to save him. But, from an emotional standpoint, you hurt a woman’s heart! After causing her pain, no matter how skillful your medicine is, you can’t heal her heart!"

"Quite the gossip, aren’t you!" Gu Qingchen huffed, "Are private hospitals that idle now?"

"Of course, patients are either rich or prestigious!" Fang Zimo fervently agreed, "We don’t need to see as many, no need to be blindly busy like you... hey, Old Gu, I haven’t finished talking... don’t go..."

"If our paths do not align, we do not seek to work together." Gu Qingchen stopped in his tracks, "If a woman were to beg you to violate medical rules, would you agree?"

Fang Zimo looked at him intently: "It depends on the woman. Not every request from a woman do I comply with. For example, if Yanran asks me, even if it’s to commit murder, I wouldn’t hesitate!"

Gu Qingchen’s eyes tightened, "You should go now and have a check in the psychiatric department, where is your conscience and ethics as a doctor!"

Fang Zimo hummed leisurely and unhurriedly: "Can a doctor’s conscience and ethics give you a happy and fulfilling family?"

Gu Qingchen’s face turned pale, ignoring him, he strode away.

Fang Zimo then yelled at his retreating figure: "Gu Qingchen, if you don’t wake up, you will regret it! If you don’t find a way to recover Bei Ran’s feelings, you’re nothing but a spineless fool!"

Yet, Gu Qingchen left without a backward glance, leaving Fang Zimo seething to the point of feeling like spitting blood!

Fang Zimo kicked up the dust with one foot, "Gu Qingchen, you are the crazy one! She bears your children, and you***play the lofty doctor in the operating room? Now you’re the lofty doctor, adhering to the limits and rules of medicine. When she ignores you, you deserve to be lonely!"

Unfortunately, his words fell on deaf ears, as Gu Qingchen had already walked far away and did not hear them.

Instead, someone grabbed his hand: "Senior brother, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Seeing it was Tang Yanran who had grabbed him, Fang Zimo said, "I’m not talking nonsense! He actually has..."

"He doesn’t!" Tang Yanran coldly interrupted, "Senior brother Fang, don’t talk nonsense!"

After saying that, Tang Yanran went to chase after Gu Qingchen, who had already left the beach.

She caught up with him just as he was getting into his car.

"Director Gu, could you give me a lift?" Tang Yanran approached and asked.

Gu Qingchen nodded: "Get in."

Tang Yanran took the passenger’s seat, and Gu Qingchen drove away from the seaside.

Tang Yanran, seeing that the car was silent, began to speak: "Director Gu, are you still thinking about Zong Zheng’s case? I think as an intern doctor, he would surely understand your actions. Our duty as doctors is to save lives! Not to be biased by personal feelings. Director Gu, I think what you did was admirable, a role model that us interns should learn from."

Gu Qingchen remained silent, his gaze as deep as the sea, and he continued to concentrate on driving along the coastal road.

"Miss Bei doesn’t understand you, does she?" Tang Yanran sighed softly, "After all, she’s not a doctor, the gap between you makes her unable to understand, and that can’t be helped. But if because of her, you can’t be a good doctor, would she really be at peace with that?"

A "squeak" resounded.

Gu Qingchen pulled the car over to the side of the road and coldly uttered two words: "Get out!"

"Gu Qingchen—" Tang Yanran called out his full name, "You promised you’d take me back!"

"I don’t want to hear about Bei Ran." Gu Qingchen’s face was as cold as frost.

"Why don’t you want to listen? Could it be that you really like her?" Tang Yanran’s temper as the young lady of the Tang Family flared up. She was the daughter of the Tang Family and studied medicine just to be closer to him, hoping to share a life with him.

Gu Qingchen said in a deep voice, "That’s between me and her!"

"Men have needs, I can understand that, and I’m a doctor. You don’t truly love her! What we had was nothing more than a physical relationship." Tang Yanran argued emphatically, "Why then do you feel bad over words said for her sake?"

Gu Qingchen had already reached the brink of explosion. He got out of the car, opened the door, ruthlessly dragged her out of the car, then with a "bang," he closed the door, and drove off rapidly.

"Gu Qingchen—" Tang Yanran looked at his unfeeling retreating figure, then collapsed to the ground, crying.

Fang Zimo, who had stopped his car not too far away, watched the scene unfold. He drove his car over, reached out to help Tang Yanran up, "Yanran, get in the car, I’ll take you..."

"I don’t need you to meddle!" Tang Yanran shook off his hand!

Fang Zimo felt a bit awkward. He was certain that the man Tang Yanran fancied was Gu Qingchen. Clearly, Gu Qingchen was being stubborn, obviously caring about Bei Ran deep down but refusing to admit it.

Tang Yanran cried aloud on the roadside: "Why does he have the right to treat me like this? Why?"

Fang Zimo stayed with her, not speaking, until she had vented enough, then he offered her the tissue in his hand, "His mood isn’t good right now, and it’s not like you don’t know that. Why fuss so much about it? If you truly like him, at times like this, don’t push him. You need to give him time to heal the wounds in his heart."

"It seems you’re making sense." Tang Yanran stopped crying, "Am I being too impatient?"

"A bit impatient, but it’s because you care about him." Fang Zimo looked intently at her, "Alright, no more crying, I’ll take you home."

"Okay, thank you, Senior Fang..." Tang Yanran got into his car.

But she didn’t see the flicker of coldness in Fang Zimo’s eyes.

Gu Qingchen drove along the coastal road at a fast pace.

All that filled his mind was the image of Bei Ran’s tear-stained face. In their four years of marriage, she rarely cried.

Her radiance was like a sunflower, constantly blooming towards the sun.

But now, that warmth was no longer meant for him.

The next morning at the hospital.

After Gu Qingchen arrived at the hospital, he saw Zong Zheng’s grandmother being shakily escorted by Bei Ran into Zong Zheng’s ward.

Bei Ran didn’t greet him when she saw him.

Gu Qingchen knew she was still angry, so he didn’t say anything either.

When he was about to enter the ward, Bei Ran stopped him: "You have no right to see Zong Zheng, and you are not his attending doctor!"

"Bei Ran—" Gu Qingchen said sternly, "From what I recall, you were never such an unreasonable woman!"

"Reasonable?" Bei Ran stared at him, suppressing the sorrow in her heart, "Don’t you know? Since ancient times it’s been said that only women and villains are difficult to raise! The reasonable Bei Ran before you was perhaps just a facade!"

"A facade?" Gu Qingchen stepped closer to her, "The Bei Ran who brought me tea and cooked meals, was that also fake? The woman who warmed me in winter was that also fake? The woman who would wait for me no matter how late it was, was that also fake? The woman who called me ’husband’ in moments of passion, was that also fake?"

Bei Ran’s eyes welled up with tears. The woman who made tea and meals for him wasn’t fake, the one who warmed him in winter wasn’t fake, the woman who waited for his return no matter how late he worked wasn’t fake, the woman who called him ’husband’ in their passionate moments wasn’t fake either!

"Gu Qingchen, you have your work protocols, and I have my principles of how to live," Bei Ran stared at him, "Wait for grandma to come out. If she agrees to let you see Zong Zheng, then go see him. However, I think you shouldn’t have the face to see grandma."

Gu Qingchen’s heart trembled, realizing just how much a person could change.

When she was gentle, the tenderness was so deep it was dripping, making one wish to die in her embrace.

When she was angry, she could be so sharp that it made one want to turn and run away.

Gu Qingchen, a man who stood high and proud, with a clear conscience toward heaven and earth, and true to his heart—felt sorrow for not being able to save Zong Zheng.