Chapter 304: Chapter 304: Where is the child in her belly?

"When did you two get together?" Zhou Lin asked indifferently.

Raising a son for nearly three years only to find out he belonged to someone else, such a truth would devastate any man.

Yet, Zhou Lin’s expression remained calm, his slightly upturned lips curling into a hint of irony.

"We..." Lanzhi was about to reveal the truth.

"Stop talking." Seo Zhenzhen clenched her fists, her eyes already brimming with tears, she cried out emotionally, "Lanzhi, I beg you, don’t say it."

She didn’t want Zhou Lin to know the true events that transpired in the hotel.

Lanzhi’s eyes flashed with ferocity. At this point, Seo Zhenzhen still wanted to keep secrets? Did she still hope to reconcile with Zhou Lin?

What did that make her, Lanzhi then!

"It’s..."

"I’m begging you, if you have any grievances, take it out on me directly, why involve Qiqi? He is still so young, so little, Lanzhi, do you want him to be cursed as an illegitimate child for the rest of his life?"

The sharp interrogation echoed through the hospital room.

Lanzhi almost spoke, but then he swallowed his words back, closing his eyes in pain, "Ah Lin, I’m sorry."

There was no point in holding back the words anymore, Seo Zhenzhen’s pleas to Lanzhi were already futile.

Zhou Lin looked at them expressionlessly, his mind fixated on the paternity test.

He had conducted paternity tests at three different agencies, all showing that Zhou Ruoki was his biological son.

But given Lanzhi’s intention, he felt he was Ruoki’s biological father.

So, had Seo Zhenzhen been with Lanzhi shortly after that incident?

Because it was so soon after, was Lanzhi just mistaken?

Thinking about it, it really was a disgusting matter.

Zhou Lin could no longer stay, turning around and striding away.

"Ah Lin." Seo Zhenzhen chased after him.

Zhou Lin, with his long legs, had already left.

Watching his figure disappear, Seo Zhenzhen hurried back and closed the door tightly.

Filled with resentment and anger, she exclaimed, "Lanzhi, how could you do this?"

He actually intended to reveal the truth.

Lanzhi’s face darkened, "Seo Zhenzhen, what’s the truth, isn’t Qiqi my son?"

The support just now was only because the truth hadn’t been fully understood yet.

"I... He is your son," Seo Zhenzhen paused, then firmly added, "Don’t you understand yet? Besides you, there was no other man."

Lanzhi didn’t believe her answer, staring intently into her eyes, "Then why didn’t you admit it directly?"

Seo Zhenzhen’s face contorted with bitterness, and she laughed sardonically, "Lanzhi, look at you, how am I supposed to say it? Should I say Qiqi is your son and then let him be driven away by Zhou Lin?"

"He is indeed my son."

"The son of a kidnapper and an illegitimate child?" Seo Zhenzhen screamed, her expression twisted.

These words were no different from stabbing a knife directly into Lanzhi’s heart.

Lanzhi jumped up from the bed, grabbed Seo Zhenzhen by the throat, and pinned her down on the bed, his gloomy gaze almost ready to tear her apart in the next moment.

"I did all this for you."

"I did all of this for the future of the child," Zhou Lin sighed, revealing the pressure he had borne.

Seo Zhenzhen was extremely distressed, managing only to insist, "Isn’t that so, He Lanzhi? Look at you now. What use are you? Not only did you fail, but you also ended up in prison."

"So what if Qiqi acknowledges you? Wherever he goes, someone will bring up his father, the kidnapper. Have you thought about that?" Seo Zhenzhen was heartbroken, yet her tone finally softened.

"Zhou Lin was also nearby at the time. If I had said the child was yours, he would have definitely laid hands on Qiqi."

He Lanzhi said nothing, his gaze icy as he stared at Seo Zhenzhen, his grip tightening.

Suddenly, Seo Zhenzhen started having difficulty breathing, her face turning beet red.

She looked at He Lanzhi in horror, finally realizing that he truly wanted to kill her.

"Lan...zhi..." Seo Zhenzhen clawed at his hands, "Help... "

Just as she was about to suffocate, the pressure on her neck loosened. She slid off the hospital bed, clutching her neck and coughing violently.

The near-death experience made her shiver slightly.

But what He Lanzhi said next truly terrified her.

"Seo Zhenzhen, Zhou Ruoki isn’t my son, is he?" He Lanzhi stated with certainty.

He could do anything for Seo Zhenzhen, but after experiencing one thing after another, his mind had finally cleared a bit.

He finally realized that Seo Zhenzhen dared not claim in the presence of Zhou Lin and himself who Zhou Ruoki really was. But as soon as Zhou Lin left, she spoke so freely. There was only one possibility, that Zhou Ruoki belonged to no one.

Meaning, Zhou Ruoki was neither his child, He Lanzhi, nor Zhou Lin’s.

"Hmm? Whose bastard is he?" He Lanzhi twisted his neck, his lips curling into a strange, gloomy smile.

Realizing that Zhou Ruoki was unrelated to him, all of He Lanzhi’s gentle feelings completely vanished.

In his eyes, Zhou Ruoki was a bastard.

A bastard of uncertain paternity.

"Lanzhi." Seo Zhenzhen still tried to play the pitiful victim, her voice hoarse from He Lanzhi’s choking, "How can you say such things? Qiqi, he... "

Looking down at her from above, He Lanzhi said, "That time, it was me who was intimate with you. Given Zhou Lin’s personality, he despises you, and wouldn’t touch you with a ten-foot pole."

"You made both him and me believe that Zhou Ruoki was our own son, playing us for fools. Seo Zhenzhen, you really are something."

"Lanzhi... it’s not like that..."

"And the child in your belly?" He Lanzhi grabbed Seo Zhenzhen’s hair, pulling her up to make her face him.

After that incident, Zhou Lin immediately sent Seo Zhenzhen out of the country, while He Lanzhi, who had just been intimate with Seo Zhenzhen, quietly followed her abroad.

The two were inseparable, entwined night after night.

He Lanzhi knew about Seo Zhenzhen’s pregnancy and was clear that the child in her womb was his.

When the child was seven months along, Seo Zhenzhen secretly returned to the country without He Lanzhi’s knowledge, pretending the child was Zhou Lin’s and sought Zhou Lin out.

A seven-month-old fetus could no longer be aborted; Zhou Lin had no choice but to reluctantly claim it.

But He Lanzhi couldn’t accept this.

Seo Zhenzhen tearfully spoke of her unrequited love for Zhou Lin over the years. She mentioned that the Zhou Family was wealthy and influential, and it was better for the child to grow up in the Zhou home. Once the child inherited the Zhou fortune, how could he not acknowledge He Lanzhi as his biological father.

A moment of heartache and greed pressured He Lanzhi into agreement.

The Zhou Family was at the pinnacle of the societal pyramid, and all that wealth would one day belong to his son. He Lanzhi felt it was worth it.

But now, it all seemed like a huge joke.

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