After being reborn, I decisively broke off my engagement and married a cold-faced military young mas

Chapter 493 He confessed everything; the child wasn't his.

“It’s not that I’m blackmailing her, it’s that she’s afraid I’ll say something inappropriate, so she’s trying to pay me to shut me up.”

Lu Jiangting snorted coldly, which made it clear that Fang Qing must have some kind of leverage that Yang Guangzong had over her, otherwise she wouldn't have been so generous to Yang Guangzong.

"What secret?"

Yang Guangzong looked at Fang Qing and laughed, "You can't blame me. I wasn't planning to tell you. I intended to use this secret to get some money from you, but now I'm in trouble myself, so I have to protect myself first."

Fang Qing's face turned ashen, but at the same time, she breathed a sigh of relief.

She lowered her head and stopped speaking, as if resigned to her fate, letting Yang Guangzong tell Lu Jiangting the secret she had painstakingly kept hidden for months.

Yang Guangzong said that Fang Qing's belly was so big, she was more than five months pregnant. Lu Jiangting didn't react at first and sighed that time really flies, it's already been more than five months.

Two seconds later, he suddenly realized what was happening.

"More than five months."

"Yes, look how big her belly is, it doesn't look like she's more than three months pregnant. Lu Jiangting, this is Fang Qing's secret."

It was correct that the baby was over three months old. Fang Qing managed to persuade him to stay at a hotel for the night.

But things didn't go right after five months.

He calculated that more than five months ago, Fang Qing was still in her hometown.

So Fang Qing is carrying a bastard child?

Lu Jiangting clenched his fists, his whole body trembling.

"Where did you get this bastard child and try to force it onto my head?"

Fang Qing's tears streamed down her face, and she kept shaking her head.

Lu Jiangting grabbed her and demanded, "Tell me, who is that lover?"

Fang Qing continued to shake her head, still crying.

Lu Jiangting's cold gaze shifted to Yang Guangzong, who was tied to a chair.

Yang Guangzong's heart skipped a beat, wondering if Lu Jiangting would think it was him.

Yang Guangzong shook his head repeatedly, "It's not me. I have a wife. My wife is much prettier than Fang Qing. I wouldn't even look at Fang Qing."

"Didn't you get divorced?"

Yang Guangzong quickly said, "If she were really my child, wouldn't I treat her well? How could I threaten her every day? What good would it do me to expose her?"

That's true.

Lu Jiangting asked Fang Qing, "Whose child is this bastard?"

Fang Qing, who was already in tears, burst into tears again, "I don't know, I was... I was raped in my hometown during the Chinese New Year."

what?

Fang Qing clung to Lu Jiangting's leg, sobbing uncontrollably, and said, "I told you before, a widow with a child, all the bachelors around who can't find wives look at me with eyes that seem to want to eat me alive. I told you before, didn't I?"

Lu Jiangting's mind was completely blank.

Fang Qing continued, "Back then, when you asked me to bring Chenchen to seek refuge with you, wasn't it because you were worried that I would be harassed by those scoundrels?"

“Jiang Ting, do you still remember my hair salon? I was harassed by scoundrels, and when I refused, they smashed up my shop, making it impossible for me to stay in business. I have no family or support, and since Jianjun left, anyone can bully me.”

“I know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have taken Chenchen back to that cannibalistic place out of spite. If I hadn’t gone back, I wouldn’t have been raped, and I wouldn’t be pregnant with this bastard and living in constant fear…”

She sat on the ground, tears streaming down her face, desperately patting her stomach.

"That bastard, I'll beat that bastard to death..."

Fang Qing's performance was so convincing that it was hard to tell if it was real or fake; in any case, Yang Guangzong was stunned.

He secretly observed Lu Jiangting's expression, trying to figure out whether he believed it or not.

Lu Jiangting was also momentarily confused.

He knew that widows often attract gossip and trouble.

Fang Qing had mentioned to him more than once before that someone was harassing her.

The old women downstairs introduced her to potential partners, but they were mostly old scoundrels who couldn't find wives and were after her house and the subsidies she and her son received.

She refused, so some audacious old scoundrels tried to force the issue.

At the time, he thought that it was too dangerous for them, a widow and her child, to live in such a place, so he suggested that Fang Qing bring Chenchen to Nancheng.

If they come here, the organization will not ignore their difficulties, and no thugs will dare to harass them.

He knew all these things. If it were before, Lu Jiangting would have believed Fang Qing without hesitation.

However, over the past year or so, Fang Qing has gradually eroded his trust in her, and her words no longer carry much credibility with Lu Jiangting.

So... is what Fang Qing said true or not?

Lu Jiangting took a deep breath. "Then why didn't you say so earlier?"

“I dare not say, I’m afraid…” she looked at Yang Guangzong.

Yang Guangzong got angry when she looked at him, "What are you looking at me for, you stinking woman? I didn't get you pregnant."

Lu Jiangting said, "You stay put and behave yourself. Fang Qing, come out with me."

This was their private matter, and they didn't want Yang Guangzong to hear it.

Seeing that they had left while he was still tied up, Yang Guangzong hurriedly shouted, "Hey, untie me first. Lu Jiangting, Lu Jiangting, damn it..." followed by a string of profanities.

However, Lu Jiangting ignored him and took Fang Qing to a hotel to book a room, using the 250 yuan.

He has now confiscated the money.

"There are no outsiders here, so tell me what happened."

Fang Qing sobbed, "It's just like I said. I took Chenchen back to my hometown for the New Year, and those old hooligans who used to harass me came back. That night, I went downstairs to throw out the trash, and someone covered my mouth and dragged me into the alley. I don't know who it was."

Lu Jiangting clenched his fist. "You didn't call the police?"

“How can I report this? If this gets out, how can I live? How can Chenchen live? Once it gets out, Chenchen will never be able to hold his head up high again. He lost his father when he was young, which is already pitiful enough. Do you want him to be ridiculed for his mother being… Waaah…”

Fang Qing covered her face and cried incessantly.

Lu Jiangting sat to the side, head down, without saying a word.

He finally understood that he had absolutely no feelings for Fang Qing.

Hearing that Fang Qing had been in such a situation, he felt no shame or anger as if his wife had been wronged.

It was as if some psychological burdens had been lifted, and I felt relieved.

"Then why keep this child and try to frame me?"

That's what made him angry.

Fang Qing cried for a while, then wiped away her tears and said, "Originally, I wanted to secretly get rid of this child, but unfortunately, Sister Zhao saw me. She said that since I finally got pregnant, I couldn't have an abortion just because we had a fight. I was afraid she would tell you, so I never dared to have an abortion."

"And then you came up with a brilliant idea to make me the sucker?"

"This..." Fang Qing hesitated, "The situation at the time was unavoidable, Jiang Ting. I didn't want it to be like this. I was scared. I was afraid you would find me disgusting, and I was afraid you would kick me out. If I had nowhere to go, I would have to go back to that cannibalistic place, and the rape might happen again. I was scared."