Wang Yue's idea was a knockout blow for Tian Yulan, striking right at her weak spot. If Yan Peng's parents really had a second child, her plan to use Yan Ziyou to control the feudal lords would fall apart.
Yan Peng was just a gaming nerd. If he didn't have the halo of being a rich second-generation kid, Tian Yulan would never have married him. She was always talking about making something of herself, but it was really just a way to hide her insecurity.
And when it came to Yan Ziyou's studies, she was so strict because, deep down, she still believed in the ordinary path. She had never considered that wealthy people had plenty of other options.
This time, Yan Peng suddenly told her that because she didn't want a second child, his parents had decided to have one themselves! She was instantly thrown into a panic.
Everything in the Yan family had originally been expected to go to Yan Peng in the future. But a gaming nerd like him clearly couldn't be relied on. The only other option was Yan Ziyou, and he was still so young. Wouldn't that leave her, Tian Yulan, to depend on?
Something that had seemed set in stone could now vanish just because she'd refused to have a second child. Once Tian Yulan panicked, her first thought was to turn to her mother, but then she stopped herself. Her mother was no use.
After thinking it over for a long time, she realized there was another way out: she could get pregnant first. She was young, so surely she could conceive before her mother-in-law. Then her mother-in-law probably wouldn't risk having a second child.
Yan Peng was dumbstruck by Tian Yulan's sudden change in attitude. In any case, he, the useful tool,