Ye Lu’s face turned even whiter, her eyes full of struggle and hesitance. Under his piercing gaze, it took her a long while to muster up the courage.

"I lied to you. The child within my womb, it’s yours!"

The air seemed to stagnate in an instant. Third Young Master Jun looked at her in shock as if he had been struck by lightning.

"Say it again!" he rushed forward, gripping her shoulders, urgently uttering the request.

"My child is yours, it’s true," Ye Lu stated with utmost seriousness.

Her baby face was pale, her hesitating eyes full of tension as she watched him. He was her last lifeline, and she wanted to hold on with everything she had.

So, despite the difficulty in speaking, she mustered the courage to confess just before he was about to leave.

"... Is it mine?"

Third Young Master Jun took a long time to respond, his inner emotions raging heavily. After the shock faded, he slowly calmed down, released her shoulders, and looked at her with an extremely complex expression.

Being watched with such an odd expression made Ye Lu increasingly uneasy, her limbs started to stiffen.

"You, don’t believe me?" Her lips pale, she tried to explain urgently, "What I said before, it was all lies, they were all false." 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"Ye Lu, do you find all of this amusing?"

He suddenly burst out laughing, his voice filled with barely suppressed rage.

Ye Lu’s face turned even paler: "I’m not joking, this is true."

"Then tell me, which part of what you said before was false?"

Third Young Master Jun stared at her angrily.

Was it, ’You are ruthless and cold-blooded, I despise you. Do you think I would fall in love with a demon who took me by force, humiliated me, and treated me as a plaything?’"

"Or ’I don’t care whether he loves me or not, because I scorn such cheap love from a man. I dumped him. He is a man I don’t want.’

"Or ’If it’s Third Young Master Jun’s child, would I still keep it? I would have aborted it a long time ago.’

Ye Lu’s face turned pale under his intimidating aura, she took a step back involuntarily.

Her lips trembled, unable to utter a single word.

"Why aren’t you speaking? Don’t you even have the courage to own up to your own words?" Third Young Master Jun questioned angrily.

"This time is true," she insisted.

"Ha, you repeatedly said that you would never keep my child. How am I supposed to believe that the seed in your belly is mine? How can you prove it?"

The words he heard at the hospital made him truly lose all hope, making him fully understand that she had no feelings for him, on the contrary, she hated him.

Even his own child she could relentlessly get rid of, this showed how deep her loathing for him was.

Ye Lu’s tear-filled eyes were filled with helplessness: "It’s true, I never had any other man besides you. My relationships with Shang Jingchen and Gu Yan were all innocent. Apart from you, who else could be the father of this child? If you don’t believe me, I can swear. If I’m lying, may I be struck by lightning."

Third Young Master Jun went silent for a moment.

Hearing his silence, hope started to blossom in Ye Lu’s heart once again, pleadingly looking at him.

"I was wrong before. I said terrible things just to escape your control. I apologize, okay? I was too stubborn and arrogant. From now on, I will be obedient, submissive and won’t ever resist you."

Third Young Master Jun looked at her with a complicated gaze: "For the child’s sake, you are indeed willing to do anything."

"So, do you believe me now?" Ye Lu asked anxiously.

If he believed her and accepted her again, not only would she be able to keep these two children, but she could also be reunited with Yuanyuan and Yiyi.

The thought of seeing her two little ones again filled her with joy. She missed them terribly, the longer they were apart, the more the heartache grew.