"Mom, what do you want? Should Gu Li abort the baby?" Huo Zirui didn't show much emotion. "That's your grandson. Do you want to lose your precious grandson?"
"Who knows whose child she's carrying? Wasn't she with a duck?" Mrs. Huo gnashed her teeth. "Who knows whose child it is! Fortunately, your father isn't here. Otherwise, he would have beaten you to death with a military stick!"
"Auntie, I can wait for sixteen weeks for an amniocentesis. The child is Zirui's!" Gu Li knelt and begged. "Otherwise, I'll be struck by lightning and die a horrible death! "
She swore to the heavens that the child was Huo Zirui's. Mrs. Huo was a little skeptical. She felt that Huo Zirui had not lived up to her expectations and had been tricked by such a good-for-nothing.
"Huo Zirui! Oh, Huo Zirui!" Mrs. Huo's expression was filled with anger. "Get your ass over here right now. I have something to say to you!"
Huo Zirui did not say a word. He lifted his leg and followed his mother into the study.
Gu Ruochu looked at Gu Li as she knelt. This act of self-pity was very effective. She thought that by carrying Huo Zirui's child, she would gain Mrs. Huo's sympathy.
"Mother seems to like children very much.
"Do you want to have a child soon?"
Gu Ruochu turned to look at him, not knowing what to say. Hadn't he gone to check on Ning Tangxi in Country M? Gu Ruochu knew that they were about to return to the country.
The child called him daddy, and she was sure that Huo Nanchen had some sort of relationship with Ning Tangxi. It was a story that outsiders could not interfere with.
There were still twenty-five days left. When the time came, she hoped that everything would end peacefully.
At least she had loved him.
After mentally preparing herself, Gu Ruochu was much calmer. Avoiding Huo Nanchen's gaze, she looked at Gu Li, who had just gotten up. "Are you playing a cruel trick? You can't take it after kneeling for a while?"
Having been exposed, Gu Li glared at Gu Ruochu. "I'm pregnant with the eldest grandson of the Huo family. If you dare to bully me, I won't let you off!"
"Weren't you the one who knelt? Why are you blaming me?"
If it had not been for the commotion, Gu Ruochu would not have bothered to come out of her room.
"You!"
Gu Li's anger rose, but she suppressed it when she remembered that she was pregnant.
"Ignore her, let's go and eat."
Just as they were about to leave, they bumped into Huo Zirui as he walked out of the study with an ugly expression. Huo Zirui stopped in his tracks and taunted, "Brother, don't think that you can laugh at me. Your troubles are coming."
He then deliberately glanced at Gu Ruochu.
Gu Ruochu lowered her eyes and remained expressionless as she tried to figure out what he meant.
Ning Tangxi must have been close to returning with her child.
"Mind your own business."
Huo Nanchen and his brother exchanged cold gazes. Huo Zirui scoffed coldly and turned to leave. Gu Ruochu lifted her leg and walked forward.
Huo Nanchen hugged her tightly from behind. She did not turn her head, but in that instant, she felt suffocated and trembled violently.
"What's wrong? Aren't we going to eat?"
Gu Ruochu asked calmly as she suppressed her emotions.
"It's nothing, I just want to hug you."
"All right. Let's eat first." Gu Ruochu struggled to control the urge to push him away.
"Okay."
Just as she sat at the dining table, Gu Ruochu's cell phone began to ring. It was Su Ze's number.
"Su Ze, what's the matter?"
"Ruochu, come quickly! Something happened to Jin Ye on his way back to the country!"
Gu Ruochu's heart thumped when she heard Su Ze's anxious voice. She guessed that the Ning family had attacked again.
Zhang Xuan was still unwilling to let Jin Ye go.
"What's wrong? Who's in trouble?" Huo Nanchen's deep eyes stared at her. His silence was cold as he grabbed Gu Ruochu's elbow with one hand.