The assistant's eyes turned red with tears and he smashed the bag.

"Madam, I will take you to another city for transfer now. You must hold on."

I kept wailing, my vision went dark, and I finally passed out.

I woke up again, being suddenly awakened by a bucket of ice-cold water.

In front of him was Lucas's face full of disgust.

"Stop pretending now that you're awake." He looked down at me. "You knew I was going to announce the matter between the heir and Scarlett tomorrow, but you still went to the next city to see a doctor. Did you want everyone to think Scarlett was bullying you?"

Scarlett held the baby in her arms, tears streaming down her face, and stood behind him, looking pitiful.

"Madam, I know you hate me. But you can just take revenge on me, but why did you let your mother-in-law take my child away?"

"Before the assistant was dragged away, she was still shouting that my mother-in-law had to go back to deal with the documents and give my child to you, saying that I was not worthy of being the mother of the heir..."

I opened my mouth, but no words came out of my throat. I could only shake my head with all my strength and beg tremblingly:

"I...didn't...take me to the hospital...the child...can't hold on any longer..."

"You lied again!" Lucas frowned impatiently, "My mother was anxious to leave the hospital and even brought a lawyer to work overtime overnight. Wasn't it you who instigated her behind the scenes? Do you think that by taking Scarlett's child, you can secure your position as the mother of the heir?"

"Didn't you give birth to your child yesterday? And you're still pretending to be in labor and dying. Are you trying to trick me into feeling sorry for you? Dream on!"

I felt severe pain all over my body. The blood in my lower body had already coagulated and was sticking to my skin, emitting a strong fishy stench.

Scarlett covered her mouth and vomited, tears welling up in her eyes: "Sister, you knew that I couldn't stand the smell of blood after giving birth, but you still refused to clean it. You wanted to deliberately fumigate me and make me faint, right?"

She cried so much that her face turned pale, and she curled up in Lucas' arms, looking pitiful.

"Look at what you look like now!" Lucas said with disgust, "You look like a lunatic, and you stink. You are such a disgrace!"

He waved his hand and ordered the bodyguards to continue pouring buckets of cold water on me. He did not stop until I turned pale, shivered all over, and became completely hypothermic.

Scarlett nestled in his arms and cried, begging, "Madam, I beg you, don't separate me from my child... If you insist on taking my son away, I will jump out of this window!"

She pretended to jump, and Lucas quickly hugged her.

Finally, he was so angry that he turned around and kicked away my hand that was holding his trouser leg, leaned over and shouted coldly:

"Don't think you can continue to be the mother of the heir by instigating my mother. I have already sent people to lock down Havenwood Estate. No matter how you plan, you won't succeed!"

"As for you - I have warned you so many times not to bully Scarlett and her child, but you just won't listen! In this case, I can only use some special means."

He turned his head suddenly and gave a cold order to the bodyguard:

"She forced Scarlett to jump off the building, so she should pay the price. Go, pull out her father's oxygen tube and throw him off the building!"

"Lucas!" I screamed, "You're crazy! That's my dad! He saved your life!!"

"So what!" Lucas sneered, "In order to get you into a wealthy family and make your child the future heir of Monarch Group, he went to great lengths to save me, and forced me to marry you because of his life-saving grace. Now you've married into a wealthy family, and I've made you pregnant. You can't give birth to my first child, that's because you're useless. I've already repaid you my debt of gratitude, and I don't owe you anything!"

"Get started!"

I rushed towards the bodyguards frantically, trying to stop them, but was kicked to the ground.

The blood that had originally dried up in his lower body suddenly gushed out due to the violent impact, like a dam bursting, instantly dyeing the entire floor red.

I screamed in pain and curled up into a ball.

Lucas was about to drag me forward, but suddenly he saw my bulging belly exposed from the kicking and beating, and the blood on the ground, and his face turned pale.

He subconsciously rushed to my side, hugged me, turned his head and looked at Scarlett and asked.

"What's going on?! I asked you to be in charge of Eleanor's delivery, but didn't you say that she gave birth successfully yesterday and the baby was sent to the nursery?!"

"Then why is her belly still so big?! Why is she still bleeding!!"

Scarlett's expression also changed slightly.

But her eyes rolled and tears soon formed. She took out her cell phone and cried, "Madam did give birth yesterday, and the child has been in the nursery."

"I knew that Madam would take the opportunity to embarrass me... so I asked the doctor to take a video of the child."

She handed over the phone, and on the screen was a baby who was obviously one month old. The video was crude and looked so fake.

But Lucas only took a glance and believed it.

The next second, he angrily picked me up from the ground and threw me hard onto the cold, hard floor.

The back of his head was hit hard and blood gushed out instantly.

"How dare you lie to me!" he growled. "In order to soften my heart, you even made a fake belly and fake blood?! How disgusting and despicable are you!"

"Do you think I'll be fooled this time? Dream on!"

He raised his leg and kicked me in the stomach mercilessly.

Blood and screams splashed with every impact.

“Ah…don’t…don’t…”

I begged at the top of my lungs, but my body became colder and stiffer.

Until I no longer had the strength to beg for mercy, and could only curl up in a pool of my own blood, trembling silently.

He threw off his bloodstained coat and turned to Scarlett with an apologetic look on his face.

"I'm sorry, Scarlett, for letting you smell this disgusting smell. I'll deal with her right now, and when I'm done, I'll take you to an island for your honeymoon, as compensation for my wrongdoing against you, okay?"

Scarlett shook her head with tears in her eyes, her voice sounding pitiful.

"Forget it. Madam hates me so much. What if she comes up with a new way to separate me and my child right after you take me away?"

"Otherwise, I'll take the child away and let your child become the heir."

She spoke carefully and sounded extremely aggrieved, but she hit Lucas's anger point just right.

His face suddenly became as gloomy as night, and his tone was gentle but chilling:

"Don't worry, I won't give her any chance to harm you and the child again."

He raised his hand and waved, "Lock her in the basement of our house. Let her out after I officially announce at the press conference that the heir is Scarlett's son."

I was dragged out of the hospital by bodyguards like a dead dog.

Along the way, blood left a long trail on the smooth marble floor.

I was in so much pain that I almost passed out, but I still pleaded with my last breath:

"Please, Lucas. I asked my mother-in-law to handle our divorce, not to take her child away."

"My children have been killed by you once, and they won't survive this time either."

"My child and I have already made way for your family of three. Please don't touch my dad again."

Tears mixed with blood fell drop by drop.

Lucas was full of impatience: "Okay, as long as you stay in the basement honestly today, I won't..."

Before he finished speaking——

"boom!!"

A deafening sound suddenly rang out——

I watched my father fall from a height and hit the hard ground in front of me.

The eyes that once looked at me tenderly were now bloodshot and bursting.

"dad!!"

I let out a heart-wrenching scream and crawled forward using my hands and feet, leaving a bloody mess.

But before I could touch his fingertips, I was grabbed by the bodyguard.

"Take her away first." Lucas turned his head away and whispered, "She was a person who deserved to die anyway. It will be a relief for her if she dies now."

"Lucas - you are worse than a pig or a dog!!" I cried like crazy, "You killed your own child, and now you killed your savior! You will go to hell!"

He frowned and looked at me, but finally just sighed.

"Although I asked you to keep her locked up, if she has any requests during these days, please satisfy them. Take good care of her."

……

In order to prepare for the press conference to announce his successor, Lucas spent a huge amount of money and vowed to tell the world how much he values ​​Scarlett.

He took over all the gold shops in the city and made a pure gold safety lock that was as tall as a person.

He spent tens of millions more to buy an entire island and named it after Scarlett.

He, who has never appeared on social platforms, even registered an account and named it "Aishan".

The first post on the account was a passionate confession:

"I am grateful to the most important woman in my life, Scarlett, for giving birth to my first son. From then on, my life has been happy and fulfilling."

His press conference lasted for three days. Media from all over the country gathered together. The lights were flashing. Under the spotlight, he held Scarlett's hand, his face full of happiness.

But behind the camera, his eyes would occasionally glance at his phone.

Seems to be waiting for——

Wait for some news from the villa.

However, until the last night before the press conference, the phone remained silent.

He finally lost his patience and dialed the number.

"It's been three days. Has the Madam made any noise? Said she wanted to see me? Or threatened to come to the press conference?"

The nanny said terrifiedly: "No, the lady didn't say anything in the past three days, and she didn't touch the food I left at the door."

Hearing this, Lucas snorted, a disdainful smile appearing at the corner of his lips.

"Oh, I knew it. She was just being angry on purpose."

"I told her clearly that whoever gave birth to my first child first would have the child be the heir. She didn't do it, and she played tricks everywhere, pretending to be pitiful, deceiving me, and targeting Scarlett. She even teamed up with my mother to snatch the child away... I didn't even bother with her. I have done my best."

"And now she's doing this - a hunger strike?"

He thought of Mr. Shaw's tragic death and sighed.

"Is she angry because her father died? Go tell her it was an accident. I didn't expect it to happen."

"As long as she eats what she wants, I will bury her father properly and honor him. I will also... I will register Scarlett's child under her name, fulfilling her dream of becoming the mother of the heir."

"On the condition that she cannot bully Scarlett in the future, and Scarlett must live in our house and treat her equally."

The nanny said yes repeatedly and ran to the basement.