"Did you just meet Jiang Feifei?" Di Mingjue came up to Ye Ziyu and nervously grabbed her wrist.
Ye Ziyu reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Who told you?"
"Shen Lin," Di Mingjue said.
He had arranged for Shen Lin to work outside the office, and Shen Lin happened to pass by the coffee shop entrance and saw Jiang Feifei. Upon returning to the office, he told Di Mingjue about seeing Jiang Feifei.
Thinking about the strange things that had happened recently, Di Mingjue was afraid that Jiang Feifei would secretly harm Ye Ziyu.
Seeing her standing there unharmed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Ye Ziyu held Di Mingjue's hand, stroking it rhythmically.
Glancing down at her palm, Di Mingjue noticed something was wrong with Ye Ziyu.
"What's wrong?" Di Mingjue asked with concern. "Why do you look so preoccupied?"
"I have something to tell you," Ye Ziyu's face was filled with seriousness.
Di Mingjue sensed that something was amiss from her urgent demeanor. "Did Jiang Feifei say something to you?"
With people coming and going, Ye Ziyu and Di Mingjue had inadvertently become the curious focus of the passersby.
"Let's go somewhere else. I have something important to tell you." Ye Ziyu's demeanor shifted Di Mingjue's emotions from curiosity to anxious worry.
Inside the car.
"What is it, Ziyu? You have to tell me. Don't scare me."
Looking at Ye Ziyu, who remained silent and sighed repeatedly in the passenger seat, Di Mingjue felt restless, his heart hanging like a ticking time bomb.
Ye Ziyu glanced at Di Mingjue, then looked down. It wasn't that she wouldn't speak, but she didn't know where to begin.
"I'm actually carrying quadruplets."
"What? Say that again!"
Di Mingjue shifted his legs, almost standing up. His scalp brushed the car roof, and he sat back down, turning to stare at her excitedly.
"I was carrying quadruplets back then. After Qianqian came out, there was a fourth child," Ye Ziyu said weakly.
Becoming more confused with each word, Di Mingjue leaned forward again, his ears perked up, afraid of missing a single piece of information.
Ye Ziyu met Di Mingjue's eyes, her memories zooming in and magnifying in her mind.
"When I gave birth, the doctor told me that the fourth child had been in the womb for too long and had inhaled a large amount of amniotic fluid, resulting in a stillbirth. I was very weak at the time. The doctor showed me the baby for a moment, but before I could get a clear look, the child was taken away.
Jiang Feifei asked to meet me just now, and she said that child is not dead. It turns out the doctor at the time was involved in child trafficking, and I happened to be carrying quadruplets and was delivering alone, making the child a target for the criminals."
The fourth child?
They had four children in total?
Di Mingjue was afraid it was a dream. After hearing this, he didn't dare to blink.
"Where is the child now?"
Ye Ziyu shook her head. "In three days, I will exchange them with Jiang Wenbin and Xu Jingya."
Her hope instantly dimmed. Di Mingjue didn't believe Jiang Feifei.
"You agreed?"
Ye Ziyu nodded.
Di Mingjue anxiously pressed, "Why did you agree? Do you believe her words?"
Believe?
How could she?
During their conversation, Ye Ziyu had already guessed her scheme. But if she didn't play along, how could she confirm if Si Bao was truly alive?
"As for Si Bao's matter, please don't let anyone else know for now, especially the children," Ye Ziyu said.
Di Mingjue didn't care about anything else. His biggest concern was her. "Are you really going to bring the child? What if she sets a trap just for you to fall into?"
What if it's a trap, and what if it isn't?
Ye Ziyu smiled and retorted, "Are you questioning my abilities?"
"No, I… "
"Mingjue, I am not a fragile woman."