The day I was due to give birth to twins, I bought out every dose of tocolytics in the hospital, forcing my body to delay labor. I held on until the next day, watching Julian Sterling announce that his 10th mistress, Sophia Lin, had given birth to his child first. Her child would be the future heir of Sterling Enterprises. Only then did I let out a breath of relief and give birth to my twins right there. In my past life, Julian was diagnosed with congenital low sperm count. To ensure an heir, he kept ten mistresses and declared that whoever gave birth first, her child would inherit the empire. He told me that if I gave birth first, he would dismiss all the mistresses and let my child inherit everything. I believed him. When I unexpectedly became pregnant with twins, I was overjoyed. But on the day of delivery, I was met not with his smile, but with his rage. Ignoring my screams, he forced the babies back inside me and stitched me up. I watched helplessly as they slowly suffocated within me. He dragged me to a fresh grave and forced me to kowtow until my head bled. "Sophia came from nothing. I just wanted her child to be the heir so no one would dare bully them. But you, you had to try and steal even that." "She died in childbirth, taking the baby with her. I want you to pay with your life." I was beaten to death in front of Sophia's grave. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on that day. This time, I'll let the three of them be a happy family. Chapter 1 I called the nurse and demanded the last injection of tocolytics. Chapter 2 The nurse screamed in protest, "Mrs. Sterling, you must deliver now! Any further delay could be life-threatening!" Before I could speak, Julian's bodyguards burst in and forcibly dragged me away. The doctors and nurses shouted desperately behind us, "Her heart rate and blood pressure are dropping! Moving her now could cause a massive hemorrhage! It could mean three lives lost!" But the bodyguards turned a deaf ear, roughly dragging me to the press conference. Julian's mistresses were also brought to the scene, some already visibly pregnant. Then, everyone, including me, was forced to drink a bowl of abortifacient. Screams and wails filled the venue, the stench of blood spreading rapidly. "Even if the wife gives birth, it's not like us mistresses have a chance. Why make us miscarry?! Ah, it hurts! Help!" I was forced to drink the whole bowl. The labor that had just been halted turned into a hemorrhage. My screams alarmed the other women, who panicked: "Mrs. Sterling was forced to drink it too? She was about to give birth!" "If it's not her giving birth, then who? Who wants us all dead?" I rolled on the floor in agony, gritting my teeth and shouting, "Call a doctor! Someone's going to die!" Just then, Sophia Lin, dressed in a white gauze dress, walked in arm-in-arm with Julian. Her face was rosy, showing no signs of having just given birth. Chapter 3 As Julian entered and saw the mistresses lying on the floor, his face changed instantly. Sophia covered her nose and screamed, "Oh my, why have all these sisters miscarried? Who is so cruel as to deny them their children?" Before she finished speaking, Julian glared at me and kicked me hard in the stomach. "You bitch! Taking advantage of my absence to drug them! Your jealousy drove you to kill them and their unborn children!" I couldn't stand up from the pain. Seeing her standing behind him with a smug look, I gritted my teeth, "I didn't... it must be her—" "Still denying it?" He roared. "This isn't the first time you've hurt people out of jealousy! This time, I won't indulge you." He ordered the bodyguards, "Everyone gives her a slap. Afterward, I'll send you to the best hospitals and postpartum centers." The bodyguards pinned me down in the center of the venue, ignoring the blood flowing from my lower body. The girls walked up crying, slapping me with tears in their eyes: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Sterling..." One after another, slap after slap, until my ears rang and my vision blurred. Only after everyone was sent away did Julian satisfy himself by taking the baby from the nanny and leading Sophia to me. He looked at my bloodstained body and face, a complex emotion flashing in his eyes. But the next moment, he lifted his chin and said coldly: Chapter 4 "Don't blame me for letting them hit you. I have to teach you a lesson. Let you know the consequences of jealousy and harming others." "Just so you don't think about stealing the heir position from Sophia and her son again." I trembled and looked up at him. So, I wasn't the only one reborn. No wonder he immediately blamed me as soon as Sophia spoke. No wonder he said I did this "not for the first time." Because in the past life, he also wrongly accused me and sentenced me to death for Sophia. My eyes reddened. He said coldly: "Joanna, playing the victim won't work. Giving birth early won't help either." "I've already had the doctor induce labor for Sophia. This time she will definitely beat you to it. Whoever gives birth first, their child is the heir. Even if you give birth, it's useless." I laughed miserably, clutching my bleeding lower body, and whispered: "I already took the inhibitors to delay labor, making way for your family of three. But why won't you let me give birth to my children? Why force me to drink that medicine, to kill my babies..." He froze, frowning deeply. "Don't talk nonsense. Your due date was yesterday. I asked the doctor, you gave birth long ago." Cold sweat poured down my face. I kept crying in pain, pulling him to look closely at my still swollen belly. He looked disgusted, impatiently shaking off my hand, refusing to look at my stomach. "Stop acting. If you want to prove you didn't try to harm Sophia, admit at the press conference tomorrow that you couldn't conceive and asked Sophia to carry the child for you." "Then transfer all your shares and assets to her and her child, and serve them well in the future." "If you dare play any tricks or touch a hair on her head, I'll deal with not just you and the bastard in your belly—your critically ill father won't be staying in the VIP ward either." Chapter 5 I stared wide-eyed at Julian, my cries heart-wrenching: "Julian Sterling, you bastard! My father is in a coma because he saved you! How can you threaten me with his life?!" Julian said impatiently, "As long as you serve Sophia during her confinement and take good care of them, I won't touch him." With that, he left with his arm around Sophia. "Sophia, thank you for giving me an heir. I'm going to reward you well." My lower body was hemorrhaging. I begged the bodyguards guarding the venue to take me to the hospital, to save the children in my belly. My mother-in-law rushed in. Seeing the pool of blood and my state covered in foul amniotic fluid, her face turned pale. "Send her to the hospital quickly! If anything happens to my grandchildren, I won't spare any of you!" I was sent to the hospital, but the doctor was nowhere to be found. My mother-in-law was furious, demanding to know where my assigned doctors were. The nurses said awkwardly: "Mrs. Sterling, all the doctors in the city were called to the Riverside Villa by the CEO. Miss Sophia pricked her finger during a blood test, and Mr. Sterling was afraid of complications, so he ordered all doctors to be on standby." "Right now... there are no doctors in the city." My mother-in-law was so angry she kept calling him: "He's crazy! His wife, whom he begged to marry, is hemorrhaging giving birth to his children, and he calls away all the doctors for a mistress? Does he not care if his wife lives or dies?!" Chapter 6 After the tenth call, Julian finally answered, asking impatiently what she wanted, if I was making trouble again and looking for her support. My mother-in-law shouted excitedly: "Joanna is hemorrhaging and in a coma! The babies are suffering from hypoxia! And you took all her doctors away! Do you want to kill your wife and children?" Julian sneered: "Did Joanna make you call me? She gave birth yesterday, why pretend to be critically ill now?" "Alright, alright, I still have to take birth photos of Sophia and my son. She wants a doctor? I'll send someone." My mother-in-law hung up, gripping my hand tightly. "Don't be afraid, Joanna, the doctor will be here soon." I clutched my belly, feeling the life inside weakening. Thinking of my past life, my children sewn inside me by Julian, suffocated to death. I trembled all over, pulling my mother-in-law's hand, speaking with difficulty. "Mother, three years ago, my father went into a coma to save Julian. You promised me you'd treat me like your own daughter, and if Julian mistreated me, you'd help me divorce him." "I beg you, let me divorce him. I won't stand in the way of his beloved woman's son taking power. I just want my children to be born safely." Chapter 7 My mother-in-law was already in tears, nodding repeatedly. "Although it was to repay your father's life-saving grace, I only said I'd adopt you as a goddaughter. Confessing and proposing was all Julian's own doing. He loved you so much, how did it come to this? It's all that bitch Sophia's doing. If she hadn't suddenly appeared, you wouldn't be like this." I smiled tragically. Yes, childhood sweethearts, first love, how did it become like this? The man who blushed at his coming-of-age ceremony, saying he'd love me forever and would deserve a thousand cuts if he betrayed me. Now he's cutting me into a thousand pieces for another woman. "Please, Mrs. Sterling," I said through gritted teeth, word by word. Listening to my weak pleas, she finally nodded. "Okay! When you got married, I made him sign a divorce agreement just in case you drifted apart, so I could help you get away. I'll go back and process it urgently right now!" "Tomorrow, I'll announce that you are my sole heir. As for that ungrateful son, I won't acknowledge him anymore!" My mother-in-law left immediately to handle the matter. I lay on the hospital bed, pain flooding my abdomen, wailing. The young assistant left by my mother-in-law anxiously waited for the doctor sent by Julian. Finally, someone came. But it wasn't a doctor, it was a delivery guy. Seeing the bloody scene in the delivery room, he awkwardly handed over a bag. A sanitary pad and a band-aid fell out. "Mr. Sterling said it's just postpartum lochia, not life-threatening. Tell her to wipe it herself and stop disgusting him with this stuff." The assistant cried, smashing the bag. "Madam, I'll take you to a hospital in another city right now. You must hold on." I wailed continuously, my vision went black, and I finally passed out. Chapter 8 I woke up to a bucket of freezing water dumped on me. Before me was Julian's disgusted face. "Stop pretending now that you're awake," he looked down at me. "You knew I was announcing the heir and Sophia's status tomorrow, yet you made a scene going to a hospital in the next city. Do you want everyone to think Sophia is bullying you?" Sophia stood behind him holding the baby, tears streaming down her face, looking pitiful. "Madam, I know you hate me. But revenge on me is one thing, why did you have your mother-in-law try to take my child?" "The assistant was shouting before being dragged away, saying your mother-in-law went back to process documents to have my child adopted by you, saying I'm not fit to be the heir's mother..." I opened my mouth, but no sound came out. I could only shake my head with all my might, trembling and begging: "I... didn't... take me to the hospital... the babies... can't hold on..." "Lying again!" Julian frowned impatiently. "My mom left the hospital in a hurry and brought lawyers to work overnight. Wasn't that your doing? You think stealing Sophia's child will secure your position as the heir's mother?" "Didn't you give birth yesterday? Why pretend to be critically ill in labor? Trying to trick me into pitying you? Dream on!" My whole body was in agony. The blood below had dried, sticking to my skin, emitting a strong stench. Chapter 9 Sophia covered her mouth and retched, eyes teary: "Sister, you know I can't stand the smell of blood after giving birth, yet you refuse to clean up. Are you trying to make me faint on purpose?" She cried until her face was pale, shrinking into Julian's arms, provoking pity. "Look at you now!" Julian looked disgusted. "Like a madwoman, stinking. Such an embarrassment!" He waved his hand, ordering bodyguards to pour bucket after bucket of cold water on me until I was pale and shivering, completely hypothermic, before he told them to stop. Sophia nestled in his arms, crying and begging: "Madam, I beg you, don't separate me from my child... If you insist on taking my son, I'll jump out this window!" She acted like she was going to jump, and Julian quickly held her back. Finally furious, he turned around, kicked away my hand grasping his pant leg, and leaned down to shout coldly: "Don't think you can stay the heir's mother by manipulating my mom. I've already locked down the old mansion. No matter what you plan, it won't work!" "As for you—I warned you so many times not to bully Sophia and her child, but you wouldn't listen! Since that's the case, I have to use special measures." He turned sharply, ordering the bodyguards coldly: "She drove Sophia to almost jump off a building; she should pay the price. Go, pull her father's oxygen tube and throw him off the building!" Chapter 10 "Julian Sterling!" I screamed, tearing my throat. "Are you crazy! That's my father! He saved your life!!" "So what!" Julian sneered. "To force you into a wealthy family, to make your child the future heir of Sterling Enterprises. He schemed to save me, used that favor to force me to marry you. Now you're married into wealth, and I got you pregnant. If you can't give birth to my first child, that's your own uselessness. I've repaid my debt. I owe you nothing!" "Do it!" I threw myself at the bodyguards, trying to stop them, but was kicked to the ground. The blood that had dried below suddenly gushed out due to the violent impact, like a burst dam, instantly staining the entire floor red. I screamed in agony, curling into a ball. Julian was about to drag me, but suddenly he saw my high swollen belly exposed by the beating, and then the floor full of crimson. His face turned pale. He subconsciously rushed to my side, held me, and turned to question Sophia. "What's going on?! I put you in charge of Joanna's delivery. Didn't you say she gave birth successfully yesterday and the child was sent to the nursery?!" "Then why is her belly still so big?! Why is she still bleeding!!!" Chapter 11 Sophia's face changed slightly. But her eyes darted around, and she quickly squeezed out tears, crying as she took out her phone: "Madam did give birth yesterday, the child has been in the nursery." "I knew Madam would try to make things difficult for me... so I specifically asked the doctor to take a video of the child." She handed over the phone. On the screen was a baby clearly a month old. The video was crude, obviously fake. But Julian believed it with just a glance. The next second, he furiously lifted me from the ground and slammed me onto the cold, hard floor. The back of my head hit heavily, blood spraying instantly. "You dare lie to me!" He roared. "To make me softhearted, you even faked a belly and blood?! How disgusting, how cheap are you!" "Think I'll fall for it this time? Dream on!" He lifted his leg and kicked my stomach mercilessly, again and again. Blood and screams splashed with every impact. "Ah... no... don't..." I begged with a torn throat, but my body grew colder and stiffer. Until I had no strength left to beg, I could only curl up in my own pool of blood, trembling silently. He threw off his bloodstained jacket, turning to Sophia with an apologetic face. "Sorry, Sophia, for making you smell this disgusting scent. I'll deal with her. After that, I'll take you to an island for our honeymoon, as compensation for wrongfully blaming you, okay?"
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