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Intense romantic tension / the truth behind the miscarriage / a villainess's revenge / suspense and tragic romance
“I destroyed our love, but secretly kept the only proof it ever existed.”
Five years ago, on a stormy night in Shanghai.
Jiang Jinyue touched her belly and sneered. “I got rid of the baby.”
That night, the young heir of the Yan family knelt outside the operating room. He left the country soon after and never looked back.
Five years later, he returns with his fiancée, now a celebrated author at the pinnacle of the suspense fiction world.
She returns at the same time, still a dazzling supermodel on the runway.
At a charity gala, she stumbles into his arms, her voice soft and alluring.
“Sorry about that, Mr. Yan.”
He replies expressionlessly, “Miss Jiang still doesn't watch where she's going.”
Until he finds a yellowed ultrasound report at the bottom of a locked drawer.
The date is three months after their breakup.
[Intrauterine pregnancy, viable, gestational age: 20 weeks + 5 days]
She never had a miscarriage.
At this very moment, his fiancée is smiling as she announces their wedding date.
Jiang Jinyue raises her glass to offer congratulations, but beneath the table, she hooks her little finger around his palm and traces a message, stroke by stroke:
“Yan Qinghe, guess...
“If our child were still alive, what would they call you?”