The moment Su Wan stepped downstairs, she saw him.

Lu Shaohan.

He sat on the black leather sofa like a king passing judgment. His suit was immaculate. His expression was as cold as winter frost. And on the tea table before him lay the divorce agreement, and beside it was a fountain pen. Prepared. Waiting. As if he had come not to speak, but to execute a sentence.

Su Wan stopped at the bottom of the stairs.

Her memories stirred violently. In the original story, this was where the host broke down in tears. Begged him to believe the child was his. Watched Lu Tingxiao look at her with disgust, and destroy her.

As her footsteps echoed, his dark eyes lifted and they landed on her flatly. Without warmth. Without hesitation. Without even a trace of concern for the woman carrying his child.

"Sign it." 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Two words. Cold enough to freeze blood.

Su Yao had gotten down slightly limping, and she couldn’t expose Su Wan, so she immediately stepped forward, her voice soft and wounded. "Brother Shaohan... Jiejie has already admitted she’s pregnant..." She lowered her eyes as if struggling to speak. "But... we don’t know if the child belongs to you."

Silence.

Then Lu Shaohan looked at Su Wan. His gaze was sharp, as if he was looking deeper into her soul.

"I won’t raise another man’s bastard."

The words echoed like a slap. Even Su Wan’s breath faltered.

So cruel?

Good.

Very good.

Because now she knew what kind of enemy she was dealing with. The old Su Wan may have cried because of love. But she—

She picked up the divorce agreement and perused through it and then—

Rip.

The sound shocked the room. Su Yao screamed. "Jiejie!" Even Lu Shaohan’s expression shifted. For the first time, his cold eyes narrowed.

Su Wan lifted her chin defiantly, one hand resting over her stomach. Her voice was calm sharp and deadly.

"You want a divorce? Fine. Bring me proof that I was unfaithful to you."

She let the torn halves fall to the table littering all over.

"Otherwise—" She looked directly into Lu Shaohan’s eyes. "Not only will I refuse to divorce you... But I’ll make sure the entire Lu family acknowledge this child as heir."

Suddenly there was silence, heavy..

Then Lu Shaohan stood up slowly, like something awakening. He stepped toward her. He took a step, then another. Until he stopped before her. Too close. Oppressive and terrifying.

His fingers seized her chin hard enough to bruise, as his voice dropped low, cold and threatening.

"Su Wan."

His thumb pressed against her jaw, tilting her face toward the light.

"You seem... different."

She didn’t flinch. Didn’t look away. The corner of her mouth lifted, not a smile, exactly. A promise.

"President Lu."

Her voice was soft as silk over steel.

"You haven’t seen anything yet."

Lu Shaohan’s fingers tightened around Su Wan’s chin.

His dark eyes narrowed dangerous, searching as if he was trying to see through her skin and into the woman who suddenly dared defy him.

This was not the Su Wan he knew.

Not the woman who once followed him desperately. Not the woman who cried at a cold glance. This woman, was looking back at him as if she feared nothing.

The air between them thickened.

Then, he released her his face wrinkled, as though touching her disgusted him.

"Very well." His voice was emotionless. "You want proof?"

His lips curved with cruel indifference.

"Then we do a paternity test."

Suddenly, silence claimed the room.

Su Yao’s face changed instantly. Panic flickered in her eyes, but she quickly masked it, and Su Wan saw it.

"Brother Shaohan!" She rushed forward, her voice trembling with a manufactured concern. "How can you trust her words? What if she’s delaying—"

Lu Shaohan raised a hand.

Su Yao froze. It took only one gesture, and it was enough to silence her.

His gaze never left Su Wan.

"Tomorrow morning. We go to the hospital." He paused. "If the child is not mine..." His voice turned glacial. "I will make you regret being born."

He was blatantly threatening her.

But Su Wan—

Smiled.

Because she knew something Lu Shaohan didn’t.

In the original novel, the paternity test had been tampered with by Su Yao. She had bribed a doctor who had forged the report. That was how the original host lost everything, falsely proven an adulteress, cast out, and destroyed.

But now?

She knew.

And knowing changed the game.

Su Wan lifted her eyes defiantly. "Fine. Let’s do the test."