"That's all thanks to your help, otherwise how could I have given birth to this bastard!" Zhang Yanhua retorted without hesitation.
"Actually, you should thank me. If it weren't for me, how could you have become a father so easily?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Linran almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
"What do you mean by that? Do you believe I'll tell the old man? You'll be in big trouble!" Xiao Linran was so angry that his nose almost twisted out of shape when he saw that she had clearly done something wrong but still acted so self-righteous.
Zhang Yanhua wasn't afraid of him at all. She had already figured it out: Xiao Linran hated that the child wasn't his biological son, but he also wanted to use the child to gain the old man's favor.
After all, he doesn't have a single child yet, and many people within the Xiao family even suspect that Xiao Linran is infertile.
Therefore, she is not afraid of Xiao Linran at all now.
She used to be a typical wealthy lady living in a secluded mansion, with her husband and family's reputation on her mind every day. But after what happened with Shen Yunmo, her mindset changed.
During this time, she gradually lost her charm for Xiao Linran. She no longer had any feelings for this shameless scoundrel and only wanted to raise her child properly.
"Go ahead and do it if you dare! I bet you don't dare!" Zhang Yanhua slowly tidied her hair and said with a look of disdain.
"You shameless slut, how dare you put on airs in front of me? Believe me or not, I'll strangle him to death!" Xiao Linran made a move to strangle the child lying in the crib.
"How dare you!" Zhang Yanhua, disregarding her own weakness, quickly reached out to stop her.
"Now you know fear! I'm warning you! Don't put on airs in front of me! Otherwise, I'm capable of anything!" Xiao Linran said fiercely.
"I know why you're so confident, but don't forget, newborn babies all look pretty much the same. If you piss me off, believe me, I can just find any baby and replace it!"
Given Xiao Linran's temperament, he is indeed capable of doing such a thing.
Zhang Yanhua's face paled, but she still stubbornly said, "You dare! Do you believe I'll expose everything? You want to fight to the death?"
Looking at Zhang Yanhua's resolute eyes, Xiao Linran began to feel scared. After all, when a woman goes crazy, she is more terrifying than anything else.
"Go ahead and pinch me if you dare! If you dare pinch me, I'll have another one, but it won't be your child either," Zhang Yanhua said venomously.
But the more Zhang Yanhua acted this way, the more timid Xiao Linran became. He let go of her hand and stood up.
"Don't worry, as long as you know what's good for you, I won't do anything to him!" Xiao Linran turned his face away.
"That would be for the best!" Zhang Yanhua looked at Xiao Linran's frustrated face and suddenly felt a sense of vengeful pleasure.
All the neglect and ridicule she had received in the Xiao family before suddenly vanished.
The two reached a temporary agreement, since revealing the matter would not benefit either of them.
Needless to say, Zhang Yanhua would be utterly disgraced if this matter were discovered by others.
As for Xiao Linran, he can use this child to win Xiao Zhengyan's favor. As for whether the child is actually his, it is not important for the time being until he becomes the heir of the Xiao family.
Of course, this is only "temporary".
He must have kicked Zhang Yanhua and her son out last night.
But not now, but after he truly holds real power.
Although a consensus was reached, Xiao Linran became increasingly irritated watching the child whimpering beside him.
After all, although he had no feelings for Zhang Yanhua, he was still a man, and no man could tolerate his wife betraying him, even if it was only in name.
"Alright, you can stay here by yourself! I'm leaving now!" Xiao Linran slammed the door and left.
In fact, Xiao Jingchen had already planned to expose the affair when Zhang Yanhua was newly pregnant, after she gave birth, when Xiao Zhengyan was most looking forward to the child.
This would not only be a way to retaliate against Xiao Zhengyan's past heartlessness towards them, mother and son.
Xiao Linran will also lose face and will never be able to escape the shadow of being cuckolded for the rest of his life.
However, Ye Ning's pregnancy disrupted his plans. Now he just wants to be there for Ye Ning until the baby is born, and he really doesn't want anything else to cause trouble.
So he informed Shen Yunmo that the plan had been cancelled.
However, things didn't go as planned. Although Xiao Jingchen canceled the plan, the others were unwilling to let the opportunity slip by.
Inside the Xiao family mansion, in one of the unassuming villas in a row of villas on the left.
Two men and a woman were sitting on a leather sofa chatting.
"Didn't they say the second young master couldn't have any more children? How come a child suddenly appears?" one of the men in a leather jacket said with displeasure.
"This matter is indeed quite strange, but I have heard some other rumors, but I don't know if they are true or false!" The speaker was a middle-aged woman with waist-length hair and elegant manners.
"Rumors? Rong Xuan, what did you hear? Tell us now! Stop keeping us in suspense!" The man who spoke clearly had a fiery temper.
These three people are all from collateral branches of the Xiao family, and they all have ulterior motives.
"I've heard that this child isn't the second young master's!" the woman named Rong Xuan said mysteriously.
"Ah! It's not the Second Young Master's? How could that be? Never mind! Rong Xuan, who told you this? Could it be a lie?" The hot-tempered man asked impatiently.
“Oh dear, would I lie to you about this? The second young master can’t have children, all three of us know that. Besides, his relationship with the second young mistress has always been bad. They don’t even see each other once every six months. How could he suddenly get pregnant? Have you ever thought about whether there might be other reasons?” Rong Xuan said meaningfully.
"Other reasons? The Xiao family is heavily guarded, could it be that this child is one of the guards?" The hot-tempered man laughed loudly.
Ren Xuan looked at him indifferently and remained silent.
"What? You don't mean I guessed right, do you?" The hot-tempered man's eyes widened.
"You guessed right this time!" Ren Xuan said with a gloating expression.
"I've heard that the second young mistress had a rather unusual relationship with a young guard for a period of time."
"Zhang Yanhua is the second wife of the Xiao family, she shouldn't be that stupid!" The man in the leather jacket was somewhat skeptical.
"Oh dear! Linbo, what do you know? Don't you think about it? The second young master and second young mistress haven't seen each other for half a year. It's normal that someone took advantage of the situation." Ren Xuan said mysteriously. "When women get lonely! Tsk tsk tsk! They're no less lonely than men."
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