"This is my child, from now on, I will take care of him!"

In the midst of blurred consciousness, Su Qingrou slowly opened her eyes after hearing a man's cool and ominous voice.

She found a tall man standing in front of her bed. The man was against the light, making it impossible for Su Qingrou to see his face. However, the man was now holding a child who was wailing in his arms, staring at her with a frosty gaze.

The chill of the man's gaze swept over Su Qingrou, leaving her cold. Instinctively, she looked down at her belly. The belly, which was heavily elevated before she went to sleep, had now deflated considerably.

Her child? Her child!

"No, it's not your child. It's the child of me and Ji Chen!"

Coming to her senses, Su Qingrou struggled to sit up from the bed. The man chuckled lightly, filled with disdain. As Su Qingrou reached out to grab the man's clothes, he forcefully pushed her back onto the bed.

Su Qingrou struggled again to get the child, but the tall figure of the man turned around and walked directly out of the room, holding the child.

With the closing door, Su Qingrou's vision suddenly went dark, and she felt heavy.

Feeling alarmed, she attempted to chase the man, but it was as if she was stepping on air. She plummeted straight into the air.

"Ah!"

The next moment, Su Qingrou sat straight up from the bed like a flipping carp. Glancing at her elevated belly, she suddenly realized she had just had a dream.

In the dream, a man was trying to take her child away.

Relieved, she congratulated herself silently. It was only a dream.

Dreams are the opposite of reality. Her child would definitely be born safe and sound, enjoying the love of her and Ji Chen.

Ji Chen.

Just thinking about Ji Chen, Su Qingrou couldn't help but feel a sweetness in her heart.

He is the man she loves most. Despite being born in an extremely poor rural family, Ji Chen is very ambitious, earning scholarships every year during his university years, becoming a figure of prominence on campus.

Indeed, such an exceptional man fell in love with her during their university years... After her graduation, it was only natural for her to marry Ji Chen. Ji Chen also started working at the company owned by her father after their marriage, helping to manage the company's affairs. Now she is pregnant - what a fulfilling life it will be for their family of four once the baby is born.

While Su Qingrou was immersed in her anticipation for a bright future, her phone rang. It was her father calling, telling her that he had a dinner party to attend that night and wouldn't be able to have dinner with her at their family villa.

After hanging up, Su Qingrou was a bit disappointed. Ji Chen has been exceptionally busy lately, and that's why she decided to have dinner with her father at their villa. But according to the servants, her father has also been leaving early and returning late recently. She wondered what kept him so occupied.

Disappointed, Su Qingrou left the family villa, and the driver took her to the love nest she shared with Ji Chen.

Dragging her belly that was more than eight months along, she opened the door of their house.

A pair of red high heels at the entrance of the door immediately caught her eye. She squinted slightly, a bad premonition pushing her towards the bedroom.

"Can you tell me why that Su Qingrou is so stupid that she doesn't even realize the child in her belly isn't really yours? And she's there, foolishly waiting for the baby to be born. If she knew that once her child is born, she'd have to… "

A girlish voice that could seemingly wring water out of it came from the bedroom. Along with her voice, was the sound of a man's hurried breathing.

Su Qingrou stood still at the bedroom door, feeling as though a bucket of cold water had been poured over her.

"It doesn't matter to you, anyway. I promise you that I never touched Su Qingrou once. Over this period, I never laid a finger on her, it's you who's been away on travel with that woman and left me hanging for so long. You should satisfy me properly today."

In the bedroom, another voice belonging to a familiar man with a slightly impatient tone rose. After the man stopped speaking, there were sounds of rustling clothes being removed, followed by increasingly excited noises.

Su Qingrou's entire body was trembling.

The man speaking was... Ji Chen.

This man whom she loved to the core of her being.

He and another woman...

With the greatest courage Su Qingrou could muster, she reached out to push open the bedroom door. The bedroom's door was slightly ajar, so she was able to open it with a gentle push. If Su Qingrou could say she just heard Ji Chen's voice through the door earlier, then the moment she pushed open the bedroom door, she saw two intertwined naked bodies.

At that moment, she felt shame, resentment, confusion, she felt like her entire world was falling apart.

Married for more than nine months, eight months pregnant. Ji Chen had fantasized with her countless times about their child's birth.

What on earth was happening now?

How could he say he's never touched her? If he hadn’t, how did the child in her belly come into existence?

As the door opened, Song Wenci, the woman entwined with Ji Chen on the bed, also saw her. A triumphant smile surfaced on Song Wenci's lips. She then started whispering to Ji Chen, "Ah Chen, what should we do? It seems like Su Qingrou has discovered our affair."

Ji Chen on the bed suddenly tensed, also catching sight of Su Qingrou standing at the doorway.

Su Qingrou was trembling all over, her hands tightly clutching her clothes.

She strained her eyes wide open, trying to penetrate Ji Chen's handsome face to understand his true feelings.

Ji Chen, what kind of man exactly was he?

Cold, heartless, and even brutal.

Su Qingrou saw all these emotions roll across Ji Chen's face. He even sneered at her, a cold sneer as he said to her, "Qingrou, I originally wanted to wait until after you have given birth to our child to tell you about me and Wenci. But it seems unnecessary to wait any longer now. As you can see now, I genuinely love Wenci, and the woman I truly want to marry is only Wenci. You are nothing more than..."

Ji Chen paused, his gaze shifted towards Su Qingrou's protruding belly.

"An instrument that can be exploited by us, someone desires the child in your belly."

Countless particles of rage rolled and churned in Su Qingrou’s chest for a moment, stimulating every nerve in her body.

“Ji Chen, you said you didn’t even touch me, who's the child in my belly then?!”

Upon hearing Su Qingrou’s almost overtly shouted question, Song Wenci, who was in bed, had already put on her clothes. With another smirk full of schadenfreude, she boastfully accused, “Su Qingrou, you are such an unimaginable fool, you don’t even know who you have slept with, you deserve your ill-fate.”

Su Qingrou loathed Song Wenci’s smug face so much that she wished to tear her face apart. But the last bit of sanity in her told her that she had probably been manipulated all along.

"Who exactly is the father of my child!" Fighting back her emotions, she questioned Ji Chen.

Ji Chen picked up a robe from the bed, wrapped it around himself, and walked towards Su Qingrou.

Sensing the dangerous aura emanating from him, Su Qingrou covered her belly and backed away continually until eventually, she turned around to rush to the door.

Ji Chen, tall and robust, gave a quick tug and immediately grabbed Su Qingrou. Su Qingrou struggled but Ji Chen scoffed, “Qingrou, even though you already know our plan, as long as you obediently give birth to this child, I promise nothing will happen to you and your father.”

“Ji Chen, you cold-hearted and ungrateful bastard, what are you trying to do? My father and I have been good to you, all properties of the Su family would be yours in the future. Why must you treat us this way?”

Su Qingrou was bewildered. Although her father's company couldn't be compared to multinational corporations, it was quite significant in Jiangcheng. All Ji Chen had to do was to treat her well, and the Su family's company would surely be handed over to him.

Why would he betray her and her father?

Does he truly love this woman named Wenci? Or does this woman named Wenci offer him greater benefits?

Before Su Qingrou could comprehend these questions, her head throbbed painfully, and then all went black.

As she was lapsing into unconsciousness, she vaguely heard the conversation between Ji Chen and Song Wenci.

“Have you gone mad hitting her on the head? If something bad happens to her, how will we explain it to that person?”

“If I hadn't, what if she had run away? Ji Chen, let me remind you, the baby in her belly can determine whether we'll have a rich and prestigious life, there mustn't be any mistake.”