âItâs only a common cold. Donât over-worry, Mom,â Gu Chenyi said.
âItâs not that Iâm over-worrying, itâs you who should be worrying more! Sheâs bearing your child!â Mrs. Gu chided.
Gu Chenyi avoided the topic and replied, âIâll go and see her now.â
âUh-huh, hurry!â Mrs. Gu did not speak further.
When Gu Chenyi entered the room, Lin Qingya was eating her porridge.
When she saw him, her hands tightened around the bowl.
He shut the door behind him, thinking about the night before. Since he had told her the truth in his drunken state, then there was no longer a need for him to hide his disgust. âItâs useless to feign illness!â
Lin Qingya put down the bowl she was holding and smiled bitterly. âI know itâs useless to feign illness.â
âLin Qingya, I have to take my hat off to you. You tell a lie like itâs the truth. And now that youâve been exposed, you act like nothing has happened!â Gu Chenyi noticed how steady she was, and more than ever, he felt heâd been blind before. Such a fool he was!
He actually took her to be a gentle and kind girl! And he had doubted Mu Huan!
The more he thought about this, the more he felt like stabbing himself with a knife!
Lin Qingya smiled in self-mockery and said, âIndeed, Iâm fine, because what I was trying to hide has now been discovered by you. I no longer need to worry about being found out. I really do feel a lot more relaxed.â
She had thought about it all night. Although she felt ill physically, she couldnât stop thinking about how she could resolve this matter. She had come this far, she wasnât going to give up now!
Until finally, she decided, she was going the opposite way!
Since Gu Chenyi had found out the truth, so be it. She wasnât going to ask to be spared, she wasnât going to ask to be let off. Let him do what he wanted with her!
In any case, she had the baby in her belly!
She had this bargaining chip, and on top of that, Gu Chenyiâs grandfather was dying. Hence, in the next half a year, even if it were just to please his grandfather, he wouldnât be too merciless toward her.
In half a year, the child would be due. She would be so heavily pregnant that he wouldnât be able to do anything to her. After the birth of the child â a new lease on life â she would be the childâs own mother, and this would only serve to deepen their ties, making it even harder to separate.
Hence, there really wasnât much he could do about her.
If he wanted her to suffer and didnât want her to have a life of luxury, then sheâd pretend to suffer, and she would try to endure poverty for now. It wasnât as though she had never been poor. As long as she was Madam Gu, the mother of the heir to the Gu family estate, everything that belonged to the Gu family would eventually be hers!
She was best at enduring and waiting!
âYou feel that I canât do anything to you just because you are bearing a child of the Gu family? Is that why youâre so calm and composed?â Gu Chenyi said icily.
âWhat is a child? If you want a child, there are many women out there who would be willing to bear you one. The Gu family doesnât lack children. Iâm calm because one has to eventually bear the consequences of oneâs own actions. Whatever I had feared has now gone. No matter what, I have to bear the punishment, so let it be, then. Do whatever you want to do.
âEven if I ask to be let off, itâll be useless, right?â Lin Qingya lifted her head to look at him. There was no fear in her eyes, only complete acceptance â since things had come to this, he could do what he wanted, and she would accept it.
Although the baby was her biggest bargaining chip, she made it seem as though it was worthless. Because she knew that although there may be many women out there who could bear the man a child, his grandfather had only half a year left of his life. There would be no time for any other child, only hers would be on time. If his grandfather made a hard enough effort, he could possibly have the opportunity to see the baby.
Hence, even if he could have many children, for now, he would have to keep hers!