Chapter 41: He Asks When She Got Pregnant
“Liancheng, why is there Chaosu’s blood on you?”
After Mother Liang questioned, she looked at Liang Chaosu again, “Did you two take action just now?”
Liancheng, without waiting for Liang Chaosu to answer, immediately insisted, “He pulled me, and I broke free.”
“Why did you break free?” Mother Liang’s voice was stern, “Chao Su has an injury on his hand, didn’t you see it?”
Liancheng was stunned, she had never expected Mother Liang to react this way.
Liang Chaosu withdrew his hand and stared at Liancheng, his eyes were chilling, “Mother’s first reaction is my injury. You heartless and ungrateful thing, even if you saw it, you wouldn’t care.”
Liancheng felt extreme indignation after being humiliated by him again and again.
She cared that one time, throwing the band-aid into the trash can, and he warned her not to have obsessive delusions, thinking she was so cheap she had no memory, eagerly offering her face to be stepped on.
Mother Liang’s gaze scanned back and forth, Liancheng said nothing, her fists clenched tightly.
Chaosu was expressionless, gloomy and chilling.
She felt doubt and uncertainty in her heart.
Could such a tense atmosphere, like fire and water, exist between two people who were in an ambiguous relationship?
Liang Chaosu’s phone rang, he glanced at the screen, it showed Gu Xingyuan.
He pressed to reject it.
The call immediately rang again.
Liang Chaosu pressed to reject it again.
The call was persistent.
Liang Chaosu was not good-tempered; Liancheng had heard the Liang Family’s executives describe him as a cold-blooded monarch after the new century, who dominated and swept away everything externally, and was an unquestionable autocrat internally.
This was reflected in all aspects.
As for phone calls, Liancheng had never seen anyone dare to hang up on him and then call him a second time.
Liang Chaosu answered impatiently, “What is it?”
“Xiao Rou is pregnant.”
The parking lot was silent and empty. Gu Xingyuan was anxious and beside himself, his voice was so loud it penetrated the loudspeaker, and Liancheng could also hear it.
“My third uncle will definitely take action against her, we need to change our plan and prioritize her protection.”
Liang Chaosu paused, his peripheral vision glanced at Liancheng, “When did she get pregnant?”
“A month ago, her health was not good, the doctor said she couldn’t be startled. Pushing forward with the plan will inevitably affect and stimulate her, so it’s not feasible. Where are you now? We need to discuss it again.”
Involving classified information, Liang Chaosu nodded to Mother Liang as a signal.
He rolled up the car window, and through the gradually shrinking crack of the window, his voice, cold and ruthless, was vaguely heard.
“Whether you can protect her, protect the child, is your responsibility as a husband—”
Liancheng’s complexion turned ghastly white.
As an example of a similar forbidden relationship, facing Gu Xingyuan’s wife’s pregnancy, he was completely indifferent, so sarcastic and ungrateful.
Even though she had been mentally prepared, she still felt like she had fallen into an ice cellar.
She was horrified.
………………
Liang Chaosu left urgently. Liancheng quickly composed herself and got into the car with Mother Liang.
The car drove out of Shengyuan.
Mother Liang took her hand and asked meaningfully, “Do you think your brother is doing the right thing?”
Liancheng stated resolutely, “Yes.”
Mother Liang intended to warn her by threatening others, but she didn’t expect Liancheng to be so resolute, and was instead stunned.
Liancheng met her astonished gaze with a face showing no hidden disgust, “Anything in this world can turn bad, but family affection cannot.”
Mother Liang patted her hand back, asking, “Haven’t you young ladies always longed for that kind of love where you break through everything and give up the world for it?”
Mother Liang repeatedly probed, and Liancheng cursed even more freely, “This is not love, this is a perverted mindset, worse than pigs and dogs, a person whose eyes only contain desire, ugly and filthy trash.”
Mother Liang’s mouth opened wide, unable to make a sound.
Instead, Liancheng took her hand and gently stroked her back, “Mother, you don’t agree? To be naked with family members, not caring about the parents’ sadness or the family’s grief, isn’t that heartless and ungrateful?”
With things said to this extent, Mother Liang could only agree, “Parents raise them, pouring all their efforts, such a person is indeed heartless and ungrateful.”
Liancheng couldn’t help but reveal a slight smile.
Mother Liang believed her eyes could see through all the seductive and cheap women, distinguish whether words were sincere or fake.
She couldn’t help but be confused.
She and Feifei both suspected that Liancheng was seducing Chao Su to stay in the Liang Family.
And it was very likely that she had succeeded; otherwise, on the matter of the Hu Family, how could Chao Su not yield when Feifei pleaded multiple times.
But if there were really something between them, could she scold so righteously and indignantly?
Mother Liang was silent for a long time.
She then brought up the blind date, “This time it was my oversight. You are not my biological daughter, and with your own conditions, you can’t possibly marry into a high-ranking family. I chose Liu Qingsong because I wanted to ensure your future living standards wouldn’t drop.”
She paused deliberately, scrutinizing Liancheng.
As expected, she showed resistance.
Her emotions couldn’t be hidden from her eyes, so it was indeed sincere just now.
Speaking again, Mother Liang’s voice was much more normal, “Since you can’t accept Liu Qingsong, then this engagement is off.”
Liancheng was astonished.
Mother Liang subconsciously avoided mentioning Liang Chaosu, “No matter how much I’ve raised you for so many years, your lifelong happiness is at stake, how could I bear to force you.”
Liancheng lowered her eyelids. “Thank you, Mother.”
She felt so wronged.
If she had known earlier that Mother Liang was prepared to change her mind, she should have been more rational, calmer, and more enduring with Liang Chaosu just now.
No matter how sarcastic or excessive he was, she should have pretended to be submissive and numb him, to create a more relaxed condition for escape.
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Upon returning to the Liang Family, Liancheng went upstairs, locked the door, and called Bai Ying.
“I’m planning to leave. I have some private savings; I’ll take them out tomorrow and give them to you. Help me open a new account.”
Bai Ying had already accepted the fact that her best friend was going to run away, and her heart was aching, “Do you even have to guard against this?”
Liancheng sighed, “Can I afford not to? I was just dragged to a blind date with Liu Qingsong today. Do you think that hundred million yuan from Liang Chaosu was spent in vain? I’m afraid that after I run, I’ll be caught right after I withdraw money from the bank.”
Bai Ying was stunned, “Liu Qingsong? Is he the youngest son of Director Liu I’m thinking of?”
“Mm.”
Bai Ying sprang up from the bed like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, “Liu Qingsong has AIDS, doesn’t the Liang Family know?”
Liancheng’s voice was sorrowful, “They know.”
“Holy crap, this is murder for money, isn’t it?” Bai Ying beat the bed, “Sinister and malicious, inhuman. Liancheng, you’re right to run. I was blind before, I couldn’t see the situation or people’s hearts.”
Liancheng’s nose felt a sting, and her laughter was more pathetic than crying, “I used to dream too, dreaming that the Liang Family still considered me family, that someone would love me even a little, and I would be very obedient.”
Bai Ying gripped her phone, “Liancheng, you have a family, my family—”
“Don’t say foolish things.” Liancheng cut her off, her voice thick with a nasal tone, “You helping me is already like getting on a pirate ship. Besides— I have a family now. That’s a boy under the Goddess of Childbirth, she will love me very much, and I will love her very much. In the future, for more than a decade, I’ll be close to her.”
Bai Ying realized, “Wait— you’ve decided to keep the child?”
“Yes.” Liancheng took a deep breath, “Bai Ying, I’ve thought about it… I fantasized about someone giving me a home, and if no one does, it’s okay to have someone who lets me give her a home… I know that giving birth with such a purpose is unfair to the child…”
Liancheng covered her face, “But… I will be a good mother. I will give my girl the most enduring and unchanging love in the world, I will never abandon her, and I will not suddenly stop loving her. Even if death comes, I will protect her until the last moment.”
Bai Ying was speechless.
She didn’t date and didn’t have children, so she couldn’t feel the emotions of being a mother.
But she understood Liancheng.
She understood Liancheng’s despairing soul, so helpless and desolate to the point of being broken, wanting to make up for what she lacked and yearned for in her child.
“You will be.” Her crying voice was even louder than Liancheng’s, “I will be too, I’ll be her second mother.”
