Chapter 563: Chapter 563: Chi Enen Asked!
Half an hour later, Li Beijue received a call from Kim Zhiyuan. She informed him that the Huanya Casino had released Lin Nai.
“I owe you a favor, and I’ll remember it. Come to me when it’s time to repay it!”
He hung up the phone and immediately called Huo Yi, who was in the domestic office, to arrange for Enen’s grandfather to be transferred to another hospital. Then he put down the mobile phone, stretched his long legs, and walked over to Chi Enen, “It’s okay now, everything’s settled.”
Enen’s anxious heart finally relaxed, her expression lightening as she smiled, “Thank you, Li Beijue.”
“Don’t thank me with words; thank me with actions,” he replied.
Enen chose to ignore his comment. Now that the pressing matter had been resolved, she suddenly remembered something she had overheard him say on the phone earlier, and casually brought it up, “By the way, Li Beijue. Just now, when I was bringing you the coffee, I accidentally overheard you talking on the phone. You said, if the baby I’m carrying is a daughter, you’ll want me to get an abortion. What do you mean by that? Did I only hear half of it, or did I misunderstand?”
She asked unexpectedly, as if it were just a casual conversation that came to mind. However, for Li Beijue, the question was anything but casual. His pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints as he looked at her—
How much did she hear?
It felt as if his heart was suddenly gripped by a massive hand, leaving him feeling breathless. Faced with those relaxed eyes looking at him full of trust, it was as if his throat was stuck, and he couldn’t utter a single word.
“…What do you think I meant?” he managed to ask.
Enen wondered how to approach the topic. She tilted her head slightly and asked softly, “Li Beijue, do you have a bit of a gender preference?”
He possessed all the traits of a macho, being unbearably domineering when he chose to be and just as forcefully assertive. It’s common for those with macho attitudes to have a slight preference for boys, believing sons can carry on the family line, while daughters are considered someone else’s responsibility. Could he possibly share such views?
Perhaps in speaking with others, his expressive language might be somewhat exaggerated. Just as sometimes, when jokingly scolding a friend, one might say “Why don’t you just die?” It’s not an actual death wish for the friend but instead a way to express, ‘You’ve angered me; come and soothe me.’
So, when he said on the phone that if she were carrying a daughter, he would want an abortion, it could simply be his way of expressing a preference for a son.
With a hoarse voice and unprecedented seriousness in his eyes, Li Beijue locked gazes with her, “If… I say if… I preferred sons over daughters. If you were carrying a daughter, would you have an abortion?”
“If I said I really disliked daughters, to the extent that if you were pregnant with one, it would upset me greatly, Chi Enen, would you give up the child for me?”
Would she give up the child in her stomach for his sake?
Enen was stunned by the question; such a choice had never crossed her mind before. The ultimatum that Li Beijue imposed was not a simple multiple-choice question but rather a life-or-death dilemma. It was as potent as “If your mother and I were drowning and neither of us could swim, and you could only save one of us, whom would you choose?”
Footsteps pattered outside the study room, and Bae Chi’s voice came through, “Woman!”
“Woman, where are you?”
Enen snapped back to reality, feeling as if she had been rescued, and immediately stood up to leave, “I’m here.”
She had just reached the doorway,
When suddenly, the man behind her grabbed her. With a yank, he pulled her back and pinned her against the edge of a wall—