The title number was marked wrong, I was stupid, it's Chapter 216. The content is correct, please forgive me.
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Huo Ziming laughed in extreme anger; he finally understood the saying, "To a wicked person, everyone seems scheming." For the deceitful, everyone appears conniving.
He said coldly, "Scheming against you? An Ran using the child to scheme against you? It's utterly ridiculous!"
The Old Duke's wife herself figured it out.
An Ran had distanced herself from her maiden family. It was best for her to have a child early to secure her position in her husband's family. If this pregnancy was lost, due to the mourning period for her birth mother, which required a married woman to mourn for a year, An Ran's pregnancy and childbirth would inevitably be delayed.
An Ran wouldn't use the child as an article.
Unless…
