Chapter 1

After getting pregnant by accident, I dragged my suitcase to the door, ready to run.

The moment I opened it, a stream of text floated before my eyes.

[Why are you running? If you run, you're dead!]

[Raven Smith has no brain. She's carrying the only bloodline of the Morrison family and she dares to hide?]

[After the male lead Matthias Morrison's car accident, his fertility was damaged. The child in Raven's belly is the Morrison family's only heir.]

[Once Raven runs, the child will be taken by Juliet White. Juliet will marry into the Morrison family with a ready-made kid and rise to power through her son.]

I froze mid-step.

Half a minute later, I kicked my suitcase back into the walk-in closet.

Clutching the pregnancy test, I stormed into the top floor of Morrison Corporation.

Matthias Morrison was in a meeting.

I pushed open the conference room doors and slammed the report in front of him.

"Matthias Morrison, I'm pregnant. It's yours."

The conference room fell so silent you could hear a pin drop.

Dozens of eyes turned to stare at me.

Matthias sat at the head of the table, his black shirt buttoned all the way to the top, his eyes cold and indifferent.

Three years ago, a car accident nearly took his life.

After he survived, the Morrison family's private hospital issued a diagnosis.

Matthias Morrison would have extreme difficulty having children.

The Morrison family had been passing down a single heir for thirteen generations.

The old matriarch of the family, Lillian Morrison, was so anxious she consulted every renowned doctor. She even secretly arranged blind dates for him, but he coldly sent them all away.

So when I threw out this pregnancy test, the faces of the executives in the room were even more spectacular than mine had been when I first saw those floating words.

Matthias picked up the report and looked at it for two seconds.

"Miss Raven, please leave."

I choked.

"You don't believe me?"

He looked up at me, his gaze utterly devoid of warmth.

"What do you want?"

That sentence hurt more than a slap to the face.

I, Raven Smith, the pampered youngest daughter of the Smith family, had been spoiled and arrogant since childhood. I'd certainly done plenty of outrageous things.

Like chasing after Grayson Jones for ten years.

Like getting drugged at a party and, trying to make Grayson jealous, accidentally pushing myself onto Matthias Morrison instead.

And then, after waking up, crying and cursing him for taking advantage of me.

Matthias never explained. He just draped his coat over me and had his driver take me home.

Half a month later, I found out I was pregnant.

My first reaction was to run.

After all, if my parents saw this report, they'd tear apart both the baby's father and me.

But the floating text said if I ran, I would die.

The child would be taken by Juliet White.

Juliet White was the original novel's female lead—pure and resilient, gentle and kind. She would become the apple of Matthias Morrison's eye.

And I was just cannon fodder paving the way for them.

More text floated by.

[Raven, cry now! Cry hard—Matthias responds to softness, not force!]

[Don't back down. She's the only one who's ever gotten pregnant with Matthias Morrison's child.]

[Juliet has already been earning favor with Lillian. Wait any longer and you'll lose both the husband and the child!]

I pinched my palm, my eyes reddening.

"Matthias Morrison, you sleep with me and then deny it?"

Someone in the conference room sucked in a sharp breath.

Matthias's eyes flickered slightly, as if suppressing something.

I walked around the table to his side and pressed his hand against my lower abdomen.

"You don't have to believe me... but you need to take care of me first."

Matthias's fingers stiffened.

I looked at him, my heart pounding painfully.

His gaze lingered on my face for a long time.

"Meeting dismissed."

Everyone immediately lowered their heads and filed out.

The door closed.

He withdrew his hand and pulled out his phone to dial an internal line.

"Send the head of obstetrics and gynecology up here."

I had just started to relax.

The conference room door suddenly opened again.

A woman in a white dress stood in the doorway, holding a food container.

"Matthias, did I come at a bad time?"

The floating text exploded instantly.

[Juliet White is here!]