Gu Yunsheng looked at everyone seated around the table and spoke again.
“Before this, I was worried that life would be difficult after going to the countryside and the baby would suffer.”
After saying this, Gu Yunsheng glanced at everyone once more.
Tears had already begun streaming down Huo’s mother’s face.
“Shengsheng, you’re not wrong. It’s our fault.”
What Shengsheng considered was reasonable. Life in the countryside would be extremely hard, and if the child were born, it would have to endure hardship along with them.
“Mom, please don’t say that…”
Gu Yunsheng suddenly felt a little guilty. Clearly all of this had been caused by the original owner of this body, yet the Huo Family was placing the blame on themselves.
Huo Zhenguo also took a deep breath and said to his wife,
“Go and bring the things out.”
“Alright, alright, I’ll get them right away.”
Huo’s mother quickly returned with a bundle.
When the bundle was opened, there was a box inside along with several pieces of jewelry.
Inside the box were neatly stacked banknotes and various ration coupons.
Gu Yunsheng looked at the bundle of items and realized that this must be the final family assets that the original owner had tricked the Huo Family out of in the novel.
There had to be at least a thousand yuan in those banknotes. The ration coupons were all usable nationwide, and the jewelry was pure gold. With so many things, not only could one child be raised comfortably, even two children would not exhaust it.
The original owner’s miserable ending was truly deserved.
After doing something like that, it was already merciful that the male lead did not seek revenge.
“Shengsheng, take all of this,” Huo’s mother said gently. “It’s enough for you to rent a small courtyard and hire a nanny. For your living expenses and the child’s expenses, we will find a way to have someone send money back to you. You’ll just have to work hard for a while.”
“That’s right,” Huo Zhenguo added.
“Child, our Huo Family has wronged you. Although this isn’t much, we will find other ways later.”
Huo’s mother held Gu Yunsheng’s hand and continued,
“Shengsheng, don’t worry. The child won’t become a burden to you. After the baby is born, just send the child to the countryside. You should still live your own life.”
Gu Yunsheng was stunned.
She had never expected Huo’s mother to make such a plan.
Then she said firmly,
“Mom, I won’t divorce Chengxuan. I will go to the countryside with you.”
Wan’er stared at Gu Yunsheng in disbelief.
“Gu Yunsheng, are you crazy? Do you even know what you’re saying?”
“Wan’er, how can you speak like that?”
Although Huo’s mother secretly thought the same thing, saying it outright like that was inappropriate.
“Shengsheng, Wan’er may speak bluntly, but were you just joking?”
“Mom, I’m not joking. I’m serious.”
“But… Shengsheng, life in the countryside…”
Her daughter-in-law already had a delicate constitution, and now she was pregnant. How could she possibly endure the harsh life in the countryside?
Gu Yunsheng had just begun to speak when, the next moment, Huo Chengxuan pulled her upstairs.
“Chengxuan, Shengsheng is pregnant. Be careful with her,” Huo’s mother called out.
“Mom, can Gu Yunsheng’s words even be trusted? Pregnant? I think she’s just after our family’s remaining assets,” Wan’er said.
“What nonsense are you talking about? Your sister-in-law wouldn’t joke about something like this.”
“Why wouldn’t she? Don’t you know what kind of person she is?”
Huo’s mother did not bother arguing with her.
“Move aside. I need to keep this porridge warm. Your sister-in-law is pregnant, she can’t go hungry.”
Seeing how concerned her mother looked, Wan’er could not help rolling her eyes.
There wasn’t even proof yet. What if Gu Yunsheng fooled them again?
Other than being beautiful, she was full of nothing but malicious schemes.
Upstairs, Huo Chengxuan pulled Gu Yunsheng straight back to their room and shut the door behind them.
“What are you doing? Let go of me.”
Huo Chengxuan seemed not to hear her. Not only did he not let go, he pressed her against the door, his voice low.
“Gu Yunsheng, do you know what you were saying just now? And since when are you pregnant? How come I didn’t know?”
When she first said she was pregnant, Huo Chengxuan had felt a surge of joy.
But when he heard her say she wanted to go to the countryside, he thought she had gone mad.
After their marriage, she would not even walk when going out. Most of her time was spent buying clothes and skincare products, then researching delicious food. In short, she despised poverty, loved comfort, and was lazy and fickle.
When the family still had a housekeeper, it was manageable. But after the housekeeper left and his mother, who was not good at cooking, took over, Gu Yunsheng almost never ate meals at home.
Life in the countryside was extremely difficult. How could someone like her endure it?
“Let go. You’re hurting me.”
Gu Yunsheng struggled to free her wrist, her eyes filling with tears.
Huo Chengxuan lowered his head and saw that her wrist had indeed turned red, so he quickly released her.
So delicate.
He had barely used any strength, yet it had already become like this. And she still wanted to go to the countryside?
She had schemed to marry him, and now that the family had fallen into decline, she had threatened suicide to force a divorce.
It was not that he understood nothing. He had simply chosen to turn a blind eye before.
But now she said she would not divorce him and even wanted to go to the countryside with him.
Gu Yunsheng rubbed her aching wrist, her eyes still red.
Huo Chengxuan looked at her, took a deep breath, and said in a low voice,
“I don’t agree with you going to the countryside.”
During this period, he had already stopped expecting her to remain in the household. Even if she had not caused trouble, he would have allowed her to leave.
“Husband, before this I truly didn’t want to go to the countryside. You know I’m afraid of hardship and can’t do farm work. And then I accidentally became pregnant, so I acted the way I did.”
“You won’t be angry, right? You can understand me, can’t you?”
“Now that the time to go to the countryside is approaching, I’m afraid. Husband, I don’t want to be separated from you.”
Gu Yunsheng clutched the man’s sleeve and looked up at him pitifully.
She had to find an excuse for her sudden change in attitude.
Huo Chengxuan lowered his eyes and looked at her.
She was biting her lower lip. Her lips were moist and vivid in color, her small palm-sized face delicate and refined.
She possessed a natural charm.
Especially now, as she gazed at him with those pleading eyes. Even though she had done nothing, it felt as if she were deliberately trying to seduce him.
Huo Chengxuan calmly shifted his gaze away and gave a faint response.
But in truth, he did not believe her at all.
He did not know why she had suddenly changed, but he knew that she was full of lies and could not be trusted.
Gu Yunsheng herself felt guilty after saying those words.
However, considering the original owner’s personality, even if Huo Chengxuan refused, as long as she cried a few times in front of Huo’s mother, he would have no way to deal with her.
Moreover, she thought she had heard him agree, so she spoke again.
“Husband, we’re going to have a baby. Can you really feel at ease leaving me alone in the city?”
Huo Chengxuan quietly looked at Gu Yunsheng, suddenly unsure how to react.
He had not known about the arrival of this child.
But if it were true, if she was really pregnant and wanted to give birth to the child, he could not abandon her alone.
And after going to the countryside, he would not allow her to suffer any grievance.
That was, of course, on the condition that she truly wanted to live a proper life with him.