Chapter 37: Pregnant
Zhao Shuning took two steps towards Lu Zhiran, his eyes three points colder than the temperature today.
"Your plan succeeded. You should be very proud of it."
Lu Zhiran glanced at her calmly, and smelled a faint familiar scent at the tip of his nose.
"This is a result I expected a long time ago. There's nothing to be proud of."
Chu Yian's face was also covered with frost, "It turned out to be you who did it! I shouldn't have let you out in the first place!"
Lu Zhiran was too lazy to waste any more words with him.
Just as everyone was walking in, Dan Yan exclaimed, "Miss, what's wrong with you?"
Lu Zhiran's body swayed slightly, as if he was unsteady on his feet. Then he leaned over and began to dry heave.
This sudden change surprised everyone.
Chu Yian frowned and looked at her, his eyes filled with coldness, without a trace of warmth.
What tricks is this woman playing?
Lu Zhiran suppressed her nausea and said weakly, "I'm fine, I just feel a little uncomfortable in my stomach."
As soon as she finished speaking, she felt a stronger wave of nausea coming over her. She leaned over and retched again, unable to stand up for a long time.
Everyone looked at her performance and couldn't help but have many associations and speculations in their minds.
Zhao Shuning spoke with concern.
"Sister, what's wrong? Why don't you let me take a look for you?"
Hearing her pretentious name, Lu Zhiran felt even more disgusted.
"No need, I'm fine."
Jiang stared at her closely, looking at her pale face, then slowly moved his eyes down to her flat belly, and a horrified guess arose in his heart.
In an instant, a fire ignited in Jiang's chest. The anger she had just felt at being plotted against by Lu Zhiran completely burned up, making her eyes red.
Why didn't she dare let Zhao Shuning take her pulse? She must be feeling guilty!
"You're vomiting so much, let Shuning take a look at you."
Lu Zhiran's face was full of vigilance and resistance. "No need."
The more she did this, the more Jiang believed that she had something to hide.
Zhao Shuning sighed softly, "It's understandable that my sister has a grudge against me and doesn't want me to treat her. I won't force her."
Chu Yian was furious. "Shuning meant well, but you didn't appreciate it. You really don't know what's good for you!"
At this moment, someone in the crowd said, "Could it be that the young lady is pregnant?"
When Chu Yian heard these words, he was struck by lightning.
First, Lu Zhiran disrupted his wedding ceremony, and then she severely embarrassed the Marquis' Mansion. Chu Yian was already full of anger, and when he heard this, he had long forgotten why he didn't want to divorce Lu Zhiran before, and he just wanted to throw her into a pig cage!
He shouted, "She and I haven't consummated our marriage yet, so how did she get pregnant?"
Zhao Shuning looked at Lu Zhiran in shock.
"You, you actually..."
She stumbled and couldn't continue, but everyone understood what she was trying to say.
Jiang finally managed to win back a game, "What a misfortune for our family, what a misfortune for our family!"
Chu Yian's chest heaved up and down, and his eyes scraped at Lu Zhiran like knives.
"You'd better explain to me clearly, whose bastard is in your belly?"
Lu Zhiran kept retching and couldn't speak at all.
Chu Dingfeng's face was gloomy and a bold idea flashed through his mind.
If his guess was correct, they would have to keep the baby in Lu's belly.
That child is both a disgrace to the Marquis's Mansion and an opportunity for it.
He immediately said, "An'er, today is your and Zhao's wedding day. We can deal with other matters later."
This statement acknowledged that Lu Zhiran was pregnant, but it was just suppressed temporarily.
Chu Yian's eyes were red like an enraged beast. "How can I swallow this anger when she did something so disgraceful to our family? She must give an explanation today!"
Everyone looked at Lu Zhiran, waiting for her answer.
I thought it was just an ordinary banquet, but who could have imagined that the wonderful performances were one after another, so dazzling.
It took a long while for Lu Zhiran to finally recover.
Because of the violent retching, a hint of redness appeared on her face, like a hot flash, making her as beautiful as a peach and plum, and captivating.
In Chu Yian's eyes, all of this became debauchery and a sin.
Is she relying on this face to seduce men?
Has she never been idle in the three years that I've been away?
The more I thought about it, the more angry I became.
Lu Zhiran looked at him coldly, "Just because I vomited a few times, you concluded that I was pregnant? It turns out it's so easy to accuse someone of a crime. All you need to do is talk."
Chu Yian didn't believe her explanation at all. "If you don't feel guilty, why don't you let Shu Ning take your pulse?"
Lu Zhiran looked at him with amusement. "What is my relationship with Zhao Shuning? Why should I let her take my pulse? To be frank, if she deliberately slandered me, I can't clear myself even if I jump into the Yellow River."
Chu Yian was furious. "How could Shu Ning do such a thing? You are such a mean person!"
Lu Zhiran looked at the other person coldly, "That may not be the case."
The attitudes of both sides seem to have completely torn their relations apart.
Originally, when they saw Lu Zhiran attending the wedding banquet as if nothing had happened, they thought she was tolerant and generous enough to accept Zhao Shuning as her sister.
Now it seems that this person is also a person who is unwilling to suffer any loss.
Zhao Shuning looked insulted. "A slippery pulse is the most obvious pulse sign. If you weren't pregnant, how could I have wronged you?"
Lu Zhiran only said one sentence, "I don't believe you."
Zhao Shuning provoked him, "The more you act like this, the more I start to suspect you have something to hide."
Chu Yian said decisively: "You must have your pulse checked today!"
Lu Zhiran was silent for a moment. "You can ask me to take your pulse, but it must be done by the doctor in my pharmacy."
Chu Yian sneered, "He's your own man. Who knows if he'll deliberately lie to help you?"
At this time, Jiang spoke up, "Let Shu Ning take your pulse first, and then go and ask your doctor. If both doctors give the same result, there's nothing to argue about. If they have different conclusions, then ask another doctor to take your pulse. What's true won't be false, and what's false won't be true either."
Jiang finally said something fair, and both sides had nothing more to argue about.
Zhao Shuning looked at Lu Zhiran and said, "Stretch out your hand."
No matter how well she concealed it, Lu Zhiran could still see the hint of excitement in her eyes.
She was waiting for her own downfall.
She drugged herself with a secret medicine that was once circulated in the palace.
Anyone who takes this medicine will show symptoms of pregnancy within two hours, and their pulse will be flawless.
In the previous life, there was a concubine who used this secret medicine to win favor for herself.
Finally, they would find a suitable opportunity to cause the "fetus in the womb" to abort, and at the same time frame the blame on others. It can be said that they were always successful.
In his previous life, Zhao Shuning had used this medicine on her!
Lu Zhiran had no way to defend herself against this inexplicable pregnancy.
She had brought great shame and humiliation to Chu Yian, and had lost her chastity, yet he had been so magnanimous as not to divorce her. Instead, he had only further degraded and exploited her, forcing her to work like a slave for the Marquis's family...
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