Lu Zhili widened his eyes, unable to believe what he had just heard. “What did you say?!”
“It’s because of him, isn’t it?!” Lu Zhili pointed his finger straight at the hospital ward, his eyes splitting with rage as his voice suddenly grew shrill. “Because of that slut lying in the bed!”
“Enough!” Fu Qianyu reprimanded in a deep, stern voice.
Lu Zhili abruptly froze. From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of his own distorted face reflected in the glass window, and the look of sheer annoyance deep in Fu Qianyu’s eyes sent a bolt of panic through his heart.
“I’m sorry, Qianyu. I shouldn’t have tracked you, and I shouldn’t have doubted you. I promise I will never do it again. Our wedding will proceed as planned, alright?”
He was practically begging.
When Fu Qianyu originally agreed to the alliance between the Fu and Lu families, he had been wild with joy, to the point of becoming somewhat obsessive.
With the engagement drawing near, it was highly unwise of him to create a scene at this moment.
Even if he wanted to deal with the superficial flirts surrounding Fu Qianyu, he should wait until after they were married.
Lu Zhili’s heart pounded wildly, suddenly realizing that appearing at the hospital was a massive mistake.
Not only had he prematurely alerted the enemy, but he had also incurred Fu Qianyu’s disgust.
Watching Lu Zhili sorrowfully tugging at his sleeve, Fu Qianyu, for some reason, envisioned the pale-faced boy inside the ward clutching onto him the previous night.
“This has nothing to do with anyone else. Our engagement was handled far too hastily. I need time to think things through clearly. Let’s postpone the engagement.”
The obsessive and manic state Lu Zhili was currently exhibiting fundamentally clashed with the gentle, refined youth in Fu Qianyu’s memory. He couldn’t help but begin to question whether agreeing to this marriage alliance had been a mistake.
“My darling boy, everything was going so well, why are you suddenly postponing the engagement? Did you get into a fight with Zhili?”
The gentle yet naturally pressuring tone of his mother, Lang Youyuan, gave Fu Qianyu a slight headache.
He lay on the sofa, massaging his temples. Lu Zhili’s mother was Lang Youyuan’s best friend, and the Fu and Lu families were long-standing family friends. The marriage alliance carried too many strings and was far too complicated.
He had just returned to his residence when he received the phone call from his mother.
“Mother, we didn’t fight. I am simply reflecting on whether it is truly necessary to initiate a marriage completely devoid of feelings.”
Fu Qianyu’s serious tone left Lang Youyuan stunned for a moment.
Although her CEO son, who was notoriously aloof and taciturn to outsiders, was close to her, he had always kept his thoughts regarding his romantic life strictly to himself.
This was the very first time he had actively vocalized his perspective on relationships.
“My dear son, whatever you choose to do, your mother will always support you.”
Swept up in a wave of maternal affection, Lang Youyuan instantly switched sides. The heartache she had felt upon listening to Lu Zhili’s tearful complaints ultimately paled in comparison to her own biological flesh and blood.
“However, son, according to Zhili, you’ve been acting ambiguously with someone on the outside? Mother knows you are grown up and have your own thoughts. You can thoroughly deliberate on the significance of marriage to you, but if you impulsively break off the engagement over some random, messy person, I will have to criticize you.”
“I understand, Mother.”
The moment Lang Youyuan hung up the phone, she went over to comfort the weeping Lu Zhili.
“Zhili, Qianyu isn’t the type of person to mess around blindly in relationships. He told me himself that the person is merely a friend.”
“But, Aunt Lang, Qianyu is literally postponing the engagement because of that person…”
“It’s merely a postponement. Didn’t Qianyu stop short of calling it a cancellation? This proves that he still holds a place for you in his heart. That person is irrelevant; what matters is that there are mutual feelings between you and Qianyu.”
Lang Youyuan soothed him in a soft voice.
“Auntie, I’m terrified. I’m terrified that Qianyu is postponing the engagement because he’s fallen for someone else…” Lu Zhili choked on his tears as soon as he finished speaking.
Seeing the child she had watched grow up crying her eyes out, Lang Youyuan couldn’t help but feel a surge of pity.
“How could anyone else possibly compare to you? Stop crying, child. If Qianyu truly does something to betray you, I guarantee you that neither he nor that outsider will ever cross the threshold into my household!”
Lang Youyuan was speaking from the bottom of her heart at that moment. If anyone actually possessed the audacity to bewitch her son into abandoning the family alliance, then that homewrecker was definitely up to no good! Entertaining the delusion of replacing Lu Zhili and entering her family’s door was simply an exhibition of supreme ignorance!
In the early morning, the golden sunlight spilled across Jing Jiaxi’s pale face. His long, black eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings as they slowly parted. Having cried until midnight before finally falling asleep, he was currently a bit disoriented: where was he?
“You’re awake?” The man’s deep, elegant voice gave him a sudden fright.
“Mm…” Jing Jiaxi collected his thoughts. He had fainted last night and was brought to the hospital. This man was his one-night-stand partner, and furthermore, the man had a fiancé.
Far too many things had occurred over the past few days, leaving Jing Jiaxi momentarily at a loss for words. He didn’t even know how to address the stranger before him, with whom he shared such a profoundly entangled connection.
“The test results are out. You are indeed pregnant with my child.”
Fu Qianyu’s brow furrowed slightly. The boy who had just woken up looked completely dazed and appeared barely of legal age. Did he truly comprehend what pregnancy entailed for him?
For a male pregnancy—a fundamentally unnatural phenomenon—the boy had actually been absent-minded enough to visit a standard hospital for an examination. If Fu Qianyu hadn’t discovered it in time and thoroughly scrubbed the medical records clean, Jing Jiaxi might very well have been captured and used as a laboratory specimen.
“Oh…” Jing Jiaxi had known it all along. Although the man had mentioned yesterday that it might be a tumor, he felt a spiritual intuition that he was definitely pregnant.
“Do you want to keep it or terminate it?” If he chose to keep it, he would marry the boy. If he chose to terminate it, he would provide him with financial compensation.
“Keep it, of course!” Jing Jiaxi was extremely resolute. Yesterday, when the man suggested terminating the pregnancy, his heart had completely shattered. At that moment, he realized he couldn’t bear to part with the child.
“Alright.” Then we shall marry.
However, the boy was too young; he was only eighteen years old and had not reached the legal marriage age. They could only host the wedding ceremony first, and then officially register the marriage certificate after the child was born.
As for the Lu family, he would go and deliver his apologies personally. The engagement had only been privately discussed between the two families; it had never been formally executed, nor had it been publicly announced, so it would not damage the boy’s reputation.
His parents only had him as their sole child, and he had long since assumed absolute executive control over the Fu Group. If he remained steadfast, marrying the boy would not be a difficult feat.
Even if his parents refused to accept it, it wouldn’t matter; no one could bar him from marrying whomever he desired.
The long-standing cooperation between the two corporations would not dissolve simply because the marriage alliance vanished. He would yield a certain degree of concessions to the Lu family within their business collaborations, which would serve as compensation for Lu Zhili.
While Fu Qianyu silently mapped out his future with the boy, Jing Jiaxi felt his heart drumming with anxiety upon seeing him remain completely silent.
“Then, regarding the subsequent custody and upbringing of the child…” Jing Jiaxi bit his lip, locking his eyes onto Fu Qianyu’s expression, praying that he could provide the child with a healthy and beautiful future.
“You don’t need to worry about that. A lawyer will explain the contract to you.” Signing a prenuptial agreement was standard protocol for wealthy families entering a marriage.
Jing Jiaxi breathed a sigh of relief. Since the child’s wealthy father had put it that way, it meant he was entirely willing to raise the child.
Fu Qianyu still had to head to work. He monitored Jing Jiaxi until the boy had completely finished the prenatal nutritional meal before leaving for the corporation.
He took the boy’s severe malnutrition extremely seriously, while simultaneously gaining a more profound comprehension of the irresponsible parents listed in the background dossier.
It was truly unbelievable what kind of people could raise a person to a state of severe malnutrition in modern society.
Under Fu Qianyu’s immensely pressuring gaze, Jing Jiaxi forced down two bowls of seafood porridge. He naturally possessed a tiny appetite, so he could only bite the bullet and force it down his throat.
Only after Fu Qianyu departed did Jing Jiaxi finally relax, gently stroking his completely rounded stomach.
“Little baby, you are truly blessed. Your other father is a wealthy man, so you won’t have to suffer hardships like I did in the future. I only hope that after I give birth to you, he will allow me to visit you occasionally.”
The thought processes of the two individuals were completely on different wavelengths. He assumed that the contents of the contract Fu Qianyu mentioned were nothing more than arrangements regarding the child’s upbringing. As for marrying into a wealthy estate, it was a path he had never once considered.
Jing Jiaxi had not forgotten that the person who hurled insults at him yesterday was Fu Qianyu’s fiancé.
He would absolutely not permit himself to harbor any illicit thoughts toward Fu Qianyu.