Fu Yumo’s eyes darkened terrifyingly.
Meanwhile, at a café.
Jiang Nuan nervously looked at the person sitting in front of her.
Father Fu was composed, even taking the time to order a cup of hot milk beneficial for pregnant women for Jiang Nuan.
“I heard from your mother that you really want to keep this child and are willing to be Yumo’s mistress.”
“The Fu family won’t mistreat anyone who has merit, but I don’t want anything to affect the marriage alliance between the two families.”
With each word from Father Fu, Jiang Nuan felt as if she was being stuffed into a box.
She wanted to argue, to explain, but Father Fu’s indifferent gaze suppressed the sounds in her throat.
Father Fu didn’t care what she was thinking, he placed a check on the table and stood up, finalizing the deal: “Go abroad, come back in five years.”
Father Fu then left without looking back.
After a while, Jiang Nuan’s mother came in from outside.
She reached for the check on the table, her eyes lighting up: “Ten million! Truly, it’s the mother’s honor!”
Jiang Nuan watched her mother’s greedy, ugly smile, her eyes gradually reddening.
“I’ve told you before, nothing is more important than money…”
As Jiang Nuan’s mother spoke, she tried to tuck the check into her bag.
But in the next second, Jiang Nuan snatched the thin piece of paper from her hand, tearing it in half under her mother’s shocked gaze!
Her mother almost went mad: “You ungrateful wretch, have you lost your mind!”
“I’m not for sale.”
Jiang Nuan said, tearing the check into even smaller pieces.
Her mother, unable to stop her, turned red-eyed with rage and slapped Jiang Nuan twice.
Paper scraps fluttered down, her mother’s face contorted.
“What are you so high and mighty about! Who looks down on you? At least I’m not like you, sleeping around for free!”
Her mother picked up her bag and walked out: “You really don’t know what you are, so disgusting!”
Her mother’s words struck Jiang Nuan’s heart harder than the slaps.
As her mother left, the café patrons began to point and whisper at Jiang Nuan.
“Shameless, living is a waste of air.”
“If I were her, I’d have killed myself already, such a disgrace to women…”
Jiang Nuan’s ears started buzzing again, she clenched her fists and walked away step by step.
Back at her apartment, she encountered someone unexpected downstairs.
Lin Chao had switched to rimless glasses, looking scholarly and refined.
But his words had nothing to do with refinement: “Special Assistant Jiang, Fu Yumo has given you to me, won’t you invite me up for a visit?”
Jiang Nuan felt a pang in her heart, but her expression remained unchanged.
“I am my own person, unrelated to Fu Yumo.”
Lin Chao’s heart leaped with joy, his lips curling up: “Then, can I pursue you now? Will you agree?”
Jiang Nuan frowned: “Mr. Lin, what do you like about me? Can I change it?”
Lin Chao was amused by her expression: “Jiang Nuan, I like that you reject me.”
Just then, there was a sudden screeching of brakes behind them.
Jiang Nuan turned to look, her heart skipping a beat.
It was Fu Yumo’s car.
Suddenly, Jiang Nuan felt her wrist being grabbed, and then she was pulled into Lin Chao’s car.
Then, Lin Chao’s car sped out of the complex.
Fu Yumo, expressionless, released the handbrake and floored the accelerator.
It wasn’t until they were on the road that Jiang Nuan came to her senses: “Mr. Lin, what are you doing?”
“Eloping with you.” Lin Chao said, turning the steering wheel.
“Mr. Lin, this isn’t funny.”
Jiang Nuan watched through the rearview mirror as Fu Yumo’s car rapidly closed in, her heart racing.
Lin Chao was about to respond when he saw a large truck coming from the opposite direction in his rearview mirror.
“Watch out!”
In Jiang Nuan’s scream, he swerved the steering wheel.
But it was too late.
“Boom—!”
The violent impact echoed through the highway.
Chapter 9
Jiang Nuan stood blankly at the emergency room door.
She had bandages in several places, with faint traces of blood seeping through, but her life was not in danger. This was because, when the two cars collided, Lin Chao deliberately avoided her side.
Behind her came the hurried ‘clack-clack’ of high heels. Jiang Nuan turned her head, only to freeze in place for a moment.
It was Lin Bei!
Lin Bei’s eyes were bloodshot when she saw Jiang Nuan. The next second, she raised her hand and slapped her hard!
“First Zhao Yu, now my brother, Jiang Nuan, you jinx! Are you trying to kill off all the important people in my life?”
Lin Chao was actually Lin Bei’s brother!
Jiang Nuan covered her face and looked at Fu Yumo, who was following behind Lin Bei.
All this time, he had never told her that Lin Chao was Lin Bei’s brother.
Seeing Jiang Nuan not speaking, Lin Bei’s emotions flared even more.
“Get lost! Get out of here!” She swung her bag at Jiang Nuan, “The biggest regret of my life is knowing you!”
Jiang Nuan felt as if a bomb had exploded in her head, a knife piercing her heart.
It shattered the last bit of beauty she had been clinging to!
“Enough, this is a hospital.” Fu Yumo embraced the agitated Lin Bei and coldly rebuked Jiang Nuan, “Why aren’t you leaving?”
Jiang Nuan propped herself against the wall to stand up, lowering her head as she slowly left.
Fu Yumo watched her slender back, involuntarily furrowing his brows.
That night, Fu Yumo returned home to find his father still in the living room.
Father Fu asked, “How is Lin Chao?”
“He’s out of danger.”
Father Fu put down his newspaper: “Good, have your assistant send her abroad soon, don’t let the Lin family find out about you being an illegitimate child.”
Fu Yumo stiffened, suddenly recalling when Jiang Nuan asked him about pregnancy.
So that was it!
Fu Yumo’s voice was icy: “I understand.”
The next day, Jiang Nuan left her apartment to visit Lin Chao at the hospital.
But just as she stepped out of her community, she was taken by several men in black to a private clinic.
In her panic, she actually saw Fu Yumo.
Before she could understand, Fu Yumo’s cold laughter came, “Do you think having a child will bind me to you for life?”
Jiang Nuan’s heart trembled, overwhelmed by a strong sense of unease.
“I just…” she tried to explain, but didn’t know where to start.
A nurse approached: “Mr. Fu, the abortion procedure is ready.”
Jiang Nuan shivered, grabbing Fu Yumo’s arm, “Fu Yumo, please don’t!”
She couldn’t care about anything else, pulling at Fu Yumo’s sleeve in a panic, “Please, this is your child, I’ll take him far away, I won’t disturb your marriage…”
Before she could finish, Fu Yumo gripped Jiang Nuan’s chin, “Look at you, willing to throw away your dignity for ten million, it’s disgusting!”
He flung her hand away in disgust, “If the child could choose, knowing you as the mother, it would rather not be born.”
Jiang Nuan collapsed to her knees!
Wouldn’t the child want her as a mother?
This sentence struck her like lightning!
At that moment, the nurse brought over the consent form: “Miss Jiang, please sign here.”
Jiang Nuan looked at Fu Yumo.
That cold, loathing gaze seemed to turn into the child’s own in that instant.
It hurt so much that Jiang Nuan couldn’t breathe.
Seeing Jiang Nuan still not moving, the secretary beside her grabbed her hand and forcibly signed the consent form.
Watching the woman being dragged into the operating room.
For some reason, Fu Yumo suddenly felt extremely irritable.
It was all because of that woman, who was just too good at acting…
On the operating table.
The overhead surgical light was blindingly bright, Jiang Nuan kept her eyes open, staring.
The anesthesia seemed to have taken effect, or maybe not.
She could feel the cold instruments on her abdomen.
