Chapter 1951: The Child Isn't Mine

The whole place was full of pink, or candy-colored stuff.

She just liked these childish things that were ridiculous.

Whenever she saw something new, she’d drag it back home. Like this foot basin—she’d mocked it for being ugly at first, but after wandering around the supermarket, this ugly basin still ended up steadily following her to the checkout.

“There’s nothing between me and Jin Rui.” Gao Zhe suddenly spoke.

Lu Zhenzhen paused slightly, her gaze slowly shifting from the screen to him. She said nothing, just let out a cold, mocking laugh.

“Heh.”

Gao Zhe didn’t look up. “The child in her belly isn’t mine either. I’ve got a rich second generation in my group of friends who got her pregnant and refused to take responsibility. He gave her some money to get an abortion and then never followed up. Jin Rui took the money and hid. She originally wanted to wait until the pregnancy was further along, the fetus stable, then show up again. But that guy changes girlfriends too fast, Jin Rui was afraid he’d forget her, so she rushed back. In the end my friend simply couldn’t even remember who she was, no matter how she clung to him he refused to acknowledge her. With nowhere to turn, she had no choice but to come to me.”

“Oh.” Lu Zhenzhen’s voice was very calm. “Which friend?”

“Zhou Dan. You’ve met him once.”

Their circles overlapped heavily, but each of them also had their own separate friends. Gao Zhe’s temperament was cold and withdrawn; if it were up to him, he’d never actively go out of his way to socialize. But among the Gao Family’s side branches there were a few rich second generations who were not exactly decent, and because of the whole relatives thing, even if they didn’t see each other usually, you couldn’t avoid them during the holidays. No matter how much he tried to dodge family events, if he got invited ten times he’d still give them face once or twice.

His cousins’ friends all knew who he was; plenty of them were practically tripping over themselves to get close to him.

Jin Rui met Gao Zhe in that kind of setting.

And he was just unlucky—out of those few times he showed up, it just so happened that both Zhou Dan and Jin Rui were there, and he had the misfortune of witnessing their dog-blood entanglement in person.

Lu Zhenzhen didn’t like those cousins of his, so naturally she didn’t like their friends either. She almost never went to those gatherings anyway. The Gao Family elders had treated her like their own daughter since she was little; she didn’t need to do all that pleasing-the-husband’s-family stuff. If she didn’t want to see those side-branch relatives, she simply didn’t. So even when he said the name, she didn’t have much of an impression.

“Then why is she clinging to you specifically?”

Gao Zhe explained, “Jin Rui interned at my company as a secretary assistant. She knew who I was, had met me privately too, so she assumed I was very close to Zhou Dan.”

Lu Zhenzhen sneered, “Since when were you such a warm-hearted person? Now you’re just spouting whatever comes to mind to fool me?”

“I’m not fooling you.”

Gao Zhe looked up. “Every word is true. I didn’t want to get involved with Jin Rui either. She made a scene at my company; every time she kicked up a fuss, I kicked her out. Later, Zhou Dan’s parents came to me and begged me to help them hide this child.”

Lu Zhenzhen lifted her brows slightly, questioning him with her eyes.

“Zhou Dan partied too hard. His body’s already shot; it’s very hard for him to have children. His family has always kept that from him. He thought he was just going in for a routine checkup. The matter of the child was something his parents discovered; they asked me to temporarily protect Jin Rui, because Zhou Dan doesn’t want a kid. He not only wants the child dead, he wants Jin Rui dead too. The elders can’t possibly let him carry a murder charge. They want a grandchild, but they can’t control him, so they had no choice but to come to me.”

Gao Zhe said, “Zhou Dan is pretty extreme. He’s young, acts without thinking about consequences. If things really blow up, there’s no one who can rein him in. So…”

Lu Zhenzhen couldn’t listen anymore. “I’m asking you: since when have you been that kind of warm-hearted person? Their screwed-up family drama lands on you and you just help out?”