Chapter 220: You said that you would never leave me

Zhu Yuan looked at Sheng Yu with eyes as calm as still water.

There was not a hint of surprise.

This answer was completely and utterly Sheng Yu's style; she understood him, and she also admitted that deep down, she felt a thrill of revenge when she said those words.

Yet, after hearing his reply, she felt it was meaningless.

Worried that she was overthinking things again, Sheng Yu lowered his head and kissed her forehead, "Yuanyuan, I won't allow you to do anything foolish, do you hear me?"

"In what capacity are you saying such things to me? After tonight, do you really think we can go back to how things were?"

Sheng Yu stared into her eyes, "In the capacity of your man."

Zhu Yuan's heart ached, and a sour sensation welled up in her nose; seeing her trembling body, Sheng Yu hugged her with a pained heart.

"I've said it before, those people will not affect us at all; in the future, I won't let them appear before you."

Zhu Yuan pushed him away forcefully, a mocking curve appearing at the corner of her mouth, "Deceiving yourself and others, it really is quite meaningless."

"You don't believe me?" Sheng Yu pressed down firmly on her shoulders.

"You've deceived me like this; do you think I can still trust you?"

Zhu Yuan's eyes could not hide her sorrow, "You haven't just known about this child for a day, have you? Let me guess: after Ning Huaiqing returned to the country, your attitude toward her was always cold, and she also kept her distance; at that time, you didn't know about the child's existence. When was it? After you went on a business trip a few days ago, Ning Huaiqing seemed to disappear; if I'm not mistaken, your so-called business trip was to go see the child with Ning Huaiqing, wasn't it?"

The hands pressing on her shoulders slowly tightened, and Sheng Yu lowered his chin slightly.

He had always known Zhu Yuan was smart; she could even analyze the cause and effect of the situation under such circumstances.

"I admit, the business trip was to London; I went to verify whether that child truly existed, which does not mean I intend to acknowledge him."

His personality did not allow him to accept something in a muddled state.

"Whether you acknowledge him or not, it doesn't change the fact that he is your son. How did you verify it? It must have been a paternity test; you don't even need to think about the result to know it—he is indeed your own flesh and blood."

Given his style of doing things, he would definitely have kept the child abroad and ordered Ning Huaiqing not to return to the country.

To avoid letting her discover any clues, he certainly would not have planted spies around Ning Huaiqing, lest someone report to him and be overheard by her, so he simply acted as if that child did not exist.

Yet, only a few days had passed, and Ning Huaiqing had already brought the child back to the country.

Paper can never wrap up fire.

Sheng Yu looked at the grief in her eyes, and the force of his hands tightened involuntarily, as if he could hold onto her firmly this way, "I was hiding it from you; I didn't want you to know because I was afraid you would leave me."

Just like now, after she knew the truth, she could even say things like not wanting the child in her womb.

"You hid it from me, why did you still deceive me!" She thought of how happy she was when she found out she was pregnant with their child, how much she looked forward to seeing the smile on his face, but she didn't know he already had a child.

"You didn't come home all night last night; were you at the hospital accompanying them? You said tonight that there were things at the company to handle, yet you appeared here. Sheng Yu, you have trampled on my dignity and my trust in you like this! Do you still harbor the delusion that I will trust you again?"

At the last sentence, her voice was extremely low and choked with sobs, but the determination in her eyes stung Sheng Yu's eyes.

His fingertips trembled, and seeing the tears she shed, he forcibly suppressed his sinister and paranoid thoughts.

"I didn't stay out all night." Sheng Yu raised his hand to stroke her hair, "Yuanyuan, I went back last night."

When he returned to the Hot Spring Villa from the company, she was already asleep; he had things on his mind—Ning Huaiqing had brought the sick child back to the country, and the child had started running a high fever on the plane and went into shock at the Airport, making it impossible to fly back to London.

He couldn't tell her these things; he just watched her by the bedside for a long time and went to the balcony alone to smoke.

Worried that she would notice something, he went to the company before she woke up.

There were some things he usually wasn't willing to explain much, but now he knew how much an explanation mattered; he explained with unprecedented patience: "When you called me earlier, I was indeed at the company; I was thinking of you and wanted to finish the work at hand to rush back to accompany you. But just as I left the company, Qiao Mai called me and said the child's condition was complicated; I couldn't let anything happen to him. If something happened to him, Ning Huaiqing would have no scruples and would drag everyone down with her. I didn't want you to know about these things, so I came over to take a look—just to take a look."

"That is your son; it is only natural for you to go see him." Zhu Yuan was expressionless.

Sheng Yu frowned, "Yuanyuan, don't say angry words."

"Did I say something wrong? Isn't he your son?"

Zhu Yuan wiped away her tears, "But you are right to be worried; if I had known about this child's existence a few days ago, I would have left you too. The only thing I want is a man who belongs entirely to me, and you are not that. You are someone else's father, the father of Ning Huaiqing's child! How do you expect me to endure such a relationship?"

Sheng Yu looked at her with a serious and focused expression, "I said, I will not acknowledge him. I am the father of our child, and I will not be anyone else's."

Zhu Yuan's chest felt numb; she was truly tired, exhausted as never before.

She turned over to lie on the bed, closed her eyes, and stopped looking at him or speaking.

Sheng Yu sat by the bed for a while, took off his shoes, lifted the quilt, and lay down beside her, wrapping his arms around her waist from behind and letting her lean against his chest.

Her soft body and faint scent gradually soothed Sheng Yu's emotions; she didn't believe him, but he knew himself that the moment he heard her cry of pain that night, he had regained his reason.

It was just that no one expected Ning Huaiqing to rush up at that critical moment and tell him about the child.

Zhu Yuan did not open her eyes and did not speak, but the moment Sheng Yu hugged her, her body stiffened slightly.

Sheng Yu held her tightly from behind, rubbing his chin against the back of her ear, his voice low and hoarse, "I was wrong."

The three words felt as heavy as a thousand catties; Zhu Yuan's heart trembled, and tears fell.

"Yuanyuan, you said that you would never leave me."