Chapter 45 – The Female Supporting Character Whose Life Was Taken Away by a Transmigrated Woman

Wen Xin was over here, intimately and affectionately sticking to He Xiunian, while over there, Su Quihe was going into labor. In fact, she was already about ten days past her due date.

Su Quihe’s labor started early in the morning, just as the sky was beginning to lighten. Mother Zhou was informed but did not rush to the hospital immediately. Instead, she leisurely ate her breakfast, fed the pigs and chickens, and waited until the sun had risen higher before slowly packing things and calling Zhou Dashan to bring the car to the hospital.

Su Quihe was in pain and terrified. She wanted to go to the hospital by herself but was afraid something would go wrong on the way there.

The Zhou family didn’t care much for her, so she considered asking the Su family for help. However, since her arrival in this world, her relationship with the Su family had become distant. They were from the same village, but when they crossed paths, she wouldn’t even greet them.

The Su family never paid much attention to her, and seeing her in such a state only made them more indifferent. If she were to go to them for help, with the Su family’s coldhearted nature, they wouldn’t help her. Instead, they would mock her thoroughly.

Most of the money sent by Zhou Wenhai had been kept by Mother Zhou. Zhou Wenhai had recently been promoted, and the money he sent was more than usual. Sometimes, when Mother Zhou was in a good mood, she would give Su Quihe a few coins.

What could a few coins do? In Su Quihe’s past life, that amount would have been something she wouldn’t bother to pick up if it fell on the ground. But now, after her journey through time, she had to ask others for even that small amount.

Su Quihe had thought about selling food like the heroines in novels, but she knew her own capabilities. She hadn’t unlocked any cooking skills, and the food she made was barely edible, let alone tasty.

It was said that the 1990s was a time full of golden opportunities, but for Su Quihe, those opportunities were hard to come by. She had no skills and no initial capital. Even though she knew how things would develop in the future, she still couldn’t become wealthy.

Without even trying, Su Quihe had placed all her hopes for the future on Zhou Wenhai. After all, according to the book, Zhou Wenhai eventually became a general.

With no money to her name, Su Quihe could only wait for Mother Zhou’s mercy to take her to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, Su Quihe’s water broke, and various rumors about difficult births and babies born mentally disabled due to delayed medical attention played through her mind.

At that moment, Su Quihe suddenly began to resent the Zhou family. Even though Zhou Dashan and Mother Zhou had treated her poorly in the past, she had always felt an almost pathological tolerance for them, especially because of Zhou Wenhai’s future success. She had always thought that people with power and influence could be excused for having bad temperaments.

The pain in her belly intensified, cold sweat dripped down her face, and Su Quihe’s complexion turned pale. The soldiers who had been assigned to monitor her saw her condition and became worried.

After more than two months of surveillance, it had practically become a fact that Su Quihe was from the future. All the information had been handed over to their superiors, but they hadn’t yet received any feedback. Su Quihe couldn’t die at this moment.

The officer leading the team made a hand gesture, and the soldiers behind him stowed their weapons and lined up neatly. They hiked up the mountain path, pretending to be engaging in off-road training as they jogged.

The synchronized command sounded like a refreshing rain after a long drought, and Su Quihe’s somewhat scattered mind suddenly focused.

She was crying out loudly for help. Hearing her cries, the officer, with legitimate authority, ordered the soldiers to approach and check on the situation. When they saw Su Quihe lying in the cart, looking pitiful, the officer immediately called a soldier to replace Zhou Dashan and take over his position, while the others pushed from behind.

The group hurriedly pulled the cart along. The officer, who appeared rather simple-minded, said to Zhou Dashan and his wife: “Villagers, I see your daughter-in-law is in a critical condition. My soldiers are fast on their feet, so I’ve asked one of them to take her to the hospital to save some time. You don’t mind, do you?”

Mother Zhou looked displeased and was about to speak, but Zhou Dashan pulled her back. Since their son was also a soldier, if these people found out they had deliberately delayed sending Su Quihe to the hospital, it would definitely affect their son’s future. Zhou Dashan pretended to be grateful: “No objections, no objections. Thank you, Comrade, thank you, Comrade.”

Mother Zhou remained silent, and Zhou Dashan walked along with the officer. The officer was skilled at extracting information, and it didn’t take long for Zhou Dashan to unknowingly reveal everything about their family situation. Mother Zhou didn’t find anything unusual. She was just anxious about whether Su Quihe had given birth, and whether it was a boy or a girl.

When they arrived at the hospital, Su Quihe had already entered the delivery room. Not long after they arrived, a loud cry echoed from inside. Soon, a nurse came out holding a swaddled baby: “Who is the family member of Su Quihe?”

With the People’s Liberation Army present, they couldn’t afford to mess up now. Zhou Dashan stepped forward before Mother Zhou could speak: “We are, we are.”

“You are, are you?” the nurse responded. “Su Quihe had a difficult labor, so we had to perform a C-section. She’s still inside receiving care. This is her baby, a boy, weighing six pounds seven ounces, and he’s very healthy.”

Mother Zhou didn’t like Su Quihe because the baby had been overdue. She feared that the child would be just as unlucky as Su Quihe herself, so she hadn’t expected much from the baby.

However, hearing that the baby weighed seven pounds six ounces, her interest was piqued. She remembered that when their own Wenhai was born, he only weighed five pounds three ounces. A baby weighing seven pounds six ounces must be quite fat.

Mother Zhou leaned in to take a closer look. After just one glance, she immediately grew fond of the baby, because the child looked almost identical to Zhou Wenhai when he was young.

Mother Zhou eagerly took the baby from the nurse’s arms. Zhou Dashan, who had finally gotten to hold his eldest grandson, didn’t even have time to warm him up in his embrace before he was taken away by his wife. He watched longingly as she held the baby, then walked over to chat with a few of the soldiers. Throughout all of this, neither of them had asked about Su Quihe, who was still undergoing surgery.

When they saw that the baby was safely born, the soldiers exchanged glances and all decided to leave.

After Su Quihe came out of the operating room, she was secretly taken away and locked up. The explanation to Zhou Dashan and Mother Zhou was that her recovery from surgery wasn’t going well, and she was still being treated, so visiting was prohibited.

The hospital staff didn’t mention how much the medical expenses would be, and Mother Zhou didn’t ask. She grabbed Zhou Dashan, who was about to inquire, and they left with the baby, heading home. With money in hand, Mother Zhou knew that, though a newborn might be difficult to take care of, if raised with careful attention, the baby would certainly survive.

As for Su Quihe’s life or death, Mother Zhou couldn’t care less. It was better for Su Quihe to stay inside and not come out. That way, her unlucky presence wouldn’t affect her beloved eldest grandson.

The place where Su Quihe was kept was a secret courtyard. In the week before she arrived there, she had been recovering from the incision on her abdomen. The people in the courtyard took very good care of her, but they never spoke a word more than necessary.

When Su Quihe woke up in a new place, she was initially frightened and shocked. Various headlines from social news stories kept replaying in her mind. She was so terrified at first that she couldn’t even eat. However, after a few days, she realized that the people who had brought her here hadn’t harmed her in any way, so she began to relax her guard. She even started to take the time to admire the scenery of the surrounding courtyard, and she dared to make requests to those who were taking care of her. When she found that all her requests were being fulfilled, the little remaining caution she had was completely gone. Her attitude toward the people taking care of her became more arrogant.

At the same time, her curiosity about the identity of the courtyard’s master grew stronger. The domineering CEO characters from the novels she had read in the past occupied her mind entirely. She touched her own face and smiled mysteriously at the mirror.

The more she thought about it, the more Su Quihe felt like she was the heroine being forcibly claimed by a powerful CEO. After all, she was so special—she was someone who had crossed over into a book. She had received a higher education and was familiar with the developments of various industries in the future. She definitely had the “heroine halo.”

Her previous hardships were simply because she had chosen the wrong path after crossing into the book. She should have waited. If she hadn’t handed herself over to Zhou Wenhai so early, she wouldn’t have become pregnant with his child, and she wouldn’t have had to endure the past year and a half of struggles.

If she had just waited a bit longer, the CEO who was now imprisoning her would have certainly appeared in a different way.

What kind of way? It had to be cool and romantic, right? As she thought about it, Su Quihe’s gaze became dreamy.

Su Quihe was not someone who could hide her inner thoughts very well. The person taking care of her, though seemingly ordinary, was actually one of the rare elite agents from the National Security Department. They were excellent in every way, and upon sensing Su Quihe’s thoughts, they began to play along with her, making up some plausible-sounding lies and fabricating a false persona.

Every time the person left Su Quihe’s side, they would go back to their own room to take notes, recording everything they had done and Su Quihe’s reactions without missing a single detail.

Half a month later, after Su Quihe’s injury had healed, the person taking care of her submitted the notes they had compiled during that time.

After the leaders had reviewed the notes, they were all left speechless. 

“This woman… is she out of her mind?”

“Isn’t it obvious? Any normal person would be terrified in a situation like this, yet she’s thinking about men!”

“And what’s even stranger is, after the first day when she asked about her newborn, she never once asked about it again. Instead, she started asking for food and things, and the stuff she wanted wasn’t cheap.”

“Well, in a way, this is actually better. This woman is much easier to handle than that man from before. All we need to do is find a man who fits her fantasy, guide her with some well-timed questions, and we’ll get her secret without lifting a finger.”

The group from the National Security Department was discussing in hushed voices, one person after another speaking, and soon they had a plan in place. But then, a problem arose.

Where could they find a man who suited Su Quihe’s fantasies? Everyone’s gaze turned to the man sitting at the far end of the conference table.

This man was one of the most vocal earlier. Seeing everyone looking at him, he suddenly jumped up from his seat. “What are you all staring at me for? Don’t tell me you’re thinking of using me for some… seduction tactic? I’ll tell you right now, I’m not married, but I do have a fiancée, and we’re about to get married soon. If you send me to do this task, it’s a serious mistake!”

“Xiao Liu, that’s not what we mean.” someone interjected. “You’re doing this for the country; how can that be a mistake? Besides, we just want you to get her talking, not to really play the role of her lover.”

“Exactly, you just need to control yourself. This task is much easier than going through gunfire and rain, right?”

Xiao Liu gritted his teeth. “You make it sound so easy. Why don’t you guys go instead?”

The group exchanged glances and then put on exaggerated, regretful expressions. “Well, it’s just that none of us fit the aesthetic for the task.”

“Exactly, exactly! If we looked like you, Xiao Liu, we’d go ourselves. You’re truly fortunate, my friend!”