Chapter 298: The Consequences of Betraying Me

Time rewinds to the day before yesterday.

Ning Huaiqing thought that since Sheng Hongyao had come over for several days in a row, he probably wouldn't come today.

However, just as the nanny said dinner was ready in the evening, she heard the sound of a car engine approaching.

"Grandpa!" Youyou was the first to react; he threw aside his toys and ran outside.

The door opened, and he dove in front of Sheng Hongyao, hugging his leg tightly, smiling, and saying in a milky voice, "Grandpa, Youyou thought... thought you wouldn't come."

"How could I not come?" Sheng Hongyao smiled, took his hand, and walked inside leaning on his cane.

He stopped when he reached the space between the living room and the dining room.

His gaze landed on Ning Huaiqing without restraint.

"I definitely have to eat with Youyou and Mommy."

"Yay!" Youyou danced with joy.

Ning Huaiqing stood in front of the child's high chair, holding the noodles Youyou was going to eat, her fingertips icy and her whole body stiff.

After dinner, Sheng Hongyao played with Youyou for a while, then glanced at Ning Huaiqing, who was sitting on the side.

Youyou was looking down, fiddling with building blocks.

Sheng Hongyao's hand gently pressed on the back of Ning Huaiqing's hand, "You've been tired all day too, go upstairs and take a bath first."

Ning Huaiqing pulled her hand away abruptly, shrinking to the side like a frightened bird, her eyes instantly turning red, "Could you... tonight..."

"What's wrong with you?" Sheng Hongyao reached out again, this time wrapping her hand directly in his palm and kneading it, "Don't be afraid, go on."

The nanny stood to the side, feeling both awkward and worried.

She was truly worried about Ning Huaiqing's state; if she were treated like this by Sheng Hongyao for a long time, a perfectly fine person would become abnormal.

However, Ning Huaiqing had no room to resist; as long as she resisted, the things she and Sheng Hongyao had done would be known by Sheng Yu.

She went upstairs and deliberately turned on the bathtub, planning to use a bath to delay time.

But she didn't expect Sheng Hongyao to suddenly break into the bathroom.

She had clearly locked the door from the inside, so why was he still able to get in?

Ning Huaiqing was so scared she was about to get up from the bathtub, but Sheng Hongyao pressed down on her shoulders, pushing her back into the tub.

He sneered, "Trying to delay time?"

While unbuckling his belt, he stood by the bathtub.

Ning Huaiqing felt as if she were dead.

Later, Sheng Hongyao finally let her go, looking down at her from above, his fingers lifting her chin, his gaze burning and sinister.

She was dragged to the bed by Sheng Hongyao again, and a new round of torture began; she discovered that Sheng Hongyao kept Medicine in the nightstand, and he had to take one every time before starting.

By the time he finished again, it was already late at night.

She was exhausted, yet she still had to be on guard against him.

Fortunately, this time she convinced herself to cooperate with him; he wasn't rough with her, but instead said a few soft words to coax her.

So men were this easy to coax; as long as she used a little trick, he would be dizzy with infatuation.

Even though yielding to him was something that disgusted her and made her feel that life was worse than death, she had reasons she had to do it.

Because when she entered the room, she had placed a voice recorder under the bed.

"You sound very beautiful, I like it. Don't bite your lip to hold it back anymore in the future; such beautiful lips have been bitten until they're broken." Sheng Hongyao hugged her into his arms from behind.

He thought the punishment in the bathroom earlier had made her realize the reality.

Ning Huaiqing's body stiffened subconsciously before gradually relaxing.

"Don't come too frequently in the future, Sheng Yu will get suspicious."

The force around her waist tightened abruptly, and she cried out in pain; Sheng Hongyao said angrily, "You're still thinking about Sheng Yu?"

Thinking of Sheng Yu, Ning Huaiqing's heart was filled with sorrow.

The man she had loved for so long in her heart—now that she had such a broken body, how could she love him again?

"I still can't let him go, I don't want him to know about these things, and I don't want him to know that Youyou is your child."

Her heartbeat tightened.

Sheng Hongyao scoffed, "He won't know."

"There is no wall that doesn't let the wind through. He is now the Chairman of the Sheng Group, with immense power. If he really becomes suspicious, he will definitely be able to find something if he investigates thoroughly."

She knew what Sheng Hongyao hated and cared about the most.

The position of Chairman was taken from him by Sheng Yu.

Sheng Hongyao's palm stroked her shoulder, "Don't worry, Youyou's DNA has been modified. Even if Sheng Yu has heaven-defying abilities, he will never know this secret."

"Modified DNA?" Ning Huaiqing was so shocked that her blood seemed to freeze; she turned around in a daze to look at Sheng Hongyao.

"I have never heard of such technology."

Sheng Hongyao was very satisfied with the feeling of this warm, fragrant, and soft jade throwing herself into his arms; he raised his hand and pinched her petite chin, "Do you know Zhu Yuan's brother, Zhu Jingyao? He is truly a genius rarely seen in a century."

Ning Huaiqing asked in disbelief, "He is the one who researched it?"

"This technology cost me a lot of money from research to the aftermath, but being able to let our son inherit the Sheng Group in the future makes this little expenditure count for nothing."

Anger, grievance, and heartache—conflicting emotions pulled at Ning Huaiqing; her heart ached so much she couldn't stop trembling, her throat felt choked by something, unable to speak, but her eyes turned red.

Fearing that Sheng Hongyao would notice something, she kept her head down.

But this made her whole body seem completely held in Sheng Hongyao's arms, and it also made Sheng Hongyao's hands even more unscrupulous.

She gasped and pressed against his hand, "Don't..."

"Let me cherish you a little more."

Her tears fell uncontrollably, and finally, Sheng Hongyao discovered her emotional abnormality.

He lifted her face, "Why are you crying? Isn't it good to let Youyou become the heir to the Sheng Group? I can no longer defeat Sheng Yu with my methods in the business world; this is the best retreat I can think of."

"But what about me!" Ning Huaiqing could not tell if she was trying to bait him into talking or simply wanting to vent her humiliation, "I love Sheng Yu; do you treat me like a human being by occupying me and threatening me like this?"

She wept like a pear blossom in the rain, looking truly pitiful, and Sheng Hongyao softened his voice, "I tell you, this is fate. The night three years ago when you accidentally ran into my room and mistook me for Sheng Yu, it was destined that our relationship would be inextricably linked. Now, I am just letting you return to my side, following the course of destiny."

"Who is that woman?"

The nerves in Ning Huaiqing's brain were taut.

"When I woke up three years ago, something had clearly happened on Sheng Yu's bed. That night I... I was with you, so who was the woman who had relations with Sheng Yu?"

Sheng Hongyao propped up his upper body and rolled over, pinning her beneath him once again.

"I don't know."

Ning Huaiqing knew she could not avoid his demands; pushing him away now would make him lose interest, and he would not continue speaking.

She feigned acceptance of him, "How could you not know?"

Sheng Hongyao lowered his head and kissed her, "After you were exhausted by me that night, I had someone take you away, but I discovered the door to Sheng Yu's room was left ajar, so I had someone go in to check. At the time, only Sheng Yu was in the room, so I followed the plan and sent you into his room."

"Alright, let's not discuss these meaningless things anymore. You are still so young, let's have another younger brother or sister for Youyou..."

The indescribable sounds came to an abrupt halt.

In Sheng Yu's office, everyone looked at Yuan Fengye's phone in disbelief.

They had all heard the content of the recording.

It was undeniably the voices of Ning Huaiqing and Sheng Hongyao.

And below the audio file that Yuan Fengye received, there was also a text message sent by Ning Huaiqing.

【Expose it】

The last word was still in pinyin; she must have just finished typing the pinyin and hadn't had time to select the characters, sending it in a moment of urgency.

"Sheng Hongyao, that old pervert!"

Yuan Fengye never imagined that Sheng Hongyao was such a person.

Before, he only knew that Sheng Hongyao was too harsh on Yu Ge, and he just considered him a ruthless, sinister, cunning, and unscrupulous person.

But it was very clear in the recording that Ning Huaiqing had been forcibly occupied by him.

Moreover, the things Sheng Hongyao said, about having a younger brother or sister, and the lewd things he said to Ning Huaiqing before the recording ended, completely shattered his worldview!

Sheng Yu fastened the last button.

His complexion was exceptionally cold.

This recording was clearly Ning Huaiqing baiting Sheng Hongyao into talking.

That man Sheng Hongyao was not easy to deal with.

For Ning Huaiqing to be able to bait words out of his mouth, she had clearly made no small sacrifice.

He, Sheng Yu, had never thought of using women, nor did he want to owe any woman a favor.

Ning Huaiqing knew the truth but did not tell him; this was her lack of benevolence.

Whether this recording was her repentance or her attempt to clear her name in front of him, the two matters were now canceled out.

From now on, there would be no more entanglements.

"Send it to the media," he said coldly.

Once the recording was released, the servers of the trending topic platform crashed in the blink of an eye.

Later, it was heard that with the addition of the Sheng Group's technical department, the servers were quickly maintained and supported the continuously expanding user traffic.

And as the assistant opened that recording, the moment Sheng Hongyao heard his own voice, he kicked Ning Huaiqing over!

"Bitch!" His eyes were splitting, and the veins on his forehead and neck were bulging abnormally, as if they were about to pierce through his skin and the blood vessels would burst.

He suddenly pulled out the handgun from his assistant's waist, pulled back the safety, and aimed the muzzle at Ning Huaiqing!

"I said, if you betray me, you will end up the same as Shen Yijing!"

"Mommy!" A broken cry came from the doorway.

The study door, which had been left ajar, was pushed open by Youyou's small hands.

"Mr. Sheng, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I didn't watch Youyou well."

The nanny rushed up in terror, intending to carry Youyou away.

She could see Ning Huaiqing on the floor, her face covered in blood, and she turned pale with fright. Then, seeing the gun in Sheng Hongyao's hand, her mind went blank. Thinking of Youyou in her arms, she desperately kept herself from screaming out loud.

"Mommy! Mommy!"

But Youyou struggled free and ran toward Ning Huaiqing.

"Baby..." Ning Huaiqing heard Youyou's voice, and the string in her mind snapped instantly.

Ignoring the pain in her body, she struggled to sit up and pulled Youyou tightly into her arms. Youyou was crying heart-rendingly, and she trembled with heartache, "Don't be afraid, Youyou, don't be afraid. Mommy is fine. What's on my face is paint. Mommy is... is rehearsing a play with Grandpa, it's fake."