I found the proposal ring my boyfriend had prepared, but he said it wasn't for me

Chapter 1: Friends with Benefits?

Afterwards, Lin Ruo and Gu Mu lay limply on the bed.

Lin Ruo turned her head, and an exquisite little box intruded into the corner of her vision.

If she wasn't mistaken, it was a little ring box. Perhaps Gu Mu was going to propose today...

At this thought, her heart leaped with joy.

Gu Mu pressed his lips together, got up and began dressing. When he picked up his trousers, he saw the box half-exposed from the pocket, and casually picked it up to stuff it back in.

Lin Ruo panicked at once, rushed over, pressed down Gu Mu's hand, "Don't you have something to say to me?"

Gu Mu wore an indifferent smile, "Good eyes. It is indeed a ring, but it's not for you."

Lin Ruo's hand froze, and the expression on her face was hard to conceal. Then she saw Gu Mu fasten the buckle of his belt, get off the bed, stand beside it, look at Lin Ruo, and say with a faint smile, "Su Yu and I are getting engaged, and soon we'll prepare for the wedding. But don't worry, this won't affect our relationship."

Lin Ruo's mind exploded with a bang. She stared fixedly at Gu Mu, and spoke in disbelief, "Our relationship? What relationship do we have? Friends with benefits?"

Though she very much didn't want to say that word either, the facts were right before her eyes, and she had no choice but to face them.

Gu Mu raised an eyebrow, and said indifferently, "If you're happy using that word to describe me, I have no objection!"

Lin Ruo's nose stung, tears welled up in her eyes, and she pleaded, "Mu Mu, don't be like this, okay?"

She knew Gu Mu had always been cold to others, but after sleeping with him, she thought he would treat her differently. Even though, even though she was merely the daughter of his family's driver, they had grown up together, and she thought... she thought that to him, she was different...

Gu Mu spoke faintly, "Don't be greedy. Know your place."

Having said that, he turned to leave.

Lin Ruo hurriedly grabbed his clothes, and said with a sob, "Gu Mu, can you not get engaged to Su Yu, and marry me instead? I'm willing to give you everything I have."

Gu Mu's body paused. He turned back, looked at Lin Ruo, and his expression softened. He sat down on the edge of the bed, gently stroked Lin Ruo's hair, and said softly, "You know this is impossible. Do well what you're supposed to do. As for other things, don't think about them, and even more so, don't do them."

Lin Ruo's gaze went blank, as if she had fallen into an ice cave...

That evening, Su Yu came over to have dinner with Gu Mu.

Lin Ruo had wondered earlier why the butler had started setting up the dining room and preparing the meal so early. Now she finally understood. And thinking of that ring again, it seemed Gu Mu had long been planning to propose to Su Yu at dinner.

Her heart sank, and she could not describe how she felt.

As soon as she entered the room, her footsteps froze. She looked around. This atmosphere, it really was a candlelit dinner.

Gu Mu saw Lin Ruo come in, and instructed, "Come over and help Miss Su with the dishes."

Su Yu said softly, "Pour me a bowl of soup."

Lin Ruo remained silent, not saying a word, picked up the bowl, filled it with soup, and absent-mindedly handed it to Su Yu.

Su Yu reached out, touched the bowl in Lin Ruo's hand, and the soup in the bowl spilled out. Su Yu screamed and stood up.

Gu Mu rushed forward, held Su Yu, looked at her hand, anxiously pulled out a tissue, carefully wiped her hand for her, and while wiping asked in a low voice, "Did you get scalded?"

Lin Ruo hadn't registered what had happened, and looked in panic at Su Yu's hand.

"What's the matter with you? Are you deliberately making things difficult for Su Yu?"

Gu Mu's shout made Lin Ruo tremble. Grievance surged in her heart. Afraid that tears would disobediently fall, she said heedlessly, "I'll go get Miss Su a towel."

Having said that, she rushed straight out of the dining room, ran all the way out of the villa, ran to the lakeside, and sat down on a rock.

The night was deep, and the lake shimmered under the faint light.

The tears could no longer be held back. They fell in big drops, and her crying grew louder and louder.

All the happiness and joy Gu Mu had given her before now seemed like a joke, mocking her loudly.

Mocking her foolish fantasies, mocking her self-importance. She was nothing but half a servant in his family. How could he marry her?

Thinking of Gu Mu's attitude and that look just now, her heart ached even more. Perhaps she should no longer crave a person and feelings that did not belong to her...

Chapter 2: How Much Longer Can I Live?

Gu Mu staggered toward the bedroom. As soon as he opened the bedroom door, feverish and exhausted, he collapsed to the floor.

Fumbling, he took out his phone, dialed his doctor, and asked directly, "How much longer can I live?"

The doctor also understood that Gu Mu did not like beating around the bush, and told him frankly, "Half a year at most."

Gu Mu took a deep breath, and said in a low voice, "Alright! I understand!"

He silently calculated in his heart. Half a year should be enough.

The doctor advised with concern, "You'd best be hospitalized now, stabilize your condition first, and wait for a suitable bone marrow for transplant. Otherwise, the situation is critical..."

Gu Mu's eyes darkened, and without hesitation he refused in a low voice, "No need."

In these six months, he had too many things to arrange. Everything had to be arranged for her. There was no time to waste in the hospital.

After hanging up, he lay on the cold floor for a while, struggled to get up, left the house, and walked toward the lakeside.

Thinking of what had happened today and the words he had said to Lin Ruo, given Lin Ruo's personality and habits, she would surely be hiding alone by the lake at this hour.

As he approached the lake, sure enough, Lin Ruo's crying came through. His heart twisted in pain. He quietly drew closer, went behind a tree, leaned against it, and silently kept Lin Ruo company.

Lin Ruo cried for a long time. When she was tired of crying, she shouted curses at the lake without stopping, "Gu Mu, you bastard!"

If Gu Mu were before her eyes right now, she would surely step forward and fiercely slap that face as cold as a thousand-year iceberg.

Gu Mu leaned behind the tree, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. A faint smile was irresistibly drawn onto his tired, pained face.

Then, immense sorrow struck.

Bitterness came along with the high fever. Lin Ruo's curses gradually seemed to grow distant.

Gu Mu struggled away from the tree's support, staggered back home, fumbled out the car keys, and drove to the hospital.

Holding on with the last bit of consciousness, he arrived at the hospital, opened the car door, and just as his foot touched the ground, he collapsed to the ground...

……

Since she ran out that night, Lin Ruo had not seen Gu Mu again.

Although Gu Mu had often been too busy to meet before, this long a time was still very unusual.

Lin Ruo slept restlessly at night. Her mood had sunk to the extreme. Her chest felt terribly blocked, and then a wave of nausea surged up.

She hurriedly got up, turned on the light, ran to the bathroom, and dry-heaved for a long time.

After vomiting, her eyes were already full of tears, and she slumped down against the floor.

Early the next morning, the nausea forced her awake.

Helplessly dragging her exhausted body, she went alone to the hospital for a checkup. When she got the results, she was instantly stunned.

It showed that she was pregnant!

The gloom of the past few days was instantly swept away. Holding the test results, she could not bear to move her gaze away from those words.

She was carrying Gu Mu's child!

Her heartbeat even quickened with excitement.

The next moment, thinking of that ring, her heart turned cold again. Would he... perhaps not like the child she had with him?

After a long while, she fumbled out her phone. She hesitated for quite a while before dialing the number ranked first.

The phone rang for a long time before it connected.

Lin Ruo forced down the unease in her heart, steadied her tone, and asked, "When... when are you coming back?"

Gu Mu answered coldly, "Behave yourself and stay in your place. Don't cross the line!"

Those words were like a bucket of cold water, instantly extinguishing Lin Ruo's courage. She gave a low "oh," and then gloomily hung up.

Sure enough, he was no longer willing to listen to even one more word from her. If she told him about the child, would anything change? Would he marry her for the child's sake?

Probably... not...

Lin Ruo's nose stung. She sniffed, and tried hard not to let herself cry.

Chapter 3: The Child Must Be Aborted Immediately

Unexpectedly, that very evening, she saw that Gu Mu had come home. After not seeing him for days, she actually felt that his complexion looked somewhat poor.

Gu Mu caught sight of her from the corner of his eye, did not change his expression, and walked straight toward his bedroom.

Lin Ruo hesitated, then followed behind, following him into the bedroom.

Gu Mu was helpless. He turned around, looked at Lin Ruo, and asked impatiently, "What is it?"

His gaze made Lin Ruo nervous. She remembered his attitude toward her before and felt somewhat timid, but at the thought of the child in her belly, she bit her lower lip, hesitated for a long time, and finally summoned the courage to speak, "Can you not marry Su Yu?"

Gu Mu immediately sneered, "Impossible! If you're willing to obey obediently and stay in your place, you can stay by my side. I'll make sure you have no worries about food and clothing."

Lin Ruo clenched her teeth, tightly balled her fists, and would not let herself take a step back. She could not retreat. At this moment, she absolutely could not retreat...

She closed her eyes, and spoke uneasily, "Then what if I have your child?"

The smile on Gu Mu's face froze at once. "What?"

He looked at Lin Ruo in disbelief. His footsteps hurried as he walked up to Lin Ruo, tightly gripped her shoulders, and looked down toward her abdomen.

"Is it true?"

The hands gripping Lin Ruo's shoulders unconsciously tightened.

Lin Ruo felt pain. She lowered her head, her voice already carrying a trace of trembling, "I just went to the hospital for a checkup today. I... I originally..."

Before Lin Ruo could finish, Gu Mu pulled her hand and quickly walked outside, straight to the car, and pushed her in.

Lin Ruo did not react in time. "Where are you taking me?"

Gu Mu's face was dark. He said not a word, got directly into the driver's seat, and drove off.

He sped all the way, and when he stopped, they had arrived at the hospital.

Lin Ruo was violently pulled out of the car, her shoulder hurting. "You don't believe my words?"

Gu Mu still had a livid face. He ignored her words, walked straight into the hospital, walked up to a nurse, and said, "Arrange the surgery as soon as possible to abort her child."

Lin Ruo's mind instantly went blank with a bang. She looked at Gu Mu in terror. "You want to abort the child?"

Gu Mu's face was dark, and he answered decisively, "This child must be aborted immediately!"

Lin Ruo only felt her ears sting and her heart ache fiercely. Tears fell disobediently. She reached out and grabbed Gu Mu's sleeve, pleading, "I'll raise the child myself. I won't ever ask you for anything again, okay? Please don't abort the child!"

She regretted it. She should not have told him this, should not have wanted to use this to make him marry her.

This was her and his child. She did not want to abort it.

But it was already too late for everything.

Gu Mu flung off her hand and said coldly, "Don't be delusional. I won't let any woman other than my wife bear my child!"

In his heart, was she so lowly that she was not even fit to bear him a child?

Lin Ruo's hands trembled. She opened her mouth wanting to say something, but her throat seemed stuffed with cotton, and she could not say it no matter what.

Gu Mu impatiently roared at the nurse in a low voice, "Why are you still standing there? Hurry and take her to prepare for the abortion!"

The nurse looked at Lin Ruo with difficulty, stepped forward, and reached out to pull her.

Lin Ruo fiercely flung off the nurse's hand, hid to one side, and cried loudly, "Gu Mu, why are you so cruel to me!"

Gu Mu's gaze was cold as ice, "Hurry and prepare the surgery."

"I won't!"

Lin Ruo shouted, turned, and prepared to run.

Gu Mu hurriedly rushed forward and grabbed her in his arms.

His grip was very strong. Lin Ruo could not break free, and unwilling to give up, she struggled wildly.

Gu Mu turned his head and instructed the nurse, "Quick, give her a sedative injection!"

The nurse hurried off to get the sedative.

Hearing this, Lin Ruo struggled even more desperately, and cursed loudly, "Gu Mu, you cold-blooded animal!"

The nurse came over, held her down, and gave her an injection of sedative.

Lin Ruo fell unconscious.

Chapter 4: From now on, Lin Ruo is yours

When she woke up, she found herself lying in a hospital bed. She grabbed the nurse beside her and asked in a panic, "My baby..."

The nurse turned to look at her and said flatly, "The baby has been aborted!"

The baby is gone...

Lying face-up on the bed, her eyes staring blankly at the ceiling, she reached out and touched her belly. This place... is already empty...

In this love, she lost, lost completely.

She remembered what he had said before, always telling her to stay in her place, not to overstep, to recognize her own status and position.

In his eyes, she was a lowly existence, living under his pity and charity.

After all, she was just the daughter of a driver in his family, and he was a high and mighty young master. He and she, from the very beginning, it was her foolish fantasy. From now on, she should give up...

……

Gu Mu lay in the hospital bed, in unbearable pain.

All around him were Lin Ruo's voices, her voice questioning him in terror, her voice crying and pleading, and finally her voice cursing him in grief and anger, intermingling, torturing him bit by bit.

He wanted her to be happy for a lifetime, and for that, he was willing to pay any price!

He took out his phone, called Zheng Tu, and said bluntly, "From now on, Lin Ruo is yours. Take good care of her."

Zheng Tu was baffled by this sudden remark. "You'd give Lin Ruo to me? What kind of joke is this? I've pursued her for so many years, and you've guarded against me for just as many!"

"You think I'm willing?" Gu Mu's voice carried a hint of coldness, but more than that, helplessness.

Zheng Tu understood the meaning behind his rhetorical question and asked, "What should I do?"

"She's in the hospital now. Figure it out yourself."

"The hospital?" Zheng Tu immediately became anxious. "What happened to her?"

Gu Mu's heart ached, and he said impatiently, "I've handed her over to you. If you still can't win her over, then you truly have no ability!"

……

In the time that followed, Zheng Tu would appear at the hospital from time to time, taking care of Lin Ruo and telling her jokes. Several times Lin Ruo hinted that he didn't need to keep coming, but he seemed not to understand, persisting relentlessly.

A while after Zheng Tu left, her father called her.

As soon as she picked up, her father's downcast voice came through. "Sisi, Dad has been dismissed by Young Master Gu."

"What?"

Lin Ruo was stunned by these words. "Why?"

Hearing this question, her father became anxious. "I don't know why either. There's no reason."

Lin Ruo's heart suddenly clenched in pain.

Her father had been a driver for the Gu family for most of his life. How could he be dismissed without any reason? At his age, what else could he do? Her father had always lived with her at the Gu family home. Now, where was her father supposed to go?

Unless it was because of her.

With this matter of the baby, Gu Mu had been so resolute. Perhaps he had lost patience with her.

"Okay, I understand, Dad. Leave this to me. You find a place to stay first."

With that, she hung up, and ignoring the nurse's objections, ran out of the hospital, hailed a cab, and headed straight for Gu Mu's home.

Gu Mu was sitting in the living room, as if waiting for her to come.

Lin Ruo walked over quickly, suppressing her anger, and spat out one word at a time: "My dad has been a driver for this family his whole life, and now you dismiss him without any reason. Is it because of me?"

Gu Mu's expression was cold as he spoke: "At least you have a little self-awareness. Trying to use a baby to climb up the ladder, this behavior disgusts me. A mistress should have a mistress's self-awareness."

Lin Ruo trembled all over. The words in Gu Mu's speech pierced her deeply.

Every word was an insult to her.

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