3.

Bang!

Hearing the cold sound of the door closing, she hugged her shoulders and felt the frightening bruises on her wrists. Her eyes were swollen, but she dared not let out even the tiniest cry, even if it was just a whimper.

Soon after, she heard the sound of a car engine starting up coming from outside.

The vehicle drove into the distance, further and further away, until the sound of the engine subsided. Realizing his departure, she could no longer endure it. She immediately shut her eyes and sobbed her heart out.

In this unfamiliar seaside villa, she gave the pure her up completely to an unknown male.

Before, she wondered on why he would choose her. After giving it some thought, she concluded that it was because of her identity as a commoner that would be unable to fight for the child’s custody rights in the future.

She did not know if this was right and how long she should hide this from her father. Her family’s situation had driven her into a corner and she was at her wits’ end, but she did not regret this – to be precise, she was in no position to regret this.

To a person struggling to make ends meet, this thing called pride was too much of a luxury, and this was also her only way out.

Moreover, as an adopted child, for the past few years, her father had always treated her like she was his own flesh and blood. Despite her adoptive mother and sister not liking her, she was not short of anything in life. Thus, she was already very grateful for this. Now that the financial crisis had left her family in dire straits, she had to repay their kindness somehow.

She did not want to think of anything else for now.

Weston would never know that this night had left so many everlasting scars in her life and, even more so, he would never know of his future interactions with this woman.

…

Dawn. The rays of the morning sun.

Yuna carefully sat herself up the bed and slowly removed the piece of red silk covering her eyes. She covered herself up with the snowy white sheets and walked to the window to pull the curtains wide apart.

However, the rays of the sun were unable to shine into her heart.

From outside came hurried footsteps.

The door swung wide open.

Shocked, Yuna spun around, only to see a dignified and glamorous lady walk in and approach her with an angry face. Obediently walking by her side was the secretary she had signed the surrogacy contract with.

The lady stepped toward her. Standing still, looking all high and mighty, she examined her from head to toe with disgust. Once she lay her eyes on the hickey on her body, she froze.

Yuna anxiously covered her body with the blanket more tightly, but it was unable to hide that love mark on her neck.

Jealousy and anger pricked her eyes. She spoke furiously, “You’re… You’re that surrogate?!”

Yuna gulped. “Yes… and you are….”

SMACK!

The reply she received was a tight slap to her face!

“You shameless b*tch! You… How dare you… How dare you…” The lady grabbed her hair with rage as her face drained of color. “Don’t think that by giving birth to his baby, you can use this to gain status! Let me warn you; I am his legitimate fiancée and you are just a surrogate! Don’t even think of coveting something that is not yours, you understand?!”

Yuna was astounded. She spoke perplexedly, “I signed the contract, and I am clear about the clauses! I know my place, would you please….”

“It’s good that you understand!” Her chest puffed up as she spoke. Although she knew, deep down, that if she were fertile, this girl would never come along to give birth to the successor of the Azhe family for him. However, once she was reminded of them tangling in the sheets for an entire night, she could not help but flip out in jealousy!

You’d better get pregnant from just this once! Don’t even think he’ll touch you again!” she said bitterly and marched off.

Yuna crumpled to the ground, her spirit leaving her body. The secretary hurriedly helped her up. “Get up! The floor is chilly! Your health is important!”

*Two months later*

At the Azhe family’s private hospital, the secretary got a hold of the examination report.

Seven weeks pregnant. Her condition was stable. It was a pair of identical twins.

She took out her phone and reported everything to Weston’s assistant. Yuna came out of the examination room. The examination report was of no concern to her. She was now quite like a wooden puppet under anyone’s control.

In any case, she just did what she was supposed to do and went along with everything they had prepared. She needed not to worry about anything else.

The secretary came to her. Giving her a faint smile, she consoled, “Miss Yuna, your condition now is very stable. Don’t get too jittery. Ha ha. You don’t have to worry about anything else. Please stay in the villa to take care of the babies for these few months. If you have any requests, please feel free to let me know.”

Yuna looked up and muttered, “I want to see my father.”

Two months ago, she simply left a note behind without saying goodbye. He must be worrying about her!

The secretary tensed up. “This… Boss has instructed that you are forbidden from going outside.”

“I just want to see my father once. I don’t have any other requests. Can’t you even do just this much?”

At Yuna’s beseeching look, the secretary eventually relented. “Alright!”

This was originally something hard for her to decide. According to the contract, Yuna was forbidden from going outdoors. However, looking at this poor girl, who had become a surrogate at such a young age, she thought that she must have some difficulties back at home. Thus, without the CEO’s consent, she arranged a time for her to meet her father.

They arranged to meet in a café in the city center.

As soon as Yuna’s father received the message, he hastily made his way there and arrived thirty minutes earlier than the stipulated time. He sat in the private room, fidgeting on his seat. After she left without bidding goodbye, he was so concerned about her that he went through many sleepless nights, tussling and tossing around in bed. His wife even frequently mocked her of being an ungrateful and heartless b*tch in his face, as though she had run away from home with a random scumbag.

Their family was crumbling apart. While the family was in dire straits, the father did not know of her whereabouts. Although when he mysteriously gained a million dollars more in his bank account the following day, he instinctively linked it to her disappearance. He even thought that something bad might have happened to her.

As a matter of fact, Yuna was not his biological daughter. She was unintentionally adopted by him from a welfare center ten years ago. He actually had a biological daughter. The Shire family was doing well at that time, and seeing that Yuna Shire was an intelligent and sensible child, he decided to adopt her. He never thought that after he had adopted her, his wife and biological daughter would strongly be against her. He had not minded it at first. Thinking of the little girl’s sensibleness, he thought that she would eventually gain her wife and daughter’s consent.

However, he had been wrong.

Usually, he was too busy to care about the little things happening at home. However, as a father, how would he not know of his wife and daughter bullying her during his absence? Yuna Shire was indeed an intelligent child. Even if she suffered from his wife and daughter’s hands, she never complained to him even once. Thus, he truly felt guilty toward her.

In fact, his family was originally well-off. He had a property on the market that generated stable profits, so they were considered to be living in wealth. However, at the start of the year, a financial storm suddenly swept across the globe, leaving his entire family in shambles.