Thinking of Shi Ying, Zhan Hanjue's cold, gleaming eyes were once again filled with longing...
Seventeen years ago, after eight months of intensive family training, Zhan Hanjue returned to his and Shi Ying's love nest in Linjiang with great joy, ready to marry her in a grand and glorious ceremony.
Unexpectedly, their love nest had already been burned to the ground, and the person he longed for had disappeared without a trace.
Later, I heard that less than a month after he left, Shi Ying turned around and married Ling Yunlong.
Zhan Hanjue was puzzled as to why Shi Ying would suddenly marry someone else. He was thinking of going to ask her for an explanation when he was told that Shi Ying had died a week ago.
Enraged, he stormed into the Ling residence and beat Ling Yunlong to the ground.
Ling Yunlong was powerless to resist and pleaded for mercy with a pitiful voice:
"Master Zhan, this really isn't my fault. Ah Ying's death was sudden, and I never expected such an unexpected event as amniotic fluid embolism during pregnancy. If I could, I would gladly die in their place."
"Pregnancy? How many months pregnant is she?"
Zhan Hanjue's nerves tightened instantly, and even his voice began to tremble noticeably.
"Seven months."
"Seven months? That's impossible, how could she..."
Zhan Hanjue couldn't understand why Shi Ying would become pregnant with Ling Yunlong's child only a month after he left.
“Eight months ago, a fire suddenly broke out in the house where Aying lived. I happened to be running errands nearby that day, and when I saw the house on fire, I bravely pulled her out of the flames. She cried and told me that you didn’t want him anymore. I felt sorry for her, so after she calmed down a bit, I proposed to her, and she readily agreed.”
When did I ever say I didn't want her?
Ling Yunlong cautiously observed Zhan Hanjue's expression and muttered to himself:
"How would I know? During the time I was with her, she never mentioned you."
"How was she while I was away?"
Zhan Hanjue was heartbroken beyond measure. He slumped down and knelt beside Ling Yunlong, as if bound by countless dark vines and pulled into an abyss.
Ling Yunlong nodded:
“She was doing well, always cheerful. Once, she suddenly pointed to the red mole on her inner thigh and said that the red mole on her body represented an unfinished love affair from a past life. She also said that she firmly believed that she and I were connected in a past life.”
"..."
Zhan Hanjue had seen the red mole on Shi Ying's body before.
Several months ago, I jokingly talked to her about past lives and present lives.
Unexpectedly, Shi Ying used this same excuse on Ling Yunlong, which caused him immense pain and despair...
Just as he was about to leave the Ling residence in a daze, the sound of a baby crying suddenly came from upstairs.
Zhan Hanjue instantly became alert. Ignoring Ling Yunlong's attempts to stop him, he rushed upstairs and took the still-infant Ling Mo into his arms.
"Baby...you must be my baby, right?"
Zhan Hanjue was overjoyed. He saw that the child in his arms was so healthy and did not look premature at all.
This made him begin to doubt how much of what Ling Yunlong had said was true.
Ling Yunlong just said that Shi Ying died of amniotic fluid embolism, and her seven-month-old baby boy also could not be saved.
If that's the case, why did the Ling family suddenly have an extra baby?
At this moment, Ling Yunlong also looked a little nervous, and his face turned pale with fright when faced with Zhan Hanjue's questioning.
To cover up the lie, he had to feign composure and secretly took out an adoption certificate locked in the cabinet, saying:
“I adopted this child from Renhe Hospital. On the day Shi Ying had her accident, the child’s birth mother abandoned her in the hospital’s trash can after giving birth to her and ran away. At that time, I couldn’t accept the cruel fact that Shi Ying and the child had both died, so I simply adopted this poor baby girl.”
To convince Zhan Hanjue that Ling Mo had absolutely no relation to him, Ling Yunlong even flipped through a newspaper from a few days ago, pointing to a report about abandoned babies at Renhe Hospital, and said with great seriousness:
"The newspaper originally planned to publish the adoptive parents' information, but considering that such information would not benefit the child, they hid my information."
Hearing Ling Yunlong say this, Zhan Hanjue reluctantly handed the baby girl who had been smiling at him back to Ling Yunlong.
However, he did not give up.
After going to the newspaper office on his own and learning more about the abandoned baby incident at Renhe Hospital, he found that what Ling Yunlong had said was true, and only then did he finally give up hope.
What he didn't know was that adopting abandoned babies was just a tactic Ling Yunlong used to cover his tracks.
After adopting the abandoned baby, he threw the baby into an orphanage within two days and never cared about the poor little infant again.
At the end of October of the same year, Zhan Hanjue, who had traveled to M Continent to heal his heartbreak, was so angry upon hearing that Ling Yunlong had another child that he gritted his teeth and wished he could tear that scumbag Ling Yunlong to pieces.
He also called Ling Yunlong to question him about why he had an affair with Shi Ying's best friend, Su Yu, a popular actress in China, during Shi Ying's pregnancy.
Ling Yunlong, however, shifted the blame to his competitors, claiming that they had drugged him and Su Yu, and that the two had sex while unconscious.
He originally intended for Su Yu to abort the child, but Su Yu refused.
After Shi Ying encountered an accident, he saw that Su Yu's belly was getting bigger day by day, and he had no choice but to marry Su Yu.
Zhan Hanjue remained skeptical of Ling Yunlong's claims.
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