The Eight-Year Lie： Shattered Vows and a Vengeful Heart - Chapter 12

At my age, most women would be overjoyed to hear this news, but I was filled with mixed emotions. My first words were, “Does Xu Ge know?”

Mrs. Liang slowly shook her cold hand, and my heart finally settled.

“Jiang Li, this child comes at the wrong time.”

But I shook my head. This child came at precisely the right time.

“Jiang Li, Xu Ge is outside. You are still young, and the road ahead is longer than you can imagine. I advise you to think it over carefully.”

Think it over?

What was there to think about? My world had collapsed.

At this moment, I was like a dying person, desperately dragging them all down to hell with me.

“Mrs. Liang, I have one last request for you.”

Due to exhaustion and severe early pregnancy reactions, I stayed in the hospital for two days. Xu Ge still didn’t know I was pregnant; he just thought I had fainted from anger. He came to the hospital every day, but he didn’t come upstairs, he just sat downstairs, looking lost.

And I was already planning my next move.

I could have caught them red-handed at the coffee shop, but that would have left me without a crucial witness. Mrs. Liang was the most suitable candidate, and the hospital was the most convincing location.

Xu Ge’s father was a bit of a philanderer in his youth and almost had an illegitimate child, so Xu Ge particularly hated illegitimate children. My first step was to make him aware of the illegitimate child’s existence. The child was that woman’s passport into the Xu family.

Before Xu Ge and I fell out, she wouldn’t have dared to reveal it so early. So my “fake palace intrigue” design forced that woman to reveal the child as her trump card early, throwing Xu Ge into disarray and making him eager to get rid of the child.

I simply acted very angry, pretending to be about to break up with Xu Ge and cancel the wedding. This woman was so eager for me to vacate the position that she impatiently sent me the hospital address, hoping I would go to the hospital and cause a scene with Xu Ge.

But she was too naive. How could I simply cause a scene?

Ruining his career, his reputation, and making both of them despised was just the first step. For the second step, I touched my flat stomach. I wanted to make Xu Ge suffer a living hell, from his bones to his heart!