“Mom, hurry and check on your cub! Someone’s trying to swap me out, waaah waaah…”
Lu Jingyi jolted awake in terror.
She immediately turned to look beside her.
There was no child next to her.
Ignoring the pain in her body, she quickly sat up.
“Jingyi, why are you sitting up? Lie down quickly.”
Lu Jingyi tightly grasped her arm. “Mom, where’s my child?”
Wang Pei hurriedly brought the baby over. “Right here.”
Lu Jingyi immediately checked the baby’s right hand – there was no mole on the wrist.
Moreover, the child had been woken by her movements and was crying weakly, completely different from the voice she had heard in the hospital room.
“Mom, this isn’t my child. Did someone come in just now?”
“Yes, there was someone – your sister-in-law Li Hong’s friend. She said she came to see the baby. Then the doctor asked me to go pay the bill, so I asked her to watch the baby. When I returned, she wasn’t in the room.”
Lu Jingyi panicked and grabbed her mother’s hand. “Mom, she swapped my baby! I need to get my child back!”
Wang Pei couldn’t dissuade her, and upon reflection, found the situation suspicious indeed.
Who would come to see a baby only to leave secretly? And that person’s expression had been somewhat strange earlier.
Moreover, when the baby first came out of the delivery room, she had held it, and it was clearly heavier than the child in her arms now.
When she changed the baby’s clothes earlier, she had wondered about the weight but thought it was her imagination.
Now it seemed their baby might have really been swapped.
Wang Pei: “I’ll take the baby and go check.”
Wang Pei picked up the baby and rocked it gently until it fell asleep. Then she carried the child out, asked the nurses for Li Hong’s room number, and headed there with the baby.
She encountered no one along the way.
Quietly pushing the door open, she found Li Hong sleeping in bed.
There was no one else in the room.
And the baby was sleeping right beside Li Hong.
Wang Pei turned over the baby’s right hand – sure enough, there was a mole under the wrist.
She quickly swapped the two babies and brought the one with the mole back to the room.
The moment Lu Jingyi saw the baby, she immediately took it and checked the wrist.
Seeing the mole, Lu Jingyi tightly embraced the little cub. “This is my child! Mom, Li Hong swapped my baby!”
“Why would she swap your baby? And how did you know she had swapped them?”
Lu Jingyi looked down at the sleeping cub and whispered, “Mom, I can hear what this child is thinking.”
“What? Are you hearing things?”
Wang Pei’s voice involuntarily rose.
The sudden loud noise woke the little cub.
Her small eyebrows furrowed.
She slowly opened her eyes, saw the face in front of her, and blinked.
[Huh? How did I get swapped back again?]
[Great! I won’t be abused anymore.]
[Mom, you’re amazing.]
Wang Pei stared incredulously at the baby in her daughter’s arms.
Lu Jingyi gently lowered her head and kissed the baby’s forehead.
“Mom, this is really my child.”
“You… you can really hear?” Wang Pei’s eyes widened.
Lu Jingyi quickly made a shushing gesture. “Mom, I think the child I gave birth to this time isn’t ordinary.”
What newborn could predict future events?
The Dragon Cub blew a bubble with her mouth. [I’m the last Little Golden Dragon in the world.]
Lu Jingyi and Wang Pei immediately locked eyes, both their expressions filled with astonishment.
Little Golden Dragon?
No wonder this child has the ability to foresee events.
Just then, the hospital room door was suddenly knocked on and pushed open. A nurse entered and said, “Lu Jingyi in Room 16, have your family take your baby for a bath.”
“Oh, alright,” Lu Jingyi said weakly.
Wang Pei quickly took the baby.
She still hadn’t recovered from the shock of hearing her daughter had given birth to a dragon baby.
She instinctively followed the nurse to bathe the baby.
During the bathing process, Wang Pei was afraid her granddaughter might be swapped again, so she kept a close watch without blinking.
Meanwhile, the little one had fallen asleep, soothed by the comfortable warm water and the nurse’s gentle movements.
After the baby was cleaned, Wang Pei returned with questions.
She quickly closed the door.
“Jingyi, what exactly is going on? Why did your sister-in-law want to swap your baby?”
Lu Jingyi, pale-faced, slowly shook her head. “I don’t know.”
[Because the child Li Hong gave birth to is also Father’s child.]
[Mother is a doctor with good conditions. If Li Hong’s daughter becomes Mother’s daughter, she wouldn’t have to worry about going hungry.]
[More importantly, Li Hong likes Father. She wants to swap me back to bully me!]
Lu Jingyi and Wang Pei simultaneously looked at the little one.
They saw the baby’s clenched fists.
Wang Pei couldn’t believe what she had heard.
Li Hong’s child is Xu Zhijun’s?
Lu Jingyi also widened her eyes in shock, immediately recalling her husband’s usual strange behavior.
Whenever Xu Zhijun got something good, he would send it to his sister-in-law.
After his elder brother sacrificed himself, according to military rules, Li Hong, as the widow of a martyr, shouldn’t be allowed to stay in the Family Compound.
But her husband used his connections and persuaded the instructor and political commissar to let Li Hong remain.
Moreover, since Li Hong became pregnant, Xu Zhijun had frequently visited her home, both delivering items and doing household chores.
Xu Zhijun always said it was because his elder brother was gone, and since his brother had often taken care of him—without his brother, he wouldn’t have joined the army, met her, or achieved what he had today.
Lu Jingyi hadn’t thought much about it before.
But now, upon careful reflection, her husband’s behavior had long crossed the boundaries of a normal brother-sister-in-law relationship.
Lu Jingyi turned her face away, tears streaming down. “Why did she have to give birth at the same time as me and almost swap my baby?”
[That’s because she took a labor-inducing drug.]
[Later, she went around saying Mother caused too much commotion and scared her into premature labor. Everyone in the compound thought Mother deliberately bullied her—she’s the villain.]
Wang Pei sprang to her feet.
How dare these two bully her daughter and granddaughter like this!
Did they really think her family was pushovers!
“Where is Xu Zhijun! Why hasn’t he come yet?”
Lu Jingyi wiped her tears and said, “My labor started suddenly. He might not know yet.”
[Of course he knows. He’s in Li Hong’s room right now, visiting that mother and daughter.]
Lu Jingyi froze.
Tears immediately fell from her eyes.
Before, Lu Jingyi wouldn’t have believed it.
But after the baby-swapping incident, she partly believed it now.
Suddenly, her face was touched by a pair of small hands.
[Don’t cry, don’t cry, Mama. Let’s divorce him and find someone better!]
Lu Jingyi’s heart melted completely.
She was amused by the little milky voice.
[Mama is smiling. So pretty.]
[Ah, I’m hungry.]
Lu Jingyi panicked and instinctively lifted her clothes.
But this was her first time being a mother, and she had no idea what to do.
Wang Pei wiped her tears as she stepped forward and said, “Let me teach you. I still remember how you looked right after you were born, and now in the blink of an eye, you’ve become a mother yourself.”
Lu Jingyi gently patted the Dragon Cub’s back, humming a lullaby to soothe her to sleep.
Wang Pei couldn’t hold back her frustration. “You rest well. I’m going to check on Li Hong.”