Du Wan begged the midwife and was finally able to keep the child with her.
She held the child who was no longer alive and murmured to herself, "Baby, don't worry, mom will definitely let you live happily in this world."
For several days in a row.
Fu Hengyu never showed up.
She naturally knew that it was the old lady's intention, but she still had someone invite him over by force.
He looked at the child held in the woman's arms, his expression full of annoyance.
"Didn't I tell you that this child...has already passed away? Don't hold him in your arms anymore, or you'll cause unrest among the people in the mansion."
"My child is not dead! If you don't believe me, reach out and touch it. It's still warm."
As she spoke, she wanted to reach out and pull Fu Hengyu's hand to put it on her son, but he shook it off.
"That's enough!"
He couldn't suppress his temper. "If Ruo Fei knew you were pregnant with a boy, how could I have brought you back from that remote place!"
"In your eyes, am I entitled to your preferential treatment simply because I am pregnant with your child?"
He nodded, "What else?"
No matter whether it was the mutual support they once had on the frontier, or the love they have maintained as husband and wife over the years.
It's of no importance to him.
If Du Wan wasn't pregnant with the general's boy, he might not have thought of bringing him back to the mansion so early.
"We have a son and a daughter, but now I don't deserve any preferential treatment from you?"
Although she already had a result in mind, she was still a little disappointed.
No matter how affectionate he had pretended to be, all his decisions at this moment directly told the person in front of him that he had never truly regarded her as his wife.
Fu Hengyu sighed.
"Give this child to me. I will have someone deal with him secretly and also have someone bring back a boy of similar age from outside. From now on, he will be your son, the eldest son of my general's mansion!"
"No!"
The reason why Du Wan was willing to help Fu Hengyu and make her child the legitimate son of the general's mansion was naturally for the sake of the child.
It is simply a pipe dream to ask her to raise someone else's child now.
"I won't raise someone else's child for you! Do you think I'm that useless Shen Yuerong? If you dare to throw my child out, believe it or not... I will expose all the things you did, such as abandoning your wife on your wedding night, running away from home, colluding with other women, giving birth to a son and a daughter, and even trying to murder your wife's life! I want to see who will survive the other one between us!"
The only thing Du Wan wants to protect now is her son.
As long as it benefits him, everything can be done.
"Are you crazy?"
If these things were to get out, Fu Hengyu's reputation would be ruined.
A few days ago, I saw that the emperor and Chi Mu both valued Shen Yuerong so much. If it were to be spread now that he had an affair with someone else and had deliberately abandoned Shen Yuerong for many years, this would be the crime of deceiving the emperor.
"If this matter gets out, I won't be the only one who will be hurt. You won't survive either!"
Du Wan put her child on the bed beside her with a sarcastic smile on her face.
"Do you think I am still afraid of death now that things have come to this?"
What happened to her two children now?
"Do you still remember what you promised me? You said that as long as I was willing to go to the capital with you, my two children would be the children of the general's mansion. But now... our five-year-old daughter is doing hard labor in the yard, and the son I finally risked my life for has been doomed to die by his own father the moment he was born!"
"Do you think I want to? Wan'er, I have the situation under control now. I just need to wait patiently for a while. When I have finished all my work, everything in the General's Mansion will be in our hands. Then we can have another son, two, three, whatever you wish!"
He tried his best to comfort the person in front of him, but if she could have done it with just a few words, she would naturally not have resorted to such means today.
"Fu Hengyu, are you treating me like a child? I used to love you and admire you, so I wouldn't argue with you about many things. But now I ask you, if I insist on keeping our child, will you agree or not?"
The man frowned.
The general's mansion already has a mistress who is not good at doing things, so naturally it cannot have another legitimate son who is weak and sickly since childhood.
"If you want to keep him, I won't stop you, but he is so weak and sickly, and I don't know when he will die. No matter what, he will not be able to take the position of the eldest son as I promised you before."
As long as she can protect her son, all the material things seem unimportant at this moment.
"I promise you! As long as you keep him, I won't ask for the status of heir."
In the end, Fu Hengyu felt a little biased and kept the child in his house.
When the old lady asked him about it, he pretended to blame himself.
"Mother, this child is not just Du Wan's, he is also my son's. I have been looking forward to it for so long, you can't really kill him just because he is weak!"
She looked at him and felt that the man in front of her was too cowardly.
"Forget it, it's just a child. If you like to keep him, then keep him. But... without the status of a legitimate son, how can you take back everything that belongs to the General's Mansion from Shen Yuerong?"
Their original plan was to take advantage of the status of the child in Du Wan's belly as the legitimate son and want Shen Yuerong to transfer all the shares and money in her hands to the youngest son as the heir.
But at this moment, it seems that the plan has come to a standstill.
"I actually had other plans!"
Ever since he returned to the capital, the first time he felt that something was wrong with Shen Yuerong, he had already laid a tight net.
Shen Yuerong couldn't fly away even if she had wings.
"Mother, it seems like it's time to close the net!"
The general's wife has been ill for half a month now, and there is no sign of improvement.
The general's old lady's birthday is in the middle of next month.
"It's only half a month until my mother's birthday. As a daughter-in-law, it's time for her to get well and take care of things for her mother."
"Now that your relationship has deteriorated to this point, how could she easily agree to..."
"Mother, just believe me!"
He patted his chest and assured the old lady.
The old lady naturally believed in her son, so she didn't interfere in the matter too much.
When he was returning to his own courtyard from the old lady's place, he happened to pass by Shen Yuerong's courtyard, so he walked in and told Shen Yuerong about this matter.
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