Chapter 278: Abort the Child
"Hello, Grandpa Xu." I greeted politely, trying to make my tone sound calmer and less nervous.
Grandpa Xu didn't buy it. He snorted coldly, "I asked you where you are. I have something to discuss with you in person."
I responded, "Okay, please reserve a seat."
Grandpa Xu didn’t ask me to meet him somewhere else, but asked me to meet him directly at the Xu family’s old house.
The Xu family's old house is actually in the same city. After Xu Zhengnan's father left home, he did not choose to go far away, but instead built a career in the place he was most familiar with to show the Xu family.
Later, even though they lived very close to each other, they rarely went back to Xu's house.
Except for Xu Zhengnan being taken over occasionally just for show, the rest of the time everyone was like distant relatives, knowing who the other person was but not interacting with them.
I have never been to the Xu family old house. I was curious about it when I was a child. Xu Zhengnan offered to take me there, but my parents stopped him.
I only know what the Xu family looks like from Xu Zhengnan's description: big, very large, and very luxurious.
I didn't expect that I would need to make a trip now for this reason.
I thought I should talk to Xu Zhengnan about this, so I called him, but he didn't answer. He also didn't reply to my message, maybe he wasn't checking his phone.
The time set by Grandpa Xu is to meet at the Xu family’s old house in an hour.
I took a look at the address and realized that if I drove there now, I would be able to make it.
I didn't have time to wait for Xu Zhengnan's reply, so I drove to the Xu family's old house alone. An hour later, I arrived at the destination and was shocked by the place.
Although the Xu family is very wealthy, they keep a low profile in the media and rarely have any updates, unless it is business news.
I have been with Shen Yixiao, and I have experienced prosperity and wealth, but compared with the Xu family in front of me, it seems a bit insignificant.
This old house has a garden structure, like a building from the Republic of China period. It has landscape gardens, which are beautiful and elegant. It took me forty minutes to walk to the Xu family's Chinese-style villa.
I don’t know how big the Xu family’s old house is, I just felt like I was strolling in a park.
Someone pushed open a door, and a refreshing scent of sandalwood wafted out, which smelled very comfortable.
Grandpa Xu was wearing a Zhongshan suit and sitting on a wooden sofa made of golden nanmu. His gray hair was combed back meticulously, revealing a pair of slightly cloudy but very sharp eyes.
He had an extremely stern aura, and when he saw me, he didn't ask me to sit down, but instead asked a servant to pour me a cup of tea.
The tea overflowed the cup, but the servant was not panicked at all. He said to me calmly, "Please have some tea."
I stood in front of Grandpa Xu, feeling depressed and nervous.
"Grandpa Xu." I called out.
"Too thin." Grandpa Xu glanced at me and frowned, "Too thin brings bad luck. I heard that you ran away with someone when you were seventeen and didn't even graduate from high school. Now you're divorced and you're back to find my Zhengnan. Do you think this is okay?"
His words showed his dislike for me, and he was not polite at all. It was obvious that he didn't care whether I would be embarrassed or not.
I forced a smile. "I did make a fool of myself once when I was young, but I wasn't completely foolish. Knowing one's mistakes can help one improve. Grandpa Xu, I am sincerely with Xu Zhengnan. I am not treating him as a backup or a fallback."
"Hmph, spare tire?" Grandpa Xu took a sip of tea and said with disdain, "You are not qualified to be Zhengnan's spare tire, how can he be your spare tire? I am not senile yet, so I don't need you to explain it like that."
Grandpa Xu’s words were very unpleasant and I didn’t know how to respond for a moment.
I comforted myself not to panic, because the more panicked I was, the more I seemed unworthy of Xu Zhengnan.
At this time, he took out a check and put it in front of me. "I heard that you are pregnant. I don't know how this happened. As far as I know, you and your ex-husband never got pregnant before, but you got pregnant after being with my son Zhengnan. In this case, you have two choices."
"First, give birth to the child and let our Xu family raise him."
"Second, go get the baby aborted and you pay the compensation."
I looked at the check and felt sad. I thought Grandpa Xu would ask me to leave Xu Zhengnan, but I didn't expect him to be so direct that he would even give up the child without hesitation.
The Xu family is certainly not short of money, so it doesn’t matter if they have one more child or one less child.
Or give me some compensation so that I can abort the child and completely cut off contact.
This is why he asked me to meet him today.
Of course I would not accept it. Not only did he humiliate me by saying that I was not worthy of Xu Zhengnan, but he also looked down on my child and thought that money could buy my child's life. This is not what an elder should do.
At first I was nervous and uneasy, but after getting angry, I became braver.
I picked up the check and looked at it, then tore it up and threw it on the ground. "Grandpa Xu, I'm not with Xu Zhengnan just to marry him, and you can't just do whatever you want with my child. I may not be good enough for Xu Zhengnan, but I am emotionally worthy of him. I haven't lied to him or let him down. We will raise the child together, don't worry."
"If you're alright, I'll leave first."
After saying that, I turned around and wanted to leave.
Grandpa Xu called me sternly, "Stop! Who allowed you to leave?"
I stopped and looked back, "Anything else?"
"If you really love Zhengnan, how could you not consider him? In the future, the Xu family's business will be handed over to him. He is the future helmsman of Xu's. Do you think it is easy to get this position? He is an excellent child and his abilities are definitely not a problem, but your existence will become a stain on him, and he will be ridiculed and talked about behind his back!" Grandpa Xu became more and more angry as he spoke, as if he had already seen the scene of Xu Zhengnan being dragged down by me.
These words sound familiar. I have also heard them from Jiang Xinyu.
They all thought that I would make Xu Zhengnan a laughing stock because I was divorced and everyone knew about my past relationship with Shen Yixiao.
I knew all this in my heart without them telling me. I had thought of backing out, but Xu Zhengnan asked me to be brave and give it a try. He didn't care, so why should I care?
PUA is useless to me. Now I won’t be shaken by a few words from others.
I told Grandpa Xu in return, "Grandpa Xu, in fact, Xu Zhengnan may not necessarily want to return to the Xu family, but he definitely wants to be with me and definitely wants the child in my belly. If you don't know how to respect his feelings and just treat him as a tool to inherit the family business, then you will only get further and further away from him."
Grandpa Xu was stunned, and then he flew into a rage, "What nonsense are you talking about?!"
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