Running Away While Pregnant with the Villain’s Child - Chapter 29

According to her memories, she had traveled to this world and, while trying to avoid that guy—the male lead—she had chosen the villainess to be her girlfriend.

After that, she and the villainess, Pei Junzhuo, had turned their “fake” relationship into a real one.

She had truly fallen in love with Pei Junzhuo, which was why she chose to hide from her the moment she discovered she was pregnant.

Looking at it this way, aside from the pregnancy itself being quite strange, the rest of the events seemed to follow a somewhat reasonable logic.

However, Luo Xingran still found it odd that she would choose to run away from Pei Junzhuo.

If she encountered something like this, would she really hide from the person she loved?

She loved someone, yet she didn’t even have the most basic level of trust.

Was it because Pei Junzhuo was a “super villain”?

If she truly believed Pei Junzhuo was a villain and thought she would kill innocents or bring harm to her family, then she wouldn’t have fallen in love with her in the first place.

As she doubted this, Luo Xingran felt a sudden sharp pain in her abdomen.

Speaking of which, it was also strange how she chose to believe the child belonged to Pei Junzhuo rather than suspecting she had been drugged or something similar.

This idea, which defied established facts, was deeply rooted in her mind.

Luo Xingran felt that both her thoughts and the current development of events were tinged with a sense of the uncanny.

Rather than the real world, this felt more like a dream.

However, with the due date only three days away, it was impossible for Luo Xingran to terminate the pregnancy now.

Once the child was born, she decided she would simply do a DNA test for the baby and Pei Junzhuo. The moment this thought appeared, a flood of other ideas jumped into her head.

“Pei Junzhuo is a murderer. Pei Junzhuo is a murderer.”

Luo Xingran found the simple sentence almost laughable.

Pei Junzhuo had never killed anyone. Besides, this world was supposed to be a society governed by the rule of law. If she had truly killed someone, she would be in prison.

This thought felt like a crude product forcefully shoved into her brain.

“Ranran, are you up?” Mother Luo’s voice sounded at the door, and Luo Xingran habitually responded.

“It’s good that you’re up. Your father and I are waiting for you downstairs for breakfast.” Mother Luo’s voice was very gentle, a sound Luo Xingran found deeply familiar.

It felt as if she had heard this voice waking her up every single morning in the past.

While heading down the stairs, Luo Xingran held her stomach and walked slowly.

This sensation felt extremely foreign to her. Logically, at this stage of pregnancy, she should be very familiar with this gait and state of being.

Yet now, she felt that every step she took was unexpectedly clumsy.

Nothing felt right; everything made Luo Xingran feel uneasy.

When she finally sat at the table, Luo Xingran stared blankly at the spread of breakfast.

“Xingran, take a look and see if there’s anything you like.” Mother Luo bustled about, ushering Luo Xingran to sit and eat.

“It’s all very good.” Luo Xingran looked at the table full of dishes, her heart warming slightly.

With so much food, every single item was something she loved to eat.

This clearly showed Mother Luo’s deep love for her daughter.

“Daughter, this bowl of fish soup is very nourishing. See if you want to drink some.” Father Luo quietly placed a bowl of fish soup by Luo Xingran’s left hand.

“Give your dad some credit; he went out early this morning to catch this fish himself.” Mother Luo teased her husband.

Upon hearing this, Father Luo said sheepishly, “Why mention that in front of the child?”

“Try it. If you don’t like it, Daddy will catch a different fish for you next time.” Father Luo looked at her with a face full of affection, just as gentle as Mother Luo.

Seeing how loving her parents were, Luo Xingran actually found herself losing her appetite.

“Mom, Dad, I… I’m pregnant out of wedlock. Don’t you feel that I’ve…”

At this point, Luo Xingran put down the spoon she had just picked up.

As her parents, how could they not feel disappointed that their daughter was pregnant without being married?

“It’s fine,” Mother Luo spoke up first, fearing her daughter would overthink things.

“Your father and I were already thinking about having you bring a son-in-law into our home.”

“Regardless, the two of us couldn’t bear to see you marry away. You are our daughter; there’s no such thing as a ‘married-off daughter being like spilled water’ here.”

“Now that you have a child and we don’t have to deal with a son-in-law I don’t even know, it’s practically the best of both worlds.”

Mother Luo’s tone held no trace of blame, only a deep, protective love.

“Yes, yes, that’s exactly it. Your mother and I didn’t want you to marry out anyway.”

“It’s just, daughter, after you have this one, just date for fun. Don’t have any more kids; it’s too hard on the body.”

Father Luo shook his head in disapproval of more children, and Mother Luo agreed that this was the real truth of the matter.

“Then, what if the child’s father comes looking for the baby…”

Seeing their attitude, Luo Xingran couldn’t help but tease them.

“Pei Junzhuo? As long as you don’t do a paternity test, she will never find out this is her child.”

Mother Luo sounded extremely confident, not at all worried about her grandchild being taken away.

Hearing this, Father Luo also nodded.

“Exactly, precious daughter! You must guard our grandchild strictly!” Father Luo nodded vigorously, showing his complete agreement.

“Also, you mentioned before that you wanted to escape abroad. Your mother and I feel that foreign care for new mothers is far too crude. We’ve told everyone you went to England.”

“When the time comes, you’ll still give birth here in the country, okay, sweetheart?” Father Luo patted Luo Xingran’s head with an affectionate look.

Mother Luo also expressed her agreement.

“Wait, Mom, Dad… you both think this child belongs to Pei Junzhuo, too?” Luo Xingran looked at them, her eyes wide with shock.

“If that’s actually true, it would be an epoch-making discovery.” Luo Xingran found it unbelievable that the two of them accepted this so calmly.

“Daughter, we sent bodyguards with you every time you went out. Based on your daily itinerary, if this child isn’t Pei Junzhuo’s, then it could only have been a miraculous conception.”

Mother Luo spoke in an ordinary tone, as if she were simply stating the day’s temperature.

“Exactly. Though I still think a miraculous conception would be better. That way, no one would truly be able to fight us for the child.”

Father Luo’s head nodded like a woodpecker’s.

Luo Xingran, sitting in her chair: ???

Seeing her daughter’s confused face, Mother Luo pulled a chair over to sit beside her.

She pulled Luo Xingran into her arms and gently patted her daughter’s back.

“Precious daughter, no matter what you do or what you say, your father and mother will always choose to believe you.”

Hearing this, Luo Xingran felt tears about to burst from her eyes.

These were tears shed because of overwhelming warmth.

“Daddy too.” Father Luo walked over and rubbed his daughter’s head.

Compared to what everyone else considered common sense, Father Luo and Mother Luo chose to stand by her side.

This kind of familial love was something many families could only dream of. So many children, even when telling the truth, could not earn their parents’ trust.

What they received instead was only a cold demand for an apology.

Luo Xingran remembered that before she traveled here, she was an orphan. Feeling this familial love now made it so warm that she felt like crying.

On the other side, Pei Junzhuo was feeling overwhelmed. She clearly remembered that her parents weren’t usually this unreliable.

They had completely dumped the company’s affairs on her to go traveling, which had lowered the bar for their behavior in recent years.

And the banner they were flying was that they were “looking for Xingran.”

Really, it was too absurd.

Pei Junzhuo felt it was just an excuse. Knowing the Luo parents, they generally wouldn’t let Luo Xingran go abroad.

If she did go abroad, they would have made full preparations, and that move would have definitely caught her attention.

Therefore, Luo Xingran should still be within the country.

It was just that the exact location was indeed difficult to track down.

Pei Junzhuo rubbed her brow, looking at the mess of accounts in front of her with a nameless fire she had nowhere to vent. She pressed the intercom button.

“Have the finance manager come in.”

Pei Junzhuo’s secretary was very efficient; three minutes later, the finance manager appeared in the office.

“A Master’s degree from a top ten Ivy League university, and you bring me this? Is this your so-called professional integrity?”

“Making such low-level mistakes—I’m almost too lazy to guess if you’re a spy sent by a rival company.”

“If they could actually pull something like this off, they wouldn’t even be worthy of being our group’s competitor.”

Pei Junzhuo threw the document onto the desk, not even bothering to give the other person a look.

The finance manager hurriedly picked up the file. Upon opening it, she felt like she was about to have a heart attack.

Decimal points were misplaced, dates were wrong—essentially every single line contained the most basic, fundamental errors.

No, it should be said these were mistakes even an elementary student wouldn’t make.

“Did you write this document?” Pei Junzhuo’s eyes were cold. With her gold-rimmed glasses on, she looked even more like a decisive, ruthless executive.

“No, it was written by Li Dan, the newly appointed HR supervisor,” the finance manager explained, trembling.

Of course, she knew very well that even if she hadn’t written it, the fact that it reached Pei Junzhuo after her review was her own failure.

If this document were sent out, the resulting loss would be enough to keep her in prison for the rest of her life.

She had actually thought Li Dan was a promising talent and had personally promoted him. Her brain must have been made of paper.

“Finance Manager, you were promoted by my father. He valued your caution and prudence. Bringing me something like this today is truly disappointing.”

“If this happens one more time, both you and the person who prepared this report can get out of the company. You’ll get every cent of compensation you’re owed, but from now on, I don’t want to hear either of your names anywhere.”

“As for Li Dan, demote him from supervisor to specialist. If he doesn’t agree to the job change, give him N+3 and tell him to get lost.”

Pei Junzhuo sat down, having completely calmed herself as she spoke. The more stable her emotions became, the more terrifying her words sounded.

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