Chapter 2 Marry me and have children
Shen Lai's heart tightened, and he raised his head pretending to be calm, "That's all spread by marketing accounts, I just had an upset stomach."
Pei Jingyan glanced at Chen Lai's hands behind his back, his eyes darkening slightly.
"You are not welcome here, please..."
Just as Shen Lai was about to order her to leave, Pei Jingyan suddenly leaned over and snatched the pregnancy test stick from her hand, saying sarcastically, "Really? Then what are you holding in your hand?"
When Shen Lai wanted to grab it, it was too late. Pei Jingyan raised his hand and dodged her movement.
Pei Jingyan glanced at the pregnancy test stick and saw two clear lines.
Looking at the sarcasm on Pei Jingyan's lips, Shen Lai's heart was pounding.
"Miss Shen, can you explain?"
Shen Lai's throat rolled, and he said boldly: "Yes, I am pregnant, so what?"
Pei Jingyan asked word by word, "Whose child is it?"
Shen Lai clenched his fists, "Does this have anything to do with you?"
Pei Jingyan was not annoyed and said slowly: "I remember we slept together two months ago."
Shen Lai's heart couldn't help but rise, and he heard him say: "What a coincidence, you are pregnant."
Shen Lai's breathing became slightly rapid, and the crazy scenes of that night emerged before his eyes like a tide.
One night two months ago, Shen Lai's former agent asked her to go to dinner with an investor. As a result, the other party secretly put drugs in her wine. By the time she realized it, the drug had already taken effect.
Seeing that her former agent was about to send her to the investor's bed, Shen Lai tried her best to escape.
In the chaos, she bumped into someone and had no choice but to ask the other person to save her. She didn't remember what happened after that.
She only knew that when she woke up the next day, she saw Pei Jingyan lying beside her, their clothes scattered on the ground, and the ambiguous marks on their bodies showed the madness of last night.
She actually had sex with her mortal enemy!
And she even gave her virginity to the other person!
Looking at Shen Lai's gradually pale face, Pei Jingyan curled his lips, "It seems that Miss Shen has remembered."
Shen Lai swallowed hard, "Just because we had sex, does that prove the child is yours? Maybe it's from another man."
A dark undercurrent flashed across Pei Jingyan's eyes, and a vague smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Why, I remember Huo Chilin dumped you when something happened at your house? Did you even sleep with each other afterwards?"
These words were like a sharp needle piercing Shen Lai's chest, and his face suddenly turned pale.
On the day the Shen family went bankrupt, Shen Lai's boyfriend Huo Chilin, the only son of the Huo family, immediately broke up with her.
It was not until Huo Chilin and Bai Hansui's relationship was exposed that Shen Lai realized that the other party had been involved with her so-called "best friend" for a long time.
"How do you know this?" Shen Lai's fingertips sank into his palm. "Did you investigate me?"
Pei Jingyan smiled, "Miss Shen's affairs have already spread throughout the circle. Do you still need to inquire about it?"
Shen Lai was like a balloon that was filled with air and suddenly had a hole in it, and the air suddenly deflated.
She could already imagine how the people in her circle were laughing at her behind her back.
Pei Jingyan changed the subject and said, "Since Miss Shen is unwilling to admit it, let's do an amniocentesis."
"Whether it's my child or not, we'll know when the results come out."
Shen Lai's heart suddenly became nervous.
If she really did amniocentesis, she would no longer be able to hide the fact that the father of the baby in her belly was Pei Jingyan.
Seeing that Pei Jingyan had guessed the truth, Shen Lai simply broke the jar and said, "Okay, I admit that this child is yours."
Pei Jingyan raised his eyebrows.
"You came to my house just for this?" Shen Lai pretended to be indifferent. "Don't worry, I will abort the child."
She didn't want this child in the first place. Even if Pei Jingyan didn't come to her, she was ready to go to the hospital for an induced abortion.
Pei Jingyan narrowed his eyes and said in an ambiguous tone, "You really can't wait."
"Same here." Shen Lai retorted, "You don't want me to give birth to your child, do you?"
And didn’t Pei Jingyan come here today just for this matter?
"Who told you to have an abortion?"
Shen Lai was stunned for a moment.
Pei Jingyan didn't want her to abort the child, so why?
Looking at Shen Lai's confused eyes, Pei Jingyan raised the corners of his lips slightly, "Miss Shen, let's make a deal."
Shen Lai frowned, "Deal?"
Pei Jingyan twirled the pregnancy test stick with her fair fingertips. "Marry me and give birth to the baby in your belly."
There was a "boom" in Shen Lai's head and he thought there was something wrong with his ears.
Pei Jingyan wants to marry her and give birth to the baby in her belly?
What a joke!
The first thought that flashed through Shen Lai's mind was that Pei Jingyan was deliberately playing a trick on her. She clenched her fists and asked, "Did you come here just to play a trick on me?"
Pei Jingyan made no secret of his sarcasm, "Do you think I'm so free that I have time to play games with a broke girl?"
Seeing Shen Lai's half-believing and half-doubting expression, Pei Jingyan said: "In exchange, I will help you solve the problems in front of you, provide you with resources, and cover all your mother's medical expenses."
After Shen Lai's father was imprisoned, her mother was hospitalized due to a cerebral hemorrhage caused by the stimulation, and the monthly medical expenses reached six figures.
Otherwise, Shen Lai would not have entered the entertainment industry.
Hearing this, Shen Lai's heart couldn't help but rise and fall. She frowned, "Why do you want to marry me? Just because I'm pregnant?"
With Pei Jingyan's status, there are many women who will give birth to his children as long as he makes a move.
Why did he have to marry his mortal enemy?
"My grandfather left a will requiring me to marry or have a child before the age of 25 in order to inherit the family business. Otherwise, the inheritance will pass to other family members."
This year Pei Jingyan is exactly twenty-five years old.
After hearing this explanation, Shen Lai finally understood why Pei Jingyan proposed to marry her.
It turned out to be for inheritance rights.
Shen Lai said sarcastically: "Boss Pei is really sacrificial enough. He is even willing to marry his mortal enemy for the sake of inheritance rights."
Pei Jingyan smiled wryly, "What's the big deal about marrying my mortal enemy if I can get the inheritance?"
He looked down at Shen Lai condescendingly and added lightly, "What's more, you are now considered my mortal enemy?"
These words were like a slap in the face to Shen Lai. She was no longer the glorious Miss Shen, and she didn't even have the qualifications to fight against Pei Jingyan.
Shen Lai bit his lower lip, "What if I refuse?"
Pei Jingyan said casually, "You can refuse as long as you want to continue to be an 18th-tier celebrity in the entertainment industry, or borrow money every month to pay for your mother's exorbitant medical expenses."
This sentence accurately hit Shen Lai's heart. What she cared about most was her mother who was receiving treatment in the hospital.
Seeing Shen Lai fall silent, Pei Jingyan stuffed a business card into her hand and said, "You have one day to think about it. When you have thought it through, give me a reply."
He turned and left with his umbrella, and before leaving he took a deep look at Shen Lai's lower abdomen.
Shen Lai didn't know how she got back to the house. She fell on the sofa as if exhausted, still holding the pregnancy test stick in her hand, her head in a mess.
Just then, the cell phone in Shen Lai's pocket rang.
She took it out and saw that it was a payment slip from the hospital.
This month's medical expenses are a full two hundred thousand.
Shen Lai suddenly clenched his phone tightly, and his fingertips turned white from holding it too tightly.
Two hundred thousand?
She can't even come up with 20,000 yuan now, so where can she get the 200,000 yuan?
Perhaps God thought Shen Lai was not miserable enough, and soon debt collection messages came in like a tide. In the past six months, she had been borrowing from one pocket to pay off another, and had already owed nearly one million in debt.
Shen Lai opened the address book and found that there was no one he could borrow money from.
Ever since the Shen family incident, all her good friends have been avoiding her. Only then did she realize that feelings are the cheapest thing.
No matter how nice you say things on a daily basis, when something really happens, everyone will just treat you as a virus and want to stay as far away from you as possible.
Be it a friend or a boyfriend.
Chen Lai laughed at herself. At this moment, what Pei Jingyan had just said emerged in her mind, and her heart began to waver slightly.
Is it true that the only solution now is to marry Pei Jingyan?
Half an hour later, agent Chen Hong arrived.
Chen Hong's face was serious. "Chen Lai, the company asked me to ask you, what happened on the show today? Are you really pregnant?"
Shen Lai nodded reluctantly.
"You!" Chen Hong was furious. "Whose child is it?"
Shen Lai lowered her eyes, her eyelashes casting a shadow under her eyes, "Sister Chen, this is my personal privacy."
Chen Hong frowned, "Could it really be Mr. Huo's child as they always say?"
Shen Lai didn't hesitate at all, "No."
Chen Hong breathed a sigh of relief. At least it wasn't Huo Chilin's child, so it would be easier to deal with.
Huo Chilin is the only son of the Huo family and the boyfriend of the popular young actress Bai Hansui. If Shen Lai offends them, he will never be able to survive in the entertainment industry in the future.
Seeing that Shen Lai refused to reveal who the biological father of the child in her belly was, Chen Hong was silent for a while. "The company means that you should not talk nonsense in front of the paparazzi. You should stay out of the public eye for the time being. After the storm has passed, I will take you to have an abortion. When you have recovered, the company will arrange your schedule."
From what Shen Lai heard, he knew that it would take at least half a year for her to recover.
This means that she has been unemployed for the past six months.
Moreover, when the limelight fades, she might not even get this little bit of attention when she appears in the public eye again.
After Chen Hong left, Shen Lai looked at the various debt collection messages on his mobile phone, and then thought about what Pei Jingyan had just said, and seemed to have made some decision.
If she refused, not only would she not be able to pay her mother's medical expenses, but she would also not be able to continue working in the amusement park.
Although it was a choice, she actually had no choice at all.
From the moment her family went bankrupt and her father went to jail, she no longer had any dignity.
Moreover, having a child can bring her a thriving career and security for her mother's second half of life, so she has made a profit no matter how you look at it.
It’s just marrying Pei Jingyan, no big deal.
Shen Lai finally made up his mind and dialed Pei Jingyan's number according to the number on the business card.
The phone was connected after just two rings, as if the person on the other end had expected her to call.
Pei Jingyan didn't say anything, waiting for Chen Lai to speak.
Shen Lai took a deep breath and said with difficulty: "Pei Jingyan, I promise you."
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