Spoiled by the CEO after amnesia!-Chapter 725 - 705 Desperate to Have a Child

Even back then, when Huo Tianpei was planning to remarry Yao Zhenru, although he was still young, Huo Tianpei had sought his opinion in advance.

Therefore, it must have been Su Yan who instigated Huo Tianpei and deliberately kept it from him.

After all, Huo Tianpei was still bedridden with a serious illness, and his ability to speak and move was compromised. With Su Yan all the way in America, if she really wanted to deceive him, she could have done it.

His brows remained cold and gloomy for a long time.

Although Huo Tianpei’s marriage to Su Yan had become an established fact, no matter what, he still had to speak to Huo Tianpei personally.

"Where’s daddy?"

"He just took his medicine and lay down to rest. He’s probably not asleep yet. If the young master wants to talk to the old master, I can call him."

Huo Zhenyang was silent for a long while before he finally spoke, "Never mind."

He paused, and his tone became several degrees colder, "Just pass on a message for me."

"What message, young master?"

"Zaizai is my son, wherever I am, that’s where he will be; he won’t be going to America."

Having said this, he looked somber, his slender fingertips moving on the touchscreen.

The light in the video flickered and then dimmed.

After hanging up the call, silence was restored in the study.

It was like a deep cave—so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

The French doors leading to the balcony in the study were half open, and the night breeze slipped through the cracks, stirring the curtains and bringing a chill to the room.

Suddenly, that familiar feeling from his childhood swept over him.

Back then, when Huo Tianpei decided to have Yao Zhenru help take care of the family, his feelings were just like they were now.

At that time, his mommy had not been dead for long, and it was the period when he was most resistant to Huo Tianpei. Normally, when he saw Huo Tianpei at home, it was as if they were strangers; they didn’t even talk.

Huo Tianpei was busy, and as a man, he naturally lacked the delicacy of women, so it was impossible for him to guess his son’s mental state.

The father and son even had times when they lived under the same roof but did not speak a word to each other for several months.

Therefore, when Huo Tianpei expressed his intention to marry Yao Zhenru and asked for his opinion, his young self responded coldly with just three words, "Do what you want."

But the feeling of being abandoned and isolated at the bottom of his heart was something no one understood.

Nor did he deign to speak of it to anyone.

From then on, he walked down his path in solitude and coldness.

...

Behind the large desk, his hands with prominent joints were crossed, and his eyes slightly focused. If you looked closely, there was a slight absent-mindedness in them.

He didn’t know how long he pondered until there was a subtle noise at the door.

The somewhat vacant look on his face immediately turned sharp as he regained his usual tough demeanor, and he said in a slightly harsh tone, "Come in."

Jiayi took a breath and walked into the study with a slump, closed the door behind her but stopped near the door, not approaching further.

She had overheard his video conversation with the butler and seen his prolonged daze after hanging up the video call from just outside the door.

She wasn’t deliberately eavesdropping from outside.

It was just that his reaction after the call had ended had startled her, and she hesitated to disturb him, lingering at the door for a while.

She had never seen him with such an expression.

This invincible man also had moments that were as fragile as a child’s.

The arrogance before his subordinates and his domineering attitude toward her had all vanished.

She thought she was seeing things, but for a moment, she felt she truly saw the look of loss on his face.

It was the kind of loss felt by a child being abandoned by adults or isolated by peers.

Surprisingly, it made her feel—just for a moment—a strong maternal instinct to go up to him and hold him as if he were a big child needing comfort.

It wasn’t until she heard the man’s sharp command that she jerked in surprise and hurriedly pushed the door open and entered.

"I didn’t mean to eavesdrop..." She stuttered, breaking the somewhat icy atmosphere.

She knew he hated it when others snooped on his actions.

Yet...

She had repeatedly committed the one action he forbade.

Staying alive was truly not easy.

His eyes lifted with a teasing tone, "If it’s not intentional, then it’s deliberate?"

She breathed a sigh of relief, still in the mood for jokes. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Though the joke was terribly cold, for someone like him with low emotional intelligence, it at least proved he wasn’t angry.

It wasn’t that he wasn’t angry, but he had grown accustomed to her scrambling around like a rabbit, becoming numb to it.

Rising from where he sat, he stood up, walked over to the terrace, and with a whoosh, slid the door open and stepped out as if he wanted to breathe in the night air and relax for a moment.

Usually, she would have returned to the bedroom by this time.

But tonight, she had something on her mind. Her pupils flickered as she silently followed him out.

On the terrace, he was seen with his arms braced on the railing, chin slightly raised, quietly admiring the tranquil night scene.

Disheng was not located in the downtown area. The price per square unit there could secure a common small apartment downtown.

With such exorbitant land costs, it naturally boasted views seldom seen in the city.

To the southwest, the scenic lake flowed gently under the veil of night.

Surrounded on two sides by mountains, the lush man-made forest spread into a green wilderness, and after looking for a while, one felt as if they were in the midst of nature.

It certainly soothed one’s mood considerably.

Huo Zhenyang wasn’t surprised she followed him out, and could roughly guess what she wanted to say. He turned his neck, fixing her in his gaze.

"It’s so late, you... aren’t you going to sleep?" she unconsciously clenched the corner of her houseclothes.

Maybe after saying it a few more times, she would get used to it and stop blushing so much.

As expected, his thin lips barely moved.

She still hadn’t given up on having a child with him immediately.

Today, Su Yan came, wanting to take Zaizai back to America, probably making this young woman even more anxious.

Without any leverage at the moment, she felt compelled to do something.

Maybe having a child was the only way she felt she could dissuade the old man and Su Yan from their plans.

How foolish.

How could he possibly let his and her precious child leave their side?

He was eager to have children with her, to make up for the four years he hadn’t been with her during her pregnancy, childbirth, and to welcome the new life together.

But now that she was initiating, his mind had changed.

At least, not now in such a frantic rush.

And certainly not to be used as a mere sperm bank.

He had always been greedy when it came to her.

He wanted this young woman to willingly bear him children, not as if completing a task.

Anyway, there was no rush.

He lifted his hand, casually caressing her delicate cheek with a deep look of mockery in his eyes, directly piercing through her suggestive words:

"Are you asking if I’m going to sleep, or are you asking if I want to sleep with you?"

Her face instantly turned bright red.

However, since she harbored such thoughts, she could not avoid being teased and ridiculed by him.

It doesn’t matter... For Zaizai, if she had to be shameless, then shameless she would be!

Seeing her cheeks red as a ripe fruit, his smile faded, and he turned away, looking out at the scenery beyond the villa.

She could tell that although his complexion had improved, his mood was probably still somewhat gloomy.

She temporarily put aside her thoughts of getting him into bed.

Even if she was desperate to have a child, she wouldn’t stoop to such urgency.