Wait a moment, if Ruan Yao Yao’s condition isn’t an illness but rather precognition, then those things she just “said”…
Zhong Wenmei’s pupils instantly dilated as she fixed her gaze on her husband.
“Looking at me won’t help, I really don’t know.”
“Are you hiding someone behind my back?”
“How could that be?!” Yu Xing was shocked. “Our relationship is so good, you know what kind of person I am. How could I possibly do such a thing?”
“Then why would my mother-in-law say something like that?”
“Say what?”
“She said you were being cuckolded,” Zhong Wenmei said. “Since I’m not the one who gave you that green hat, it must be someone else. And who else could that be if not some little yaojing? You’d better confess honestly right now.”
“I’m innocent… And how do you know she wasn’t talking about you? Before you got together with me, didn’t you have some sweetheart or something?”
“Yu Xing, what do you mean by that? You dare suspect me?!” Zhong Wenmei was furious. She had been married to Yu Xing for so many years, managing the household diligently and faithfully—was this how he saw her?
Zhong Wenmei’s eyes reddened.
Yu Xing also realized he had said the wrong thing and quickly apologized.
Unfortunately, Zhong Wenmei was too angry to listen to anything.
Originally, the couple had happily gone to visit their daughter, but they ended up quarreling and making a scene on their way back.
Yu Xiang Qiao’s older brother, Yu Yan, called to ask what had happened—why had their parents returned and started arguing out of nowhere?
As soon as Yu Xiang Qiao answered her brother’s call, she felt displeased and said, “What else could it be? It’s because of you and your wife.”
“What’s wrong with me and your sister-in-law? We’re perfectly fine.”
“You still dare say you’re fine? All these years, your wife has changed completely, and you still say she’s fine? And what’s more, you neglect your own biological son to dote on an outsider—is that fine? I think there’s something wrong with your head…”
Yu Yan, being scolded, also grew unhappy, thinking that Yu Xiang Qiao had developed some issue after giving birth, talking like this.
She herself wanted a daughter, but he and his wife hadn’t been able to have one—couldn’t they at least pamper their adopted daughter?
Wasn’t it said that raising a daughter meant spoiling her?
Yu Xiang Qiao angrily said, “I can’t be bothered to talk to you. I’ll discuss it when I return home.”
With a “click,” she hung up the phone.
Yu Yan called out “hello” several times, and his wife, Gong Minhui, seeing this, asked with a puzzled expression, “What’s wrong? What did Xiang Qiao say to upset you like this?”
“I asked her about our parents, and not only did she refuse to explain, she blamed us, saying it was our fault. It’s utterly ridiculous. Our parents were fine until after they visited her—what does that have to do with us?”
Gong Minhui grew concerned. “Could it be that Xiang Qiao is going through something and is in a bad mood?”
“Even if she’s in a bad mood, she shouldn’t act like this.”
Gong Minhui reminded him that Yu Xiang Qiao had just given birth not long ago and was in need of family care and understanding. If things weren’t handled well, she might even suffer from postpartum depression, and his attitude would only make things worse.
“You mean Xiang Qiao has postpartum depression?”
“Other than that explanation, what do you think is going on with Xiang Qiao?” Gong Minhui asked him.
“Should we go visit her tomorrow?”
“I’ll go with you.”
…
Meanwhile, Yu Xiang Qiao and Xu Liang Han were also thinking about how to invite them over.
They didn’t dare go to the Yu family’s place. What if there was some master or something over there? That would be like delivering themselves right to their doorstep.
It was much safer to invite the other party to their own turf.
“How about I say you’re sick?” Xu Liang Han suggested.
“If I’m sick, the ones who’d come to see me would be my parents,” Yu Xiang Qiao disagreed. If she were sick, her sister-in-law might come, but her older brother might not.
Also, they had to time it right. They couldn’t let the other party arrive only to find Ruan Yao Yao gone—that would be a wasted effort.
“Mom, you’re not going out recently, are you?”
Early in the morning, Ruan Yao Yao heard Yu Xiang Qiao ask her this.
“What’s wrong?”
Yu Xiang Qiao said somewhat awkwardly, “It’s like this, Mom. I haven’t been feeling well lately. If you’re not planning to go out much, I was wondering if you could help take care of Ling Xuan for me. Would that be okay?”
Actually, she wanted to use her daughter to keep Ruan Yao Yao occupied so she wouldn’t have time to go out.
Hearing that Yu Xiang Qiao wanted to entrust her precious granddaughter to her, Ruan Yao Yao was naturally delighted and agreed without hesitation.
“Don’t worry, aside from feeding times, I’ll take good care of Xiao Ling Xuan. I promise you can rest easy.”
“Thank you so much, Mom!”
…
Yu Xiang Qiao gave Xu Liang Han a “done” gesture.
Just as they were about to call Yu Yan and his wife, they received a call from them first. The message was that they wanted to come see Yu Xiang Qiao and their niece and were already at the door.
Yu Xiang Qiao and Xu Liang Han exchanged a glance. This time, they were dozing off and someone delivered a pillow right to them.
“You go downstairs to greet them. I’ll go upstairs and ask Mom to bring our daughter down. That way, they’ll run into each other.”
Xu Liang Han nodded. “Mm, later, find an opportunity to get your sister-in-law and my mom to bump into each other.”
“Why?”
“Have you forgotten? When you were under Soul Seizure, it was Mom who saved you. Maybe Mom has a way to save your sister-in-law too.”
As for whether the other party would be able to hear Ruan Yao Yao’s inner thoughts, Xu Liang Han wasn’t too worried.
When his wife was under Soul Seizure before, hadn’t the other party been unable to hear them too?
Although it wasn’t clear how the distinction between being able to hear and not being able to hear was made, based on the current situation, it seemed to favor those closer to them.
When Ruan Yao Yao heard that Yu Xiang Qiao’s older brother and sister-in-law had come to see her and her granddaughter, she immediately recalled what she had “seen” yesterday and wasn’t too pleased.
“If they’re here to see you, fine, but why bring Ling Xuan downstairs? Why not just leave Ling Xuan here?”
There was a bad person among them. What if her granddaughter was harmed after being brought down?
Was the point really for them to see her daughter? The point was for her to let her mother-in-law see her older brother and sister-in-law. So, how could Yu Xiang Qiao agree? She insisted that her older brother and sister-in-law had made a special trip out of goodwill, and she couldn’t just ignore them.
Her daughter definitely had to be brought downstairs.
Ruan Yao Yao was unhappy and completely unwilling to hand her precious granddaughter over to Yu Xiang Qiao. She felt like this couple might be reincarnated jinxes, constantly dragging her granddaughter down. Were they not satisfied unless they harmed her granddaughter?
Listening to her mother-in-law’s inner complaints, Yu Xiang Qiao felt a little awkward.
She had no choice. She had been close to her older brother since childhood. Knowing that her older brother’s family was in “danger” and that they had a chance to help, she couldn’t just stand by and do nothing.
“Mom… I’m begging you, I’ve never begged you before, just this once…” As for her own parents, she would beg them next time.
It was rare to see her daughter-in-law being so submissive with her. Ruan Yao Yao felt a bit reluctant, thinking that it was just to carry the child downstairs for a look anyway, and it was in their own home turf. With her keeping an eye on things, nothing should go wrong.
At worst, she could just hold onto her granddaughter tightly later—who could possibly snatch the child from her arms?
“Just this once, and never again!” Ruan Yao Yao said with a stern face.
“Yes, yes, Mom, you’re so kind!” Yu Xiang Qiao’s face instantly lit up like fireworks, breaking into a joyful smile.