Chapter 2

In the video, Jiang Ming and Tian Tian seem to be kissing passionately.

This short video also has the time and date, it was three days ago, when I was feeling unwell and wanted to go to the hospital, hoping Jiang Ming would accompany me, but he refused using "busy" as an excuse.

Little did I know my unwellness was due to pregnancy.

His "busy" was actually busy dating the little junior.

Thinking of this, my heart instantly sank to the bottom.

All my preparations seemed to have become a joke.

But I wanted to hear him personally explain to me what exactly was going on between him and Tian Tian.

So I called him again.

This time, it rang for quite a while before being answered.

The person on the other side wasn't him, but his agent Wang Na.

"Miss Fan, we're busy tonight, do you have something urgent?" Wang Na has always been at odds with me; she doesn't understand Jiang Ming's decision to marry early.

"I do." Usually, when Wang Na says this, I would apologize and hang up, not daring to disturb them, but today I must get clarity.

"Then I'll have him call you back later." Wang Na replied impatiently, then casually placed the phone on the table.

She didn't hang up the call, so I suddenly heard the voices of two men.

One was Jiang Ming, and the other was his current entertainment company boss, who is also his childhood friend, Feng Xiaotao.

"Oh my big star, just a kiss leading to a relationship leak dominating the hot search, if it comes out that you are secretly married with a child, won't you occupy the whole hot search list?"

Feng Xiaotao deliberately emphasized the words "secretly married with a child".

He's one of the few who knows about my existence.

I could tell he was mocking Jiang Ming for marrying early because of me.

But the next second, my attention was completely seized by Jiang Ming.

He answered Feng Xiaotao, saying, "There will be no kids."

"Why not?" Feng Xiaotao asked puzzled, "You've been married for quite a few years, it's time to have a kid."

Jiang Ming is an actor, there aren't many restrictions on getting married and having children.

"Don't want to have one with her." Jiang Ming paused before saying this.

I felt thunderstruck in an instant.

We have been together for seven years, married for three, and yet he doesn't want to have a child with me?!

I once thought the baby in my belly was the fruit of our love, but he saw it as a burden.

"If you don't want kids with her, why did you marry her?" Feng Xiaotao continued to ask, "So she forced marriage, right? Fan Jiao, with her clutch on you, surely wouldn't let go!"

"You pointed east, she wouldn't dare look west, probably wants to have a baby to tie you down! She can't live without you in this lifetime."

"Once a man has kids, he loses his freedom! Your thinking is right, don't have kids with her! Not even one!"

Feng Xiaotao rambled on with a bunch of nonsense.

I didn't dare listen to Jiang Ming's response and hung up immediately.

Looking up at the candlelight dinner, it turned cold again, but I had no desire to reheat it.

It turns out, in others' eyes, I am just a clinging plaster to Jiang Ming, never able to get away from him in my lifetime.

Even the child I thought was our love's fruit was seen as a shackle on freedom.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

I went to open the door.

It was the girl from the video, Tian Tian.

"You, you are... the housekeeper here, right?"

She wore a baseball cap covering most of her face, but as soon as she looked up at me, I recognized her.

I stood there dumbfounded, she saw I didn't respond and walked right past me inside.

Shouting inside the house, "Jiang Ming, are you home?"

"What business do you have with him?" I clenched my fists, keeping my voice calm as I asked.

"Our business isn't convenient for you to convey." Tian Tian smiled, then turned back to look at me and said, "When we were filming, Jiang Ming always brought home-cooked meals, not eating the on-set fast food, saying he had an excellent housekeeper who made delicious food. Didn't expect the housekeeper to be so young."