Chapter 4: Marriage Shen Shutong was chatting and laughing with Lin Zhe when a waiter...

Shen Shutong was chatting and laughing with Lin Zhe when a waiter suddenly hurried over with an embarrassed look on his face. He whispered to her, "Miss Shen, I'm sorry to bother you. There's a gentleman in the bathroom hallway over there... uh, he's vomiting a lot. He doesn't look well. I asked you to come over. Would you mind going over to take a look?"

The smile on Shen Shutong's face froze. Fu Jingchuan? His haggard face flashed through her mind.

She frowned, said "Excuse me" to Lin Zhe, and followed the waiter to the aisle on the side of the banquet hall.

Nearing the bathroom, I saw Fu Jingchuan leaning against a remote pillar. His face was pale and he looked fragile and embarrassed. Compared with the cold and noble President Fu before, he was completely different.

Shen Shutong's heart clenched, but she immediately hardened her heart: "If you feel uncomfortable, ask your driver to pick you up, why ask me to come."

Fu Jingchuan shook his head weakly, his breathing unstable: "The driver asked for leave today. I was..." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly bent down and retched into the trash can next to him, looking very tired.

Looking at him like this, Shen Shutong took a deep breath, but in the end he couldn't harden his heart and ignore him.

"My driver is outside. I'll ask him to take you back." She took out her cell phone and prepared to contact the driver.

Fu Jingchuan looked up at her: "Why don't we go together, otherwise how are you going to go back?"

Chen Shutong contacted the driver: "Lin Zhe will take me. No need for Mr. Fu to worry."

Hearing the word "Lin Zhe", Fu Jingchuan's face turned a little ugly: "Do you like him like this?"

Shen Shutong was a little irritated: "Who I like and who I am with has nothing to do with you, Fu Jingchuan?"

Her eyes swept over his lower abdomen, and she said angrily, "If the pregnancy is really that uncomfortable, I advise you to abort it as soon as possible. Why force yourself to suffer? Don't think I will feel sorry for you. The driver is outside, you should pack up and leave quickly."

After saying that, she pushed the door and left.

After the banquet, Shen Shutong didn't see Fu Jingchuan for several days. Until a week later in the afternoon, when she was processing documents in the office, her assistant informed her that Fu Jingchuan was visiting.

She was a little surprised, but still asked someone to invite him in.

Fu Jingchuan walked in, his face looking better than before.

Without any greeting, he pushed a thick folder in front of her.

"What is this?" Shen Shutong raised his eyebrows and did not open it immediately.

"A proposal," Fu Jingchuan looked at her seriously, "a marriage agreement."

Shen Shutong was stunned for a moment, and almost laughed out of anger: "Fu Jingchuan, have you been vomiting and losing consciousness recently?"

"Take a look at the contents first," he said calmly.

Shen Shutong flipped through the document with a skeptical eye, and the more he read, the more frightened he became. This wasn't a typical prenuptial agreement at all, but a series of staggering concessions and gifts:

The Fu Group will completely withdraw from the bidding for the core land in the eastern part of the city and will mobilize all resources to fully support the Shen Group in winning the bid. That land is the core of the Shen Group's strategic layout for the next five years, and the Fu Group was previously its strongest competitor.

——"Jingjing Capital" personally held by Fu Jingchuan will inject huge amounts of funds into Shen's "Jiuzhou Menghualu" project, and it will be unconditional support, without holding shares or participating in decision-making.

——Three top-tier luxury residential properties located in New York, London and Singapore will be unconditionally transferred to Shen Shutong’s personal name.

"Are you crazy?" Shen Shutong looked at him in disbelief. "These values ​​far exceed..."

"More than the value of marriage? I know." Fu Jingchuan continued, "But I don't want this child to be illegitimate. I want her to have a happy family."

As she heard this, she suddenly remembered what happened five years ago.

They were still in love at the time. She nestled in Fu Jingchuan's arms, the two of them squeezed onto a sofa, and saw a video of a cute baby on her tablet.

She poked his chest and asked with a smile, "Hey, Fu Jingchuan, if we have children in the future, do you like boys or girls?"

Fu Jingchuan lowered his head and rubbed the top of her head: "It's all good. As long as it looks like you."

"Of course I can't be like you, a taciturn person!" She teased him deliberately.

"She's just like you," he hugged her tightly, "she will definitely be a happy baby growing up in love."

Those words were still fresh in her mind. Looking at the man before her, who had offered so much in return for a legitimate child, Shen Shutong felt a complex emotion. She had to admit that the conditions he offered were too good to refuse.

She looked down at the clauses again. Every page was beneficial to her and the Shen family. She really didn't want her child to be labeled as illegitimate. Since this marriage was based on a transaction, it was simple and clear. It was nothing more than an additional legal spouse, and they could live their own lives.

The enormous benefits and the need to give her child a legitimate status left her with little reason to refuse. Perhaps that inexplicable disappointment was because it was all just a cold, hard transaction after all? But she quickly suppressed that emotion—wasn't this the best way to handle things?

The office was silent for a long time, with only the faint sound of turning pages.

"Fu Jingchuan," Shen Shutong said in a steady voice, "these conditions are indeed irresistible. Since you insist on not aborting the child, I don't want my child to have an awkward identity."

She picked up the pen and quickly signed her name on the last page of the agreement.

"Deal, Mr. Fu. This will give the child a legal identity and provide me with adequate protection. I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation."

Fu Jingchuan looked at her signed name, and a subtle emotion flashed in the depths of his eyes. He put away his copy of the agreement and nodded.

"Thank you." He said in a low voice, "Then I'll have my lawyer follow up on the subsequent procedures."

He picked up the agreement and turned to walk towards the door. When his hand touched the door handle, he paused, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just gently opened the door and left the office.

Shen Shutong sat alone in the office, looking at the thick agreement on the table. She knew that from this moment on, everything would be different.