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"Stop hitting me..."

Shen Qinghan closed her eyes and interrupted Shen Zhennan, who was about to dial a number, with a trembling voice.

"Qinghan, what's wrong? Are you embarrassed? What's there to be embarrassed about? Dad will talk to him!" Shen Zhennan said with a big smile, holding his phone.

"I told you to stop hitting me!"

Shen Qinghan suddenly raised her voice, tears streaming down her face. She opened her eyes, looked at her bewildered family, and painfully uttered the cruel truth, word by word:

"The child... is not Jiang Ye's."

Dead silence.

The entire living room fell into a deathly silence.

Shen Zhennan's smile froze, and his phone fell to the carpet with a "thud".

The ecstasy on Old Mrs. Zhao Yulan's face froze instantly. She stared intently at Shen Qinghan, her lips trembling violently, as if she couldn't believe her ears.

"What...what did you say?" The old woman's voice was terribly hoarse. "The child...isn't Ono's? Then whose is it?!"

Shen Qinghan lowered her head, not daring to look into her grandmother's eyes, and said in a voice barely audible, "It's...it's Gu Ziming's."

"boom!"

This name struck Zhao Yulan's heart like a heavy hammer.

"Gu Ziming...that pretty boy, that liar?!"

Zhao Yulan's eyes widened instantly, bloodshot from the bottom. She jumped up from the sofa, pointed at Shen Qinghan's nose, and trembled like a leaf.

"You...you shameless beast!"

The old lady was so angry that her eyes were bloodshot. She grabbed a purple clay teacup from the coffee table and smashed it hard at Shen Qinghan's feet.

"Bang!"

The teacup shattered into pieces, with broken porcelain shards scattered everywhere.

"You're pregnant with that bastard's child! You cheated on Xiao Ye with that thief! You...you've disgraced the Shen family and all our ancestors for eighteen generations!"

Shen Qinghan took a step back in fright, crying as she protested, "Grandma! Zimo isn't a thief! The gifts were a misunderstanding; he's already explained it to me. He did it because he loves me so much! And... and Jiang Ye isn't a good person either! He went to a brothel behind my back two years ago and got arrested by the police! He's a filthy scoundrel at heart, why can't I be with Zimo!"

"You're talking nonsense!"

Zhao Yulan roared angrily, refusing to listen to her sophistry.

The old lady has lived most of her life; what kind of people hasn't she seen? Jiang Ye has been in the Shen family for seven years, and his eyes are clear and honest. How could he possibly do such a despicable thing? Even if he did, he was definitely set up!

"Stop throwing this dirty water on Xiao Ye! Do you think I'm senile?! That Gu Ziming, with his slicked-back hair and greasy face, is a complete liar; he's only after the Shen family's money! You idiot, you've been sold out and you're still helping him count the money!"

Zhao Yulan was so angry that her chest heaved violently, and she gasped for breath, her face turning blue and purple.

"Let me tell you, Shen Qinghan! As long as this old woman has a breath left, that Gu fellow will never set foot in the Shen family! And I will absolutely not acknowledge that bastard in your belly! If you dare to give birth to it, I'll pretend I never had a granddaughter like you!"

"Mom! Mom, please don't get agitated!"

When Shen Zhennan saw that the old lady's expression was not right, he was so frightened that he rushed over to support her.

"Medicine! Quickly, get the nitroglycerin pills!" Ou Yuqin panicked and frantically searched for the medicine bottle.

"Get out...all of you get out..."

Zhao Yulan clutched her chest, collapsed onto the sofa in agony, pointed at Shen Qinghan, and couldn't utter a single complete sentence.

While feeding the old lady her medicine, Shen Zhennan turned around and roared at Shen Qinghan with bloodshot eyes, "What are you still standing here for?! Are you trying to drive your grandmother to her death?! Go back to your own room! I, Shen Zhennan, don't have a daughter as shameless as you!"

Ou Yuqin cried and cursed at the same time, "Qinghan, Qinghan, you are so incredibly foolish! You gave up a boss with billions in assets and insisted on getting pregnant with a liar's child! You are driving our family to ruin!"

Shen Qinghan stood alone in the center of the living room.

Watching my parents frantically trying to take care of my grandmother who was on the verge of fainting from anger, and listening to their angry curses and accusations.

Her heart was a jumble of emotions, like a bottle of mixed flavors spilled over. It was a mixture of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty.

Are you wronged? Of course I am.

She felt she was the victim; Jiang Ye had solicited prostitutes first, and then acted coldly and ruthlessly. Gu Ziming, though he had lied to her, at least seemed willing to take responsibility. Why did her whole family side with that divorced outsider, treating her like an enemy?

"Fine...you all deny it, right?"

Shen Qinghan gritted her teeth, tears welling up in her eyes, but her gaze became incredibly obsessive and twisted.

"The more you deny it, the more I will give birth to this child! I want to prove to you that I, Shen Qinghan, did not choose the wrong person! Without Jiang Ye, I can still make the Shen Group bigger and stronger, and I can still have a happy family!"

She wiped away her tears fiercely, turned around, and ran upstairs in her high heels without looking back.

The door slammed shut with a loud bang.

Downstairs, after taking her medicine, Grandma Zhao Yulan finally caught her breath, but she seemed to have been completely drained of energy. She collapsed on the sofa, tears streaming down her face.

"What a tragedy... what a tragedy..."

........

In the bedroom on the second floor, the main light was off, only a dim yellow wall lamp was lit by the bedside.

Shen Qinghan lay fully clothed on the large double bed, burying her face deeply in the pillow, her shoulders trembling.

The angry shouts of her grandmother downstairs and the sighs of her parents still seemed to echo in her ears. She felt that the whole world had betrayed her; everyone was on the side of that cold-hearted Jiang Ye, and no one cared about her, a pregnant woman.

With a "click," the bedroom door was gently pushed open.

Shen Qinghan didn't look up, but simply shouted irritably, "Get out! I don't want to see anyone!"

"Sister, it's me."

A sweet, charming voice rang out. Shen Qinghan's younger sister, Shen Yinyin, walked in carrying a glass of warm milk.

Shen Yinyin just graduated from university this year. She was spoiled at home and always treated Jiang Ye, her brother-in-law who moved in with her, with disdain and never gave him a second glance.

She walked to the bedside, placed the milk on the bedside table, and patted Shen Qinghan on the back.

"Sister, don't cry. Grandma is old and her thinking is old-fashioned. Mom and Dad just can't get over it yet. Don't take it to heart," Shen Yinyin said with a sneer.

Shen Qinghan sat up, pulled out a tissue to wipe her swollen eyes, and said in a hoarse voice, "They just don't understand... All they know is that Jiang Ye is rich now, the boss of Kunlun Capital, and they want to tie me up and send me back to him to apologize. But they have no idea how ruthless Jiang Ye can be now!"

"Heartless? He wouldn't dare!"

Shen Yinyin snorted coldly, grabbed Shen Qinghan's hand, and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Sister, you're just blinded by your own involvement. What is Jiang Ye anyway? To put it bluntly, wasn't he just a groveling dog in our family before?"

Upon hearing the word "dog," Shen Qinghan frowned slightly but did not refute it.

"Think about it. For the past seven years, he's been doting on you every day, serving you tea and water, washing your feet and cooking for you, treating you like royalty. How could that kind of love, so deeply ingrained in him, just disappear like that?"

Shen Yinyin found his reasoning increasingly convincing and continued her analysis: "The reason he's so cold to you now, and even kicked you out of the apartment, is simply because he suddenly has money, his status has changed, and his male pride is acting up. He wants to show off in front of you and regain some face. What's that called? That's called playing hard to get!"

"But..." Shen Qinghan felt a sharp pain in her heart as she thought of the black lace lingerie on the balcony, "He has other women's things there..."

"Oh my god, sis, are you stupid?!"

Shen Yinyin rolled her eyes. "He's the boss of a multi-billion dollar company now. How could he not have a few temptresses throwing themselves at him? It's just a fling, why are you taking it so seriously? Besides, no matter how arrogant he is now, you still hold a trump card!"

"What trump card?"

"Xinyu!" Shen Yinyin raised her voice, "Xinyu is Jiang Ye's biological daughter! Blood is thicker than water, that's an undeniable fact! Our whole family has seen how much he used to love Xinyu. Even if he's changed his mind, how could he not even love his own flesh and blood?"

Shen Yinyin patted her chest and assured him, "Sister, listen to me. Jiang Ye is just putting on an act. As long as you give him a little way out, and take Xinyu to him and cry a bit, I guarantee he'll soften immediately and obediently come back to our Shen family!"