What does he have now because of those two senile old men?

Huge foreign debt, a terrible reputation, and possibly a mistress, plus the choice of marrying a woman from a treasury shop who is unwilling to marry even someone with a little official rank.

He had already resigned himself to his fate, but now his mother is telling him that Zhuang Zilan is not dead yet.

He even threatened his own son for that person's sake.

Is this something parents can do?

Is he their biological son, or is Zhuang Zilan their biological daughter?

I've never seen an elbow bend like that before!

Qi Mingyu was very angry, so he stood still and didn't leave.

As darkness fell, perhaps it was Qi Mingyu's silence that made the previously self-righteous Shen family panic.

She feared that her son would rather wait three more years to take the provincial examination than save them again.

So she spoke again, "Second brother, are you still there?"

It's about to rain, so hurry and find someone to rescue me and your father.

Otherwise, we really will just have to wait to die.

As for Zilan, you don't need to take it to heart.

I only said these things because I don't want you to marry that Xue family girl.

Your parents know how important your reputation is, so how could they possibly ruin it on purpose?

Your father and I have already made plans. By the time you pass the imperial examination, she will have given birth and finished her postpartum confinement.

We'll find her a decent family to marry into then.

As for the child, he can marry her and move in with her; that way, it won't affect you much.

If you want to acknowledge that child later, that's fine; if not, that's okay too.

However, you absolutely must not marry that Xue family girl!

This is not the result Qi Mingyu wanted. Whether for his reputation or for the imperial examination, he cannot abandon his parents now.

So, after Shen finished speaking, he asked, "Where is Zhuang Zilan?"

Ms. Shen had a bad feeling, so she braced herself and asked, "Why are you asking this?"

Qi Mingyu was very decisive: "No matter whose child it is, it cannot be kept."

Since she is neither dead nor remarried, and is still considered a member of the Qi family, this bastard child must be eliminated.

Whether she chooses to remain a Buddhist monk or remarry is entirely up to her!

Anyway, the bastard child will never be kept.

If Mrs. Chi hadn't filed for divorce back then, she would have gotten pregnant anyway. At most, she would have been sent away while she was pregnant and brought back after giving birth.

The child will be raised outside for one or two years, then taken away again and brought back, with the explanation that the child was adopted from elsewhere.

But now that their affair has been exposed, what does it mean that she is pregnant?

Is it because they're afraid that if he becomes an official in the future, his political enemies won't have any leverage against him?

Qi Mingyu always knew what he wanted and always worked towards that goal.

As long as it doesn't affect him, whether it's Chi Yu, Zhuang Zilan, or his parents, they can do whatever they want.

But if it affects him, he will be decisive and ruthless and abandon it.

It can be said that Chi Yu's proposal for divorce was completely unexpected.

Furthermore, if the Chi family hadn't come to cause trouble, even if he had worn them down and drained them dry, he wouldn't have let her escape unscathed with her child.

Therefore, one accident was enough for him; he absolutely could not allow a second one to happen.

He originally thought Zhuang Zilan was dead, so he didn't think much of it.

But who would have thought that it has now been revealed that the other party is not dead, and is even pregnant.

So regardless of whose child it is, he has to abort it.

He has no shortage of children, nor does he lack women.