Chapter 3

[Daddy, if I find out you're plotting anything behind my back to hurt me, I’m going to get very, very angry.]

The mental voice was turning increasingly vicious and volatile—far too twisted and dark to belong to an innocent unborn child!

At that exact moment, my resolve hardened. I had to uncover what kind of demonic entity was truly festering inside my wife’s womb!

Suppressing the sickening dread clawing at my gut, I pulled out my phone and dialed my manager.

"Mr. Zhang, I need to take an emergency personal day today."

Then, I shot a quick message to Xinxin.

[Honey, meet me at the hospital. There’s something urgent we need to talk about face-to-face.]

Without waiting for a reply, I hailed a cab and sped directly to the hospital.

The entire ride there, the voice inside my head kept interrogating me relentlessly.

[Daddy, where are you going?!]

[Refusing to answer me, huh? Fine! If you won't talk, I’ll just make Mommy suffer!]

The second the voice made the threat, my phone began vibrating frantically. It was Xinxin.

When I answered, her voice was painfully faint and trembling:

"Honey... my stomach... it hurts so bad..."

Hearing her agony, my heart dropped into my stomach. I immediately redirected the cab to pick her up.

I had to get to the bottom of this. What kind of child actively tries to manipulate its parents into a divorce from inside the womb?

I had already booked an expedited consultation while in the cab. When the physician saw Xinxin drenched in cold sweat, her face as pale as a sheet of paper, she gasped in alarm.

"Mrs. Wen, why do you look so terribly ill?"

"Have you been taking the prenatal supplements I prescribed? Could severe morning sickness really cause you to deteriorate this quickly?"

Before I could get a word in, the entity in her belly let out a furious mental shriek.

[Daddy! Why are you bringing Mommy to see a doctor again?! Don’t tell me I was right—you’re trying to abort me, aren't you?!]

Instantly, the color completely drained from Xinxin’s face. Her knees buckled, and she collapsed onto the floor.

I dropped down immediately, wrapping my arms around her to help her back into the chair.

"Mr. Wen, your wife's pregnancy complications are extraordinarily severe," the doctor urged, her tone grave. "I strongly advise you to seriously reconsider whether it's safe to carry this pregnancy to term. The mother's life must come first. My medical recommendation is to prioritize her recovery, and then—"

Before the doctor could finish, I cut her off loudly.

"We are keeping this baby, no matter what!"

"We came today to get progesterone injections to stabilize the pregnancy. Under no circumstances will we terminate this child!"

The moment the words left my mouth, color slowly returned to Xinxin’s lips.

She nodded weakly in agreement. "Yes, Doctor... we have to save this baby. Please, help us."

The voice echoed in my head once more, sounding deceptively pacified.

[Oh, Daddy... so I misunderstood you after all.]

[Then you'd better protect me with everything you've got. If I ever catch you trying to get rid of me, I will make you regret it.]

The doctor immediately ordered the stabilizing injections.

A split second before the nurse escorted Xinxin into the procedure room, I grabbed a pen and scribbled a desperate note on the prescription pad:

[Perform an amniocentesis immediately. I need a prenatal paternity test on this baby.]

The doctor looked up, utter confusion written all over her face. Just as she parted her lips to ask why, I pressed a finger firmly to my lips and shot her a desperate, pleading glare, silently begging her not to make a sound.

If the thing inside Xinxin’s belly caught wind of this, my wife wouldn't survive the night.

Understanding the gravity in my eyes, the doctor swallowed her questions and complied, quietly arranging the amniocentesis under the guise of routine monitoring.

Since the expedited lab results wouldn't be ready until the afternoon, we decided to head home first.

The moment we walked through the front door, Xinxin’s phone buzzed with an incoming call.

She glanced at me with obvious panic, snatched her phone, darted into the master bedroom, and clicked the lock shut.

Twenty minutes later, she emerged, looking thoroughly guilty. "Just a work emergency regarding a client project... Anyway, honey, what was it you wanted to tell me earlier? Why the sudden trip to the hospital?"

My lips parted. I was ready to lay all my cards on the table and confess everything to her.

Yet before a single word could escape my mouth, the voice chimed in with chilling amusement.

[Daddy, what are you so eager to tell Mommy?]

[Before you say anything... why don't you go check what's inside Mommy's handbag first?]

Every alarm bell in my head screamed at once.

Forcing a calm, nonchalant smile, I looked at Xinxin.

"Let me grab a glass of water first. We can sit down and talk through everything."

Using the excuse of pouring water, I discreetly unzipped Xinxin’s designer handbag.

The next instant, my entire body froze in sheer disbelief.

Tucked inside the interior pocket were several opened, used condom wrappers.

Before my shattered mind could even begin to process the sight, the voice mocked me relentlessly:

[Told you so! Mommy's been cheating on you all along!]

[If her true love didn't suffer from absolute azoospermia and total infertility, she never would have settled for you! What you need to do right now is divorce her immediately and kick that filthy woman out of your life!]

[Daddy, I’m your own flesh and blood. Would I ever lie to you?]

At that exact second, my phone vibrated in my pocket. A secure notification from the hospital popped up.

[Expedited Paternity Test Result: The probability of biological fatherhood between the tested parties is 99.99%.]