The Lost Omega Heiress is Pregnant with My Child - Chapter 37.3

She had a vague impression of the person in front of her, she had seen him once in Shen Tingxue’s lab. In her memory, this person had been assisting Chu Yi with recording at the time. He was a somewhat thin male beta.

So, it was one of Shen Tingxue’s subordinates who had come.

Ji Tianheng hadn’t let the fire in his heart consume his rationality.

Even though she had a laundry list of old and new grievances with the Shen family, the Shens were a behemoth in the empire. Though they lacked significant armed forces, a direct assault was the worst possible strategy.

Moreover, her own daughter had followed Shen Tingxue to the Special Zone and willingly remained his secret lover for so long.

If she were to kill Shen Tingxue outright now, Shi Anzhi would surely resent her.

Generally speaking, when people receive devastating news that shatters their worldview, they tend to subconsciously direct their anger at the messenger.

Such a thankless task was beneath her, she wouldn’t stoop to handling it personally.

The way for Shi Anzhi to learn the truth was never through her rashly revealing it.

After calmly deliberating for a few minutes, Ji Tianheng ordered her subordinates to modify the original plan.

[No need to send He Rui back to his apartment. Have the Li family come immediately and install the Ant-7 Neural Overlay Prosthetic in him as quickly as possible.]

The Li family’s technology was still in the secret research phase. Once implanted, it could read the target’s autonomic neural signals in real time and attempt to override them, making the recipient appear normal on the surface while every word, action, and even micro-expression was controlled by the operator.

Currently, this technology only worked successfully on the brain-dead. In other words, to ensure successful implantation, the subject had to be brain-dead. Due to its extreme inhumanity, it could never pass regulatory approval.

But Ji Tianheng believed in the project. In her view, further research didn’t require deliberately creating brain-dead subjects they could simply dig up a few corpses from the cemetery. What was there to fear? Ji Tianheng had always been lawless and unafraid of ghosts haunting her at midnight.

She had privately sponsored the Li family to continue researching this project. Now was the time to test the results.

The Li family’s technicians rushed over, implanted a prosthetic smaller than a grain of rice into the back of He Rui’s head, and, following instructions, embedded a surveillance device disguised as decorative patterns on his collar.

At that moment, a subordinate reported: [President Ji, we’ve successfully breached the interference. Miss Shi is currently at Shen Tingxue’s private residence. Based on our infiltration of the smart home system, everything appears normal and safe for now.]

Ji Tianheng acknowledged with a hum.

She asked the Li family technicians, “How long are you confident you can maintain control?”

The technician replied, “According to experimental data, the average control duration is five hours. It could be longer, but the subject will become increasingly sluggish over time.”

Six hours was roughly the limit. If they could collaborate with the Shen family, combining top-tier pharmaceutical expertise with advanced prosthetic research would be an unbeatable combination. But the two families were like fire and water, and currently, the Ant-7 Neural Overlay Prosthetic had hit a bottleneck.

Five hours Ji Tianheng nodded. It was just enough time for He Rui to reveal the truth to Shi Anzhi.

That was sufficient.

Now, Shi Anzhi opened the door, watching He Rui warily.

“Hello.”

“What is it?”

Shi Anzhi wondered if he was here to collect experimental materials.

He Rui’s face was clean, and he was dressed in casual clothes, but his eyes were abnormal. Compared to a normal person, his pupils were lifeless, and his expression was peculiar.

He seemed remorseful.

Before Shi Anzhi could process it, he suddenly dropped to his knees with a thud and kowtowed heavily to her.

He lowered his head, his voice barely audible at first. “Miss Shi, I’m He Rui, the lead researcher at the Shen family’s Laboratory 7, and Chu Yi’s assistant. You’ve met me before.”

“I’ve come to atone for my sins.”

Shi Anzhi was bewildered by his sudden behavior. “What are you talking about?”

He Rui was now like a puppet, carrying out Ji Tianheng’s commands.

[Begin.]

He Rui, kneeling on the ground, shuddered.

He lifted his head and looked directly at Shi Anzhi. “Miss Shi, I must tell you the truth. We’ve been studying your pheromones all along.”

Shi Anzhi hummed in confusion. “I know.”

“Ah Xue is doing this to treat my disability. Didn’t we already run tests before?”

“How should I cooperate going forward?”

When Ji Tianheng monitored this statement, his fury erupted even more violently. Shen Tingxue knew full well that their daughter’s pheromones were special absolutely not a disability yet she dared to deceive and humiliate him like this!

“That’s not it.”

He Rui, under control, quickly explained, “Shen Tingxue discovered that your pheromones have the power to soothe Alphas and can act as a stabilizer to advance the Super Alpha Project. To complete the project within the deadline set by the Governor’s Office, she devised a plan.”

“Targeting you, she planned to use live stress extraction.”

Shi Anzhi listened to these words, her mind going blank, but her heart was already racing.

“That means restraining you on an experimental table, using various drugs and mental stimuli to forcibly extract your pheromones. For this purpose, we have already extracted your glandular fluid for foundational research.”

Shi Anzhi’s eyes widened instantly, staring at the person before her in disbelief. “What nonsense are you saying?”

She murmured to herself, “Ah Xue was trying to cure me. She told me so.”

He Rui’s face, under manipulation, twisted into an eerie smile. “Miss Shi, that was just a lie!”

“It was a lie to make you willingly step onto the experimental table.”

He paused, then delivered an even more devastating blow. “Just like when she told you she was carrying your child.”

How did this person know she and Shen Tingxue had a child?

Shi Anzhi pressed her throbbing temples, her voice beginning to tremble with sobs. “Stop talking.”

She felt something irreversible was suddenly happening and wished she could force time to stop. She didn’t want to know, didn’t want to accept it.

Ji Tianheng paused briefly, then coldly continued revealing the truth to Shi Anzhi, not caring whether it was entirely accurate, it was close enough. Right now, she was eagerly anticipating joining forces with her bloodline to exact revenge on the Shen family.

But before that, she needed to sever her daughter’s misplaced affection for the Shen family’s descendant.

He Rui’s lips moved mechanically. “The young lady was never pregnant, Miss Shi. She was only injecting herself with rabbit pregnancy hormones.”

“It’s a banned substance that creates false pregnancy symptoms. She did all this to deepen your trust with the idea of a child, ultimately to deceive you out of your pheromones.”

Shi Anzhi felt her entire world collapsing around her. Dizzy and disoriented, she felt a wrenching pain deep in her organs, as if everything inside her had shifted out of place.

Even the child was fake?

Impossible. Shen Tingxue had clearly started experiencing morning sickness, and as her partner, Shi Anzhi had seen the real changes in her body.

They had just been discussing what the nursery should look like this morning.

Losing control, she rushed forward and grabbed He Rui by the collar, her eyes turning red. “You’re lying! Why would you say these things? Who sent you to deceive me?”

“Who are you? You just called Ah Xue by her name directly, you’re not really her subordinate, are you?”

“Why are you pretending to be someone else? Why are you betraying your master?”

“I’m not lying. All the evidence is here.”

He Rui allowed Shi Anzhi to grip him, his voice still flat and emotionless.

In the monitoring room, Ji Tianheng watched Shi Anzhi’s agony, a sharp pang of pain piercing his heart.

Shi Anzhi’s first reaction wasn’t to believe the revelation but to question the whistleblower’s motives.

Could she really love Shen Tingxue that much?

Ji Tianheng felt a trace of lingering fear in her heart, grateful that she hadn’t chosen a more direct approach to intervene. Otherwise, the bloodline she had regained might truly have come to resent her.

Simultaneously, she issued new instructions to both He Rui and the technical staff.

[Continue. Extract the memories and display them.]

[Share the holographic projection. Let her see the evidence, but skip the side effects of Rabbit Gestagen.]

Ji Tianheng thought to herself, that Shen girl was truly going all out to think she’d resort to such methods just to keep Shi Anzhi under control.

Sorry, little girl…

You brought this upon yourself.

Under manipulation, He Rui slowly raised his hand and operated the holographic projection. One by one, experimental reports filled with data appeared.

There was the framework diagram of the Shepherd Project, documents labeling her as “Shepherd – Core Stabilizer – Test Subject – Shi Anzhi,” and internal documents signed by Shen Tingxue, applying for the highest concentration of Rabbit Gestagen, with Shen Tingxue’s signature at the bottom.

Shi Anzhi stared at the seemingly irrefutable evidence, her grip on He Rui’s collar gradually loosening.

Her body swayed, and she staggered back a couple of steps.

Was even the child a lie? Impossible, impossible.

What was even real anymore?

Long-suppressed agony escaped her throat. Had all her love and trust been nothing but chips to be exploited in Shen Tingxue’s eyes?

Shi Anzhi leaned against the wall, struggling to stay upright.

She had known all along that Shen Tingxue had once looked down on her. When Shen Tingxue’s attitude suddenly changed, she had thought it was because of the pregnancy, because of the child that they had a chance to love each other again.

But it turned out to be nothing but a web of lies, one woven into another.

All this time, Shen Tingxue had been deceiving her.

He Rui’s voice continued to echo, “Miss Shi, I’m telling you all this because I don’t want to act against my conscience. Now, while the young lady hasn’t returned yet, you should leave quickly.”

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