Is something wrong with my eyes?
Xu Liang Han hadn’t reacted yet, but upon seeing Ruan Yao Yao, he stopped pacing and looked over at her:
“Mom, what are you doing here?”
“If I didn’t come, what would I do if you lost my granddaughter?”
For this son who would later nearly drive her to death with anger, Ruan Yao Yao had absolutely no patience.
Xu Liang Han felt somewhat helpless: “Mom, Qiao Qiao is inside giving birth. I’m not in the mood to argue with you.”
“Am I in the mood to argue with you? You’re the one causing trouble, okay? My daughter-in-law is giving birth, and I can’t even come? I’m here to see my soon-to-be-born granddaughter. What’s wrong with that? Can’t I see her?”
[If it weren’t for the fact that someone as grown-up as you could still manage to lose my precious granddaughter, would I even be here?]
[Do you really think I have nothing better to do all day?]
Xu Liang Han looked at her with surprise, glancing at Ruan Yao Yao several times with a strange expression, unsure whether he had misheard or if his mother was talking to herself.
“Mom, what did you just say? How could I possibly lose my daughter?”
“Hmph!” Ruan Yao Yao shot him a look.
[How should I know?]
[I dreamed it, okay?]
[Isn’t that why I rushed over—just in case? What if it happens?]
Xu Liang Han found it both amusing and exasperating. So, his mother had come to “supervise” him just because of a dream?
He had always thought that after all these years, his mother still held a grudge against him for being an illegitimate child.
He never expected that she actually cared about him quite a bit. See, she rushed over just because of a dream.
For some reason, he felt a warmth in his heart.
The words above Xu Liang Han’s head were simply too conspicuous. Ruan Yao Yao tried her best to control herself but couldn’t help shifting her gaze to the top of his head, then muttering to herself: [This is just too incredible!]
[Whose eyes would malfunction and see not something else, but a nickname floating above someone’s head?]
[With such a large, glittering line of golden characters hovering above his head, even if I wanted to ignore it, I couldn’t. It feels just like the online games I play—pretty interesting, actually.]
Ruan Yao Yao wondered if it was because she was getting older, had too much free time, and played too many games that her eyes were playing tricks on her like this.
[But then again, considering all the things Xu Liang Han did, for this precious granddaughter of mine, he truly deserves this title.]
[History’s Strongest Scumbag Father—witnessing her birth with his own eyes, yet still managing to lose her. Then, for over a decade, he doted on the Fake Rich Daughter. Even after recognizing his real daughter, instead of making up for lost time, he continued favoring the fake one. If that’s not a “scumbag father,” what is?]
[It’s just too pitiful for my Ling Xuan. She spent over a decade growing up in an orphanage, and after being recognized, she ended up like a rat scurrying across the street—truly tragic. It might have been better if she hadn’t been recognized at all…]
Xu Liang Han: Wait, what on earth is all this my mother is muttering about?!
He turned to look at Ruan Yao Yao and noticed she was lost in thought, her lips not moving.
So the question was: if his mother’s lips weren’t moving, why were these sounds continuously drifting into his ears?
Just then, the delivery room door opened. A nurse walked out carrying a baby, announcing that both mother and child were safe and congratulating Mr. Xu on getting his wish—a baby girl.
“Really?! It’s a daughter?!”
Xu Liang Han was overjoyed and hurried forward to take the baby.
The newborn was red and wrinkled, and honestly, not particularly pretty.
Ruan Yao Yao immediately spotted the line of glowing text above the baby’s head—”The Most Miserable True Heiress”—and couldn’t bear to look directly.
【So it really is? The Most Miserable True Heiress?】
【Sigh… What a terrible fate! This time, I have to keep a close eye on her and make sure she doesn’t go missing.】
【My dear granddaughter, don’t worry. Grandma will keep you safe in this lifetime and won’t let anyone steal you away.】
Here we go again! Xu Liang Han felt helpless and couldn’t help but glance at Ruan Yao Yao once more.
At this moment, he hadn’t yet realized the seriousness of the situation. He simply thought he might be hearing things. But with his attention focused on the newborn baby and his wife in the delivery room, he didn’t dwell on it further.
Wanting to ease the tension between mother and son, Xu Liang Han held his daughter for a while before handing her over to Ruan Yao Yao, saying, “Mom, I can see you really like her. Why don’t you hold her too?”
“Have you taken a good look at what your daughter looks like?” Ruan Yao Yao didn’t take the baby. Instead, she pointed at the infant in Xu Liang Han’s arms and said, “See? She’s just been born and hasn’t grown eyebrows yet. Although her eyes are still closed, you can tell she’ll have big eyes in the future, probably more like your wife.
Her nose is quite like yours—very straight. Her lips resemble your wife’s, and her ears…”
Ruan Yao Yao listed the baby’s features one by one, making sure Xu Liang Han “memorized” them.
Xu Liang Han: “…”
Wait, Mom, why does it feel like I wouldn’t recognize my own daughter?
Ruan Yao Yao paid no mind to what Xu Liang Han was thinking. She even pulled back the thin blanket wrapped around the baby, revealing her chest and neck, and pointed to the left shoulder. “See? Your daughter has a mole here. Her hands are chubby, and her fingernails are a bit wide. Looks like she inherited your dad’s wide nails—might not look too good when she grows up…”
Then she added that for a girl, it’s fine if she’s not that pretty. There’s no need to go to extremes like in the news, where parents take their young children to get their nails trimmed for the sake of appearance.
That’s just torture!
In ancient times, there was a punishment called “finger squeezing.” What’s the difference between trimming nails and that?
The difference is one squeezes the fingers, and the other squeezes the… fingers?
She rambled on and on, as if Xu Liang Han would abuse his own daughter. Xu Liang Han was left utterly speechless.
Seeing that Ruan Yao Yao didn’t want to hold the baby, he prepared to hand her back to the nurse, planning to leave with his wife later.
But as soon as Ruan Yao Yao heard this, she grew nervous and immediately stopped him. “Wait, since she’s already been brought out, don’t take her back. I’ll hold her.”
Without another word, she snatched her granddaughter from Xu Liang Han’s arms.
【Just kidding! If she’s taken away, who knows if she’ll still be my granddaughter when she comes back?】
【Her father doesn’t care enough. I’ll hold my own granddaughter myself.】
The nurse looked at the two of them, her eyes asking: Should the baby be taken back or not? She had only brought her out for a look and still needed to run some tests later.
“Where are the tests? I’ll carry her there myself,” Ruan Yao Yao insisted. Until she was certain her granddaughter was safe, no one would be allowed to take the baby out of her sight for even a second.
As if remembering something, she turned to Xu Liang Han and told him to check whether his White Moonlight was also staying at their hospital. Maybe she had also given birth to a daughter, or perhaps she had some relative working at the hospital.
“There are so many hospitals in this city. She didn’t give birth earlier or later—she just had to give birth at the same time as my granddaughter. If there’s no trickery involved, I won’t believe it.”
“To let someone swap their own child in our own hospital—what an achievement.”
Xu Liang Han stood frozen in place, listening to Ruan Yao Yao’s inner voice fade into the distance, utterly bewildered.
How did his former White Moonlight even come up? And swapping children? This is getting more and more absurd.
He wiped his face, feeling like he had woken up too early.
It probably wasn’t his mother’s eyes that were the problem, but his ears. Otherwise, how could he be hearing all this nonsense?
The voice sounded exactly like his mother’s—there was no way he could have mistaken it. It was definitely his mother “speaking,” alright? He just didn’t know how she was saying it or how it could drift into his ears.
Could it be that the hospital had too much negative energy, so…
Xu Liang Han shuddered.
Bah, bah, bah… This is the maternity ward. His wife is still inside.
Xu Liang Han couldn’t help but feel a bit suspicious. After all, it was just a phone call—it wasn’t like he couldn’t afford to make one.
Besides, his wife was still under observation in the delivery room and wouldn’t be out for a while. When Ruan Yao Yao returned later, she would definitely ask him, and he would have to give her an “explanation.”
Xu Liang Han made a call to the hospital director.
“Cao Man Hui? No, there’s no such person at the hospital.”
Xu Liang Han breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed he had really overthought things.
Today’s events had been too surreal, and he had lost his mind along with them.