Chapter 199: Chapter 199: Mom is More Important than Dad Chapter 199: Chapter 199: Mom is More Important than Dad Song Shuyan stood up excitedly, her eyes brimming with tears: “Only a little over two months? No matter what, I’m carrying a little life inside me, and you can’t be so heartless as to force me to abort the child. Even if you try to force me, the law won’t allow it!”
She actually brought up the law, clearly resisting his command in her heart.
Huo Tingdong said coldly, “That’s why I just asked you, whose child you’re carrying? Who is the father of the child?”
Song Shuyan said, “I can’t say. In the future, I will find an opportunity to tell you! Right now, I just want to take good care of my pregnancy, until the child is born healthy and safe, I ask for nothing else.”
Huo Tingdong said, “You refuse to say? You want me to investigate, is that it?”
Song Shuyan’s face flushed with anger: “Why must you force me? After all, the child isn’t yours, you don’t have a say over me. If being pregnant before marriage means no man will want me in the future, then I’ll just never marry, I don’t need a man to survive.”
Huo Tingdong’s face became particularly grim.
Now, he wanted to know, who that man was, who the father of the child was.
Song Shuyan had no boyfriend, nor a fiance, the origin of this child was truly mysterious.
The more she concealed it, the more suspicious he felt, believing there might be some hidden secret behind it.
Song Shuyan said, “If you came just to talk about this, then I don’t want to listen.”
She couldn’t possibly tell Huo Tingdong that she went abroad for IVF surgery, and the child in her belly, was his.
When Huo Tingdong was unconscious in bed, the Old Lady had once frozen a sample of his sperm.
Huo Tingdong was the man she had loved for so many years, how could she willingly give up the man she loved?
Therefore, after going abroad, she spent a huge amount of money to undergo IVF surgery.
She thought to herself, if Lin Qi could use her child to climb the social ladder, why couldn’t she?
Since she couldn’t retain his heart, then, after she successfully gave birth to his child, she didn’t believe he could be so heartless as to not acknowledge his own flesh and blood!
But now, no matter what, she couldn’t tell him.
If she did, with Huo Tingdong’s decisive nature, he would surely force her to abort the child.
At this time, she could only insist that the child belonged to another man; he had no reason, nor the right, to abort her and another man’s child.
Once the child was born, she would then reveal the child’s origins to him, leaving him no choice but to accept the child.
Song Shuyan didn’t care about status, but if she could make him look at her more through the child, she was willing to brave all dangers.
To undergo the surgery, she suffered a lot, as IVF procedures are painful; she couldn’t let her plan be thwarted halfway.
Thinking this, Song Shuyan said, “Stop using the pretense of caring about me to pressure me. If you really care about me, respect my wishes. My mind is made up.”
Huo Tingdong narrowed his eyes: “Is the child that important to you?”
He felt that Song Shuyan’s insistence on having the child was irresponsible towards the child.
Song Shuyan, taken aback, retorted, “Is Han important to you?”
Huo Tingdong said, “It’s not the same.”
Song Shuyan felt very wronged, and couldn’t help asking, “They’re both children, why should my child be treated differently than Han? Han is your child, my child is my child, both are our own flesh and blood. Han is so important to you, and my child to me is also precious, inseparable.”
Huo Tingdong said, “Han has a father.”
Song Shuyan said, “But Han doesn’t have a mother. My child has a mother, but no father. In a child’s life, a mother’s role is more important than a father’s. You know that, don’t you? No matter how well you treat Han, he still longs for a mother. He doesn’t even know who his mother is, doesn’t know what she looks like; you see how much he likes Lin Qi, it’s simply because he finds in her the feeling of having a mother.”
Huo Tingdong’s expression turned colder.
He asked, “How will you support the child?”
Song Shuyan said, “I have some savings. When the child is a little older, I will go back to work. Lin Qi could raise her son so well. I’m highly educated, with a stable job, earning a six to seven-figure salary. Raising a child is more than manageable. I don’t necessarily need a father. A woman alone can raise a child to adulthood. I’ve said it before, there are many single mothers out there.”
She seemed a bit emotionally agitated, her chest heaving, on guard as if her tail had been stepped on.
Huo Tingdong slightly frowned, seeing Song Shuyan’s determined stance, he slowly stood up: “I understand.”
Huo Tingdong said, “If you want to give birth, then give birth.”
Song Shuyan also realized that she had been too harsh just now; he must be angry with her.
“Tingdong, I know you care about me…”
Huo Tingdong said, “I just didn’t expect you to do something so outrageous.”
Song Shuyan said with some grievance, “Is having a baby before marriage such an outrageous thing? Is being a single mother so shameful? Is it that disreputable?”
Huo Tingdong said, “That’s your business. Just think it through carefully.”
With that, he strode away.
The door slammed shut.
Clearly, he was angry.
Song Shuyan suppressed her feeling of being wronged, gently caressing her small belly.
She was right in what she said earlier.
Before the baby in her belly was born, she would probably have to live some days in the dark.
But she believed that eventually, all would end well.
Huo Tingdong had just reached downstairs, his mood inexplicably irritable.
He had an extremely sharp intuition; he could clearly feel that Song Shuyan was acting too out of the ordinary.
Indescribable oddity.
As he reached the parking spot, he saw a few internet celebrities playing and taking selfies around his car.
One of the women was wearing a camisole and high-waisted pants, sitting on the car’s hood, while the other two internet influencers took out their phones, turning on level 10 beauty filters, and tried several angles of shots for her.
Huo Tingdong walked over, swept them with a cold glance, casually took out the car keys, and unlocked the car.
With a “beep”, the car suddenly made a noise and the headlights turned on.
The internet celebrities were startled, raised their heads, and saw Huo Tingdong standing five meters away, his expression cold.
The woman immediately got off the hood, asking somewhat nervously, “Handsome, is this your car?”
Huo Tingdong said indifferently, “Step aside.”
She didn’t expect this man, looking so gentlemanly and elegant, to have such a cold and brusque demeanor.
She had millions of fans on the live streaming platform, made a name for herself as one of the top ten beauties, and this man still gave her the cold shoulder, so dismissively drove her away.