Looking at her daughter's melancholy face in the rearview mirror, Ji Wanqiu couldn't help but think of how Jiang Xia had called her "Mom" earlier.

She was shouting it so fluently, hadn't she practiced it secretly? She even started to wonder if she had an extra son.

"Yanwan, you two haven't... you've already... done that, have you?" she asked cautiously.

Lin Yanwan was stunned for a moment, then blushed and said angrily, "Mom, what are you talking about! Nothing like that!"

"Hmm! That's good, that's good." Ji Wanqiu breathed a sigh of relief, afraid that her daughter might be blinded by love and give away her most important possession.

If that's the case, she'll definitely make the child's father break his third leg.

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Jiang Xia returned home drunk, where Xia Shanshan and Jiang Wende were sitting on the sofa watching "Lurking".

Seeing that her son reeked of alcohol, Xia Shanshan quickly poured him a glass of hot water.

"Why did you drink so much?"

Jiang Xia finished the beer in one gulp and finally felt a little better in his churning stomach: "It wasn't much, just a few bottles of beer."

"A few bottles aren't enough?"

At this moment, Xia Shanshan was not in the mood to ask him how the exam went. She wet a towel and handed it to him to wipe his face.

"Mom, I'm going to take a shower first, then I'm going to sleep. I feel a little dizzy."

"Go ahead, go ahead, you wash first, I'll get you your clothes."

Jiang Xia nodded, turned and walked into the bathroom. The hot water made the alcohol even stronger, and he turned around and vomited loudly in the toilet.

He let out a long sigh of relief, feeling much better now.

Unexpectedly, after being reborn, my alcohol tolerance has become worse and worse. Thinking back to my previous life, when I was eating skewers with Wang Ming on the roadside, the two of us could easily finish a whole case of beer.

Xia Shanshan heard the sound of vomiting coming from the bathroom, so she quickly went to the kitchen to make him a bowl of ginger water, as vomiting after drinking alcohol is the worst thing for the stomach.

Half an hour later, Jiang Xia came out of the bathroom with a flushed face. He said he was taking a shower, but he just stood there in a daze. Instead of sobering up, the hot water made all the alcohol go to his brain.

"Son, drink this bowl of ginger water," Xia Shanshan said.

Jiang Xia picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp, then returned to his room, lay down on the bed, and began to snore loudly.

Xia Shanshan sighed, gently closed the door, and glared at the child's father.

"Look at your son, why is he drinking so much for no reason?"

"It's only natural to relax and let loose after the college entrance exam is finally over." Jiang Wende didn't mind at all. What man doesn't drink? Even when he's not driving, he'll occasionally have a small drink.

"Yes, yes, you're right."

Xia Shanshan muttered a few words and began washing Jiang Xia's clothes, which were stained with the smell of alcohol.

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In the bedroom.

Jiang Xia suddenly woke up feeling nauseous. He forced himself to endure the discomfort in his stomach, and groggily pulled his phone out from under his pillow to call his wife.

Lin Yanwan had just finished showering and climbed into bed to sleep when her phone suddenly rang.

"Master, Jiang Gouzi is calling you..."

She glanced instinctively at the crack in the door; the living room light was still on. Before her phone rang a second time, she quickly answered it, burrowing under the air-conditioning blanket and whispering, "Hello?"

However, there was no response on the other end of the phone, only Jiang Xia's heavy breathing could be heard. Lin Yanwan thought he had accidentally dialed her number, so she asked softly again, "Jiang Xia?"

"..."

"I'm hanging up if you don't say anything."

"……call"

"Jiang Gouzi!!"

"..."

Just as she angrily pressed the power button, Jiang Xia's dazed murmurs suddenly came from the other end of the phone.

"Wife... I miss you so much..."

Her breath hitched, and her angry expression gradually softened.

Are you already drunk?

"..."

"Wife, please... please... don't divorce me... please..."

Jiang Xia muttered to himself in his sleep, each sentence interspersed with half a breath.

She heard the muffled voice clearly, and it felt as if a shooting star had struck the softest part of Lin Yanwan's heart.

She pursed her lips, held the phone to her ear, and asked softly, "Who is your wife?"

"My baby..."

"So who is your baby?"

"...Lin Yanwan."

She suddenly felt very happy, and her blushing face unconsciously lit up with a smile.

Do you love her very much?

"I...I love her so much...so much, so much, so much, so much..."

Jiang Xia kept repeating this sentence, but her voice grew softer and softer.

"If you love her so much, why did you agree to divorce her?"

"..."

"Jiang Xia?"

Are you asleep?

He clicked his tongue, his dazed voice inexplicably tinged with a sob: "I'm sorry to her, I didn't give her a good life, I didn't want her to continue suffering with me, sob sob... I'm a useless person... I can't bring her happiness..."

Lin Yanwan's eyes gradually welled up with tears, and she softly said, "Fool."

"She...knows everything."

"No, don't let her know..."

"If you were given another chance, would you still want to divorce her?"

There was silence on the other end for a long time, only his heavy breathing could be heard, until he murmured to himself, "Wife, I love you..."

Although it wasn't the answer she wanted to hear, Lin Yanwan already knew the answer.

"I love you too," she murmured.

"...Hoo...I don't want you to love me, I...I just want my wife to love me...Hoo hoo..."

"Okay, okay, your wife loves you the most."

"Really...really? My wife loves me the most...hehehe..."

"Sleep well, goodnight, honey, mua~"

She finished speaking furtively and immediately hung up the phone, her ears burning red.

She wasn't sure if Jiang Xia could hear her, or if he was really drunk and unconscious, or if he was simply using the alcohol as an excuse to open up to her.

But in any case, the reason why Jiang Xia deliberately argued with her over many trivial matters in her past life has been found.

So all you felt was that you owed her something?

What an idiot.

Lin Yanwan looked at her phone, thought for a moment, and changed Jiang Gouzi's contact name back to "husband".

She let out a long sigh, looking out at the night view. The crescent moon was so beautiful tonight.