CHAPTER 708: CHAPTER 703: MUST GIVE BIRTH TO A SON WITHIN A MONTH

Shuanzi stared at Xu He with her arrogant demeanor, his anger already brewing inside. As someone who mingles in the underworld, respect is paramount. Now, if he lets a woman threaten him openly, how would he command respect in the future?

He looked up, glanced at Xu He with a faint expression, and frowned, "So, you are refusing my proposal?"

Xu He could tell that Shuanzi was unhappy. She worried about messing things up too, but she knew she had to negotiate a result this time; she couldn’t just be a tool for Shuanzi to have children.

Although it meant receiving a sum of money, money eventually runs out. She wanted a worry-free life in the future.

Thus, despite feeling slightly panicked, she stood straight, looked at Shuanzi, and nodded, "Yes."

"Good." Shuanzi nodded slightly, stood up, and called out towards the door, "Someone, see the guest out. And send someone to her man to inform him about this child. I want to see if that Luo fellow really is that incompetent, wearing such a big green hat yet remaining indifferent."

"Stop." Xu He shouted to stop one of Shuanzi’s men who was already reaching the door, then turned anxiously towards Shuanzi, asking, "What are you trying to do?"

Shuanzi looked at her, with a relaxed expression, and repeated his purpose, "Have the child for me, and I’ll give you money. I’ve made myself very clear."

Hearing this condition, Xu He was vehemently against it, but fearing further aggravation of Shuanzi, she stated her demand, "No, the child is my life. Wherever my child is, I will be there too. If you really want the child, you must accept me, let me marry you, be your wife."

Upon hearing this, Shuanzi’s lips curled slightly, almost disbelieving what he just heard, he countered Xu He, "Marry me? Be my wife? With your current status?"

Shuanzi’s last remark reminded Xu He that she was still another man’s wife, making her proposal seem shamelessly inappropriate.

But to secure her future, Xu He had no choice but to nod.

Shuanzi looked at Xu He, then suddenly burst out laughing, "Haha."

"Haha." Not just Shuanzi, even his subordinates couldn’t believe it and laughed loudly.

"You..." Xu He’s face turned beet red from their laughter, but not knowing what else to say, she just bit her lip and stared at Shuanzi, her expression resolute, as if she would rather break than bend if Shuanzi disagreed.

Perhaps moved by her determined look, after laughing, Shuanzi thought for a moment and actually agreed to her words, but made a condition, "It’s not impossible, but I have one condition. I must wait until the child is born, and if I am sure it’s a son, only then will I marry you."

Hearing just this condition, Xu He immediately smiled, "Don’t worry, I have had a checkup at the hospital, the baby in my belly is definitely a son, there will be no mistake."

Shuanzi shook his head, "Seeing is believing. No one can be sure until it’s born."

Upon hearing this, Xu He weighed the pros and cons and voiced her worries, "What are your plans now? How would I know that after the child is born, won’t you just take the child and abandon me? If I give you the child, I definitely can’t stay in the Luo Family any longer, how am I supposed to live?"

"What do you propose?"

After thinking, Xu He stated her demand, "Like this, proceed as you said, you give me a sum of money, and I won’t use this money, just keep it temporarily as a deposit. Then you provide a written guarantee that you will marry me, otherwise your property belongs to me or something like that. When I give birth later, if it’s a son, and you marry me, this money naturally becomes ours. If it’s a daughter, you can deal with it as you like."

"This..." Shuanzi hesitated somewhat.

Seeing this, Xu He, afraid that he wouldn’t agree, purposefully provoked him, "You, being a boss, aren’t scared of how I might react, are you?"

"Fine, let’s do that, I’ll give you the money now," Shuanzi said, "But I have a condition, I must see you give birth to a son within one month."

"One month?" Xu He recalled her actual pregnancy timeline, and immediately shook her head, "No, my pregnancy isn’t even eight months yet, a month later will just be a bit over eight months, it’s not possible to give birth."

Shuanzi wasn’t interested in these details, simply saying, "That’s your problem, find a way yourself. I only have one month, I can’t wait that long."

After speaking, Shuanzi unilaterally drafted the document Xu He wanted, had someone bring the money, handed it to Xu He, "Someone, see the guest out."

Once Xu He left with the money, one of Shuanzi’s men expressed concern, "Boss, by pressuring her like this, won’t it endanger the child? After all, it’s your seed."

Shuanzi lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and spoke with a slight smirk, seemingly indifferent, "You all know, I, Shuanzi, don’t care much about offspring. Given my line of work, I even anticipated that I might die without descendants. It’s recently because my mother fell seriously ill, and the doctor said she doesn’t have many days left, I wanted to make her happy. I couldn’t find a woman who could immediately have a child, so I remembered what this woman once said in the marketplace."

"Besides, this woman is quite cunning. Just by looking at how she has fooled everyone in the Luo Family with her talk of carrying my child, you can tell she’s no simple woman. To put it bluntly, who knows whose child is actually inside her belly? If Shuanzi really wanted a woman to bear a child, would I need to resort to such an unclean woman?"

The subordinate nodded, feeling there was some logic to Shuanzi’s words, but was still uneasy, "But boss, you just promised her, otherwise you have to give her your property."

"A temporary measure. Once she gives birth, at worst, I’ll just give her the money." For Shuanzi, dealing with someone like Xu He, from others’ viewpoint, she may seem ruthless, but could she be more ruthless than himself?

Shuanzi’s subordinate, frowning, said, "But this woman is tough. If she cries and shouts demanding the child, and if this issue escalates, especially if it reaches the old lady, it won’t be easy to handle."

As Shuanzi’s right-hand man, often like a military advisor, planning and strategizing for him, he needed to consider all these matters for Shuanzi.

"We’ll deal with it when the time comes," Shuanzi flicked off some ash, a woman like her, he really didn’t take to heart.