Reborn as a Fake Heiress Marrying the Tycoon novel Chapter 1223

Chapter 1223: Take Her Place In A Heartbeat

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

With the help of Su Shen and the attending doctor, Gu Zi was carefully eased onto the rolling gurney.

The short journey from home had already left her drained. Sweat clung to her brow in glistening beads, sliding down her face like rain on a windowpane. Her lips pressed tightly together as low, pained murmurs escaped—quiet yet agonizing—each one cutting straight through Su Shen’s heart.

The medical staff began briskly wheeling the gurney toward the delivery room, moving with all the urgency of a Code Red emergency.

Su Shen followed immediately, refusing to let even an inch form between them. Behind him trailed Su Jing and the three children, all struggling to keep up with the momentum.

But Su Shen’s eyes never left Gu Zi. Not once. He stared at her as though she might vanish the moment he blinked—as if she were a dream threatening to dissolve. For a brief, surreal moment, he couldn’t even distinguish whether this was reality or another one of those haunting nightmares where she went into labor and he was helpless to protect her.

Then came the nurse—stern, no-nonsense, and definitely not in the mood for dramatics. She extended an arm to block him. "Sir, you’ll have to wait outside."

The words snapped him back like a rubber band to the present. Su Shen blinked and finally registered the bright red sign above the doors: "Delivery Room—Authorized Personnel Only."

Right. This was the boundary line. From here on, he couldn’t go with her.

For the first time in his life, Su Shen understood what it meant to feel utterly powerless. He couldn’t follow her. He couldn’t ease her pain. He couldn’t fight for her. His fists clenched and unclenched at his sides.

A wave of frustration and helplessness washed over him, swallowing him whole. If there were any justice in the world, he would have taken her place in a heartbeat. It was all his fault anyway. Why did he let this happen? Why did he let her get pregnant?

A leaden weight pressed on his chest, every heartbeat heavy and aching. Su Jing, watching him unravel like a schoolboy who’d lost his puppy, finally stepped forward.

"Brother, you have to pull yourself together," she said gently. "Don’t panic. Gu Zi is our lucky star. The baby will be born safely, you’ll see."

Su Shen inhaled sharply, his breath shaky but steadying. He gave her a faint nod, forcing himself to quiet the turmoil within. He wasn’t particularly religious, but in that moment, he found himself whispering silent prayers to every deity he’d ever heard of, begging them all for a safe delivery.

But barely a few minutes had passed when the anxiety started creeping back, invasive and insidious. His mind flashed back to a memory from his military hospital days—one he had buried deep. A soldier’s wife had gone into labor, but complications arose. By the time her husband arrived, there was only tragedy: both mother and child, gone.

The memory was a knife slicing through his composure.

Childbirth, they said, was like stepping through death’s doorway and hoping you could find your way back. That horrifying thought took root in his chest like a parasite, and he could no longer sit still. He stood up and began pacing the sterile corridor, murmuring under his breath with increasing desperation, "Please, God. Please let them be safe. Please..."

Meanwhile, inside the delivery room, Gu Zi was breathing as instructed, deep and rhythmic, following the doctor’s voice like a metronome.

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