ei analyzed calmly. “I’ve been seeing you these few days and you have hickeys all over your body. This means that the two of you have been having a lot of sex. If it’s too frequent, you should be trying to make a baby.”

“So.” Song Fei stuffed the ice-cold beer back into the fridge, leaned against it, and asked Song Ci, “Are you guys creating a little person?”

Song Ci’s ears turned red.

There was nothing Song Fei didn’t understand, upon seeing this.

Song Fei told Song Ci, “I’ve done some research. The positions during pregnancy preparation are actually very important. I made a preconception position to adjust my watch and have already sent it to you. Take a look later and remember to follow the positions on it. It will definitely be easy to get pregnant.”

Song Ci was both embarrassed and angry. “You are unmarried. How can you research such things?”

“To be honest, I also wish to have a child.” Song Fei felt that this elder sister of hers was a failure. “I am lagging behind you in love, marriage and height. I definitely cannot lose to you in childbirth.”

Not only was Song Fei intelligent, she was also very competitive.

Hearing this reason, Song Ci didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Are we still going to compete on this?”

“Of course, I am your elder sister.”

After Song Fei left, Song Ci still felt that this was very unreal.

–

After the news of Mu Mian being executed was released, the internet was abuzz.

After the execution, Mu Mian’s body was cremated and his ashes taken away by his daughter, Mu Qiu. Mu Qiu bought a grave and buried Mu Mian in a beautiful cemetery.

Mu Mian’s old friends cut all ties with him. No one came to mourn him at the funeral. It was a cold and cheerless funeral.

The funeral ended in the morning but Mu Qiu only returned home despondently at night with a layer of white snow covering her shoulders.

When Auntie Zhang saw that she had finally returned, she felt at ease. Realizing that Mu Qiu’s hands were cold, Auntie Zhang was shocked. She hurriedly brought the ginger tea over and stuffed it into Mu Qiu’s hands. “Miss, drink this ginger tea quickly. Don’t catch a cold.”

Mu Qiu picked up the bowl of ginger tea and finished it.

Auntie Zhang brought the dishes back to the kitchen to wash them. “Miss, who attended Sir’s funeral?”

“No one.”

Auntie Zhang was momentarily dazed before sighing. “Not a single person?”

“No.”

Auntie Zhang knew that she should say something to comfort Mu Qiu now, but this was indeed too heart-wrenching and no amount of comforting was effective.

Auntie Zhang wiped away the water in the bowl and placed it in the disinfectant cupboard. She took off her apron and went to the living room. She said to Mu Qiu, “Miss, quickly get some rest. You have also been very tired these few days.”

Mu Qiu shook her head. “Auntie Zhang, sit down. I have something to tell you.”

Puzzled, Auntie Zhang sat down.

Mu Qiu suddenly opened her bag and took out a document. She handed it to Auntie Zhang. Auntie Zhang looked down and saw that it was a house ownership book and she was the beneficiary.

Auntie Zhang was stunned. “Miss!” She raised her voice. “Miss, what are you doing?”

“I’ve decided to leave.” Mu Qiu smiled at Auntie Zhang. “I’ve sold everything that I could, leaving this house. Auntie Zhang, I treat you as my family. Thank you for taking care of our family all these years. I don’t have anything else to give you before I leave. I’ll give this house to you.”

“Don’t reject me. I know that your daughter is married and it’s not convenient for you to live with your son-in-law and grandchild. You can just stay in this house. After you die, the house will be sold and the money from the sale will be donated to the charity foundation.”

Auntie Zhang was shocked. She asked Mu Qiu in a trembling voice, “Miss, where are you going?”

Mu Qiu was also on the verge of tears.

She said, “Auntie Zhang, I can’t stay in this city anymore. I am leaving. If I don’t leave now, I will really go crazy. Once I close my eyes, I will see my mother lying in the stairwell covered in blood. I will also see my father struggling on the floor when he passed away.”

Auntie Zhang was utterly confused. “Miss, were you frightened by Sir’s death and Madam’s miscarriage?”

Mu Qiu shook her head. “No, no, I am guilty! I am guilty!”

Auntie Zhang felt uneasy and instinctively lowered her voice. “Miss, what nonsense are you talking about? What crime have you committed?”

Mu Qiu slid down from the sofa and knelt on the floor, her hands resting on Auntie Zhang’s legs.

Mu Qiu looked at Auntie Zhang with teary eyes. She couldn’t hold it in anymore and was about to go crazy. She decided to tell the dirtiest thing in her heart. “Auntie Zhang, I harmed my mother and the child in her tummy. That day, I secretly applied some facial cream on the stairs and my mother stepped on it, causing her to slip and fall...”

“I am guilty...”

Hearing that, Auntie Zhang was totally dumbstruck.

She suspected that she was hearing things.

How can such a pure and innocent lady do such a thing? “Miss, you are joking, right? That is your mother, how could you do such a thing?” Auntie Zhang couldn’t believe it was true.

Mu Qiu was still crying and confessing. “It’s true. It’s all true. I harmed that child. It’s my fault. It’s all my fault.”

“These few days, I have been plagued by nightmares every night. I keep dreaming of my mother asking me why I killed that child. After waking up, I often hear my father scolding me for being inhuman.”

“Auntie Zhang, am I crazy?”

Auntie Zhang listened in a daze, momentarily unable to digest this news.

In her eyes, Miss Mu Qiu had always been a lovely, innocent girl. Auntie Zhang still remembered the first time she saw Miss Mu after coming to the Mu Family.

It was a summer day and it was raining cats and dogs. A group of ants was nibbling at a piece of bread. Worried that the ants might get trampled to death, Mu Qiu bent over and slowly moved the piece of bread and the group of ants to a corner.

At that time, Auntie Zhang already felt that Mu Qiu was a kind-hearted young lady. After all, Mu Qiu was only six years old then and knew not to kill. Compared to Mu Qiu, her adopted daughter, Miss Song Ci, was a vicious and merciless person.

It was also summertime. A group of ants was hiding in the corner of the Mu Family residence, trying their best to move a few grains of rice. Song Ci saw them when she got home. Without another word, she ran into the kitchen and boiled a pot of water. She brought the water to the corner and splashed it on the ants.

Because of that incident, Auntie Zhang always looked down on Song Ci. She felt that Song Ci was vicious and heartless. As a result, Auntie Zhang always sided with Mu Qiu.

Unexpectedly, the seemingly vicious Song Ci was actually a clean and upright person. Meanwhile, that Mu Qiu who would protect the ants and move house was a heartless lady who could kill the child in her mother’s womb.

Why are people so contradictory?

Auntie Zhang looked down at the tear-streaked Mu Qiu and couldn’t help feeling hurt.

Hugging Mu Qiu’s head, Auntie Zhang asked her in tears, “Miss, why are you so foolish? Even if you don’t like that child, you shouldn’t be so silly as to do such a foolish thing!”

She was not possessed. It was just her nature to be so cruel. Although she didn’t want to admit it, Mu Qiu saw the truth. She was indeed Mu Mian’s biological daughter. She had the same selfish, vicious blood as Mu Mian.