Su Qingrou's abortion is presented not only as the end of a pregnancy but as a rupture between her and Lin Yanche over who had the right to decide what happened to her body. Lin describes the termination as the loss of his child without his permission, while Su Xiangwan challenges his claim to moral authority by recalling his own failures during their relationship.

Background and Responsibility

The dispute surfaces while Lin Yanche is angry with Su Qingrou. His account centers on the fact that she ended the pregnancy without asking his permission: he treats the fetus as his flesh and blood and the decision as a violation of his authority. The scene establishes his sense of injury, but also makes the imbalance in his framing clear: he speaks as though his consent should have governed a decision Su Qingrou made about her own body.

Su Xiangwan answers that she would have made the same choice. She then sets the abortion against the circumstances of Lin Yanche and Su Qingrou's attempted reconciliation. As they were preparing to remarry, Lin Yanche had not ended his relationship with Song Yun'er. Su Xiangwan also recalls that he had shown little sense of responsibility over an earlier pregnancy loss involving her sister. These are distinct grievances: the earlier loss is not identified as the pregnancy terminated in the event, but it shapes Su Xiangwan's judgment of Lin Yanche's present accusation.

The Confrontation

When Lin Yanche is about to erupt, Su Xiangwan stops him long enough to insist that she be allowed to finish. Her response is not a denial that the abortion happened; it is a challenge to the terms on which he condemns it. By bringing up his continuing involvement with Song Yun'er and his past lack of responsibility, she disputes the image of Lin Yanche as a wronged partner entitled to demand accountability from Su Qingrou.

Lin Yanche's anger and Su Xiangwan's calm reply make the conflict less a debate about the pregnancy's outcome than a collision between competing ideas of obligation. Lin insists on the injury to himself and the child he says he lost. Su Xiangwan redirects attention to the conduct that preceded the termination and to the burden Lin had already failed to carry in the relationship.

Consequences and Significance

The scene makes Su Qingrou's decision a flashpoint in the wider breakdown between the couple. Lin's sense of entitlement turns the termination into a personal accusation against her, while Su Xiangwan's defense connects her choice to a relationship already damaged by divided loyalties and Lin Yanche's lack of responsibility. The evidence establishes this confrontation and its competing claims, rather than a resolution between Lin Yanche and Su Qingrou.

The event also distinguishes the loss of this pregnancy from an earlier one. Su Xiangwan invokes Lin Yanche's response to that prior loss as evidence against his present insistence that he be treated as the injured party. In that contrast, the abortion exposes the gap between his demand for authority and his record of responsibility.