Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 565 - 439: She Is Like a Poppy, Deadly Poisonous! (First Update)

Chapter 565: Chapter 439: She Is Like a Poppy, Deadly Poisonous! (First Update)

How did the ring end up in Chu Jiao’s hand?

"You’ll have to ask Chu Jiao about that."

Yin Shixiu said this and pressed the doorbell, while Eric watched him with a look of anger, mingled with pain and confusion.

The child is Eric’s. In the Windsor Royal Family, the intricacies and complexities are hard for outsiders to fathom.

The status of the Yin Family domestically is quite similar to the status of the Windsor surname in the United Kingdom. Realistically speaking, in the constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom, the Royal Family might not hold actual power, but their symbolic significance in the country is crucial. Therefore, the Windsor surname carries more weight and prestige in the UK than the Yin Family’s status domestically.

Eric isn’t a direct bloodline of Windsor, but he indeed bears the Windsor surname, which means his actions are closely linked with that family.

Chu Jiao holding the ring symbolizing royal bloodline and carrying Eric’s child stepped into the Windsor doors...

Yin Shixiu didn’t know what the final outcome would be.

Eric might know, looking at him now, it’s clear that Chu Jiao’s actions have left him bewildered in every way.

He didn’t ask him anything. Once the door is opened, Chu Jiao can answer just the same.

The door remained tightly shut.

Yin Shixiu pressed a few more times, calling out,

"Chu Jiao, we know you’re in there, open the door."

Eric thought Yin Shixiu was doing something futile, but the door opened.

Chu Jiao stood with her arms crossed, a medical bandage on her forehead, her face clean, her bright black eyes revealing her shrewdness.

But at this moment, those beautiful eyes looked coldly at Yin Shixiu...

"What a rare guest."

"Let’s talk inside."

Yin Shixiu said, and he and Eric both walked in.

Chu Jiao wasn’t polite to them, she didn’t offer them a seat or tea.

She sat in the most comfortable spot, leaned back, crossing her long legs, shrugged her shoulders,

"Anything you want to say, just say it."

She ran her hand through her wavy long hair, and the sparkling ring on her ring finger was hard to ignore.

"Where did you get the ring from?"

Eric’s eyes were instantly pierced by the ring, and he asked.

If it weren’t for this ring, she couldn’t have entered the palace! Couldn’t have stood before those royal relatives!

Couldn’t have gotten her grandmother to make such a decision based on her one-sided words.

"Oh, didn’t you give it to me?"

Chu Jiao raised her eyebrows, the corners of her lips lifted in a beautiful, smug arc.

"You’re lying! When did I ever give it to you?!"

"Important people do tend to forget things..."

Chu Jiao was composed, as if intentionally trying to stir Eric’s memory, she looked directly into his eyes and said slowly,

"Marry me, and everything is yours—the palatial castle, all the honor and benefits the Windsor surname can bring, it’s all yours. Believe me, there’s no one in this world who loves you more than I do..."

"..."

Eric stood rigidly, watching as Chu Jiao spoke these words, gently caressing the ring on her own ring finger, which seemed to be shimmering with colorful light.

"You proposed to me with this ring, telling me that having you meant having everything... Eric, you got what you wanted, you can have me now, aren’t you happy?"

Yin Shixiu squinted his eyes,

"This ring, Eric took off for Shuangshuang to play with, and later we didn’t know where it ended up in the house. You visited my house."

"So?"

"You found this ring by accident and then took it with you."

"You say it was left in your house, and you couldn’t find it, yet I visited once and discovered it. Isn’t that fate?"

Eric’s face turned completely dark, and when he looked up again, his blue eyes shone with anger.

Chu Jiao merely laughed. Seeing Eric’s angry demeanor, she couldn’t help but laugh, and then, she really did laugh out loud!

"Isn’t this great? You wanted me so badly, you got me, and not just that, it’s buy one, get one free!"

Chu Jiao said as she touched her stomach, laughing happily, as if she had achieved something.

Yin Shixiu, however, could discern the self-deprecating pain in her eyes. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"Do you really think you’re innocent?"

Chu Jiao’s smile faded, she looked into Yin Shixiu’s eyes, filled with blood and shimmering with moisture,

"I never said I was innocent, how could I be? Yin Shixiu, if I’d never met you in this life, I think it would have been better."

"What a coincidence, I think so too."

"..."

Chu Jiao felt relieved saying this, although Yin Shixiu echoed it, she was the one still harboring feelings for him.

"This is just fine, I’ve given up, I won’t keep chasing after things that don’t belong to me."

"I won’t marry you."

Just as Chu Jiao finished speaking, Eric followed up with this statement.

That’s the main thing he came to say.

Chu Jiao shrugged, not saying a word in response, just looking at Eric, as if to say, ’As you wish.’

But in the end, could it really be up to Eric?

Chu Jiao knew in her heart, no way.

"I don’t love you anymore! I don’t want to marry you either! If you don’t want it to get too ugly, you’d better use some tact!"

Eric’s expression was now a bit fierce, he had lost the elegance of the past, the composure, the casual demeanor.

He was like a raging lion, wanting nothing more than to tear the woman before him to pieces.

"Do you think... I want to marry you because I love you? Or do you think I’m desperate to marry you?"

"Don’t tell me you’re doing this for the child!"

Chu Jiao’s hand on her abdomen stiffened for a second, for she deeply loathed this child from the bottom of her heart.

"I’m doing it for myself."

"..."

"Compared to being a divorced, inexplicably pregnant woman in her thirties, I think becoming a member of the Windsor Royal Family would be a wiser choice, wouldn’t it?"

"Chu Jiao, I have someone I love!"

"Oh, that young girl in her twenties? Ha, you two really are good friends, even your tastes aren’t too far apart."

Chu Jiao’s words were full of sarcasm.

"That night—"

Eric wanted to say something, but was suddenly interrupted by Chu Jiao.

"Actually, it’s quite fair. I couldn’t get what I desired, so I wanted it even more, thinking I had a chance, thinking Arthur still had feelings for me, only to find in the end it was all wishful thinking on my part..."

"I wanted to ruin his marriage, but in the end, I was the one who suffered... Your Chinese is so good, you should understand this saying, right?"

Chu Jiao stood up and took two steps, standing in front of Eric, looking up slightly, tiptoeing just enough for her lips to almost touch his chin.

"I never thought much of you, back when you persistently chased after me, the reason I agreed to be with you later was completely for show, to see if Arthur would regret it, and in the end..."

"He was too heartless, and you were way too affectionate. Eric, I never liked you in the slightest."

"When you proposed to me with that ring, I almost laughed out loud. The Royal Family? Houses? Money? Do you think I care for those things?"

"Karma reaps what it sows, the man I looked down on the most used the most shameless means to get me pregnant with his child..."

"Were you so desperate to have me, starved and eager to the point where no precautions were taken... Eric, see, I received my comeuppance, do you think I’d let you off easy?"

"The love I wanted, the life I wanted, I couldn’t get, and you expect to act as if nothing happened?"

Chu Jiao wasn’t a fool, the one utterly foolish thing she did in this life was attempting to win back the person in her heart.

No matter how shrewd a woman is, she can act foolishly in the face of love.

But now it was no longer about love, it was purely about her own life...

"You feel it’s unfair, you’re angry, but what’s there to be angry about... The ring is in my hand, I’m carrying your child, and you’re so deep down desperate to have me... Eric, truthfully, you’re the real winner here."

Eric clenched his fist tightly, looking at Chu Jiao, with the woman in front of him wearing the most bewitching smile on her face.

She was like a poppy, intensely toxic.

If only he could kill her right here, right now, kill her...