"I'm giving you one last chance. Who orchestrated your actions?"

Under the man's cold, death-like gaze, Su Qingluo shook her head in panic, "I truly didn't harm grandfather, he was so nice to me. How could I harm him?"

"Qingluo, the evidence is irrefutable. Stop denying it."

From behind Lu Yichen, came Shen Mengya's gentle voice, tainted with a touch of pain, "Admitting your guilt is better than ending up in prison."

"It's not me, I cannot admit to it!"

Su Qingluo looked at Lu Yichen pleadingly, “Please investigate properly, don't let the real villain who harmed grandfather escape punishment!"

"That's enough! Stop pretending!"

Lu Yichen leaned forward, his expression frigid. “Your sudden visit to grandfather is pretty suspicious.”

A trace of satisfaction flashed across Shen Mengya's face. “The surveillance shows that you were the only one who entered the ward before the old man's oxygen tube was pulled. Even though he was saved in time, he ended up as a vegetable. You're truly wicked."

"Do you have anything else to say?"

In Lu Yichen's eyes, there was nothing but undisguised cold disgust towards Su Qingluo.

Her entire body ached like being pricked by sharp needles.

Instinctively, Su Qingluo caressed her belly and mumbled, "I am pregnant, I just wanted to tell grandfather the news, that’s why…”

Before Master Lu fell into a coma due to severe illness, he had been constantly wishing for her and Lu Yichen to have a child.

So, when the pregnancy test came out…

She could hardly wait to find her grandfather.

Subconsciously, Lu Yichen took a step forward and asked in a low voice, "Are you pregnant? How long has it been?"

"Yichen, do not listen to her sophistry!"

In her anxiety, Shen Mengya spoke before Su Qingluo could, "She just wants to use the pregnancy news to exonerate herself, don't be deceived by her!"

Under Lu Yichen's emotionless scrutiny, Su Qingluo felt the blood in her body turn colder bit by bit.

After a moment of contemplation, Lu Yichen ordered in a deep voice, "Take her back and keep an eye on her. Without my permission, she is not allowed to leave or make any outside contact!"

Could Su Qingluo believe that Lu Yichen was actually putting her under house arrest?

A bodyguard had already stepped forward, disregarding Su Qingluo's resistance, he forcibly took her away and locked her up.

Eight months passed in the blink of an eye.

Su Qingluo curled up on the bed, clutching her belly in pain.

She was about to give birth, and was urgently sent to the North City Hospital.

But her messages to Lu Yichen sank like stones in the sea, he would not even answer her calls... Did he want her to give birth alone, all set to never see her again?

Suddenly, the door to the delivery room was violently opened. Su Qingluo's heart tightened, and she turned her head to see Shen Mengya, dressed exquisitely from head to toe in branded attire.

"Where is Lu Yichen? Did he send you?"

"Do you still believe that Yichen will come to see you? In these days he hasn't even mentioned you, better give up any hope."

With that, Shen Mengya pulled out a file from her bag and tossed it directly onto Su Qingluo.

The Divorce Agreement.

The five striking characters felt like a stab to Su Qingluo's heart.

Shen Mengya laughed unabashedly, "I'm going to marry Yichen. Sign this and I'll let you go."

The pain of contractions almost made Su Qingluo faint. It took her a while to realize what Shen Mengya had said. Gritting her teeth, she responded, "I want to see Lu Yichen! If he doesn't show up, I won't sign!"

Shen Mengya looked at her with disdain, "Forget about ever seeing him again in your life. As for your child, once it's born I'll take it. It will call me mother, are you happy with that?"

"No! That's impossible! You can't do this!"

Su Qingluo was so angry she felt faint.

However, Shen Mengya was laughing, urging the medical staff, "Hurry up and deliver the baby, I'll wait outside."

The midwife made eye contact, nodded in understanding, and said to Su Qingluo, "The amniotic fluid is running out, Miss Su, you need to push harder..."

Su Qingluo knew that her most urgent duty right now was to give birth to her child!

After who knows how long, two wrinkled little infants were finally born one after the other. Su Qingluo struggled to grab her babies but was pushed down onto the bed.

She watched helplessly as her babies were taken out of the delivery room, they didn't even let her take one look!

Crying out, Su Qingluo begged the doctor, "My child! My children... doctor, please help me! The babies are mine!"

The doctor sighed but before he could speak, they were suddenly interrupted by a deafening blast.

Following closely, a quick response yelled, "Oh no! The equipment on the basement level has exploded and it's on fire, everyone run!"

The medical staff rushed out the door in a panic.

Despite her excruciating pain, Su Qingluo got off the bed, but instead of fleeing, she groped her way in the opposite direction to the nursery where the incubators were...

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Five years later, in Tongcheng.

In a hotel suite, Su Qingluo looked out through the floor-to-ceiling windows, a mix of emotions crossing her eyes.

Unknowingly, she had been away for so long.

Her best friend Zhou Xi's voice echoed in her ears, "How does it feel? Do you regret not coming back earlier?"

"I never regret what I do."

As soon as her words fell, two little heads leaned over from her left and right.

A little boy dressed in a Pikachu suit asked, "Mommy, what are you regretting?"

Another cool little boy immediately followed up, "Are you regretting meeting Daddy or regretting giving birth to us?"

Su Qingluo turned her head and knocked on each of their foreheads without hesitation, "Watch your cartoons! When adults are talking, kids shouldn't interrupt."

Su Zhe puffed up his cheeks in defiance, his Pikachu tail swaying along.

Su Mo covered his head, his little face showing no expression, but a flicker of hurt flashed in his eyes.

"They are not children anymore!"

Two little guys, different in hobbies and appearances, looked at each other and reached a consensus.

"There's definitely something fishy from Mommy's strange behavior!"

Su Qingluo sat down on the sofa, returning to the main topic: "Tell me, who is this secret partner that you only informed me upon our return to the country?"

While abroad these years, Su Qingluo not only took care of her children, but also started a company with her best friend Zhou Xi, focusing on jewelry design. After years of painstaking management, the company has carved a place for itself in the industry.

She was primarily responsible for design, while operation and business were handled by Zhou Xi.

But this time, Zhou Xi said the other company wanted to meet her before finalizing the design proposal.

Her return to the country was not just for work, but also to investigate the incident from five years ago!

Shen Mengya almost took her life and the lives of her two children back then. She was powerless to bring her to justice at that time, but now she wanted to exact revenge a hundredfold!

"The company does have some connections with you, ha ha."

Zhou Xi nervously touched her nose.

Seeing her reaction, Su Qingluo narrowed her eyes and sharply asked: "Don't tell me, the partner company is Lu's."

"It's a subsidiary of Lu Group, not directly under Lu Yichen’s control. You don't have to worry about seeing him."

Su Qingluo felt choked.

Zhou Xi gave a pleasing smile, put her hands together and pleaded: "There’s no choice, they offered too much. Moreover, I've already signed a pre-contract with them. If we breach it now, we will have to pay a heavy compensation fee which we can't afford even if we sold everything we owned."