Chapter 373 I'm Pregnant
Her fingertips trembled uncontrollably, her throat tightened, and even her voice became unfamiliar:
"How... do you know this name?"
Cui Hao's eyes were as cold as ice, and a sarcastic arc appeared at the corner of his mouth:
"What? Can't pretend anymore?"
Su Yun—no, her name should be Mu Yunshu at this moment—stood in place, her chest heaving violently.
Her mind was in a mess, with countless questions swirling around in her head:
How would he know?
What did he find out?
Did he already know everything?
But she didn't even know what "everything" was.
Half a year ago, she fled the Mu family in a hurry, like a stray dog.
At that time, she only knew that Mu Feng was not her biological father, that she could no longer be the eldest daughter of the Mu family, and that her beloved mother had been a hostess. She couldn't accept the life she would lead in the future, so that night she took all the valuables in the house and ran away...
She was afraid that her former friends would laugh at her after knowing her miserable life experience, so she left the capital overnight.
Later, she traveled to Country H and used her last savings to undergo plastic surgery and change her name, completely erasing all traces of "Mu Yunshu".
She just wanted to start over, that's all.
But now, Cui Hao's eyes told her that things were far from as simple as she thought.
"What do you want to do?"
Cui Hao took a step closer, his voice extremely low, yet with a suffocating sense of oppression.
You disguised yourself as Nan Yan and approached me, is it for revenge?"
She was stunned, her pupils slightly dilated.
"Revenge? What revenge?"
Cui Hao sneered: "You're really pretending."
"I don't understand what you're talking about!"
Her voice finally took on a hint of panic.
"I only had plastic surgery because... because I wanted to completely get rid of my past! I have no idea what you're suspecting!"
"Then why did you choose to look like her?"
Cui Hao suddenly clamped her wrist with such force that it almost crushed her bones.
Mu Yunshu gasped in pain, but the moment she met his disgusted gaze, all the pain turned into a sharper sting.
"Mu Yunshu, don't tell me this is a coincidence!"
This sentence was like a fuse, instantly igniting the powder keg that had been buried for many years.
"Yes, I did it just like her, what's wrong with that?"
Mu Yunshu suddenly shook off his hand hysterically, and her carefully manicured nails scratched several bloody marks on the back of Cui Hao's hand.
Her chest heaved violently, and the jealousy that had accumulated in her eyes for years finally burst out.
"Do you know what it was like for me to look at that face since I was a kid?"
She laughed nervously, and pointed with trembling fingers at her face, which now looked exactly like Mu Nanyan's:
"We are both daughters of the Mu family, so why is she born to be the little princess adored by everyone? And I can only return to the Mu family as a stepdaughter?"
She suddenly stretched out her hand in front of Cui Hao, revealing an old scar on her wrist:
"Just because I accidentally soiled her skirt when I was six years old, the beast she raised caught me like this!"
Cui Hao looked at the hideous scar in shock. He had never noticed that she had such a scar on her hand before.
Mu Yunshu had already fallen into crazy memories:
"But what about father? He only cares about whether Mu Nanyan is frightened!"
"I worked so hard to get the top score in the exam, and studied piano until my fingers bled, but everyone only had eyes for her! Just because she had a pretty face and even breathed right!"
She suddenly rushed to the dressing table, took out her cell phone from her bag, frantically searched for a photo and pointed it at Cui Hao.
In the photo, seven-year-old Mu Nanyan is standing in front of a birthday cake in a pure white dress, while Mu Yunshu in the corner is wearing an outdated old dress. Her face is very blurry and you can't recognize her if you don't look carefully.
She suddenly burst into hysterical laughter:
"Look! This face is mine now! Her most prized weapon is now on me!"
The laughter stopped abruptly, and she leaned closer to Cui Hao, her breath filled with sickly sweetness:
"Do you know what's the most ironic thing? Even with this face, I can only be her substitute and still have to live in her shadow..."
Cui Hao stared at the hysterical Mu Yunshu in front of him, feeling a sense of absurd irony surging in his chest.
He sneered, the sound coming out from between his teeth.
"You must know better than me what Nan Yan's life was like in the Mu family. Why are you playing the victim here now?"
Mu Yunshu's laughter came to an abrupt halt, with unfallen tears still hanging on her eyelashes.
"She has lived in the Mu family since she was a child. Just like you said, she was once the adored little princess. But ever since you and your mother moved in, how have you treated her? Your mother would beat her when she was upset, starve her when she was in a bad mood, and even order her to work. Have you forgotten all this?"
Mu Yunshu's face turned visibly pale, and his lips trembled: "No... Impossible..."
"Of course you don't."
Cui Hao took a step closer, and the shadow completely enveloped her.
"Because the perpetrator is your gentle and virtuous mother, and the one who covered up all this——"
He raised the corner of his mouth sarcastically, "He's the biased father you mentioned."
She suddenly remembered many overlooked details: Mu Nanyan always wore a long-sleeved school uniform, even in the summer, and she was always the last one to sit down at the table at every family dinner, eating only leftovers...
Cui Hao looked at her reaction, his eyes gradually becoming complicated.
The shock and confusion in her eyes didn't seem fake. Could it be that this spoiled young lady was really unaware of the dirty deeds going on at home?
At this time, Cui Hao no longer wanted to dwell on the past with Mu Yunshu. He recalled what Mu Yunshu had just said.
Could it be... that she really knows nothing?
But the next second, he ruthlessly suppressed this thought.
"You really don't know how your father died or why your mother was imprisoned?"
Mu Yunshu was still immersed in what Cui Hao said. She was completely confused. Her face was pale as she looked at Cui Hao:
"……What?"
He let her go, his voice cold:
"It seems that Mu Nanyan is still too kind. She gave you a way out, but you delivered it to her yourself."
Mu Yunshu's legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground.
Father’s death?
Mother... is in jail?
Is it related to Mu Nanyan?
Her world was spinning at this moment.
Cui Hao's breathing gradually calmed down. He stared at Mu Yunshu's pale face. The shock and confusion in those eyes were too real, so real that the anger in his chest suddenly lost its fuel.
She really doesn't know.
This realization made his temples throb.
He took a half step back, raised his hand and pinched his brow, his voice filled with tiredness and coldness:
"Listen, whether you are truly ignorant or just pretending to be ignorant, from today on—"
“We draw the line.”
He raised his eyes, his gaze like a knife,
"Don't tell Nan Yan a word about what's going on between us, otherwise..."
His thumb slowly stroked across his neck, leaving a silent threat.
Mu Yunshu stood there in a daze.
The night wind came in through the gaps in the French window that was never closed tightly, causing her bare arms to tremble slightly.
How ridiculous, she once really thought that this person was a ray of light that accidentally shone into her dark life.
Her nails dug deep into her palms, and the pain made her laugh out loud.
"Want to run after sleeping?"
She looked up, her lips curled up sweetly, but her eyes were frozen:
"Are you too naive?"
Cui Hao frowned and looked at her: "What do you mean?"
"I am pregnant."
Those four words exploded in the room like a bomb.
Cui Hao's expression froze instantly, and his pupils shrank to the size of a needle tip.
After three seconds of dead silence, he suddenly pinched her chin with such force that she groaned in pain.
"Do you think I'm a fool?"
His voice was hoarse, and his hot breath blew on her face.
"You take precautions every time, how could you possibly get pregnant?"
"Are you sure?"
Mu Yunshu was forced to look up, but her smile became more and more gorgeous.
"The first night...you were so drunk you couldn't even recognize me, right?"
She glanced meaningfully at the messy bed.
"Right there, you held me tightly and wouldn't let go..."
Cui Hao was struck by lightning, and fragments of memory suddenly flashed back.
Broken wine bottles, burning skin, and the woman in my arms when I woke up in the morning...
That day, they really didn't do anything...
He let go of his hand and stumbled back, his Adam's apple rolling:
"Impossible... How could it be possible to get it right in one try..."
Cui Hao's breathing suddenly became heavy, and his temples were throbbing.
He stared at Mu Yunshu's face, which was very similar to Mu Nanyan's, and felt like he had been punched in the stomach.
Mu Yunshu's slender fingers gently stroked her flat belly, and her skirt rippled with her movements.
A faint smile appeared at the corner of her lips:
"Why, are you so unconfident in your abilities?"
She pulled out a neatly folded test report from her bag, flicked her wrist, and the paper drew an arc in the air, finally landing lightly next to Cui Hao's shiny leather shoes.
"Four weeks pregnant, the timing is just right."
The paper fell lightly at his feet like a death warrant.
Cui Hao's eyes were fixed on her face, as if he wanted to see through her true face beneath this delicate appearance.
He never bent down to pick up the paper, but the bulging veins on his forehead revealed his emotions.
A chill crept up my spine:
"What do you want?"
Mu Yunshu opened her red lips slightly and said, "Fifty million to buy out this accident."
Cui Hao's Adam's apple rolled:
"What if I don't agree?"
Cui Hao's voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.
"Then I can only talk to Mu Nanyan..."
Cui Hao took a step forward: "Are you threatening me?"
Mu Yunshu suddenly put away his smile, his eyes sharp as a knife:
"You owe me this. If you didn't like me, why did you bother me in the first place? You want to pretend nothing happened after sleeping with me? Cui Hao, there's no such thing as a free lunch in this world."
She turned and walked towards the floor-to-ceiling window, and the lights of thousands of homes in the capital shattered into fleeting shadows in her eyes.
Living as Su Yun for the past few months finally made her see the truth clearly: instead of being trapped in Mu Nanyan's shadow and going crazy, it would be better to cut off all of this completely.
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in being a single mother. I'll have the surgery the same day the money arrives and disappear from your world forever."
Her voice was soft, but filled with unquestionable determination.
Cui Hao frowned slightly: "Are you willing to leave?"
Cui Hao was a little surprised. He didn't expect Mu Yunshu to choose to leave.
"Because I've figured it out. Compared to hating Mu Nanyan, I hate myself more for being blinded by jealousy all these years."
"I don't want to stay anywhere that has anything to do with the Mu family and Mu Nanyan. You remind me all the time how ridiculous I am."
She suddenly turned around and looked at Cui Hao:
"Fifty million to buy my disappearance, that's a good deal, isn't it?"
Cui Hao was silent for a moment, and his eyes gradually became deep.
Fifty million is nothing to him. If he can completely solve this problem...
"I hope you'll keep your promise."
"Of course, as soon as the money arrives, I'll leave immediately."
"I will deposit the money into your account at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Don't let me see you again."
After Cui Hao finished speaking, he left without any further delay.
The moment the door was slammed shut, the fragility that Mu Yunshu had pretended to have disappeared from his face.
She bent down to pick up the unattended pregnancy test form and slowly tore it into pieces.
"idiot."
She chuckled at the confetti scattered all over the floor.
The so-called pregnancy test report was just a fake certificate that she bought from a private hospital for two thousand yuan today.
How could someone in their line of work actually get themselves pregnant? Cui Hao didn't even dare to confirm it. He was so cowardly that it was laughable.
She walked barefoot over the scraps of paper on the floor and took out her passport and plane ticket that had been prepared long ago from the secret compartment in the closet.
At this time tomorrow, she will be on a flight to Switzerland and begin her own life.
That night, Lu Yiran took Chenchen back to Haicheng on a private plane.
On the plane, he sent a text message to his assistant:
[Keep a close eye on Cui Hao and Mu Yunshu’s every move].
The next morning, Chenchen went to school with his schoolbag as usual, while Lu Yiran went directly to Dingyao Group.
But for the whole morning, his eyes kept unconsciously glancing at his phone.
"Mr. Lu, this is a document that requires your signature."
It was only when the secretary reminded him for the third time that he realized he had been stuck on the same page for fifteen minutes.
It wasn't until lunch break that the assistant finally sent a message:
[Mu Yunshu's personal account suddenly received 50 million this morning. She left Beijing at noon. We found out she bought a plane ticket to Switzerland.]
Lu Yiran stared at the screen of his mobile phone, his knuckles tapping out a dull rhythm on the solid wood desk.
The source of this money is self-evident. Apart from Cui Hao, no one would transfer money to Mu Yunshu at this critical juncture.
"interesting......"
He narrowed his eyes and recalled the bodyguard's report last night.
Cui Hao stormed into Mu Yunshu's hotel suite angrily, and the two seemed to have a fierce argument.
But now, he actually chose to spend money to send her away?
The sunlight outside the glass curtain wall suddenly became dazzling. Lu Yiran stood up and loosened his tie.
There are two possibilities: either Cui Hao didn't check Mu Yunshu's identity at all and protected her out of old friendship; or... he knew the truth but chose to stand on Mu Yunshu's side.
This thought made Lu Yiran's eyes suddenly cold, but in the next moment, he suddenly chuckled.
"Isn't that better?"
He talked to himself facing the floor-to-ceiling window, and the glass reflected the corners of his lips that turned up.
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