Qin Yunxi: "..."
The woman in his arms was trembling, crying.
He felt his shirt getting wet, her tears seeming to scorch his thoughts at this moment.
After a long silence, he didn't know how to comfort her.
Qin Yunxi had never encountered such a situation. The women he had dated in the past were all business transactions. When he said it was over, it was over. He'd give them money, and it would be clean.
But Gu Shinian was different.
He knew she was kind, knew she had no ulterior motives, and was a pure, beautiful girl.
But between him and her, it was just a transaction.
Qin Yunxi loved Grace. Although he had a reputation for being promiscuous and had countless women, he also knew that in the world of emotions, three people were too many.
This was what his parents taught him: playing around was fine, having many women was fine, but only one at a time.
This was also the bottom line his parents had set for him.
So, after Qin Yunxi grew up, he knew that playing was fine, but the bottom line couldn't be crossed.
Therefore, even if it meant being cruel to Gu Shinian, he had to say "goodbye."
Qin Yunxi pulled her away, his low, hoarse voice laced with coldness, "I'm married."
Gu Shinian's tears instantly froze in her eyes. "Didn't you say... you weren't married?"
She had asked him, and he had said he was single, unmarried, and wanted children.
Qin Yunxi took a few steps back, widening the distance between them. "She didn't agree before, but now she does."
Gu Shinian: "—"
So, what was she?
A mistress?
Gu Shinian tightly pursed her lips, her face ashen.
Qin Yunxi felt a pang of guilt seeing her breaking down. He turned, his voice cold, "If you have nothing else to say, I'm leaving."
Gu Shinian: "—"
Qin Yunxi waited for two seconds, heard no response, and turned to leave.
Gu Shinian's tears streamed down her face. Staring at the man's indifferent back, she roared, "Qin Yunxi, I'm pregnant!"
Qin Yunxi's footsteps halted—What? What did she say?
"I'm pregnant."
"The doctor said it's triplets."
Triplets?
He had three children now?
Qin Yunxi's heart involuntarily filled with joy. He turned, but only halfway, then abruptly stopped.
The children had come at the wrong time.
If he acknowledged Gu Shinian's three children, Grace would only drift further away from him.
So, he couldn't acknowledge them.
"Get rid of them," Qin Yunxi said, his back to Gu Shinian, leaving her no room for hope. "The agreement is void, and I will still pay you the agreed amount."
After speaking, he left.
Without a hint of lingering affection, without a shred of softness, he left cruelly and indifferently.
Qin Yunxi knew he sounded like a scumbag, but he had never tried to portray himself as a good man.
Gu Shinian was destined to be just one of his many women. Perhaps a bit special, but not the most special.
Besides, Grace could also have children for him.
[Get rid of them? Get rid of them?]
He told her to abort the children?
Hearing his words, Gu Shinian completely collapsed. All her strength seemed to be drained away with the sound of the closing door.
"Clang—"
She fell to the ground.
[Qin Yunxi...]
He—
Didn't he say he wanted children? Didn't he say he hoped she would bear descendants for the Qin family?
But why did he suddenly go back on his word?
[Babies...]
They were children she had finally managed to conceive, they were living beings, how could she bear to deprive them of their right to come into this world?
But what could she do if she couldn't bear it?
Qin Yunxi didn't want her, and he didn't want the children...