Chen Zhe banged on the door. Hu Ling's deception this time had caused him immense inner turmoil. He had felt guilty countless nights for not fulfilling his responsibilities as a father. He had wanted to go to the capital to find Mu Wanzhi several times to make amends for his mistakes, but his inability to let go of Xie Yuhan left him in a state of great inner conflict.

After enduring so much pain and torment, I finally told myself that it was all a lie.

He was really on the verge of a breakdown.

"Hu Ling!! You come out here!"

Abao heard Chen Zhe banging on the door and rushed over to stop him.

"Mr. Chen, let's talk this out. Please don't be so impulsive. Miss needs to rest."

"What do you mean she's resting? How long has she been resting? She's been hiding in her room for months, hasn't she had enough rest? She lied to me! Mu Wanzhi and I don't have a child at all!!! She tricked me into coming back using despicable means!!"

"This... Mr. Chen, please calm down, Miss didn't mean it..."

"Heh, so you knew all along!"

Chen Zhe gave A Bao a hard shove.

“You conspired with her to deceive me, Abao. I have always trusted you, but now you have disappointed me greatly.”

"Mr. Chen, I'm so sorry to have disappointed you. I'm very sorry for that, but Miss really needs to rest right now. Please understand, okay?"

"I understand?? Ha, I understand her, but who can understand me? I've had enough!! I've really had enough!!"

Chen Zhe tugged at his tie and took a deep breath.

He shouted at Hu Ling in the room, "Hu Ling, I'm giving you two choices: either come out now and explain this to me properly, or I'll leave right now. You choose one!"

After Chen Zhe finished speaking, there was still no movement inside.

Chen Zhe stood at the door for two minutes, then snorted coldly and went back to his room without looking back. He quickly packed his things, and as he was leaving, A Bao stepped forward and grabbed him.

"Mr. Chen, you can't leave! The company still needs you. What will happen to the company if you leave?"

Chen Zhe turned around and gave him a cold look. He was still angry that A Bao had lied to him. He had thought that after spending so much time with A Bao, A Bao would be more honest with him. He didn't expect that A Bao would still side with Hu Ling.

He glanced at the second floor and said casually, "With your young lady here, the sky won't fall. She can plan things from afar without leaving the house. With such a powerful boss, hehe, what are you afraid of?"

Ah Bao's face was conflicted; "But...but Miss is now..."

"What's wrong with her? Don't tell me she's sick. You can't fool me. Just now, her voice was very strong. She didn't sound sick at all."

"Sigh... Mr. Chen, I don't know how to tell you this... Please calm down, okay?"

"I am very calm and my mind is very clear. I know what I am doing, so you don't need to persuade me."

Chen Zhe pried A Bao's hands off.

"All the things that need to be done at the company are on my computer. You can just go to my room later and bring the computer to her."

Chen Zhe left decisively, taking his suitcase and the cat Mimi that Chen Si had left behind with him.

...

Abao watched Chen Zhe's departing figure, sighed helplessly, and returned to Hu Ling's door.

"Miss, Mr. Chen has left. He... probably won't be coming back."

Hu Ling seemed to have been standing next to the door the whole time, and she opened the door when A Bao spoke.

She came out with her large pregnant belly.

She looked towards the doorway, a sense of loneliness in her eyes.

Ah Bao couldn't help but say, "Miss, why don't you explain everything to President Chen? Perhaps things will be different if you do..."

Hu Ling shook her head slightly.

"What good would it do to make things clear? If we do, he might just make a bigger fuss. It's better to leave it as it is."

Ah Bao looked at Hu Ling's belly, still somewhat worried; "But Miss, you are now..."

“Abao…”

Hu Ling turned her head and looked at A Bao with displeasure.

"Don't compare me to those women. To me, men are not a support, and I will not rely on anyone. I hope you remember that."

Abao paused for a moment, then nodded.

"I'm sorry, Miss."

"Now that he's left, just call them all back. There's no need for them to hide anymore."

"good!"

Abao nodded and then picked up the phone.

About an hour later.

Several black MPVs arrived at the manor.

The car doors opened one after another, and seven or eight women with pregnant bellies stepped out. They were none other than Mo Xiaohong and her group. They slowly walked into the villa, each accompanied by two or three nannies, carrying some things that pregnant women would need.

They went into the living room.

Hu Ling stood on the second floor, looking down at them.

"I have something to inform you: Chen Zhe has left and will not be returning..."

Upon hearing this news, the women in the audience began to discuss among themselves, their faces showing signs of anxiety.

"Quiet down!"

Hu Ling raised her voice slightly, and the audience immediately fell silent.

"His departure was inevitable. I've already given you a heads-up. You need to be mentally prepared. Remember this: don't cry or threaten suicide, understand?"

After Hu Ling shouted, several women who were about to burst into tears immediately stopped crying.

"Do you know why I sent Sister Lin and Yang Yun away? Let me tell you, it's because one of them is too close to Chen Zhe, and the other is overly obsessed with love. Both of them are dangerous. They might expose everything about us one day. If Chen Zhe finds out what we've done, he definitely won't be able to handle it. So we must keep our secrets well, do you understand?"

The woman in the audience nodded.

"Good that you understand. From today onwards, you will all move back here. You don't need to worry about your family matters. I will take care of all your family's living expenses and send them a fixed amount of money every month. But there is one thing you need to understand: from now on, the child in your belly will have the surname Hu, the Hu family's Hu, understand?"

The women in the audience looked at each other and finally nodded.

...

Hu Ling returned to her room, which contained another small room. She entered that small room and found an altar with a memorial tablet on it.

That memorial tablet belonged to her grandfather, Hu Kui.

Hu Ling casually picked up an incense stick from the side, lit it, and stuck it in the incense burner.

“I’ve kept my promise to you. I’m not only pregnant with one myself, but I’ve also helped you adopt a few more. The Hu family will definitely prosper in the future, so you can rest assured now.”

She closed the door and sat down by the window.

Looking out the window at the lush trees and chirping birds, she recalled the words her grandfather had spoken before he passed away.

"Xiaoling, Grandpa knows I've done many things to wrong you. I've made you suffer so much and brought undeserved disaster to the family. Grandpa was wrong. If only I had listened to Master Chen back then. He once told my fortune and said I would rise to great heights, but he also said our Hu family would be in danger of extinction, with only one girl left. Now I know that Master Chen's words were true. That girl is you. He said you are the only hope for our Hu family. Before he died, he gave me a letter and a birth chart. He said this birth chart was for me, or more accurately, for you. The person with this birth chart is your destined match. If you can have children with him, then our Hu family will definitely be saved. Grandpa regrets that I haven't been able to find the person with this birth chart. I checked Chen Zhe, and he's not the one either. Is Heaven really going to wipe out our Hu family?"

Hu Kui left this world with regret and resentment. The look in his eyes when he died was still chilling to Hu Ling when she thinks about it now.

She opened the drawer and took out the piece of paper her grandfather had given her.

After taking a look, he smiled helplessly.

"Grandpa, you're wrong. The one you found is fake. I checked it again later, and it matches. Ha, it's really laughable. What a perfect match! He's still gone from me now, isn't he?"

Hu Ling gave a self-deprecating laugh, then tore the paper in her hand into pieces and threw it into the trash can.

...