Chapter 202 The Child
Behind the artificial rockery, as she listened to the last words coming through her earphones, Fu Yuhua, who had just let go, instinctively gripped the rockery tightly again.
What did Fu Yushu mean by those words?
What does "What happened to Yuan Jing?" mean?
She had clearly witnessed Fu Yushu push someone off the building... Recalling that scene that was already imprinted in her mind, a guess she had once had but had never been able to verify resurfaced in her heart.
High school is demanding and stressful, so Fu Yuhua doesn't usually live on campus. Her dorm room is always empty except during final week when she stays at school for a week to save time for studying.
That day, Fu Yuhua had just finished her last exam and returned home, finally welcoming the long-awaited summer vacation. Despite the sweltering heat outside, her heart was still filled with joy. After handing in her exam early, wanting to surprise her family whom she hadn't seen in a long time, she didn't wait for the driver to pick her up, but instead took a taxi home herself.
She thought she would be greeted by her mother's smile and her brother's doting affection, but who could have imagined that after the door of fate was opened, what she would see was such a scene.
The mother, seven months pregnant, tumbled down the stairs, and at the top of the stairs was her brother's outstretched hand, crimson blood spreading like a mist, endlessly spreading as far as the eye could see, like a suffocating blood-red cage, trapping her and making it hard for her to breathe.
In a daze, she seemed to hear someone calling her name. Then, she felt dizzy and heard the sounds of an ambulance, doctors calling out, and noisy footsteps. But she couldn't do anything. She was as if she were bound to a corner and had completely lost the ability to move.
It all seemed like a dream. When she woke up, she was a child without a mother.
Fu Yushu stood guard by her bedside. She hit him with a pillow, grabbed his collar and questioned him, even threatening him with a knife. She just wanted to know why, she just wanted to know what had happened to make him do such a thing—perhaps it was just that his mother was about to fall from the building and he wanted to save her but failed.
As long as Fu Yushu is willing to speak and explain, the girl on the verge of collapse is willing to seize this last chance to breathe and believe in his innocence.
But how did Fu Yushu do it?
He would rather let her plunge the sharp blade into her palm than offer a word of explanation, letting the hope and longing in her eyes dissipate, turning into unbelievable grief and disappointment, until even the last trace of tenderness vanished completely.
During her years living alone abroad, Fu Yuhua wondered why more than once. She wanted an answer, but not everything in this world has an answer.
Time has a magical power: it can erode people's desire to explore as the years pass, yet it can also fuel their hatred and transform it into a desire for revenge as they experience disappointment.
But what did she hear now?
“Fu Hongyuan has always felt that the child in Yuan Jing’s belly is not his.” Cheng Lusheng’s voice came through the earpiece. Perhaps feeling that Yuan Jing was an outsider, his tone was no longer as cautious as before.
"Do you remember that year? Fu Hongyuan and Yuan Jing went abroad for two months. Actually, they did go out to have fun at first, but the Fu family's expansion threatened the interests of many people. Someone took advantage of the fact that they were abroad and the Fu family's influence in Nancheng was not far away, and kidnapped Yuan Jing abroad to blackmail Fu Hongyuan."
"But who is Fu Hongyuan? Even if he treats Yuan Jing differently than he treats Alin, for someone like him, women are just external things, never as important as himself. So Fu Hongyuan completely ignored the other party's threats, and not only that, he simply called the police."
"How could the other party have imagined that Fu Hongyuan would do this? In the end, regarding Yuan Jing... Anyway, when Yuan Jing was found later, she was barely clothed and mentally disoriented. What happened is obvious. Yuan Jing once wanted to commit suicide. For the next two months, Fu Hongyuan accompanied Yuan Jing abroad to see a psychologist. It wasn't until later, because of Fu Yuhua, that Yuan Jing managed to pull through."
Seeing that Yuan Jing's condition had stabilized, Fu Hongyuan took her back to China.
However, this was a scandal for the Fu family, so Fu Hongyuan kept the news under wraps, and apart from those who had traveled with them, no one else knew about it.
Cheng Lusheng learned about this after Yuan Jing's death. He was smoking in the emergency exit when he overheard two bodyguards talking about it from across the door.
Although it was a scandal, compared to the divorce from Yuan Jing, the impact of the Fu family head's marital breakdown on the Fu family's stock price was far greater than maintaining the relationship. Therefore, Fu Hongyuan was still willing to give Yuan Jing the position of Mrs. Fu.
No one expected that Yuan Jing was pregnant.
Back when Yuan Jing was found, Fu Hongyuan had someone give her birth control pills.
Even when she was abroad for the first two months, Yuan Jing didn't show any signs of pregnancy.
However, at a dinner party after returning to China, Yuan Jing publicly experienced pregnancy symptoms. Upon further examination, it was discovered that the baby in her womb was already more than two months along.
After that incident, Fu Hongyuan never touched Yuan Jing again.
Fu Hongyuan was so angry that he smashed several ornaments in the VIP room next to the venue. In the end, he asked Yuan Jing to abort the child, but Yuan Jing refused.
"The fault is not mine, nor is it my child's. I cannot deprive him of his right to live."
Yuan Jing has little material desire, but once she sets her mind on something, she becomes exceptionally persistent.
Just like when she and Fu Hongyuan were forced to separate, she preferred to remain single rather than marry someone she didn't like. Who would have thought that years later, after Cheng Lin's death, she and Fu Hongyuan could reunite?
After undergoing psychotherapy and rebuilding her self-confidence from her original self-loathing, when that incident no longer made her feel ashamed, the child in her arms was no longer an unspeakable shame for her.
But for Fu Hongyuan, yes.
Especially when Yuan Jing was seven months pregnant, there were rumors that the baby in her womb was a boy, and some people heard gossip from who-knows-where that Fu Hongyuan intended for Yuan Jing's son to be the future heir of the Fu family.
"At the time, the Cheng family was very dissatisfied. After your mother died, Fu Hongyuan wanted to marry Yuan Jing and clearly promised that the marriage relationship between the Fu and Cheng families would remain unchanged. No matter how many children Yuan Jing had in the future, the Fu family's property could only be inherited by you and your brother Yuqi. In order to prove his innocence, Fu Hongyuan said that the Cheng family could do whatever they wanted with the child in Yuan Jing's belly, and whether the child could be aborted depended on the Cheng family's ability."
"At the time, the entire Cheng family thought this was a sign of Fu Hongyuan's sincerity, but now that they think about it, sincerity my foot! Fu Hongyuan just didn't want to take the blame, so he deliberately set a trap for the Cheng family. It's perfectly reasonable for the Cheng family to kill Yuan Jing's unborn child. Even if they slip up, it's the Cheng family's doing, not the Fu family's."
Cheng Lusheng may seem a bit slow-witted, but once he calms down, he's not stupid at all.
Unfortunately, I realized it too late.
By the time the mistake was discovered, it was already too late.
"So, my mother's death was Fu Hongyuan's doing, and the Cheng family knew about it and gladly accepted it; while Yuan Jing's death was the Cheng family's doing, and even Fu Hongyuan knew about it, but he let the Cheng family have their way?"
Fu Yushu touched the cold jade thumb ring on his thumb and gave his summary.
Cheng Lusheng quickly glanced at Fu Yushu, a bad feeling rising in his heart, so he added another sentence.
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