After She Conceives Triplets, the Ice-Cold CEO Panics

When Ye Zhiqiu’s family falls on hard times and her father becomes gravely ill, debt collectors’ texts drive her to the brink. Then she sees a trending headline: [The fabulously wealthy Fu family, whose fortune has been passed down through eight generations of only sons, is offering a huge sum to recruit a daughter-in-law! Three million for a boy, two million for a girl, with no upper limit!] She still has some moral qualms at first, but one look at all those zeroes and Ye Zhiqiu perks right up. This isn’t recruiting a daughter-in-law, it’s hiring a money-printing machine! I may not have much, but I’m in great shape! Medical exam, interview, contract signed: she gets it all done in one go. The icy CEO, Fu Yunshen, leaves her with a stern warning: “I hope you’ll be worth the money.” Ye Zhiqiu acts meek and compliant, while her mind is busy doing the math. First pregnancy: three boys, and 90 million in the bank. Grandma can’t stop grinning. Second pregnancy: quadruplets, two boys and two girls, and 100 million more rolls in! Grandma’s smile freezes. Third pregnancy: three more boys! When the doctor delivers the good news outside the delivery room for the third time, Grandma, supported by the butler, squeezes out a despairing cry through clenched teeth: “Why am I still alive?!” Inside the delivery room, Ye Zhiqiu listens to the babies cry and does the math: That’s over 200 million in the bag! But why is the once-mighty, aloof CEO now sporting dark circles every day and kneeling on a washboard, begging her to stop having babies?