Chapter 224: Whose Number Sent Her That Text Message?

On the way back to the Hot Spring Villa, Zhu Yuan did not say another word. She quietly let Sheng Yu hold her, leaning against his chest, listening to his heartbeat, her whole being numb as she watched the scenery outside the window.

When the car drove onto the coastal Pan Shan Highway, Sheng Yu kissed her face and looked out the window, "Do you remember the night you jumped into the sea when the car accident happened?"

Zhu Yuan did not speak, only blinked her eyes gently.

Sheng Yu continued on his own: "The moment I jumped in after you, there was only one thought in my mind. I will never let you go in this lifetime; even if I die, I will take you with me."

Zhu Yuan closed her eyes in pain.

Before closing her eyes, she heard the man murmur in her ear: "Yuanyuan, don't leave me, or I will go crazy."

Zhu Yuan's heart trembled.

Go crazy?

Isn't he crazy enough already?

The car stopped in front of the small building where they lived.

As soon as the car door opened, Feiyuan dashed out from the house.

Compared to when it first arrived here, it had grown quite a bit in these few months; it was a circle fatter and had grown taller.

As soon as it saw Zhu Yuan, it let out excited panting sounds, wagged its tail rapidly, and clawed at the car, trying to scramble inside.

Zhu Yuan watched it quietly for a while, unmoved. Finally, when Feiyuan drooped its head and let out aggrieved whimpers, Zhu Yuan sighed and picked it up.

Seeing that her gaze was entirely on Feiyuan, and that at least she was no longer crying or keeping a cold face, Sheng Yu suppressed his urge to pull it away as he watched Feiyuan nuzzle against her chest.

After getting out of the car, Zhu Yuan held Feiyuan in her arms and did not let Sheng Yu hold her hand.

Sheng Yu put his arm around her shoulders to lead her into the house, sat her down on the sofa, and casually took off his coat, tossing it onto the sofa armrest, "I'll go make you something to eat."

"Where is my phone?" Zhu Yuan's hand stroked Feiyuan's head as she looked down at it.

Sheng Yu rolled up his sleeves, "You need to rest well right now; playing on your phone is tiring for the mind and bad for your eyes."

Zhu Yuan immediately put Feiyuan down, looked up at Sheng Yu, and said angrily: "Are you going to imprison me?"

Not letting her continue working, nor letting her contact anyone from the outside world.

Sheng Yu's hand, which was rolling up his sleeve, paused. Meeting her eyes filled with anger, he gently touched her head, "It's not imprisonment, it's to ensure the safety of your child. We'll talk after you are 28 weeks pregnant."

Zhu Yuan felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.

28 weeks pregnant.

Although she didn't know much about pregnancy precautions, she knew that by 28 weeks, the fetus was already quite large, and the law prohibited induced labor without medical indications at that stage.

She would have to give birth to this child whether she wanted to or not.

Thinking of this, she stood up angrily, her eyes rimmed with red, "In your dreams!"

There was not the slightest ripple of expression on Sheng Yu's face. He raised his hand, his palm cradling Zhu Yuan's face, "The doctor said your emotions shouldn't fluctuate too much right now. If not for the sake of the child in your belly, you should at least think of yourself. I don't want to see you suffer."

To him, her importance always ranked ahead of the child.

"Then give my phone back to me." She knew it was impossible to make him let her leave now, but she had to get a chance to contact the outside world.

She knew she could never let go of the issue regarding Ning Huaiqing and her child; she had no way to just settle for living like this.

And given his current state, she was afraid—afraid that she would truly lose her freedom from now on.

Living like a walking corpse was not what she wanted.

Sheng Yu said in a helpless tone, "Must you have a phone?"

Zhu Yuan persisted in silence.

Sheng Yu took a phone out of his pocket; it was his own, "My phone doesn't have the apps you usually use to watch videos, but you can download them yourself. You can watch whatever you want. The password is your birthday."

"I want my own phone." Zhu Yuan did not take his.

She had not memorized Song Ci's phone number, and Sheng Yu's phone certainly wouldn't have Song Ci's number; she had no way to get in touch with Song Ci at all.

Besides that, contacting anyone in Sheng Yu's address book would be useless.

Because no one would risk offending Sheng Yu to help her.

He held absolute power in Jingdu City; even calling the police would be useless.

Sheng Yu made a move to take the phone back, "If you don't want it, then you get nothing."

At the critical moment, Zhu Yuan reached out and took the phone.

At least having a phone on her, in case Sheng Yu hadn't set up any restrictions inside, she might be able to contact the outside world.

In this world, the number she knew by heart was Sheng Yu's.

Of course, there was another number she was familiar with.

Although they didn't contact each other often, the fact that the other party had called her a few times, while leaving a shadow in her heart, had also made her familiar with that string of numbers.

Seeing that her anger had dissipated quite a bit, Sheng Yu's lips curled up, and he couldn't help but lean down and kiss her face, "Wait for me here like a good girl."

Saying this, he turned and walked toward the kitchen.

Walking to the kitchen entrance, he touched the other side of his pocket; it was Zhu Yuan's phone.

He casually handed the phone to Situ, his voice cold and deep: "Find out whose number sent her that text message last night."

The fact that Ning Huaiqing had secretly given birth to his child was known to no one except a few people around him, and the fact that she had hidden in London for so many years without him discovering her showed that she had been hiding it very well.

Even when she returned to Kyoto with the child, it was secretly sent to Qiao Mai's hospital; no one knew.

So who was the person who sent the text message to Zhu Yuan to expose that child?

"Yes."

Situ took the phone and handed the tablet in his hand to Sheng Yu, "This is the pregnancy diet plan just sent over by the nutritionist."

Sheng Yu's fingertips swiped across the tablet; it was a diet plan he had specifically asked the nutritionist to tailor for Zhu Yuan.

He looked at the diet plan while tying his apron.

Before making noodles with soybean paste, he had never cooked, but for him, things like cooking were as simple as the permutations and combinations from his school days—if you had hands, you could do it; it didn't take any brainpower at all.

Meanwhile, after Sheng Yu entered the kitchen, Zhu Yuan sat back down on the sofa, pulling Feiyuan to her side to seek a sense of security, and then opened Sheng Yu's phone.

She entered her birthday on the screen, and it unlocked as expected.

She had never looked at Sheng Yu's phone before; once the screen unlocked, the wallpaper was actually a photo of her sleeping, lying on a pillow.

She did not remember when this photo was taken, but it must have been some morning when she had not yet woken up, and Sheng Yu had taken it with his phone.

A wave of bitterness crept into her heart.

Zhu Yuan quickly suppressed the strange emotion and, without further hesitation, tapped open the dialer interface; she looked left and right, and after Situ went out, only she and Sheng Yu were left in the entire small building.

And Sheng Yu was in the kitchen, so he could not hear the sound of her making a call.

After confirming she would not be heard by anyone, she quickly entered the eleven digits and pressed the dial button.

However, she heard the prompt on the other end of the line saying the number was disconnected.

She checked the eleven digits repeatedly; it was definitely that person's phone number, so why would it be disconnected?

Deleting the eleven digits, Zhu Yuan took a deep breath and entered them again.

The result was still the same.

Just as she was feeling puzzled, she heard Sheng Yu's voice come from above her head, "I blocked the number of that Pei fellow, so of course you can't call out."