Five years without pregnancy means you're too weak; I remarried a powerful man and had triplets

"If I didn't know better, I would have thought that President Lu had a crush on me."

As soon as Xu Zhesheng said this, Lu Zichuan chuckled softly, a rare occurrence for him.

He was already exceptionally handsome, and his smile seemed to make even the sunset outside the window lose its color. However, his slightly upturned eyes were filled with icy coldness as he glanced over casually, his gaze scraping across Xu Zhesheng's face like a knife, sending a chill down the back of his neck.

Lu Zichuan ignored Xu Zhesheng and turned his gaze to Su Manman, who was huddled in the corner.

Half of her face was swollen, her lips were bruised, and her neck was wrapped in gauze, making her look extremely disheveled.

"I heard," he began, his voice flat and unreadable, "that you're going to call the police?"

Su Manman froze.

Of course she knew that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but she could no longer hide it from Xu Zhesheng. If she were to join Lu Zichuan, would she really be able to escape unscathed?

While she was still hesitating, Lu Zichuan slowly added, "Miss Su has just given birth and is in a weak state. If she is beaten like this and doesn't have anyone to back her up, her future days will probably be difficult."

The implication in those words was too obvious: as long as she chose the right side, he could be her protector.

Su Manman gritted her teeth.

The baby is still in the incubator. She is currently penniless and burdened with breach of contract penalties for several endorsements. Previously, Xu Zhesheng had been supporting her.

Now that the truth about the child can no longer be hidden, Xu Zhesheng will never take care of her again.

She had no other choice.

As for that child… a dark glint flashed in her eyes.

That was just someone she randomly picked to frame Lu Zichuan; she herself didn't even know who the child's father was.

Thinking of this, she suddenly knelt down in front of Lu Zichuan with a thud, tears instantly welling up in her eyes:

"President Lu! Please, I beg you, do me justice! Xu Zhesheng has gone mad! He insists my child isn't his! But you saw how good he was to me when I was pregnant. Now he's complaining that I gave birth to a daughter, not a boy, and he's trying to turn the tables! I'm just a woman, how could I be so cunning? He clearly sees me as helpless and wants to abandon me after we've had our fun!"

Xu Zhesheng's barely suppressed anger flared up again, his eyes instantly turning bloodshot: "You're talking nonsense! I just went to the clinic for a checkup, I have asthenospermia, my natural conception rate is extremely low! How could you possibly be carrying my child!"

Su Manman cried even harder, her face streaked with tears and snot: "It's extremely low! It's not 100% impossible! You just dislike that she's a girl, not a boy! If you had known this would happen, you should have told me clearly from the beginning! Now, to have your child, I've turned down several dramas and variety shows, losing so much money! And now you want to turn your back on me? Mr. Lu, you be the judge, how can anyone do this to me!"

Zhang Feng and Xu Zhi, listening nearby, were completely bewildered and exchanged confused glances. Zhang Feng couldn't help but ask, "Zhe, what's this about oligospermia? What does that mean? Is Manman's child... really yours?"

Xu Zhesheng's eyes were red. He didn't want to expose this shameful thing in front of others, and he especially didn't want Lu Zichuan to hear it.

But now Su Manman has turned the tables on him, and he has been forced to the brink of disaster.

He slammed the crumpled report he was holding onto the table with a "thud," turned to look at Zhang Feng, and his voice was hoarse, like sandpaper scraping against his bones:

"Mom, you've misunderstood Zhizhi all these years. There's nothing wrong with her health. The problem is... with me."

He paused, each word seemingly squeezed out through clenched teeth: "There's no way I could get someone pregnant naturally. That bastard child Su Manman gave birth to...it's not mine at all!"

"What?!"

Zhang Feng was stunned, her eyes wide with shock. She grabbed the report on the table and looked at it again and again with trembling hands.

When she saw the diagnosis of "asthenospermia," her legs went weak, she swayed to the side, and almost fell to the ground.

Xu Zhi quickly helped her up, then grabbed the report and read it over and over again. His face turned pale and then flushed, and his lips trembled like a sieve: "This report says it's extremely low... Is it possible... that Manman is an exception?"

Looking at his parents' self-deceiving appearance, Xu Zhesheng felt a wave of sorrow welling up from the bottom of his heart.

He gritted his teeth, enunciating each word clearly: "Doctors won't give definitive answers to avoid liability. But I've consulted professionals, and given my situation, there's absolutely no way I can conceive naturally!"

"What?" Xu Zhi couldn't stand up any longer, staggering back a step, his gaze shifting between Xu Zhesheng and Su Manman, his voice trembling, "Then... then how could Su Manman's pregnancy date match yours?"

Mentioning this, Xu Zhesheng's eyes were filled with deep disgust and revulsion: "The doctor said that the pregnancy date can only be estimated, and if the error is within a week, it's impossible to estimate."

In other words, Su Manman slept with more than one person during that week.

He even felt that, given her character, it was impossible for it to really be their first time together.

He was set up from beginning to end.

Su Manman knelt on the ground, listening to Xu Zhesheng tear apart her lies word by word, her face growing paler and paler.

But she kept crying. If she admitted it now, she would be completely finished: "The report might be fake too. This is my first time since I started working with you. How could you frame me like this? Mr. Lu, please be the judge! When I was pregnant, Zhang Feng interrogated me relentlessly, and I answered all her questions. Her family treated me like a treasure, but from the moment my child was born, they started to dislike me because I was a girl. Their attitude towards me plummeted, and now they want to kick me out on the grounds that the child isn't theirs. I really can't live like this!"

Su Manman wished she could roll on the ground.

Outside the door, many people walked by one after another.

They looked like they were just passing by, but everyone knew they wanted to know what was going on in that ward.

The ward wasn't very soundproof, and Su Manman's voice was shrill, so quite a few people standing outside the door could still hear what was going on inside.

Rumors drifted in through the crack in the door.

"Sigh, how can this family be like this? I saw that woman give birth before, the relationship was extremely complicated. This woman is the mistress, and she said that the wife bumped into her stomach, and the mother-in-law was so angry that she hit the wife on the spot and cursed her horribly. Now she says that the mistress's child is not theirs. So they are always right no matter what they say."

"I saw it too. It caused a huge uproar. The whole family was focused on the mistress. After the baby was born, the in-laws' faces changed instantly when they heard it was a girl. I knew then that they were unreliable, and sure enough, this turned out to be a disaster!"

"Whether the child is a boy or a girl, just raise it after it's born. If you can't raise it, you can at least give them some money. How can you smear them like this? If the child really wasn't theirs, would they have protected it so much in the first place?"

"I think this family is all heartless; their faces alone tell them they're wicked! Although this mistress is no better, she's still a new mother and in her postpartum period. How can she cause such a scene?"