Chapter 561: Chapter 563: The Death of the Child and Jiang Zhou
Suddenly, footsteps sounded from behind. Jiang Zhou quickly pulled the child and retreated backward.
Xia Zhaoshun saw her move but hadn’t reacted when he heard her bitterly laugh, “I truly foolishly bestowed my devotion on you!”
Xia Zhaoshun quickly realized that someone must have followed him there.
“You can’t escape, come back.”
“Go back? Hahaha, where can I even return to? If I go back, there is only one path, and that is the path to death!” Jiang Zhou looked at Xia Zhaoshun with profound emotion, as if trying to imprint him deeply in her mind.
“Wah wah wah…” The child woke up, suddenly crying out loud.
At that moment, Xia Zhaoshun felt a surge of compassion and reached out his hand, “The child is innocent. Don’t continue making mistakes, turning back is the shore!”
The child, held in Jiang Zhou’s arms, suddenly stopped crying and stared at Xia Zhaoshun with big, watery eyes.
A sweet smile appeared on his lips, revealing his white, neat teeth, as if he knew who he was.
Seeing this, Xia Zhaoshun was stunned, then a hint of joy spread across his face.
“Child…” Upon seeing this, Jiang Zhou called out in heart-wrenching pain.
She looked down at the child’s face, feeling a myriad of reluctances in her heart.
Pei Huaian and Yan Ze quickly surrounded her, and Xia Zhaoshun clenched his hand beside his body into a fist.
“Jiang Zhou, you really aren’t dead.” Pei Huaian coldly smiled, his gaze mocking as he glanced at Xia Zhaoshun.
Xia Zhaoshun hastily interjected to distance himself, “You led me here just to frame me?”
“That’s right, I loved you so much, yet you watched indifferently as I married someone else as his wife. How could I not hate you?”
Xia Zhaoshun pretended to be innocent, “What’s between us is in the past, why can’t you let go?”
“Let go? Hahaha!” Jiang Zhou laughed loudly into the sky, tears streaming down her cheeks.
She gritted her teeth as she looked at everyone, “Do you know what kind of life I’ve been living at the Fourth Prince’s Mansion?”
“Every day he would beat and humiliate me, even forcing me to do unspeakable things.”
“I thought that if I could just endure this period, things would get better, but I never expected…”
“I never expected that he would only get worse? Hehe, I’ve had enough, I’ve had enough!”
Xia Zhaoshun fell silent, his eyes becoming slightly red, his throat moved, but in the end, he didn’t speak.
Pei Huaian indifferently said, “If that’s the case, why did you even keep this child in the first place?”
This question stunned everyone present, including Pei Haolan, Pei Siyang, and Yan Ze. They could hardly believe what they had just heard.
How could this child possibly be Jiang Zhou’s?
Before they could recover, they heard Jiang Zhou actually confess.
“He is also a life,” Jiang Zhou said, looking up at Pei Huaian.
Pei Huaian raised an eyebrow, his gaze mocking as he looked at Jiang Zhou, “Then why are you attempting to harm him now?”
Jiang Zhou’s gaze was distant, “Because living would be too painful for him; it’s better to go with his mother on the road to the underworld. Then, I can continue to take care of him.”
In an unguarded moment, Doctor Shao sent a flying silver needle, rendering Jiang Zhou completely immobilized.
As Pei Huaian and others stepped forward, a trace of blood seeped from her lips.
Doctor Shao hurriedly removed the silver needle and checked her pulse, then, sighing heavily, let go of her hand.
“It’s too late, she’s already taken a lethal poison, and the toxin has spread to her internal organs.”
Jiang Zhou weakly stretched out her hand, trying to touch Xia Zhaoshun’s cheek.
Xia Zhaoshun caught her frail body and helped her to sit down slowly.
“I… don’t regret, don’t regret having loved… nor do I regret everything I’ve done.”
After speaking, her hand dropped.
“Jiang Zhou, Jiang Zhou!”
Xia Zhaoshun struggled to control his emotions, but the look in his eyes gave him away.
He slowly took the child, noticing the blood stains at the corners of the child’s mouth, and cried out, “Doctor Shao, Doctor Shao!”
Doctor Shao rushed over, checked the child’s pulse and breathing, and finally shook his head helplessly.
“How could this be, how could this be!”
Xia Zhaoshun couldn’t believe that the woman he loved and his son had left him like this.
Although he had indeed thought about killing Jiang Zhou at one time, he ultimately couldn’t bring himself to do it.
When Father Jiang arrived, all he saw was a man holding a child and crying bitterly.
Seeing the body on the ground, Father Jiang scolded her, “You rebellious daughter, to commit such a monstrous crime and even dare to die holding the child, you are simply inhuman!”
“If you wanted to die, you should have died alone; why involve this innocent life,” Father Jiang cried bitterly.
Doctor Shao muttered sardonically, “Pretending, he probably doesn’t care whether the child lives or dies; he’s worried about not having something to hold Xia Zhaoshun in check in the future.”
“Let’s go,” Pei Huaian said, pulling Doctor Shao away.
These scenes of life and death, every time he saw them, they filled him with fear and anxiety.
Yan Ze quickly caught up, asking, “What’s the matter with Xia Zhaoshun and Jiang Zhou?”
“Indeed, is that child Jiang Zhou and Xia Zhaoshun’s?” Pei Haolan also followed with the question.
Pei Siyang finally chimed in, “I want to know too. What exactly happened between them?”
Although there were some rumors in the Capital City, Jiang Zhou had still married Pei Chengye in the end, which made those rumors collapse on their own.
Unexpectedly, there was this major twist now.
Not only were the two involved, but they also had a child. It was a bit too much for people to accept all at once.
Doctor Shao answered, “It is just as you saw.”
“What exactly?” Yan Ze said.
“Just say it, will you?” Pei Haolan pressed on.
All three wore looks of eager curiosity on their faces.