Su Ding coldly threw off Shao Lin and stood there.
Her gaze was like looking at a dead person, so cold, so indifferent.
"If she ever utters Jin Ye's name from her lips again, she will be slapped. Do you hear me!"
The maid trembled and nodded repeatedly.
Looking at Shao Lin, who was stumbling to the ground with her swollen belly, her emaciated appearance, a trace of sympathy arose.
Shao Lin covered her face and wept.
Why didn't Jin Ye come to save her? She was carrying their child.
What did Su Ding want to do? Hadn't she left? Why did she return to Jiangcheng...
So much hatred, so much helplessness.
"Shao Lin, are you really looking forward to this child's birth?" Su Ding's voice was no longer as cold, carrying a meaningful undertone.
Shao Lin looked at her in terror, clutching her abdomen.
Crying as if in convulsions, she asked with a desperate wail, "What do you want to do... you... what do you want to do! You demon! Demon!!!"
"Miss Su Ding..." The maid, seeing Shao Lin's despair, couldn't help but speak up.
Even if Su Ding was Jin Ye's lawful wife, Shao Lin's belly held Jin Ye's child. If a life were lost, the situation would be irreversible.
Su Ding looked at the maid's sympathetic gaze and suddenly smiled, "Do you think I'm cruel?"
The maid's words stopped at her lips, she dared not speak.
But her eyes betrayed her inner thoughts; yes, she pitied Shao Lin.
"Don't worry, how could I, like Shao Lin, kill an unborn baby?"
Su Ding said softly, yet with an unspeakable danger and coldness.
Shao Lin knelt on the ground, trembling, and whispered with a choked sob, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry... Please spare me..."
"You, take good care of yourself, rest and nurture the baby."
Su Ding looked down at Shao Lin, smiling coldly and mockingly, "To tell you the truth, the child is not Jin Ye's, and you will never have Jin Ye's child."
Su Ding cruelly told Shao Lin this truth as retaliation for her own past imprisonment.
This pain must be unbearable for Shao Lin.
"You, what are you saying?"
Shao Lin, for a moment, thought Su Ding didn't believe this fact.
Was she warning her that even if the child was Jin Ye's, she wouldn't acknowledge it, nor would she let Jin Ye acknowledge it?
Countless guesses flashed through Shao Lin's mind.
She never doubted the child's paternity, because that night, she had drugged Jin Ye, helped him back to his room, truly felt his warmth, and he had entered her...
Taking, wildly.
Every time she recalled these moments, a sweet surge would fill her heart.
How could the child not be Jin Ye's?
It must be that Su Ding refused to acknowledge the child's identity. Su Ding dared not truly harm her because Jin Ye was protecting her!
Thinking of this, Shao Lin's heart suddenly rekindled a glimmer of hope...
Endure.
Only by enduring and giving birth to the child would she have her turn.
When she returned with Jin family's descendant, Jin Ye's mother liked her so much, she would surely acknowledge her as Jin Ye's wife. At that time, she would firmly secure the title of Mrs. Jin Ye!
"I... I understand..." Shao Lin said meekly, lowering her head to conceal her thoughts.
Su Ding was somewhat surprised. Shao Lin knew the truth and wasn't enraged?
She couldn't be bothered to guess Shao Lin's thoughts. Being imprisoned in such a place, and not carrying the child of the man she loved, such an experience was nothing but retribution.
Since she wanted to protect her pregnancy, Su Ding naturally had to lend a hand.
"Find more doctors to help Miss Shao Lin recuperate. Ensure the child is born safely."
Su Ding glanced at the maid beside her and said indifferently.
The maid nodded repeatedly, confused by Su Ding's sudden change of demeanor, but still replied respectfully, "Yes."
Su Ding coldly glanced at the trembling Shao Lin on the ground, then surveyed the dirty and foul-smelling bedroom inside.
She said no more, turned, and left.
After Su Ding's figure disappeared from the villa, Shao Lin, still shaken, cradled her abdomen, patting it gently, her voice delirious yet soft...
"Be good, baby... don't be afraid, Mommy got through it."
"Baby, Mommy will protect you well from now on... I'll take you to see Daddy, Grandpa, and Grandma..."
As Shao Lin spoke, remembering Su Ding's words, she suddenly laughed.
"Su Ding, Su Ding, you still can't change your foolish kindness. You think by keeping my baby, I'll be grateful?"
"I will not let you go, you are destined to be suppressed by me!"
"When my child is born, it will be your end... You will never know that Jin Ye's first woman was you, you will never know that you are Jin Xiao Xi's biological mother..."
"Hahaha... hahaha..."
She laughed wildly and triumphantly, while the maid outside, who was bringing water, wore a bewildered expression.
Has this Shao Lin truly gone mad?
...
Su Ding sat back in the car, her emotions calming down after a long while.
Seeing Shao Lin in that state shocked her. Her innate kindness made her hesitate slightly, but remembering her own child who had left the world before she could even meet it, she still slapped Shao Lin.
The grievances between them were too deep.
She had told Shao Lin that the child was not Jin Ye's, but Shao Lin didn't believe her.
In that case, Su Ding eagerly awaited Shao Lin's reaction when she discovered the child was not Jin Ye's.