Chapter 2701 - 2705: Chilled to the Core

Chapter 2701: Chapter 2705: Chilled to the Core

The son they’d raised for eight years, they could harm him just because they wanted to.

Good thing he, as the father, had some real ability and hadn’t ended up ruined and begging them for food, or what kind of fate would be waiting for him then?

The more Senior Master Huo thought about it, the angrier he got. He grabbed the water cup and gulped down several cups in a row before he finally calmed down a little.

Huo Qihang and Zang Jiayi were the first to arrive.

Huo Qihang and Zang Jiayi weren’t feeling any better inside.

They did have feelings for Huo Zhongqi.

Although ever since Huo Zhongqi turned five he’d been taken to be raised by Senior Master Huo, so their feelings for him weren’t as close as regular parents in ordinary families, they had after all once believed Huo Zhongqi was their biological son, and he was so well-behaved and outstanding; they had once loved Huo Zhongqi with all their heart.

The Huo Zhongqi they had been so proud of, the one they’d treated as a bargaining chip in the fight for the heir, suddenly turned out to be someone else’s son.

And their real son was a sickly child with a serious heart condition, who not only couldn’t help them in any way but would drag them down; the pain in their hearts was enough to kill them.

If Senior Master Huo hadn’t gotten the test results the very first moment, they absolutely would’ve hidden them.

They would rather keep that Huo Zhongqi who had no blood relation to them at all than accept a biological son with a severe heart disease who might drop dead any day.

Unfortunately, Senior Master Huo had known the paternity results at the first possible moment, so they had no way to tamper with anything.

Step by step, things had developed into what they were today.

This whole time, it had felt like a dream.

How they wished that when they woke up, everything could go back to the way it was.

That Huo Zhongqi would still be their son.

That their Fourth Branch would still be the hottest candidate for heir in the entire Huo Family.

But unfortunately...

Huo Qihang walked up to Senior Master Huo and bowed his head deeply. "Dad."

His voice was hoarse, his appearance haggard to the extreme.

Senior Master Huo held his teacup and drank, not even sparing him a glance.

Zang Jiayi also called out, "Dad, we’re here. Is there anything you want us to do?"

Senior Master Huo still didn’t look at her.

A trace of dissatisfaction flashed through Zang Jiayi’s eyes, but she lowered her gaze deeply, not daring in the slightest to let Senior Master Huo notice.

Her maiden family’s power and status, while not quite on par with the Huo Family, wasn’t far behind.

Normally, for the sake of her family, Senior Master Huo was very courteous to her.

Before, Senior Master Huo had never slighted her like this.

If this had been before, she definitely would’ve blown up.

But now, she didn’t dare.

Leaving aside that Senior Master Huo had something on her, just the fact that her and Huo Qihang’s son was about to die was enough to make her keep her head down in front of him.

A mother’s honor rises with her son’s.

Before, everyone had thought Huo Zhongqi was her biological son.

She had given the Huo Family its most brilliant, most valued descendant.

Her son had a very real chance of becoming the Huo Family’s future heir, and her status in the Huo Family had risen along with it.

But now, her biological son was about to die.

If her son died, she and Huo Qihang would be left without even a child.

Although she and Huo Qihang could still have more in the future, who knew whether they’d have a boy or a girl?

Even if they did have a son, he’d be the youngest of the Huo Family’s third generation—what would he have to compete with the children of the other branches?

Every time she thought of this, a chill ran all the way through her.

She wished so badly that Huo Zhongqi really were her biological son.

But unfortunately...

She took a deep breath and pressed down the pain in her heart.