The Little Spoiled Brat Divorces with a Child, Driving the Big Boss Crazy - Chapter 69
Chapter 69
Lu Ying was detained by Jin Beizhou. As long as the man refused to release her, she couldn’t take a single step away.
In one day, he bought the best villa in Beijiang, had it cleaned, and replaced the furniture and facilities. By the time Lu Ying was forcibly brought over, servants and bodyguards were already at their posts.
Jiamu was in a period of rapid growth and needed vast amounts of working capital. Yet Jin Beizhou had spent so much on this villa that it instantly became the focus of Beicheng, and news of Lu Ying’s pregnancy spread along with it.
Feibao seemed to prefer the villa. It had plenty of space to run and play, as well as a servant assigned specifically to walk it.
Jin Beizhou had ordered that Feibao not be allowed too close to his wife.
Lu Ying paced through the luxurious first floor. Auntie Zhang said anxiously, “Sit down and rest for a while.”
“I can’t sit still.” Lu Ying was irritated. “Are there surveillance cameras in the courtyard?”
Auntie Zhang didn’t dare answer.
Who could have imagined that the man who had always looked so unapproachable would now commit the most iron-fisted, outrageous acts with the utmost tenderness?
“Auntie Zhang…”
Auntie Zhang was about to answer when she caught sight of a tall, lean figure from the corner of her eye and quickly fell silent.
The man waved, signaling for her to go rest.
After hesitating, Auntie Zhang carefully withdrew.
“I’m going back to work next week,” Lu Ying said flatly. “Are you planning to lock me up?”
Jin Beizhou bent down and lifted her into his arms. “You need to focus on the baby. I may be an orphan, but I’m not so poor that I need your five-thousand-a-month salary.”
“…” Lu Ying suppressed her temper. “I made seventy-five hundred last month. I earn bonuses for every class I teach!”
Carrying her toward the bedroom, Jin Beizhou replied, “Mm. Amazing.”
He sounded extraordinarily perfunctory and thoroughly unimpressed.
Lu Ying had never cared about a job that required a month of hard work for only a few thousand.
But once she earned that money one class at a time, it suddenly became real money. Every coin was stained with her effort, sweat, and blood.
No one could stop her from earning it.
The bedroom was large and spacious. White blackout curtains like clouds softened the harsh light of early summer.
“If you’re truly bored,” Jin Beizhou said patiently, “I’ll have Dajun drive you there and back.”
“…”
Silence.
Jin Beizhou placed Lu Ying safely on the bed, then lay down beside her.
Lu Ying shot upright. “What are you doing?”
“…” The man’s expression didn’t change. “Holding you while you sleep.”
“Hold your mother!” Lu Ying exploded. “We’re divorced…”
Jin Beizhou covered her mouth again. “The baby is listening. Don’t make it think its parents have a bad relationship before it’s even born. That could affect its personality.”
Lu Ying finally snapped. Without thinking, she swung both hands at him.
Jin Beizhou’s brow twitched. He hurriedly seized her hands and scolded, “Can you remember that you’re five months pregnant? You even dared fight someone. What if the baby gets tossed around until it’s dizzy?”
“…” Pinned down and unable to move, Lu Ying shouted, “Get out!”
The moment the words left her mouth, she couldn’t help frowning.
Jin Beizhou panicked. “What’s wrong? I’ll have the doctor come over…”
“Stop making a fuss.” Lu Ying’s patience ran out. “The baby kicked me. Hurry up and leave. I need to read to it…”
Jin Beizhou froze.
The idea that a baby could kick overturned everything he thought he knew. “How did it kick you? Can you feel it?”
“Get out!”
“Don’t get worked up.” Jin Beizhou lowered his eyes and carefully placed a palm against her abdomen. “Does it hurt? The baby must be frightened because it heard Mommy and Daddy arguing…”
The instant his palm touched her belly, something like a pulse suddenly bounced beneath it.
Jin Beizhou’s entire body went rigid.
Unfamiliarity, shock, excitement, elation: every emotion surged through Jin Beizhou like a barrage of explosions.
The movement continued.
He bowed his head and whispered almost inaudibly, “Baby, it’s saying hello to me.”
He swallowed, the sound as light as a feather, afraid he might disturb the baby’s activity.
“I’ll work hard and make lots of money.” After a while, Jin Beizhou raised his eyes, their black depths bottomless. “I’ll give the best of everything to both of you. I’ll deal with anyone and anything that makes you unhappy. I’ll create the most comfortable world possible for our baby…”
His eyes gradually reddened.
But Lu Ying felt only fear.
She had arranged a life for herself and her baby, arrogantly assuming they could handle the child as peacefully as they handled Feibao.
All those assumptions…
Had been nothing but wishful thinking.
Jin Beizhou would never let go of the baby.
Every one of her plans had been thrown into chaos.
Destroyed by the man’s utterly unexpected reaction.
The villa grounds were lush with flowers and plants. To prevent mosquitoes, calming, insect-repelling herbs and mint had been planted throughout. Surveillance cameras blinked from the corners of the walls, and bodyguards stood watch outside the property.
He was afraid she would run.
So he had built a gilded cage and intended to hide her inside it.
Beneath the man’s calm, gentle exterior lay all the emotions he had brutally forced down after suddenly discovering her pregnancy.
Every kind of emotion.
Lu Ying had been too presumptuous.
When she first learned she was pregnant, it had taken her a long time to calm down. How could she have assumed Jin Beizhou would accept the news lightly and handle it peacefully with her?
“Go out,” Lu Ying said wearily. “I want to sleep.”
Perhaps because he saw the exhaustion in her eyes, Jin Beizhou didn’t dare insist. “Do you want some water?”
“No.”
Jin Beizhou rubbed her head. “The flower on the bedside cabinet is a call button. Press it if you need anything.”
Lu Ying didn’t respond.
After covering her with the blanket and switching off the light, Jin Beizhou slowly left the room.
Dajun was waiting outside.
Jin Beizhou looked into the night beyond the window and said mildly, “Send a gift to the Jin Family and the Luo Family.”
“Yes.”
The courtyard’s ground lights glowed hazily, their illumination faint and blurred.
No one knew how long Jin Beizhou stood there. After all the servants had retired, he quietly returned to the bedroom.
Lu Ying was already asleep. Pregnancy made her drowsy.
The room had voice-activated night-lights. Her slippers were neatly arranged beneath the bed. The thermos on the bedside cabinet held plain water at the perfect temperature to drink. Even the curtains could not be drawn completely shut; a narrow gap had to remain so morning sunlight could enter the next day…
Every detail had been arranged according to her habits.
During the time they spent apart, he had no idea whether her life had gone smoothly.
Jin Beizhou crouched beside the bed and carefully rested his palm on her abdomen.
The little one was still awake. It kicked him.
Jin Beizhou’s brow gradually relaxed. In a breathless whisper, he chatted with it. “Mommy is already asleep. Why is Baby still awake?”
Afraid of waking Lu Ying, who had a terrible temper after being disturbed, Jin Beizhou sat on the floor and rested his gaunt cheek against her belly. He listened to the baby’s movements and occasionally answered in a low voice.
His phone was on silent, but the screen lit several times.
Only after the movements stopped and Jin Beizhou guessed the little one had fallen asleep did he open the messages.
The cold glow of the screen seeped gradually into his eyes. Jin Beizhou’s hand began to shake.
The messages contained the abortion appointment Lu Ying had made with the hospital, as well as the temple where she had arranged prayers for the baby’s spirit.
Everything had been uncovered, from the moment she confirmed her pregnancy at the hospital to the moment she decided to give birth.
Lu Ying had not intended to keep the baby.
She hadn’t wanted it.
The first time she had ever asked Jin Beizhou for five million on her own initiative, it had been to pay for prayers for the baby’s spirit.
If the baby had truly been lost, Jin Beizhou would have personally funded its departure.
Without ever knowing it, he had nearly lost the child.
