At 4 a.m. in the city, the lights were still on.
Lin Momo, who hadn't slept all night, stared blankly out the window with empty eyes.
Her mind kept replaying the words of the gynecologist from earlier in the day.
She was pregnant.
Lin Momo gritted her teeth and silently shed tears.
About that night a month ago, she had no clue at all, unable to recall even the man's appearance or voice.
She only remembered him demanding from her over and over again.
'Lin Momo, open the door for me!'
In a daze, there was a commotion outside the door. Lin Momo opened her eyes, and it was already bright outside.
'You disgraceful girl, you actually did such a thing!'
Before Lin Momo could react, the door was already kicked open by her father.
Lin's father stood at the bedside, his eyes bloodshot, clutching a report that rustled in his hand.
Freshly awoken, Lin Momo appeared rather innocent, unaware of how she had provoked her 'good father' again.
'Tingyi, Momo is still young, please say things properly. Don't get so angry. Look, you've scared Momo,' said Liu Liandi gently, trying to calm Lin's father.
Seeing the two people she hated most in her life appear together, Lin Momo frowned.
'Please leave!'
'You still have the nerve to ask me to leave?' Lin's father was furious, his face red like a pig's liver.
Looking at this man who was no longer her father, Lin Momo retorted coldly, 'Do you have the nerve? It hasn't even been a month since my mom passed away, and you've already married my best friend to be my stepmother? Heh, a twenty-year-old stepmother, who knows how many people's big teeth will fall out from laughing when they hear about it!'
'Slap!'
'You ungrateful girl!'
Lin's father slapped Lin Momou hard across the face.
The stubborn Lin Momou did not shed a single tear, but instead looked at her father angrily like a porcupine covered in quills. "Do your worst and kill me, that way we'll all be at peace."
She hated the man in front of her with a passion, for shattering their once happy life and making her the laughingstock of others.
Hearing this, Lin's father raised his hand again, but was stopped by Liu Liandi.
"Momou is pregnant now, you can't hit her like that," Liu Liandi said.
Lin Momou looked at Liu Liandi in shock.
She had just gone for a checkup yesterday, and today Liu Liandi already knew she was pregnant.
"You really are your mother's good daughter!" Lin's father angrily threw the report at Lin Momou's face, then turned and left.
In the room, only Lin Momou and Liu Liandi remained.
"Momou, what exactly happened? Who is the father of the child?" Liu Liandi asked with a look of motherly concern that made Lin Momou sick to her stomach.
Lin Momou coldly told Liu Liandi, "My father has already left, so you don't need to pretend anymore."
"Momou, I'm truly concerned for you, we're best friends after all," Liu Liandi said, looking hurt.
She tried to hold Lin Momou's hand, but her hand was slapped away.
"Best friends? You must think I'm the biggest fool! Making me the laughingstock of the whole school, my so-called best friend turned out to be my stepmother," Lin Momou said bitterly.
She could never forget that day when Liu Liandi came over under the pretext of visiting her, only to be caught in bed with her father.
Every time she thought about it, she felt like vomiting.