Chapter 267 - Make a Choice (1/2)

Shi Qingxue hesitated.

After a moment of silence, under Shi Junhe’s eyes almost with a plea…

She gave up the simple and cruel idea of checking Leng Yan’s body to expose her true face.

When Leng Yan got complacent once more, Shi Qingxue took out a pill from her pocket and gave it to her.

Meeting Leng Yan’s doubtful eyes, Shi Qingxue smiled and said casually, “Since you are unwilling to be checked, I won’t force you. Eat this pill.”

“What’s this?” Leng Yan stared at that pill alertly and didn’t want to move.

It was joking. She knew that Shi Qingxue felt hostility towards her and she would eat this pill only if she was a fool.

“Don’t worry. It won’t take your life.” Shi Qingxue saw through Leng Yan at a glance and smiled faintly, explaining, “It won’t harm you, but it is tonic.”

Leng Yan looked at Shi Qingxue and still didn’t believe her.

Her eyes seemed to ask, “Are you so kind-hearted?”

Shi Qingxue took it for granted and nodded, expressing that she was always kind-hearted.

Then she said unhurriedly, “But some kinds of medicinal materials have been added to this tonic. I wonder if you will mind.”

“What medicinal materials?” Leng Yan hurriedly asked.

“Flowers carthami and musk…”

As soon as Shi Qingxue started to speak, she saw that Leng Yan turned pale.

She wasn’t anxious and added, “But since you said that you are not pregnant, if you eat the two kinds of medicinal materials, it will strengthen your physical health instead of harming you.

“What do you think? Eat it?”

Shi Qingxue intentionally pushed the pill to Leng Yan again and urged her to eat it.

Leng Yan stared at the pill in Shi Qingxue’s hand and couldn’t be so hard-hearted as to receive it.

As long as she ate it, her baby couldn’t be saved.

However, at the moment, she didn’t even have the right to refuse.

She couldn’t refuse to eat the pill with the same excuse that she had used earlier.

After all, as Shi Qingxue said, she would help Leng Yan if the latter ate the tonic.

It was under the condition that Leng Yan wasn’t pregnant.

“What’s wrong? It’s just a pill with tonic. Can’t you make a decision?” Shi Qingxue pushed unhurriedly.

Leng Yan raised her head resentfully and glared at Shi Qingxue, silently expressing her grievance, “I didn’t offend you. Why do you aim at me?”

Shi Qingxue met her eyes calmly, even with a colder gaze. “Humph, you provoked my mother first. I just get back at you in a crueler way.”

After all, Leng Yan was the one who felt guilty. Under Shi Qingxue’s gaze, she didn’t have confidence anymore.

She lowered her eyes, with lots of thoughts in her brain.

On one hand, she would never give up the position that she almost got; on the other hand, Shi Qingxue’s pill would make her lose her only backup.

And even after she ate it and proved her “innocence”, probably she couldn’t end it smoothly, but…

After pondering for a long time, Leng Yan pinched her thigh with strength and made a decision in the end.

She raised her head again to look at Shi Qingxue and received the pill from her while trembling. Then she stressed each word. “Okay. I will eat it.”

Raising the pill in front of her, Leng Yan had tears in her eyes.

No matter how inhuman she was, when she had to do that, she was still unwilling to.

After all, she would take the life of the baby in her womb.

“Baby, don’t blame your mother.

“I have no choice but to sacrifice you in order to gain glory and wealth.

“If you want to blame somebody, just blame the heartless members in this family. They forced me to do so.”

Leng Yan closed her eyes and prepared to put the pill in her mouth.

But at the crucial moment, a small hand blocked between her mouth and the pill.

Leng Yan opened her eyes, looking at Shi Qingxue and her hand in astonishment.

“You…”

Looking cold and serious, Shi Qingxue grabbed the pill under Leng Yan’s startled eyes and sneered. “Although I will expose all the evil things you have done, I am not so cold-hearted as to kill an innocent baby.

“Leng Yan, you are the baby’s mother, but you are so cruel that you can sacrifice the baby in your womb in order to protect your glory and wealth. Does such a person like you deserve to be a mother?

“Even a vicious tiger will not eat its cubs. You are worse than a beast.”

Leng Yan felt too ashamed to show her face after Shi Qingxue commented on her to the point, and she couldn’t raise her head.

Shi Qingxue stared at Leng Yan sternly and stressed each word. “Leng Yan, if you have conscience, just admit what evil you have done. There is no secret in the world. Do you really think that you can hide it from everybody? I will give you the last chance to tell the truth. Maybe I can spare your life for the sake of the innocent baby in your womb.”