Disheartened, I Fled from the CEO with Our Babies
Chapter 147: President Huo Knows the Truth: The Child Is Mine...

Chapter 147: Chapter 147: President Huo Knows the Truth: The Child Is Mine...

An Ge turned her head to look at the resolute curve of his jaw and objectively analyzed, "Isn’t the reason obvious enough? The Huo Family won’t allow the first grandson to be an illegitimate child. Sooner or later, you’ll reconcile with An Baoying. Besides, both your grandmother and your mother disapprove of this absurd relationship we have now."

Huo Shaoyan stared straight ahead as the car swiftly exited the gates of [Red Leaf Mansion].

He rolled down the window, lit a cigarette, and smoked with one hand while his voice sunk lower than before, "And what else?"

An Ge pursed her lips, thought a moment, and said, "Initially, I believed the identity of Mrs. Huo could shield me from storms, but it hasn’t been the case." She was referring to the incident where Fu Rou injured her forehead.

Huo Shaoyan was evidently impatient about this, his tone turning fierce, "I said once this game starts, I decide when it ends."

An Ge’s fingers curled slightly, "I’m just suggesting this to you. The decision is yours."

Huo Shaoyan’s expression darkened, and he remained silent for a while. An Ge didn’t say anything more to him, only suggesting, "If it’s convenient, could you take me back to Yu Garden? If not, you could drop me off, and I’ll catch a taxi."

This statement thoroughly infuriated Huo Shaoyan. He slammed the brakes, and within seconds, the car pulled over to the side.

Startled, An Ge found her chin gripped tightly by his hand, forcing her to look into his exceptionally dark Phoenix Eyes. Her throat tightened as she spoke, "President Huo, did I upset you somehow? Weren’t you the one who said you needed to take responsibility for An Baoying and your child? I merely went along with it and offered my opinion. Are you really going to be mad at me too?"

Huo Shaoyan finished his cigarette, snuffed out the glowing end, and tossed it out the window before speaking coldly, "Are you trying to provoke me?"

An Ge chuckled, "President Huo, if this counts as provoking you, how careful must I be around you to avoid angering you?"

Huo Shaoyan hated her unyielding manner. He couldn’t understand where she got the nerve to act so stubbornly against him.

Huo Shaoyan remained silent for quite a while. An Ge tried to break the stalemate, saying, "President Huo, your reaction could make me misinterpret that you’re really bothered by my suggestion to divorce. It seems you do care about me. But if you genuinely cared, you wouldn’t have made that kind of promise to An Baoying in front of me..."

"You have quite the imagination, don’t you?" he interrupted her with a cold laugh.

An Ge’s remaining words got stuck in her throat, unable to come out. Huo Shaoyan continued, "This marriage will end, but not at this time."

An Ge asked, "Then when approximately?"

"How many weeks pregnant are you now?"

An Ge hesitated for a moment, then honestly replied, "Under eleven weeks." After pausing, she added, "Why ask about this now?"

Huo Shaoyan felt suffocated by the lack of air and rolled down both windows. However, it was cold outside, and a chill gust came in.

An Ge gathered her long coat tighter, her gaze gentle and cool as she looked at him, "President Huo, I’m a bit cold."

Her obedient and delicate demeanor made it difficult for anyone to treat her harshly.

Huo Shaoyan rolled up the window slightly and restarted the car’s engine. Once they were back on the road, he finally answered her, "I suspect the child you’re carrying might be mine. Once you’ve reached sixteen weeks, do an amniocentesis for a DNA paternity test. After the results are out, we can discuss divorce."

Now An Ge thought it was better to lay everything on the table.

Therefore, after Huo Shaoyan finished speaking, she said, "The night of the Huo Family’s birthday banquet over two months ago, I was drugged by Bai Meilan and nearly lost myself to Huo Zhendong. While escaping, I did mistakenly enter the Huo Family’s cellar. I lost my innocence that night."

Her words were immediately followed by a sharp screech of friction, and the car came to a halt once again on the roadside. In the intertwined lights, his crimson Phoenix Eyes stayed fixated on her, his voice thick and severely repressed,

"What did you say?"

Frightened by his excited demeanor, An Ge pressed her lips together and took a long time to reply, "I...I went to the Huo Family’s cellar. My...my child belongs to the man in the cellar that night..."

He pressed down on her shoulders. His forehead veins popped out as he bellowed roughly at her, "Why didn’t you admit it before? Why did you persistently refuse to admit it?"

With her shoulders pinched painfully by him, tears welled up in An Ge’s eyes, and her voice weakened with a hint of timidity, "Because...because I wasn’t sure, wasn’t sure if that man was you. A man died in the cellar that night—they all said he was a drug lord. Even after you denied he was a drug lord, he was still the drug lord’s biological brother. I feared the child was his, and you would eliminate us, so I didn’t dare."

Huo Shaoyan remained silent for a long time.

Eventually, he released her shoulders and sank wearily into the seat behind him. He closed his Phoenix Eyes, covering the swirling hostility beneath them.

He didn’t say anything more.

An Ge couldn’t fathom his thoughts, but she could be sure he was feeling terrible at this moment. She hesitated to speak several times before finally, with a stiffened resolve, asked cautiously, "So, that night in the cellar, apart from you, the man chained up was the one who died, right?"

This was indeed the case.

The dead man was the drug lord’s biological brother, code-named Scorpion. The night Huo Shaoyan fell ill, Scorpion happened to be locked in the cellar as well. In addition, the forensic final verdict on Scorpion’s cause of death was excessive indulgence. Simply put, he died on top of a woman.

Huo Shaoyan felt as if his throat was locked tight, and breathing became constricted. After a long while, he finally opened his crimson Phoenix Eyes and looked at her with an unfathomable gaze, saying, "Your child is either his or mine. If the amniocentesis DNA paternity test results show he’s not mine, if you want to live, terminate the pregnancy."

An Ge’s heart clenched overwhelmingly, and she exclaimed, "What wrong or crime have I committed? Why would you, with one careless sentence, take away the lives of my children?"

Huo Shaoyan’s Adam’s apple bobbed for a moment, his voice cold as he declared, "Your fault is only in your bad luck, carrying a child you shouldn’t be carrying."

An Ge curled her fingers tighter, "What if I refuse?"

Huo Shaoyan: "Then I’ll have to become a widower. I’ve sworn to be at odds with drug lords for my entire life. Their descendants must die."

Emotionally unhinged, An Ge shouted, "But the young are innocent; why must you be so ruthless?"

More emotional than ever, Huo Shaoyan clenched her jaw and viciously informed, "By now, you should have heard about the massacre of the Qin family in Imperial City ten years ago, haven’t you? Seventy-two lives were taken with not a single survivor—

the youngest was only six months old, nailed to a pillar with an iron rod about twenty centimeters long. It was a grisly death. Do you know who one of the culprits behind this heinous crime was?"

For some reason, just hearing Huo Shaoyan’s tale made An Ge’s heart wrench uncontrollably. Her eyes flickered with movement, asking hoarsely, "Who?"

"Scorpion."

An Ge’s voice tightened, "Who’s Scorpion?"

"The man who died of a heart attack due to overindulgence in the cellar two months ago."

An Ge fell silent.

Huo Shaoyan continued, "Mrs. Huo, starting from now, you can pray daily for yourself, hoping that your child is mine. Otherwise, even being alive would be the greatest mercy I could offer you."

Tears poured silently from An Ge’s eyes, overwhelming and unstoppable.

She had never felt so broken as she did now. Not even in the days following the death of her mother, Ms. Wen Ning, had she ever broken down like this.

Huo Shaoyan did not speak to her again; he restarted the car. Half an hour later, they reached An Ge’s residence in [Yu Garden]. By this time, An Ge had completely calmed down emotionally.

Before pushing the door open to get out of the car, she turned to the expressionless Huo Shaoyan and said, "Can I ask you one more question?"