"Huo Shijue is coming back?"
Wen Xuxu, with a belly over eight months pregnant, was folding newly bought baby clothes in the children’s room when she suddenly heard the housemaid discussing.
He's actually coming back?
Is it because she's about to give birth?
A surge of immense joy swelled up in her heart. For a moment, even her hands started to tremble slightly.
Huo Shijue is the father of her child.
However, from the time they got married till now, they had only met once. That was the night they got married. After that, he left and she hadn't seen him since.
"Baby, Mama knows that Papa doesn't like Mama. But it's okay. As long as Papa comes to see you enter this world, Mama will be very happy."
Tears welled up in Wen Xuxu’s eyes as she caressed her swollen belly. Her delicate and fair face was filled with indescribable joy.
Two days later, sure enough, the young master of the Huo family who had vanished for over eight months was home.
Upon hearing this, Wen Xuxu immediately ran downstairs, excitedly clutching her large belly.
However, to her dismay, as she arrived at the top of the stairs and looked down, she realized that aside from the man she had been constantly thinking about, there was another woman beside him in the foyer.
"What do you mean, Huo Shijue? I called you back for childbirth, so what does bringing this woman back mean?”
“Isn’t it obvious? I told you before, this marriage has nothing to do with me. The woman I want to marry is Gu Xia. She's standing right next to me!”
Huo Shijue was dressed in a thin black trench coat. His handsome face looked as if it was carefully carved. His pair of black eyes were extremely deep and cold, staring at this woman who is his legal wife. His entire demeanor suggested an unmistakable aura of frostiness.
Upon hearing this, Master Huo was immediately enraged!
"You insubordinate son! Do you know that Xiao Xue is already heavily pregnant and about to give birth? And you dare to say such words?!"
"Why can't I say it? If it wasn't for you drugging me on the night of our marriage, would this situation have arisen? I'm telling you, that child doesn't deserve to be born into this world!"
"..."
Silence ensued.
Wen Xuxu, standing at the stairway, felt as if she had been violently stabbed in the chest, the pain tearing through her heart. She stood there, her eyes darkening, unable to hear anything else.
He dared to say... their child didn't deserve to be born into this world!!
She began to stagger-
"Ah!! The young mistress! Young mistress is bleeding!!!"
"What?"
In an instant, the entire Huo family was alarmed.
And the father and son, who were in a standoff in the hall below, suddenly looked up at her.
Indeed, there was a pregnant woman with a big belly.
However, she was standing at the staircase, and large amounts of fresh blood were already flowing out from under her dress.
The color on Huo Sijue's face slightly changed.
"Huo Sijue, is your love truly so great? To find happiness over the dead body of your own child, can you really sleep soundly for the remaining years of your life?"
When Wen Xuxu finally collapsed, she stared at this man and only managed to utter this sentence.
This was the first thing she had spoken since they got married!
Huo Sijue was startled for a moment.
Before he could say anything, the woman had already fallen heavily to the ground, blood splattering everywhere!
"Get her to the hospital, quickly!"
"..."
A few minutes later, the unconscious Wen Xuxu was finally whisked away to the hospital.
"Sijue, don't overthink, this has nothing to do with you at all. What era are we in, there's still arranged marriages, and using such means, and that woman still dare to curse you, Sijue..."
In the quiet hall, Gu Xia wanted to console him.
However, who would have expected that before she could finish, this man, who had never shown a temper towards her, suddenly shot her a fierce glance!
"Shut up! Since when is it your turn to interfere in the affairs of the Huo family?!"
He abruptly cut her off, his gaze in that moment becoming incredibly terrifying!
Gu Xia immediately trembled, unable to say another word.
Wen Xuxu, you wretched woman!
"You'd better not come back, dying in the delivery room, both the mother and the child, it's best this way..."
An hour later, inside the hospital.
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Huo, the mother bled heavily and we couldn't save her. However, we managed to save one of the triplets she was carrying in her womb. We've done our best."
The obstetrician carrying the baby finally emerged from the operating room and relayed this grave news to Mr. Huo and the others who had been waiting outside anxiously.
Dead?
Out of his three grandchildren and his daughter-in-law, only one survived?!
Elder Mr. Huo couldn't withstand such a heavy blow and clutched his chest, falling backward...
"My Lord! My Lord!!"
"..."
When Huo Sijue heard the news, he had already left the Huo residence with Gu Xia and was heading towards his private apartment in the city.
"Dead?"
"Yes, it is said that her health was already poor, and after losing a significant amount of blood, they couldn't save her. However, they managed to save one of the babies, a boy, who has been taken by the Elder Mr. Huo."
The assistant gave a detailed account of the incident and, suspecting Huo Sijue might not believe the news, sent him a picture of a large and two smaller bodies covered in white sheets on the hospital bed.
In an instant, Huo Sijue's pupils contracted as he was driving!
"Squeak——"
He stepped sharply on the brake, bringing the car to an abrupt stop in the middle of the road.