B5SB -Chapter 227 Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Early the next morning, The workers at the textile factory noticed that the bulletin board had been updated. One after another, they gathered around to take a look.

Illiterate female workers asked those who could read beside them, “What does it say up there?”

Before anyone could answer, a woman from the workshop’s logistics department saw the announcement and nearly jumped with excitement.

She shouted loudly, “Comrade Su Yonghong has been fired!”

“What?”

Li Duo, standing on the outer edge of the crowd, heard someone shout that Su Yonghong had been dismissed.

Her heart skipped a beat.

She immediately pushed through the workers in front of her and said anxiously, “Make way, please.”

After great effort, she finally squeezed to the front.

Her eyes fell on the public notice section of the board.

Comrade Su Yonghong failed to obey work arrangements, harbored jealousy, and maliciously spread false rumors. She framed and slandered Comrade Gu Yihan, seriously affecting the factory’s atmosphere and management system. After thorough discussion by the factory leadership, it has been decided to dismiss Comrade Su Yonghong.

After reading it softly, Li Duo’s vision went dark. Instinctively, she grabbed the arm of the woman from logistics beside her.

Anxiously, she asked, “Who’s taking over Su Yonghong’s job?”

The woman shook her off, her arm hurting from the grip.

She said irritably, “Are you stupid? Of course they’ll recruit someone new.”

Hearing this, Li Duo staggered in anger.

She had worked so hard to curry favor with Su Yonghong, said so many flattering words.

Her younger sister was just about to escape her miserable natal family and get a stable job—now it was all ruined.

Li Duo’s gaze landed on Gu Yihan’s name.

She thought that her own tip-off had caused Su Yonghong’s plot to fail and led to her dismissal.

Her hatred boiled over. She slapped herself twice hard.

“Serves you right for talking too much! For not being able to control your mouth! Waaah… it’s all my fault. I ruined my sister’s job!”

Seeing her behavior, the logistics worker hurriedly moved aside.

Was this woman crazy?

Who hits themselves like that?

The surrounding female workers whispered to each other.

“Let’s go quickly. She probably has epilepsy.”

Another worker shuddered and pulled her colleague away.

“Don’t get close to her. That kind of illness is contagious—they might bite people.”

On the other side, Gu Yihan walked into the office and greeted Sister Min and Wang Guixiang.

Sister Min glanced at Gu Yihan, who was working with her head down.

Doubts rose in her heart.

Did Gu Yihan know that she and Su Yonghong had worked together to frame her?

But she had only spread rumors. She hadn’t written the report letter herself.

Then her brows furrowed.

Where had the things Su Yonghong planted in Gu Yihan’s drawer gone?

While she was puzzling over this,

Wang Guixiang suddenly said, “Xiao Han, Su Yonghong has paid the price for what she did. You can work peacefully in the factory from now on.”

Gu Yihan smiled at her.

Then she turned to Sister Min and gave her a meaningful smile.

“Yes. The people who hated me are finally gone.”

Sister Min felt uncomfortable under her gaze and forced an awkward smile.

When Gu Yihan lowered her head again, a trace of coldness flashed in her eyes.

She wouldn’t let Sister Min off.

Didn’t she and Su Yonghong like reporting others?

Then she would let her taste what it felt like to be reported too.

“Creak.”

Cheng Bo pushed open the office door with one hand and carefully supported Hu Shan with the other as he led her to her desk.

He greeted Gu Yihan, Sister Min, and Wang Guixiang.

Then he complained to Hu Shan, “If you’re not feeling well, you should rest at home. Why insist on coming to work?”

Hu Shan looked at him expressionlessly and said nothing.

Cheng Bo sighed. “Wife, I’ll go to the department store later and buy you some supplements.”

Hu Shan nodded and sat down, looking at the dark circles under his eyes.

After a moment, she said softly, “Stop running around. Go back and rest for a while.”

Cheng Bo nodded perfunctorily, whispered a few instructions, and left.

Sister Min smiled. “Xiao Hu, Comrade Cheng really takes good care of you.”

Hu Shan nodded casually, still silent.

At noon, In the staff cafeteria, Gu Yihan found an empty table and set down her lunchbox.

Seeing Hu Shan clutching the corner of her clothes tightly, she said helplessly, “Sister Shan, what’s wrong?”

Hu Shan didn’t answer. She moved Gu Yihan’s lunchbox inward and put her own in its place.

Gu Yihan smiled and sat inside.

Hu Shan followed and sat beside her.

In a low voice, she said, “Xiao Han… Cheng Bo cares a lot about the baby in my belly.”

Gu Yihan looked up in surprise.

“Isn’t it normal for him to care about the child?”

It would be strange if he didn’t.

Hu Shan glanced at her and knew she hadn’t understood.

Thinking of what Cheng Bo had done at the hospital, her face turned pale.

Her lips trembled as she said, “The doctor said I have iron-deficiency anemia.”

The doctor had explained the dangers for pregnant women.

It would increase the burden on her heart, make childbirth more difficult, and raise the risk of postpartum hemorrhage.

“How could it be so serious?” Gu Yihan was shocked.

Hu Shan choked up.

“When we were there, Cheng Bo didn’t care about my health at all. He only asked the doctor whether it would affect the baby.”

“You…” Gu Yihan almost said she might be overthinking it, but swallowed the words when she saw her state.

Instead, she asked gently, “Sister Shan, what do you think?”

“I don’t want this child anymore.”

If giving birth meant risking her life, it wasn’t worth it.

Gu Yihan looked at Hu Shan’s already swollen belly, opened her mouth, then closed it again.

Whether to keep the child was something only Hu Shan and Cheng Bo had the right to decide.

No one else should interfere.

“But Cheng Bo refuses to sign. He says no matter what, I have to give birth.”

“He knows it could cost me my life… He’s trying to…”

She couldn’t bring herself to say the word “kill.”

If she hadn’t gone to the hospital this time, she might never have realized—in Cheng Bo’s heart, she mattered less than an unborn child.

“Xiao Han, what should I do?” Hu Shan asked, looking at her with hopeful eyes.

Gu Yihan shook her head.

“Sister Shan, you still need to talk it over properly with Cheng Bo.”

She wouldn’t give her any advice.

This wasn’t because she was thinking badly of him without reason.

At such a sensitive time, If Hu Shan had an abortion without Cheng Bo’s consent, he could easily turn around and report her.

He could accuse her of immoral relations, claiming she was afraid of giving birth to evidence.

Then whoever had suggested it would end up blamed from both sides.

No matter what, they would become the bad guy—inside and out.